{
  "speaker_1088_001.wav": "Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments. Each of its joys ripens into a new want. Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking.",
  "speaker_1088_002.wav": "in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light. The introduction to this felicity is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which is the enchantment of human life.",
  "speaker_1088_003.wav": "unites him to his race, pledges him to the domestic and civic relations, carries him with new sympathy into nature, enhances the power of the senses, opens the imagination, adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes.",
  "speaker_1088_004.wav": "establishes marriage, and gives permanence to human society. The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints, whichever youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experience.",
  "speaker_1088_005.wav": "One must not be too old. The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savour of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.",
  "speaker_1088_006.wav": "And therefore I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness in stoicism from those who compose the court and parliament of love. But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors.",
  "speaker_1088_007.wav": "For it is to be considered that this passion of which we speak, though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old, or rather suffers no one who is truly its servant to grow old.",
  "speaker_1088_008.wav": "glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.",
  "speaker_1088_009.wav": "Only it is to be hoped that by patience and the muse's aid we may attain to that inward view of the law, which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful, so central that it shall commend itself to the eye at whatever angle beholden.",
  "speaker_1088_010.wav": "And the first condition is that we must leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts, and study the sentiment as it appeared in hope and not in history. For each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured.",
  "speaker_1088_011.wav": "Which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, He will shrink and moan. Alas, I know not why, but infinite compunctions Embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy, And cover every beloved name.",
  "speaker_1088_012.wav": "dwell care and canker and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity the rose of joy, round it all the muses sing. But grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.",
  "speaker_1088_013.wav": "The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society. What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment?",
  "speaker_1088_014.wav": "And what fastens attention in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers.",
  "speaker_1088_015.wav": "It is the dawn of civility and grace in the coarse and rustic. The rude village boy teases the girls about the schoolhouse door, but to-day he comes running into the entry, and meets one fair child disposing her satchel.",
  "speaker_1089_001.wav": "He could wait no longer.",
  "speaker_1089_002.wav": "For a full hour he had paced up and down, waiting, but he could wait no longer.",
  "speaker_1089_003.wav": "He set off abruptly for the bull, walking rapidly lest his father's shrill whistle might call him back, and in a few moments he had rounded the curve at the police barrack and was safe.",
  "speaker_1089_004.wav": "The University.",
  "speaker_1089_005.wav": "Bride after satisfaction uplifted him like long slow waves.",
  "speaker_1188_001.wav": "You will find me continually speaking of four men, Titian, Holbein, Turner, and Tintorette, in almost the same terms.",
  "speaker_1188_002.wav": "They unite every quality. And sometimes you will find me referring to them as colorists, sometimes as chiaroscurists.",
  "speaker_1188_003.wav": "By being studious of color they are studious of division, and while the keroskuras devote himself to the representation of degrees of force in one thing, unseparated light, the colorists have for their function the attainment of beauty by arrangement of the divisions of light.",
  "speaker_1188_004.wav": "My first and principal reason was that they enforced, beyond all resistance, on any student who might attempt to copy them, this method of laying portions of distinct hue side by side.",
  "speaker_1188_005.wav": "Some of the touches, indeed, when the tint has been mixed with much water, have been laid in little drops or ponds, so that the pigment might crystallize hard at the edge.",
  "speaker_121_001.wav": "Also a popular contrivance, whereby lovemaking may be suspended, but not stopped during the picnic season.",
  "speaker_121_002.wav": "HURRANG The tiresome product of a tireless tongue.",
  "speaker_121_003.wav": "Angor. Pain. Painful to hear.",
  "speaker_121_004.wav": "Hey fever! A heart trouble caused by falling in love with a grass widow.",
  "speaker_121_005.wav": "Heaven, a good place to be raised to.",
  "speaker_1221_001.wav": "Hester Prynne went one day to the mansion of Governor Bellingham, with a pair of gloves which he had fringed and embroidered to his order, and which were to be worn on some great occasion of state. For though the chances of a popular election had caused this former ruler to descend a step or two from the highest rank, he still held an honorable and influential place among the colonial magistracy.",
  "speaker_1221_002.wav": "Another, and far more important reason than the delivery of a pair of embroidered gloves impelled Hester at this time to seek an interview with a personage of so much power and activity in the affairs of the settlement.",
  "speaker_1221_003.wav": "At that epoch of pristine simplicity, however, matters of even slighter public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the deliberations of legislators and acts of state.",
  "speaker_1221_004.wav": "The period was hardly, if at all, earlier than that of our story, when a dispute concerning the right of property in a pig not only caused a fierce and bitter contest in the legislative body of the colony, but resulted in an important modification of the framework itself of the legislature.",
  "speaker_1221_005.wav": "We have spoken of Pearl's rich and luxuriant beauty, a beauty that shone with deep and vivid tints, a bright complexion, eyes possessing intensity both of depth and glow, and hair already of a deep glossy brown, and which in after years would be nearly akin to black.",
  "speaker_1246_001.wav": "CHAPTER 35 She tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms. She fanatically cleaned house all April. She knitted a sweater for Hugh. She was diligent at Red Cross work.",
  "speaker_1246_002.wav": "She was silent when Vita raved that though America hated war as much as ever we must invade Germany and wipe out every man Because it was now proven that there was no soldier in the German army who was not crucifying prisoners",
  "speaker_1246_003.wav": "very old and weak, who a few decades ago had been boys and girls of the frontier, riding broncos through the rank windy grass of this prairie. They hobbled behind a band made up of businessmen and high school boys,",
  "speaker_1246_004.wav": "Champ was broken. His rheumatism was worse. The rooms over the store were silent. He could not do his work as buyer at the elevator. Farmers coming in with sled loads of wheat complained that Champ could not read the scale.",
  "speaker_1246_005.wav": "that he seemed always to be watching someone back in the darkness of the bends. He was seen slipping through alleys, talking to himself, trying to avoid observation, creeping at last to the cemetery. Carol followed him.",
  "speaker_1246_006.wav": "and found the coarse, tobacco-stained, unimaginative old man lying on the snow of the grave, his thick arms spread out across the raw mound, as if to protect her from the cold. Her",
  "speaker_1246_007.wav": "who was alone there now, uncared for. The elevator company, Ezra Stobadi President, let him go. The company, Ezra explained to Carol, had no funds for giving pensions. She tried to have him appointed to the post-mastership,",
  "speaker_1246_008.wav": "which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity, but it proved that Mr. Bert Tybee, the former bartender, desired the postmastership. At her solicitation...",
  "speaker_1246_009.wav": "Lyman Cass gave Champ a warm birth as night watchman.",
  "speaker_1246_010.wav": "He was well, but still weak from having been gassed. He had been discharged, and he came home as the first of the war veterans. It was rumored that he surprised Vita by coming unannounced, that Vita fainted when she saw him, and for a night and day.",
  "speaker_1246_011.wav": "would not share him with the town. When Carol saw them, Vita was hazy about everything except Ramey, and never went so far from him that she could not slip her hand under his, without understanding why Carol was troubled by this intensity.",
  "speaker_1246_012.wav": "And Ramey? Surely, this was not Ramey, but a sterner brother of his, this man with the tight blouse, the shoulder emblems, the trim legs and boots. His face seemed different, his lips more tight. He was not Ramey.",
  "speaker_1246_013.wav": "He was major Wotherspoon, and Kinnikott and Carroll were grateful, when he divulged that Paris wasn't half as pretty as Minneapolis, that all of the American soldiers had been distinguished by their morality when on leave. It was respectful.",
  "speaker_1246_014.wav": "to the half dozen branch stores which he was establishing at Crossroads Hamlets. Harry would be the town's rich man in the coming generation, and Major Witherspoon would rise with him, and Vita was jubilant, though she was regretful at having to give up.",
  "speaker_1246_015.wav": "most of her Red Cross work. Ray still needed nursing, she explained. When Carol saw him with his uniform off, in a pepper-and-salt suit and a new gray felt hat, she was disappointed. He was not Major Witherspoon. He was Ramey.",
  "speaker_1263_001.wav": "It is seldom that any of the creatures reach more than four years of age according to our standards of time. It is seldom that any of the creatures reach more than four years of age according to our standards of time.",
  "speaker_1263_002.wav": "They are nearly as large as we and relatively much lighter in weight. All the periods of physical growth are correspondingly decreased. Children walk four or five weeks after birth.",
  "speaker_1263_003.wav": "and are capable of receiving regular instruction at the age of five months. Strange as it may seem, this sphere, which for convenience we will call brief,",
  "speaker_1263_004.wav": "revolves very slowly on its axis so that our world makes fifteen times as many revolutions as this planet. It requires but little arithmetic to figure out that the people of brief do not see the sun rise very often.",
  "speaker_1263_005.wav": "On this world, of brief, all vegetables mature in periods so short that one marvels when he hears it. Think of cereals reaching maturity in seven or eight of our days, or during one day of brief.",
  "speaker_1263_006.wav": "Early in the morning certain crops are planted and are harvested at night. Two or more days are required for maturing other crops. Actually, the people of Brief raise their crops with less labor than is required amongst us.",
  "speaker_1263_007.wav": "If you were permitted to look upon the public and private life of this incredible world, your first sensation would be dizziness, not to mention the weirdness of all sights that would confront you at every turn.",
  "speaker_1263_008.wav": "And if by lease of strength they pass on toward an age of four years, it is but an evidence of their exceptional vitality. It seems to be true that the experiences of a long life of sixty or eighty years is crowded into a narrow compass of four years.",
  "speaker_1263_009.wav": "There being no competition, no time or space is required for sensational trash. Thus, if nothing of importance occurs, nothing need be transmitted. The official new sensors decide as to the relative importance of occurrences.",
  "speaker_1263_010.wav": "There need not be a certain amount of news telegraphed each hour. The government verifies, as much as possible, all reports before they are transmitted. There are indeed some advantages in the government being in constant touch with each home under its care.",
  "speaker_1263_011.wav": "The advertising department pays nearly all expenses of this whole system of journalism. Announcements for private gain are paid at a regular rate. It costs more to advertise at certain periods than at other times.",
  "speaker_1263_012.wav": "They never think of covering the feet under any change of climate. If one of the Brie fights were to step upon the shores of our rugged earth and see the cotton or wool and leather that lies around our feet, it would appear to him as the most ridiculous thing imaginable.",
  "speaker_1263_013.wav": "Neither the men, women, nor children seem to seek this means for self-beautifying. They seem to think that beauty of character has a radiance more to be desired than the flash of opals or the luster of silks. Their garments partake of the loose flowing order.",
  "speaker_1263_014.wav": "For instance, a strong fabric of chosen shade is fastened at the neck, hip, knee, and ankle, and lies carelessly over the parts between. The females never graduated to the corset degree, and while they do not cut a scientific figure.",
  "speaker_1263_015.wav": "Transportation. The methods of traveling are so contrary to our conceptions and practices that I almost forbear to attempt any description.",
  "speaker_1272_001.wav": "Mr. Quilter is the apostle of the middle classes and we are glad to welcome his gospel.",
  "speaker_1272_002.wav": "Nor is Mr. Quilter's manner less interesting than his matter.",
  "speaker_1272_003.wav": "He tells us that at this festive season of the year, with Christmas and roast beef looming before us, similes drawn from eating and its results occur most readily to the mind.",
  "speaker_1272_004.wav": "He has grave doubts whether Sir Frederick Layton's work is really Greek after all, and can discover in it but little of rocky Ithaca.",
  "speaker_1272_005.wav": "Linnell's pictures are a sort of Up Guards and Adam paintings, and Mason's exquisite idles are as national as a jingo poem. Mr. Birkett Foster's landscapes smile at one much in the same way that Mr. Carcar used to flash his teeth, and Mr. John Collier gives his sitter a cheerful slap in the back before he says, like a shampooer in a Turkish bath, Next man!",
  "speaker_1284_001.wav": "Ojo examined this curious contrivance with wonder.",
  "speaker_1284_002.wav": "Margulat had first made the girl's form from the patchwork quilt, and then she had dressed it with a patchwork skirt and an apron with pockets in it, using the same gay material throughout.",
  "speaker_1284_003.wav": "The head of the patchwork girl was the most curious part of her.",
  "speaker_1284_004.wav": "The hair was of brown yarn and hung down on her neck in several neat braids.",
  "speaker_1284_005.wav": "Gold is the most common metal in the land of Oz and is used for many purposes because it is soft and pliable.",
  "speaker_1320_001.wav": "Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended all the difficulties and danger he was about to incur.",
  "speaker_1320_002.wav": "In his return to the camp, his acute and practiced intellects were intently engaged in devising means to counteract a watchfulness and suspicion on the part of his enemies that he knew were in no degree inferior to his own.",
  "speaker_1320_003.wav": "In other words, while he had implicit faith in the ability of Balaam's ass to speak, he was somewhat sceptical on the subject of a bear's singing, and yet he had been assured of the latter on the testimony of his own exquisite organs.",
  "speaker_1320_004.wav": "There was something in his air and manner that betrayed to the Scout the utter confusion of the state of his mind.",
  "speaker_1320_005.wav": "The ingenious Hawkeye, who recalled the hasty manner in which the other had abandoned his post at the bedside of the sick woman, was not without his suspicions concerning the subject of so much solemn deliberation.",
  "speaker_1462_001.wav": "He had written a number of books himself, among them a History of Dancing, a History of Costume, a Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets, a study of the poetry of Ernest Dawson, etc.",
  "speaker_1462_002.wav": "Hugh's written a delightful part for her, and she's quite inexpressible.",
  "speaker_1462_003.wav": "I happen to have McConnell's box for tonight, or there'd be no chance of our getting places.",
  "speaker_1462_004.wav": "Alexander exclaimed mildly.",
  "speaker_1462_005.wav": "Myself, I always knew she had it in her.",
  "speaker_1580_001.wav": "I will endeavor in my statement to avoid such terms as would serve to limit the events to any particular place, or give a clue as to the people concerned.",
  "speaker_1580_002.wav": "I had always known him to be restless in his manner, but on this particular occasion he was in such a state of uncontrollable agitation that it was clear something very unusual had occurred.",
  "speaker_1580_003.wav": "My friend's temper had not improved since he had been deprived of the congenial surroundings of Baker Street.",
  "speaker_1580_004.wav": "Without his scrapbooks, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man.",
  "speaker_1580_005.wav": "I had to read it over carefully, as the text must be absolutely correct.",
  "speaker_1624_001.wav": "Peter sees rose breast and finds red coat.",
  "speaker_1624_002.wav": "Who's that?\" Peter Rabbit pricked up his long ears and stared up at the tops of the trees of the old orchard. Instantly Jenny Wren popped her head out of her doorway. She cocked her head on one side to listen.",
  "speaker_1624_003.wav": "Then looked down at Peter, and her sharp little eyes snapped. I don't hear any strange voice, said she. The way you were staring, Peter Rabbit, one would think that you had really heard something new and worthwhile.",
  "speaker_1624_004.wav": "Just then there were two or three rather sharp squeaky notes from the top of one of the trees. There! cried Peter. There, didn't you hear that, Jenny Wren?",
  "speaker_1624_005.wav": "For goodness sake, Peter Rabbit, you don't mean to say that you don't know whose voice that is,\" she cried. That's Rosebreast! He and Mrs. Rosebreast have been here for quite a little while.",
  "speaker_1624_006.wav": "I didn't suppose there was anyone who didn't know those sharp, squeaky voices. They rather get on my nerves. What anybody wants to squeak like that for when they can sing as Rosebreast can is more than I can understand.",
  "speaker_1624_007.wav": "At that very instant, Mr. Wren began to scold as only he and Jenny can. Peter looked up at Jenny and winked slyly. And what anybody wants to scold like that for when they can sing as Mr. Wren can is too much for me.",
  "speaker_1624_008.wav": "retorted Peter. But you haven't told me who Rosebreast is. The Grosbeak, of course, stupid, sputtered Jenny. If you don't know Rosebreast, the Grosbeak, Peter Rabbit, you certainly must have been blind and deaf ever since you were born.",
  "speaker_1624_009.wav": "Listen to that! Just listen to that song!\" Peter listened. There were many songs, for it was a very beautiful morning, and all the singers of the old orchard were pouring out the joy that was within them.",
  "speaker_1624_010.wav": "One song was a little louder and clearer than the others, because it came from a tree very close at hand. The very tree from which those squeaky notes had come just a few minutes before. Peter suspected that that must be the song Jenny Wren meant. He looked puzzled.",
  "speaker_1624_011.wav": "He was puzzled. Do you mean welcome Robin's song? He asked rather sheepishly, for he had a feeling that he would be the victim of Jenny Ren's sharp tongue. No, I don't mean welcome Robin's song! Snapped Jenny.",
  "speaker_1624_012.wav": "What good are a pair of long ears if they can't tell one song from another? That song may sound something like Welcome Robins But if your ears were good for anything at all you'd know right away that it isn't Welcome Robins singing",
  "speaker_1624_013.wav": "That's a better song than Welcome Robin's. Welcome Robin's song is one of good cheer, but this one is of pure happiness. I wouldn't have a pair of ears like yours for anything in the world, Peter Rabbit.",
  "speaker_1624_014.wav": "Peter laughed right out as he tried to picture to himself Jenny Wren with a pair of long ears like his. What are you laughing at? Demanded Jenny Crossley. Don't you dare laugh at me!",
  "speaker_1624_015.wav": "If there is any one thing I can't stand it is being laughed at.\" I wasn't laughing at you replied Peter very meekly. I was just laughing at the thought of how funny you would look with a pair of long ears like mine.",
  "speaker_1673_001.wav": "A laudable regard for the honor of the first proselyte has countenanced the belief, the hope, the wish, that the Ebionites, or at least the Nazarenes, were distinguished only by their obstinate perseverance in the practice of the Mosaic rites.",
  "speaker_1673_002.wav": "Their churches have disappeared, their books are obliterated, their obscure freedom might allow a latitude of faith, and the softness of their infant creed would be variously molded by the zeal or prudence of three hundred years.",
  "speaker_1673_003.wav": "Yet the most charitable criticism must refuse these sectaries any knowledge of the pure and proper divinity of Christ.",
  "speaker_1673_004.wav": "His progress from infancy to youth and manhood was marked by a regular increase in stature and wisdom, and after a painful agony of mind and body, he expired on the cross.",
  "speaker_1673_005.wav": "He lived and died for the service of mankind, but the life and death of Socrates had likewise been devoted to the cause of religion and justice, and although the Stoic, or the hero, may disdain the humble virtues of Jesus, the tears which he shed over his friend and country may be esteemed the purest evidence of his humanity.",
  "speaker_1743_001.wav": "With this Jenny Wren disappeared inside her house and there was nothing for Peter to do But once more start for the dear old Briar Patch on his way He couldn't resist the temptation to run over to the green forest, which was just beyond the old orchard",
  "speaker_1743_002.wav": "He just had to find out if there was anything new over there. Hardly had he reached it when he heard a plaintive voice crying, Pee-wee, pee-wee, pee-wee. Peter chuckled happily.",
  "speaker_1743_003.wav": "He usually is one of the last of the Flycatcher family to arrive. I didn't expect to find him yet. I wonder what has brought him up so early.",
  "speaker_1743_004.wav": "It didn't take Peter long to find a Peewee, he just followed the sound of that voice and presently saw Peewee fly out and make the same kind of little circle as the other members of the family make when they are hunting flies.",
  "speaker_1743_005.wav": "It ended just where it had started, on a dead twig of a tree in a shady, rather lonely part of the green forest. Almost at once he began to call his name in a rather sad plaintive tone. Pee-wee! Pee-wee! Pee-wee!",
  "speaker_1743_006.wav": "But he wasn't sad, as Peter well knew. It was his way of expressing how happy he felt. He was a little bigger than his cousin Chebik, but looked very much like him. There was a little notch in the end of his tail.",
  "speaker_1743_007.wav": "The upper half of his bill was black, but the lower half was light. Peter could see on each wing two whitish bars, and he noticed that Pee-wee's wings were longer than his tail, which wasn't the case with Chebik.",
  "speaker_1743_008.wav": "But no one could ever mistake Peewee for any of his relatives for the simple reason that he keeps repeating his own name over and over. Aren't you here early? asked Peter. Peewee nodded.",
  "speaker_1743_009.wav": "That is something I don't often do.\" \"'If you please,' Peter inquired politely, \"'why do folks call you wood-Pee-wee?' Pee-wee chuckled happily.\"",
  "speaker_1743_010.wav": "It is so quiet and restful that I love it. Mrs. Peewee and I are very retiring. We do not like too many near neighbors.\" \"'You won't mind if I come to see you once in a while, will you?' asked Peter as he prepared to start on again for the dear old briar patch.",
  "speaker_1743_011.wav": "Come as often as you like, replied Peewee, the oftener the better. Back in the old Briar Patch, Peter thought overall he had learned about the flycatcher family, and as he recalled how they were forever catching all sorts of flying insects, it suddenly struck him.",
  "speaker_1743_012.wav": "that they must be very useful little people in helping old mother nature take care of her trees and other growing things which insects so dearly love to destroy.",
  "speaker_1743_013.wav": "But most of all, Peter thought about that queer request of cresties, and a dozen times that day he found himself peeping under old logs in the hope of finding a cast-off coat of Mr. Black Snake.",
  "speaker_1743_014.wav": "It was such a funny thing for Cresty to ask for that Peter's curiosity would allow him no peace and the next morning he was up in the old orchard before Jolly Mr. Son had kicked his bedclothes off.",
  "speaker_1743_015.wav": "Jenny Wren was as good as her word. While she flitted and hopped about this way and that way, in that fussy way of hers, getting her breakfast, she talked. Jenny couldn't keep her tongue still if she wanted to. Did you find any old clothes of the snake family? she demanded.",
  "speaker_174_001.wav": "Forgotten, too, the name of Jillian, the lovely captive.",
  "speaker_174_002.wav": "Worse and worse, he is even presumed to be the captive sweetheart, who wheedles the flower, the ring, and the prison-key out of the strict virgins for his own purposes, and flies with her at last in a shallop across the sea to live with her happily ever after.",
  "speaker_174_003.wav": "But this is a fallacy.",
  "speaker_174_004.wav": "The wandering singer approaches them with his lute.",
  "speaker_174_005.wav": "the Emperor's daughter.",
  "speaker_1919_001.wav": "Illustration, Long Pepper.",
  "speaker_1919_002.wav": "Long pepper. This is the produce of a different plant from that which produces the black, it consisting of the half-ripe flower heads of what naturalists call Piper longum and Chaba.",
  "speaker_1919_003.wav": "Originally, the most valuable of these were found in the Spice Islands or Moluccas of the Indian Ocean and were highly prized by the nations of antiquity.",
  "speaker_1919_004.wav": "The long pepper is less aromatic than the black, but its oil is more pungent.",
  "speaker_1919_005.wav": "Then add the yolks of the eggs well beaten. Stir them to the sauce, but do not allow it to boil, and serve very hot.",
  "speaker_1988_001.wav": "Fooks brought up a sack of potatoes and a piece of cured pork from the cellar, and Grandmother packed some loaves of Saturday's bread, a jar of butter, and several pumpkin pies in the straw of the wagon-box.",
  "speaker_1988_002.wav": "Occasionally, one of the horses would tear off, with his teeth, a plant full of blossoms, and walk along munching it, the flowers nodding in time to his bites as he ate down toward them.",
  "speaker_1988_003.wav": "It's no better than a badger hole. No proper dugout at all.",
  "speaker_1988_004.wav": "Now, why is that, Otto?",
  "speaker_1988_005.wav": "Presently, against one of those banks, I saw a sort of shed, thatched with the same wine-colored grass that grew everywhere.",
  "speaker_1993_001.wav": "Grandfather came down wearing a white shirt and his Sunday coat.",
  "speaker_1993_002.wav": "Morning prayers were longer than usual.",
  "speaker_1993_003.wav": "He gave thanks for our food and comfort, and prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.",
  "speaker_1993_004.wav": "Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force. They were not worn dull from constant use.",
  "speaker_1993_005.wav": "All afternoon he sat in the dining room.",
  "speaker_1995_001.wav": "The Honorable Charles Smith, Miss Sarah's brother, was walking swiftly uptown from Mr. Easterly's Wall Street office and his face was pale.",
  "speaker_1995_002.wav": "At last the cotton combine was to all appearances an assured fact and he was slated for the Senate.",
  "speaker_1995_003.wav": "Why should he not be his other men?",
  "speaker_1995_004.wav": "She was not herself a notably intelligent woman. She greatly admired intelligence or whatever looked to her like intelligence in others.",
  "speaker_1995_005.wav": "Mrs. Gray had met Southerners before, but not intimately, and she always had in mind vividly their cruelty to poor Negroes, a subject she made a point of introducing forthwith.",
  "speaker_2035_001.wav": "She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world. But I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner.",
  "speaker_2035_002.wav": "This change came about from an adventure we had together.",
  "speaker_2035_003.wav": "One day when I rode over to the Shmerdas, I found Antonia starting off on foot for Russian Peter's house to borrow a spade and brooch needed.",
  "speaker_2035_004.wav": "There had been another black frost the night before, and the air was clear and heady as wine.",
  "speaker_2035_005.wav": "It was on one of these gravel beds that I met my adventure.",
  "speaker_2078_001.wav": "Kirkletham yeast.",
  "speaker_2078_002.wav": "1717.",
  "speaker_2078_003.wav": "to make good homemade bread.",
  "speaker_2078_004.wav": "1718",
  "speaker_2078_005.wav": "Mode. Put the flour into a large earthenware bowl or deep pan. Then with a strong metal or wooden spoon hollow out the middle, but do not clear it entirely away from the bottom of the pan as in that case the sponge or leaven as it was formerly termed would stick to it, which it ought not to do.",
  "speaker_2086_001.wav": "The narrative, it may be, is woven of so humble a texture as to require this advantage, and at the same time to render it the more difficult of attainment.",
  "speaker_2086_002.wav": "In good faith, however, he is not sufficiently imaginative to flatter himself with the slightest hope of this kind.",
  "speaker_2086_003.wav": "The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod, or rather as by sticking a pen through a butterfly. Thus it wants depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.",
  "speaker_2086_004.wav": "If permitted by the historical connection, which though slight was essential to his plan, the author would very willingly have avoided anything of this nature.",
  "speaker_2086_005.wav": "He trusts not to be considered as unpardonably offending by laying out a street that infringes upon nobody's private rights, and appropriating a lot of land which had no visible owner, and building a house of materials long in use for constructing castles in the air.",
  "speaker_2094_001.wav": "It is a very fine old place of red brick, softened by a pale, powdery lichen, which has dispersed itself with happy irregularity, so as to bring the red brick into terms of friendly companionship with the limestone ornaments surrounding the three gables, the windows and the door place.",
  "speaker_2094_002.wav": "But the windows are patched with wooden panes, and the door, I think, is like the gate. It is never opened.",
  "speaker_2094_003.wav": "For it is a solid, heavy, handsome door, and must once have been in the habit of shutting with a sonorous bang behind the liveried lackey, who had just seen his master and mistress off the grounds in a carriage and pair.",
  "speaker_2094_004.wav": "a large open fireplace with rusty dogs in it, and a bare boarded floor. At the far end, fleeces of wool stacked up. In the middle of the floor, some empty corn bags.",
  "speaker_2094_005.wav": "And what through the left hand window?",
  "speaker_226_001.wav": "CHAPTER XIV. IN DERRICK'S SAFE CONTROL. The white cliffs of Dover gradually became more solid and distinct, until at length they rose from the sea, a strong white wall.",
  "speaker_226_002.wav": "emblem of the undeniable purity of England, the stainless honor and integrity of her throne, her church, her parliament, her courts of justice, and her dealings at home and abroad, whether with friend or foe.",
  "speaker_226_003.wav": "Strength and whiteness thought Jane as she paced the steamer's deck, and after a two years' absence her heart went out to her native land. Then Dover Castle caught her eye, so beautiful in the pearly light of that spring afternoon.",
  "speaker_226_004.wav": "An hour after she had read it, she was driving down the long straight road to Cairo, embarked at Alexandria the next day, landed at Brindisi,",
  "speaker_226_005.wav": "and this night-and-day travelling had brought her at last within sight of the shores of England. In a few minutes she would set foot upon them, and then there would be but two more stages to her journey. Four from the moment she started.",
  "speaker_226_006.wav": "Jane never doubted her ultimate destination, the room where pain and darkness and despair must be waging so terrible a conflict against the moral courage, the mental sanity, and the instinctive hold on life of the man she loved.",
  "speaker_226_007.wav": "That she was going to him Jane knew, but she felt utterly unable to arrange how or in what way her going could be managed. That it was a complicated problem her common sense told her.",
  "speaker_226_008.wav": "and that her surest way to Garth lay through the doctor's consulting room. So she telegraphed to Derek from Paris, and at present her mind saw no further than Wimpole Street. At Dover she bought a paper,",
  "speaker_226_009.wav": "and hastily scanned its pages as she walked along the platform in the wake of the capable porter who had taken possession of her rugs and hand baggage. In the personal column she found the very paragraph she sought.",
  "speaker_226_010.wav": "but the injured parts were progressing favorably, and all fear of brain complications seemed over. During the last few days, however, a serious reaction from shock has set in, and it has been considered necessary to summon Sir Derek Brand.",
  "speaker_226_011.wav": "the well-known nerve specialist, in consultation with the oculist and the local practitioner in charge of the case. There is a feeling of widespread regret and sympathy in those social and artistic circles where Mr. Dalmain was so well known and so deservedly popular.",
  "speaker_226_012.wav": "that Jane's half-crown was not a penny. He had a sick young wife at home, who had been ordered extra nourishment, and just as the rush on board began, he had put up a simple prayer to the Heavenly Father,",
  "speaker_226_013.wav": "who knoweth that ye have need of these things, asking that he might catch the eye of a generous traveler. He felt he had indeed been led to this plain brown-faced broad-shouldered lady, when he how nearly.",
  "speaker_226_014.wav": "After her curt nod from a distance had engaged him, he had responded to the blandishments of a fussy little woman, with many more bags and rugs and a parrot cage, who was now doling French coppers out of the window of the next compartment.",
  "speaker_226_015.wav": "\"'Seven pence a penny of this stuff ain't much for carrying all that along, I don't think,' grumbled his mate. And Jane's young porter experienced the double joy of faith confirmed and willing service generously rewarded. A telegraph boy walked along the train saying,",
  "speaker_2277_001.wav": "He was in a fevered state of mind, owing to the blight his wife's action threatened to cast upon his entire future.",
  "speaker_2277_002.wav": "He would have to pay her the money which she would now regularly demand, or there would be trouble. It did not matter what he did.",
  "speaker_2277_003.wav": "Hurstwood walked the floor mentally arranging the chief points of his situation.",
  "speaker_2277_004.wav": "He also thought of his managerial position.",
  "speaker_2277_005.wav": "Many little wrinkles gathered between his eyes as he contemplated this, and his brow moistened.",
  "speaker_2300_001.wav": "The Paris plant, like that at the Crystal Palace, was a temporary exhibit.",
  "speaker_2300_002.wav": "The London plant was less temporary, but not permanent, supplying before it was torn out no fewer than 3,000 lamps in hotels, churches, stores and dwellings in the vicinity of Holborn Viaduct.",
  "speaker_2300_003.wav": "There, Messier's Johnson and Hammer put into practice many of the ideas now standard in the art, and secured much useful data for the work in New York, of which the story has just been told.",
  "speaker_2300_004.wav": "The dynamo electric machine, though small, was robust, for under all the varying speeds of water power and the vicissitudes of the plant to which it belonged, it continued in active use until 1899, 17 years.",
  "speaker_2300_005.wav": "Owing to his insistence on low pressure, direct current for use in densely populated districts as the only safe and truly universal profitable way of delivering electrical energy to the consumers, Edison has been frequently spoken of as an opponent of the alternating current.",
  "speaker_233_001.wav": "The Peace of Righteousness.",
  "speaker_233_002.wav": "There can be no nobler cause for which to work than the peace of righteousness, and high honor is due those serene and lofty souls who with wisdom and courage",
  "speaker_233_003.wav": "with high idealism tempered by sane facing of the actual facts of life, have striven to bring nearer the day when arm's strife between nation and nation, between class and class,",
  "speaker_233_004.wav": "between man and man shall end throughout the world. Because all this is true, it is also true that there are no men more innobile or more foolish, no men whose actions are fraught with greater possibility of mischief.",
  "speaker_233_005.wav": "to their country and to mankind than those who exalt unrighteous peace as better than righteous war. The men who have stood highest in our history, as in the history of all countries, are those who scorned injustice.",
  "speaker_233_006.wav": "who were incapable of oppressing the weak, or of permitting their country with their consent to oppress the weak, but who did not hesitate to draw the sword, when to leave it undrawn meant inability to arrest triumphant wrong.",
  "speaker_233_007.wav": "Yet every man in active affairs who also reads about the past, grows by bitter experience to realize that there are plenty of men, not only among those who mean ill, but among those who mean well.",
  "speaker_233_008.wav": "who are ready enough to praise what was done in the past, and yet are incapable of profiting by it when faced by the needs of the present. During our generations, this seems to have been peculiarly the case among the men",
  "speaker_233_009.wav": "who have become obsessed with the idea of obtaining universal peace by some cheap, patent panacea. There has been a real and substantial growth",
  "speaker_233_010.wav": "and the feeling for international responsibility and justice among the great civilized nations during the past three score or four score years. There has been a real growth of recognition of the fact",
  "speaker_233_011.wav": "and that in most cases war is an evil method of settling international difficulties. But as yet, there has been only a rudimentary beginning of the development of international tribunals of justice.",
  "speaker_233_012.wav": "and there has been no development at all of any international police power. Now, as I have already said, the whole fabric of municipal law, of law within each nation",
  "speaker_233_013.wav": "rests ultimately upon the judge and the policeman, and the complete absence of the policeman, and the most complete absence of the judge in international affairs, prevents there being as yet any real homology",
  "speaker_233_014.wav": "between municipal and international law. Moreover, the questions which sometimes involve nations in war are far more difficult and complex than any questions that affect merely individuals.",
  "speaker_233_015.wav": "Almost every great nation has inherited certain questions, either with other nations or with sections of its own people, which it is quite impossible in the present state of civilization to decide.",
  "speaker_237_001.wav": "Frank read English slowly, and the more he read about this divorce case, the angrier he grew.",
  "speaker_237_002.wav": "A brisk wind had come up and was driving puffy white clouds across the sky.",
  "speaker_237_003.wav": "The orchard was sparkling and rippling in the sun.",
  "speaker_237_004.wav": "That invitation decided her.",
  "speaker_237_005.wav": "Oh, but I'm glad to get this place mode.",
  "speaker_2412_001.wav": "Shortly after passing one of these chapels we came suddenly upon a village which started up out of the mist, and I was alarmed lest I should be made an object of curiosity or dislike.",
  "speaker_2412_002.wav": "My guides, however, were well known, and the natural politeness of the people prevented them from putting me to any inconvenience. But they could not help eyeing me, nor eye them.",
  "speaker_2412_003.wav": "The streets were narrow and unpaved, but very fairly clean.",
  "speaker_2412_004.wav": "The vine grew outside many of the houses and there were some with sign boards on which was painted a bottle and a glass That made me feel much at home",
  "speaker_2412_005.wav": "Even on this ledge of human society there was a stunted growth of shoplitz, which had taken root and vegetated somehow, though as in an air mercantile of the bleakest.",
  "speaker_2428_001.wav": "Her father is the most remarkable person to say the least.",
  "speaker_2428_002.wav": "But it is quite plain to me that all the arrangements for my wedding are going to be made by the Snellings.",
  "speaker_2428_003.wav": "I do not know when it is going to be, but it will be either next week or the week after, certainly at the earliest possible moment, and I shouldn't be at all surprised to learn that all Mary Ann's things have been already bought, and perhaps some of them marked.",
  "speaker_2428_004.wav": "It is most delightful.",
  "speaker_2428_005.wav": "It might just as well be some one else's wedding. So unimportant is the part which I am set to play in it.",
  "speaker_2514_001.wav": "He received from Mrs. Latter on the morning after his visit to Kate the telegraphic expression of a hope that he might be free to dine with him that evening, and his freedom affected him as fortunate even though in some degree qualified by hermissive.",
  "speaker_2514_002.wav": "Expecting American friends whom I'm so glad to find you know. His knowledge of American friends was clearly an accident of which he was to taste the fruit to the last bitterness. This apprehension however, we hasten to add,",
  "speaker_2514_003.wav": "enjoyed for him, in the immediate event, a certain merciful shrinkage. The immediate event being that at Lancaster Gate, five minutes after his due arrival, prescribed him for 8.30. Mrs. Stringham came in alone.",
  "speaker_2514_004.wav": "The long daylight, the postponed lamps, the habit of the hour, made dinners late and guests still later. So that punctual as he was, he had found Mrs. Latter alone, with Kate herself not yet in the field.",
  "speaker_2514_005.wav": "He had thus had with her several bewildering moments, bewildering by reason, fairly, of their tacit invitation to him to be supernaturally simple. This was exactly, goodness knew, what he wanted to be.",
  "speaker_2514_006.wav": "but he had never had it so largely and freely, so supernaturally simply, for that matter, imputed to him as of easy achievement. It was a particular in which Aunt Maud appeared to offer herself as an example, appeared to say quite agreeably,",
  "speaker_2514_007.wav": "What I want of you don't you see is to be just exactly as I am. The quantity of the article required was what might especially have caused him to stagger. Be like so in general the quantities in which Mrs. Latter dealt.",
  "speaker_2514_008.wav": "He would have liked as well to ask her how feasible she supposed it for a poor young man to resemble her at any point. But he had, after all, soon enough perceived that he was doing as she wished by letting his wonder show.",
  "speaker_2514_009.wav": "just a little as silly. He was conscious moreover of a small strange dread of the results of discussion with her. Strange truly because it was her good nature, not her asperity, that he feared. Asperity might have made him angry.",
  "speaker_2514_010.wav": "in which there was always a comfort. Good-nature and his conditions had a tendency to make him ashamed, which Aunt Maud, indeed wonderfully liking him for himself, quite struck him as having guessed. To spare him, therefore, she also avoided discussion.",
  "speaker_2514_011.wav": "She kept him down by refusing to quarrel with him. This was what she now proposed to him to enjoy, and his secret discomfort was his sense that on the whole it was what would best suit him. Being kept down was a bore, but...",
  "speaker_2514_012.wav": "His great dread, verily, was of being ashamed, which was a thing distinct, and it mattered, but little, that he was ashamed of that too. It was of the essence of his position that in such a house as this the tables could always be turned on him.",
  "speaker_2514_013.wav": "The place, however, muffled in convenience and decorum, constantly hummed for him with that thick irony.",
  "speaker_2514_014.wav": "and he had already seen how little aid came to him from denouncing the bribes as ugly in form. That was what the precious metals, they alone, could afford to be. It was vain enough for him accordingly to try to impart a gloss to his own comparative Brummagem.",
  "speaker_2514_015.wav": "The humiliation of this impotence was precisely what Aunt Maude sought to mitigate for him by keeping him down. And as her effort to that end had doubtless never yet been so visible, he had probably never felt so definitely placed in the world.",
  "speaker_251_001.wav": "They also found a Martian calendar. The year had been divided into ten more or less equal months, and one of them had been Doma.",
  "speaker_251_002.wav": "Bill Chandler, the zoologist, had been going deeper and deeper into the old sea bottom",
  "speaker_251_003.wav": "That took the Center of Interest away from archaeology, and started a new burst of activity.",
  "speaker_251_004.wav": "The civilian specialists in other fields, and the Space Force people who had been holding tape lines and making sketches and snapping cameras, were all flying to lower Sirtis to find out how much oxygen there was and what kind of life it supported.",
  "speaker_251_005.wav": "They had four or five species of what might loosely be called birds, and something that could easily be classed as a reptile, and a carnivorous mammal the size of a cat, with birdlike claws, and a herbivore almost identical with the pig-like thing in the big Darf-Hulva mural, and another, like a gazelle, with a single horn in the middle of its forehead.",
  "speaker_260_001.wav": "And how odd the directions will look.",
  "speaker_260_002.wav": "It was the white rabbit returning, splendidly dressed with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other. He came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came. Oh, the Duchess, the Duchess!",
  "speaker_260_003.wav": "Oh, won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting?",
  "speaker_260_004.wav": "Alice took up the fan and gloves, and as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking. Dear, dear, how queer everything is today.",
  "speaker_260_005.wav": "And yesterday, things went on just as usual.",
  "speaker_2803_001.wav": "Once there was a father who thought he would build for his children a beautiful home, putting into it everything they could need or desire throughout their lives.",
  "speaker_2803_002.wav": "The sweetest perfumes floated through the air while thousands of birds answered the music of fountains with their songs.",
  "speaker_2803_003.wav": "Why did he give that so odd a shape? Or so strange a covering?",
  "speaker_2803_004.wav": "And so through many questions and many experiments, they learn at last how to use the contents of this one storehouse.",
  "speaker_2803_005.wav": "The entrance is light because it opens so wide, but we can see that the floor slopes downward and the way looks dark and narrow before us.",
  "speaker_2830_001.wav": "In every way, they sought to undermine the authority of St. Paul.",
  "speaker_2830_002.wav": "They said to the Galatians, You have no right to think highly of Paul.",
  "speaker_2830_003.wav": "He was the last to turn to Christ.",
  "speaker_2830_004.wav": "Paul came later and is beneath us",
  "speaker_2830_005.wav": "Indeed, he persecuted the Church of Christ for a long time.",
  "speaker_2902_001.wav": "One who writes of such an era labors under a troublesome disadvantage.",
  "speaker_2902_002.wav": "In the present case that disadvantage is doubled, for while the sins of the Church, however heinous, were still such as admit of being expressed in words, the sins of the heathen world against which she fought were utterly indescribable, and the Christian apologist is thus compelled, for the sake of decency, to state the Church's case far more weakly than the facts deserve.",
  "speaker_2902_003.wav": "Not, be it ever remembered, that the slightest suspicion of immorality attaches either to the heroine of this book, or to the leading philosophers of her school, for several centuries.",
  "speaker_2902_004.wav": "That divine word, who is the Light who lighteth every man which cometh into the world, had awakened in the heart of mankind a moral craving never before felt in any strength, except by a few isolated philosophers or prophets.",
  "speaker_2902_005.wav": "The very emperors had arrayed themselves on her side.",
  "speaker_2961_001.wav": "He passes abruptly from persons to ideas and numbers, and from ideas and numbers to persons, from the heavens to man, from astronomy to physiology. He confuses, or rather does not distinguish subject and object, first and final causes, and is dreaming of geometrical figures, lost in a flux of sense.",
  "speaker_2961_002.wav": "The influence which the Timaeus has exercised upon posterity is due partly to a misunderstanding.",
  "speaker_2961_003.wav": "In the supposed depths of this dialogue, the Neoplatonists found hidden meanings and connections with the Jewish and Christian scriptures, and out of them, they elicited doctrines quite at variance with the spirit of Plato.",
  "speaker_2961_004.wav": "They were absorbed in his theology and were under the dominion of his name, while that which was truly great and truly characteristic in him, his effort to realize and connect abstractions, was not understood by them at all.",
  "speaker_2961_005.wav": "There is no danger of the modern commentators on the Timi\u00e9s falling into the absurdities of the Neoplatonists.",
  "speaker_3000_001.wav": "ShastaRambles and ModocMemories.",
  "speaker_3000_002.wav": "Arctic beauty and desolation, with their blessings and dangers, all may be found here to test the endurance and skill of adventurous climbers. But far better than climbing the mountain is going around its warm, fertile base, enjoying its bounties like a bee circling around a bank of flowers.",
  "speaker_3000_003.wav": "Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but everybody should be kind at least to himself.",
  "speaker_3000_004.wav": "Go quietly, alone. No harm will befall you.",
  "speaker_3000_005.wav": "But it is far better to go afoot.",
  "speaker_307_001.wav": "The council of buccaneers had lasted some time when one of them re-entered the house, and with a repetition of the same salute which had in my eyes an ironical air, begged for a moment's loan of the torch. The council were briefly agreed.",
  "speaker_307_002.wav": "and this emissary retired again, leaving us together in the dark. There's a breeze coming, Jim,\" said Silver, who had by this time adopted quite a friendly and familiar tone. I turned to the loophole nearest me and looked out.",
  "speaker_307_003.wav": "The embers of the great fire had so far burned themselves out and now glowed so low and duskily that I understood why these conspirators desired a torch. About halfway down the slope to the stockade they were collected in a group.",
  "speaker_307_004.wav": "One held the light, another was on his knees in their midst, and I saw the blade of an open knife shine in his hand with varying colors in the moon and torchlight.",
  "speaker_307_005.wav": "I could just make out that he had a book as well as a knife in his hand, and was still wondering how anything so incongruous had come in their possession when the kneeling figure rose once more to his feet.",
  "speaker_307_006.wav": "and the whole party began to move together towards the house. Here they come, said I, and I returned to my former position, for it seemed beneath my dignity that they should find me watching them. Well, let them come, lad, let them come!",
  "speaker_307_007.wav": "I've still a shot in my locker.\" The door opened, and the five men standing huddled together just inside pushed one of their number forward. In any other circumstances it would have been comical to see his slow advance.",
  "speaker_307_008.wav": "hesitating as he set down each foot, but holding his closed right hand in front of him. Step up lad! cried Silver. I won't eat you!",
  "speaker_307_009.wav": "You'll all swing now, I reckon, What soft-headed lubber had a Bible?\" It was Dick, said one. Dick was it? Then Dick can get to prayers, said Silver.",
  "speaker_307_010.wav": "He's seen his slice of luck, Hasdick, and you may lay to that.\" But here the long man with the yellow eyes struck in.",
  "speaker_307_011.wav": "Well, what is it anyway? Ah, deposed. That's it, is it? Very pretty wrote, to be sure. Like print, I swear. Your hand, all right, George?",
  "speaker_307_012.wav": "You'll be captain next, I shouldn't wonder. Just oblige me with that torch again, will you? This pipe don't draw.",
  "speaker_307_013.wav": "You're a funny man by your account, but you're over now, and you'll maybe step down off that barrel and help vote.\" I thought you said you knowed the rules, returned Silver contemptuously.",
  "speaker_307_014.wav": "Oh,\" replied George, \"'You don't be under no kind of apprehension. We're all square we are. First, you've made a hash of this cruise. You'll be a bold man to say no to that. Second,",
  "speaker_307_015.wav": "You let the enemy out of this here trap for nothing. Why did they want out?",
  "speaker_3081_001.wav": "When we took our seats at the breakfast table, it was with the feeling of being no longer looked upon as connected in any way with this case.",
  "speaker_3081_002.wav": "Instantly they absorbed all my attention, though I dared not give them a direct look, and continued to observe them only in the glass.",
  "speaker_3081_003.wav": "Yes, and a very respectable one.",
  "speaker_3081_004.wav": "The lady is not the mother of the boys, but their aunt.",
  "speaker_3081_005.wav": "The boys belong to the gentleman who is a widower.",
  "speaker_3112_001.wav": "He did not speak about it at length, but said that he had written me a letter, not to be opened until after his death, containing instructions for publication. This letter was dated 30 April 1899.",
  "speaker_3112_002.wav": "1876. I will give here as much of it as concerns the public. I wish you to accept as a gift from me, given you now, the accompanying pages which contain a memoir of my life.",
  "speaker_3112_003.wav": "My intention is that they shall be published after my death and be edited by you. But I leave it all together to your discretion whether to publish or to suppress the work, and also to your discretion whether any part or what part shall be omitted.",
  "speaker_3112_004.wav": "But I would not wish that anything should be added to the memoir. If you wish to say any word as from yourself, let it be done in the shape of a preface or introductory chapter. At the end, there is a postscript.",
  "speaker_3112_005.wav": "The publication, if made at all, should be affected as soon as possible after my death. My father died on the 6th of December, 1882. It will be seen therefore.",
  "speaker_3112_006.wav": "that my duty has been merely to pass the book through the press conformably to the above instructions. I have placed headings to the right-hand pages throughout the book, and I did not conceive that I was precluded from so doing.",
  "speaker_3112_007.wav": "that he had given up hunting, but he still kept two horses for such riding as maybe had in or about the immediate neighbourhood of London. He continued to ride to the end of his life. He liked the exercise, and I think it would have distressed him not to have had a horse in his stable.",
  "speaker_3112_008.wav": "But he never spoke willingly on hunting matters. He had at last resolved to give up his favorite amusement, and that as far as he was concerned, there should be an end of it. In the spring of 1877, he went to South Africa to study hunting. He was a very good hunter. He was a very good hunter. He was a very good hunter.",
  "speaker_3112_009.wav": "The journey lasted altogether 16 days, and during that time Mr. and Mrs. Burns were the hospitable entertainers. When my father returned, he wrote a short account of how the Mastiffs went to Iceland.",
  "speaker_3112_010.wav": "The book was printed but was intended only for private circulation. Every day, until his last illness, my father continued his work. He would not otherwise have been happy.",
  "speaker_3112_011.wav": "He demanded from himself less than he had done ten years previously, but his daily task was always done. I will mention now the titles of his books that were published after the last included in the list which he himself has given at the end of the second volume.",
  "speaker_3112_012.wav": "An Eye for an Eye, 1879. Cousin Henry, 1879. Thackeray, 1879. The Duke's Children, 1880. Life of Cicero.",
  "speaker_3112_013.wav": "1880. Ayala's Angel. 1881. Dr. Wardle's School. 1881. Frau Frohman and Other Stories. 1882.",
  "speaker_3112_014.wav": "At the time of his death, he had written four-fifths of an Irish story called The Land Leaguers, shortly about to be published, and he left in manuscript a completed novel called An Old Man's Love.",
  "speaker_3112_015.wav": "which will be published by Monsieur Blackwood and Sons in 1884. In the summer of 1880, my father left London and went to live at Harding, a village in Sussex, but on the confines of Hampshire.",
  "speaker_3170_001.wav": "With an education which ought to have ensured me an honorable standing in the world, with some intelligence, wit, good literary and scientific knowledge, and endowed with those accidental physical qualities which are such a good passport into society, I found myself, at the age of twenty, the mean follower of a sublime art, in which, if great talent is rightly admired, mediocrity is as rightly despised.",
  "speaker_3170_002.wav": "I was compelled by poverty to become a member of a musical band, in which I could expect neither esteem nor consideration, and I was well aware that I should be the laughing stock of the persons who had known me as a doctor in divinity, as an ecclesiastic, and as an officer in the army, and had welcomed me in the highest society.",
  "speaker_3170_003.wav": "I felt that, in my first profession, as I was not blessed with the vocation necessary to it, I should have succeeded only by dent of hypocrisy, and I should have been despicable in my own estimation, even if I had seen the purple mantle on my shoulders, for the greatest dignities cannot silence a man's own conscience.",
  "speaker_3170_004.wav": "Besides, I was of opinion that a man's profession, whatever it might be, ought to supply him with enough money to satisfy all his wants, and the very poor pay of an officer would never have been sufficient to cover my expenses, because my education had given me greater wants than those of officers in general.",
  "speaker_3170_005.wav": "Our scandalous proceedings often exposed us to the greatest danger.",
  "speaker_3214_001.wav": "He saw that his hero and commander was following quite a different train of thought. Rostov glanced angrily at Ilyin and without replying strode off with rapid steps to the village. I'll show them. I'll give it to them, the brigands, said he to himself.",
  "speaker_3214_002.wav": "What decision have you been pleased to come to? said he. Rostov stopped.",
  "speaker_3214_003.wav": "Decision? What decision?",
  "speaker_3214_004.wav": "and you can't manage them? You're a traitor yourself. I know you. I'll flay you all alive.\" And as if afraid of wasting his store of anger, he left Alpati\u0107 and went rapidly forward, Alpati\u0107 mastering his offended feelings, kept pace with Rostov at a gliding gate.",
  "speaker_3214_005.wav": "and continued to impart his views. He said the peasants were obdurate and that at the present moment it would be imprudent to over resist them without an armed force and would it not be better first to send for the military? I'll give them armed force.",
  "speaker_3214_006.wav": "Without considering what he would do, he moved unconsciously with quick, resolute steps towards the crowd.",
  "speaker_3214_007.wav": "The peasants in the crowd were similarly impressed when they saw Rostov's rapid, firm steps and resolute frowning face. After the hussars had come to the village and Rostov had gone to see the princess, a certain confusion and dissension had arisen among the crowd.",
  "speaker_3214_008.wav": "Some of the peasants said that these new arrivals were Russians and might take it amiss that the mistress was being detained. Dron was of this opinion, but as soon as he expressed it, Karp and others attacked their ex-elder. How many years have you been fattening on the commune?",
  "speaker_3214_009.wav": "What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? We've been told to keep order, and that no one is to leave their homes or take away a single grain, and that's all about it,\" cried another. It was your son's turn to be conscripted, but no fear.",
  "speaker_3214_010.wav": "You begrudged your lump of a son. A little old man suddenly began attacking Throne.",
  "speaker_3214_011.wav": "Cart, thrusting his fingers into his belt and smiling a little, walked to the front. The drone on the contrary retired to the rear and the crowd drew closer together.",
  "speaker_3214_012.wav": "Shouted the roast off, coming up to the crowd with quick steps. The Elder!",
  "speaker_3214_013.wav": "But before the words were well out of his mouth, his cap flew off, and a fierce blow jerked his head to one side. Caps off, traitors! shouted Rostov in a wrathful voice. Where's the Elder? he cried furiously. The Elder! He wants the Elder!",
  "speaker_3214_014.wav": "Meek and flustered voices here and there were heard calling.",
  "speaker_3214_015.wav": "We don't riot, we're following the orders,\" declared Karrt, and at that moment several voices began speaking together. It's as the old men have decided, there's too many of you giving orders. Arguing? Mutiny. Briggans. Traitors! Cried Rostov.",
  "speaker_3240_001.wav": "attempts to preserve the system. That small frogs and toads, for instance, never have fallen from the sky, but were on the ground in the first place. Or that there have been such falls up from one place in a whirlwind and down in another.",
  "speaker_3240_002.wav": "Were there some especially froggy place near Europe, as there is an especially sandy place? The scientific explanation would, of course, be that all small frogs falling from the sky in Europe come from that center of froggy-ity. To start with...",
  "speaker_3240_003.wav": "I'd like to emphasize something that I am permitted to see because I am still primitive, or intelligent, or in a state of maladjustment.",
  "speaker_3240_004.wav": "of a fall of tadpoles from the sky, as to there in the first place.",
  "speaker_3240_005.wav": "The writer says that all observers were mistaken, that the frogs or toads must have fallen from trees or other places overhead. Tremendous number of little toads, one or two months old,",
  "speaker_3240_006.wav": "that were seen to fall from a great thick cloud that appeared suddenly in a sky that had been cloudless. August 1804 near Toulouse, France, according to a letter from Professor Pontus to M. Arrigo.",
  "speaker_3240_007.wav": "Many instances of frogs that were seen to fall from the sky",
  "speaker_3240_008.wav": "As to having been there in the first place...",
  "speaker_3240_009.wav": "July 30th, 1838.",
  "speaker_3240_010.wav": "Little toads found in a desert after a rainfall. Notes and queries.",
  "speaker_3240_011.wav": "To start with, I do not deny positively the conventional explanation of up and down. I think that there may have been such occurrences. I omit many notes that I have upon indistinguishables.",
  "speaker_3240_012.wav": "In the London Times, July 4th, 1883, there's an account of a shower of twigs and leaves and tiny toads in a storm upon the slopes of the Apennines. These may have been the Ejecta Menta of a whirlwind. I add, however,",
  "speaker_3240_013.wav": "that I have notes upon two other falls of tiny toads in 1883, one in France and one in Tahiti. Also, a fish in Scotland. But in the phenomena of the Apennines, the mixture seems to me to be typical of the products of a whirlwind.",
  "speaker_3240_014.wav": "The other instances seem to me to be typical of something like migration, the great numbers and their homogeneity. Over and over in these annals of the damned occurs the datum of segregation.",
  "speaker_3240_015.wav": "But a whirlwind is thought of as a condition of chaos, quasi-chaos.",
  "speaker_3242_001.wav": "Mantelish excused himself and went off with the messenger. The door closed. Quillen came back to his chair. We're moving the outfit later tonight, the commissioner explained.",
  "speaker_3242_002.wav": "ate tons of his lab equipment, plus his special Uli guards. Oh, Trigger picked up the Puyah glass. She looked into it. It was empty. Moving where, she asked. Manon, said the Commissioner, tell you about that later.",
  "speaker_3242_003.wav": "Every last muscle in Trigger's body seemed to go limp simultaneously. She settled back slightly in the chair, surprised by the force of the reaction. She hadn't realized by now how keyed up she was. She sighed a small sigh.",
  "speaker_3242_004.wav": "Then she smiled at Quillen. Major, she said, how about a tiny little refill on that puya, about half? Quillen took care of the tiny little refill. Commissioner Tate said, by the way...",
  "speaker_3242_005.wav": "Quillen does have a degree in subspace engineering and gets assigned to the engineers now and then, but his real job's space scout intelligence.\" Trigger nodded. I'd almost guessed it. She gave Quillen another smile.",
  "speaker_3242_006.wav": "And now,\" said the Commissioner, \"'we'll talk more freely. We tell mantleists just as little as we can to tell you the truth, Trigger. The Professor is a terrible handicap on an operation like this. I understand he was a great friend of your father's.' Yes,\" she said.",
  "speaker_3242_007.wav": "Going over for visits to Mantelish's garden with my father is one of the earliest things I remember. I can imagine he's a problem. She shifted her gaze curiously from one to the other of the two men. What are you people doing?",
  "speaker_3242_008.wav": "looking for guess fail in the key unit. Halati Tate said, That's about it. We're one of a few thousand federation groups assigned to the same general job. Each group works at its specialties and the information gets correlated.",
  "speaker_3242_009.wav": "In what way, Trigger asked? Well, suppose that key unit is lost and stays lost. Suppose all the other plasmoids put together don't contain enough information to show how the old Galactics produced the things and got them to operate.",
  "speaker_3242_010.wav": "Somebody would get that worked out pretty soon, wouldn't they?",
  "speaker_3242_011.wav": "There seemed to be too many basic factors missing. It might be necessary to develop a whole new class of sciences first, and that could take a few centuries. Well, Trigger admitted, I could get along without the things indefinitely.",
  "speaker_3242_012.wav": "Same here, the Plasmoid Nabob agreed ungratefully. Weird beasties. But, let's see. At present, there are 1,258 member worlds to the Federation, aren't there? More or less.",
  "speaker_3242_013.wav": "And the number of planetary confederacies, subplanetary governments, industrial, financial, and commercial combines, assorted power groups, etc. and so on, is something I'd hate to have to calculate. What are you driving at? she asked.",
  "speaker_3242_014.wav": "They've all been told we're heading for a new golden age, courtesy of the plasmoid science. Practically everybody has believed it. Now there's considerable doubt.",
  "speaker_3242_015.wav": "Of course. Practically everybody is going to get very unhappy, huh?\" That, said Commissioner Tait, is only a little of it. Yes, the thing isn't just lost. Somebody's got it. Very likely. Trigger nodded.",
  "speaker_32_001.wav": "After Mr. Crowe flew back to Pleasant Valley to gather news for him, Brownie Beaver carefully counted each day that passed. Since Mr. Crowe had agreed to be his newspaper, and come each Saturday afternoon to tell him everything that had happened during the week,",
  "speaker_32_002.wav": "Brownie was in a great hurry for Saturday to arrive. In order to make no mistake, he put aside a stick in which he gnawed a notch each day, and in that way he knew exactly when Saturday came.",
  "speaker_32_003.wav": "That was probably the longest day in Brownie Beaver's life. At least it seems so to him. Whenever he saw a bird soaring above the tree-tops, he couldn't help hoping it was Mr. Crow.",
  "speaker_32_004.wav": "Brownie Beaver dropped whatever he happened to be doing, expecting that Mr. Crowe would flap into sight at any moment. Brownie had many disappointments, but Mr. Crowe really came at last.",
  "speaker_32_005.wav": "He lighted right on top of Brownie Beaver's house and called, paper, down the chimney, just like that. Brownie happened to be inside his house and in a wonderfully short time his head appeared.",
  "speaker_32_006.wav": "above the water, and he soon crawled up beside Mr. Crow. \"'Well, I am glad to see you,' he told Mr. Crow. \"'Peter Mink caught a monstrous eel in the duck-pond on Monday,' Mr. Crow said.",
  "speaker_32_007.wav": "Being a newspaper, he thought he ought to say nothing except what was news, not even good afternoon. Mr. Rabbit of Pine Ridge, with his wife and fourteen children, is visiting his brother, Mr. Jeremiah Rabbit.",
  "speaker_32_008.wav": "Mr. Crow continued to relate in a sing-song voice. \"'Good gracious!' Brownie Beaver exclaimed. \"'Fatty Coon,' Mr. Crow said. Fatty Coon was confined to his house by illness Tuesday night.",
  "speaker_32_009.wav": "He ate too many dried apples.\" \"'Well, well,' Brownie Beaver murmured, and he started to ask Mr. Crowe a question, but Mr. Crowe interrupted him with more news.\"",
  "speaker_32_010.wav": "Mrs. Bear had a birthday on Wednesday, and enjoyable time was had by all, except the pig.' \"'Pig?' Brawny Beaver asked. \"'What pig?' \"'The pig they ate,' said Mr. Crow.",
  "speaker_32_011.wav": "and he went right on talking. On Thursday Mr. Woodchuck went to visit his cousins in the West. Mrs. Woodchuck is worried. What's she worried about? Brownie inquired. She's afraid he's coming back again.",
  "speaker_32_012.wav": "Mr. Crow explained. I HAVE heard he was lazy, Brownie said. What happened on Friday? Tommy Fox made a visit. But he didn't have a good time at all, Mr. Crow reported.",
  "speaker_32_013.wav": "and he left faster than he came. Brownie Beaver wanted to know where Tommy Fox made his visit. At Farmer Green's Hen House, Mr. Crow explained. Why did he hurry away, Brownie asked.",
  "speaker_32_014.wav": "\"'Old Dog Spot chased him,' Mr. Crow replied. \"'But you mustn't ask questions,' he complained. \"'You can't ask questions of a newspaper, you know.' \"'Well, what happened on Saturday?'",
  "speaker_32_015.wav": "Another question. I declare, I don't believe you ever took a newspaper before, did you?\" Brownie Beaver admitted that he never had. Then, said Mr. Crowe, then don't interrupt me again, please.",
  "speaker_3536_001.wav": "In the last communication which he had received from Lady Milbra, she had scolded him, in terms that were for her severe, because he had not returned to his wife and taken her off with him to Naples.",
  "speaker_3536_002.wav": "And now it had come to pass that his sole remaining ally, Mr. Samuel Basel, the ex-policeman, was becoming weary of his service.",
  "speaker_3536_003.wav": "At last he sent word to say, that he himself would be in England before the end of March, and would see that the majesty of the law should be vindicated in his favor.",
  "speaker_3536_004.wav": "In making this he had expected no success, though from the energetic nature of his disposition he had made the attempt with some zeal.",
  "speaker_3536_005.wav": "Mrs. Basel was disposed to think that ladies of quality, among whom Madame T was entitled in her estimation to take rank, were seldom better than they ought to be, and she was quite willing that her husband should earn his bread by watching the lady or the lady's lover.",
  "speaker_3570_001.wav": "But already at a point in economic evolution far antedating the emergence of the lady, specialized consumption of goods as an evidence of pecuniary strength had begun to work out in a more or less elaborate system.",
  "speaker_3570_002.wav": "The utility of consumption as an evidence of wealth is to be classed as a derivative growth.",
  "speaker_3570_003.wav": "Such consumption as falls through the women is merely incidental to their work. It is a means to their continued labour, and not a consumption directed to their own comfort and fullness of life.",
  "speaker_3570_004.wav": "With a further advance in culture, this taboo may change into simple custom of a more or less rigorous character, but whatever be the theoretical basis of the distinction which is maintained, whether it be a taboo or a larger conventionality, the features of the conventional scheme of consumption do not change easily.",
  "speaker_3570_005.wav": "In the nature of things, luxuries and the comforts of life belong to the leisure class.",
  "speaker_3575_001.wav": "And often, as my mother said, while on her lap I laid my head, she feared for time I was not made, but for eternity.",
  "speaker_3575_002.wav": "Why are we to be denied each other's society?",
  "speaker_3575_003.wav": "Why are we to be divided?",
  "speaker_3575_004.wav": "Surely it must be because we're in danger of loving each other too well, of losing sight of the creator and idolatry of the creature.",
  "speaker_3575_005.wav": "We used to dispute about politics and religion.",
  "speaker_3576_001.wav": "Master and man dismounted from their beasts, and as soon as they had settled themselves at the foot of the trees, Sancho, who had had a good noontime meal that day, led himself, without more ado, past the gates of sleep.",
  "speaker_3576_002.wav": "But Don Quixote, whom his thoughts, far more than hunger, kept awake, could not close an eye and roamed in fancy to and fro through all sorts of places.",
  "speaker_3576_003.wav": "At one moment it seemed to him that he was in the cave of Moltusinos, and saw Dulcinea transformed into a country wench, skipping and mounting upon her chiasse, again that the words of the sage Merlin were sounding in his ears, setting forth the conditions to be observed and the exertions to be made for the disenchantment of Dulcinea.",
  "speaker_3576_004.wav": "Who is touching me and untrusting me?",
  "speaker_3576_005.wav": "Dulcinea is perishing. Thou art living on regardless. I am dying of hope deferred. Therefore untrust thyself with a goodwill. For mine it is, here, in this retired spot, to give thee at least two thousand lashes.",
  "speaker_3723_001.wav": "ministrant ars et natura instillante. They use cordials to keep the venom and malinity of the disease from the heart. 11. Meditation",
  "speaker_3723_002.wav": "Whence can we take a better argument, a clearer demonstration, that all the greatness of this world is built upon opinion of others, and hath in itself no real being, nor power of subsistence?",
  "speaker_3723_003.wav": "than from the heart of man. It is always in action and motion, still busy, still pretending to do all, to furnish all the powers and faculties with all that they have.",
  "speaker_3723_004.wav": "But if an enemy dare rise up against it, it is the soonest endangered, the soonest defeated, of any part. The brain will hold out longer than it, and the liver longer than that. They will endure a siege.",
  "speaker_3723_005.wav": "But an unnatural heat, a rebellious heat, Will blow up the heart like a mine in a minute. But how so ever, since the heart had the birth-right and primogenitor, And that it is nature's eldest son in us?",
  "speaker_3723_006.wav": "the part which is first born to life in man, and that the other parts, as younger brethren and servants in his family, have a dependence upon it. It is reason that the principal care be had of it.",
  "speaker_3723_007.wav": "though it be not the strongest part, as the eldest is oftentimes not the strongest of the family. And since the brain and liver and heart hold not a triumvirate in man, a sovereignty equally shed upon them all.",
  "speaker_3723_008.wav": "must contribute to that, as children to their parents, as all persons to all kinds of superiors, though oftentimes those parents or those superiors",
  "speaker_3723_009.wav": "that serve and obey them that are weaker. Neither doth this obligation fall upon us by second dictates of Nature, by consequences and conclusions arising out of Nature, or derived from Nature by discourse.",
  "speaker_3723_010.wav": "as all laws of propriety in that which we possess are of the law of nature, which law is to give every one his own. And yet in the primary law of nature there was no propriety.",
  "speaker_3723_011.wav": "Nomeum et Tuum, but a universal community overall.",
  "speaker_3723_012.wav": "which is, in the first place, to have care of our own preservation, to look first to ourselves, for therefore doth the physician intermit the present care of brain or liver.",
  "speaker_3723_013.wav": "because there is a possibility that they may subsist, though there be not a present and a particular care had of them, but there is no possibility that they can subsist. If the heart perish,",
  "speaker_3723_014.wav": "And this is the reward of the pains of kings. Sometimes they need the power of law to be obeyed, And when they seem to be obeyed voluntarily, They who do it do it for their own sakes.",
  "speaker_3723_015.wav": "O, how little a thing is all the greatness of man, And through how false glasses doth he make shift to multiply it, And magnify it to himself. And yet this is also another misery of this king of man.",
  "speaker_3729_001.wav": "To celebrate the arrival of her son, Sylvia gave a splendid supper to which she had invited all her relatives, and it was a good opportunity for me to make their acquaintance.",
  "speaker_3729_002.wav": "Without saying it positively, she made me understand that being herself an illustrious member of the Republic of Letters, she was well aware that she was speaking to an insect.",
  "speaker_3729_003.wav": "In order to please her, I spoke to her of the Abbey Conte, and I had occasion to quote two lines of that profound writer.",
  "speaker_3729_004.wav": "Madame corrected me with a patronizing air for my pronunciation of the word skevra which means divided saying that it ought to be pronounced skeura and she added that I ought to be very glad to have learned so much on the first day of my arrival in Paris telling me that it would be an important day in my life.",
  "speaker_3729_005.wav": "Her face was an enigma for it inspired everyone with the warmest sympathy. And yet, if you examined it attentively, there was not one beautiful feature. She could not be called handsome, but no one could have thought her ugly.",
  "speaker_374_001.wav": "Chapter 16",
  "speaker_374_002.wav": "Marguerite to be unable to live apart from me. It was the day after the evening when she came to see me that I sent her Manon Lascotte. From that time, seeing that I could not change my mistress's life, I changed my own.",
  "speaker_374_003.wav": "I wished above all not to leave myself time to think over the position I had accepted, for, in spite of myself, it was a great distress to me. Thus my life, generally so calm.",
  "speaker_374_004.wav": "assumed all at once an appearance of noise and disorder. Never believe, however disinterested the love of a kept woman may be, that it will cost one nothing.",
  "speaker_374_005.wav": "Nothing is so expensive as their caprices, flowers, boxes at the theatre, suppers, days in the country, which one can never refuse to one's mistress. As I have told you, I had little money.",
  "speaker_374_006.wav": "My father was, and still is, Receiver-General at sea. He has a great reputation there for loyalty, thanks to which he was able to find the security which he needed in order to attain this position.",
  "speaker_374_007.wav": "I came to Paris, studied law, was called to the bar, and, like many other young men, put my diploma in my pocket, and let myself drift, as one so easily does in Paris.",
  "speaker_374_008.wav": "My expenses were very moderate, only I used up my year's income in eight months and spent the four summer months with my father, which practically gave me 12,000 francs a year and, in addition, the reputation of a good son.",
  "speaker_374_009.wav": "For the rest, not a penny of debt. This, then, was my position when I made the acquaintance of Marguerite. You can well understand that, in spite of myself, my expenses soon increased.",
  "speaker_374_010.wav": "Marguerite's nature was very capricious, and, like so many women, she never regarded as a serious expense those thousand-and-one distractions which made up her life. So, wishing to spend as much time with me as possible...",
  "speaker_374_011.wav": "She would write to me in the morning that she would dine with me, not at home, but at some restaurant in Paris, or in the country. I would call for her, and we would dine and go on to the theater, often having supper as well.",
  "speaker_374_012.wav": "Forgive me if I give you all these details, but you will see that they were the cause of what was to follow. What I tell you is a true and simple story, and I leave to it all the naivete of its details.",
  "speaker_374_013.wav": "and all the simplicity of its developments. I realized then that as nothing in the world would make me forget my mistress, it was needful for me to find some way of meeting the expenses into which she drew me. Then, too,",
  "speaker_374_014.wav": "My love for her had so disturbing an influence upon me, that every moment I spent away from Marguerite was like a year, and that I felt the need of consuming these moments in the fire of some sort of passion.",
  "speaker_374_015.wav": "as not to know that I was living them. I began by borrowing five or six thousand francs on my little capital, and with this I took to gambling. Since gambling houses were destroyed, gambling goes on everywhere.",
  "speaker_3752_001.wav": "He had been a clerk in a banking house and was transported for embezzlement, though by some grave doubts as to his guilt were entertained.",
  "speaker_3752_002.wav": "When the muster bell rang and the gang broke up, Rufus Dawes, on his silent way to a separate cell, observed a notable change of custom in the disposition of the new convict.",
  "speaker_3752_003.wav": "I'm not to go in there, says the ex-bank clerk, drawing back in dismay from the cloud of foul faces which lowered upon him.",
  "speaker_3752_004.wav": "What is he more than anybody else? said the wretched man to himself as he hugged his misery close.",
  "speaker_3752_005.wav": "About dawn the next morning, Mr. North, who amongst other vagaries not approved of by his bishop, had a habit of prowling about the prison at unofficial hours, was attracted by a dispute at the door of the dormitory.",
  "speaker_3853_001.wav": "Her meeting with Lettie was indescribably tender, and the days that followed were pretty equally divided between her and her brother, in nursing the one and loving the other.",
  "speaker_3853_002.wav": "But even while she enjoyed every hour of life and begrudged the time given to sleep, she felt as if the dream was too beautiful to last, and often said,",
  "speaker_3853_003.wav": "So Christy turned to Daphne to her prophetic soul, and gave herself up to the blissful holiday that had come at last.",
  "speaker_3853_004.wav": "Nothing can surprise me now. I'm prepared for anything, even the sight of my Quakerish lover dancing a jig.",
  "speaker_3853_005.wav": "I feel like a boy out of school, or rather a man out of prison, and must enjoy my liberty in some way.",
  "speaker_403_001.wav": "public prosecutor and determined jury sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening.",
  "speaker_403_002.wav": "Come out and listen to the evening paper you inside there. Charles Evermond called Darnay. So it last began the evening paper at La Force.",
  "speaker_403_003.wav": "Charles Evermond, called Darnay, had reason to know the usage. He had seen hundreds pass away so.",
  "speaker_403_004.wav": "and two had already been guillotined and forgotten. The list was read in the vaulted chamber where Darnay had seen the associated prisoners on the night of his arrival. Every one of those had perished in the massacre.",
  "speaker_403_005.wav": "Every human creature he had since cared for and parted with had died on the scaffold. There were hurried words of farewell and kindness, but the parting was soon over. It was the incident of every day.",
  "speaker_403_006.wav": "and a little concert for that evening. They crowded to the grates and shed tears there, but 20 places in the projected entertainments had to be refilled, and the time was, at best, short to the lock-up hour.",
  "speaker_403_007.wav": "when the common rooms and corridors would be delivered over to the great dogs who kept watch there through the night. The prisoners were far from insensible or unfeeling. Their ways arose out of the condition of the time. Similarly,",
  "speaker_403_008.wav": "but a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind. In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease, a terrible passing inclination to die of it.",
  "speaker_403_009.wav": "And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstance to evoke them. The passage to the Conciergie was short and dark.",
  "speaker_403_010.wav": "The night in its vermin-haunted cells was long and cold. Next day, fifteen prisoners were put to the bar before Charles Darnay's name was called. All the fifteen were condemned.",
  "speaker_403_011.wav": "Some daggers, some ate and drank as they looked on, many knitted. Among these last was one with a spare piece of knitting under her arm as she worked. She was in the front row by the side of a man",
  "speaker_403_012.wav": "But what he most noticed in the two figures was that although they were posted as close to himself as they could be, they never looked towards him. They seemed to be waiting for something with a dogged determination.",
  "speaker_403_013.wav": "and they looked at the jury, but at nothing else. Under the president sat Dr. Manette in his usual quiet dress. As well as the prisoner could see, he and Mr. Lorry were the only men there, unconnected with the tribunal.",
  "speaker_403_014.wav": "who wore their usual clothes and had not assumed the coarse garb.",
  "speaker_403_015.wav": "whose life was forfeit to the Republic under the decree which banished all immigrants on pain of death. It was nothing that the decree bore date since his return to France. There he was, and there was the decree.",
  "speaker_4077_001.wav": "The army found the people in poverty and left them in comparative wealth.",
  "speaker_4077_002.wav": "But a word further concerning the expedition in general.",
  "speaker_4077_003.wav": "It was through Floyd's advice that Buchanan ordered the military expedition to Utah, ostensibly, to install certain federal officials and to repress an alleged infantile rebellion, which in fact had never come into existence, but in reality to further the interests of the secessionists.",
  "speaker_4077_004.wav": "Moreover, had the people been inclined to rebellion, what greater opportunity could they have wished?",
  "speaker_4077_005.wav": "Already a north and a south were talked of. Why not set up also a west?",
  "speaker_4214_001.wav": "Diana is invited to tea with tragic results. October was a beautiful month at Green Gables.",
  "speaker_4214_002.wav": "When the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine, and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson, and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shade of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in aftermast.",
  "speaker_4214_003.wav": "and reveled in the world of color about her. Oh, Marilla! she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous bows.",
  "speaker_4214_004.wav": "It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill? Several thrills? I'm going to decorate my room with them.\" Messy things, said Marilla, whose aesthetic sense was not noticeably developed.",
  "speaker_4214_005.wav": "You clutter up your room entirely too much with out-of-door stuff and bedrooms were made to sleep in. Oh, and dream in too, Marilla. And you know one can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.",
  "speaker_4214_006.wav": "I'm going to put these bows in the old blue jug and set them on my table. Mind you don't drop leaves all over the stairs then. I'm going on a meeting of the Aid Society at Carmody this afternoon, Anne, and I won't likely be home before dark.",
  "speaker_4214_007.wav": "He was dreadful of me to forget, said Anne apologetically. But that was the afternoon I was trying to think of a name for Violet Vale.",
  "speaker_4214_008.wav": "So he didn't find the time long at all. It was a beautiful fairy story, Marilla. I forgot the end of it, so I made up an end for it myself, and Matthew said he couldn't tell where the joint came in. Matthew would think it all right, Anne, if you took a notion to get up and have dinner in the middle of the night.",
  "speaker_4214_009.wav": "But you keep your wits about you this time, and I don't really know if I'm doing right. It may make you more adopated than ever, but you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here.\" Oh, Marilla! Anne clasped her hands.",
  "speaker_4214_010.wav": "How perfectly lovely! You are able to imagine things after all, or else you'd never have understood how I've longed for that very thing. It will seem so nice and grown-up-ish. No fear of my forgetting to put the tea to draw when I have company. Oh, Marilla!",
  "speaker_4214_011.wav": "Can I use the Rosebud Spray tea set? No, indeed the Rosebud tea set. Well, what next? You know, I never use that except for the minister or the aides.",
  "speaker_4214_012.wav": "You'll put down the old brown tea set, but you can open the little yellow crock of cherry preserves. It's time it was being used anyhow, I believe it's beginning to work. And you can cut some fruitcake and have some of the cookies and snaps.",
  "speaker_4214_013.wav": "I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically, and asking Diana if she takes sugar. I know she doesn't, but of course I'll ask her, just as if I didn't know.",
  "speaker_4214_014.wav": "and then pressing her to take another piece of fruitcake and another helping of preserves. Oh, Marilla, it's a wonderful sensation just to think of it. Can I take her into the spare room to lay off her hat when she comes? And then into the parlor to sit? No.",
  "speaker_4214_015.wav": "The sitting room will do for you and your company, but there's a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night. It's on the second shelf of the sitting room closet and you and Diana can have it if you like.",
  "speaker_422_001.wav": "Every elevation of the type man has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society, and so it will always be, a society believing in a long scale of gradations of rank and differences of worth among human beings, and requiring slavery in some form or other.",
  "speaker_422_002.wav": "The distinctions of moral values have either originated in a ruling caste, pleasantly conscious of being different from the ruled, or among the ruled class, the slaves and dependents of all sorts.",
  "speaker_422_003.wav": "We truthful ones, the nobility in ancient Greece called themselves.",
  "speaker_422_004.wav": "It is obvious that everywhere the designations of moral value were at first applied to men, and were only derivatively and at a later period applied to actions. It is a gross mistake, therefore, when historians of morals start with questions like, Why have sympathetic actions been praised?",
  "speaker_422_005.wav": "He honors whatever he recognizes in himself. Such morality equals self-glorification.",
  "speaker_4297_001.wav": "They were habitually indifferent to self-exaltation, and allowed themselves to be thrust into this or that unfitting role, professing that the Queen's government and the good of the country were their only considerations.",
  "speaker_4297_002.wav": "because it was felt on all sides that Sir Orlando could not join the new Composite Party without high place. And the same grace was shown in regard to Lord Drummond, who remained at the Colonies, keeping the office to which he had been lately transferred under Mr. Daubany.",
  "speaker_4297_003.wav": "For legal offices have a signification differing much from that which attaches itself to places simply political. A Lord Chancellor becomes a peer, and ongoing out of office enjoys a large pension. When the wool sack has been reached, there comes an end of doubt.",
  "speaker_4297_004.wav": "and a beginning of ease. Sir Gregory was not a young man, and this was a terrible blow. But he bore it manfully, saying not a word when the duke spoke to him. But he became convinced from that moment that no more inefficient lawyer ever sat upon the English bench.",
  "speaker_4297_005.wav": "or a more presumptuous politician in the British Parliament than Lord Ramston. The real struggle, however, lay in the appropriate distribution of the Rattlers and the Robies, the Fitzgibbons and the Macphersons, among the subordinate offices of State.",
  "speaker_4297_006.wav": "Mr. MacPherson and Mr. Roby, with a host of others who had belonged to Mr. Daubony, were prepared, as they declared from the first, to lend their assistance to the duke. They had consulted Mr. Daubony on the subject, and Mr. Daubony told them that their duty lay in that direction.",
  "speaker_4297_007.wav": "At the first blush of the matter, the arrangement took the form of a gracious tender from themselves to a statesman called upon to act in very difficult circumstances, and they were thanked accordingly by the duke, with something of real cordial gratitude.",
  "speaker_4297_008.wav": "He was astounded not so much by the pretensions as by the unblushing assertion of these pretensions, in reference to places which he had been innocent enough to think were always bestowed, at any rate without direct application. He had measured himself rightly when he told the older Duke.",
  "speaker_4297_009.wav": "in one of those anxious conversations which had been held before the attempt was made, that long as he had been in office himself he did not know what was the way of bestowing office. Two gentlemen have been here this morning,\" he said one day to the Duke of St. Bungay.",
  "speaker_4297_010.wav": "one on the heels of the other, each assuring me not only that the whole stability of the enterprise depends on my giving a certain office to him, but actually telling me to my face that I had promised it to him.\" The old statesman laughed.",
  "speaker_4297_011.wav": "To be told within the same half-hour by two men that I had made promises to each of them inconsistent with each other. Who were the two men? Mr. Rattler and Mr. Roby. I am assured that they are inseparable since the work was begun.",
  "speaker_4297_012.wav": "They always had a leaning to each other, and now I hear they pass their time between the steps of the Carlton and Reform Clubs. But what am I to do? One must be patronage secretary, no doubt. They're both good men in their way, you know.",
  "speaker_4297_013.wav": "But why do they come to me with their mouths open, like dogs craving a bone? It used not to be so. Of course men were always anxious for office as they are now. Well, yes, we've heard of that before today, I think.",
  "speaker_4297_014.wav": "But I don't think any man ever ventured to ask Mr. Mildmay. Time had done much for him in consolidating his authority, and perhaps the present world is less reticent in its eagerness than it was in his younger days. I doubt, however.",
  "speaker_4297_015.wav": "whether it is more dishonest, and whether struggles were not made quite as disgraceful to the strugglers as anything that is done now. You can't alter the men, and you must use them.\" The younger duke sat down and sighed over the degenerate patriotism of the age.",
  "speaker_4362_001.wav": "a perilous night on Shasta's summit. Toward the end of summer, after a light, open winter, one may reach the summit of Mount Shasta without passing over much snow by keeping on the crest of a long, narrow ridge",
  "speaker_4362_002.wav": "mostly bare, that extends from near the campground at the timberline. But on my first excursion to the summit, the whole mountain, down to its low swelling base, was smoothly laden with loose fresh snow.",
  "speaker_4362_003.wav": "presenting a most glorious mass of winter mountain scenery, in the midst of which I scrambled and reveled, or lay snuggly snowbound, enjoying the fertile clouds and the snow bloom in all their growing, drifting grandeur.",
  "speaker_4362_004.wav": "The first rains had fallen on the lowlands and the first snows on the mountains, and everything was fresh, embracing, while an abundance of balmy sunshine filled all the noonday hours.",
  "speaker_4362_005.wav": "It was the calm afterglow that usually succeeds the first storm of the winter. I met many of the birds that had reared their young and spent their summer in the Shasta woods in Chaparral. They were then on their way south to their winter homes.",
  "speaker_4362_006.wav": "leading their young, full-fledged, and about as large and strong as the parents. Squirrels, dry and elastic after the storms, were busy about their stores of pine nuts, and the latest goldenrods were still in bloom, though it was now past the middle of October.",
  "speaker_4362_007.wav": "The grand color glow, the autumnal jubilee of ripe leaves, was past prime, but freshened by the rain, was still making a fine show along the banks of the river and in the ravines and the dells of the smaller streams.",
  "speaker_4362_008.wav": "At the Salmon Hatching Establishment on the McLeod River, I halted a week to examine the limestone belt grandly developed there, to learn what I could of the inhabitants of the river and its banks.",
  "speaker_4362_009.wav": "and to give time for the fresh snow that I knew had fallen on the mountain to settle somewhat, with a view to making the ascent. A pedestrian on these mountain roads, especially so late in the year, is sure to excite curiosity.",
  "speaker_4362_010.wav": "and many were the interrogations concerning my ramble. When I said that I was simply taking a walk and that Icy Shasta was my mark, I was invariably admonished that I had come on a dangerous quest. The time was far too late.",
  "speaker_4362_011.wav": "The snow was too loose and deep to climb, and I should be lost in drifts and slides. When I hinted that new snow was beautiful and storms not so bad as they were called, my advisors shook their heads in token of superior knowledge.",
  "speaker_4362_012.wav": "and declared the ascent of Shasta Bute through loose snow impossible. Nevertheless, before noon of the 2nd of November, I was in the frosty azure of the utmost summit. When I arrived at Sissons, everything was quiet.",
  "speaker_4362_013.wav": "And I was in haste to be off, and get myself established somewhere in the midst of it, whether the summit was to be attained or not. Cisson, who was a mountaineer, speedily fitted me out for storm or calm as only a mountaineer could.",
  "speaker_4362_014.wav": "and the frost and the dangers of mountaineering so late in the year. Therefore I could not ask a guide to go with me, even had one been willing. All I wanted was to have blankets and provisions deposited as far up in the timber as the snow would permit a pack animal to go.",
  "speaker_4362_015.wav": "There I could build a storm nest and lie warm and make raids up and around the mountain in accordance with the weather. Setting out on the afternoon of November 1st with Jerome Fay, mountaineer and guide in charge of the animals.",
  "speaker_4446_001.wav": "Main hall liked Alexander because he was an engineer.",
  "speaker_4446_002.wav": "He had preconceived ideas about everything, and his idea about Americans was that they should be engineers or mechanics.",
  "speaker_4446_003.wav": "It's tremendously well put on, too.",
  "speaker_4446_004.wav": "It's been on only two weeks and I've been half a dozen times already.",
  "speaker_4446_005.wav": "Do you know, Alexander, Mayhal looked with perplexity up into the top of the handsome and rubbed his pink cheek with his gloved finger? Do you know, I sometimes think of taking to criticism seriously myself.",
  "speaker_4507_001.wav": "Chapter 1 Origin",
  "speaker_4507_002.wav": "It engenders a whole world, La pegrre, for which red theft, And a hell, la pegrin, for which red hunger.",
  "speaker_4507_003.wav": "Thus, idleness is the mother.",
  "speaker_4507_004.wav": "She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger.",
  "speaker_4507_005.wav": "What is slang?",
  "speaker_481_001.wav": "All of them took scarcely any notice of my entrance, which was strange, for I had not met them for years. Evidently, they looked upon me as something on the level of a common fly. I had not been treated like that even at school, though they all hated me.",
  "speaker_481_002.wav": "I knew, of course, that they must despise me now for my lack of success in the service, and for my having let myself sink so low, going about badly dressed and so on, which seem to them a sign of my incapacity and insignificance.",
  "speaker_481_003.wav": "But I had not expected such contempt. Simanov was positively surprised at my turning up.",
  "speaker_481_004.wav": "All this disconcerted me. I sat down, feeling rather miserable, and began listening to what they were saying. They were engaged in warm and earnest conversation about a farewell dinner which they wanted to arrange for the next day, to a comrade of theirs called Zverkov.",
  "speaker_481_005.wav": "This Zverkov had been all the time at school with me too. I had begun to hate him, particularly in the upper forms. In the lower forms he had simply been a pretty playful boy whom everybody liked. I had hated him, however, even in the lower forms.",
  "speaker_481_006.wav": "just because he was a pretty and playful boy. He was always bad at his lessons and got worse and worse as he went on. However, he left with a good certificate, and he had powerful interests. During his last year at school he came in for an estate of 200 serfs.",
  "speaker_481_007.wav": "And, as almost all of us were poor, he took up a swaggering tone among us. He was vulgar in the extreme, but at the same time he was a good-natured fellow, even in his swaggering.",
  "speaker_481_008.wav": "In spite of superficial, fantastic, and sham notions of honor and dignity, all but very few of us positively groveled before Zverkov, and the more so, the more he swaggered. And it was not from any interested motive.",
  "speaker_481_009.wav": "but simply because he had been favored by the gifts of nature. Moreover, it was, as it were, an accepted idea among us that Zverkov was a specialist in regard to tact and the social graces. This last fact particularly infuriated me.",
  "speaker_481_010.wav": "I hated the abrupt self-confident tone of his voice, his admiration of his own witticisms.",
  "speaker_481_011.wav": "though he was bold in his language. I hated his handsome but stupid face, for which I would, however, have gladly exchanged my intelligent one, and the free and easy military manner in the fashion of the forties.",
  "speaker_481_012.wav": "I hated the way in which he used to talk of his future conquests of women. He did not venture to begin his attack upon women until he had the epaulettes of an officer and was looking forward to them with impatience, and boasted of the duels he would constantly be fighting.",
  "speaker_481_013.wav": "I remember how I invariably so taciturn, suddenly fastened upon Zverkov, when one day, talking at a leisure moment with his schoolfellows of his future relations with the fair sex, growing as sportive as a puppy in the sun.",
  "speaker_481_014.wav": "He all at once declared that he would not leave a single village girl on his estate unnoticed.",
  "speaker_481_015.wav": "and that if the peasants dared to protest he would have them all flogged and double attacks on him, the bearded rascals. Our servile rabble applauded, but I attacked him, not from compassion for the girls and their fathers.",
  "speaker_4970_001.wav": "She was tired of other things.",
  "speaker_4970_002.wav": "She tried this morning an air or two upon the piano, sang a simple song in a sweet but slightly metallic voice, and then, seating herself by the open window, read Philip's letter.",
  "speaker_4970_003.wav": "Well, mother,\" said the young student, looking up with a shade of impatience.",
  "speaker_4970_004.wav": "I hope thee told the elders that father and I are responsible for the piano, and that, much as thee loves music, thee is never in the room when it is played.",
  "speaker_4970_005.wav": "I heard father tell cousin Abner that he was whipped so often for whistling when he was a boy that he was determined to have what compensation he could get now.",
  "speaker_4992_001.wav": "Yes, dead these four years, and a good job for her too.",
  "speaker_4992_002.wav": "Well, as I say, it's an awful queer world. They clap all the burglars in jail and the murderers and the wife-beaters. I always thought a gentle reprieve would be enough punishment for a wife-beater, because he probably has a lot of provocation that nobody knows. And the firebugs can't think of the right name, something like Sendieres. And the breakers of the peace and whatnot, and yet the law has nothing to say to a man like Han Lord.",
  "speaker_4992_003.wav": "Grandfather was Alexander Carey, LLD, Doctor of Laws, that is.",
  "speaker_4992_004.wav": "Mr. Popham laid down his brush.",
  "speaker_4992_005.wav": "I swain to man, he ejaculated, if you don't work hard you can't keep up with the times, doctor of laws.",
  "speaker_5104_001.wav": "Now, Erik had lived in Greenland for 15 years. His sons Thorstein and Leif had grown up to be big, strong men. One spring, Leif said to his father, I have never seen Norway, our motherland.",
  "speaker_5104_002.wav": "I long to go there and meet the great men and see the places that scalds sing about. Eric answered. It is right that you should go. No man has really lived until he has seen Norway.",
  "speaker_5104_003.wav": "So he helped Leif fit out a boat and sent him off. Leif sailed for months. He passed Iceland and the Faroes and the Shetlands. He stopped at all of these places and feasted his mind on the new things.",
  "speaker_5104_004.wav": "And everywhere men received him gladly, for he was handsome and wise. But at last he came near Norway, then he stood up before the pilot's seat and sang loudly,",
  "speaker_5104_005.wav": "In the sky above I see, Fair Asgard's shining roofs, The flying hair of Thor, The wings of Odin's birds, The road that heroes tread. I am here in the land of the gods, The land of mighty men.",
  "speaker_5104_006.wav": "For a while he walked the land as though he were in a dream. He looked at this and that and everything.",
  "speaker_5104_007.wav": "I will go to the king, he said. He had never seen a king. There were no kings in Iceland or in Greenland. So he went to the city where the king had his fine house. The king's name was Olaf.",
  "speaker_5104_008.wav": "He was a great-grandson of Harold Harefaire, for Harold had been dead a hundred years. Now the king was going to hold a feast at night, and Leif put on his most beautiful clothes to go to it.",
  "speaker_5104_009.wav": "He put on long tights of blue wool and a short jacket of blue velvet. He belted his jacket with a gold girdle. He had shoes of scarlet with golden clasps. He threw around himself a cape of scarlet velvet.",
  "speaker_5104_010.wav": "lined with seal fur. His long sword stuck out from under his cloak. On his head he put a knitted cap of bright colors. Then he walked to the king's feast hall and went through the door.",
  "speaker_5105_001.wav": "Her seagoing qualities were excellent, and would have amply sufficed for a circumnavigation of the globe.",
  "speaker_5105_002.wav": "After an apprenticeship on a merchant ship he had entered the Imperial Navy, and had already reached the rank of lieutenant when the Count appointed him to the charge of his own private yacht, in which he was accustomed to spend by far the greater part of his time. Throughout the winter generally cruising in the Mediterranean, whilst in the summer he visited more northern waters.",
  "speaker_5105_003.wav": "The late astounding events, however, had rendered Procope manifestly uneasy, and not the less so from his consciousness that the Count secretly partook of his own anxiety.",
  "speaker_5105_004.wav": "Steam up and canvas spread the schooner started eastwards.",
  "speaker_5105_005.wav": "Although only a moderate breeze was blowing, the sea was rough, a circumstance to be accounted for only by the diminution in the force of the earth's attraction rendering the liquid particles so buoyant that by the mere effect of oscillation they were carried to a height that was quite unprecedented.",
  "speaker_5142_001.wav": "It was one of the masterly and charming stories of Dumas, the elder.",
  "speaker_5142_002.wav": "In five minutes I was in a new world and my melancholy room was full of the liveliest French company.",
  "speaker_5142_003.wav": "The sound of an imperative and uncompromising bell recalled me in due time to the regions of reality.",
  "speaker_5142_004.wav": "Ambrose met me at the bottom of the stairs and showed me the way to the supper room.",
  "speaker_5142_005.wav": "She signed to me with a ghostly solemnity to take the vacant place on the left of her father.",
  "speaker_5322_001.wav": "Suddenly, it was as though the sun had shone into his soul. He heard Russian being spoken, and also heard the rapid smooth flow of the terek, and a few steps farther in front of him saw the brown moving surface of the river.",
  "speaker_5322_002.wav": "with the dim-colored wet sand of its banks and shallows, the distant steppe, the cordon watchtower outlined above the water, a saddled and hobbled horse among the brambles, and then the mountains opening out before him.",
  "speaker_5322_003.wav": "The red sun appeared for an instant from under a cloud, and its last rays glittered brightly along the river, over the reeds, on the watchtower.",
  "speaker_5322_004.wav": "and on a group of Cossacks, among whom Lukashka's vigorous figure attracted Alenin's involuntary attention. Alenin felt that he was again, without any apparent cause, perfectly happy.",
  "speaker_5322_005.wav": "He had come upon the Nizhny Protozsk post on the Terek, opposite a pro-Russian Tartar village on the other side of the river. He accosted the Cossacks, but not finding as yet any excuse for doing anyone a kindness, he entered the hut.",
  "speaker_5322_006.wav": "because they had something else to divert them that evening. Some hostile Chechens, relatives of the Abrek who had been killed, had come from the hills with a scout to ransom the body.",
  "speaker_5322_007.wav": "and the Cossacks were waiting for their commanding officer's arrival from the village. The dead man's brother, tall and well-shaped, with a short cropped beard, which was dyed red, despite his very tattered coat and cap,",
  "speaker_5322_008.wav": "was calm and majestic as a king. His face was very like that of the dead of Breck. He did not deign to look at anyone and never once glanced at the dead body, but sitting on his heels in the shade he spat as he smoked his short pipe.",
  "speaker_5322_009.wav": "and occasionally uttered some few guttural sounds of command, which were respectfully listened to by his companion. He was evidently a brave who had met Russians more than once before in quite other circumstances, and nothing about them could astonish or even interest him.",
  "speaker_5322_010.wav": "Al-Enin was about to approach the dead body, and had begun to look at it, when the brother, looking up at him from under his brows with calm contempt, said something sharply and angrily.",
  "speaker_5322_011.wav": "The scout hastened to cover the dead man's face with his coat. Alennan was struck.",
  "speaker_5322_012.wav": "He began to speak to him, asking from what village he came. But the Chechen, scarcely giving him a glance, spat contemptuously and turned away.",
  "speaker_5322_013.wav": "Alenin was so surprised at the Chechen not being interested in him that he could only put it down to the man's stupidity or ignorance of Russian. So he turned to the Scout, who also acted as interpreter. The Scout was as ragged as the other.",
  "speaker_5322_014.wav": "but instead of being red-haired, he was black-haired, restless, with extremely white gleaming teeth and sparkling black eyes. The Scout willingly entered into conversation and asked for a cigarette. There were five brothers.",
  "speaker_5322_015.wav": "began the scout and his broken Russian. This is the third brother the Russians have killed. Only two are left. He is a brave, a great brave,\" he said, pointing to the Chechen.",
  "speaker_5338_001.wav": "It had no ornamentation, being exceedingly plain in appearance.",
  "speaker_5338_002.wav": "Here, said one of their guides, as the procession halted before the little stone building, is the palace of Tormuline, who is our queen.",
  "speaker_5338_003.wav": "What? That little cabin?",
  "speaker_5338_004.wav": "Exclaimed Trot, of course!",
  "speaker_5338_005.wav": "Did you suppose a palace would be like one of our handsome residences?\" asked the woman, evidently surprised.",
  "speaker_5390_001.wav": "CHAPTER VII. LOUISE SENTS A MYSTERY. Louise Merrick was the eldest of Uncle John's nieces, having just passed her eighteenth birthday.",
  "speaker_5390_002.wav": "Let a mere butterfly existence. Her two cousins frankly agreed that Louise was shallow, insincere, and inclined to be affected. But of the three girls...",
  "speaker_5390_003.wav": "and men usually admired her graceful figure and her piquant, pretty face, with its crown of fluffy blonde hair and winning expression. There was a rumor that she was engaged to be married to Arthur Weldon.",
  "speaker_5390_004.wav": "a young man of position in the city. But Uncle John ignored the possibility of losing one of his cherished nieces, and declared that Louise was still too young to think of marriage. Even away from her frivolous mother.",
  "speaker_5390_005.wav": "and the inconsequent home environments, the girl was more unaffected and natural in her ways, and her faults were doubtless more the result of education than of natural tendency. One thing was indisputable, however.",
  "speaker_5390_006.wav": "Louise Merrick was a clever girl, possessing a quick intellect and a keen insight into the character of others. Her apparent shallowness was a blind of the same character as her assumed graciousness.",
  "speaker_5390_007.wav": "And, while she would have been more lovable, without any pretense or sham, she could not have been Louise Merrick, and allow others to read her as she actually was. Rosie and Beth thought they knew her.",
  "speaker_5390_008.wav": "and admired or liked rather than loved their cousin. Uncle John thought he knew her too, and was very proud of his eldest niece in spite of some discovered qualities that were not wholly admirable.",
  "speaker_5390_009.wav": "An extensive course of light literature, not void of detective stories, had at this moment primed Louise with its influence to the extent of inducing her to scent a mystery in the history of Captain Wegg.",
  "speaker_5390_010.wav": "The plain folks around Millville might speculate listlessly upon the queer doings at the farm, and never get anywhere near the truth. Indeed, the strange occurrences she had just heard...",
  "speaker_5390_011.wav": "were nearly forgotten in the community, and soon would be forgotten altogether, unless the quick ear of a young girl had caught the clue so long ignored. At first she scarcely appreciated the importance of the undertaking.",
  "speaker_5390_012.wav": "It occurred to her that an effort to read to the bottom of the sea captain's romance would be a charming diversion while she resided at Millville, and in undertaking the task she laughingly accused herself of becoming an amateur detective.",
  "speaker_5390_013.wav": "an occupation that promised to be thrilling and delightful. Warned, however, by the rebuff she had met with from Uncle John, the girl decided not to confide either her suspicions or her proposed investigation to anyone for the present.",
  "speaker_5390_014.wav": "Louise set to work to tabulate the information she had received thus far, noting the element of mystery each fact evolved. First, Captain Wegg must have been a rich man in order to build this house.",
  "speaker_5390_015.wav": "Secondly, the captain, a surly and silent man, had brought hither, perhaps by force, a young woman as his wife, who was so unhappy that she pined away and died. Who was this woman?",
  "speaker_5456_001.wav": "The Diamond Wedding by Edmund Clarence Steadman Oh, love, love, love! What times were those? Long ere the age of bells and bow, And Brussels lace and silken hose, When in the green Arcadian clothes",
  "speaker_5456_002.wav": "you married Psyche under the rose, with only the grass for bedding. Heart to heart and hand to hand, you followed nature's sweet command, running lovingly through the land, nor sighed for a diamond wedding.",
  "speaker_5456_003.wav": "So have we read in classic Ovid how Hera watched for her beloved and passion youth Leander. She was the fairest of the fair.",
  "speaker_5456_004.wav": "For love was love and better than money, the slyer the theft, the sweeter the honey, and kissing was clover all the world over, wherever Cupid might wander. So thousands of years have come and gone, and still the moon is shining on, still Hymen's torch is lighted.",
  "speaker_5456_005.wav": "And hitherto in this land of the West, most couples in love have thought it best to follow the ancient way of the rest.",
  "speaker_5456_006.wav": "in a style I cannot hope to attain, and covered himself with glory. How it befell one summer's day, the King of the Cubans strolled this way, King January's his name they say, and fell in love with the Princess May, the reigning belle of Manhattan.",
  "speaker_5456_007.wav": "nor how he began to smirk and sue and dress his lovers to come to woo, or as Max Merizek and Julian do, when they sit full-bloomed in the ladies' view and flourish the wondrous baton. He wasn't one of your Polish nobles.",
  "speaker_5456_008.wav": "whose presence their country somehow troubles, and so our cities receive them. Nor one of your make believe Spanish grandies, who ply our daughters with lies and candies, until the poor girls believe them. No, he was no such charlatan. Count the Hoboken flash in the pan.",
  "speaker_5456_009.wav": "full of Gasconade and bravado, but a regular, rich Don Rataplan, Santa Claus de la Muscovado, Senor Grandissimo Bastionado.",
  "speaker_5456_010.wav": "His was the rental of half Havana and all Mantanzas and Santa Anna, rich as he was, could hardly hold a candle to light the mines of gold our Cuban owned. Choke full of diggers and broad plantations that in round figures were stocked with at least 5,000 niggers.",
  "speaker_5456_011.wav": "Gather ye rose buds while ye may, the Signor swore to carry the day, to capture the beautiful Princess May with his battery of treasure. Velvet and lace she should not lack.",
  "speaker_5456_012.wav": "and come and go at her pleasure. Jet and lava, silver and gold, garnets, emeralds rare to behold, diamonds, sapphires, wealth untold.",
  "speaker_5456_013.wav": "kept bidding a little higher. And every time he made his bid, and what she said and all they did was written down for the good of the town by genes of the daily flyer. A coach in horses you'd think would buy for the don an easy victory.",
  "speaker_5456_014.wav": "But slowly our princess yielded, a diamond necklace caught her eye.",
  "speaker_5456_015.wav": "She stood such a fire of silks and laces, jewels and gold dressing cases, and ruby brooches and jets and pearls that every one of her dandy curls brought the price of a hundred common girls. Folks thought the last demented.",
  "speaker_5536_001.wav": "The Savage Philosopher The Dual Mind",
  "speaker_5536_002.wav": "The original attitude of the American Indian toward the Eternal, the great mystery that surrounds and embraces us, was as simple as it was exalted.",
  "speaker_5536_003.wav": "It was silent because all speech is of necessity feeble and imperfect. Therefore the souls of my ancestors ascend to God in wordless adoration.",
  "speaker_5536_004.wav": "None might exhort or confess or in any way meddle with the religious experience of another.",
  "speaker_5536_005.wav": "Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect as conscious of their divinity.",
  "speaker_5639_001.wav": "Eleven o'clock had struck. It was a fine clear night. They were the only persons on the road, and they sauntered leisurely along, to avoid paying the price of fatigue for the recreation provided for the Toledans in the valley or on the banks of their river.",
  "speaker_5639_002.wav": "Secure, as he thought, in the careful administration of justice in that city, and the character of its well-disposed inhabitants, the good Hidalgo was far from thinking that any disaster could befall his family.",
  "speaker_5639_003.wav": "Rudolfo and his companions, with their faces muffled in their cloaks, stared rudely and insolently at the mother, the daughter, and the servant maid.",
  "speaker_5639_004.wav": "In a moment he communicated his thoughts to his companions, and in the next moment they resolved to turn back and carry her off to please Rudolfo. For the rich, who are open-handed, always find parasites ready to encourage their bad propensities. And thus to conceive this wicked design, to communicate it, approve it, resolve unravaged Leucadia, and to carry that design into effect was the work of a moment.",
  "speaker_5639_005.wav": "They drew their swords, hid their faces in the flaps of their cloaks, turned back and soon came in front of the little party, who had not yet done giving thanks to God for their escape from those audacious men.",
  "speaker_5683_001.wav": "You know Captain Leek?",
  "speaker_5683_002.wav": "said Lord Shelford, addressing me.",
  "speaker_5683_003.wav": "He had his hand upon Lake's shoulder.",
  "speaker_5683_004.wav": "They are cousins, you know. We are all cousins.",
  "speaker_5683_005.wav": "Whatever Lord Shelford said, Miss Brandon received it very graciously and even with a momentary smile.",
  "speaker_5694_001.wav": "We remained several months, but soon we were on the tramp again.",
  "speaker_5694_002.wav": "The Federal Army was concentrating at Nashville. There was no rest for the weary.",
  "speaker_5694_003.wav": "Our army stopped at Murfreesboro.",
  "speaker_5694_004.wav": "From time to time, different regiments were sent forward to do picket duty.",
  "speaker_5694_005.wav": "The Yankee picket lines were not a half mile off.",
  "speaker_5750_001.wav": "After a long and tedious discourse of these six non-natural things and their several rectifications,",
  "speaker_5750_002.wav": "or that kind of Physic which cureth by medicines, which Apothecaries most part make, mingle, or sell in their shops. Many cavil at this kind of Physic, and hold it unnecessary, unprofitable to this or any other disease.",
  "speaker_5750_003.wav": "because those countries which use it least live longest.",
  "speaker_5750_004.wav": "relates of the Aels or Cades. The people are still sound of body and mind, without any use of physics.",
  "speaker_5750_005.wav": "Damianus Egos, Saxo Grammaticus, Obanus Bohemus say the like of them that live in Norway, Lapland, Finnmark, Byarmia, Karelia, all over Scandia and those northern countries. They are most healthful.",
  "speaker_5750_006.wav": "and very long lived, in which places there is no use at all of physics. The name of it is not once heard. Dithmaris Blaskenius, in his accurate description of Iceland, 1607,",
  "speaker_5750_007.wav": "Most part they drink water and whey.",
  "speaker_5750_008.wav": "I find the same relation by Lirius and some other writers of Indians in America. Paulus Jovius in his description of Britain and Levinus Lemnius observe as much of this is our island.",
  "speaker_5750_009.wav": "And but little at this day, except it be for a few nice idle citizens, surfeiting courteers and stall-fed gentleman lubbers. The country people use kitchen physics.",
  "speaker_5750_010.wav": "Many that did ill under physicians' hands have happily escaped.",
  "speaker_5750_011.wav": "left to God and nature and themselves.",
  "speaker_5750_012.wav": "juridicis medicis visco fas vivere rapto. Tis a corrupt trade, no science, art, no profession, the beginning, practice, and progress of it. All is naught, full of imposture, uncertainty, and doth generally more harm than good.",
  "speaker_5750_013.wav": "The devil himself was the first inventor of it.",
  "speaker_5750_014.wav": "and what was Apollo but the devil. The Greeks first made an art of it, and they were all deluded by Apollo's sons, priests, oracles. If we may believe Varro Pliny, Columella, most of their best medicines were derived from his oracles.",
  "speaker_5750_015.wav": "Asculapius, his son, had his temples erected to his deity, and did many famous cures. But as Lactantius holds, he was a magician, a mere imposter.",
  "speaker_5778_001.wav": "He meant to have it one of the best in the world. So he called an officer into his council chamber and said Now take plenty of time to look about in the different countries have all the men you want to help you",
  "speaker_5778_002.wav": "but find me, somewhere, an engineer that will lay out a perfect railroad line.\" Men appointed by this colonel traveled some months. They visited many cities, wrote letters, and asked advice. Then the colonel went back to the emperor and said,",
  "speaker_5778_003.wav": "The man you need to do this piece of work lives in the United States of America. What's his name? asked Nicholas. He is Major George Washington Whistler. He is one of the founders of the city in which he lives, Lowell, Massachusetts.",
  "speaker_5778_004.wav": "He is a distinguished Army officer and a fine engineer. He is named for a great officer,\" answered Nicholas, remembering our General Washington, and he dispatched a letter to the Lowell engineer.",
  "speaker_5778_005.wav": "The Major made haste to start for Russia, because the honor was great, and the payment would be generous. He left his boys and his wife behind, because he did not know just how comfortable he could make them in the far-off country.",
  "speaker_5778_006.wav": "But he told the boys to be good and to mind their mother. These boys were named James McNeil, William, and Charles. Their mother was a fine woman, but sometimes they wished she would not be quite so strict.",
  "speaker_5778_007.wav": "She used to say on Saturday afternoons, Come boys, empty your pockets and gather up your toys. We will put the knives and marbles away and get ready for Sunday. All day Sunday, they were not allowed to read any book but the Bible.",
  "speaker_5778_008.wav": "But James liked the stories he found there, and when he was only nine could say almost half the Bible by heart. James was the oldest in the family. He was born in Lowell and was such a cunning baby that everybody wanted his picture.",
  "speaker_5778_009.wav": "One of his uncles, who loved him dearly, used to say, It's enough to make Sir Joshua Reynolds, this was a great English painter who had died years before, come out of his grave to paint Jimmy asleep.",
  "speaker_5778_010.wav": "Jimmy had delicate features and long silky brown curls that hung about his face. In among these was one white lock that dropped straight down over his forehead. This looked like a tiny feather.",
  "speaker_5778_011.wav": "More than all his playthings, he liked a pencil and paper. From the time he could scribble at all, he drew pictures of everybody and everything in sight.",
  "speaker_5778_012.wav": "These pictures were very good, and when he was large enough to go to school, the other children were apt to ask him to make animals and birds for them on the blackboard. Major Whistler soon sent for his family to join him in Russia.",
  "speaker_5778_013.wav": "It was a long, hard voyage there, and poor little Charlie died on the way. The two other boys were better sailors and were as well as could be when they met their father. They did enjoy the strange sights in St. Petersburg.",
  "speaker_5778_014.wav": "They were not long in getting acquainted with the little Russian children, or in learning the language. They went skating, dressed in handsome furs. They learned the folk and fancy dances, joined in the winter sports, and voted Russia a fine country.",
  "speaker_5778_015.wav": "Still, their parents did not let them forget they were little Americans. The climate did not agree with James, and every time he caught cold he had touches of rheumatism, so that often he had to stay in the house and have his feet put in hot water.",
  "speaker_5789_001.wav": "On that same Wednesday, Reginald Morton had called at the attorney's house, had asked for Miss Masters, and had found her alone. Mrs. Masters at the time had been out.",
  "speaker_5789_002.wav": "picking up intelligence about the great case, and the two younger girls had been at school. Reginald, as he walked home from Braggton all alone on that occasion when Larry had returned with Mary, was quite sure",
  "speaker_5789_003.wav": "that he would never willingly go into Mary's presence again. Why should he disturb his mind about such a girl?",
  "speaker_5789_004.wav": "But on this Wednesday he received a letter, and, as he told himself, merely in consequence of that letter, he called at the attorney's house and asked for Miss Masters.",
  "speaker_5789_005.wav": "She wants you to go to her at Cheltenham for a month. Oh, Mr. Morton! Would you like to go? How should I not like to go? Lady Ashant is my dearest, dearest friend. It is so very good of her to think of me.",
  "speaker_5789_006.wav": "She talks of the first week in December and wants you to be there for Christmas. I don't at all know that I can go, Mr. Morton. Why not go? I'm afraid Mama will not spare me.",
  "speaker_5789_007.wav": "There were many reasons. She could hardly go on such a visit without some renewal of her scanty wardrobe, which perhaps the family funds would not permit.",
  "speaker_5789_008.wav": "And, as she knew very well, Mrs. Masters was not at all favourable to Lady Ushunt. If the old lady had altogether kept Mary, it might have been very well, but she had not done so.",
  "speaker_5789_009.wav": "and Mrs. Masters had more than once said that that kind of thing must be all over, meaning that Mary was to drop her intimacy with high-born people that were of no real use. And then there was Mr. Twentyman and his suit.",
  "speaker_5789_010.wav": "that her only escape from home would be by becoming Mrs. Twentymann. I don't think it will be possible, Mr. Morton. My aunt will be very sorry. Oh, how sorry shall I be?",
  "speaker_5789_011.wav": "It is like having another little bit of heaven before me.\" Then he said what he certainly should not have said. I thought, Miss Masters, that your heaven was all here. What do you mean by that, Mr. Morton?",
  "speaker_5789_012.wav": "She asked, blushing up to her hair. Of course she knew what he meant, and of course she was angry with him. Ever since that walk, her mind had been troubled by ideas as to what he would think about her.",
  "speaker_5789_013.wav": "And now he was telling her what he thought. I fancy that you were happy here without going to see an old woman who, after all,",
  "speaker_5789_014.wav": "I don't want any amusement. At any rate, you will answer Lady Ushant? Of course I shall answer her. Perhaps you can let me know. She wishes me to take you to Cheltenham. I shall go for a couple of days, but I shall not stay longer.",
  "speaker_5789_015.wav": "If you are going, perhaps you would allow me to travel with you? Of course, it would be very kind, but I don't suppose that I shall go. I am sure Lady Ashant won't believe that I am kept away from her by any pleasure of my own here.",
  "speaker_587_001.wav": "who made an entry on her pad, and beckoned to the girl next to Marion to come forward. Straight down the line he went, sometimes stopping a girl at her third or fourth line, rarely allowing them to read farther than the eleventh or twelfth.",
  "speaker_587_002.wav": "Nora was the second Phi Sigma Tau to undergo the ordeal. As she briskly delivered the opening lines, the actor stopped her. Taking the book from her, he turned to the part where Touchstone, quaintly humorous, holds forth upon the lie seven times removed.",
  "speaker_587_003.wav": "Read this,\" he said briefly, holding out the book to Nora. Nora began and read glibly on, unconsciously emphasizing as she did so. Down one page she read and halfway through the next, before Mr. Southerned seemed satisfied.",
  "speaker_587_004.wav": "Then he again held conversation with Miss Tebbs, who nodded and looked smilingly toward Nora, who stood scowling faintly, rather ill-pleased at attracting so much attention.",
  "speaker_587_005.wav": "whispered Jessica to Grace, who was about to reply when Mr. Souther'd motioned to her. Grace, who knew the scene by heart, went fearlessly forward, and read the lines with splendid emphasis. Marion and Eva Allan followed her.",
  "speaker_587_006.wav": "and acquitted themselves with credit. Then Elinor's turn came. Handing her coat, which she had taken off and carried upon her arm, to Edna Wright, she walked proudly over. Without a trace of self-consciousness,",
  "speaker_587_007.wav": "began the reading of the designated lines. Her voice sounded unusually clear and sweet, yet lacked something of the power of expression displayed by Grace in her rendering of the same scene. When she had finished\u2014",
  "speaker_587_008.wav": "She handed the book back with an air of studied indifference she was far from feeling. She had decided in her own mind that Rosalind was the part best suited to her, and felt that the honor now lay between herself and Grace.",
  "speaker_587_009.wav": "No other girls, with the exception of Nora, had been allowed to read as much of any scene as they too had been requested to read. But Elinor had reckoned without her host, for there was one girl who had not as yet come to the front.",
  "speaker_587_010.wav": "The girl was Anne Pearson, who in some mysterious manner had been all but overlooked, until Miss Tebbs spied her standing between Grace and Nora. \"'Can you spare us a moment more, Mr. Southerned?' said Miss Tebbs to the actor, who was preparing to leave.",
  "speaker_587_011.wav": "just as that teacher had observed her. As most of the girls present had heard Anne recite,",
  "speaker_587_012.wav": "They expected her to live up to her reputation, and she had scarcely delivered the opening line before they realized that she would not disappoint them. Her musical voice vibrated with expression.",
  "speaker_587_013.wav": "and the mock serious bantering tones in which she delivered Rosalind's witty speeches, caused Mr. Souther to smile and nod approvingly as she gave full value to the immortal lines. Her change of voice from Rosalind to Orlando was wholly delightful.",
  "speaker_587_014.wav": "And so charmingly did she depict both characters, that when she ended with Orlando's exit she received a little ovation from the listening girls, in which Mr. Southerner and Miss Tebbs joined.",
  "speaker_587_015.wav": "I wanted her to play Rosalind, and I knew she could do it. Look, girls, Mr. Souther is shaking hands with her. True enough, Anne was shyly shaking hands with the great actor, who was congratulating her warmly upon her recent effort.",
  "speaker_5895_001.wav": "It was established at Southwork.",
  "speaker_5895_002.wav": "The Dome of St. Paul's was a delight to Ursus.",
  "speaker_5895_003.wav": "St. Paul is a saint only with extenuating circumstances.",
  "speaker_5895_004.wav": "He entered Heaven only by the artist's door.",
  "speaker_5895_005.wav": "It might have been ordered for the green box.",
  "speaker_6181_001.wav": "Pothier seems to think that property, like royalty, exists by divine right. He traces back its origin to God Himself.",
  "speaker_6181_002.wav": "He begins in this way.",
  "speaker_6181_003.wav": "For the human race, He has created the earth and all its creatures, and has given it a control over them, subordinate only to His own. Thou madeest Him to have dominion over the works of thy hands.",
  "speaker_6181_004.wav": "Thou hast put all things under his feet, says the psalmist. God accompanied this gift with these words. Address to our first parents after the creation. Be fruitful and multiply.",
  "speaker_6181_005.wav": "Are fathers unnatural and children prodigal? God gave the earth to the human race. Why then have I received none? He has put all things under my feet.",
  "speaker_6181_006.wav": "and I have not where to lay my head. Multiply, he tells us through his interpreter, Poteir. I'll learn it, Poteir. That is as easy to do as to say.",
  "speaker_6181_007.wav": "but you must give mosque to the bird for its nest. The human race, having multiplied, men divided among themselves the earth, and most of the things upon it. That which fell to each,",
  "speaker_6181_008.wav": "from that time exclusively belonged to him. That was the origin of the right of property. Say, rather, the right of possession. Men lived in a state of communism.",
  "speaker_6181_009.wav": "Whether positive or negative, it matters little. Then there was no property, not even private possession. The genesis and growth of possession, gradually forcing people to labor for their support.",
  "speaker_6181_010.wav": "They agreed either formally or tacitly, it makes no difference which, that the laborer should be sole proprietor of the fruit of his labor. That is, they simply declared the fact.",
  "speaker_6181_011.wav": "that thereafter none could live without working. It necessarily followed that, to obtain equality of products, there must be equality of labor, and that, to obtain equality of labor,",
  "speaker_6181_012.wav": "there must be equality of facilities for labor. Whoever, without labor, got possession, by force or by strategy, of another's means of subsistence destroyed equality.",
  "speaker_6181_013.wav": "Whoever violated it was unjust. Thus, labor gives birth to private possession. The right in a thing.",
  "speaker_6181_014.wav": "But in what thing? Evidently in the product, not in the soil. So the Arabs have always understood it, and so, according to Caesar and Tacitus, the Germans formerly held. The Arabs",
  "speaker_6181_015.wav": "Who admit a man's property in the flocks, which he has raised, do not refuse the crop to him who planted the seed. But they do not see why another, his equal, should not have a right to plant in his turn.",
  "speaker_61_001.wav": "he began a confused complaint against the wizard, who had vanished behind the curtain on the left.",
  "speaker_61_002.wav": "Give not-so-earnest a mind to these mummeries, child.",
  "speaker_61_003.wav": "a golden fortune and a happy life?",
  "speaker_61_004.wav": "He was like unto my father, in a way, and yet was not my father.",
  "speaker_61_005.wav": "Also, there was a stripling page who turned into a maid.",
  "speaker_6241_001.wav": "But this power of discernment was denied them, and only in after years, with the loved ones of their own firesides close about them, was the whole picture revealed.",
  "speaker_6241_002.wav": "One dark night, at the head of a score of his tribe, he fell upon Wabigaon's camp, his object being the abduction of the princess.",
  "speaker_6241_003.wav": "While the attack was successful in a way, its main purpose failed.",
  "speaker_6241_004.wav": "A counterattack was made upon Wunga and he was driven deep into the wilderness with great loss.",
  "speaker_6241_005.wav": "Three days later, Minitaki became Newsom's wife at the Hudson Bay Post.",
  "speaker_6295_001.wav": "Chapter 7 The Homecoming",
  "speaker_6295_002.wav": "Colonel Leonidas Talbot regarded the white flag with feelings in which triumph and sadness were mingled strangely.",
  "speaker_6295_003.wav": "But the emotions of Harry and his comrades were, for the moment, those of victory only.",
  "speaker_6295_004.wav": "Boats put out both from the fort and the shore.",
  "speaker_6295_005.wav": "The smoke itself, which had formed a vast cloud over the harbor, forts, and city, was now drifting out to sea, leaving all things etched sharply in the dazzling sunlight of a southern spring day.",
  "speaker_6313_001.wav": "You'll all be over if you don't have a care.",
  "speaker_6313_002.wav": "Looks like a clump of bushes down there, but I ain't sure. Can you make it out?",
  "speaker_6313_003.wav": "Yes, a great Ted. That does look like bushes.",
  "speaker_6313_004.wav": "Don't move around like perfectly still, warns the guide. Are you hurt?",
  "speaker_6313_005.wav": "and that tumbles enough to knock the sense out of a full grown man.",
  "speaker_6319_001.wav": "In those very early times there was a man named Ducalian, and he was the son of Prometheus.",
  "speaker_6319_002.wav": "After Jupiter had bound Prometheus on Mount Caucasus and had sent diseases and cares into the world, men became very, very wicked.",
  "speaker_6319_003.wav": "These men,\" he said to his mighty company, \"...are nothing but a source of trouble.\"",
  "speaker_6319_004.wav": "But men kept on fighting and robbing, even while the rain was pouring down and the sea was coming up over the land.",
  "speaker_6319_005.wav": "No one but Deucalion, the son of Prometheus, was ready for such a storm.",
  "speaker_6345_001.wav": "She herself should have been a poem, a lyric in a white gown and green scarf, coming to him through the long grass under the blossomed boughs.",
  "speaker_6345_002.wav": "Her hands should have been full of bluebells, and she should have held them up to his face in maidenly defense as he sprang forward to take her in his arms.",
  "speaker_6345_003.wav": "You see that she knew exactly how a tryst is conducted in the pages of the Standard Poets and of the cheaper weekly journals.",
  "speaker_6345_004.wav": "She had to the full limit allowed of her reading and her environment the literary sense",
  "speaker_6345_005.wav": "and curiously enough she was hardly curious at all about what he might have to say.",
  "speaker_6367_001.wav": "The man halted on the crest of the hill and looked somberly down into the long valley below. It was evening, and although the hills around him were still in the light, the valley was already filled with kindly placid shadows.",
  "speaker_6367_002.wav": "It had been by these furs he had halted twenty years ago, turning for one last glance at the valley below, the home valley which he had never seen since. But then,",
  "speaker_6367_003.wav": "The firs had been little more than vigorous young saplings. They were tall, gnarled trees now, with lichen trunks, and their lower boughs were dead. But high up their tops were green and caught the saffron light of the West.",
  "speaker_6367_004.wav": "He remembered that when a boy, he had thought there was nothing more beautiful than the evening sunshine falling to thwart the dark green fur boughs on the hills. As he listened to the swish and murmur of the wind,",
  "speaker_6367_005.wav": "the earth-old tune with the power to carry the soul back to the dawn of time. The years fell away from him, and he forgot much, remembering more.",
  "speaker_6367_006.wav": "He had called that longing by other names, but he knew it now for what it was when, hearing, he was satisfied. He was a tall man with iron-grey hair in the face of a conqueror. Strong.",
  "speaker_6367_007.wav": "pitiless, unswerving, eagle eyes, quick to discern and unfaltering to pursue, jaw square and intrepid, mouth formed to keep secrets and cajole men to his will.",
  "speaker_6367_008.wav": "a face that hid much and revealed little. It told of power and intellect, but the soul of the man was a hidden thing.",
  "speaker_6367_009.wav": "Not in the arena where he had fought and triumphed, giving fierce blow for blow, was it to be shown, but here, looking down on the homeland with the strength of the hills about him, it rose dominantly and claimed its own.",
  "speaker_6367_010.wav": "The old bond held. Yonder below him was home, the old house that had sheltered him, the graves of his kin, the wide fields where his boyhood dreams had been dreamed.",
  "speaker_6367_011.wav": "The pitting of strength and craft against strength and craft. The tireless struggle. The exultation of victory. Then, suddenly, they had failed their worshipper. They ceased to satisfy.",
  "speaker_6367_012.wav": "The sacrifices he had heaped on their altars availed him nothing in this new need and hunger of his being. His gods mocked him, and he worried of their service. Were there not better things than these?",
  "speaker_6367_013.wav": "Things he had once known and loved and forgotten? Where were the ideals of his youth, the lofty aspirations that had up-born him then? Where was the eagerness and zest of New Dawn's?",
  "speaker_6367_014.wav": "The earnestness of well-filled, purposeful hours of labor, the satisfaction of a good day, worthily lived, at eventide the unbroken rest of long, starry nights. Where might he find them again?",
  "speaker_6367_015.wav": "Were they yet to be had for the seeking in the old valley? With the thought came a great yearning for home. He had had many habitations, but he realized now that he had never thought of any of these places as home.",
  "speaker_6529_001.wav": "So then, all was explained by the submarine explosion of this torpedo. Cyrus Harding could not be mistaken, as during the War of the Union he had had occasion to try these terrible engines of destruction.",
  "speaker_6529_002.wav": "or some other material of the same nature, that the water of the channel had been raised like a dome, the bottom of the brig crushed in, and she had sunk instantly. The damage done to her hull",
  "speaker_6529_003.wav": "The speedy had not been able to withstand a torpedo that would have destroyed an ironclad as easily as a fishing boat. Yes, all was explained, everything, except the presence of the torpedo in the waters of the channel.",
  "speaker_6529_004.wav": "And I say this in order that Ayrton may be acquainted with all the strange events which have occurred during these two years. Who this beneficent stranger is, whose intervention has, so fortunately for us, been manifested on many occasions I cannot imagine.",
  "speaker_6529_005.wav": "What his object can be in acting thus, in concealing himself after rendering us so many services, I cannot understand. But his services are not the less real.",
  "speaker_6529_006.wav": "and are of such a nature that only a man possessed of prodigious power could render them. Ayrton is indebted to him as much as we are, for if it was the stranger who saved me from the waves after the fall from the balloon.",
  "speaker_6529_007.wav": "That it was he who lighted that fire on the heights of the island, which permitted you to land. That it was he who fired that bullet found in the body of the peccary. That it was he who plunged that torpedo into the channel, which destroyed the brig.",
  "speaker_6529_008.wav": "In a word, that all those inexplicable events for which we could not assign a reason are due to this mysterious being. Therefore, whoever he may be, whether shipwrecked or exiled on our island, we shall be ungrateful if we think ourselves freed from gratitude toward him.",
  "speaker_6529_009.wav": "We have contracted a debt, and I hope that we shall one day pay it.\" \"'You are right in speaking thus, my dear Cyrus,' replied Gideon Spillett. \"'Yes, there is an almost all-powerful being, hidden in some part of the island.'\"",
  "speaker_6529_010.wav": "and whose influence has been singularly useful to our colony. I will add that the unknown appears to possess means of action which border on the supernatural, if in the events of practical life the supernatural were recognizable.",
  "speaker_6529_011.wav": "Is it he who was in secret communication with us by the well in Granite House, and has he thus a knowledge of all our plans? Was it he who threw us that bottle when the vessel made her first cruise?",
  "speaker_6529_012.wav": "Was it he who threw Top out of the lake and killed the Dagon? Was it he who was everything leads us to believe saved you from the waves and that under? Circumstances in which anyone else would not have been able to act if it was he",
  "speaker_6529_013.wav": "He possesses a power which renders him master of the elements. The reporter's reasoning was just, and everyone felt it to be so. Yes, rejoined Cyrus Harding.",
  "speaker_6529_014.wav": "If the intervention of a human being is not more questionable for us, I agree that he has at his disposal means of action beyond those possessed by humanity. There is a mystery still, but if we discover the man, the mystery will be discovered also. The question then is,",
  "speaker_6529_015.wav": "What is your opinion on the matter?\" \"'My opinion,' said Pencroft, is that, whoever he may be, he is a brave man, and he has my esteem.' \"'Be it so,' answered Harding, but that is not an answer, Pencroft.\"",
  "speaker_652_001.wav": "San Francisco's carefree spirit was fully exemplified before the ashes of the Great Fire of 1906 were cold.",
  "speaker_652_002.wav": "Thompson opened a large restaurant in O'Farrell Street, just above Fillmore, and for two years or more did a thriving business, his place being noted for its good cooking and its splendid service.",
  "speaker_652_003.wav": "One of his waiters, Phil Tyson, was one of the earlier ones to go back into the Byrne district to begin business, and he opened a restaurant called the Del Monte in Powell Street near Market. But it was too early for success and closed after a short career.",
  "speaker_652_004.wav": "Here, as well as in a number of other places, one can well appreciate the colloquial definition of cabaret.",
  "speaker_652_005.wav": "Here, there is always good music and food well cooked and well served, and always a lively crowd during the luncheon, dinner, and after theater hours. The room is not large, but its dimensions are greatly magnified owing to the covering of mirrors which line the walls.",
  "speaker_6563_001.wav": "Peter Force. One of the interesting sites of the City of Washington used to be the library of old Peter Force, as he was familiarly called. Colonel Peter Force, as he was more properly styled.",
  "speaker_6563_002.wav": "He was one of the few colonels of that day who had actually held a colonel's command, having been regularly commissioned by the President of the United States as a colonel of artillery in the District of Columbia. He might indeed have been called Major General.",
  "speaker_6563_003.wav": "for in his old age he held that rank in the militia of the district. And a very fine-looking soldier he must have been in his prime, judging from the portrait which used to hang in the library, representing a full-formed man, tall and erect.",
  "speaker_6563_004.wav": "his handsome and benevolent countenance set off by an abundance of curly hair. His library had about the roughest furniture ever seen in an apartment containing so much that was valuable. As I remember it, it was a long, low room, and it was a very large room, and it was a very large room, and it was a very large room, and it was a very large",
  "speaker_6563_005.wav": "with streets and cross streets of pine bookshelves, unpainted, all filled with books to their utmost capacity. A wilderness of books, in print and in manuscript, mostly old and dingy.",
  "speaker_6563_006.wav": "and almost all of them relating in some way to American history. The place had a very musty smell, and as most of its treasures were in the original bindings, or without bindings, few persons would have suspected the priceless value of the collection.",
  "speaker_6563_007.wav": "I am acquainted with a certain library in New York of several thousand volumes, most of which are bound resplendently in calf and gold, and the room in which they are kept is as splendid as a steamboat.",
  "speaker_6563_008.wav": "But old Peter Force could show you single alcoves of his library, which, at a fair valuation, would buy out all that mass of sumptuosity. It was not always easy to find the old gentleman in his dusty, dingy wilderness.",
  "speaker_6563_009.wav": "He would take pleasure in exhibiting his treasures. He would take down his excellent copy of Eliot's Indian Bible, a book so faithfully made in every respect that I question if, as a mere piece of bookmaking,",
  "speaker_6563_010.wav": "it could now be matched in the United States. He lived to see this rarity command in New York the price of fourteen hundred and fifty dollars. He would show you 41 works in the original editions of Increase and Cotton Mather.",
  "speaker_6563_011.wav": "the most recent of which was published in 1735. He possessed a large number of books printed and bound by Benjamin Franklin. He had 200 volumes of the records of colonial legislatures,",
  "speaker_6563_012.wav": "He could show you a newspaper of almost every month. Nay, almost every week, since newspapers were first published in America. He had in all 950 bound volumes of newspapers, of which 245 volumes",
  "speaker_6563_013.wav": "He would show you a collection of more than 39,000 pamphlets, of which 8,000 were printed before the year 1800. His collection of maps relating to America was truly wonderful. Besides all the early atlases of any note,",
  "speaker_6563_014.wav": "He had over a thousand detached maps illustrative both of the geography and history of America. For many of them were maps and plans drawn for military purposes. He would show you perhaps",
  "speaker_6563_015.wav": "a pen drawing of date 1779 by a British officer upon which was written, Plan of the Rebel Works at West Point. He had also several plans by British officers of the rebel works around Boston during the revolution.",
  "speaker_672_001.wav": "Out in the woods stood a nice little fir tree.",
  "speaker_672_002.wav": "The place he had was a very good one, the sun shone on him. As to fresh air there was enough of that, and round him grew many large-sized comrades, pines as well as firs.",
  "speaker_672_003.wav": "He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air. He did not care for the little cottage children that ran about and prattled when they were in the woods looking for wild strawberries.",
  "speaker_672_004.wav": "But this was what the tree could not bear to hear.",
  "speaker_672_005.wav": "In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come leaping along and jump right over the little tree.",
  "speaker_6818_001.wav": "Chapter 13 The Boomerang The lawn fate was a tremendous success, and every farmer's wife was proud of her satin badge bearing the monogram WPL and the words",
  "speaker_6818_002.wav": "Forbes for representative. Certain edibles such as Charlotte Russe, Spanish cream, wine jellies, and mousses, to say nothing of the caviar and anchovies, were wholly unknown to them.",
  "speaker_6818_003.wav": "But they ate the Dainis with a wise disregard of their inexperience, and enjoyed them immensely. The old butler was a general in his way, and in view of the fact that the staff of servants at Elmhurst.",
  "speaker_6818_004.wav": "was insufficient to cope with such a throng. He allowed Louise to impress several farmers' daughters into service, and was able to feed everyone without delay, and in an abundant and satisfactory manner.",
  "speaker_6818_005.wav": "After luncheon began the speech making, interspersed with music by the band. Louise made the preliminary address and, although her voice was not very strong,",
  "speaker_6818_006.wav": "The silent attention of her hearers permitted her to be generally understood. She called attention to the fact that this campaign was important because it promised more beautiful and attractive houses for the farmers and townsmen alike.",
  "speaker_6818_007.wav": "We had all grown so accustomed to advertising signs,\" she said, that we failed to notice how thick they were becoming, or how bold and overpowering. From a few scattered announcements on fence boards,",
  "speaker_6818_008.wav": "They had crowded themselves into more prominent places, until the barns and sheds and the very rocks were daubed with glaring letters, asking us to buy the medicines, soaps, tobaccos, and other wares the manufacturers were anxious to sell.",
  "speaker_6818_009.wav": "Every country road became an advertising avenue. Scarcely a country house was free from signs of some sort, yet the people tamely submitted to this imposition because they knew no way to avoid it.",
  "speaker_6818_010.wav": "When Mr. Forbes began his campaign to restore the homesteads to their former beauty and dignity a cry was raised against him. But this was because the farmers did not understand how much this reform meant to them.",
  "speaker_6818_011.wav": "So we gave them an object lesson. We painted out all the signs in this section at our own expense that you might see how much more beautiful your homes are without them.",
  "speaker_6818_012.wav": "We believe that none of you will ever care to allow advertising signs on your property again, and that the quiet refinement of this part of the country will induce many other places to follow our example.",
  "speaker_6818_013.wav": "until advertisers are forced to confine themselves to newspapers, magazines, and circulars, their only legitimate channels. This much Mr. Forbes has already done for you, and he will now tell you what else if he is elected.",
  "speaker_6818_014.wav": "he proposes to do. Kenneth then took the platform and was welcomed with a hearty cheer. He modestly assured them that a representative in the state legislature could accomplish much good for his district.",
  "speaker_6818_015.wav": "if he honestly desired to do so. That was what a representative was for, to represent his people. It was folly to elect any man who would forget that duty and promote only his own interests through the position of power to which the people had appointed him.",
  "speaker_6829_001.wav": "Kenneth and Beth refrained from telling the other girls or Uncle John of old Will Rogers' visit, but they got Mr. Watson in the library and questioned him closely about the penalty for forging a check.",
  "speaker_6829_002.wav": "It was a serious crime indeed, Mr. Watson told them, and Tom Gates bade fare to serve a lengthy term in the State's prison as a consequence of his rash act.",
  "speaker_6829_003.wav": "I can't see it in that light, said the old lawyer.",
  "speaker_6829_004.wav": "It was a deliberate theft from his employers to protect a girl he loved.",
  "speaker_6829_005.wav": "But they could not have proven a case against Lucy if she was innocent and all their threats of arresting her were probably a mere bluff.",
  "speaker_6930_001.wav": "Concord returned to its place amidst the tents.",
  "speaker_6930_002.wav": "The English forwarded to the French baskets of flowers of which they had made a plentiful provision to greet the arrival of the young princess. The French, in return, invited the English to a supper, which was to be given the next day.",
  "speaker_6930_003.wav": "Congratulations were poured in upon the princess everywhere during her journey.",
  "speaker_6930_004.wav": "From the respect paid her on all sides, she seemed like a queen, and from the adoration with which she was treated by two or three, she appeared an object of worship. The Queen Mother gave the French the most affectionate reception. France was her native country, and she had suffered too much unhappiness in England for England to have made her forget France.",
  "speaker_6930_005.wav": "She taught her daughter, then, by her own affection for it, that love for a country where they had both been hospitably received and where a brilliant future opened for them.",
  "speaker_7021_001.wav": "Nature of the effect produced by early impressions.",
  "speaker_7021_002.wav": "That is comparatively nothing.",
  "speaker_7021_003.wav": "They are chiefly formed from combinations of the impressions made in childhood.",
  "speaker_7021_004.wav": "Vast importance and influence of this mental furnishing.",
  "speaker_7021_005.wav": "Without going to any such extreme as this, we can easily see, on reflection, how vast an influence on the ideas and conceptions, as well as on the principles of action in mature years, must be exerted by the nature and character of the images which the period of infancy and childhood impress upon the mind.",
  "speaker_7078_001.wav": "Woman's vanity often outruns her natural diffidence, and the consciousness of her great beauty stifles the conscience of modesty. Visitors to the Academy know the picture.",
  "speaker_7078_002.wav": "with her back to a great circular mirror, presents a half-draped figure of marvelous delicate coloring and beauty of outline. One hand holds aloft a golden wine goblet, and the other a tapering wand.",
  "speaker_7078_003.wav": "while upon the tessellated pavement before the dais purple grapes and yellow roses have been strewn. The black hair of the daughter of Perseus falls in perfusion about her bare shoulders and strays over her breast.",
  "speaker_7078_004.wav": "But her features are hidden by a half-mask of black silk. The lips, with their octa-cupidon, are slightly parted, disclosing an even row of pearly teeth.",
  "speaker_7078_005.wav": "Of the thousands who have gazed upon it in admiration none knows the somewhat remarkable story connected with it. As I have been closely associated with it, from the day it was outlined in charcoal.",
  "speaker_7078_006.wav": "until the evening it was packed in a crate and sent for the inspection of the hanging committee, it is perhaps apropos that I should relate the narrative. The studio of my old friend, Dick Carruthers, the man who painted it,",
  "speaker_7078_007.wav": "is on Campton Hill, Kensington, within a few hundred yards of where I reside, and in the center of an aesthetic artistic colony. We have been chums for years, for on many occasions he has displayed his talent as a black and white artist.",
  "speaker_7078_008.wav": "in illustrating my articles and stories in various magazines. He is a popular painter, and as handsome a man as ever had a picture on the line. Three years ago, when the prologue of this secret Dharma was enacted, I was in the middle",
  "speaker_7078_009.wav": "He was in the habit of coming over when the light had faded to smoke a cigarette and discuss art and literature with me. I was glad of a chat after a hard day's work at my writing table, but his companionship had one drawback. I was just going to say that I was in the habit of coming over when the light had faded to smoke a cigarette and discuss art and literature with me. I was glad of a chat after a hard day's work at my writing table, but his companionship had one drawback. I was glad of a chat after a hard day's work at my writing table, but his companionship had one drawback.",
  "speaker_7078_010.wav": "He driveled over a girl he loved and was forever suggesting that I might take her as a character and drag her into the novel upon which I was engaged. One day he drew a cabinet photograph carefully from his pocket.",
  "speaker_7078_011.wav": "and placed it upon the blotting-pad before me. The girl he loved\u2014Bah! I knew her, though I did not tell him so. She was a dark-haired, pink-and-white beauty that flitted through artistic bohemia like a butterfly in a hothouse.",
  "speaker_7078_012.wav": "The sight of the pictured face brought back to me the memory of days-long past, of a closed chapter in my life's history. I remembered the first time I saw Ethel Broughton, fully five years before. She wore a soiled pink wrapper.",
  "speaker_7078_013.wav": "Her satin slippers were trodden down at heel, and she had a bottle of champagne at her elbow. At that time her lover, grandiloquent and impecunious Mr. Harry Arnimore, a bad but handsome actor, had been untrue to her.",
  "speaker_7078_014.wav": "and she, a third-rate actress who had an ingenue part at a Strand theater,",
  "speaker_7078_015.wav": "but she scarcely heeded me. Probably she was thinking of Arna more, for she clasped her slim fingers round her suffering throat and offered up an occasional sob, following it",
  "speaker_7113_001.wav": "Rubazel. Over all the vast underworld, the mountain gnome Rubazel was Lord, and busy enough the care of his dominions kept him. There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone through.",
  "speaker_7113_002.wav": "and the hosts of gnomes to be kept to their tasks. Some built strong barriers to hold back the fiery vapors to change dull stones to precious metal, or were hard at work filling every cranny of the rocks with diamonds and rubies.",
  "speaker_7113_003.wav": "For Rubazzle loved all pretty things. Sometimes the fancy would take him to leave those gloomy regions and come out upon the green earth for a while and bask in the sunshine and hear the birds sing.",
  "speaker_7113_004.wav": "And as gnomes lived many hundreds of years, he saw strange things. For the first time he came up the great hills were covered with thick forests.",
  "speaker_7113_005.wav": "to hear the thunder of their fall echoing among the hills. But the next time he ventured above ground, what was his surprise to find everything changed. The dark woods were hewed down.",
  "speaker_7113_006.wav": "and in their place appeared blossoming orchards, surrounded cozy-looking thatched cottages. For every chimney the blue smoke curled peacefully into the air. Sheep and oxen fed in the flowery meadows.",
  "speaker_7113_007.wav": "came the music of the shepherd's pipe. The strangeness and the pleasantness of the sight so delighted the gnome that he never thought of resenting the intrusion of these unexpected guests, who without saying, by your leave or with your leave,",
  "speaker_7113_008.wav": "Nor did he wish to interfere with their doings, but left them in quiet possession of their homes, as the good householder leaves in peace the swallows who have built their nests under his eaves.",
  "speaker_7113_009.wav": "He was indeed greatly minded to make friends with this being called man. So taking the form of an old field laborer, he entered the service of a farmer. Under his care, all the crops flourished exceedingly.",
  "speaker_7113_010.wav": "But the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rubazzle soon left him and went to be shepherd to his next neighbor.",
  "speaker_7113_011.wav": "and were among the hills to look for any who strayed away, that they too prospered under his care, and not one was lost or torn by wolves. But this new master was a hard man and begrudged him his well-earned wages.",
  "speaker_7113_012.wav": "So he ran away and went to serve the judge. Here, he upheld the law with might and main, and was a terror to thieves and evildoers. But the judge was a bad man who took bribes and despised the law.",
  "speaker_7113_013.wav": "down to his underground palace, very much disappointed by his first experience of mankind. But as time went on, he forgot the disagreeable things that had happened to him and thought he would take another look at the upper world.",
  "speaker_7113_014.wav": "where stood a charming maiden, fresh as the spring and beautiful to look upon. Around her upon the grass lay her young companions, as if they had thrown themselves down to rest after some merry game.",
  "speaker_7113_015.wav": "Beyond them flowed a little brook into which a waterfall leapt from a high rock, filling the air with its pleasant sound and making a coolness even in the sultry noontide.",
  "speaker_7127_001.wav": "Everyone could observe his agitation and prostration, a prostration which was, indeed, the more remarkable since people were not accustomed to see him, with his arms hanging listlessly by his side, his head bewildered, and his eyes, with all their bright intelligence, bedimmed.",
  "speaker_7127_002.wav": "Upon this, Madame deigned to turn her eyes languishingly towards the Comte, observing",
  "speaker_7127_003.wav": "Do you think so? she replied with indifference.",
  "speaker_7127_004.wav": "Yes, the character which your Royal Highness assumed is in perfect harmony with your own.",
  "speaker_7127_005.wav": "I allude to the goddess.",
  "speaker_7176_001.wav": "He is a welcome figure at the garden parties of the elect who are always ready to encourage him by accepting free seats for his play. Actor managers nod to him. Editors allow him to contribute, without charge, to a symposium on the price of golf balls.",
  "speaker_7176_002.wav": "In short, he becomes a prominent figure in London society, and if he is not careful, somebody will say so.",
  "speaker_7176_003.wav": "But even the unsuccessful dramatist has his moments.",
  "speaker_7176_004.wav": "Your play must be not merely a good play, but a successful one.",
  "speaker_7176_005.wav": "Frankly, I cannot always say.",
  "speaker_7312_001.wav": "May 10, 1851. Madame.",
  "speaker_7312_002.wav": "In compliance with your request, I have the honor to state succinctly the circumstances connected with my acquaintance with the late Madame Ossoli, your deceased sister, during her residence in Rome.",
  "speaker_7312_003.wav": "In the month of April 1849, Rome, as you are no doubt aware, was placed in a state of siege by the approach of the French army. It was filled at that time with exiles and fugitives.",
  "speaker_7312_004.wav": "who had been contending for years from Milan in the north to Palermo in the south for the republican cause. And when the gates were closed, it was computed that there were, of Italians alone, 13,000 refugees within the walls of the city.",
  "speaker_7312_005.wav": "all of whom had been expelled from adjacent states, till Rome became their last rallying point, and, to many, their final resting place. Among these was to be seen every variety of age, sentiment, and condition.",
  "speaker_7312_006.wav": "striplings and blanched heads, wild visionary enthusiasts, grave heroic men who, in the struggle for freedom, had ventured all and lost all, nobles and beggars, bandits, felons and brigands. Great excitement naturally existed,",
  "speaker_7312_007.wav": "and, in the general apprehension which pervaded all classes, that acts of personal violence and outrage would soon be committed. The foreign residents especially found themselves placed in an alarming situation.",
  "speaker_7312_008.wav": "On the 30th of April, the first engagement took place between the French and Roman troops, and in a few days subsequently I visited several of my countrymen at their request to concert measures for their safety. Hearing on that occasion, and for the first time,",
  "speaker_7312_009.wav": "and of her solitary mode of life, I ventured to call upon her and offer my services in any manner that might conduce to her comfort and security. She received me with much kindness, and thus an acquaintance commenced.",
  "speaker_7312_010.wav": "Her residence on the Piazzi Babadini being considered an insecure abode",
  "speaker_7312_011.wav": "which was occupied by several American families. In the engagements which succeeded between the Roman and French troops, the wounded of the former were brought into the city and disposed throughout the different hospitals, which were under the superintendents of several ladies of high rank.",
  "speaker_7312_012.wav": "who had formed themselves into associations, the better to ensure care and attention to those unfortunate men. Miss Fuller took an active part in this noble work, and the greater portion of her time during the entire siege",
  "speaker_7312_013.wav": "which was placed under her direction in attendance upon its inmates. The weather was intensely hot. Her health was feeble and delicate. The dead and dying were around her in every stage of pain and horror, but she never shrank from the duty she had assumed.",
  "speaker_7312_014.wav": "Her heart and soul were in the cause for which those men had fought, and all was done that woman could do to comfort them in their sufferings. I have seen the eyes of the dying, as she moved among them, extended on opposite beds, meet in commendation of her universal kindness.",
  "speaker_7312_015.wav": "And I have heard many of those who recovered speak with all the passionate fervor of the Italian nature",
  "speaker_7367_001.wav": "Chapter 33, Roman Bandits.",
  "speaker_7367_002.wav": "\"'What is the matter?' said Albert, entering. \"'No carriage to be had?' \"'Just so,' returned Franz. You have guessed it. \"'Well, your eternal city is a nice sort of place.'",
  "speaker_7367_003.wav": "But from now till Sunday you can have fifty if you please.\" \"'Ah, that is something,' said Albert. \"'Today is Thursday, and who knows what may arrive between this and Sunday.' \"'Ten or twelve thousand travelers will arrive,' replied Franz.\"",
  "speaker_7367_004.wav": "which will make it still more difficult. My friend,\" said Morsev, let us enjoy the present without gloomy forebodings for the future. At least we can have a window. Where? In the Corso. Ah, a window! exclaimed Signor Pastrini.",
  "speaker_7367_005.wav": "Utterly impossible. There was only one left on the fifth floor of the Doria Palace, and that has been let to a Russian prince for 20 sequins a day. The two young men looked at each other with an air of stupefaction. Well.",
  "speaker_7367_006.wav": "It is to pass the carnival at Venice. There we are sure of obtaining gondolas if we cannot have carriages.\" \"'Ah, the devil, no!' cried Elbert. I came to Rome to see the carnival, and I will, though I see it on stilts.\"",
  "speaker_7367_007.wav": "Bravo! An excellent idea. We will disguise ourselves as monster Pulcinellas.",
  "speaker_7367_008.wav": "and we shall have complete success.\" Do your excellencies still wish for a carriage from now to Sunday morning?",
  "speaker_7367_009.wav": "I hasten to comply with your excellency's wishes only. I tell you beforehand, the carriage will cost you six piastras a day.\" And, as I am not a millionaire, like the gentleman in the next department's, said Franz, I warn you.",
  "speaker_7367_010.wav": "that as I have been four times before at Rome, I know the prices of all the carriages. We will give you 12 piastras for today, tomorrow, and the day after, and then you will make a good profit.",
  "speaker_7367_011.wav": "But excellency,\" said Pastrini, still striving to gain his point. \"'Now go,' returned Franz, \"'or I shall go myself and bargain with your Aflata-Torah, who is mine also. He is an old friend of mine, who has plundered me pretty well already, and\u2014'",
  "speaker_7367_012.wav": "In the hope of making more out of me, he will take a less price than the one I offer you. You will lose the preference, and that will be your fault. Do not give yourselves the trouble, Excellency.",
  "speaker_7367_013.wav": "returned Signor Pastrini, with a smile peculiar to the Italian speculator when he confesses defeat. I will do all I can, and I hope you will be satisfied. And now we understand each other.",
  "speaker_7367_014.wav": "In an hour, in an hour it will be at the door. An hour after the vehicle was at the door, it was a hack conveyance which was elevated to the rank of a private carriage in honor of the occasion. In spite of its humble exterior.",
  "speaker_7367_015.wav": "The young men would have thought themselves happy to have secured it for the last three days of the carnival. Excellency cried the Cicero on it, seeing Franz approach the window.",
  "speaker_7447_001.wav": "How soon keys were added to the monochord as this measuring instrument was named cannot positively be ascertained. We may safely assume it was not slow in adopting the rude keyboard ascribed by tradition to pan pipes.",
  "speaker_7447_002.wav": "and applied to the portable organ of early Christian communities. After the 10th century, the development of the monochord seems to have begun in earnest. Two or more strings of equal length are now divided",
  "speaker_7447_003.wav": "and set in motion by flat metal wedges, attached to the key levers and called tangents, because they touched the strings. In response to the demand for increased range, as many as 20 keys were used to set the strings",
  "speaker_7447_004.wav": "were brought to act on a few strings, commanding often three octaves.",
  "speaker_7447_005.wav": "the famous sight reading music teacher of the 11th century advised his pupils to exercise the hand in the use of the monochord showing his knowledge of the keyboard. The keyed monochord gained the name",
  "speaker_7447_006.wav": "clavichord. Its box-like case was first placed on a table, later on its own stand, and increased in elegance. Not until the 18th century was each key provided with a separate string.",
  "speaker_7447_007.wav": "or keyboard instruments that came into use. Dance music found in them a congenial field.",
  "speaker_7447_008.wav": "I answer that you cannot yet, owing to your youth, understand that playing is only suited for volatile, frivolous women, whereas I desire you to be the most lovable maiden in the world.",
  "speaker_7447_009.wav": "Also, it would bring you but little pleasure or renown if you should play badly.",
  "speaker_7447_010.wav": "Consider a moment whether this would become you. If your friends wish you to play in order to give them pleasure, tell them you do not desire to make yourself ridiculous in their eyes, and be content with your books and your domestic occupations.",
  "speaker_7447_011.wav": "A different view was entertained in England during Queen Elizabeth's reign, where claviers were in vogue, styled virginals. Because, as an ancient chronicle explained, virgins do most commonly play on them.",
  "speaker_7447_012.wav": "The virginal was usually of oblong shape, often resembling a lady's work box. With the virgin queen, it was a prime favorite, although not named expressly for her as the flattering fashion of the time led many to assume.",
  "speaker_7447_013.wav": "If she actually did justice to some of the airs with variations in the Queen Elizabeth Virginal Book, she must indeed have been proficient on the instrument. Quaint Dr. Charles Burney Quaint Dr. Charles Burney",
  "speaker_7447_014.wav": "1726 to 1814, declares in his History of Music that no performer of his day could play them without at least a month's practice.",
  "speaker_7447_015.wav": "The clavier gave promise of its destined career in the Elizabethan age. Shakespeare immortalized it and William Byrd",
  "speaker_7505_001.wav": "Their culture myth, which he has recorded,",
  "speaker_7505_002.wav": "The blood gushed from him at every step, and as it fell, turned into flintstones. The victor returned to his grandmother and established his lodge in the Far East, on the borders of the great ocean, whence the sun comes. In time he became the father of mankind.",
  "speaker_7505_003.wav": "of the early native traditions. So strong is the resemblance Ayuskia bears to Macabo that what has been said an explanation of the latter will be sufficient for both.",
  "speaker_7505_004.wav": "Yet, I do not imagine that the one was copied or borrowed from the other. We cannot be too cautious in adopting such a conclusion. The two nations were remote in everything but geographical position.",
  "speaker_7505_005.wav": "I called to mind another similar myth. In it, a mother is also said to have brought forth twins or a pair of twins and to have paid for them with her life. Again, the one is described as the bright,",
  "speaker_7505_006.wav": "Scholars, likewise, have interpreted the mother to mean the dawn, the twins, either light and darkness or the four winds. Yet this is not Algonquin theology. Nor is it at all related to that of the Iroquois.",
  "speaker_7505_007.wav": "It is the story of Sarama in the Rigveda and was written in Sanskrit under the shadow of the Himalayas centuries before Homer. Such uniformity points not to a common source in history",
  "speaker_7505_008.wav": "but in psychology. Man, chiefly cognizant of his soul through his senses, thought with an awful horror of the night which deprived him of the use of one and foreshadowed the loss of all. Therefore,",
  "speaker_7505_009.wav": "Light and life were to him synonymous. Therefore all religions promised to lead from night to light from night to heavenly light Therefore he who rescues is ever the light of the world",
  "speaker_7505_010.wav": "a messiah fairer than the children of men, fulfilled in that day when he appeared in garments so white as no fuller on earth could white them.",
  "speaker_7505_011.wav": "Language itself is proof of it. Many Algonquin words for East, Morning, Dawn, Day, Light.",
  "speaker_7505_012.wav": "are derived from a radical signifying white.",
  "speaker_7505_013.wav": "but Kakachama attacked and drove him to the north. Irritated at his defeat, he took with him the rain, and consequently to this day the seacoast of Peru is largely an arid desert. Now, when we are informed that the south wind",
  "speaker_7505_014.wav": "for he was attacked with murderous intent by the beings whom he had created. When, however, scorning such unequal combat, he had manifested his power by hurling the lightning on the hillsides and consuming the forests,",
  "speaker_7505_015.wav": "they recognized their maker and humbled themselves before him. He was reconciled and taught them arts and agriculture, institutions and religion, meriting the title they gave him of Pachayachchik.",
  "speaker_7635_001.wav": "Marguerite's aching heart stood still. She felt more than she heard the men on the watch preparing for the fight. Her senses told her that each with sword in hand was crouching ready for the spring.",
  "speaker_7635_002.wav": "The voice came near and near. In the vast immensity of these lonely cliffs with the loud murmur of the sea below, it was impossible to say how near or how far, nor yet from which direction came the cheerful singer, who sang to God to save his king, whilst he himself was in such deadly danger.",
  "speaker_7635_003.wav": "felt that her very life was slipping away, as if when that voice drew nearer, when that singer became entrapped. She distinctly heard the click of Diskay's gun close to her. No, no, no, no, oh God in heaven this cannot be.",
  "speaker_7635_004.wav": "Let Armin's blood then be on her own head. Let her be branded as his murderer. Let even he whom she loved despise and loathe her for this. But God, O God, save him at any cost. With a wild shriek she sprang to her feet and darted round the rock.",
  "speaker_7635_005.wav": "Armin, Armin, for God's sake fire, your leader is near, he is coming, he is betrayed. Armin, Armin, fire in heaven's name. She was seized and thrown to the ground. She lay there moaning, bruised, not caring, but still half sobbing, half shrieking.",
  "speaker_7635_006.wav": "Percy, my husband, for God's sake fly! Armin, Armin, why don't you fire?",
  "speaker_7635_007.wav": "Something was thrown over her face. She could not breathe and perforce she was silent. The bold singer too had become silent, warned no doubt of his impending danger by Marguerite's frantic shrieks. The men had sprung to their feet. There was no need for further silence on their part.",
  "speaker_7635_008.wav": "The very cliffs echoed the poor heartbroken woman's screams. Chevalin, with a muttered oath which boded no good to her, who had dared to upset his most cherished plans, had hastily shouted the word of command. Intuit, my men, and let no one escape from that hut alive.",
  "speaker_7635_009.wav": "The moon had once more emerged from between the clouds, the darkness on the cliffs had gone giving place once more to brilliant silvery light. Some of the soldiers had rushed to the rough wooden door of the hut, whilst one of them kept guard over Marguerite.",
  "speaker_7635_010.wav": "The door was partially open, one of the soldiers pushed it further, but within awe was darkness. The charcoal fire only lighting with a dim red light the furthest corner of the hut. The soldiers paused automatically at the door like machines waiting for further orders.",
  "speaker_7635_011.wav": "was for the moment paralyzed with astonishment when he saw the soldier standing there at attention, like sentries on guard, whilst not a sound proceeded from the hut. Filled with strange anxious foreboding he too went to the door of the hut, and peering into the gloom he asked quickly,",
  "speaker_7635_012.wav": "What is the meaning of this? I think said again that there is no one there now replied one of the soldiers imperturbably You have not let those four men go thunder shovel and menacingly I ordered you to let no man escape alive quick after them all of you quick in every direction",
  "speaker_7635_013.wav": "The men, obedient as machines, rushed down the rocky incline toward the beach, some going off to the right and left as fast as their feet could carry them. You and your men will pay with your lives for this blunder,\" said a young sergeant, said Chevalyn viciously to the sergeant who had been in charge of the men.",
  "speaker_7635_014.wav": "And you too, Sirian,\" he added, turning with a snarl to discave, for disobeying my orders. You ordered us to wait, Sirian, until the tall Englishmen arrived and joined the four men in the hut. No one came, said the sergeant sullenly.",
  "speaker_7635_015.wav": "But I ordered you just now when the woman screamed to rush in and let no one escape. But Sidion, the four men who were there before, had been gone some time, I think. You think? You\u2014' Said Chevalon, almost choking with fury, and you let them go?",
  "speaker_7729_001.wav": "The bogus legislature numbered 36 members.",
  "speaker_7729_002.wav": "This was at the March election 1855.",
  "speaker_7729_003.wav": "That summer's immigration, however, being mainly from the free states, greatly changed the relative strengths of the two parties.",
  "speaker_7729_004.wav": "For general service, therefore, requiring no special effort, the numerical strength of the factions was about equal, while on extraordinary occasions the 2000 border ruffian reserve lying a little farther back from the state line could at any time easily turn the scale.",
  "speaker_7729_005.wav": "The Free State men had only their convictions, their intelligence, their courage, and the moral support of the North. The conspiracy had its secret combination, the territorial officials, the legislature, the bogus laws, the courts, the militia officers, the president, and the army.",
  "speaker_777_001.wav": "All idolization makes life poorer.",
  "speaker_777_002.wav": "then why indulge in prophetic fantasies?",
  "speaker_777_003.wav": "A best that can only interpret the mind of the prophet and can have no objective value.",
  "speaker_777_004.wav": "Michaelis, the ticket of leap apostle, was speaking in an even voice, a voice that wheezed as if deadened and oppressed by the layer of fat on his chest.",
  "speaker_777_005.wav": "And ever since he had never managed to get his weight down as much as an ounce.",
  "speaker_7800_001.wav": "as the front door was flung open, and an excited man hurried down the steps toward the spot where the four chums stood breathing hard after their recent exertions. \"'Is old Isaac Chase the meanest man in Centerville?' exclaimed Jerry in dismay.",
  "speaker_7800_002.wav": "But we didn't break his old window, you know,\" expostulated Will Milton. Here are lots of witnesses to prove it came from the other side. \"'Little he'll care about that,' Bluff told him. He must have seen us in the fight, and that settles it.\"",
  "speaker_7800_003.wav": "Frank, you talk with him. I'll be apt to get sassy if he scolded too hard.\" So it usually came about. Upon Frank's shoulders was laid the burden of extricating them from numerous mishaps. But Frank rather liked being made the scapegoat.",
  "speaker_7800_004.wav": "He held up something he had in his hand, so that everyone could see. It was a stone, there could be no doubt about that, with some of the snow still adhering to its sides. Bluff rubbed the side of his head at saying this.",
  "speaker_7800_005.wav": "as though wondering whether the missile that had struck him there had also been loaded in that way. \"'We're sorry, Mr. Chase, that your window was broken,' said Frank steadily. \"'It was an accident. I give you my word about that.'",
  "speaker_7800_006.wav": "I happened to dodge a ball fired from the other side and it went through the glass. What?!",
  "speaker_7800_007.wav": "exclaimed the other, as though more than surprised, I shall have to see your father and make a complaint if the chief of police declines to back me up and arrest a few of you. As to that, Mr. Chase, I will tell my father all about it as soon as he comes home from the bank.",
  "speaker_7800_008.wav": "My father was a boy himself once, not like some people who forget that they once used to play themselves.\" \"'Don't be impudent to me, boy,' snapped the old miser angrily. \"'I don't mean to be so, Mr. Chase,' Frank continued.",
  "speaker_7800_009.wav": "I'm sure that is all you could expect from us.\" \"'That's a measly shame, Frank,' objected Bluff impetuously. \"'When it was Andy Lasher who broke the window,' added Jerry, filled with righteous indignation, \"'You only ducked, Frank, when you saw it headed your way.'",
  "speaker_7800_010.wav": "It isn't fair for you to pay the bill. Let him go after Andy.\" No, I prefer settling the account myself and not having any trouble about it, Frank told his objecting chums. Besides, we've had enough fun out of the business to stand a little expense like that.",
  "speaker_7800_011.wav": "The innocent often have to suffer for the guilty. Some of the bystanders at this point tried to convince Mr. Chase that Frank was entirely innocent of the whole transaction, but the miser, acting on the principle that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,",
  "speaker_7800_012.wav": "he insisted stubbornly, and these boys admit they were connected with the rowdy crew that made themselves a disgrace to the town in front of my door. I shall expect him to fulfill his offer, which you heard him make, Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Mole.",
  "speaker_7800_013.wav": "The sooner that window-pane is replaced, the better I shall be pleased. That's enough.\" With that he turned his back upon the group, and hurried to re-enter his house, as though fearful lest some of the spectators might endeavour to shame him out of accepting pay from an innocent party.",
  "speaker_7800_014.wav": "Frank, and his three comrades, stood talking with some of those who had gathered when the crash of broken glass, followed by anger words, in the high-pitched voice of the miser, drew attention to the scene of action. Come, let's be moving along, fellows, Bluff finally remarked.",
  "speaker_7800_015.wav": "It galled him to think that they had been made the scapegoats by Andy Lasher and his set, though he knew only too well that once Frank's mind was made up to pay for the broken window, nothing could change him. True to his promise, Frank first of all visited the hardware store,",
  "speaker_7850_001.wav": "Ferdinand meditates over his good fortune.",
  "speaker_7850_002.wav": "In moments of deep feeling, alike sudden bursts of prosperity, as in darker hours, man must be alone.",
  "speaker_7850_003.wav": "It requires some self-communion to prepare ourselves for good fortune, as well as to encounter difficulty, and danger, and disgrace.",
  "speaker_7850_004.wav": "This violent and triumphant revolution in his prospects and his fortunes was hardly yet completely comprehended by our friend Ferdinand Armein, and when he had left a note for the generous Mirabelle, whose slumbers he would not disturb at this early hour, even with good news, he strolled along up Charles Street and to the park in one of those wild and joyous reveries in which we brood overcoming bliss and create a thousand glorious consequences.",
  "speaker_7850_005.wav": "Ferdinand felt his freedom as well as his happiness.",
  "speaker_7976_001.wav": "Long ago there lived a merchant who had three daughters.",
  "speaker_7976_002.wav": "Every year, at a certain day of a certain month, he went away to a distant city to collect money on an account.",
  "speaker_7976_003.wav": "How do you know? asked their father. I am older and wiser than you are, and I know that there are many evils which might come upon you.",
  "speaker_7976_004.wav": "When it was evening he led his band into a nearby street, and in his disguise approached the merchant's house. He knocked at the door.",
  "speaker_7976_005.wav": "Have pity upon a poor unfortunate one,' he called out.",
  "speaker_8224_001.wav": "He passed through Henley, St Albans, and came so near to London as Harrow on the Hill.",
  "speaker_8224_002.wav": "The Scottish generals and commissioners affected great surprise on the appearance of the King, and though they paid him all the exterior respect due to his dignity, they instantly set a guard upon him under colour of protection, and made him in reality a prisoner.",
  "speaker_8224_003.wav": "They informed the English Parliament of this unexpected incident and assured them that they had entered into no private treaty with the King.",
  "speaker_8224_004.wav": "Or have he given us any gift?",
  "speaker_8224_005.wav": "And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye. Why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?",
  "speaker_8230_001.wav": "The analysis of knowledge will occupy us until the end of the 13th lecture, and is the most difficult part of our whole enterprise.",
  "speaker_8230_002.wav": "What is called perception differs from sensation by the fact that the sensational ingredients bring up habitual associates, images and expectations of their usual correlates, all of which are subjectively indistinguishable from the sensation.",
  "speaker_8230_003.wav": "Whether or not this principle is liable to exceptions, everyone would agree that it has a broad measure of truth, though the word exactly might seem an overstatement, and it might seem more correct to say that ideas approximately represent impressions.",
  "speaker_8230_004.wav": "And what sort of evidence is logically possible?",
  "speaker_8230_005.wav": "There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was with a population that remembered a wholly unreal past.",
  "speaker_8238_001.wav": "Introduction. The humorous ghost is distinctly a modern character. In early literature, wraiths took themselves very seriously.",
  "speaker_8238_002.wav": "and insisted on a proper show of respectful fear on the part of those whom they honored by haunting. A mortal was expected to rise when a ghost entered the room, and in case he was slow about it,",
  "speaker_8238_003.wav": "His spine gave notice of what etiquette demanded. In the event of outdoor apparition, if a man failed to bear his head in awe, the roots of his hair reminded him of his remissness.",
  "speaker_8238_004.wav": "In that her locks, being long and pinned up, are less easily moved, which may explain the fact, if it be a fact, that in fiction women have shown themselves more self-possessed.",
  "speaker_8238_005.wav": "while the feminine can be seen through by another woman and thus disarmed. The majority of the comic apparitions, curiously enough, are masculine. You don't often find women wreathed in smiles.",
  "speaker_8238_006.wav": "and have chivalrously spared the gentler shades. And there are very few funny child ghosts. You might almost say none in comparison with the number of grown-ups.",
  "speaker_8238_007.wav": "The number of ghost children of any or all types is small proportionately, perhaps because it seems an unnatural thing for a child to die under any circumstances.",
  "speaker_8238_008.wav": "There are a few instances, as in the case of the ghost baby mentioned later, but very few. Ancient ghosts were a long-faced lot.",
  "speaker_8238_009.wav": "since any living person, however senile, would be thought juvenile compared with a timeless spook. But in these days of individualism and radical liberalism, spooks as well as mortals are expanding their personalities.",
  "speaker_8238_010.wav": "and indulging in greater freedom. A ghost can call his shade his own now, and exhibit any mood he pleases. Even young female wraiths, demanding latch-keys, refuse to obey the frowning face of the clock.",
  "speaker_8238_011.wav": "To make the ghosts of Mrs. Grundy turn a shade paler in horror. Now-a-days haunters have more fun and freedom than the haunted. In fact, it's money in one's pocket these days to be dead, For ghosts have no rent problems.",
  "speaker_8238_012.wav": "Manifestly, death has compensations not connected with the consolations of religion. The marvel is that apparitions were so long in realizing their possibilities, in improving their advantages.",
  "speaker_8238_013.wav": "The specters in classic and medieval literature were malarial, vaporous beings without energy to do anything but threaten.",
  "speaker_8238_014.wav": "At best a revenant could only rattle a rusty skeleton, Or shake a mouldy shroud, or clank a chain, But as mortals cowered before his demonstrations, He didn't worry.",
  "speaker_8238_015.wav": "The up-to-date ghost keeps his skeleton in a garage, or some place where it is cleaned and oiled and kept in good working order. The modern wraith has sold his sheet to the old clothes-man, and dresses as in life.",
  "speaker_8297_001.wav": "What are you doing here? he asked.",
  "speaker_8297_002.wav": "You have been to the hotel, he burst out. You have seen Catherine.",
  "speaker_8297_003.wav": "We have both seen the same newspaper, of course, and you have been the first to clear the thing up. That's it, isn't it?",
  "speaker_8297_004.wav": "Not satisfied with gossip in private, the greedy public appetite devours gossip in print and wants more of it than any one editor can supply.",
  "speaker_8297_005.wav": "supposing the report had been true.",
  "speaker_8455_001.wav": "I remained there alone for many hours, but I must acknowledge that before I left the chambers I had gradually brought myself to look at the matter in another light.",
  "speaker_8455_002.wav": "Had Ever Cressweller not been good-looking? Had Jack been still at college? Had Sir Kennington Oval remained in England? Had Mr. Bunnett and the barkeeper not succeeded in stopping my carriage on the hill? Should I have succeeded in arranging for the final departure of my old friend?",
  "speaker_8455_003.wav": "On arriving at home at my own residence, I found that our salon was filled with a brilliant company.",
  "speaker_8455_004.wav": "As I spoke, I made him a gracious bow, and I think I showed him by my mode of address that I did not bear any grudge as to my individual self.",
  "speaker_8455_005.wav": "I have come to your shores, Mr. President, with the purpose of seeing how things are progressing in this distant quarter of the world.",
  "speaker_8463_001.wav": "This was what did the mischief so far as the running away was concerned.",
  "speaker_8463_002.wav": "It is hardly necessary to say more of them here.",
  "speaker_8463_003.wav": "From the manner in which he expressed himself, with regard to Robert Holland, no man in the whole range of his recollections will be longer remembered than he. His enthrallment while under Holland will hardly ever be forgotten.",
  "speaker_8463_004.wav": "Of this party, Edward, a boy of seventeen, called forth much sympathy. He too was claimed by Holland.",
  "speaker_8463_005.wav": "John Wesley Combash, Jacob Taylor, and Thomas Edward Skinner.",
  "speaker_84_001.wav": "Go! Do you hear?",
  "speaker_84_002.wav": "But in less than five minutes the staircase groaned beneath an extraordinary weight.",
  "speaker_84_003.wav": "At this moment the whole soul of the old man seemed centered in his eyes which became bloodshot. The veins of the throat swelled, his cheeks and temples became purple as though he was struck with epilepsy. Nothing was wanting to complete this but the utterance of a cry.",
  "speaker_84_004.wav": "and the cry issued from his pores, if we may thus speak, a cry frightful in its silence.",
  "speaker_84_005.wav": "Devanee rushed towards the old man and made him inhale a powerful restorative.",
  "speaker_8555_001.wav": "Brighter than early dawn's most brilliant dye are blown clear bands of color through the sky that swirl and sweep and meet to break and foam like rainbow veils upon a bubble's dome.",
  "speaker_8555_002.wav": "Guided by you, how we might stroll towards death, Our only music one another's breath, Through gardens intimate with hollyhocks, Where silent poppies burn between the rocks, By pools where birches bend to confidants Above green waters scummed with lily plants.",
  "speaker_8555_003.wav": "In a sunset glowing of crimson and gold, she lies, the glory of the world, a beached king's galley, whose sails are furled, who is hung with tapestries rich and old.",
  "speaker_8555_004.wav": "The pity that we must come and go.",
  "speaker_8555_005.wav": "While the old gold and the marble stays, Forever gleaming its soft, strong blaze, Calm in the early evening glow.",
  "speaker_8842_001.wav": "He lives, thy loss. He dies, from every limb mangled by thee. Lightnings of Godhead shine, from which thy darkness hath not where to hide.",
  "speaker_8842_002.wav": "Quince impara a stupirti.",
  "speaker_8842_003.wav": "This world's thick vapors whelm your eyes unworthy of that glorious show, Blind his splendour, bent upon his shame.",
  "speaker_8842_004.wav": "Money is false, and light, unless it be, Bought by a man's own worthy qualities, And blood is such that its corrupt disease And ignorant pretense are foul to see.",
  "speaker_8842_005.wav": "Y poplo yw'n bestia.",
  "speaker_908_001.wav": "To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day, Down by the river of Adana her soft voice is heard, And thus her gentle lamentation falls like morning dew.",
  "speaker_908_002.wav": "Oh life of this our spring!",
  "speaker_908_003.wav": "Why fades the lotus of the water?",
  "speaker_908_004.wav": "Why fade these children of the spring?",
  "speaker_908_005.wav": "Thel is like a watery bow and like a parting cloud, like a reflection in a glass, like shadows in the water, like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infant's face."
}