{
  "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.",
  "sample_01041.wav": "Chapter 16",
  "sample_01042.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.",
  "sample_01043.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.",
  "sample_01044.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.",
  "sample_01045.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.",
  "sample_01046.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.",
  "sample_01047.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.",
  "sample_01048.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.",
  "sample_01049.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.",
  "sample_01050.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...",
  "sample_01051.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.",
  "sample_01052.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.",
  "sample_01053.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,",
  "sample_01054.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.",
  "sample_01055.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.",
  "sample_01056.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.",
  "sample_01057.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.\"",
  "sample_01058.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.",
  "sample_01059.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.",
  "sample_01060.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.'",
  "sample_01061.wav": "I happened to dodge a ball fired from the other side and it went through the glass. What?!",
  "sample_01062.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.",
  "sample_01063.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.",
  "sample_01064.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.'",
  "sample_01065.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.",
  "sample_01066.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,",
  "sample_01067.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.",
  "sample_01068.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.",
  "sample_01069.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.",
  "sample_01070.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,",
  "sample_01071.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.",
  "sample_01072.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,",
  "sample_01073.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.",
  "sample_01074.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.",
  "sample_01075.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.",
  "sample_01076.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,",
  "sample_01077.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.",
  "sample_01078.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.",
  "sample_01079.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.",
  "sample_01080.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.",
  "sample_01081.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...",
  "sample_01082.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.",
  "sample_01083.wav": "The place, however, muffled in convenience and decorum, constantly hummed for him with that thick irony.",
  "sample_01084.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.",
  "sample_01085.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.",
  "sample_01086.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.",
  "sample_01087.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...",
  "sample_01088.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.",
  "sample_01089.wav": "of a fall of tadpoles from the sky, as to there in the first place.",
  "sample_01090.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,",
  "sample_01091.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.",
  "sample_01092.wav": "Many instances of frogs that were seen to fall from the sky",
  "sample_01093.wav": "As to having been there in the first place...",
  "sample_01094.wav": "July 30th, 1838.",
  "sample_01095.wav": "Little toads found in a desert after a rainfall. Notes and queries.",
  "sample_01096.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.",
  "sample_01097.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,",
  "sample_01098.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.",
  "sample_01099.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.",
  "sample_01100.wav": "But a whirlwind is thought of as a condition of chaos, quasi-chaos.",
  "sample_01101.wav": "Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments. Each of its joys ripens into a new want. Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking.",
  "sample_01102.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.",
  "sample_01103.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.",
  "sample_01104.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.",
  "sample_01105.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.",
  "sample_01106.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.",
  "sample_01107.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.",
  "sample_01108.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.",
  "sample_01109.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.",
  "sample_01110.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.",
  "sample_01111.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.",
  "sample_01112.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.",
  "sample_01113.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?",
  "sample_01114.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.",
  "sample_01115.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.",
  "sample_01116.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",
  "sample_01117.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.",
  "sample_01118.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.",
  "sample_01119.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.",
  "sample_01120.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.",
  "sample_01121.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.",
  "sample_01122.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.",
  "sample_01123.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.",
  "sample_01124.wav": "full of Gasconade and bravado, but a regular, rich Don Rataplan, Santa Claus de la Muscovado, Senor Grandissimo Bastionado.",
  "sample_01125.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.",
  "sample_01126.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.",
  "sample_01127.wav": "and come and go at her pleasure. Jet and lava, silver and gold, garnets, emeralds rare to behold, diamonds, sapphires, wealth untold.",
  "sample_01128.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.",
  "sample_01129.wav": "But slowly our princess yielded, a diamond necklace caught her eye.",
  "sample_01130.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.",
  "sample_01131.wav": "After a long and tedious discourse of these six non-natural things and their several rectifications,",
  "sample_01132.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.",
  "sample_01133.wav": "because those countries which use it least live longest.",
  "sample_01134.wav": "relates of the Aels or Cades. The people are still sound of body and mind, without any use of physics.",
  "sample_01135.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.",
  "sample_01136.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,",
  "sample_01137.wav": "Most part they drink water and whey.",
  "sample_01138.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.",
  "sample_01139.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.",
  "sample_01140.wav": "Many that did ill under physicians' hands have happily escaped.",
  "sample_01141.wav": "left to God and nature and themselves.",
  "sample_01142.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.",
  "sample_01143.wav": "The devil himself was the first inventor of it.",
  "sample_01144.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.",
  "sample_01145.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.",
  "sample_01146.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.",
  "sample_01147.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",
  "sample_01148.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,",
  "sample_01149.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.",
  "sample_01150.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.",
  "sample_01151.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",
  "sample_01152.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,",
  "sample_01153.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...",
  "sample_01154.wav": "Lyman Cass gave Champ a warm birth as night watchman.",
  "sample_01155.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.",
  "sample_01156.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.",
  "sample_01157.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.",
  "sample_01158.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.",
  "sample_01159.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.",
  "sample_01160.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.",
  "sample_01161.wav": "Introduction. The humorous ghost is distinctly a modern character. In early literature, wraiths took themselves very seriously.",
  "sample_01162.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,",
  "sample_01163.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.",
  "sample_01164.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.",
  "sample_01165.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.",
  "sample_01166.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.",
  "sample_01167.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.",
  "sample_01168.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.",
  "sample_01169.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.",
  "sample_01170.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.",
  "sample_01171.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.",
  "sample_01172.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.",
  "sample_01173.wav": "The specters in classic and medieval literature were malarial, vaporous beings without energy to do anything but threaten.",
  "sample_01174.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.",
  "sample_01175.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.",
  "sample_01176.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.",
  "sample_01177.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.",
  "sample_01178.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,",
  "sample_01179.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.",
  "sample_01180.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.",
  "sample_01181.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.",
  "sample_01182.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.",
  "sample_01183.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.",
  "sample_01184.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.",
  "sample_01185.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.",
  "sample_01186.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.",
  "sample_01187.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.",
  "sample_01188.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.",
  "sample_01189.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.",
  "sample_01190.wav": "Transportation. The methods of traveling are so contrary to our conceptions and practices that I almost forbear to attempt any description.",
  "sample_01191.wav": "Their culture myth, which he has recorded,",
  "sample_01192.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.",
  "sample_01193.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.",
  "sample_01194.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.",
  "sample_01195.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,",
  "sample_01196.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.",
  "sample_01197.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",
  "sample_01198.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,",
  "sample_01199.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",
  "sample_01200.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.",
  "sample_01201.wav": "Language itself is proof of it. Many Algonquin words for East, Morning, Dawn, Day, Light.",
  "sample_01202.wav": "are derived from a radical signifying white.",
  "sample_01203.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",
  "sample_01204.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,",
  "sample_01205.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.",
  "sample_01206.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.",
  "sample_01207.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.",
  "sample_01208.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.",
  "sample_01209.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.",
  "sample_01210.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.",
  "sample_01211.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,",
  "sample_01212.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",
  "sample_01213.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.",
  "sample_01214.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.",
  "sample_01215.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.",
  "sample_01216.wav": "just as that teacher had observed her. As most of the girls present had heard Anne recite,",
  "sample_01217.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.",
  "sample_01218.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.",
  "sample_01219.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.",
  "sample_01220.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.",
  "sample_01221.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.",
  "sample_01222.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.",
  "sample_01223.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.",
  "sample_01224.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,",
  "sample_01225.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.",
  "sample_01226.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.",
  "sample_01227.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.",
  "sample_01228.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,",
  "sample_01229.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.",
  "sample_01230.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.",
  "sample_01231.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.",
  "sample_01232.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,",
  "sample_01233.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.",
  "sample_01234.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.",
  "sample_01235.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,",
  "sample_01236.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",
  "sample_01237.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.",
  "sample_01238.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.",
  "sample_01239.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.",
  "sample_01240.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!",
  "sample_01241.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.",
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  "sample_01243.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.",
  "sample_01244.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.\"",
  "sample_01245.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.",
  "sample_01246.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.",
  "sample_01247.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.",
  "sample_01248.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.",
  "sample_01249.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.",
  "sample_01250.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.",
  "sample_01251.wav": "Diana is invited to tea with tragic results. October was a beautiful month at Green Gables.",
  "sample_01252.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.",
  "sample_01253.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.",
  "sample_01254.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.",
  "sample_01255.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.",
  "sample_01256.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.",
  "sample_01257.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.",
  "sample_01258.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.",
  "sample_01259.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.",
  "sample_01260.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!",
  "sample_01261.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.",
  "sample_01262.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.",
  "sample_01263.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.",
  "sample_01264.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.",
  "sample_01265.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.",
  "sample_01266.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.",
  "sample_01267.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",
  "sample_01268.wav": "that he would never willingly go into Mary's presence again. Why should he disturb his mind about such a girl?",
  "sample_01269.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.",
  "sample_01270.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.",
  "sample_01271.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.",
  "sample_01272.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.",
  "sample_01273.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.",
  "sample_01274.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.",
  "sample_01275.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?",
  "sample_01276.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?",
  "sample_01277.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.",
  "sample_01278.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,",
  "sample_01279.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.",
  "sample_01280.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.",
  "sample_01281.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.",
  "sample_01282.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.",
  "sample_01283.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.",
  "sample_01284.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.",
  "sample_01285.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.",
  "sample_01286.wav": "Percy, my husband, for God's sake fly! Armin, Armin, why don't you fire?",
  "sample_01287.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.",
  "sample_01288.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.",
  "sample_01289.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.",
  "sample_01290.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.",
  "sample_01291.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,",
  "sample_01292.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",
  "sample_01293.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.",
  "sample_01294.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.",
  "sample_01295.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?",
  "sample_01296.wav": "CHAPTER VII. LOUISE SENTS A MYSTERY. Louise Merrick was the eldest of Uncle John's nieces, having just passed her eighteenth birthday.",
  "sample_01297.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...",
  "sample_01298.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.",
  "sample_01299.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.",
  "sample_01300.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.",
  "sample_01301.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.",
  "sample_01302.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.",
  "sample_01303.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.",
  "sample_01304.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.",
  "sample_01305.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...",
  "sample_01306.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.",
  "sample_01307.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.",
  "sample_01308.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.",
  "sample_01309.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.",
  "sample_01310.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?",
  "sample_01311.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.",
  "sample_01312.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.",
  "sample_01313.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.",
  "sample_01314.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.",
  "sample_01315.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.",
  "sample_01316.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!",
  "sample_01317.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.",
  "sample_01318.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!",
  "sample_01319.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.",
  "sample_01320.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.",
  "sample_01321.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?",
  "sample_01322.wav": "You'll be captain next, I shouldn't wonder. Just oblige me with that torch again, will you? This pipe don't draw.",
  "sample_01323.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.",
  "sample_01324.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,",
  "sample_01325.wav": "You let the enemy out of this here trap for nothing. Why did they want out?",
  "sample_01326.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.",
  "sample_01327.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",
  "sample_01328.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",
  "sample_01329.wav": "were brought to act on a few strings, commanding often three octaves.",
  "sample_01330.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",
  "sample_01331.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.",
  "sample_01332.wav": "or keyboard instruments that came into use. Dance music found in them a congenial field.",
  "sample_01333.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.",
  "sample_01334.wav": "Also, it would bring you but little pleasure or renown if you should play badly.",
  "sample_01335.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.",
  "sample_01336.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.",
  "sample_01337.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.",
  "sample_01338.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",
  "sample_01339.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.",
  "sample_01340.wav": "The clavier gave promise of its destined career in the Elizabethan age. Shakespeare immortalized it and William Byrd",
  "sample_01341.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",
  "sample_01342.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.",
  "sample_01343.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.",
  "sample_01344.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.",
  "sample_01345.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.",
  "sample_01346.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.",
  "sample_01347.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.",
  "sample_01348.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.",
  "sample_01349.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.",
  "sample_01350.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.",
  "sample_01351.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.",
  "sample_01352.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.",
  "sample_01353.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.",
  "sample_01354.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.",
  "sample_01355.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.",
  "sample_01356.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.",
  "sample_01357.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",
  "sample_01358.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.",
  "sample_01359.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.",
  "sample_01360.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.",
  "sample_01361.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.",
  "sample_01362.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.",
  "sample_01363.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.",
  "sample_01364.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.'\"",
  "sample_01365.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.",
  "sample_01366.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?",
  "sample_01367.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",
  "sample_01368.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.",
  "sample_01369.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,",
  "sample_01370.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.\"",
  "sample_01371.wav": "The Peace of Righteousness.",
  "sample_01372.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",
  "sample_01373.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,",
  "sample_01374.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.",
  "sample_01375.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.",
  "sample_01376.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.",
  "sample_01377.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.",
  "sample_01378.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",
  "sample_01379.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",
  "sample_01380.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",
  "sample_01381.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.",
  "sample_01382.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",
  "sample_01383.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",
  "sample_01384.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.",
  "sample_01385.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.",
  "sample_01386.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.",
  "sample_01387.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.",
  "sample_01388.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.",
  "sample_01389.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...",
  "sample_01390.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.",
  "sample_01391.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.",
  "sample_01392.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?",
  "sample_01393.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.",
  "sample_01394.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.",
  "sample_01395.wav": "Somebody would get that worked out pretty soon, wouldn't they?",
  "sample_01396.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.",
  "sample_01397.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.",
  "sample_01398.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.",
  "sample_01399.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.",
  "sample_01400.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.",
  "sample_01401.wav": "Peter sees rose breast and finds red coat.",
  "sample_01402.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.",
  "sample_01403.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.",
  "sample_01404.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?",
  "sample_01405.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.",
  "sample_01406.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.",
  "sample_01407.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.",
  "sample_01408.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.",
  "sample_01409.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.",
  "sample_01410.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.",
  "sample_01411.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.",
  "sample_01412.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",
  "sample_01413.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.",
  "sample_01414.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!",
  "sample_01415.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.",
  "sample_01416.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.",
  "sample_01417.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.",
  "sample_01418.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.",
  "sample_01419.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.",
  "sample_01420.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.",
  "sample_01421.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.",
  "sample_01422.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.",
  "sample_01423.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.",
  "sample_01424.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.",
  "sample_01425.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.",
  "sample_01426.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.",
  "sample_01427.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.",
  "sample_01428.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.",
  "sample_01429.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.",
  "sample_01430.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.",
  "sample_01431.wav": "Pothier seems to think that property, like royalty, exists by divine right. He traces back its origin to God Himself.",
  "sample_01432.wav": "He begins in this way.",
  "sample_01433.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.",
  "sample_01434.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.",
  "sample_01435.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.",
  "sample_01436.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.",
  "sample_01437.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,",
  "sample_01438.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.",
  "sample_01439.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.",
  "sample_01440.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.",
  "sample_01441.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,",
  "sample_01442.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.",
  "sample_01443.wav": "Whoever violated it was unjust. Thus, labor gives birth to private possession. The right in a thing.",
  "sample_01444.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",
  "sample_01445.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.",
  "sample_01446.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.",
  "sample_01447.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,",
  "sample_01448.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.",
  "sample_01449.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,",
  "sample_01450.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.",
  "sample_01451.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.",
  "sample_01452.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.",
  "sample_01453.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.",
  "sample_01454.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.",
  "sample_01455.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.",
  "sample_01456.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.",
  "sample_01457.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?",
  "sample_01458.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?",
  "sample_01459.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?",
  "sample_01460.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.",
  "sample_01461.wav": "ministrant ars et natura instillante. They use cordials to keep the venom and malinity of the disease from the heart. 11. Meditation",
  "sample_01462.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?",
  "sample_01463.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.",
  "sample_01464.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.",
  "sample_01465.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?",
  "sample_01466.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.",
  "sample_01467.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.",
  "sample_01468.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",
  "sample_01469.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.",
  "sample_01470.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.",
  "sample_01471.wav": "Nomeum et Tuum, but a universal community overall.",
  "sample_01472.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.",
  "sample_01473.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,",
  "sample_01474.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.",
  "sample_01475.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.",
  "sample_01476.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.",
  "sample_01477.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.",
  "sample_01478.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.",
  "sample_01479.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.",
  "sample_01480.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.",
  "sample_01481.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.",
  "sample_01482.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,",
  "sample_01483.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.",
  "sample_01484.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.",
  "sample_01485.wav": "But the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rubazzle soon left him and went to be shepherd to his next neighbor.",
  "sample_01486.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.",
  "sample_01487.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.",
  "sample_01488.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.",
  "sample_01489.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.",
  "sample_01490.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.",
  "sample_01491.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.",
  "sample_01492.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.",
  "sample_01493.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.",
  "sample_01494.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 the living room was",
  "sample_01495.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.",
  "sample_01496.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.",
  "sample_01497.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.",
  "sample_01498.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.",
  "sample_01499.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,",
  "sample_01500.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.",
  "sample_01501.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,",
  "sample_01502.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",
  "sample_01503.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,",
  "sample_01504.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",
  "sample_01505.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.",
  "sample_01506.wav": "public prosecutor and determined jury sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening.",
  "sample_01507.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.",
  "sample_01508.wav": "Charles Evermond, called Darnay, had reason to know the usage. He had seen hundreds pass away so.",
  "sample_01509.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.",
  "sample_01510.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.",
  "sample_01511.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.",
  "sample_01512.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,",
  "sample_01513.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.",
  "sample_01514.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.",
  "sample_01515.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.",
  "sample_01516.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",
  "sample_01517.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.",
  "sample_01518.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.",
  "sample_01519.wav": "who wore their usual clothes and had not assumed the coarse garb.",
  "sample_01520.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.",
  "sample_01521.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",
  "sample_01522.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,",
  "sample_01523.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.",
  "sample_01524.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.",
  "sample_01525.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.",
  "sample_01526.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.",
  "sample_01527.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.",
  "sample_01528.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.",
  "sample_01529.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.",
  "sample_01530.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.",
  "sample_01531.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.",
  "sample_01532.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.",
  "sample_01533.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.",
  "sample_01534.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.",
  "sample_01535.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.",
  "sample_01536.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.",
  "sample_01537.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.",
  "sample_01538.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.",
  "sample_01539.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.",
  "sample_01540.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.",
  "sample_01541.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.",
  "sample_01542.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.",
  "sample_01543.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.",
  "sample_01544.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.",
  "sample_01545.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.",
  "sample_01546.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.",
  "sample_01547.wav": "An Eye for an Eye, 1879. Cousin Henry, 1879. Thackeray, 1879. The Duke's Children, 1880. Life of Cicero.",
  "sample_01548.wav": "1880. Ayala's Angel. 1881. Dr. Wardle's School. 1881. Frau Frohman and Other Stories. 1882.",
  "sample_01549.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.",
  "sample_01550.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.",
  "sample_01551.wav": "May 10, 1851. Madame.",
  "sample_01552.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.",
  "sample_01553.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.",
  "sample_01554.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.",
  "sample_01555.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.",
  "sample_01556.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,",
  "sample_01557.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.",
  "sample_01558.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,",
  "sample_01559.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.",
  "sample_01560.wav": "Her residence on the Piazzi Babadini being considered an insecure abode",
  "sample_01561.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.",
  "sample_01562.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",
  "sample_01563.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.",
  "sample_01564.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.",
  "sample_01565.wav": "And I have heard many of those who recovered speak with all the passionate fervor of the Italian nature",
  "sample_01566.wav": "Chapter 33, Roman Bandits.",
  "sample_01567.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.'",
  "sample_01568.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.\"",
  "sample_01569.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.",
  "sample_01570.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.",
  "sample_01571.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.\"",
  "sample_01572.wav": "Bravo! An excellent idea. We will disguise ourselves as monster Pulcinellas.",
  "sample_01573.wav": "and we shall have complete success.\" Do your excellencies still wish for a carriage from now to Sunday morning?",
  "sample_01574.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.",
  "sample_01575.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.",
  "sample_01576.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'",
  "sample_01577.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.",
  "sample_01578.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.",
  "sample_01579.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.",
  "sample_01580.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.",
  "sample_01581.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.",
  "sample_01582.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.",
  "sample_01583.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.",
  "sample_01584.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.",
  "sample_01585.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.",
  "sample_01586.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,",
  "sample_01587.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.",
  "sample_01588.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",
  "sample_01589.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.",
  "sample_01590.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.",
  "sample_01591.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.",
  "sample_01592.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.",
  "sample_01593.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.",
  "sample_01594.wav": "and she, a third-rate actress who had an ingenue part at a Strand theater,",
  "sample_01595.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",
  "sample_01596.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,",
  "sample_01597.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.",
  "sample_01598.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.",
  "sample_01599.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.",
  "sample_01600.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.",
  "sample_01601.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.",
  "sample_01602.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.",
  "sample_01603.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.",
  "sample_01604.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.\"",
  "sample_01605.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.",
  "sample_01606.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.",
  "sample_01607.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.",
  "sample_01608.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.",
  "sample_01609.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?'",
  "sample_01610.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.",
  "sample_01611.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.",
  "sample_01612.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.",
  "sample_01613.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.",
  "sample_01614.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.",
  "sample_01615.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.",
  "sample_01616.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.",
  "sample_01617.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,",
  "sample_01618.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.",
  "sample_01619.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.",
  "sample_01620.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.",
  "sample_01621.wav": "The scout hastened to cover the dead man's face with his coat. Alennan was struck.",
  "sample_01622.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.",
  "sample_01623.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.",
  "sample_01624.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.",
  "sample_01625.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.",
  "sample_01626.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.",
  "sample_01627.wav": "What decision have you been pleased to come to? said he. Rostov stopped.",
  "sample_01628.wav": "Decision? What decision?",
  "sample_01629.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.",
  "sample_01630.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.",
  "sample_01631.wav": "Without considering what he would do, he moved unconsciously with quick, resolute steps towards the crowd.",
  "sample_01632.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.",
  "sample_01633.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?",
  "sample_01634.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.",
  "sample_01635.wav": "You begrudged your lump of a son. A little old man suddenly began attacking Throne.",
  "sample_01636.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.",
  "sample_01637.wav": "Shouted the roast off, coming up to the crowd with quick steps. The Elder!",
  "sample_01638.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!",
  "sample_01639.wav": "Meek and flustered voices here and there were heard calling.",
  "sample_01640.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.",
  "sample_01641.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",
  "sample_01642.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.",
  "sample_01643.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.",
  "sample_01644.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.",
  "sample_01645.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,",
  "sample_01646.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.",
  "sample_01647.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,",
  "sample_01648.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.",
  "sample_01649.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.",
  "sample_01650.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.",
  "sample_01651.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.",
  "sample_01652.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.",
  "sample_01653.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.",
  "sample_01654.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.",
  "sample_01655.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.",
  "sample_01656.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.",
  "sample_01657.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.",
  "sample_01658.wav": "But I had not expected such contempt. Simanov was positively surprised at my turning up.",
  "sample_01659.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.",
  "sample_01660.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.",
  "sample_01661.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.",
  "sample_01662.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.",
  "sample_01663.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.",
  "sample_01664.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.",
  "sample_01665.wav": "I hated the abrupt self-confident tone of his voice, his admiration of his own witticisms.",
  "sample_01666.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.",
  "sample_01667.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.",
  "sample_01668.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.",
  "sample_01669.wav": "He all at once declared that he would not leave a single village girl on his estate unnoticed.",
  "sample_01670.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.",
  "sample_01671.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.",
  "sample_01672.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.",
  "sample_01673.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.",
  "sample_01674.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,",
  "sample_01675.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.",
  "sample_01676.wav": "For a while he walked the land as though he were in a dream. He looked at this and that and everything.",
  "sample_01677.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.",
  "sample_01678.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.",
  "sample_01679.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.",
  "sample_01680.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.",
  "sample_01681.wav": "It was a great hall, and it was full of richly dressed men. The fires shone on so many golden headbands and bracelets, and so many glittering swords and spears on the wall. And there was so much noise of talking and laughing.",
  "sample_01682.wav": "that at first Leaf did not know what to do. But at last he went and sat on the very end seat of the bench near him. As the feast went on, King Olaf sat in his high seat and looked about the hall and noticed this one and that one and spoke across the fire to many.",
  "sample_01683.wav": "He was keen-eyed and soon saw Leaf in his far seat. \"'Yonder is some man of Mark,' he said to himself. \"'He is surely worth knowing. His face is not the face of a fool.'",
  "sample_01684.wav": "He carries his head like a lord of men.\" He sent a thrall and asked Leif to come to him. So Leif walked down the long hall and stood before the king. I am glad to have you for a guest, the king said.",
  "sample_01685.wav": "What are your name and country?\" I am Leif Erikson, and I have come all the way from Greenland to see you and Old Norway.\" From Greenland, said the King. It is not often that I see a Greenlander.",
  "sample_01686.wav": "Many come to Norway to trade, but they seldom come to the king's hall. I shall be glad to hear about your land. Come up, and speak with me.\" So Leif went up the steps of the high seat and sat down by the king and talked with him.",
  "sample_01687.wav": "When the feast was over, the king said, \"'You shall live at my court this winter, Leif Erikson. You are a welcome guest.' So Leif stayed there that winter. When he started back in the spring\u2014'",
  "sample_01688.wav": "The king gave him two thralls as a parting gift. Let this gift show my love, Leif Erikson, he said. For your sake I shall not forget Greenland. Leif sailed back again and had good luck until he was past Iceland.",
  "sample_01689.wav": "Then great winds came out of the north and tossed his ship about so that the men could do nothing. They were blown south for days and days. They did not know where they were. Then they saw land and Leaf said,",
  "sample_01690.wav": "Surely, luck has brought us also to a new country.",
  "sample_01691.wav": "Part 2 Some Christian Subjects",
  "sample_01692.wav": "Outward forms and symbols must be used to convey intellectual conceptions.",
  "sample_01693.wav": "and of others of which we are about to speak, so that the essence of the problems may be understood is this, that human knowledge is of two kinds. One is the knowledge of things perceptible to the senses.",
  "sample_01694.wav": "That is to say, things which the eye or ear or smell or taste or touch can perceive, which are called objective or sensible. So the sun, because it can be seen, is said to be objective.",
  "sample_01695.wav": "It is a reality of the intellect, it has no outward form and no place, and it is not perceptible to the senses. For example, the power of intellect is not sensible, none of the inner qualities of man is a sensible thing.",
  "sample_01696.wav": "On the contrary, they are intellectual realities. So love is a mental reality and not sensible. For this reality the ear does not hear, the eye does not see, the smell does not perceive.",
  "sample_01697.wav": "The taste does not discern, the touch does not feel. Even a therial matter, the forces of which are said in physics to be heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.",
  "sample_01698.wav": "is an intellectual reality and is not sensible. In the same way nature, also, in its essence is an intellectual reality and is not sensible. The human spirit is an intellectual, not sensible reality.",
  "sample_01699.wav": "In explaining these intellectual realities one is obliged to express them by sensible figures, because in exterior existence there is nothing that is not material. Therefore to explain the reality of the spirit",
  "sample_01700.wav": "its condition, its station, one is obliged to give explanations under the forms of sensible things, because in the external world all that exists is sensible. For example, grief and happiness are intellectual things.",
  "sample_01701.wav": "This is an intellectual or spiritual state, to explain which you are obliged to have recourse to sensible figures. Another example. You say, such an individual made great progress",
  "sample_01702.wav": "though he is remaining in the same place, or again, such in one's position was exalted, although, like everyone else, he walks upon the earth. This exultation and this progress are spiritual states and intellectual realities.",
  "sample_01703.wav": "But to explain them you are obliged to have recourse to sensible figures, because in the exterior world there is nothing that is not sensible. So the symbol of knowledge is light, and of ignorance darkness, but reflect.",
  "sample_01704.wav": "Is knowledge sensible light, or ignorance sensible darkness? No, they are merely symbols. These are only intellectual states.",
  "sample_01705.wav": "But when you desire to express them outwardly you call knowledge light and ignorance darkness. You say, My heart was gloomy. And it became enlightened.",
  "sample_01706.wav": "Now that light of knowledge and that darkness of ignorance are intellectual realities, not sensible ones. But when we seek for explanations in the external world we are obliged to give them in a sensible form.",
  "sample_01707.wav": "Then it is evident that the dove which descended upon Christ was not a material dove, but it was a spiritual state, which, that it might be comprehensible, was expressed by a sensible figure.",
  "sample_01708.wav": "Thus in the Old Testament it is said that God appeared as a pillar of fire. This does not signify the material form, it is an intellectual reality which is expressed by a sensible image.",
  "sample_01709.wav": "a simile, a metaphor, and is not to be accepted literally. It is not a state that can be comprehended by man. Sleeping and waking is passing from one state to another. Sleeping is the condition of repose.",
  "sample_01710.wav": "and wakefulness is the condition of movement. Sleeping is the state of silence.",
  "sample_01711.wav": "Sleeping is the state of mystery. Wakefulness is the state of manifestation. For example, it is a Persian and Arabic expression to say that the earth was asleep, and the spring came and it awoke.",
  "sample_01712.wav": "Or the earth was dead, and the spring came, and it revived. These expressions are metaphors, allegories, mystic explanations in the world of signification. Briefly, the holy manifestations have ever been.",
  "sample_01713.wav": "and ever will be luminous realities. No change or variation takes place in their essence. Before declaring their manifestation they are silent and quiet like a sleeper, and after their manifestation they speak and are illuminated.",
  "sample_01714.wav": "In regard to this question theologians and materialists disagree. The theologians believe that Christ was born of the Holy Spirit. But the materialists think this is impossible and inadmissible.",
  "sample_01715.wav": "and that without doubt he had a human father. In the Quran it is said, And we sent our spirit unto her.",
  "sample_01716.wav": "and he addressed Mary. The materialists believe that there must be marriage, and say that a living body cannot be created from a lifeless body, and without male and female there cannot be fecundation. And they think that not only with men,",
  "sample_01717.wav": "And of everything have we created two kinds. That is to say, we have created all the beings through pairing. Briefly. They say a man without a human father cannot be imagined.",
  "sample_01718.wav": "In answer the theologians say, This thing is not impossible and unachievable, but it has not been seen, and there is a great difference between a thing which is impossible and one which is unknown. For example,",
  "sample_01719.wav": "In former times the telegraph, which causes the East and the West to communicate, was unknown, but not impossible. Photography and phonography were unknown, but not impossible.",
  "sample_01720.wav": "The materialists insist upon this belief, and the theologians reply, Is this globe eternal or phenomenal? The materialists answer that according to science and important discoveries, it is established that it is phenomenal.",
  "sample_01721.wav": "The fates, who certainly all for knew of these amours of widow Wodman and my uncle Toby, have from the first creation of matter in motion, and with more courtesy than they usually do things of this kind, established such a chain of causes and effects, hanging so fast to one another.",
  "sample_01722.wav": "that it was scarce possible for my uncle Toby to have dwelt in any other house in the world, or to have occupied any other garden in Christendom, but the very house and garden which joined and laid parallel to Mrs. Wadman's. This, with the advantage of a thick set",
  "sample_01723.wav": "arbor in Mrs. Wadman's garden, but planted in the hedgerow of my Uncle Toby's, put all the occasions into her hands which love-militancy wanted. She could observe my Uncle Toby's motions.",
  "sample_01724.wav": "Quoth my uncle Toby, interrupting him as he mentioned the blind gut. In a discourse with my father the night my mother was brought to bed of me, I beseech you, quote my uncle Toby, to tell me which is the blind gut. For, old as I am, I vow I do not know to this day where it lies.",
  "sample_01725.wav": "The blind gut, answered Dr. Slopp, lies betwixt the Illean and the colon. And a man, said my father,",
  "sample_01726.wav": "and a woman. That's more than I know,\" quoth my father.",
  "sample_01727.wav": "neither at this inn or that, but, like a prodigal's candle, to light him, if possible, at both inns at once. Now, through all the lumber-rooms of military furniture, including both of horse and foot,",
  "sample_01728.wav": "and with Bridget to help her, she could not have found anyone blind or mantlet so fit for her purpose, as that which the expediency of my uncle Toby's affairs had fixed up ready to her hands. I believe I have not told you, but I don't know, possibly I have. Be it as it will.",
  "sample_01729.wav": "Tis one of the number of those many things which a man had better do over again than dispute about it, that whatever town or fortress the corporal was at work upon, during the course of their campaign, my uncle Tovey always took care on the inside of his sentry blocks.",
  "sample_01730.wav": "which was towards his left hand, to have a plan of the plays, fastened up with two or three pins at the top, but loose at the bottom.",
  "sample_01731.wav": "so that when an attack was resolved upon, Mrs. Wadman had nothing more to do when she had got advanced to the door of the sentry box, but to extend her right hand.",
  "sample_01732.wav": "to take hold of the map or plan, or upright, or whatever it was, and without stretched neck meeting it halfway, to advance it towards her, on which my Uncle Toby's passions were sure to catch fire. For he would instantly take hold of the other corner of the map in his left hand,",
  "sample_01733.wav": "and with the end of his pipe and the other begin an explanation. When the attack was advanced to this point, the world would naturally enter into the reasons of Mrs. Wadman's next stroke of gentrification, which was to take my Uncle Toby's tobacco pipe out of his hand as soon as she possibly could, which...",
  "sample_01734.wav": "Under one pretense or other, but generally that of pointing more distinctly at some redoubt or breast work in the map, she would affect before my Uncle Toby, poor soul, had well marched above half a dozen toys with it. It obliged my Uncle Toby to make use of his forefinger.",
  "sample_01735.wav": "The difference it made in the attack was this, that in going upon it, as in the first case, with the end of her forefinger against the end of my Uncle Toby's tobacco pipe, she might have travelled with it along the lines from Dan to Beersheba, had my Uncle Toby's lines reached so far.",
  "sample_01736.wav": "without any effect. For as there was no arterial or vital heat in the end of the tobacco pipe, it could excite no assentiment. It could neither give fire by pulsation or receive it by sympathy.",
  "sample_01737.wav": "Whereas, in following Michael Tovey's forefinger with hers, close through all the little turns and indentings of his works, pressing sometimes against the side of it, then treading upon its nail, then tripping it up, then touching it here, then there, and so on,",
  "sample_01738.wav": "it said something at least in motion. This, though slight skirmishing, and at a distance from the main body, yet drew on the rest. For here, the map usually falling with the back of it, close to the side of the sentry box, my Uncle Toby.",
  "sample_01739.wav": "and the simplicity of his soul, but lay his hand flat upon it, in order to go on with his explanation. And Mrs. Waldman, by a maneuver as quick as thought, would have certainly placed hers close beside it. This at once opened a communication.",
  "sample_01740.wav": "large enough for any sentiment to pass or repass, which a person skilled in the elementary and practical part of lovemaking has occasion for. By bringing a porfora finger parallel, as before to my Uncle Toby's, it unavoidably brought the thumb into action.",
  "sample_01741.wav": "and the forefinger and thumb being once engaged as naturally brought in the whole hand. Thine, dear Uncle Tombee.",
  "sample_01742.wav": "Mrs. Wadman had it ever to take up, or, with the gentlest pushings, protrusions, and equivocal compressions that a hand to be removed is capable of receiving, to get it pressed a hair-breath of one side out of her way.",
  "sample_01743.wav": "Whilst this was doing, how could she forget to make him sensible?",
  "sample_01744.wav": "was slightly pressed against the calf of his.",
  "sample_01745.wav": "Was it a wonder if now and then it put his center into disorder? The deuce take it, said my Uncle Toby.",
  "sample_01746.wav": "you will readily conceive to be of different kinds, varying from each other, like the attacks which history is full of, and from the same reasons. A general looker-on would scarce allow them to be attacks at all, or if he did, would confound them all together, but I write not to them.",
  "sample_01747.wav": "It will be time enough to be a little more exact in my descriptions of them, as I come up to them, which will not be for some chapters. Having nothing more to add in this, but that in a bundle of original papers and drawings which my father took care to roll up by themselves,",
  "sample_01748.wav": "there is a plan of Boucherne and perfect preservation, and shall be kept so, whilst I have power to preserve anything, upon the lower corner of which, on the right-hand side, there is still remaining the marks of a snuffy finger and thumb.",
  "sample_01749.wav": "which there is all the reason in the world to imagine were Mrs. Wadman's. For the opposite side of the margin, which I suppose to have been my Uncle Toby's, is absolutely clean. This seems an authenticated record of one of these attacks.",
  "sample_01750.wav": "but still visible on the opposite corner of the map, which are unquestionably the very holes through which it has been pricked up in the sentry box. By all that is priestly, I value this precious relic with its stigmata and pricks more than all the relics of the Romish church.",
  "sample_01751.wav": "every measure pursued by the Commons",
  "sample_01752.wav": "Besides numberless vexations and persecutions which the clergy underwent from the arbitrary power of the lower house, the peers, while the King was in Scotland,",
  "sample_01753.wav": "Having passed an order for the observance of the laws with regard to public worship, the Commons assumed such authority that, by a vote alone of their House, they suspended those laws, though enacted by the whole Legislature.",
  "sample_01754.wav": "They complained of the king's filling five vacant seas, and considered it as an insult upon them.",
  "sample_01755.wav": "They made a demand, the most absurd in the world, that the bishops, being all of them parties, should be refused a vote with regard to that question. After the resolution was once formed by the Commons,",
  "sample_01756.wav": "of invading the established government of church and state, it could not be expected that their proceedings, in such a violent attempt, would thenceforth be altogether regular and equitable, but it must be confessed that",
  "sample_01757.wav": "In their attack on the hierarchy, they still more openly passed all bounds of moderation, as supposing, no doubt.",
  "sample_01758.wav": "had already risen to a great height, and gave sufficient warning of their future attempts upon that order. They muttered somewhat of their regret that they should be obliged to save the kingdom alone.",
  "sample_01759.wav": "and that the House of Peers would have no part in the honor. Nay, they went so far as openly to tell the Lords that they themselves were the representative body of the whole Kingdom.",
  "sample_01760.wav": "and that the peers were nothing but individuals who held their seats in a particular capacity, and therefore, if their lordships will not consent to the passing of acts necessary for the preservation of the people, the Commons,",
  "sample_01761.wav": "together with such of the lords as are more sensible of the danger, must join together, and represent the matter to His Majesty. So violent was the democratic, enthusiastic spirit diffused throughout the nation.",
  "sample_01762.wav": "that a total confusion of all rank and order was justly to be apprehended, and the wonder was not that the majority of the nobles should seek shelter under the throne.",
  "sample_01763.wav": "But the tide of popularity seized many, and carried them wide of the most established maxims of civil policy. Among the opponents of the king are ranked the Earl of Northumberland, Lord Admiral, a man of the first family and fortune.",
  "sample_01764.wav": "and endowed with that dignified pride which so well became his rank and station, the Earl of Essex, who inherited all his father's popularity, and having from his early youth sought renown in arms.",
  "sample_01765.wav": "United to a middling capacity, that rigid inflexibility of honor which forms the proper ornament of a nobleman and a soldier, Lord Kimballton, soon after Earl of Manchester, a person distinguished by humanity, generosity,",
  "sample_01766.wav": "affability, and every amiable virtue. These men, finding that their credit ran high with the nation, ventured to encourage those popular disorders which, they vainly imagined,",
  "sample_01767.wav": "They possessed authority sufficient to regulate and control. In order to obtain a majority in the upper house, the commons had recourse to the populace, who on other occasions had done them such important service.",
  "sample_01768.wav": "Amidst the greatest security, they affected continual fears of destruction to themselves and the nation, and seemed to quake at every breath or rumor of danger.",
  "sample_01769.wav": "however ridiculous, were willingly attended to, and were dispersed among the multitude to whose capacity they were well adapted. Beel, a tailor, informed the commons that, walking in the fields,",
  "sample_01770.wav": "He had hearkened to the discourse of certain persons unknown to him, and had heard them talk of a most dangerous conspiracy. A hundred and eight ruffians, as he learned, had been appointed to murder a hundred and eight lords and commoners.",
  "sample_01771.wav": "and were promised rewards for these assassinations.",
  "sample_01772.wav": "forty shillings for each commoner. Upon this notable intelligence, orders were issued for seizing priests and Jesuits, a conference was desired with the lords, and",
  "sample_01773.wav": "and the deputy lieutenants of some suspected counties were ordered to put the people in a posture of defense. The pulpits likewise were called in aid.",
  "sample_01774.wav": "and resounded with the dangers which threatened religion from the desperate attempts of papists and malignants. Mototutes flocked towards Westminster, and insulted the prelates and such of the lords as adhered to the Crown.",
  "sample_01775.wav": "The peers voted a declaration against those two molts and assented to the lower house, but these refused their concurrence. Some seditious apprentices, being seized and committed to prison, immediately received their liberty.",
  "sample_01776.wav": "during this time of disorder and danger, offered their service to the king. Between them and the populace there passed frequent skirmishes, which ended not without bloodshed. By way of reproach",
  "sample_01777.wav": "These gentlemen gave the rabble the appellation of roundheads, on account of the short-cropped hair which they wore. These called the others Cavaliers. And thus the nation",
  "sample_01778.wav": "which was before sufficiently provided with religious as well as civil causes of quarrel, was also supplied with party names, under which the factions might rendezvous and signalize their mutual hatred.",
  "sample_01779.wav": "being distinguishable by their habit, and being the object of violent hatred to all the sectaries, were exposed to the most dangerous insults. Williams now created Archbishop of York.",
  "sample_01780.wav": "that though they had an undoubted right to sit and vote in Parliament, yet in coming thither they had been menaced, assaulted, affronted by the unruly multitude, and could no longer with safety attend their duty in the House.",
  "sample_01781.wav": "Soon we came in sight of a fleet of seven vessels lying at anchor in a large bay, several miles in extent. The sight of those seven vessels lying in the offing made a profound impression upon our minds.",
  "sample_01782.wav": "We had never before seen so many ships at one place. Curiously enough, among them was the good bark Mary Milville with her gruff mate and big-hearted master Captain Barston.",
  "sample_01783.wav": "Upon the eastern slope of the shores of this bay lay the two towns, Port Stilacum and Stilacum City, both established in 1851. A far larger trade centered here than at any other point on Puget Sound.",
  "sample_01784.wav": "and we decided on a halt to make ourselves acquainted with the surroundings. A mile and a half from the shore we found also Fort Steilacoom. It was simply the camp of a company of United States soldiers quartered in wooden shells of houses.",
  "sample_01785.wav": "and log cabins. Intense rivalry ran between the two towns, Upper and Lower Stilakum, at this time. As a result, things were booming.",
  "sample_01786.wav": "We were sorely tempted to accept the flattering offer of $4 a day for common labour in a timber camp, but concluded not to be squirred from the search for a new home site. During this visit we began seeing Indians in considerable numbers.",
  "sample_01787.wav": "They seemed to be a listless lot, with no thought for the future or even for the immediate present. The Indians in those days seemed to work or play by spurts and spells. Here and there we saw a family.",
  "sample_01788.wav": "But as a class, they seemed to me the laziest set of people on earth. That opinion was materially modified later as I became better acquainted with their habits. I have found just as industrious people both men and women",
  "sample_01789.wav": "among the Indians as among the whites. The workers, it may be said, are less numerous among the men. The women are all industrious. Should we camp here and spy out the land, or should we go forward and see what lay before us?",
  "sample_01790.wav": "After a sober second thought we realized that we had nothing to trade but labor and we had not come as far as this To be laborers for hire. We had come to find a place to make a farm",
  "sample_01791.wav": "and a farm we were going to have. Again we set about searching for clams and the more we searched the less we liked the look of things. Finally on the fourth day after a long wearisome tramp we cast off at high tide.",
  "sample_01792.wav": "and in a dead calm to continue our cruise. Oliver soon dropped into a comfortable afternoon nap, leaving me in full command. As the sun shone warm and the tide was taking us rapidly in the direction we wanted to go,",
  "sample_01793.wav": "Why shouldn't I doze a little too? Even if we did miss some of the sightseeing. I was aroused from my nap by Oliver's exclaiming, What is that? Then half to himself as I live, It's a deer swimming out here in the bay.",
  "sample_01794.wav": "It surely can't be, I responded, three quarters asleep. That's what it is, he asserted. We were wide awake now and gave chase. Very soon we caught up with the animal and succeeded in throwing a rope over its horns.",
  "sample_01795.wav": "By this time we had drifted into the narrows and we soon found we had something more important to do than to tow a deer.",
  "sample_01796.wav": "A perpendicular bluff rose from the high water mark, leaving no place for campfire or bed.",
  "sample_01797.wav": "and with contending forces of currents and counter currents, yet all moving in a general direction. It was our first introduction to a genuine tide rip. The waters boiled as if in a veritable cauldron, swelling up here and there.",
  "sample_01798.wav": "Give me the salmon caught by trolling in early summer in the deep waters of Putin's Sound. The fish so fat that the excess of oil must be turned out of the pan while cooking.",
  "sample_01799.wav": "The following day we could see Mount Rainier with its reflection in the placid waters of the bay. Theodore Withrop, the observant traveler who came into these same waters a few months later and wrote of it as Mount Tacoma.",
  "sample_01800.wav": "described it as a giant mountain dome of snow, seeming to fill the aerial spaces as the image displays the blue depths of tranquil water. A wondrous sight it was, and is whatever the name. Next day we entered the mouth of the Puyup.",
  "sample_01801.wav": "and that the current was very strong. We secured the services of an Indian in his canoe to help us up the river and left our boat at the Indians camp near the mouth. It took a tugging of two days to go six miles.",
  "sample_01802.wav": "and drag our canoe around the drifts. It was a story of constant toil with consequent discouragement not ending until we camped",
  "sample_01803.wav": "An Indian trail led up the river from",
  "sample_01804.wav": "But wagon roads there were none, and whether a feasible route for one could be found only time and labor could determine. We retraced our steps and in the evening landed again in the mouth of the river after a severe day's toil. We were in no cheerful mood.",
  "sample_01805.wav": "Oliver did not sing as usual while preparing for camp. Neither did I have much to say, but I fell to work mechanically preparing the much-needed meal. We ate in silence and then went to sleep.",
  "sample_01806.wav": "over hundreds of miles of unoccupied prairie land as rich as anything that ever lay out of doors on our way from Indiana to Oregon in search of land on which to make a home here at what we might call the end of our rope",
  "sample_01807.wav": "We had found the land, but with conditions that seemed almost too adverse to overcome. It was a discouraging outlook, even if there had been roads. Such timber. It seemed an appalling undertaking to clear this land.",
  "sample_01808.wav": "When we fell asleep that night, it was without visions of newfound wealth. And yet later, I did tackle a quarter section of that heaviest timberland, and never let up until the last tree, log, stump, and root had disappeared.",
  "sample_01809.wav": "Though of course, not all cleared off with my own hands. If we could have known what was coming four months later, we would have remained in spite of our discouragement.",
  "sample_01810.wav": "pass trail into Washington. It located in a body over nearly the whole valley and before the year was ended had made a rough wagon road out of the prairies.",
  "sample_01811.wav": "Chapter 6 of what took place between Don Quixote and his niece and housekeeper one of the most important chapters in the whole history",
  "sample_01812.wav": "but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron. Nevertheless, among many other representations made to him, the housekeeper said to him, In truth, Master, if you do not keep still and stay quiet at home,",
  "sample_01813.wav": "What answer God will give to your complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what His Majesty will answer either. I only know that if I were king I should decline to answer the numberless silly petitions they present every day.",
  "sample_01814.wav": "and therefore I should be sorry that any affairs of mine should worry him. Whereupon the housekeeper said, Tell us, Signor, at his majesty's court are there no knights? There are, replied Don Quixote, and plenty of them, and it is right there should be.",
  "sample_01815.wav": "to set off the dignity of the prince and for the greater glory of the king's majesty. Then might not your worship, said she, be one of those that, without stirring a step, serve their king and lord in his court?",
  "sample_01816.wav": "There must be all sorts in the world.",
  "sample_01817.wav": "There is a great difference between one and another. For the courtiers, without quitting their chambers, or the threshold of the court, range the world over by looking at a map, without it costing them a farthing, and without suffering heat or cold, hunger or thirst.",
  "sample_01818.wav": "But we, the true Knights Arrand, measure the whole earth with our own feet, exposed to the sun, to the cold, to the air, to the inclement seas of heaven, by day and night, on foot and on horseback.",
  "sample_01819.wav": "Nor do we only know enemies in pictures, but in their own real shapes, and at all risks, and on all occasions we attack them, without any regard to childish points or rules of single combat. Whether one has or has not a shorter lance or sword.",
  "sample_01820.wav": "whether one carries relics or any secret contrivance about him, whether or not the sun is to be divided and portioned out, and other niceties of the sort that are observed in set combats of man to man that you know nothing about, but I do.",
  "sample_01821.wav": "And you must know besides, that the true knight errant, though he may see ten giants, that not only touch the clouds with their heads but pierce them, and that go each of them on two tall towers by way of legs, and whose arms are like the mass of mighty ships, and each eye like a great mill wheel.",
  "sample_01822.wav": "and glowing brighter than a glass furnace, must not on any account be dismayed by them. On the contrary, he must attack and fall upon them, with a gallant bearing and a fearless heart, and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even though they have, for armor, the shells of a certain fish.",
  "sample_01823.wav": "wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel, or clubs studded with spikes also of steel, such as I have more than one seen.",
  "sample_01824.wav": "and it would be well if there were no prince who did not set a higher value on the second, or more properly speaking, first, kind of knight's errand. For, as we read in their histories,",
  "sample_01825.wav": "I would inflict a chastisement upon thee, For the blasphemy thou hast uttered, That all the world should ring with. What can it be the young hussy that hardly knows how to handle a dozen lace-bobbins, dares to wag her tongue, and criticise the histories of night's errant?",
  "sample_01826.wav": "for he was the most humble-minded and courteous night of his time.",
  "sample_01827.wav": "But some there are that might have heard thee, and it would not have been well for thee in that case, for they are not all courteous or mannerly. Some are ill-conditioned scoundrels, nor is it every one that calls himself a gentleman, that it is so in all respects. Some are gold, others pinchback.",
  "sample_01828.wav": "and one has need of experience and discernment to distinguish these two kinds of gentlemen.",
  "sample_01829.wav": "God bless me, said Denise, that you should know so much, uncle.",
  "sample_01830.wav": "And yet that you should fall into a delusion so great and a folly so manifest as to try to make yourself out vigorous when you are old, strong when you are sickly, able to put straight what is crooked when you yourself are bent by age, and, above all, a caballero when you are not one.",
  "sample_01831.wav": "All the lineages in the world, attend to what I am saying, can be reduced to four sorts, which are these. Those that had humble beginnings and went on spreading and extending themselves until they had attained surpassing greatness, those that had great beginnings and maintained them,",
  "sample_01832.wav": "and still maintain and uphold the greatness of their origin. Those, again, that from a great beginning have ended at a point like a pyramid, having reduced and lessened their original greatness,",
  "sample_01833.wav": "those that had a humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve.",
  "sample_01834.wav": "For examples of the second sort of lineage that began with greatness and maintained it still without adding to it",
  "sample_01835.wav": "of countless princes, monarchs, lords, maids, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians. All these lineages and lordships have ended in a point and come to nothing.",
  "sample_01836.wav": "For it would be impossible now to find one of their descendants, and even should we find one, it would be in some lowly and humble condition. Of plebeian lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the number of those that live.",
  "sample_01837.wav": "and not by spending as he pleases, but by knowing how to spend it well. The poor gentleman has no way of showing that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or censorous.",
  "sample_01838.wav": "but above all by being charitable. For by two Maravettis given with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he who distributes alms with bell ringing, and no one that perceives him to be endowed with the virtues I have named.",
  "sample_01839.wav": "even though he know him not, will fail to recognize and set him down as one of good blood. And it would be strange were it not so. Praise has ever been the reward of virtue, and those who are virtuous cannot fail to receive commendation.",
  "sample_01840.wav": "There are two roads, my daughters, by which men may reach wealth and honors. One is that of letters, the other that of arms.",
  "sample_01841.wav": "One warm day in winter, when some of the Pussy Willows made a mistake and began to grow because they thought spring had come, a party of Musgrats were visiting in the marsh beside the pond. All around them were their winter houses, built of mud and coarse grasses.",
  "sample_01842.wav": "These homes looked like heaps of dried rushes unless one went close to them. If one did that, he could plainly see what they were. And if one happened to be a muskrat and could dive and go into them through their watery doorways,",
  "sample_01843.wav": "and are awake at night. We wish it would always be warm weather, said the young mascrats. What's the use of winter?\" Hard to tell, answered one masqurat.",
  "sample_01844.wav": "who had lived in the Marsh longer than the rest, hard to tell. I know it always gives me a good appetite, though. Then all the muskrats laughed. They were a jolly, good-natured company, and easy to get along with.",
  "sample_01845.wav": "The other pond people liked them much better than they did their neighbors, the minks. The wild ducks, who nested in the sedges, were quite willing that the young muskrats should play with their children, and the mud hens were not afraid of them.",
  "sample_01846.wav": "Mud hens cannot bear minks. They say that when a mud chicken is missing from the nest,",
  "sample_01847.wav": "In spring and summer, when they can find fresh grasses in young rushes, or a few parsnips, carrots, and turnips from the farmer's field, other animals are quite safe. In the winter, they live mostly on roots.",
  "sample_01848.wav": "Yes, great pity chuckled the old muskrat. How glad you would be to see them! He smiled all around his little mouth and showed his gnawing teeth.",
  "sample_01849.wav": "He knew that the frogs were better off asleep in the mud at the bottom of the pond than they would be sitting in the sunshine with a few hungry gulls above them. The turtles were sleeping all winter, too.",
  "sample_01850.wav": "The eels were lying at the bottom, stupid and drowsy, and somewhere the water adders were hidden away, dreaming of spring. Of all the birds who lived by the water, only the gulls were there, and they were not popular.",
  "sample_01851.wav": "It is true that they helped keep the pond sweet and clean, and picked up and carried away many things which made the shore untidy. Still, they were rude, and talked too loudly, and wore their feathers in such a way that they looked like fine large birds.",
  "sample_01852.wav": "The other pond people said that was just like them, always pretending to be more than they really were. Fifteen young muskrats, all brothers and sisters, and all born the summer before, started off to look at the old home.",
  "sample_01853.wav": "where they were children together. That is to say,",
  "sample_01854.wav": "And when they were old enough to look out for themselves, five more came to live in the old nest. And when these were old enough to leave the nest, another five were born. It doesn't mean so much to muskrats to be brothers and sisters as it does to some people.",
  "sample_01855.wav": "and to hear them slap their long, scaly tails on the water when they dove. They had short, downy fur, almost black on the back, soft gray underneath, and a reddish-brown everywhere else.",
  "sample_01856.wav": "There was very little fur on their tails or on their feet, and those parts were black. These fifteen children had been fairly well brought up, but you can see that their mother had many cares.",
  "sample_01857.wav": "So it is not strange if they sometimes behaved badly. In some other families, where there were only nine or ten babies all the season, they had been brought up more strictly.",
  "sample_01858.wav": "Like all young muskrats, they were full of fun, and there were few, pleasanter sights than to see them frolicking on a warm, moonlit evening, when they looked like brown balls rolling and bounding around on the shore or plunging into the water.",
  "sample_01859.wav": "If they had all been exactly the same age, it would have been even pleasanter, for the oldest five would put on airs and call the others the children, and the next five would call the youngest five",
  "sample_01860.wav": "babies, although they were all well-grown. There was no chance for the youngest five to call other muskrats babies, so when they were warm and well-fed and good-natured they laughed and said, Who cares?",
  "sample_01861.wav": "When they were cold and hungry, they slapped their tails on the ground or on the water and said, Don't you think you're smart?",
  "sample_01862.wav": "she would say, now children, in such a way that they had to stop.",
  "sample_01863.wav": "Teasing is not so very bad, you know, although it is dreadfully silly, but when people begin by teasing, they sometimes get to saying things in earnest, even really hateful, mean things.",
  "sample_01864.wav": "And that was what made the muskrat father and mother stop it whenever they could. Now the whole fifteen crowded around the old summer home, and some of them went in one way and some of them went in another.",
  "sample_01865.wav": "for every muskrat's summer house has several burrows leading to it. When they reached the old nest at the end, all of them tried to get in at once, and they pushed each other around with their broad little heads.",
  "sample_01866.wav": "scrambled and clutched and held on with their strong little feet. Five of them said, It's our turn first. We're the oldest. And five more said, Well, it's our turn next anyway, cause we're next oldest.",
  "sample_01867.wav": "The others said, You might give up to us, because we're the youngest. They pushed and scrambled some more, and one of the youngest children said to one of the oldest, Well, I don't care. I'm just as big as you are.",
  "sample_01868.wav": "Which was so. And the older one answered back, Well, you're not so good-looking. Which was also true. Then parts of the brothers and sisters",
  "sample_01869.wav": "took sides with one, and part took sides with the other. What had been a lovely frolic became an unpleasant, disgraceful quarrel, and they said such things as these.",
  "sample_01870.wav": "You slapped your tail on my back!",
  "sample_01871.wav": "Chapter 7 Our Virtues",
  "sample_01872.wav": "Our virtues? It is probable that we too have still our virtues, although naturally they are not those sincere and massive virtues on account of which we hold our grandfathers in esteem.",
  "sample_01873.wav": "and also at a little distance from us. We Europeans of the day after tomorrow, we firstlings of the 20th century, with all our dangerous curiosity, our multifariousness and art of disguising.",
  "sample_01874.wav": "with our most ardent requirements. Well then, let us look for them in our labyrinths where, as we know, so many things lose themselves so many things get quite lost.",
  "sample_01875.wav": "And is there anything finer than to search for one's own virtues? Is it not almost to believe in one's own virtues? But this believing in one's own virtues...",
  "sample_01876.wav": "it will be different. 215. As in the stellar firmament, there are sometimes two suns which determine the path of one planet.",
  "sample_01877.wav": "Now with red light. Now with green.",
  "sample_01878.wav": "So we modern men, owing to the complicated mechanism of our firmament, are determined by different moralities.",
  "sample_01879.wav": "and are seldom unequivocal. And there are often cases also in which our actions are motley colored.",
  "sample_01880.wav": "Indeed, at times the higher and sublimer thing takes place, we learn to despise when we love, and precisely when we love best. All of it, however, unconsciously, without noise.",
  "sample_01881.wav": "is opposed to our taste nowadays. This is also an advance, as it was an advance in our fathers that religion as an attitude finally became opposed to their taste, including the enmity.",
  "sample_01882.wav": "and Voltarian bitterness against religion, and all that formerly belonged to a free-thinker pantomime. It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies",
  "sample_01883.wav": "moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.",
  "sample_01884.wav": "Let us be careful in dealing with those who attach great importance to being credited with moral tact and subtlety and moral discernment. They never forgive us if they have once made a mistake before us.",
  "sample_01885.wav": "For they get the better, even of their blunders.",
  "sample_01886.wav": "just as though, in short, they betray something thereby. Flaubert, for instance.",
  "sample_01887.wav": "I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure. Namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits.",
  "sample_01888.wav": "subtler even than the understanding of its victims. A repeated proof that instinct is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered.",
  "sample_01889.wav": "219. The practice of judging and condemning morally is the favorite revenge of the intellectually shallow on those who are less so.",
  "sample_01890.wav": "It is also a kind of indemnity for their being badly endowed by nature. And finally, it is an opportunity for acquiring spirit and becoming subtle.",
  "sample_01891.wav": "M\u00e9lis Spiritulis. They are glad in their inmost heart that there is a standard according to which those who are over-endowed with intellectual goods and privileges are equal to them.",
  "sample_01892.wav": "I shall take care not to say so. I would rather flatter them with my theory that lofty spirituality itself exists only as the ultimate product of moral qualities.",
  "sample_01893.wav": "is precisely the spiritualizing of justice.",
  "sample_01894.wav": "gradations of rank in the world, even among things and not only among men.",
  "sample_01895.wav": "And what are the things generally which fundamentally and profoundly concern ordinary men, including the cultured, even the learned, and perhaps philosophers also, if appearances do not deceive?",
  "sample_01896.wav": "The fact thereby becomes obvious that the greater part of what interests and charms higher natures, and more refined and fastidious tastes, seems absolutely uninteresting to the average man. If...",
  "sample_01897.wav": "notwithstanding, he perceived devotion to these interests. He calls it desinteresse, and wonders how it is possible to act disinterestedly. There have been philosophers,",
  "sample_01898.wav": "who could give this popular astonishment a seductive and mystical, otherworldly expression. Perhaps because they did not know the higher nature by experience? Instead of stating...",
  "sample_01899.wav": "Even an action for love's sake shall be un-egoistic. But you fools! And the praise of the self-sacrificer? But whoever has really offered sacrifice knows...",
  "sample_01900.wav": "that he wanted and obtained something for it. Perhaps something from himself, for something from himself, that he relinquished here in order to have more there. Perhaps in general to be more.",
  "sample_01901.wav": "But as sure as he found a princess, he found some fault in her. Of course, he could not marry a mere woman, however beautiful, and there was no princess to be found worthy of him.",
  "sample_01902.wav": "Whether the prince was so near perfection that he had a right to demand perfection itself, I cannot pretend to say. All I know is that he was a fine, handsome, and very kind prince.",
  "sample_01903.wav": "brave, generous, well-bred, and well-behaved youth, as all princes are. In his wanderings, he had come across some reports about our princess,",
  "sample_01904.wav": "He never dreamed that she could bewitch him. For what, indeed, could a prince do with a princess that had lost her gravity? Who could tell what she might not lose next? She might lose her visibility or her tangibility.",
  "sample_01905.wav": "Or, in short, the power of making impressions upon the radical sensorium, so that he should never be able to tell whether she was dead or alive. Of course, he made no further inquiries about her.",
  "sample_01906.wav": "One day, he lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes.",
  "sample_01907.wav": "In this way they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes. One lovely evening, after wandering about for many days,",
  "sample_01908.wav": "He found that he was approaching the outskirts of this forest, for the trees had got so thin that he could see the sunset through them, and he soon came upon a kind of heath. Next, he came upon signs of human neighborhood.",
  "sample_01909.wav": "At length he entered another wood, not a wild forest, but a civilized wood, through which a footpath led him to the side of a lake. Along this path, the prince pursued his way through the gathering darkness.",
  "sample_01910.wav": "Suddenly, he paused and listened. Strange sounds came across the water. It was, in fact, the Princess laughing. Now, there was something odd in her laugh, as I have already hinted.",
  "sample_01911.wav": "For the hatching of a real hearty laugh requires the incubation of gravity. And perhaps this was how the prince mistook the laughter for screaming. Looking over the lake, he saw something white in the water, and in an instant he had torn off his tunic.",
  "sample_01912.wav": "Now, I cannot tell how it came about, whether she pretended to be drowning, or whether he frightened her, or caught her so as to embarrass her. But certainly he brought her to shore in a fashion ignominious to a swimmer.",
  "sample_01913.wav": "and more nearly drowned than she had ever expected to be, for the water had got into her throat as often as she had tried to speak. At the place to which he bore her, the bank was only a foot or two above the water,",
  "sample_01914.wav": "So he gave her a strong lift out of the water to lay her on the bank. But, her gravitation ceasing the moment she left the water, away she went up into the air, scolding and screaming.",
  "sample_01915.wav": "You naughty, naughty, naughty, naughty man!\" she cried. No one had ever succeeded in putting her into a passion before. When the prince saw her ascend, he thought he must have been bewitched.",
  "sample_01916.wav": "The prince, meantime, stood in the water, staring, and forgetting to get out. But the princess disappearing, he scrambled on shore, and went in the direction of the tree.",
  "sample_01917.wav": "Until, reaching the ground and seeing him standing there, she caught hold of him and said, \"'I'll tell Papa.\" \"'Oh, no, you won't,' returned the prince.\" \"'Yes, I will,' she persisted.\"",
  "sample_01918.wav": "What business had you to pull me down out of the water and throw me to the bottom of the air? I never did you any harm. Pardon me, I did not mean to hurt you. I don't believe you have any brains, and that is a worse loss than your wretched gravity.",
  "sample_01919.wav": "I pity you!\" The prince now saw that he had come upon the bewitched princess, and had already offended her. But before he could think what to say next, she burst out angrily, giving a stamp with her foot.",
  "sample_01920.wav": "That would have sent her aloft again, but for the hold she had of his arm. \"'Put me up directly.' \"'Put you up where, you beauty?' asked the prince. He had fallen in love with her almost already.",
  "sample_01921.wav": "For her anger made her more charming than anyone else had ever beheld her. And as far as he could see, which certainly was not far, she had not a single fault about her, except, of course, that she had not any gravity.",
  "sample_01922.wav": "No prince, however, would judge of a princess by weight. The loveliness of her foot he would hardly estimate by the depth of the impression it could make in mud. \"'Put you up where, you beauty?' asked the prince. \"'In the water, you stupid!'",
  "sample_01923.wav": "answered the Princess. Come then, said the Prince. The condition of her dress, increasing her usual difficulty in walking, compelled her to cling to him, and he could hardly persuade himself that he was not in a delightful dream",
  "sample_01924.wav": "He turned towards the Princess, and said, \"'How am I to put you in?' \"'That is your business!' she answered, quite snappishly.",
  "sample_01925.wav": "Very well,\" said the prince, and catching her up in his arms, he sprang with her from the rock. The princess had just time to give one delighted shriek of laughter before the water closed over them.",
  "sample_01926.wav": "\"'It seemed to me like going up,' rejoined she. \"'My feeling was certainly one of elevation, too,' the prince conceded. The princess did not appear to understand him, for she retorted his question.",
  "sample_01927.wav": "said the Princess. \"'Beyond everything,' answered he, \"'for I have fallen in with the only perfect creature I ever saw.'\" \"'No more of that. I am tired of it,' said the Princess. Perhaps she shared her father's aversion to punning.\"",
  "sample_01928.wav": "\"'Don't you like falling in, then?' said the prince. \"'It is the most delightful fun I ever had in my life,' answered she. \"'I never fell before. I wish I could learn.'",
  "sample_01929.wav": "To think I am the only person in my father's kingdom that can't fall!\" Here the poor princess looked almost sad. \"'I shall be most happy to fall in with you any time you like,' said the prince, devotedly. Thank you.\"",
  "sample_01930.wav": "I don't know. Perhaps it would not be proper. But I don't care. At all events, as we have fallen in, let us have a swim together.\" With all my heart, responded the prince.",
  "sample_01931.wav": "But in the midst of gaiety his heart yearned all the while for his lost love, and his merriment was but mourning in disguise. At last the night wore on, and as he was retiring along the corridor he saw a man of about forty years of age.",
  "sample_01932.wav": "with long hair coming towards him, who, when he saw Gensaburo, cried out, Dear me! why this must be my young lord Gensaburo who has come out to enjoy himself. Gensaburo thought this rather strange, but",
  "sample_01933.wav": "looking at the man attentively, recognized him as a retainer whom he had had in his employ the year before, and said, This is a curious meeting. Pray, what have you been about since you left my service? At any rate,",
  "sample_01934.wav": "I may congratulate you on being well and strong. Where are you living now?\" Well, sir, since I parted from you I have been earning a living as a fortune teller at Kanda, and have changed my name to Kaji Sazin.",
  "sample_01935.wav": "I am living in a poor and humble house, but if your lordship at your leisure would honor me with a visit. Well, it's a lucky chance that has brought us together, and I certainly will go and see you. I want you to do something for me.",
  "sample_01936.wav": "Shall you be at home the day after tomorrow? Certainly sir, I shall make a point of being at home. Very well then, the day after tomorrow I will go to your house. I shall be at your service sir. And now as it is getting late.",
  "sample_01937.wav": "I will take my leave for to-night. Good night, then. We shall meet the day after to-morrow.\" And so the two parted, and went their several ways to rest. On the appointed day, Gensaburo made his preparations, and went in disguise, without any retainers.",
  "sample_01938.wav": "to call upon Sazan, who met him at the porch of his house, and said, \"'This is a great honour. My Lord Ganzaburo is indeed welcome. My house is very mean, but let me invite your lordship to come into an inner chamber.'\"",
  "sample_01939.wav": "Pray, replied Gonzaburo, don't make any ceremony for me. Don't put yourself to any trouble on my account. And so he passed in, and Sazan called to his wife to prepare wine and condiments, and they began to feast.",
  "sample_01940.wav": "At last Gonzaburo, looking sazun in the face, said, \"'There is a service which I want you to render me. A very secret service. But as if you were to refuse me I should be put to shame. Before I tell you what that service is...\"",
  "sample_01941.wav": "\"'Well, then,' said Gonzaburo, greatly pleased, and drawing ten rios from his bosom. \"'This is but a small present to make to you on my first visit, but pray accept it.' \"'No, indeed, I don't know what your lordship wishes of me.'\"",
  "sample_01942.wav": "how he had first met her and fallen in love with her at the Atsuma Bridge, how Chokichi had introduced her to him at the teahouse at Oji, and then when she fell ill and he wanted to see her again, instead of bringing her to him, had only given him good advice.",
  "sample_01943.wav": "And so Gonzaburo drew a lamentable picture of his state of despair. Sazan listened patiently to his story, and, after reflecting for a while, replied, Well, sir, it's not a difficult matter to set right.",
  "sample_01944.wav": "When Gonzaburo heard this he felt greatly relieved and, recommending Sazen to do his best in the matter, took his leave and returned home. That very night Sazen, after thinking over all that Gonzaburo had told him, was taken",
  "sample_01945.wav": "laid his plans accordingly, and went off to the house of Kihachi, the ette chief, and told him the commission with which he had been entrusted. Kihachi was, of course, greatly astonished, and said, Some time ago, sir, Chokichi came here.",
  "sample_01946.wav": "and said that my lord Gonsaburou, having been rebuked by his family for his profligate behavior, had determined to break off his connexion with my daughter. Of course I knew that a daughter of an etta was no fitting match for a nobleman.",
  "sample_01947.wav": "So when Chokichi came and told me the errand upon which he had been sent, I had no alternative but to announce to my daughter that she must give up all thought of his lordship. Since that time she has been fretting and pining and starving for love.",
  "sample_01948.wav": "But when I tell her what you have just said, how glad and happy she will be. Let me go and talk to her at once.\"",
  "sample_01949.wav": "Well, at any rate, I have some news for you that will make you happy. A messenger has come from my lord Gensaburo, for whom your heart yearns. At this Okoyo, who had been crouching down like a drooping flower, gave a great start and cried out. Is that really true?\"",
  "sample_01950.wav": "It is Chokuchi who has been throwing obstacles in the way. At last his lordship has secretly sent a man called Kaji Sazen, a fortune teller, to arrange an interview between you. So now, my child, you may cheer up.\"",
  "sample_01951.wav": "and go to meet your lover as soon as you please.\" When Okoyo heard this, she was so happy that she thought it must all be a dream, and doubted her own senses. Hihachi in the meanwhile rejoined Sazan in the other room. End",
  "sample_01952.wav": "After telling him of the joy with which his daughter had heard the news, put before him wine and other delicacies. \"'I think,' said Sazan, \"'that the best way would be for Okoyo to live secretly in my Lord Ganzaburo's house.'",
  "sample_01953.wav": "But as it will never do for all the world to know of it, it must be managed very quietly. And further, when I get home, I must think out some plan to lull the suspicions of that fellow Chokichi, and let you know my idea by letter.",
  "sample_01954.wav": "Meanwhile, Okoyo had better come home with me tonight. Although she is so terribly out of spirits now, she shall meet Gensaburo the day after tomorrow. Hihachi reported this to Okoyo, and as her pining for Gensaburo was the only cause of her sickness, she was not able to come home. She was so terribly out of spirits now, she shall meet Gensaburo the day after tomorrow.",
  "sample_01955.wav": "She recovered her spirits at once, and, seeing that she would go with Sazen immediately, joyfully made her preparations. Then Sazen, having once more warned Kiyachi to keep the matter secret from Chokichi, and to act upon the letter which he should send him.",
  "sample_01956.wav": "returned home, taking with him Okoyo, and after Okoyo had bathed and dressed her hair, and painted herself and put on beautiful clothes, she came out looking so lovely that no princes in the land could vie with her. and Sazen when he saw her.",
  "sample_01957.wav": "said to himself that it was no wonder that Ginzaburo had fallen in love with her. Then, as it was getting late, he advised her to go to rest, and after showing her to her apartments went to his own room and wrote his letter to Kiyachi.",
  "sample_01958.wav": "containing the scheme which he had devised. When Ki-Hachi received his instructions he was filled with admiration at Sazan's ingenuity, and putting on an appearance of great alarm and agitation, he was able to do so without",
  "sample_01959.wav": "went off immediately to call on Chokichi and said to him, \"'O Master Chokichi, such a terrible thing has happened. Pray let me tell you all about it.' \"'Indeed, what can it be?' \"'O, sir,' answered Kiyachi.\"",
  "sample_01960.wav": "pretending to wipe away his tears. My daughter Okoyo, mourning over her separation from my lord Gensaburo, at first refused all sustenance and remained nursing her sorrows until, last night, her woman's heart failing to bear up against her great grief, she was killed.",
  "sample_01961.wav": "He took a resolve after this not to misinterpret her words, even when Miss Stackpole appeared to strike the personal note most strongly. He bethought himself that persons, in her view, were simple and homogenous organisms.",
  "sample_01962.wav": "to deal with her in strict reciprocity. He carried out his resolve with a great deal of tact, and the young lady found in renewed contact with him, no obstacle to the exercise of her genius for unshrinking inquiry.",
  "sample_01963.wav": "the general application of her confidence. Her situation at Garden Court, therefore, appreciated as we have seen her to be by Isabel, and full of appreciation herself of that free play of intelligence.",
  "sample_01964.wav": "She presently discovered in truth that this obligation was of the lightest, and that Mrs. Touchett cared very little how Miss Stackpole behaved. Mrs. Touchett had defined her to Isabel.",
  "sample_01965.wav": "as both an adventurous and a bore. Adventurists usually giving one more of a thrill. She had expressed some surprise at her nieces having selected such a friend.",
  "sample_01966.wav": "yet had immediately added that she knew Isabel's friends were her own affair, and that she had never undertaken to like them all or to restrict the girl to those she liked.",
  "sample_01967.wav": "My dear, you'd have a very small society,\" Mrs. Touchett frankly admitted, and I don't think I like any man or woman well enough to recommend them to you. When it comes to recommending, it's a serious affair.",
  "sample_01968.wav": "I don't like Miss Stackpole. Everything about her displeases me. She talks so much too loud and looks at one as if one wanted to look at her. Which one doesn't?",
  "sample_01969.wav": "I'm sure she has lived all her life in a boarding house, and I detest the manners and the liberties of such places. If you ask me if I prefer my own manners, which you doubtless think very bad, I tell you that I prefer them immensely.",
  "sample_01970.wav": "and she detests me for detesting it.",
  "sample_01971.wav": "Mrs. Touchett was right in guessing that Henrietta disapproved of her, but she had not quite put her finger on the reason. A day or two after Miss Stackpole's arrival,",
  "sample_01972.wav": "which excited a vein of counter-argument on the part of the correspondent of the interviewer, who in the exercise of her profession had acquainted herself in the Western world with every form of caravansery.",
  "sample_01973.wav": "Ralph, with his experimental geniality, suggested, by way of healing the breach, that the truth lay between the two extremes, and that the establishments in question ought to be described as vermidlin.",
  "sample_01974.wav": "This contribution to the discussion, however, Ms. Stackpole rejected with scorn. Middling, indeed! If they were not the best in the world, they were the worst. But there was nothing middling about an American hotel.",
  "sample_01975.wav": "I like to be treated as an American lady.\" \"'Poor American ladies!' cried Mrs. Touchett with a laugh. \"'They're the slaves of slaves.' \"'They're the companions of free men,' Henrietta retorted.",
  "sample_01976.wav": "They're the companions of their servants. The Irish chambermaid and the negro waiter, they share their work. Do you call the domestics in an American household slaves?\" Miss Stackpole inquired.",
  "sample_01977.wav": "If that's the way you desire to treat them, no wonder you don't like America. If you've got good servants, you're miserable, Mrs. Touchett serenely said. They're very bad in America, but I've five perfect ones in Florence.",
  "sample_01978.wav": "I don't see what you want with five. Henrietta couldn't help observing. I don't think I should like to see five persons surrounding me in that menial position.",
  "sample_01979.wav": "Should you like me better if I were your butler, dear?\" Her husband asked. I don't think I should. You wouldn't at all have the tenue. The companions of free men. I like that, Miss Stackpole, said Ralph.",
  "sample_01980.wav": "It's a beautiful description. When I said free men I didn't mean you, sir.\" And this was the only reward that Ralph got for his compliment. Miss Stackpole was baffled.",
  "sample_01981.wav": "which she privately judged to be a mysterious survival of feudalism. It was perhaps because her mind was oppressed with this image that she suffered some days to elapse before she took occasion to say to Isabel,",
  "sample_01982.wav": "My dear friend, I wonder if you're growing faithless. Faithless? Faithless to you, Henrietta? No, that would be a great pain, but it's not that. Faithless to my country, then?",
  "sample_01983.wav": "That I hope will never be. When I wrote to you from Liverpool, I said I had something particular to tell you. You've never asked me what it is. Is it because you've suspected? Suspected what?",
  "sample_01984.wav": "You don't ask that right as if you thought it important. You're changed. You're thinking of other things Tell me what you mean, and I'll think of that Will you really think of it? That's what I wish to be sure of",
  "sample_01985.wav": "\"'I've not much control of my thoughts, but I'll do my best,' said Isabelle.\" Henrietta gazed at her in silence for a period which tried Isabelle's patience, so that our heroine added at last,",
  "sample_01986.wav": "Isabel responded, You say that right. I had a good deal of talk with him. He has come after you. Did he tell you so? No, he told me nothing. That's how I knew it, said Henrietta cleverly.",
  "sample_01987.wav": "He said very little about you, but I spoke of you a good deal.\" Isabelle waited. At the mention of Mr. Goodwood's name, she had turned a little pale. I'm very sorry you did that, she observed at last.",
  "sample_01988.wav": "I could have talked a long time to such a listener. He was so quiet, so intense. He drank it all in. What did you say about me? Isabel asked. I said you were on the whole the finest creature I know.",
  "sample_01989.wav": "while I talked. I never saw an ugly man look so handsome.\" He's very simple-minded,\" said Isabelle, and he's not so ugly. There's nothing so simplifying as a grand passion.",
  "sample_01990.wav": "It's not a grand passion. I'm very sure it's not that.\" \"'You don't say that as if you were sure.'\" Isabelle gave rather a cold smile. I shall say it better to Mr. Goodwood himself.",
  "sample_01991.wav": "In the centre of West Lynn stood two houses adjoining each other, one large, the other much smaller. The large one was the Carlisle residence, and the small one was devoted to the Carlisle offices. The name of Carlisle bore a lofty standing in the county.",
  "sample_01992.wav": "The first Mrs. Carlisle having been Mr. Davidson's sister. She had died and left one child. The second Mrs. Carlisle died when her son was born, Archibald, and his half-sister reared him, loved him, and ruled him.",
  "sample_01993.wav": "With an iron hand she liked to rule him now, in great things as in small, just as she had done in the days of his babyhood. And Archibald generally submitted, for the force of habit is strong. She was a woman of strong sense.",
  "sample_01994.wav": "was left equally divided between Cornelia and Archibald. Archibald was no blood relation to him, but he loved the open-hearted boy better than his niece Cornelia. Of Mr. Carlisle's property, a small portion only was bequeathed to his daughter.",
  "sample_01995.wav": "the rest to his son, and in this, perhaps, there was justice, since the twenty thousand pounds brought to Mr. Carlyle by his second wife had been chiefly instrumental in the accumulation of his large fortune. Miss Carlyle, or as she was called in town, Miss Corny.",
  "sample_01996.wav": "had never married. It was pretty certain she never would. People thought that her intense love of her young brother kept her single, for it was not likely that the daughter of the rich Mr. Carlisle had wanted for offers. Other maidens confessed to soft and tender impressions.",
  "sample_01997.wav": "Not so, Miss Carlyle. All who had approached her with the lovelorn tale she sent quickly to the right about. Mr. Carlyle was seated in his own private room in his office the morning after his return from town. His confidential clerk and manager stood near him.",
  "sample_01998.wav": "It was Mr. Dill, a little, meek-looking man with a bald head. He was on the rolls, had been admitted years and years ago, but he had never set up for himself. Perhaps he deemed the post of head manager in the office of Carlisle and Davidson",
  "sample_01999.wav": "with its substantial salary sufficient for his ambition, and manager he had been to them when the present Mr. Carlisle was in long petticoats. He was a single man, and occupied handsome apartments near.",
  "sample_02000.wav": "Here he saw clients when Mr. Carlisle was out or engaged, and here he issued private orders. A little window, not larger than a pane of glass, looked out from the clerk's office. They called it Old Dill's Peephole and wished it anywhere else.",
  "sample_02001.wav": "for his spectacles might be discerned at it more frequently than was agreeable. The old gentleman had a desk also in their office, and there he frequently sat. He was sitting there, in state, the same morning, keeping a sharp lookout around him,",
  "sample_02002.wav": "when the door timidly opened and the pretty face of Barbara Hare appeared at it, rosy with blushes. Can I see Mr. Carlisle? Mr. Dill rose from his seat and shook hands with her. She drew him into the passage and he closed the door. Perhaps he felt surprised.",
  "sample_02003.wav": "Presently, Miss Barbara, he is engaged just now. The justices are with him. The justices uttered Barbara in alarm, and Papa won. Whatever shall I do? He must not see me. I would not have him see me here for the world. An ominous sound of talking.",
  "sample_02004.wav": "The justices were evidently coming forth. Mr. Dill laid hold of Barbara, whisked her through the clerk's room, not daring to take her the other way, lest he should encounter them and shut her in his own. What the plague brought Papa here at this moment, thought Barbara, whose face was crimson.",
  "sample_02005.wav": "who was not well enough to come herself. It is a little private matter that she does not wish Papa to know of.\" Child answered the manager, A lawyer receives visits from many people, and it is not the place of those about him to think. He opened the doors he spoke,",
  "sample_02006.wav": "ushered her into the presence of Mr. Carlisle and left her. The latter rose in astonishment. You must regard me as a client and pardon my intrusion,\" said Barbara with a forced laugh to hide her agitation. I'm here on the part of Mama.",
  "sample_02007.wav": "Mr. Dill shut me into his room.\" Mr. Carlyle motioned to Barbara to seat herself, then resumed his own seat beside his table. Barbara could not help noticing how different his manners were in his office from his evening manners when he was off duty.",
  "sample_02008.wav": "She broke off with a look of dread. It would be\u2014it might be death.\" \"'It is quite impossible,' calmly replied Mr. Carlyle. \"'The doors are double doors. Did you notice that they were?' Nevertheless she left her chair and stood close to Mr. Carlyle.",
  "sample_02009.wav": "resting her hand upon the table. He rose, of course. \"'Richard is here.' \"'Richard?' repeated Mr. Carlyle. \"'At West Lynn.' \"'He appeared at the house last night in disguise, and made signs to me from the grove of trees. You may imagine my alarm.'",
  "sample_02010.wav": "He has been in London all this while, half-starving, working\u2014I feel ashamed to mention it to you\u2014in a stable-yard, and oh, Archibald, he says he is innocent!\" Mr. Carlyle made no reply to this. He probably had no faith in the assertion.",
  "sample_02011.wav": "Sit down, Barbara,\" he said, drawing her chair closer. Barbara sat down again, but her manner was hurried and nervous. Is it quite sure that no stranger will be coming in? It would look so peculiar to see me here. But Mama was too unwell to come herself.",
  "sample_02012.wav": "This room is sacred from the intrusion of strangers. What of Richard? He says that he was not in the cottage at the time the murder was committed, that the person who really did it was a man of the name of Thorn.\" What Thorn? asked Mr. Carlyle.",
  "sample_02013.wav": "suppressing all signs of incredulity. I don't know. A friend of Affy's, he said. Archibald, he swore to it, in the most solemn manner, and I believe, as truly that I am now repeating it to you, that he was speaking the truth.",
  "sample_02014.wav": "I want you to see Richard if possible. He is coming to the same place tonight. If he can tell his own tale to you, perhaps you may find out a way by which his innocence may be made manifest. You are so clever. You can do anything.\" Mr. Carlyle smiled.",
  "sample_02015.wav": "Not quite anything, Barbara. Was this the porpet of Richard's visit, to say this? Oh, no! He thinks it is of no use to say it, for nobody would believe him against the evidence. He came to ask for a hundred pounds.",
  "sample_02016.wav": "if he can have that sum. Mama has sent me to you. She has not the money by her, and she dare not ask Papa for it, as it is for Richard. She bade me say that if you will kindly oblige her with the money today, she will arrange with you about the repayment.",
  "sample_02017.wav": "Still, if he is to be in the Grove to-night, I may as well be there also. What disguise is he in? A farm, laborers, the best he could adopt about here, with large black whiskers. He is stopping about three miles off, he said.",
  "sample_02018.wav": "in some obscure hiding place. And now,\" continued Barbara, \"'I want you to advise me, had I better inform Mama that Richard is here or not.'\"",
  "sample_02019.wav": "I should have premised that I have not yet told Mama it is Richard himself who is here, but that he has sent a messenger to beg for this money. Would it be advisable to acquaint her? Why should you not? I think you ought to do so. Then I will.",
  "sample_02020.wav": "Richard also wishes for an interview. It is only natural. Mrs. Hare must be thankful to hear so far that he is safe. I never saw anything like it, returned Barbara. The change is akin to magic. She says it has put life into her anew. And now for the last thing.",
  "sample_02021.wav": "earnest now or you're fooling. The first speaker answers by some formula or as a separation as",
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  "sample_02023.wav": "Hope to die if I don't. The speaker drawing with forefinger across the throat from ear to ear.",
  "sample_02024.wav": "First boy, on a bright. Second boy, hope to die. First boy, cut your throat. Second boy draws finger across throat.",
  "sample_02025.wav": "Certain, True, Black and Blue. A variant of the first line, certain and true.",
  "sample_02026.wav": "or the statement would be made and after it had been taken and believed the words over the left would be added.",
  "sample_02027.wav": "It shall have a bit. Ohio. Challenge. To stump another boy to do a thing is considered as putting a certain obligation on him to perform the action indicated.",
  "sample_02028.wav": "Sometimes it is to jump a certain distance, sometimes to skate out on thin ice.",
  "sample_02029.wav": "Once in Ohio several lads were collected together about a spring. One of them drew a pail of fresh water and by chance brought up a small live fish.",
  "sample_02030.wav": "The boys took the stump, one quickly cut up the unfortunate little animal, and each boy swallowed a bit. Often the dear is to eat some very untoothsome morsel.",
  "sample_02031.wav": "When the paper is decayed, you will find your wish in its place.",
  "sample_02032.wav": "After all, or collected the paper is secretly buried face downward and then dug up after two or three months when money is sometimes found under it.",
  "sample_02033.wav": "and the one who calls first is to receive a gift from the other.",
  "sample_02034.wav": "they will quarrel. Children avert this catastrophe by exclaiming bread and butter, which is a counter charm. On the other hand, if they say pepper and salt, the quarrel is made doubly certain.",
  "sample_02035.wav": "in country towns when girls are walking with young men.",
  "sample_02036.wav": "and as a token of indifference. In such a case one girl will cast a meaning look on her companion as much as to say he does not care for you. To use the local phrase it would be said, So-and-so is mad with naming the girl.",
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  "sample_02038.wav": "Thus in Croquet, no child in a town near Boston would take the red ball because it was supposed to mean hate.",
  "sample_02039.wav": "Pink and blue, he'll catch you.",
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  "sample_02041.wav": "The best physicians in America could do nothing for him. After nine long years of awful suffering, and after the cancer had totally eaten away his nose and portions of his face, as shown in his picture here given, his palate was entirely destroyed together with portions of his throat.",
  "sample_02042.wav": "Father fortunately discovered the great remedy that cured him. He lived over forty years, and no return of the disease. The same discovery has now thousands who were threatened with operation and death, and to prove that this is the truth we will give their sworn statement if you will write us.",
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  "sample_02049.wav": "Delays are dangerous. Unexpected changes are apt to bring on coughs and colds. Mare's cough balsam.",
  "sample_02050.wav": "If you have children, you ought to have a bottle of this medicine on the mantle.",
  "sample_02051.wav": "It looks big and important, and it makes a great noise. Even people a long way up in the scale of civilization are in the habit of taking these attributes perhaps not as the essential ones of leadership, but at all events as those by which a leader may be recognized.",
  "sample_02052.wav": "The pointsman moves a handle, and the foaming giant, that would, it may be, have sped on to his destruction, and that of the passive crew who follow in his rear, is shunted to another line, running in a different direction, and to a more desirable goal.",
  "sample_02053.wav": "The great intellectual pointsman of our age, the man who has done more than any other of this generation to give direction to the thought of his contemporaries, has passed away, and we are left to measure the loss to humanity by the result of his labors.",
  "sample_02054.wav": "Mr. Mill's achievements in both branches of philosophy are such as to give him the foremost place in either. Whether we regard him as an expounder of the philosophy of mind, or the philosophy of society,",
  "sample_02055.wav": "the structure raised by Adam Smith, Malthus, and Ricardo, but raised it at least one story higher. His inestimable system of logic was a revolution. It hardly needs, of course, to be said that he owed much to his predecessors.",
  "sample_02056.wav": "that he borrowed from Huiwell much of his classification, from Brown the chief lines of his theory of causation, from Sir John Herschel the main principles of the inductive methods. Those who think this a disparagement of his work must have very little conception of the",
  "sample_02057.wav": "of the massive original thought that still remains, to Mr. Mill's credit, the great critical power that could gather valuable truth from so many discordant sources, and the wonderful ability required to weld these and his own contributions.",
  "sample_02058.wav": "into one organic whole. When Mr. Mill commenced his labors the only logic recognized was the syllogistic.",
  "sample_02059.wav": "in deducing from general propositions other propositions less general. It was even asserted confidently that nothing more was to be expected, than an inductive logic was impossible. This conception of logical science necessitated",
  "sample_02060.wav": "some general propositions to start with. And these general propositions being x...",
  "sample_02061.wav": "Incapable of being proved from other propositions, it followed that, if they were known to us at all, they must be original data of consciousness. Here was a perfect paradise of question begging. The ultimate major premise in every argument being assumed",
  "sample_02062.wav": "It could, of course, be fashioned according to the particular conclusion it was called in to prove. Thus an artificial ignorance, as Locke calls it, was produced, which had the effect of sanctifying prejudice by recognizing so-called necessities of thought.",
  "sample_02063.wav": "as the only basis of reasoning. It is true that outside of the logic of the schools, great advances had been made in the rules of scientific investigation. But these rules were not only imperfect in themselves, but their connection with the law of causation",
  "sample_02064.wav": "was but imperfectly realized, and their true relation to syllogism hardly dreamt of. Mr. Mill altered all this. He demonstrated that the general type of reasoning is neither from generals to particulars, nor from particulars to generals, but from particulars to particulars.",
  "sample_02065.wav": "but are now dead, we are entitled to conclude that all human beings are mortal. We might surely, without any logical inconsequence, have concluded at once from those instances that the Duke of Wellington is mortal.",
  "sample_02066.wav": "The mortality of John, Thomas, and others is, after all, the whole evidence we have for the mortality of the Duke of Wellington. Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition.",
  "sample_02067.wav": "We not only may, according to Mr. Mill, reason from some particular instances to others, but we frequently do so. As, however, the instances which are sufficient to prove one fresh instance",
  "sample_02068.wav": "The work of deduction is the interpretation of these formulas, and therefore, strictly speaking, is not inferential at all. The real inference was accomplished when the universal proposition was arrived at.",
  "sample_02069.wav": "All reasoning is shown to be at bottom inductive. Inductions and their interpretation make up the whole of logic. And to induction accordingly Mr. Mill devoted his chief attention. For the first time induction was treated as the opus magnum of logic.",
  "sample_02070.wav": "and the fundamental principles of science traced to their inductive origin. It was this, taken with his theory of the syllogism, which worked the great change. Both his system of logic and his examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy,",
  "sample_02071.wav": "are for the most part devoted to fortifying this position and demolishing the beliefs inconsistent with it. As a systematic psychologist, Mr. Mill has not done so much as either Professor Bain or Mr. Herbert Spencer.",
  "sample_02072.wav": "The perfection of his method, its application, and the uprooting of prejudices which stood in its way, this was the task to which Mr. Mill applied himself, with an ability and success rarely matched and never surpassed.",
  "sample_02073.wav": "The biggest lion in the path was the doctrine of so-called necessary truth. This doctrine was especially obnoxious to him, as it set up a purely subjective standard of truth, and a standard, as he was easily able to show, of the truth.",
  "sample_02074.wav": "varying according to the psychological history of the individual. Such thinkers as Dr. Whewell and Mr. Herbert Spencer had to be met in intellectual combat. Dr. Whewell held, not that the inconceivability",
  "sample_02075.wav": "of the contradictory of a proposition is a proof of its truth co-equal with experience, but that its value transcends experience. Experience may tell us what is, but it is by the impossibility of conceiving it otherwise .",
  "sample_02076.wav": "In his examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, Mr. Mill gives battle to this mode of thought. After reviewing, in an opening chapter, the various views which have been held respecting the relativity of human knowledge.",
  "sample_02077.wav": "As Mr. Mill says, the name of God is veiled under two extremely abstract phrases, the Infinite and the Absolute. So profound and friendly a thinker as the late Mr. Groat held this raising of the veil",
  "sample_02078.wav": "by a mistake he fell into, the necessity of looking at the matter in the concrete. He acknowledged the force of Mr. Mill's argument that the Infinite must include a forago of contradictions.",
  "sample_02079.wav": "in which these contradictory attributes in here. But it was against a corresponding being, the Infinite, that Mr. Mill was arguing. It is this that he calls a",
  "sample_02080.wav": "and regarded as the reductio ad absurdisium of the transcendental philosophy. Mr. Mill's religious tendencies may very well be gathered from a passage in his review of Auguste Comte, a philosopher with whom he agreed on all points",
  "sample_02081.wav": "That old nuisance of a Rachel Lind was here again today, pestering me for a subscription towards buying a carpet for the vestry room, said Mr. Harrison wrathfully. I detest that woman more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon here.",
  "sample_02082.wav": "text, comment, and application into six words and throw it at you like a brick. Anne, who was perched on the edge of the veranda, enjoying the charm of a mild west wind blowing across a newly plowed field on a gray November twilight,",
  "sample_02083.wav": "and piping a quaint little melody among the twisted furs below the garden, turned her dreamy face over her shoulder. The trouble is, you and Mrs. Lin don't understand one another, she explained. That is always what is wrong when people don't like each other.",
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  "sample_02085.wav": "I said some dreadful things to Mrs. Lynde long ago, but it was when I had lost my temper. I couldn't say them deliberately. It was the truth, and I believe in telling the truth to everybody.",
  "sample_02086.wav": "you only tell the disagreeable part of the truth. Now, you've told me a dozen times that my hair was red, but you've never once told me that I had a nice nose.",
  "sample_02087.wav": "I know I have red hair too, although it's much darker than it used to be, so there's no need of telling me that either. Well, well, I'll try and not mention it again since you're so sensitive.",
  "sample_02088.wav": "You must excuse me, Anne. I've got a habit of being outspoken, and folks mustn't mind it. But they can't help minding it, and I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying,",
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  "sample_02091.wav": "Folks are everlasting begging for money here, it seems to me. How's your project of painting the hall coming along? Splendidly. We had a meeting of the AVIS last Friday night and found that we had plenty of money subscribed to paint the hall and shingle the roof too.",
  "sample_02092.wav": "Most people gave very liberally, Mr. Harrison. Anne was a sweet-souled lass, but she could instill some venom into innocent italics when occasion required. What color are you going to have it? We have decided on a very pretty green.",
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  "sample_02094.wav": "said they wouldn't give a cent unless Joshua got it. They had subscribed $12 between them, and we thought that was too much to lose, although some people think we shouldn't have given in to the pies. Mrs. Lin says they tried to run everything.",
  "sample_02095.wav": "The main question is will this Joshua do his work well? If he does I don't see that it matters whether his name is Pie or Pudding. He has the reputation of being a good workman though they say he's a very peculiar man. He hardly ever talks.",
  "sample_02096.wav": "He's peculiar enough, all right, then,\" said Mr. Harrison Dryley.",
  "sample_02097.wav": "I never was much of a talker till I came to Avonlea. And then I had to begin in self-defense or Mrs. Lynde would have said I was dumb and started a subscription to have me taught sign language.",
  "sample_02098.wav": "I must. I have some sewing to do for Dora this evening. Besides, Davey is probably breaking Merla's heart with some new mischief by this time. This morning, the first thing he said was, Where does the dart go, Anne? I want to know.",
  "sample_02099.wav": "The poor bird has been moping ever since. Those children must be a sight of trouble to you folks.\" \"'Everything that's worth having is some trouble,' said Anne, secretly resolving to forgive Davy's next defense, whatever it might be, since he had avenged her on Ginger.\"",
  "sample_02100.wav": "began painting the next day. He was not disturbed in his task. The hall was situated on what was called the lower road. In late autumn this road was always muddy and wet and people going to Carmody traveled by the longer upper road.",
  "sample_02101.wav": "The hall was so closely surrounded by fir woods that it was invisible unless you were near it Mr. Joshua pie painted away in a solitude and independence that were so dear to his unsociable heart Friday afternoon he finished his job and went home to Carmody",
  "sample_02102.wav": "The news flew like wildfire. Gilbert Blythe, pouring over a textbook at home, heard it from his father's hired boy at sunset, and rushed breathlessly to Green Gables, joined on the way by Fred Wright.",
  "sample_02103.wav": "arriving at this moment with a band box he had brought from town for Marilla. Haven't you heard? said Jane wrathfully. Well, it's simply this. Joshua Pye has gone and painted the hall blue instead of green, a deep brilliant blue.",
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  "sample_02105.wav": "It's heartbreaking after all the trouble we've had. How on earth could such a mistake have happened, whale Diana? The blame of this unmerciful disaster was eventually narrowed down to the pies. The improvers had decided to use Morton Harris paints.",
  "sample_02106.wav": "and the Morton Harris paint cans were numbered according to a color card. A purchaser chose his shade on the card and ordered by the accompanying number.",
  "sample_02107.wav": "And when Mr. Roger Pye sent word to the improvers by his son, John Andrew, that he was going to town and would get their paint for them,",
  "sample_02108.wav": "And there the matter stands to this day. That night there was blank dismay in every Avonlea house where an improver lived. The gloom at Green Gables was so intense that it quenched even Davy. Anne wept and would not be comforted.",
  "sample_02109.wav": "and it sounds the death knell of our society, will simply be laughed out of existence. In life, as in dreams, however, things often go by contraries. The Avonlea people did not laugh, they were too angry.",
  "sample_02110.wav": "Their money had gone to paint the hall, and consequently they felt themselves bitterly aggrieved by the mistake. Public indignation centered on the Pies. Roger Pye and John Andrew had bungled the matter between them.",
  "sample_02111.wav": "I would here willingly have proceeded to exhibit the whole chain of truths which I deduced from these primary. But as with the view to this, it would have been necessary now to treat of many questions.",
  "sample_02112.wav": "I believe that it will be better for me to refrain from this exposition, and only mention in general what these truths are, that the more judicious may be able to determine whether a more special account of them would conduce to the public advantage.",
  "sample_02113.wav": "I have ever remained firm in my original resolution to suppose no other principle than that of which I have recently availed myself in demonstrating the existence of God and of the soul.",
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  "sample_02116.wav": "and of which he has impressed on our minds such notions, that after we have reflected sufficiently upon these, we cannot doubt that they are accurately observed in all that exists or takes place in the world and farther by considering",
  "sample_02117.wav": "But like the painters who, finding themselves unable to represent equally well on a plain surface all of the different faces of a solid body, select one of the chief on which alone they make the light fall, and throwing the rest into the shade,",
  "sample_02118.wav": "Fearing lest I should not be able to compense in my discourse all that was in my mind, I resolved to expound singly, though at considerable length, my opinion regarding light. Then...",
  "sample_02119.wav": "to take the opportunity of adding something on the Sun and fixed stars, since light almost wholly proceeds from them, on the heavens since they transmit it, on the planets, comets, and Earth since they reflect it, and particularly, on the Sun.",
  "sample_02120.wav": "on all the bodies that are upon the earth since they are either colored or transparent or luminous, and finally on man since he is the spectator of these objects.",
  "sample_02121.wav": "Further, to enable me to cast this variety of subjects somewhat into the shade and to express my judgment regarding them with greater freedom, without being necessitated to adopt or refute the opinions of the learned.",
  "sample_02122.wav": "I resolved to leave all the people here to their disputes. And to speak only of what would happen in a new world, if God were now to create somewhere in the imaginary spaces.",
  "sample_02123.wav": "matter sufficient to compose one, and were to agitate variously and confusedly the different parts of this matter, so that there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned.",
  "sample_02124.wav": "and after that did nothing more than lend his ordinary concurrence to nature, and allow her to act in accordance with the laws which he had established. On this supposition I, in the first place, described this matter.",
  "sample_02125.wav": "and assayed to represent it in such a manner that to my mind there can be nothing clearer and more intelligible except what has been recently said regarding God and the soul.",
  "sample_02126.wav": "For I even expressly supposed that it possessed none of those forms or qualities which are so debated in the schools, nor in general anything the knowledge of which is not so natural to our minds.",
  "sample_02127.wav": "I endeavored to demonstrate all those about which there could be any room for doubt.",
  "sample_02128.wav": "that even if God had created more worlds, there could have been none in which these laws were not observed. Thereafter, I showed how the greatest part of the matter of this chaos must, in accordance with these laws, dispose and arrange itself in such a way.",
  "sample_02129.wav": "as to present the appearance of heavens, how in the meantime some of its parts must compose an earth and some planets and comets and others a sun and fixed stars. And making a digression at this stage on the subject of light.",
  "sample_02130.wav": "I expounded at considerable length what the nature of that light must be.",
  "sample_02131.wav": "and how thence in an instant of time it traverses the immense spaces of the heavens, and how from the planets and comets it is reflected towards the earth. To this I likewise added much respecting the substance, the situation, the motions,",
  "sample_02132.wav": "and all the different qualities of these heavens and stars, so that I thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not, appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.",
  "sample_02133.wav": "I came next to speak of the earth in particular, and to show how, even though I had expressly supposed that God had given no weight to the matter of which it is composed, this should not prevent all its parts from tending exactly.",
  "sample_02134.wav": "to that observed in our seas, as also a certain current both of water and air from east to west, such as is likewise observed between the tropics, how the mountains, seas, fountains, and rivers might naturally be formed in it.",
  "sample_02135.wav": "and the metals produced in the mines, and the plants grown in the fields and in general, how all the bodies which are commonly denominated mixed or composite might be generated and, among other things, in the discoveries alluded to,",
  "sample_02136.wav": "I knew nothing except fire, which produces light. I spared no pains to set forth all that pertains to its nature, the manner of its production and support, and to explain how heat is sometimes found without light, and light without heat.",
  "sample_02137.wav": "to show how it can induce various colors upon different bodies and other diverse qualities, how it reduces some to a liquid state and hardens others, how it can consume almost all bodies or convert them into ashes and smoke.",
  "sample_02138.wav": "And finally, how from these ashes.",
  "sample_02139.wav": "For as this transmutation of ashes into glass appeared to me as wonderful as any other in nature, I took a special pleasure in describing it. I was not, however, disposed from these circumstances.",
  "sample_02140.wav": "to conclude that this world had been created in the manner I described.",
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  "sample_02142.wav": "But what to our eyes may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success. It may contain in its debris the foundation material of a mighty purpose, or the revelation of new and higher possibilities.",
  "sample_02143.wav": "Some years ago it was proposed to send logs from Canada to New York by a new method. The ingenious plan of Mr. Joggins was to bind great logs together by cables and iron girders.",
  "sample_02144.wav": "and the angry waters scattered the logs far and wide. The chief of the hydrographic department at Washington heard of the failure of the experiment, and it once sent word to ship masters the world over.",
  "sample_02145.wav": "urging them to watch carefully for these logs which he described, and to note the precise location of each in latitude and longitude, and the time the observation was made.",
  "sample_02146.wav": "noted the logs in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Mediterranean, in the South Seas, for into all waters did these venturesome ones travel. Hundreds of reports were made, covering a period of weeks and months.",
  "sample_02147.wav": "These observations were then carefully collated, systemized, and tabulated, and discoveries were made as to the course of ocean currents that otherwise would have been impossible. The loss of the Joggins raft was not a real failure.",
  "sample_02148.wav": "for it led to one of the great discoveries in modern marine geography and navigation. In our superior knowledge we are disposed to speak in a patronizing tone.",
  "sample_02149.wav": "But their failure to transmute the baser metals into gold resulted in the birth of chemistry. They did not succeed in what they attempted, but they brought into vogue the natural processes of sublimation, filtration.",
  "sample_02150.wav": "distillation, and crystallization. They invented the alimbec, the retort, the sand bath, the water bath, and other valuable instruments. To them is due the discovery of antimony, sulfuric ether and phosphorus.",
  "sample_02151.wav": "and its use in gunpowder, and the discovery of the distillation of essential oils. This was the success of failure, a wondrous process of nature for the highest growth, a mighty lesson of comfort, strength, and encouragement.",
  "sample_02152.wav": "In discovering America, Columbus failed absolutely. His ingenious reasoning and experiment led him to believe that by sailing westward he would reach India. Every Redman in America carries in his name Indian.",
  "sample_02153.wav": "the perpetuation of the memory of the failure of Columbus. The Genoese navigator did not reach India. The cargo of souvenirs he took back to Spain to show to Ferdinand and Isabella as proofs of his success.",
  "sample_02154.wav": "really attested his failure, but the discovery of America was a greater success than was any finding of a back door to India. When David Livingstone had supplemented his theological education by a medical course",
  "sample_02155.wav": "opened a whole continent to light and truth. His study proved an ideal preparation for his labors as physician, explorer, teacher, and evangel in the wilds of Africa.",
  "sample_02156.wav": "Business reverses, and the failure of his partner threw upon the broad shoulders and the still broader honor and honesty of Sir Walter Scott a burden of responsibility that forced him to write.",
  "sample_02157.wav": "His brush strokes, put on in the early morning hours before going to his menial duties as a railway porter in the dusk like that perpetrated on his canvas, meant strength, food and medicine for the dying wife he adored.",
  "sample_02158.wav": "The art failure that cast him into the depths of poverty unified with marvelous intensity all the finer elements of his nature. This rare spiritual unity.",
  "sample_02159.wav": "This purging of all the dross of triviality as he passed through the furnace of poverty, trial and sorrow, gave eloquence to his brush and enabled him to paint as never before, as no prosperity would have made possible.",
  "sample_02160.wav": "Failure is often the turning point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels. It may not be financial success. It may not be fame. It may be new draughts of spiritual, moral, or mental inspiration.",
  "sample_02161.wav": "There is but one question for him to answer, to face boldly and honestly, as an individual alone with his conscience and his destiny. How will I let that poverty or wealth affect me? Has that trial or deprivation has left me better?",
  "sample_02162.wav": "truer, nobler, then poverty has been riches, failure has been a success. If wealth has come to me and has made me vain, arrogant, contemptuous, uncharitable, cynical,",
  "sample_02163.wav": "It has not been riches, it has been dark, treacherous poverty, that stole from me even myself. All things become for us then what we take from them. Failure is one of God's educators.",
  "sample_02164.wav": "It is experience leading man to higher things. It is the revelation of a way, a path hitherto unknown to us. The best men in the world, those who have made the greatest real successes,",
  "sample_02165.wav": "look back with serene happiness on their failures. The turning of the face of time shows all things in a wondrously illuminated and satisfying perspective. Many a man is thankful today that some petty success for which he once struggled.",
  "sample_02166.wav": "melted into thin air as his hands sought to clutch it. Failure is often the rock-bottom foundation of real success. If man in a few instances of his life can say,",
  "sample_02167.wav": "The death or destruction of the seed is the prelude to its resurrection as wheat. It is the night in the darkest hours, those preceding dawn, that plants grow best, that they most increase in size.",
  "sample_02168.wav": "May this not be one of Nature's gentle showings to man of the times when he grows best, of the darkness of failure that is evolving into the sunlight of success. Let us fear only the failure of not living the right as we see it.",
  "sample_02169.wav": "leaving the results to the guardianship of the Infinite. If we think of any supreme moment of our lives, any great success, anyone who is dear to us, and then consider how we reach that moment, that success,",
  "sample_02170.wav": "We will see how logical has been the course of our joy and success, from sorrow and failure, and that what gives us most happiness today is inextricably connected with what once caused us sorrow.",
  "sample_02171.wav": "CHAPTER 1 Mrs. Rachel Lynde is surprised Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' ear drops and traversed by a brook.",
  "sample_02172.wav": "that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place. It was reputed to be an intricate headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade. But by the time it reached Lynn's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream.",
  "sample_02173.wav": "for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynn's door without due regard for decency and decorum. It probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up.",
  "sample_02174.wav": "and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof. There are plenty of people in Avonlea and out of it who can attend closely to their neighbors' business by dint of neglecting their own.",
  "sample_02175.wav": "But Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain. She was a notable housewife. Her work was always done, and well done. She ran the sewing circle.",
  "sample_02176.wav": "helped run the Sunday school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary. Yet with all this Mrs. Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window knitting cotton-warp quilts. She had knitted sixteen of them, and",
  "sample_02177.wav": "as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in odd voices, and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.",
  "sample_02178.wav": "anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs. Rachel's all-seeing eye. She was sitting there one afternoon in early June. The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright. you",
  "sample_02179.wav": "The orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees. Thomas Lynde, a meek little man whom Avonlea people called Rachel Lynde's husband, was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn.",
  "sample_02180.wav": "Mrs. Rachel knew that he ought, because she had heard him tell Peter Morrison the evening before in William J. Blair's store over at Carmody, that he meant to sew his turnip seed the next afternoon.",
  "sample_02181.wav": "Peter had asked him, of course, for Matthew Cuthbert had never been known to volunteer information about anything in his whole life. And yet here was Matthew Cuthbert, at half-past the afternoon of a busy day, placidly driving over the hollow and up the hill.",
  "sample_02182.wav": "and his best suit of clothes, which was plain proof that he was going out of Avonlea. And he had the buggy and the sorrel mare, which betokened that he was going a considerable distance. Now where was Matthew Cuthbert going, and why was he going there?",
  "sample_02183.wav": "Had it been any other man in Avonlea, Mrs. Rachel, deftly putting this and that together, might have given a pretty good guess as to both questions. But Matthew so rarely went from home that it must be something pressing and unusual which was taking him.",
  "sample_02184.wav": "He was the shyest man alive and hated to have to go among strangers or to any place where he might have to talk. Matthew, dressed up with a white collar and driving in a buggy, was something that didn't happen often. Mrs. Rachel, ponder as she might, could make nothing of it.",
  "sample_02185.wav": "And her afternoon's enjoyment was spoiled. I'll just step over to Green Gables after tea and find out from Marilla where he's gone and why,\" the worthy woman finally concluded. He doesn't generally go to town this time of year, and he never visits.",
  "sample_02186.wav": "If he'd run out of turnip-seat he wouldn't dress up and take the buggy to go for more.",
  "sample_02187.wav": "Yet something must have happened since last night to start him off. I'm clean-puzzled, that's what, and I won't know a minute's peace of mind or conscience until I know what has taken Matthew Cuthbert out of Avonlea to-day. Accordingly, after tea Mrs. Rachel set out. She had not far to go.",
  "sample_02188.wav": "The big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynn's Hollow. To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further. Matthew Cuthberts' father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had been",
  "sample_02189.wav": "had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he found it his homestead. Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land. And there it was to this day.",
  "sample_02190.wav": "barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated. Mrs. Rachel Lynde did not call living in such a place living at all. It's just staying, that's what she said as she stepped along the deep-rutted grassy lane.",
  "sample_02191.wav": "bordered with wild rose-bushes. It's no wonder Matthew and Marilla are both a little odd, living away back here by themselves. Trees aren't much company, though dear knows if they were there'd be enough of them. I'd rather look at people\u2014to be sure.\"",
  "sample_02192.wav": "They seem contented enough, but then I suppose they're used to it. A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said. With this Mrs. Rachel stepped out of the lane into the back yard of Green Gables. Very green and neat and precise was that yard.",
  "sample_02193.wav": "set about on one side with great patriarchal willows, and the other with prim lombardies. Not a stray stick nor stone was to be seen, for Mrs. Rachel would have seen it if there had been. Privately she was of the opinion that Marilla Cuthbert swept that yard over as often as she swept her house.",
  "sample_02194.wav": "One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs. Rachel rapped smartly at the kitchen door and stepped in when bidden to do so. The kitchen at Green Gables was a cheerful apartment.",
  "sample_02195.wav": "Or would have been cheerful, if it had not been so painfully clean as to give it something of the appearance of an unused parlour. Its windows looked east and west. Through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight. But the east one.",
  "sample_02196.wav": "Once you got a glimpse of the bloom, white cherry-trees in the left orchard, and nodding slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines. Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine.",
  "sample_02197.wav": "And here she sat now, knitting, and the table behind her was laid for supper. This was Rachel, before she had fairly closed the door.",
  "sample_02198.wav": "There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting someone home with Matthew to tea. But the dishes were every-day dishes, and there was only crab-apple preserves and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company.",
  "sample_02199.wav": "Yet what of Matthew's white collar and the sorrel mare? Mrs. Rachel was getting fairly dizzy with this unusual mystery about quiet, unmisterious green gables. \"'Good evening, Rachel,' Marilla said briskly. \"'This is a real fine evening, isn't it? Won't you sit down?'",
  "sample_02200.wav": "How are all your folks?\" Something that for lack of any other name might be called friendship existed and always had existed between Marilla Cuffbert and Mrs. Rachel, in spite of, or perhaps because of, their dissimilarity. Marilla was a tall,",
  "sample_02201.wav": "Chapter 4. A Prisoner. We had gone perhaps ten miles when the ground began to rise very rapidly. We were, as I was later to learn, nearing the edge of one of Ma's long dead seas, in the bottom of which",
  "sample_02202.wav": "my encounter with the Martians had taken place. In a short time we gained the foot of the mountains and after traversing a narrow gorge came to an open valley, at the far extremity of which was a low table land upon which I had beheld",
  "sample_02203.wav": "enormous city. Toward this we galloped, entering it by what appeared to be a ruined roadway leading out from the city, but only to the edge of the table land where it ended abruptly in a flight of broad steps.",
  "sample_02204.wav": "Upon closer observation I saw as we passed them that the buildings were deserted, and while not greatly decayed had the appearance of not having been tenanted for years, possibly for ages.",
  "sample_02205.wav": "Toward the center of the city was a large plaza, and upon this, and in the buildings immediately surrounding it, were camped some nine or ten hundred creatures of the same breed as my captors.",
  "sample_02206.wav": "For such I now considered them, despite the suave manner in which I had been trapped. With the exception of their ornaments all were naked, the women varied in appearance but little from the men, except that their tusks were much larger in proportion to their height.",
  "sample_02207.wav": "In some instances curving nearly to the high set ears. Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males.",
  "sample_02208.wav": "The adult females ranged in height from 10 to 12 feet. The children were light in color, even lighter than the women, and all looked precisely alike to me, except that some were taller.",
  "sample_02209.wav": "which leads no living Martian nose wither, and from whose bosom no Martian has ever returned, or would be allowed to live did he return after once embarking upon its cold, dark waters.",
  "sample_02210.wav": "Only about one Martian in a thousand dies of sickness or disease and possibly about twenty take the voluntary pilgrimage. The other nine hundred and seventy nine die violent deaths in duels, in hunting,",
  "sample_02211.wav": "in aviation and in war, but perhaps by far the greatest death loss comes during the age of childhood when vast numbers of the little Martians fall victim to the great white apes of Mars.",
  "sample_02212.wav": "The average life expectancy of a Martian after the age of maturity is about 300 years, but would be nearer the 1000 mark were it not for the various means leading to violent death.",
  "sample_02213.wav": "Owing to the waning resources of the planet, it evidently became necessary to counteract the increasing longevity which their remarkable skill in therapeutics and surgery produced.",
  "sample_02214.wav": "And so, human life has come to be considered but lightly on Mars, as is evidenced by the dangerous sports and the almost continual warfare between the various communities.",
  "sample_02215.wav": "without a weapon of destruction. As we neared the plaza and my presence was discovered, we were immediately surrounded by hundreds of the creatures who seemed anxious to pluck me from my seat behind my guard. A word from the leader of the party.",
  "sample_02216.wav": "stilled their clamor, and we proceeded at a trot across the plaza to the entrance of as magnificent an edifice as Morda Ai has rested upon. The building was low but covered an enormous area.",
  "sample_02217.wav": "It was constructed of gleaming white marble, inlaid with gold and brilliant stones which sparkled and scintillated in the sunlight. The main entrance was some hundred feet in width and projected from the building proper.",
  "sample_02218.wav": "to form a huge canopy above the entrance hall. There was no stairway, but a gentle incline to the first floor of the building opened into an enormous chamber encircled by galleries. On the floor of this chamber,",
  "sample_02219.wav": "which was dotted with highly carved wooden desks and chairs, were assembled about 40 or 50 male Martians around the steps of a rostrum. On the platform proper,",
  "sample_02220.wav": "gay-colored feathers and beautifully wrought leather trappings, ingeniously set with precious stones. From his shoulders depended a short cape of white fur lined with brilliant scarlet silk. What struck me as most remarkable was his",
  "sample_02221.wav": "about this assemblage and the hall in which they were congregated was the fact that the creatures were entirely out of proportion to the desks, chairs, and other furnishings. These beings of a size adapted to human beings such as I.",
  "sample_02222.wav": "whereas the great bulks of the Martians",
  "sample_02223.wav": "nor was there room beneath the desk for their long legs. Evidently, then, there were other denizens of Mars than the wild and grotesque creatures into whose hands I had fallen, but the evidences of extreme antiquity",
  "sample_02224.wav": "and at a sign from the leader I had been lowered to the ground. Again locking his arm in mine, we had proceeded into the audience chamber. There were few formalities observed in approaching the Martian chieftain.",
  "sample_02225.wav": "My captain merely strode up to the rostrum, the others making way for him as he advanced. The chieftain rose to his feet and uttered the name of my escort, who in turn halted and repeated the name of the ruler followed by his title.",
  "sample_02226.wav": "At the time, this ceremony and the words they uttered meant nothing to me, but later I came to know that this was the customary greeting between green Martians. Had the men been strangers, and therefore unable to exchange names,",
  "sample_02227.wav": "had their missions been peaceful. Otherwise, they would have exchanged shots or have fought out their introduction with some other of their various weapons. My captor, whose name was Tars Tarkas,",
  "sample_02228.wav": "and when he had concluded the chieftain addressed me at some length. I replied in our good old English tongue merely to convince him that neither of us could understand the other.",
  "sample_02229.wav": "but I noticed that when I smiled slightly on concluding, he did likewise. This fact, and the similar occurrence during my first talk with Taw's Tarkus, convinced me that we had at least something in common. The ability to smile",
  "sample_02230.wav": "therefore to laugh denoting a sense of humor. But I was to learn that the Martian smile is merely perfunctory, and that the Martian laugh is a thing to cause strong men to blanch in horror. The ideas",
  "sample_02231.wav": "Pope's Iliad.",
  "sample_02232.wav": "The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble. The Grey Head and the Sagamore are safe.",
  "sample_02233.wav": "Go! Uncas and the open hand are now strangers. It is enough.",
  "sample_02234.wav": "But a gentle push from his friend urged him toward the door, and admonished him of the danger that might attend the discovery of their intercourse. Slowly, and reluctantly yielding to the necessity, he quitted the place, and mangled with the throng that hovered nigh.",
  "sample_02235.wav": "The dying fires and the clearing cast a dim and uncertain light on the dusky figures that were silently stalking to and fro, and occasionally a brighter gleam than common glanced to the lodge, and exhibited the figure of Uncas.",
  "sample_02236.wav": "After the determination of the scene, Duncan wandered among the lodges, unquestioned and unnoticed, endeavoring to find some trace of her in whose behalf he incurred the risk he ran.",
  "sample_02237.wav": "he retraced his steps to the council lodge, resolved to seek and question David in order to put an end to his doubts. On reaching the building, which had proved alike the seat of judgment and the place of execution,",
  "sample_02238.wav": "Though the return of Duncan was likely to remind them of his character and the suspicious circumstances of his visit, it produced no visible sensation. So far, the terrible scene that had just occurred...",
  "sample_02239.wav": "proved favourable to his views, and he required no other prompter than his own feelings to convince him of the expediency of profiting by so unexpected an advantage. He felt seeming to hesitate.",
  "sample_02240.wav": "He walked into the lodge and took a seat with a gravity that accorded admirably with the deportment of his hosts. A hasty but searching glance suffice to tell him that, though Unka still remained where he had left him.",
  "sample_02241.wav": "David had not reappeared. No other restraint was imposed on the former than the watchful looks of a young Huron, who had placed himself at hand, though an armed warrior leaned against the post that formed one side of the narrow doorway.",
  "sample_02242.wav": "In every other respect the captive seemed at liberty. Still he was excluded from all participation in the discourse, and possessed much more of the air of some finely molded statue than a man having life and volition.",
  "sample_02243.wav": "He would greatly have preferred silence and meditation to speech, when a discovery of his real condition might prove so instantly fatal. Unfortunately, for this prudent resolution, his entertainers appeared otherwise disposed.",
  "sample_02244.wav": "He had not long occupied the seat wisely taken a little in the shade, when another of the elder warriors who spoke the French language addressed him. My Canada father does not forget his children said the chief.",
  "sample_02245.wav": "I thank him. An evil spirit lives in the wife of one of my young men. Can the cunning stranger frighten him away?\" Hayward possessed some knowledge in the mummery practiced among the Indians.",
  "sample_02246.wav": "in the cases of such supposed visitations. He saw at a glance that the circumstance might possibly be improved to further his own ends. It would therefore have been difficult just then to have uttered a proposal.",
  "sample_02247.wav": "that would have given him more satisfaction. Aware of the necessity of preserving the dignity of his imaginary character, however, he repressed his feelings and answered with suitable mystery. Spirits Differ",
  "sample_02248.wav": "The Huron was content with the assurance, and resuming his pipe, he awaited the proper moment to move. The impatient Hayward, interlaced exocrating the cold customs of the savages.",
  "sample_02249.wav": "equal to that maintained by the chief, who was, in truth, a new relative of the afflicted woman. The minutes lingered, and the delay had seemed an hour to the adventure in empiricism. The heroine laid aside his pipe.",
  "sample_02250.wav": "and drew his robe across his breast, as if about to lead the way to the lodge of the Invalid. Just then a warrior of powerful frame darkened the door, and stalking silently among the attentive group.",
  "sample_02251.wav": "he seated himself on one end of the low pile of brush, which sustained Duncan. The latter cast an impatient look at his neighbor, and felt his flesh creep with uncontrollable horror when he found himself in actual contact with Magwa.",
  "sample_02252.wav": "Several pipes that had been extinguished were lighted again.",
  "sample_02253.wav": "drew his tomahawk from his girdle, and filling the bowl on its head, began to inhale the vapors of the weed through the hollow handle.",
  "sample_02254.wav": "Ten minutes, which appeared so many ages to Duncan, might have passed in this manner. And the warriors were fairly enveloped in a cloud of white smoke before any of them spoke.",
  "sample_02255.wav": "Has my friend found the moose?\" The young men stagger under their burdens, returned Maigwa. Let Reed the Bins go on the hunting path. He will meet them. A deep and awful silence succeeded the utterance of the forbidden name.",
  "sample_02256.wav": "as though all had inhaled an impurity at the same instant. The smoke breezed above their heads a little eddies.",
  "sample_02257.wav": "leaving the place beneath clear of its fumes.",
  "sample_02258.wav": "The looks of most of the warriors were riveted on the earth.",
  "sample_02259.wav": "suffered their wild and glaring eyeballs to roll in the direction of a white-headed savage.",
  "sample_02260.wav": "Like most around him for more than a minute, his look, too, was on the ground. But trusting his eyes at length to steal a glance aside, he perceived that he was becoming an object of general attention.",
  "sample_02261.wav": "13th Lecture The Dream Archaic Remnants and Infantalism in the Dream Let us revert to our conclusion that the dream-work, under the influence of the dream-censorship,",
  "sample_02262.wav": "transforms the latent dream thoughts into some other form of expression. The latent thoughts are no other than the conscious thoughts known to us in our waking hours. The new mode of expression is incomprehensible to us because of its many-sided features.",
  "sample_02263.wav": "So we call the mode of expression of the dream work the archaic or regressive. You may conclude that as a result of the deeper study of the dream work, we gain valuable information about the rather unknown beginnings of our intellectual development. I trust this will be true.",
  "sample_02264.wav": "But this work has not, up to the present time, been undertaken. The antiquity into which the Dream Work carries a spack is of a double aspect. Firstly, the individual antiquity, childhood, and secondly, insofar as every individual in his childhood.",
  "sample_02265.wav": "that we shall be able to differentiate which part of the latent psychic proceedings has its source in the individual.",
  "sample_02266.wav": "In this connection, it appears to me, for example, that the symbolic relations which the individual has never learned",
  "sample_02267.wav": "However, this is not the only archaic characteristic of the dream. You probably all know from your own experiences the peculiar amnesia, that is, loss of memory, concerning childhood. I mean the fact that the first years to the fifth...",
  "sample_02268.wav": "that of a gap in the memory is far more frequent. I believe we have not laid enough stress on this fact. The child is able to speak well at the age of two. It soon shows that it can become adjusted to the most complicated psychic situations.",
  "sample_02269.wav": "and makes remarks which years later are retold to it, but which it has itself entirely forgotten. Besides, the memory in the early years is more facile, because it is less burdened than in later years.",
  "sample_02270.wav": "Nor is there any reason for considering the memory function as a particularly high or difficult psychic performance. In fact, the contrary is true, and you can find a good memory in persons who stand very low intellectually.",
  "sample_02271.wav": "I must point out that certain well-preserved memories, for the most part formatively experienced, stand forth in this memory void, which surrounds the first years of childhood, and do not justify this hypothesis.",
  "sample_02272.wav": "Our memory deals selectively with its later materials, with impressions which come to us in later life. It retains the important and discards the unimportant. This is not true of the retained childhood memories.",
  "sample_02273.wav": "They do not bespeak necessarily important experiences of childhood, not even such as from the viewpoint of the child need appear of importance. They are often so banal and intrinsically so meaningless that we ask ourselves and wonder why just these details?",
  "sample_02274.wav": "have escaped being forgotten. I once endeavored to approach the riddle of childhood amnesia and the interrupted memory remnants with the help of analysis and I arrived at the conclusion that in the case of the child too...",
  "sample_02275.wav": "By means of careful analysis, one is able to develop out of them everything that is forgotten.",
  "sample_02276.wav": "and insofar as the cure is to any degree successful, we are able again to bring to light the content of the childhood years, thus clouded in forgetfulness. These impressions have never really been forgotten. They have only been inaccessible, latent.",
  "sample_02277.wav": "and have belonged to the unconscious. But sometimes they bob up out of the unconscious spontaneously. And as a matter of fact, this is what happens in dreams. It is apparent that the dream life knows how to find the entrance to these latent",
  "sample_02278.wav": "Beautiful examples of this occur in literature, and I myself can present such an example. I once dreamed in a certain connection of a person who must have performed some service for me, and whom I clearly saw. He was a one-eyed man, short in stature, stout.",
  "sample_02279.wav": "His head deeply sunk into his neck. I concluded from the content that he was a physician. Luckily I was able to ask my mother, who was still living, how the physician in my birthplace, which I left when I was three years old, looked.",
  "sample_02280.wav": "And I learned from her that he had one eye, was short and stout, with his head sunk into his neck, and also learned at what forgotten mishap he had been of service to me. This control over the forgotten material of childhood years",
  "sample_02281.wav": "is then a further archaic tendency of the dream. The same information may be made use of in another of the puzzles that have presented themselves to us. You will recall how astonished people were.",
  "sample_02282.wav": "when we came to the conclusion that the stimuli, which gave rise to dreams, were extremely bad and licentious sexual desires, which have made dream censorship and dream distortion necessary. After we have interpreted such a dream for the dreamer, and he\u2014",
  "sample_02283.wav": "in the most favorable circumstances, does not attack the interpretation itself. He almost always asks the question, whence such a wish comes?",
  "sample_02284.wav": "We need not hesitate to point out this origin. These evil wish impulses have their origin in the past, often in a past which is not too far away.",
  "sample_02285.wav": "The woman whose dream is interpreted to mean that she would like to see her 17-year-old daughter dead, discovers under our guidance that she in fact at one time entertained this wish.",
  "sample_02286.wav": "which early ended in a separation.",
  "sample_02287.wav": "She beat her body with her fists in a fit of anger, in order to kill the child. How many mothers who today love their children tenderly, perhaps too tenderly, receive them unwillingly, and at the time wish that the life within them would not develop further?",
  "sample_02288.wav": "Indeed, translated, this wish into various actions, happily harmless. The later death wish against some loved one, which seems so strange, also has its origin in early phases of the relationship to that person.",
  "sample_02289.wav": "This wish was no stranger to him. While the child was still a suckling, this man who was unhappy in his choice of a wife, often thought that if the little being that meant nothing to him would die, he would again be free, and would make better use of his freedom.",
  "sample_02290.wav": "that such wishes and such dreams cannot occur.",
  "sample_02291.wav": "Chapter 19, The Glory of Gettysburg. The Battle.",
  "sample_02292.wav": "If Lee had been victorious there, he might have destroyed Philadelphia and New York. By such a brilliant stroke, he could have surrounded and captured Baltimore and Washington. This would have changed the grand result of the war.",
  "sample_02293.wav": "In point of numbers, bravery and genius, the Battle of Gettysburg was the greatest that had ever been fought up to that time. Glorious as this was,",
  "sample_02294.wav": "The greatest glory of Gettysburg lay in the experiences and utterances of one man, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States of America. It came at a terrible time in the progress of the war.",
  "sample_02295.wav": "accounted victory enough for the President to issue his Emancipation Proclamation, proved to be a drawn battle, with terrific losses on both sides. Lee was driven back from Maryland then, it is true,",
  "sample_02296.wav": "but he soon won the great battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and had made his way north into Pennsylvania. The night after the Battle of Chancellorsville",
  "sample_02297.wav": "was the darkest in the history of the Civil War. President Lincoln walked the floor the whole night long crying out in his anguish, Oh, what will the country say?",
  "sample_02298.wav": "After winning the battle of Gettysburg, which the President hoped would end the war, General Meade, instead of announcing that he had captured the Confederate Army, stated that he had, driven the invaders from our soil.",
  "sample_02299.wav": "Believing he was on God's side, he felt that the cause of right could not lose, for the Lord would save his own. The next day, July 4th, 1863, came the surrender of Vicksburg.",
  "sample_02300.wav": "the stronghold of the great West.",
  "sample_02301.wav": "Calling on General Sickles in a Washington hospital, for the general had lost a leg on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the President was asked why he believed that victory would be given the Federal Forces at Gettysburg.",
  "sample_02302.wav": "I will tell you how it was. In the pinch of your campaign up there, when everybody seemed panic stricken,",
  "sample_02303.wav": "that if he would stand by our boys at Gettysburg, I would stand by him. And he did, and I will. The President's call on General Sickles was on the Sunday after the three days battle of Gettysburg.",
  "sample_02304.wav": "before the arrival of the gunboat at Cairo, Illinois, with the glad tidings from Vicksburg, which added new luster to the patriotic joy of Independence Day. The telegraph wires",
  "sample_02305.wav": "had been so generally cut on all sides of Vicksburg that the news was sent to Cairo and telegraphed to Washington. In proof that his faith even included the Mississippi blockade, he went on, besides,",
  "sample_02306.wav": "I have been praying over Vicksburg also, and believe our Heavenly Father is going to give us victory there too, because we need it, in order to bisect the Confederacy.",
  "sample_02307.wav": "prominent in national and educational affairs, and the greatest living orator, was invited to deliver the grand oration. The president was asked, if he could, to come and make a few dedicatory remarks.",
  "sample_02308.wav": "but Mr. Everett was to be the chief speaker of the occasion. The Sunday before the 19th of November 1863, the date of the dedication, the president went with his friend Noah Brooks",
  "sample_02309.wav": "to Gardner's Gallery in Washington, where he had promised to sit for his photograph. While there he showed Mr. Brooks a proof of Everett's oration, which had been sent to him. As this printed address covered two newspaper pages,",
  "sample_02310.wav": "When Mr. Brooks asked about his speech for that occasion, Mr. Lincoln replied, I've got it written but not looked into shape yet. It's short, short, short.",
  "sample_02311.wav": "During the forenoon of the 18th, Secretary John Hay was anxious lest the President be late for the special presidential train, which was to leave at noon for Gettysburg. Don't worry, John,\" said Mr. Lincoln.",
  "sample_02312.wav": "Don't hurry, boys. There won't be anything going on till I get there.\" When the train stopped on the way to Gettysburg, a little girl on the platform held up a bouquet to Mr. Lincoln, lisping, Flowerth for the President.",
  "sample_02313.wav": "He reached out, took her up, and kissed her saying, You're a sweet little rosebud yourself. I hope your life will open into perpetual beauty and goodness.",
  "sample_02314.wav": "About noon on the 19th of November, the distinguished party arrived in a procession and took seats on the platform erected for the exercises. The President was seated in a rocking chair placed there for him.",
  "sample_02315.wav": "There were 15,000 people waiting.",
  "sample_02316.wav": "watching her while the President of the United States was fanning her tenderly. This was too much for her. She gasped, I feel better now. I want to go back to my husband.",
  "sample_02317.wav": "The fact that the president was speaking was sufficient, no matter what he said. The people would have applauded Abraham Lincoln if he had merely recited the multiplication table.",
  "sample_02318.wav": "which the President decided to attend. Taking Secretary Seward with him, he called on an old cobbler named John Burns, of whose courage in the Battle of Gettysburg Mr. Lincoln had just heard.",
  "sample_02319.wav": "Chapter 18, How Emancipation Came to Pass. When Abraham Lincoln was a small boy, he began to show the keenest sympathy for the helpless and oppressed. The only time he betrayed anger as a child",
  "sample_02320.wav": "when he saw the other boys hurting a mud turtle. In his first school composition on cruelty to animals, his step-sister remembers this sentence, An ant's life is as sweet to it",
  "sample_02321.wav": "The Queen was received at Babylon with all the transports of joy that could possibly be expressed for the safe return of so illustrious and so beautiful a personage that had run through such a long series of misfortunes.",
  "sample_02322.wav": "Babylon, at that time, seemed to be perfectly serene and quiet. As for the young prince of Hyrkania, he was slain in battle. The Babylonians, who were the victors.",
  "sample_02323.wav": "who should gain it by a fair and impartial election. They were determined that the most valuable post of honor in the world, namely...",
  "sample_02324.wav": "and the sovereign of Babylon, should be the result of merit only, and not be procured by any party factions or court intrigues. A solemn oath was voluntarily taken by all parties.",
  "sample_02325.wav": "that he who should distinguish himself by his superior valor and wisdom should unanimously be acknowledged the sovereign elect. A spacious list, or circus, was pitched upon, surrounded with commodious seats,",
  "sample_02326.wav": "erected in an amphitheatrical manner, and richly embellished some few leagues from the city. Thither the combatants or champions were to repair, completely accoutre'd. Each of them had a distinct apartment to himself behind the lists.",
  "sample_02327.wav": "where no soul could either see them or know who they were. They were to enter the lists four several times. Those who were so happy as to conquer four competitors were afterwards to engage each other in single combat.",
  "sample_02328.wav": "in order that he who should remain master of the field should be proclaimed the Happy Victor. Four days afterwards, they were to meet again, accoutre'd as before.",
  "sample_02329.wav": "and to explain all such enigmas or riddles as the magi should think proper to propose. If their queries should prove too intricate and perplexed for them to resolve, they were to have recourse to the lists again, and after that to fresh enigmas.",
  "sample_02330.wav": "before they could be entitled to the election, so that the tournaments were to be continued, till one of the candidates should be twice a victor, and shine as conspicuous, with respect to his internal qualities, as to his dexterity and address in heroic achievements.",
  "sample_02331.wav": "The Queen, in the meantime, was to be narrowly watched, and allowed only to be a spectator of both their amusements at some considerable distance, and moreover, to be covered with avail.",
  "sample_02332.wav": "Nor was she indulged so far as to speak one single word to any candidate whomsoever, in order to prevent the least jealousy or suspicion either of partiality or injustice.",
  "sample_02333.wav": "to inform her lover of all the preliminary articles above mentioned, not doubting but that he would exert both his courage and understanding for her sake, beyond any of the other competitors. Zadig accordingly set out for Babylon, and besought the goddess Venus.",
  "sample_02334.wav": "not only to fortify his courage, but to illuminate his mind with wisdom on this important occasion. The night before these martial achievements were to commence, Zadig arrived upon the banks of the Euphrates.",
  "sample_02335.wav": "He inscribed his device amongst a list of combatants, concealing, at the same time, both his person and name, as the laws of the election required, and accordingly withdrew to the apartment that was provided for him.",
  "sample_02336.wav": "according to his lot. Kadur, who has just returned to Babylon, having hunted all Egypt over to no purpose in hopes to find his friend Zadig, brought a complete set of armor into his lodge by express orders from the Queen.",
  "sample_02337.wav": "She sent him likewise, one of the finest horses in all Persia.",
  "sample_02338.wav": "which redoubled his vigor and his hopes. The next morning, the Queen being seated under a canopy of state, enriched with precious stones, and the amphitheaters being crowded with gentlemen and ladies of all ranks and conditions from Babylon,",
  "sample_02339.wav": "The competitors made their personal appearance in the circus. Each of them went up to the Grand Magus and laid down his particular device at his feet. The devices were drawn by lot. That of Zadig was the last.",
  "sample_02340.wav": "one etabod by name, immensely rich indeed, and very hearty.",
  "sample_02341.wav": "exceedingly awkward, and a man of no acquired parts. The psychophants that hovered round about him flattered him, that a man of his merit couldn't fail of being king. He imperiously replied, one of my merit must be king.",
  "sample_02342.wav": "His armor was made of pure gold, enameled with green. The housings of his saddle were green, and his lance embellished with green ribbons. Every one was sensible at first sight.",
  "sample_02343.wav": "by Idabod's manner of managing his horse, that he was not the man whom heaven had pitched upon to sway the Babylonish scepter. The first combatant that tilted with him threw him out of the saddle. The second flung him quite over the cruper.",
  "sample_02344.wav": "and laid him sprawling on the ground with his heels quivering in the air. Idabad tis true, remounted but with so ill a grace.",
  "sample_02345.wav": "The third, disdaining to use his lance, made only a feint at him, then catched hold of his right leg and whirling him round, threw him flat upon the sand. The Esquires, who were the attendants, ran to his assistance.",
  "sample_02346.wav": "and with a sneer remounted him. The fourth combatted catched hold of his left leg and unhorsed him again. He was conveyed through the hissing multitude to his lodge, where, according to the law in that case provided, he was to pass the night.",
  "sample_02347.wav": "And as he hobbled along, said he to the Esquires, What a sad misfortune is this to one of my birth and character. The other champions played their parts much better, and all came off with credit.",
  "sample_02348.wav": "Some conquered two of their antagonists, and others were so far successful as to get the better of three. None of them, however, except Prince Hottam, vanquished four. Zadig, at last.",
  "sample_02349.wav": "one after the other, with the utmost ease, and with such an air and grace as gained him universal applause. As the case stood thus, Zadig and Hotem were to close the day's entertainment in a single combat.",
  "sample_02350.wav": "The armor of the latter was of a blue color mixed with gold, and the housings of his saddle were of the same. Those of the former, white as snow. The multitude were divided in their wishes. The knight in blue was the favorite of some of the ladies.",
  "sample_02351.wav": "Oliver told them the explanation of the whole affair that evening at home, leaning back in his chair with one arm bandaged and in a sling. They had not been able to get near him at the time. The excitement in the square had been too fierce.",
  "sample_02352.wav": "But a messenger had come to his wife with the news that her husband was only slightly wounded, and was in the hands of the doctors. He was a Catholic, explained the drawn-faced Oliver. He must have come ready, for his repeater was found loaded.",
  "sample_02353.wav": "Well, there was no chance for a priest this time. Mabel nodded slowly. She had read of the man's fate on the placards. \"'He was killed\u2014trampled and strangled instantly,' said Oliver. I did what I could. You saw me.\"",
  "sample_02354.wav": "But\u2014well, I dare say it was more merciful.\" \"'But you did what you could, my dear,' said the old lady, anxiously from the corner. I called out to them, mother, but they wouldn't hear me.",
  "sample_02355.wav": "Mabel leaned forward. Oliver, I know this sounds stupid of me, but\u2014but I wish they had not killed him. Oliver smiled at her. He knew this tender trait in her. It would have been more perfect if they had not.",
  "sample_02356.wav": "She said. Then she broke off and sat back. Why did he shoot just then? She asked. Oliver turned his eyes for an instant towards his mother, but she was knitting tranquilly. Then he answered with a curious deliberateness.",
  "sample_02357.wav": "I said that Braithwaite had done more for the world by one speech than Jesus and all his saints put together. He was aware that the knitting needles stopped for a second. Then they went on again as before.",
  "sample_02358.wav": "But he must have meant to do it anyhow,\" continued Oliver. How do they know he was a Catholic? asked the girl again. There was a rosary on him, and then he just had time to call on his God. And nothing more is known.",
  "sample_02359.wav": "Nothing more. He was well dressed, though. Oliver leaned back a little wearily and closed his eyes. His arms still throbbed intolerably. But he was very happy at heart. It was true that he had been wounded by a fanatic.",
  "sample_02360.wav": "But he was not sorry to bear pain in such a cause, and it was obvious that the sympathy of England was with him. Mr. Phillips even now was busy in the next room, answering the telegrams that poured in every moment.",
  "sample_02361.wav": "Caldecott, the Prime Minister, Maxwell, Snowford, and a dozen others had wired instantly their congratulations, and from every part of England streamed in message after message. It was an immense stroke for the Communists.",
  "sample_02362.wav": "Speaking in defense of his principles, it was an incalculable gain for them, and loss for the individualists, that confessors were not all on one side after all.",
  "sample_02363.wav": "The huge electric placards over London had winged out the facts in Esperanto as Oliver stepped into the train at Twilight. Oliver Brand wounded. Catholic assailant. Indignation of the country.",
  "sample_02364.wav": "well-deserved fate of assassin. He was pleased too that he honestly had done his best to save the man. Even in that moment of sudden and acute pain, he had cried out for a fair trial, but he had been too late.",
  "sample_02365.wav": "He had seen the starting eyes roll up in the crimson face, and the horrid grin come and go as the hands had clutched and torn at his throat. Then the face had vanished and a heavy trampling began where it had disappeared. Oh!",
  "sample_02366.wav": "There was some passion and loyalty left in England. His mother got up presently and went out, still without a word, and Mabel turned to him, laying a hand on his knee. Are you too tired to talk, my dear? He opened his eyes.",
  "sample_02367.wav": "Of course not, my darling. What is it? What do you think will be the effect?\" He raised himself a little, looking out as usual through the darkening windows onto that astonishing view.",
  "sample_02368.wav": "Everywhere now lights were glowing, a sea of mellow moons just above the houses, and above the mysterious heavy blue of a summer evening. The effect, he said, it can be nothing but good. It was time that something happened.",
  "sample_02369.wav": "My dear, I feel very downcast sometimes, as you know. Well, I do not think I shall be again. I have been afraid sometimes that we were losing all our spirit, and that the old Tories were partly right when they prophesied what communism would do.",
  "sample_02370.wav": "But after this\u2026 Well, well, we have shown that we can shed our blood too. It is in the nick of time, too. Just at the crisis. I don't want to exaggerate. It is only a scratch, but it was so deliberate and\u2014",
  "sample_02371.wav": "and so dramatic the poor devil could not have chosen a worse moment people won't forget it. Mabel's eyes shone with pleasure you poor dear she said are you in pain not much besides Christ",
  "sample_02372.wav": "If only this infernal Eastern affair would end. He knew he was feverish and irritable, and made a great effort to drive it down. Oh, my dear, he went on, flushed a little.",
  "sample_02373.wav": "If they would not be such heavy fools, they don't understand, they don't understand. Yes, Oliver? They don't understand what a glorious thing it all is. Humanity, life, truth at last, and the death of folly. But haven't I told them a hundred times?",
  "sample_02374.wav": "She loved to see him like this, his confident, flushed face, the enthusiasm in his blue eyes, and the knowledge of his pain pricked her feeling with passion. She bent forward and kissed him suddenly. My dear, I am so proud of you, oh Oliver. He said nothing.",
  "sample_02375.wav": "But she could see what she loved to see, that response to her own heart. And so they sat in silence while the sky darkened yet more, and the click of the rider in the next room told them that the world was alive and that they had a share in its affairs.",
  "sample_02376.wav": "Oliver stirred presently. Did you notice anything just now, sweetheart, when I said that about Jesus Christ?\" She stopped knitting for a moment, said the girl. He nodded. You saw that too then.",
  "sample_02377.wav": "Mabel, do you think she is falling back?\" Oh, she is getting old,\" said the girl lightly. Of course she looks back a little. But you don't think it would be too awful. She shook her head. No.",
  "sample_02378.wav": "No, my dear, you're excited and tired. It's just a little sentiment. Oliver, I don't think I would say that kind of thing before her.\" But she hears it everywhere now. No, she doesn't. Remember.",
  "sample_02379.wav": "She can't get it out of her head, even after fifty years. Well, watch her, won't you? By the way\u2014 Yes? There's a little more news from the East. They say Felsenberg's running the whole thing now. The Empire is sending him everywhere.",
  "sample_02380.wav": "Tobolsk, Benares, Yakutsk\u2014everywhere, and he's been to Australia.\" Mabel set up briskly. Isn't that very hopeful? I suppose so. There's no doubt that the Sufis are winning, but for how long is another question",
  "sample_02381.wav": "An oval face, broad above and narrow below, golden hair, fair skin, white, delicate and well-formed hands with slender tapering fingers, these were considered as marking the type of beauty and of high family descent.",
  "sample_02382.wav": "They were the marks of aristocracy. To these natural advantages the people added by the usual artificial means. Among the higher classes, the fingernails were kept carefully cut and rounded.",
  "sample_02383.wav": "It was considered shameful for a man of position to have rough, unkempt nails. Crimson-colored fingernails were greatly admired.",
  "sample_02384.wav": "I sleep no more, and I shall not crimson my nails. No joy shall ever again come upon my mind.",
  "sample_02385.wav": "Ladies often dye to the eyebrows black with the juice of some sort of berry.",
  "sample_02386.wav": "that the Irish missionary monks sometimes painted or dyed their eyelids black. An entry in Cormac's Glossary plainly indicates that the blush of the cheeks was sometimes heightened by a coloring matter obtained from the elder tree.",
  "sample_02387.wav": "and the sprigs and berries of the elder were applied to the same purpose. Among Greek and Roman ladies the practice was very general of painting the cheeks, eyebrows, and other parts of the face. Both men and women wore their hair long,",
  "sample_02388.wav": "The hair was combed daily after a bath. The heroes of the Fennah of Erin, before sitting down to their dinner after a hard day's hunting, always took a bath and carefully combed their long hair. Among the higher classes in the very early times,",
  "sample_02389.wav": "Great care was bestowed upon the hair. Its regulation consisted quite an art, and it was dressed up in several ways. Very often the long hair of men, as well as of women, was elaborately curled. Kurnick's hair, as described in the story of Daderga,",
  "sample_02390.wav": "flowed down his back and was done up in",
  "sample_02391.wav": "hooks and plates and swordlets.",
  "sample_02392.wav": "The accuracy of this and other similar descriptions is fully borne out by the most unquestionable authority of all, namely the figures in the early illuminated manuscripts and on the shrines and high crosses of later ages.",
  "sample_02393.wav": "In nearly all the figures of the Book of Kells, for example, 7th or 8th century, the hair is combed and dressed with the utmost care, so beautifully adjusted indeed that it could have been done only by skilled professional hairdressers.",
  "sample_02394.wav": "and must have occupied much time. Whether in case of men or women,",
  "sample_02395.wav": "and is commonly divided the whole way as well as all over the head into slender fillets or locks, which sometimes hang down to the eyes in front. I do not find mentioned anywhere that the Irish dyed their hair, as was the custom among the Greeks and Romans.",
  "sample_02396.wav": "The men were as particular about the beard as about the hair. The fashion of wearing the beard varied.",
  "sample_02397.wav": "and gradually narrowed down to two points below. Sometimes, as shown in many ancient figures, it falls down in a single mass, while in a few it is cut straight across at the bottom, not unlike Assyrian beards. Nearly all have a mustache.",
  "sample_02398.wav": "In most cases curled up and pointed at the ends as we often see now. In many the beard is carefully divided into slender twisted filets as described above for the hair. Kings and chiefs had barbers in their service to attend to all this.",
  "sample_02399.wav": "Razors were used made of bronze as hard as steel, as we know by finding them mentioned in Irish documents as early as the 8th century, and many old bronze razors are now preserved in museums.",
  "sample_02400.wav": "From what proceeds it will be understood that combs were in general use with men as well as with women, and many specimens of combs are now found in the remains of ancient dwellings. Bathing was very usual, at least among the upper classes.",
  "sample_02401.wav": "and baths and the use of baths are constantly mentioned in the Old Tales and other writings. In every public hostel, in every monastery, and in every high-class house, there was a bath with its accompaniments. Soap was used both in bathing and washing.",
  "sample_02402.wav": "the modes of manufacturing them will be mentioned. Silk and satin, which were of course imported, were much worn among the higher classes. The furs of animals such as seals, otters, badgers, foxes, etc. were much used for capes and jackets.",
  "sample_02403.wav": "and for the etchings of various garments, so that skins of all the various kinds were valuable. They formed, too, an important item of everyday traffic, and they were also exported. The ancient Irish loved bright colors.",
  "sample_02404.wav": "In this respect they resembled many other nations of antiquity, as well indeed as of the present day, and they illustrated Ruskin's saying,",
  "sample_02405.wav": "Whenever men are noble they love bright color.",
  "sample_02406.wav": "In sky, sea, flowers",
  "sample_02407.wav": "and we know that they well understood the art of dyeing. The several articles of dress on one person were usually colored differently. Even the single outer cloak was often striped, spotted, or checkered in various colors. King Domino in the 7th century",
  "sample_02408.wav": "on one occasion sent a many-colored tunic to his foster son, Prince Congel, like Joseph's coat of many colors. A very common article of dress was a large cloak generally without sleeves, which was",
  "sample_02409.wav": "varying in length but commonly covering the whole person from the shoulders down. The people also wore a tight-fitting coat with sleeves.",
  "sample_02410.wav": "but it was much shorter and without a collar.",
  "sample_02411.wav": "The summer passed away, and the bleak fall came. Miles had long since accepted his position, as one set apart from the others of his kind, and had resigned himself to the evident fact that he was never to serve in the household",
  "sample_02412.wav": "The other lads were sometimes occupied by their household duties when sports were afoot, in which they would like to have taken part. Miles was always free to enter into any matter of the kind after his daily exercise had been performed at the Pels, the Butts, or the Tilting Court.",
  "sample_02413.wav": "The Lady Anne, the daughter of the house, a tall, thin, dark-eyed, dark-haired, handsome young dame of 20 or 21 years of age, hawk-nosed like her father, and silent, proud, and haughty, Miles heard the Squires say.",
  "sample_02414.wav": "Lady Alice, the Earl of Macworth's niece and ward, a great heiress in her own right, a strikingly pretty black-eyed girl of fourteen or fifteen. These compose the Earl's personal family.",
  "sample_02415.wav": "But besides them was Lord George Beaumont, his Earl's brother, and him Miles soon came to know better than any of the chief people of the castle, excepting Sir James Lee. For since Miles' great battle in the armory, Lord George...",
  "sample_02416.wav": "for the princely nobles of those days lived in state little less royal than royalty itself. Most of the knights and gentlemen miles soon came to know by sight, meeting them in Lord George's apartments in the south wing of the great house.",
  "sample_02417.wav": "and some of them, following the lead of Lord George, singled him out for friendly notice, giving him a nod or a word in passing. Every season has its pleasures for boys, and the constant change that they bring is one of the greatest delights of boyhood's days.",
  "sample_02418.wav": "All of us, as we grow older, have in our memory pictures of bygone times that are somehow more than usually vivid, the colors of some not blurring by time as others do.",
  "sample_02419.wav": "One of which, in remembering, always filled Miles' heart in after years with an indefinable pleasure was the recollection of standing with others of his fellow squires, and the",
  "sample_02420.wav": "which, when the east wind was straining, flew low overhead to pitch to the lake in the forbidden precincts of the Deer Park beyond the brow of the hill.",
  "sample_02421.wav": "shot in their southward flight by the lads, and cooked by fat good-natured mother Joan, graced the rude mess-table of the squires in the long-hall. And even the toughest and fishiest Drake, so the fruit of their skill, had a savour that, somehow or other.",
  "sample_02422.wav": "the daintiest fair lacked in after years. Then fall passed, and winter came. Bleak, cold, dreary. Not winter as we know it nowadays, with warm fires and bright lights to make the long night sweet and cheerful with comfort.",
  "sample_02423.wav": "but winter with all its grimness and sternness. In the great cold stone-walled castles of those days, the only fire, and almost the only light, were those from the huge blazing logs that roared and crackled in the great open stone fireplace.",
  "sample_02424.wav": "around which the folks gathered, sheltering their faces as best they could from the scorching heat, and cloaking their shoulders from the biting cold. For at the farther end of the room, where giant shadows swayed and bowed and danced huge and black against the high walls,",
  "sample_02425.wav": "But at the best only rude stories and jests, recited by some strolling mummer or minstrel to the listening circle, gathered round the blaze in welcoming the coarse, gross jests and coarser, grosser songs with roars of boisterous laughter.",
  "sample_02426.wav": "Yet, bleak and dreary as was the winter in those days, and cold and biting as was the frost in the cheerless windy halls and corridors of the castle, it was not without its joys to the young lads. For then, as now, boys could find pleasure even in slushy weather.",
  "sample_02427.wav": "when the sod and snow is fit for nothing but to make snowballs of. Thrice that bitter winter the moat was frozen over, and the lads, making themselves skates of marrow-bones, which they bought from the hawk-cook at a groda-pair, went skimming over the smooth surface.",
  "sample_02428.wav": "while the crows and the jackdaws looked down at them from the top of the bleak grey walls. Then at Yuletide, which was somewhat of a rude semblance to the Merry Christmas season of our day, a great feast was held in the hall.",
  "sample_02429.wav": "and all the castle folk were fed in the presence of the earl and the countess. Oxen and sheep were roasted whole. Huge suet puddings made a barley meal sweetened with honey and stuffed with plums were boiled in great cauldrons in the open courtyard.",
  "sample_02430.wav": "Whole barrels of ale and Malmsey were broached, and all the folk, gentle and simple, were bidden to the feast. Afterwards, the minstrels danced and played a rude play, and in the evening a miracle show was performed on a raised platform in the North Hall.",
  "sample_02431.wav": "For a week afterwards the castle was fed upon the remains of the good things left from that great feast, until every one grew to loath fine victuals, and longed for honest beef and mustered again. Then at last in that constant change the winter was gone.",
  "sample_02432.wav": "And even the lads who had enjoyed its passing were glad when the winds blew warm once more, and the grass showed green in sunny places, and the leader of the wildfowl blew his horn, as they who in the fall had flown to the south flew arrow-like northward again.",
  "sample_02433.wav": "when the buds swelled and the leaves burst forth once more, and crocuses and then daffodils gleamed in the green grass like sparks and flames of gold. With the spring came the outdoor sports of the season, among others that of ball.",
  "sample_02434.wav": "for boys were boys, and played at ball even in those faraway days, a game called trap ball. Even yet in some parts of England it is played just as it was in Miles Falworth's day, and enjoyed just as Miles and his friends enjoyed it.",
  "sample_02435.wav": "So now that the sun was warm and the weather pleasant, the game of trap ball was in full swing every afternoon. The playground being an open space between the wall that surrounded the castle grounds and that of the privy garden.",
  "sample_02436.wav": "Miles himself was at the trap, bare-handed and bare-armed. The wind was blowing from behind him, and, aided perhaps by it, he had already struck three of four balls nearly the whole length of the court, an unusual distance.",
  "sample_02437.wav": "and several of the lads had gone back almost as far as the wall of the privy garden to catch any ball that might chance to fly as far as that. Then once more Miles struck, throwing all his strength into the blow. The ball shot up into the air,",
  "sample_02438.wav": "and when it fell, it was to drop within the privy garden. The shouts of the young players were instantly stilled, and Gascoigne, who stood nearest miles, thrust his hands into his belt, giving a long, shrill whistle.",
  "sample_02439.wav": "There be no more play for us until we get another ball.\" The out-feelers came slowly trooping in until they had gathered in a little circle around Miles. I could not help it, said Miles, in answer to their grumbling. How knew I the ball would fly so far?",
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  "sample_02442.wav": "and the Colonel sent it to the High Admiral of England. The Admiral meant the Admiralty. With waifs, the Admiralty meant Barclfadro. Barclfadro, having uncorked and emptied the bottle,",
  "sample_02443.wav": "carried it to the Queen. The Queen immediately took the matter into consideration. Two weighty counselors were instructed and consulted, namely the Lord Chancellor,",
  "sample_02444.wav": "We must not confound this Chancellor with his namesake and contemporary William Calper, the anatomist and commentator on Bidlew, who published a treatise on muscles in England",
  "sample_02445.wav": "A surgeon is a very different thing from a lord. Lord William Calpher is celebrated for having, with reference to the affair of Talbot Yelverton, this Count Longueville, propounded this opinion.",
  "sample_02446.wav": "that in the English Constitution the restoration of a peer is more important than the restoration of a king.",
  "sample_02447.wav": "the author of a maxim, delights and opportunities to which it may be applied. Here was a case of the restoration of a pier. Search was made. Gwen Plain, by the inscription over his door.",
  "sample_02448.wav": "was soon found. Neither was Harquinone dead. A prison rots a man, but preserves him, if to keep is to preserve.",
  "sample_02449.wav": "Hard-Gwenone was still in prison at Chatham. They had only to put their hands on him. He was transferred from Chatham to London. In the meantime, information was sought in Switzerland.",
  "sample_02450.wav": "The facts were found to be correct. They obtained from the local archives at Vevi at Lausanne, the certificate of Lord Linnaeus' marriage in exile, the certificate of his child's birth, the certificate of the deceased of the father and mother,",
  "sample_02451.wav": "and with that mole-like silence recommended and practiced by Bacon, and later on made law by Blackstone, for affairs connected with the Chancellorship and the State, and in matters termed Parliamentary.",
  "sample_02452.wav": "To those who have studied pathologically the cases of Caprice called Our Goodwill and Pleasure",
  "sample_02453.wav": "whose credit require the concealment of such acts, have allowed that to be written which endanger their success? The answer is... Cynicism. Hottie indifference. Oh?",
  "sample_02454.wav": "You believe that a frontiery is confined to abandoned women?",
  "sample_02455.wav": "Often, when it would be to a man's greatest advantage to escape from the hands of the police or the records of history, he would be caught in the act of being a criminal.",
  "sample_02456.wav": "Look at my arm. Observe the design. I am Lacunaire. See a temple of love and a burning heart pierced through with an arrow.",
  "sample_02457.wav": "James II. A man commits a bad action and places his mark upon it. To fill up the measure of crime by a frontiery, to denounce himself, to cling to his misdeeds, is the insolent bravado of the criminal.",
  "sample_02458.wav": "Christina sees Model Deschi, had him confessed and assassinated, and said, I am the Queen of Sweden in the palace of the King of France.",
  "sample_02459.wav": "There is the tyrant who conceals himself, like Tiberius, and the tyrant who displays himself.",
  "sample_02460.wav": "He had, we know, a gay and open countenance, differing so far from Philip. Philip was sullen, James jovial. Both were equally ferocious.",
  "sample_02461.wav": "His crimes lay light upon his conscience. He was a monster by the grace of God. Therefore he had nothing to dissimulate nor to extenuate, and his assassinations were by divine right.",
  "sample_02462.wav": "He, too, would not have minded leaving behind him those archives of Semancas, with all his misdeeds dated, classified, labeled, and put in order, each in its compartment, like poisons in the cabinet of a chemist.",
  "sample_02463.wav": "To set the Sign Manual to Crimes is right royal. Every deed done is a draft drawn on the great invisible paymaster. A bill had just come due with the ominous endorsement.",
  "sample_02464.wav": "Yusu Regis. Queen Anne, in one particular, unfeminine, seeing that she could keep a secret, demanded a confidential report of so grave a matter from the Lord Chancellor.",
  "sample_02465.wav": "one of the kinds specified as Report to the Royal Ear. Reports of this kind had been common in all monarchies. At Vienna there was a Councillor of the Ear, an Aulic Dignitary.",
  "sample_02466.wav": "It was an ancient Karlovingian office, The auricularis of the old Palatine deeds. He who whispers to the Emperor. William, Baron Calver, Chancellor of England.",
  "sample_02467.wav": "whom the Queen believed in because he was short-sighted like herself, or even more so, had committed to writing a memorandum commencing thus. Two birds were subject to Solomon, a lapwing, the HUD-bud,",
  "sample_02468.wav": "The Lord Chancellor proved the fact that the air to appearance had been carried off, mutilated, and then restored.",
  "sample_02469.wav": "the Queen's father, he even went so far as to justify him. First, there are ancient monarchial maxims. E. sinirat tu erippimus, in raturagio cadat.",
  "sample_02470.wav": "Secondly, there is a royal right of mutilation.",
  "sample_02471.wav": "Happy and fortunate were the times when that most daring knight Don Quixote of La Mancha was sent into the world.",
  "sample_02472.wav": "but also of the tales and episodes contained in it, which are, in a measure no less pleasing, ingenious and truthful than the history itself, which resuming its thread, carded, spun and wound, relates that just as the curate was going to offer a consolation to Cardoneo,",
  "sample_02473.wav": "All this was heard distinctly by the curate and those with him, and as it seemed to them to be uttered close by, as indeed it was, they got up to look for the speaker, and before they had gone twenty paces they discovered, behind a rock seated at the foot of an ash-tree,",
  "sample_02474.wav": "a youth in the dress of a peasant, whose face they were unable at the moment to see as he was leaning forward, bathing his feet in the brook that flowed past. They approached so silently that he did not perceive them being fully occupied in bathing his feet.",
  "sample_02475.wav": "crush clods or to follow the plow and the oxen as their owner's dress suggested. And so finding, they had not been noticed. The curate, who was in front, made a sign to the other two to conceal themselves behind some fragments of rock that lay there.",
  "sample_02476.wav": "which they did observing closely what the youth was about. He had on a loose double-skirted dark brown jacket bound tight to his body with a white cloth. He wore beside breeches and gaiters of brown cloth and on his head a brown montera and",
  "sample_02477.wav": "As this is not Lucinda. It is no human creature but a divine being. The youth then took off the Monterra and, shaking his head from side to side there, broke loose and spread out a mass of hair that the beams of the sun might have envied.",
  "sample_02478.wav": "By this they knew that what had seemed a peasant was a lovely woman, nay the most beautiful the eyes of two of them had ever beheld, or even Cardenaios if they had not seen a known Lucinda.",
  "sample_02479.wav": "The long auburn tresses not only covered her shoulders, but such was their length and abundance, concealed her all round beneath their masses, so that except the feet nothing of her form was visible. She now used her hands as a comb.",
  "sample_02480.wav": "And if her feet had seemed like bits of crystal in the water, her hands looked like pieces of driven snow among her locks, all which increased not only the admiration of the three beholders, but their anxiety to learn who she was. With this object they resolved to show themselves.",
  "sample_02481.wav": "her delicate feet being unable to bear the roughness of the stones. Seeing which, the three hastened toward her, and the curate addressing her first said, Stay, Signora, whoever you may be, for those whom you see here only desire to be of service to you.",
  "sample_02482.wav": "You have no need to attempt a flight so heedless, for neither can your feet bear it nor we allow it.\" Taken by surprise, and bewildered, she made no reply to these words. They, however, came towards her, and the curate, taking her hand, went on to say,",
  "sample_02483.wav": "What your dress would hide, Signora, is made known to us by your hair, a clear proof that it can be no trifling cause that has disguised your beauty in a garb so unworthy of it, and sent it into solitude like these where we have had the good fortune to find you.",
  "sample_02484.wav": "if not to relieve your distress, at least to offer you comfort. For no distress, so long as life lasts, can be so oppressive, or reach such a height, as to make the sufferer refuse to listen to comfort offered with good intention. And so, Signora,",
  "sample_02485.wav": "But on the curate, addressing some further words, stood the same effect to her. Sighing deeply, she broke silence and said, Since the solitude of these mountains has been unable to conceal me, and that escape of my disheveled tresses will not allow my tongue to deal in falsehoods,",
  "sample_02486.wav": "It would be idle for me now to make any further pretense of what, if you were to believe me, you would believe more out of courtesy than for any other reason.",
  "sample_02487.wav": "This being so, I say I thank you, sirs, for the offer you have made me, which places me under the obligation of complying with the request you have made of me, though I fear the account I shall give you of my misfortunes will excite in you as much concern as compassion.",
  "sample_02488.wav": "for you will be unable to suggest anything to remedy them or any consolation to alleviate them. However, that my honor may not be left a matter of doubt in your minds, now that you have discovered me to be a woman,",
  "sample_02489.wav": "I feel bound to tell what I would willingly keep secret if I could. All this she who was now seen to be a lovely woman, delivered without any hesitation, with so much ease and in so sweet a voice that they were not less charmed by her intelligence than by her beauty.",
  "sample_02490.wav": "And as they again repeated their offers and entreaties to her to fulfill her promise, she, without further pressing, first modestly covering her feet and gathering up her hair, seated herself on a stone with the three placed around her, and",
  "sample_02491.wav": "After an effort to restrain some tears that came to her eyes in a clear and steady voice, began her story thus.",
  "sample_02492.wav": "Lowly in origin, but so wealthy that if birth had conferred as much on them as fortune, they would have had nothing left to desire. Nor should I have had reason to fear trouble like that in which I find myself now.",
  "sample_02493.wav": "For it may be that my ill-fortune came of theirs in that having been nobly born. It is true, they are not so low that they have any reason to be ashamed of their condition.",
  "sample_02494.wav": "They are, in short, peasants.",
  "sample_02495.wav": "And as the saying is, old rusty Christians, but so rich that by their wealth and free-handed way of life they are coming by degrees to be considered gentle folks by birth. And even by position.",
  "sample_02496.wav": "and as they have no other child to make their heir and are affectionate parents, I was one of the most indulged daughters that ever parents indulged.",
  "sample_02497.wav": "all their wishes centered, and mine were in accordance with theirs, for I knew their worth, and as I was mistress of their hearts, so was I also of their possessions. Through me they engaged or dismissed their servants.",
  "sample_02498.wav": "Through my hands past the accounts and returns of what was sown and reaped, The oil mills, the wine presses, the count of the flocks and herds, The beehives, all in short that a rich farmer like my father has or can have, I had under my care.",
  "sample_02499.wav": "For experience taught me that music soothes the troubled mind and relieves weariness of spirit. Such was the life I led in my parents' house, and if I had depicted it thus minutely, it is not out of ostentation, or to let you know that I am rich, but\u2014",
  "sample_02500.wav": "and unseen as I thought by any except the servants of the house. For when I went to Mass it was so early in the morning, and I was so closely attended by my mother and the women of the household, and\u2014",
  "sample_02501.wav": "Chapter 99, The Law. We have seen how quietly.",
  "sample_02502.wav": "The fact being that every one was too much occupied in his or her own affairs to think of theirs. We will leave the banker contemplating the enormous magnitude of his debt before the bankruptcy and follow the baroness.",
  "sample_02503.wav": "who after being momentarily crushed under the weight of the blow which had struck her, had gone to seek her usual advisor, Lucienne de Bray. The Baroness had looked forward to this marriage as a means of ridding her of a guardianship which, over a girl of Eugenie's character,",
  "sample_02504.wav": "For in the tacit relations which maintain the bond of family union, the mother, to maintain her ascendancy over her daughter, must never fail to be a model of wisdom and a type of perfection.",
  "sample_02505.wav": "An expression which seemed to imply that she understood all her mother's amorous and pecuniary relationships with that intimate secretary. Moreover,",
  "sample_02506.wav": "Not only because he was a source of dissension and scandal under the paternal roof, but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavours to withdraw from the appellation of men.",
  "sample_02507.wav": "Unfortunately, in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, and so is prevented from seeing in the same light as others. And Madame d'Anglard, therefore, very much regretted that the marriage of Eug\u00e9nie had not taken place.",
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  "sample_02511.wav": "Debray was occupied in repelling the insinuations of a friend, who tried to persuade him to leave.",
  "sample_02512.wav": "Still, when he recollected the independent, proud spirit of Eug\u00e9nie, he positively rejected it as utterly impossible, though the same thought again continually recurred and found a resting place in his heart. T. Play.",
  "sample_02513.wav": "and the conversation which had become interesting during the discussion of such serious affairs.",
  "sample_02514.wav": "awaited the return of Debray in the little green room, seated between two baskets of flowers, which she had that morning sent, and which it must be confessed.",
  "sample_02515.wav": "with so much care that his absence was half excused in the eyes of the poor woman. At twenty minutes of twelve, Madame d'Anglard, tired of waiting, returned home. Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grazettes in one respect. They seldom return home after twelve o'clock.",
  "sample_02516.wav": "The Baroness returned to the hotel with as much caution as Eug\u00e9nie used in leaving it. She ran lightly upstairs, and with an aching heart entered her apartment, contiguous, as we know, to that of Eug\u00e9nie. She was fearful of exciting any remark, and she was not afraid to leave.",
  "sample_02517.wav": "and believed firmly in her daughter's innocence and fidelity to the paternal roof. She listened at Eugenie's door, and hearing no sound, tried to enter, but the bolts were in place. Madame d'Anglard then concluded that the young girl had been overcome with the terrible excitement of the evening.",
  "sample_02518.wav": "and had gone to bed and to sleep. She called the maid and questioned her. Madame was all eugenie, said the maid.",
  "sample_02519.wav": "after which they desired me to leave, saying that they needed me no longer.",
  "sample_02520.wav": "Madame d'Anglard, therefore, went to bed without a shadow of suspicion, and began to muse over the recent events. In proportion as her memory became clearer, the occurrences of the evening were revealed in their true light. What she had taken for confusion was a tumult.",
  "sample_02521.wav": "who had been afflicted with a severe blow through her husband and son. Eugenie, she said to herself, is lost, and so are we. The affair, as it will be reported, will cover us with shame.",
  "sample_02522.wav": "For in a society such as ours, satire inflicts a painful and incurable wound.",
  "sample_02523.wav": "and her glance was turned towards heaven.",
  "sample_02524.wav": "And out of a fault, nay, even a vice, sometimes produces a blessing. And then her thoughts, cleaving through space like a bird in the air, rested on Cavalcanti. This Andrea was a wretch, a robber, an assassin.",
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  "sample_02526.wav": "supported by an honorable name. How could she extricate herself from this labyrinth? To whom would she apply to help her out of this painful situation? Debray, to whom she had run, with the first instinct of a woman towards the man she loves, and who yet betrays her.",
  "sample_02527.wav": "Debray could but give her advice. She must apply to someone more powerful than he.",
  "sample_02528.wav": "But no, on reflection the procurer was not a merciless man, and it was not the magistrate, slave to his duties, but the friend, the loyal friend, who roughly but firmly cut into the very core of the corruption.",
  "sample_02529.wav": "It was not the executioner but the surgeon who wished to withdraw the honor of Denglar from ignominious association with the disgraced young man they had presented to the world as their son-in-law. And since Villa IV, the friend of Denglar had acted in this way.",
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  "sample_02531.wav": "With her white paint and her scarlet smokestack, the Inverish Heel, one of the two small steamers that during the summer months plied up and down the lock, and incidentally carried on communication between Inverish Heel and Kryanon.",
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  "sample_02533.wav": "in spite of the brilliant sunset of the previous evening. The lock lay dark and still, its surface wore an oily, treacherous look. Every detail of the inverse shield's tub-like shape was reflected and beautifully distorted in the water.",
  "sample_02534.wav": "As the few passengers who were waiting for her crossed the short gangway, a shower burst over the lock and in a few minutes had driven everyone into the little cabin, except the two or three men who constituted the officers and crew of the steamer.",
  "sample_02535.wav": "One of these was in the act of slackening the rope by which the boat had been warped alongside, when a running, gesticulating figure appeared in the distance, shouting to them to wait for him. Waited for, accordingly, he was, and in a few minutes, Gimlet,",
  "sample_02536.wav": "Rather out of breath after his run, hurried on board and with a word of apology and thanks to the obliging skipper, turned like the other passengers towards the shelter of the cabin. With his hand on the knob of the door, he hesitated.",
  "sample_02537.wav": "Through the glass top he had just caught sight of a figure that seemed familiar. He had seen that tweed before. The short girl with her back to him was wearing the dress in which he had seen her on the Wednesday night.",
  "sample_02538.wav": "searching among Lord Ashiel's papers in the library at the castle. It was Julia Romaninoff beyond a doubt, and Gimlet drew back quickly and took up his position behind the funnels on the afterdeck.",
  "sample_02539.wav": "In spite of the rain, he remained there until the boat reached Kryanon, leaning against the rail with his collar turned up and his soft felt hat pulled down over his ears, so that little of him was visible except the tip of his nose.",
  "sample_02540.wav": "His mind, always active, was busier than usual as he watched the ripples roll away in endless succession from the sides of the invarishial, which looked so strangely less white on closer inspection.",
  "sample_02541.wav": "or followed the smooth, soaring movements of the gulls that swooped and circled around her.",
  "sample_02542.wav": "As they drew near to Kryanon, he concealed himself still more carefully behind a pile of crates. And not till Miss Romaninoff had left the steamer did he emerge from his hiding place and step warily off the boat.",
  "sample_02543.wav": "The young lady was still in sight, making her way up the steep pitch of the main street, and the detective followed her discreetly, loitering before shop windows, as if fascinated by the display of Scottish homespuns.",
  "sample_02544.wav": "or samples of Royal Stuart Tartan, and taking an extraordinary interest in fishing tackle and trout flies. But, though the girl looked back more than once, the little man in the ulster who was so intent on picking his way between the puddles,",
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  "sample_02546.wav": "which here ran across the open moorland. It was difficult now to continue the pursuit unobserved, and Gimlet became absorbed in the contemplation of an enormous Cairngorm.",
  "sample_02547.wav": "which was masquerading as an article of personal adornment in the window of the last outlying shop. From this position, not without its embarrassments, since a couple of barefooted children came instantly to the door, where they stood and stared at him unblinkingly,",
  "sample_02548.wav": "He saw the Russian advancing at a rapid pace across the moor, and look where he would, could perceive no means of keeping up with her unobserved upon the bare side of the hill. Just as he decided that the distance separating them had increased to an extens-",
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  "sample_02550.wav": "For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimlet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the Cairngorm. It is humiliating to relate that he recoiled before it when it was placed in his hand.",
  "sample_02551.wav": "nearly fled again into the road. However, he pulled himself together and held the proud proprietess, a gaunt gray-haired woman with knitting needles ever clicking in her dexterous hands.",
  "sample_02552.wav": "in conversation upon the theme of its unique beauties until the subject was exhausted to the point of collapse. Every other minute he must stroll to the door and take a look up and down the road. A friend, he explained, had promised to meet him in that place.",
  "sample_02553.wav": "And though the shopwoman plainly doubted his veracity and kept a sharp eye that he did not take to his heels with the Cairngorm, she did not go so far as to suggest his removing himself from the zone of temptation.",
  "sample_02554.wav": "At last, when for the twentieth time he put his nose round the door post, he saw that the pair had separated and were walking in opposite directions, the girl continuing on her way, while the man returned to the town.",
  "sample_02555.wav": "He was indeed not a hundred yards off. Gimlet plunged once more into the shop and fastened upon some pencils with a zeal not very convincing after his disappointing vacillation over the brooch.",
  "sample_02556.wav": "which she pressed upon him as particularly suited to his needs, and charged him four pence for. By the time he issued forth into the open air, his pockets full of packages, the stranger had passed the shop and was turning the corner of the next house.",
  "sample_02557.wav": "To him now Gimlet devoted his powers of shadowing. There was no great difficulty about it. The man walked straight before him, looking neither to the right nor to the left.",
  "sample_02558.wav": "narrow, pointed footprints that were deeply impressed in the muddy places. He had no doubt they were the same as those he had noticed on the beach on the day of his arrival at Inverish Hill.",
  "sample_02559.wav": "The stranger turned into the Kryanen Hotel, which stands on the lakefront, 50 yards from the landing place of the lock steamers. Gimlet passed the door without pausing and went down to the lock where he mingled with the boatmen and loafers who congregated by the waterside.",
  "sample_02560.wav": "He kept, however, a strict eye on the door of the hotel, and after a quarter of an hour saw the object of his attentions emerge with fishing rod and basket.",
  "sample_02561.wav": "Chapter 3 The Awakening But warming was wrong in that an awakening came What a wonderfully complex thing this simple seeming unity",
  "sample_02562.wav": "The Self, who can trace its reintegration, as morning after morning we awaken, the flux and confluence of its countless factors interweaving, rebuilding, the dim first stirrings of the soul.",
  "sample_02563.wav": "the growth and synthesis of the unconscious to the subconscious, the subconscious to dawning consciousness, until at last we recognize ourselves again. And as it happens to most of us after the night's sleep,",
  "sample_02564.wav": "So it was with Graham at the end of his vast slumber. A dim cloud of sensation taking shape, a cloudy dreariness, and he found himself vaguely somewhere recumbent, faint, but alive.",
  "sample_02565.wav": "The pilgrimage towards a personal being seemed to traverse vast gulfs, to occupy epics, gigantic dreams that were terrible realities at the time.",
  "sample_02566.wav": "left vague perplexing memories, strange creatures, strange scenery, as if from another planet. There was a distinct impression, too, of a momentous conversation, of a name.",
  "sample_02567.wav": "He could not tell what name that was subsequently to recur, of some queer, long-forgotten sensation of vein and muscle, of a feeling of vast, hopeless effort.",
  "sample_02568.wav": "the effort of a man near drowning in darkness. Then came a panorama of dazzling, unstable, confluent scenes. Graham became aware that his eyes were open.",
  "sample_02569.wav": "and regarding some unfamiliar thing. It was something white, the edge of something, a frame of wood. He moved his head slightly, following the contour of this shape.",
  "sample_02570.wav": "It went up beyond the top of his eyes. He tried to think where he might be. Did it matter, seeing he was so wretched?",
  "sample_02571.wav": "He felt the featureless misery of one who wakes towards the hour of dawn. He had an uncertain sense of whispers and footsteps hastily receding.",
  "sample_02572.wav": "The movement of his head involved a perception of extreme physical weakness. He supposed he was in bed in the hotel at the place in the valley, but he could not recall that white edge. He must have slept.",
  "sample_02573.wav": "He remembered now that he had wanted to sleep. He recalled the cliff and waterfall again, and then recollected something about talking to a passerby. How long had he slept?",
  "sample_02574.wav": "What was that sound of pattering feet? And that rise and fall, like the murmur of breakers on pebbles? He put out a languid hand to reach his watch from the chair whereon it was his habit to place it.",
  "sample_02575.wav": "and touched some smooth, hard surface like glass. This was so unexpected that it startled him extremely. Quite suddenly he rolled over, stared for a moment, and struggled into a sitting position.",
  "sample_02576.wav": "The effort was unexpectedly difficult, and it left him giddy and weak and amazed. He rubbed his eyes. The riddle of his surroundings was confusing.",
  "sample_02577.wav": "but his mind was quite clear. Evidently his sleep had benefited him. He was not in a bed at all as he understood the word, but lying naked on a very soft and yielding mattress.",
  "sample_02578.wav": "in a trough of dark glass. The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him grayly.",
  "sample_02579.wav": "About his arm, and he saw with a shock that his skin was strangely dry and yellow, was bound a curious apparatus of rubber bound so cunningly",
  "sample_02580.wav": "that it seemed to pass into his skin above and below. And this bed was placed in a case of greenish-colored glass, as it seemed to him, a bar in the white framework of which had first arrested his attention.",
  "sample_02581.wav": "In the corner of the case was a stand of glittering and delicately made apparatus. For the most part, quite strange appliances, though a maximum and minimum thermometer was recognizable.",
  "sample_02582.wav": "The slightly greenish tint of the glass-like substance which surrounded him on every hand obscured what lay behind, but he perceived it was a vast apartment of splendid appearance.",
  "sample_02583.wav": "and with a very large and simple white archway facing him. Close to the walls of the cage were articles of furniture, a table covered with a silvery cloth, silvery like the sides of a fish.",
  "sample_02584.wav": "a couple of graceful chairs, and on the table a number of dishes with substances piled on them, a bottle and two glasses. He realized that he was intensely hungry. He could see no one.",
  "sample_02585.wav": "and after a period of hesitation scrambled off the translucent mattress and tried to stand on the clean white floor of his little apartment. He had miscalculated his strength however.",
  "sample_02586.wav": "and staggered and put his hand against the glass like pain before him to steady himself. For a moment it resisted his hand, bending outward like a distended bladder. Then it broke with a slight report.",
  "sample_02587.wav": "vanished, a pricked bubble. He reeled out into the general space of the hall, greatly astonished. He caught at the table to save himself, knocking one of the glasses to the floor.",
  "sample_02588.wav": "It rang but did not break, and sat down in one of the arm-chairs. When he had a little recovered, he filled the remaining glass from the bottle and drank. A colorless liquid it was, but not water.",
  "sample_02589.wav": "with a pleasing faint aroma and taste and a quality of immediate support and stimulus. He put down the vessel and looked about him.",
  "sample_02590.wav": "The apartment lost none of its size and magnificence now that the greenish transparency that had intervened was removed. The archway he saw led to a flight of steps, going downward without the intermediation of a door.",
  "sample_02591.wav": "This book owes its origin to the fact that in the autumn of 1921, the authorities of Manchester College, Oxford, invited me to deliver the inaugural course of electorship in religion newly established under the will of the late Professor Upton.",
  "sample_02592.wav": "No conditions being attached to this appointment, it seemed a suitable opportunity to discuss, so far as possible in the language of the moment, some of the implicits which I believe to underlie human effort.",
  "sample_02593.wav": "and achievement in the domain of the spiritual life. The material gathered for this purpose has now been added to, revised, and to some extent rewritten.",
  "sample_02594.wav": "or who are offended by the resulting demonstrations of continuity between our most homely and the most lofty reactions to the universe, might take to themselves the plain words of Thomas Achempas, Thou art a man and not God, thou art flesh.",
  "sample_02595.wav": "and no angel. Since my subject is not the splendor of historic sanctity, but the normal life of the Spirit, as it may be, and is lived in the here and now,",
  "sample_02596.wav": "No attention has been given to those abnormal experiences and states of consciousness, which too often regarded as specially mystical, are now recognized by all competent students as representing the unfortunate accidents.",
  "sample_02597.wav": "rather than the abiding substance of spirituality. Readers of these pages will find nothing about trances, ecstasies, and other rare psychic phenomena, which sometimes indicate holiness, and sometimes only disease.",
  "sample_02598.wav": "For information on these matters, they must go to larger and more technical works. My aim here is the more general one, of indicating first the characteristic experiences, discoverable within all great religions.",
  "sample_02599.wav": "which justify or are fundamental to the spiritual life, and the way in which these experiences may be accommodated to the world view of the modern man, and, next, the nature of that spiritual life as it appears in human history.",
  "sample_02600.wav": "The succeeding sections of the book treat in some detail the light cast on spiritual problems by mental analysis, a process which need not necessarily be conducted from the standpoint of a degraded materialism.",
  "sample_02601.wav": "and, by recent work on the psychology of autistic thought and of suggestion. These investigations have a practical interest for every man who desires to be the captain of his soul.",
  "sample_02602.wav": "The relation in which institutional religion does or should stand to the spiritual life is also in part a matter for psychology, which is here called upon to deal with the religious aspect of the social instincts.",
  "sample_02603.wav": "and the problems surrounding symbols and cults. These chapters lead up to a discussion of the personal aspect of the spiritual life, its curve of growth, characters and activities,",
  "sample_02604.wav": "and a further section suggests some ways in which educationists might promote the up-springing of this life in the young. Finally, the last chapter attempts to place the fact of the life of the spirit in its relation to the social order.",
  "sample_02605.wav": "and to indicate some of the results which might follow upon its healthy corporate development. It is superfluous to point out that each of these subjects needs at least a volume to itself.",
  "sample_02606.wav": "warm gratitude first to the principal and authorities of Manchester College who gave me the opportunity of delivering these chapters in their original form and whose unfailing sympathy and kindness so greatly helped me.",
  "sample_02607.wav": "Psychology and the Life of the Spirit 2 Contemplation and Suggestion",
  "sample_02608.wav": "Chapter 2 Roses and Thorns By the soft green light in the woody glade, On the banks of moss where thy childhood played, By the household tree.",
  "sample_02609.wav": "Her mother had been detained at home by a multitude of half-reasons, none of which anybody fully understood, except Mr. Hale, who was perfectly aware that all his arguments in favor of a gray satin gown.",
  "sample_02610.wav": "which was midway between oldness and newness, had proved unavailing, and that, as he had not the money to equip his wife afresh from top to toe, she would not show herself, at her only sister's, only child's, wedding.",
  "sample_02611.wav": "If Mrs. Shaw had guessed at the real reason why Mrs. Hale did not accompany her husband, she would have showered down gowns upon her. But it was nearly twenty years since Mrs. Shaw had been the poor, pretty Miss Beresford.",
  "sample_02612.wav": "And she had really forgotten all grievances, except that of the unhappiness arising from disparity of age and married life, on which she could descant by the half hour. Just Maria had married the man of her heart.",
  "sample_02613.wav": "only eight years older than herself, with the sweetest temper, and that blue-black hair one so seldom sees. Mr. Hale was one of the most delightful preachers she had ever heard, and a perfect model of a parish priest.",
  "sample_02614.wav": "Perhaps it was not quite a logical deduction from all these premises, but it was still Mrs. Shaw's characteristic conclusion, as she thought over her sister's lot.",
  "sample_02615.wav": "Mrs. Hale, if she spoke truth, might have answered with a ready-made list.",
  "sample_02616.wav": "a white-chip bonnet, oh, dozens of things for the wedding, and hundreds of things for the house. Margaret only knew that her mother had not found it convenient to come.",
  "sample_02617.wav": "And she was not sorry to think that their meeting and greeting would take place at Helston Parsonage, rather than during the confusion of the last two or three days in the house on Harley Street, where she herself had had to play the part of Figaro.",
  "sample_02618.wav": "and was wanted everywhere at one in the same time. Her mind and body ached now with the recollection of all she had done and said within the last 48 hours. The farewells so hurriedly taken, amongst all the other goodbyes,",
  "sample_02619.wav": "of those she had lived with so long, oppressed her now with a sad regret for the times that were no more. It did not signify what those times had been. They were gone, never to return. Its heart felt more heavy.",
  "sample_02620.wav": "the place and the life she had longed for for years, at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.",
  "sample_02621.wav": "Who can blame her for giving way to the subdued happiness that succeeded? Not I, not you, if you speak truly. The passion that controlled her may not be popular under a strictly Puritan standard.",
  "sample_02622.wav": "universal, and irresistible, telling us that father, mother, sister, and brother are all to be forsaken for that love illimitable.",
  "sample_02623.wav": "Do not reproach the young Creole because this passion was paramount in her soul. Do not blame her for feeling pleasure amidst moments that should otherwise have been devoted to sadness.",
  "sample_02624.wav": "nor that her happiness was heightened on learning from the astonished spectators how her lover's life had been preserved, as it might seem miraculously. The aim of the assassin",
  "sample_02625.wav": "had been true enough. He must have felt sure of it before turning the muzzle towards his own temples and firing the bullet that had lodged in his brain.",
  "sample_02626.wav": "Right over the heart he had hit his intended victim, and through the heart would the leaden missile have made its way.",
  "sample_02627.wav": "The gift of her who alone could have secured it such a place turned aside the shot, causing it to ricochet. Not harmlessly, however.",
  "sample_02628.wav": "With the mental and corporeal excitement long sustained, did not fail to produce its effect, and the mind of Maurice Gerald once more returned to its delirious dreaming.",
  "sample_02629.wav": "But no longer lay his body in danger, In the chaparral surrounded by wolves, And shadowed by soaring vultures, In a hut where he was but ill attended.",
  "sample_02630.wav": "in a jail where he was scarce cared for at all. When again restored to consciousness, it was to discover that the fair vision of his dreams was no vision at all, but a lovely woman.",
  "sample_02631.wav": "The spirit of the aristocratic planter, steeped in sorrow and humiliated by misfortune, had become purged of its false pride. So it needed not this to make him willingly acquiesce in an alliance.",
  "sample_02632.wav": "which instead of a nobody gave him a nobleman for his son. Such in reality was Sir Maurice Gerald, first known as Maurice the Mustanger. In Texas,",
  "sample_02633.wav": "The title would have counted for little, nor did its owner care to carry it. But by a bit of good fortune, not always attendant on an Irish baronetcy,",
  "sample_02634.wav": "It carried along with it an endowment ample enough to clear Casa del Corvo of the mortgage held by the late Cassius Calhoun and claimed by his nearest of kin. This was not Woodley Poindexter.",
  "sample_02635.wav": "For after Calhoun's death it was discovered that the ex-captain had once been a Benedict, and there was a young scion of his stock living in New Orleans who had the legal right to say he was his son.",
  "sample_02636.wav": "It mattered not to Maurice Gerald, who now clear of every entanglement, became the husband of the fair Creole. After a visit to his native land, including the European tour, he was able to get a good",
  "sample_02637.wav": "Louise Poindexter, Lady Gerald, she must now be called, during her sojourn in the Emerald Isle saw nothing to excite her to jealousy. Only once again did this fell passion",
  "sample_02638.wav": "take possession of her spirit, and then only in the shape of a shadow soon to pass away. It was one day when her husband came home to the hacienda, bearing in his arms the body of a beautiful woman.",
  "sample_02639.wav": "not yet dead, though the blood streaming from the wound in her bared bosom showed she had not longed to live. To the question, who has done this? She was only able to answer, Diaz.",
  "sample_02640.wav": "Diaz. It was the last utterance of",
  "sample_02641.wav": "Covarrubio Delos Llanos.",
  "sample_02642.wav": "whose story she now better comprehended. She even assisted her lord in the saddling of his red bay steed, and encouraged him in the pursuit of the assassin.",
  "sample_02643.wav": "She joyed to see the latter led back at the end of a lasso, held in the hand of her husband, and refused to interfere when a band of regulators, called hastily together,",
  "sample_02644.wav": "dealt out summary chastisement by hanging him to a tree. It was not cruelty, only a crude kind of justice, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.",
  "sample_02645.wav": "And what a poor compensation it seemed to those who had taken part in extracting it! As they stood gazing upon the remains of the villain and his victim, the swarth ruffian dangling from the branch above.",
  "sample_02646.wav": "and the fair form lying underneath, the hearts of the Texans were touched as perhaps they had never been before. There was a strange thought passing through their minds.",
  "sample_02647.wav": "A sadness independent of that caused by the spectacle of a murder. It was regret at having so hastily dispatched the assassin. Beautiful even in death was Isadora. Such features as she possessed.",
  "sample_02648.wav": "at length, going with thoughts not altogether sacred. In the physical world, time is accounted the destroyer, though in the moral it is off the",
  "sample_02649.wav": "Nowhere has it affected greater changes than in Texas during the last decade, and especially",
  "sample_02650.wav": "Plantations have sprung up where late the chaparral thickly covered the earth, and cities stand where the wild steed once roamed over a pathless prairie.",
  "sample_02651.wav": "Seven days had passed since Prince Andrew found himself in the ambulance station on the field of Boror de Nau. His feverish state and the inflammation of his bowels, which were injured,",
  "sample_02652.wav": "were in the doctor's opinion sure to carry him off. But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower. He had regained consciousness that morning. The first night after they left Moscow.",
  "sample_02653.wav": "had been fairly warm and he had remained in the kalesh, but at Matishi the wounded man himself asked to be taken out and given some tea. The pain caused by his removal into the hut had made him groan aloud and again lose consciousness.",
  "sample_02654.wav": "When he had been placed on his camp bed he lay for a long time motionless with closed eyes. Then he opened them and whispered softly, And the T. His remembering such a small detail of everyday life astonished the doctor.",
  "sample_02655.wav": "He felt Prince Andrew's pulse, and to his surprise and dissatisfaction, found it had improved. He was dissatisfied because he knew by experience that, if his patient did not die now, he would do so a little later with great suffering.",
  "sample_02656.wav": "Tamakin, the red-nosed major of Prince Andrew's regiment, had joined him in Moscow and was being taken along with him, having been wounded in the leg at the Battle of Borodino. They were accompanied by a doctor.",
  "sample_02657.wav": "Prince Andrew's valet, his coachmen, and two orderlies. They gave Prince Andrew some tea. He drank it eagerly, looking with feverish eyes at the door in front of him, as if trying to understand and remember something.",
  "sample_02658.wav": "I don't want anymore. Is Tamakin here?\" He asked. Tamakin crept along the bench to him. I'm here, your excellency. How's your wound? Mine, sir.",
  "sample_02659.wav": "Prince Andrew again pondered, as if trying to remember something. Couldn't one get a book? he asked. What book? The Gospels. I haven't one. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have.",
  "sample_02660.wav": "The doctor promised to procure it for him and began to ask how he was feeling. Prince Andrew answered all his questions reluctantly, but reasonably.",
  "sample_02661.wav": "and then said he wanted a bolster placed under him, as he was uncomfortable and in great pain. The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered, and making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh,",
  "sample_02662.wav": "that came from the wound began examining that dreadful place. The doctor was very much displeased about something and made a change in the dressings turning the wounded man over so that he groaned again and grew unconscious and delirious from the agony.",
  "sample_02663.wav": "He kept asking them to get him the book and put it under him. What trouble would it be to you? He said.",
  "sample_02664.wav": "He pleaded in a piteous voice. The doctor went into the passage to wash his hands. You fellows have no conscience, said he to the valet who was pouring water over his hands.",
  "sample_02665.wav": "that I wonder how he can bear it.\" \"'By the Lord Jesus Christ, I thought we had put something under him,' said the valet. The first time Prince Andrew understood where he was and what was the matter with him, and remembered being wounded and how.",
  "sample_02666.wav": "was when he asked to be carried into the hut after his kalesh had stopped at Matishi. After growing confused from pain while being carried into the hut, he again regained consciousness, and while drinking tea once more recalled all that had happened to him.",
  "sample_02667.wav": "and above all vividly remembered the moment at the ambulance station when, at the sight of the sufferings of a man he disliked, those new thoughts had come to him, which promised him happiness. And those...",
  "sample_02668.wav": "thoughts, though now vague and indefinite, again possessed his soul. He remembered that he had now a new source of happiness, and that this happiness had something to do with the gospels. That was why he had asked for a copy of them.",
  "sample_02669.wav": "The uncomfortable position in which they had put him and turned him over again confused his thoughts, and when he came to himself a third time it was in the complete stillness of the night. Everybody near him was sleeping. A cricket chirped from across the passage.",
  "sample_02670.wav": "Someone was shouting and singing in the street. Cockroaches rustled on the table, on the icons, and on the walls, and a big fly flopped at the head of the bed and around the candle beside him, the wick of which was charred and had shaped itself like a mushroom.",
  "sample_02671.wav": "His mind was not in a normal state. A healthy man usually thinks of, feels, and remembers innumerable things simultaneously, but has the power and will to select one sequence of thoughts or events on which to fix his whole attention.",
  "sample_02672.wav": "A healthy man can tear himself away from the deepest reflections to say a civil word to someone who comes in and can then return again to his own thoughts.",
  "sample_02673.wav": "All the powers of his mind were more active and clearer than ever, but they acted apart from his will. Most diverse thoughts and images occupied him simultaneously. At times, his brain suddenly began to work with a vigor, clearness, and depth",
  "sample_02674.wav": "it had never reached when he was in health, but suddenly in the midst of its work it would turn to some unexpected idea, and he had not the strength to turn it back again. Yes, a new happiness was revealed to me, of which man cannot be deprived.",
  "sample_02675.wav": "He thought as he lay in the semi-darkness of the quiet hut, gazing fixedly before him with feverish, wide-open eyes. A happiness lying beyond material forces, outside the material influences that act on man.",
  "sample_02676.wav": "Every man can understand it, but to conceive it and enjoy it was possible only for God. But how did God enjoin that law? And why was the sun... And suddenly the sequence of these thoughts broke off.",
  "sample_02677.wav": "And Prince Andrew heard, without knowing whether it was a delusion or reality, a soft whispering voice, incessantly and rhythmically repeating pity pity pity and then",
  "sample_02678.wav": "and t, t, once more. At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters.",
  "sample_02679.wav": "to the sound of this whispered music. He felt that he had to balance carefully, though it was difficult, so that this airy structure should not collapse. But nevertheless, it kept collapsing, and again slowly rising to the sound of",
  "sample_02680.wav": "whispered rhythmic music. It stretches, stretches, spreading out and stretching, said Prince Andrew to himself, while listening to this whispering and feeling the sensation of this drying out and the construction of this edifice of needles.",
  "sample_02681.wav": "They did not accompany each other to the doors of their chosen victims, feeling sure that together they could not approach the subject seriously. But they parted at the gate of each house, the one holding the horse while the other took the soap samples.",
  "sample_02682.wav": "and interviewed any one who seemed of a coming-on disposition. Emma Jane had disposed of three single cakes, Rebecca of three small boxes, for a difference in their ability to persuade the public was clearly defined at the start.",
  "sample_02683.wav": "though neither of them ascribed either success or defeat to anything but the imperious force of circumstances. Housewives looked at Emma Jane, and desired no soap, listened to her description of its merits, and still desired none.",
  "sample_02684.wav": "Other stars in their courses governed Rebecca's doings. The people whom she interviewed either remembered their present need of soap, or reminded themselves that they would need it in the future. The notable point in the case being...",
  "sample_02685.wav": "that Lucky Rebecca accomplished with almost no effort, results that poor little Emma Jane failed to attain by hard and conscientious labor. It's your turn, Rebecca, and I'm glad too, said Emma Jane.",
  "sample_02686.wav": "drawing up to a gateway and indicating a house that was set a considerable distance from the road. I haven't got over trembling from the last place yet. A lady had put her head out of an upstairs window and called.",
  "sample_02687.wav": "Go away, little girl. Whatever you have in your box, we don't want any. I don't know who lives here, and the blinds are all shut in front. If there's nobody at home you mustn't count it. But take the next house as yours.",
  "sample_02688.wav": "Rebecca walked up the lane and went to the side door. There was a porch there, and seated in a rocking chair, husking corn, was a good-looking young man. Or was he middle-aged? Rebecca could not make up her mind.",
  "sample_02689.wav": "At all events he had an air of the city about him\u2014well-shaven face, well-trimmed mustache, well-fitting clothes. Rebecca was a trifle shy at this unexpected encounter, but there was nothing to be done but explain her presence.",
  "sample_02690.wav": "So she asked, Is the lady of the house at home? I am the lady of the house at present, said the stranger, with a whimsical smile. What can I do for you? Have you ever heard of the, would you like, or I mean...",
  "sample_02691.wav": "\"'Do you need any soap?' queried Rebecca. \"'Do I look as if I did?' he responded unexpectedly. Rebecca dimpled. \"'I didn't mean that. \"'I have some soap to sell.'",
  "sample_02692.wav": "I mean, I would like to introduce to you a very remarkable soap, the best now on the market. It is called the\u2014 \"'Oh, I must know that soap,' said the gentleman genially. Made out of pure vegetable fats, isn't it?",
  "sample_02693.wav": "The very purest corroborated Rebecca. No acid in it? Not a trace. And yet a child could do the Monday washing with it and use no force? A babe corrected Rebecca.",
  "sample_02694.wav": "Wise child! This was great good fortune to find a customer who knew all the virtues of the article in advance. Rebecca dimpled more and more, and at her new friend's invitation sat down on a stool at his side near the edge of the porch.",
  "sample_02695.wav": "and the prices of both that and the Snow White were unfolded. Presently she forgot all about her silent partner at the gate, and was talking as if she had known this grand personage all her life.",
  "sample_02696.wav": "I'm keeping house today, but I don't live here, explain the delightful gentleman. I'm just on a visit to my aunt, who has gone to Portland. I used to be here as a boy, and I am very fond of this spot.",
  "sample_02697.wav": "I don't think anything takes the place of the farm where one lived when one was a child, observed Rebecca, nearly bursting with pride at having at last successfully used the indefinite pronoun in general conversation.",
  "sample_02698.wav": "So you consider your childhood a thing of the past, do you, young lady?\" \"'I can still remember it,' answered Rebecca gravely, though it seems a long time ago.",
  "sample_02699.wav": "I can remember mine well enough, and a particularly unpleasant one it was, said the stranger. So is mine, sighed Rebecca. What was your worst trouble? Lack of food and clothes, principally.",
  "sample_02700.wav": "\"'O'!\" exclaimed Rebecca sympathetically, \"'Mine was no shoes, and too many babies, and not enough books.' \"'But you're all right and happy now, aren't you?' she asked doubtfully, for though he looked handsome, well-fed and prosperous.",
  "sample_02701.wav": "Any child could see that his eyes were tired, and his mouth was sad when he was not speaking. I'm doing pretty well, thank you, said the man, with a delightful smile.",
  "sample_02702.wav": "How much has your aunt on hand now suggested the very modest and inexperienced agent? And how much would she need?",
  "sample_02703.wav": "\"'I'm not certain,' said Rebecca conscientiously, \"'but I'll look in the circular. It's sure to tell.' And she drew the document from her pocket. What are you going to do with the magnificent profits you get from this business?\"",
  "sample_02704.wav": "\"'We are not selling for our own benefit,' said Rebecca confidentially. \"'My friend who is holding the horse at the gate is the daughter of a very rich blacksmith, and doesn't need any money.'",
  "sample_02705.wav": "We were trying to get a premium for some friends of ours.\" Rebecca had never thought of alluding to the circumstances with her previous customers, but unexpectedly she found herself describing Mr. Simpson, Mrs. Simpson and the Simpson family.",
  "sample_02706.wav": "their poverty, their joyless life, and their abject need of a banquet lamp to brighten their existence. You needn't argue that point left the man as he stood up to get a glimpse of the rich blacksmith's daughter at the gate.",
  "sample_02707.wav": "I can see that they ought to have it if they want it, and especially if you want them to have it. I've known what it was myself to do without a banquet lamp. Now give me the circular and let's do some figuring. How much do the Simpsons lack at this moment?",
  "sample_02708.wav": "If they sell two hundred more cakes this month than next, they can have the lamp by Christmas,\" Rebecca answered, and they can get a shade by summer time, but I'm afraid I can't help very much after today, because my Aunt Miranda may not like to have me.",
  "sample_02709.wav": "I see. Well, that's alright. I'll take 300 cakes and that will give them shade and all.",
  "sample_02710.wav": "tipped over, and disappeared into a clump of lilac bushes. It was a very short distance, fortunately, and the amused capitalist picked her up, set her on her feet, and brushed her off. You should never seem surprised when you have taken a large order,\" said he.",
  "sample_02711.wav": "Why, Mr. Cropper changed his mind. Well, Miss Maxwell, how did you get along today? Asked Mr. Baxter affably when the new teacher came to the table. She was a slight, dark girl, rather plain looking.",
  "sample_02712.wav": "but with a smart, energetic way. Mr. Baxter approved of her. He liked her style, as he would have said. The summer term had just opened in the Maitland district. Esther Maxwell was a stranger.",
  "sample_02713.wav": "but she was a capable girl, and had no doubt of her own ability to get and keep the school in good working order. She smiled brightly at Mr. Baxter. Very well for a beginning. The children seemed right and teachable.",
  "sample_02714.wav": "and not hard to control.\" Mr. Baxter nodded. \"'There are no bad children in the school except the cropper boys, and they can be good enough if they like. Reckon they weren't there to-day?' \"'No.'",
  "sample_02715.wav": "Well, Miss Maxwell, I think it only fair to tell you that you may have trouble with those boys when they do come. Forewarned is forearmed, you know. Mr. Cropper was opposed to our hiring you.",
  "sample_02716.wav": "Not of course that he had any personal objection to you, but he is set against female teachers, and when a cropper is set there is nothing on earth can change him. He says female teachers can't keep order.",
  "sample_02717.wav": "They know he'll back them up in secret no matter what they do, just to prove his opinions. Cropper is sly and slippery, and it is hard to corner him.\" Are the boys big? queried Esther anxiously.",
  "sample_02718.wav": "Yes, thirteen and fourteen and big for their age. You can't whip them. That is the trouble. A man might, but they twist you around their fingers. You'll have your hands full, I'm afraid.",
  "sample_02719.wav": "But maybe they'll behave all right after all. Mr. Baxter privately had no hope that they would, but Esther hoped for the best. She could not believe that Mr. Cropper would carry his prejudices into a personal application.",
  "sample_02720.wav": "This conviction was strengthened when he overtook her walking from school the next day and drove her home. He was a big, handsome man with a very suave, polite manner. He asked, interestingly, about her school and her work.",
  "sample_02721.wav": "hoped she was getting on well, and said he had two young rascals of his own to send soon. Esther felt relieved. She thought that Mr. Baxter had exaggerated matters a little. That plum tree of Mrs. Charlie's is loaded with fruit again this year.",
  "sample_02722.wav": "remarked Mr. Baxter at the tea-table that evening. I came past it today on my way cross lots, home from the woods. There will be bushels of plums on it.",
  "sample_02723.wav": "\"'I don't suppose poor Mrs. Charlie will get one of them any more than she ever has,' said Mrs. Baxter indignantly. \"'It's a burning shame, that's what it is. I just wish she could catch the croppers once.'\"",
  "sample_02724.wav": "You haven't any proof that it is really them, Mary,\" objected her husband. And you shouldn't make reckless accusations before folks. I know very well it is them.",
  "sample_02725.wav": "And Mrs. Charlie knows it too, although she can't prove it. More's the pity. I don't say Isaac Cropper steals those plums with his own hands, but he knows who does, and the plums go into Mahitabel Cropper's preserving kettle.",
  "sample_02726.wav": "There's nothing surer.\" \"'You see, Miss Maxwell, it's this way,' explained Mr. Baxter, turning to Esther. Mrs. Charlie, Cropper's husband, was Isaac's brother.",
  "sample_02727.wav": "They never got on well together, and when Charlie died there was a tremendous fuss about the property. Isaac acted mean and scandalous clear through and public opinion has been down on him ever since.",
  "sample_02728.wav": "But Mrs. Charlie is a pretty smart woman and he didn't get the better of her in everything. There was a strip of disputed land between the two farms and she secured it. There's a big plum tree growing on it close to the line fence.",
  "sample_02729.wav": "It's the finest one in Maitland, but Mrs. Charlie never gets a plum from it.",
  "sample_02730.wav": "asked Esther. They disappear, said Mr. Baxter with a significant nod. When the plums are anything like rye, Mrs. Charlie discovers some day that there isn't one left on the tree.",
  "sample_02731.wav": "She has never been able to get a scrap of proof as to who took them, or she'd make it hot for them. But nobody in Maitland has any doubt in his own mind that Isaac Cropper knows where those plums go.",
  "sample_02732.wav": "I don't think Mr. Cropper would steal, protested Esther. Well, he doesn't consider it stealing, you know. He claims the land and says the plums are his.",
  "sample_02733.wav": "I don't doubt that he is quite clear in his own mind that they are, and he does hate Mrs. Charlie. I'd give considerable to see the old sinner fairly caught, but he is too deep.",
  "sample_02734.wav": "\"'I think Mr. Baxter is too hard on Mr. Cropper,' said Esther to herself later on. \"'He has probably some private prejudice against him.'\" But a month later she had changed her opinion.",
  "sample_02735.wav": "During that time the cropper boys had come to school. At first Esther had been inclined to like them. They were handsome lads with the same smooth way that characterized their father, and seemed bright and intelligent.",
  "sample_02736.wav": "For a few days all went well, and Esther felt decidedly relieved. But before long a subtle spirit of insubordination began to make itself felt in the school. Esther found herself powerless to cope with it.",
  "sample_02737.wav": "The croppers never openly defied her, but they did precisely as they pleased. The other pupils thought themselves at liberty to follow this example, and in a month's time poor Esther had completely lost control of her little kingdom.",
  "sample_02738.wav": "Some complaints were heard among the rate-payers, and even Mr. Baxter looked dubious. She knew that unless she could regain her authority she would be requested to hand in her resignation.",
  "sample_02739.wav": "But she was baffled by the elusive system of defiance which the Cropper boys had organized. One day she resolved to go to Mr. Cropper himself and appeal to his sense of justice, if he had any.",
  "sample_02740.wav": "It had been an especially hard day in school. When she had been absent at the noon hour all the desks in the schoolroom had been piled in a pyramid on the floor, books and slates interchanged, and various other pranks played.",
  "sample_02741.wav": "instantaneously, with the consciousness of existence, returned her recollection of the manuscript. And springing from the bed in the very moment of the maid's going away, she eagerly collected every scattered sheet which had burst from the roll on its falling to the ground, and flew back to enjoy the luxury of their perusal on her pillow.",
  "sample_02742.wav": "She now plainly saw that she must not expect a manuscript of equal length with the generality of which she had shuddered over in books, for the roll, seeming to consist entirely of small disjointed sheets, was altogether but of trifling size.",
  "sample_02743.wav": "and much less than she had supposed it to be at first. Her greedy eye glanced rapidly over a page. She started at its import. Could it be possible? Or did not her senses play her false? An inventory of linen.",
  "sample_02744.wav": "in coarse and modern characters, seemed all that was before her. If the evidence of sight must be trusted, she held a washing-bill in her hand. She seized another sheet, and saw the same articles with little variation. A third, a fourth, and a fifth presented nothing new.",
  "sample_02745.wav": "Shirts, stockings, cravats, and waistcoats faced her in each. Two others, penned by the same hand, marked an expenditure scarcely more interesting, in letters, hair powder, shoestring, and breeches ball. And the larger sheet.",
  "sample_02746.wav": "to suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained undiscovered in a room such as that, so modern, so habitable.",
  "sample_02747.wav": "for had not the cabinet appeared so exactly to agree with his description of her adventures, she should never have felt the smallest curiosity about it. This was the only comfort that occurred. Impatient to get rid of those hateful evidences of her folly, those detestable papers then scattered over the bed.",
  "sample_02748.wav": "for she could now manage them with perfect ease. In this there was surely something mysterious, and she indulged in the flattering suggestion for half a minute, till the possibility of the doors having been at first unlocked.",
  "sample_02749.wav": "and yet unequal to an absolute falsehood.",
  "sample_02750.wav": "But we have a charming morning after it,\" she added, desiring to get rid of the subject.",
  "sample_02751.wav": "and Helm let you learn by accident or argument.",
  "sample_02752.wav": "as a means of getting you out of doors and tempting you to more frequent exercise than you would otherwise take. And though the love of a hyacinth may be rather domestic, who can tell the sentiment once raised but you may in time come to love a rose.",
  "sample_02753.wav": "But I do not want any such pursuit to get me out of doors. The pleasure of walking and breathing fresh air is enough for me.",
  "sample_02754.wav": "Mama says, I am never within.",
  "sample_02755.wav": "The mere habit of learning to love is the thing, and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing. Has my sister a pleasant mode of instruction? Catherine was saved the embarrassment of attempting an answer by the entrance of the general.",
  "sample_02756.wav": "whose smiling compliments announced a happy state of mind, but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not advance her composure. The elegance of the breakfast set forced itself on Catherine's notice when they were seated at table, and lucidly it had been the General's choice.",
  "sample_02757.wav": "He was enchanted by her approbation of his taste, confessed it to be neat and simple, thought it right to encourage the manufacturer of his country, and for his part to his uncritical palate. The tea was as well-flavoured from the clay of Staffordshire,",
  "sample_02758.wav": "He trusted, however, that an opportunity might ere long occur of selecting one, though not for himself. Catherine was probably the only one of the party who did not understand him.",
  "sample_02759.wav": "Shortly after breakfast, Henry left them for Woodston, where business required and would keep him two or three days. They all attended in the hall to see him mount his horse, and immediately on re-entering the breakfast room, Catherine walked to a window in the hope of catching another glimpse of his figure.",
  "sample_02760.wav": "observed the general to Eleanor, Woodston would make but a sombre appearance today. Is it a pretty place? asked Catherine. What say you, Eleanor? Speak your opinion, for ladies can best tell the taste of ladies in regard to places as well as men.",
  "sample_02761.wav": "I think it would be acknowledged by the most impartial eye to have many recommendations. The house stands among fine meadows facing the southeast, with an excellent kitchen garden in the same aspect.",
  "sample_02762.wav": "the walls surrounding which I built and stocked myself about ten years ago for the benefit of my son. It's a family living, Miss Moreland, and the property and the place being chiefly my own. You may believe I take care that it shall not be a bad one.",
  "sample_02763.wav": "Did Henry's income depend solely on this living he would not be ill provided for? Perhaps it may seem odd that with only two younger children I should think any profession necessary for him, and certainly there are moments when we could all wish him disengaged from every tie of business.",
  "sample_02764.wav": "But though I may not exactly make converts of you young ladies, I am sure your father, Miss Moreland, would agree with me in thinking it expedient to give every young man some employment. The money is nothing, it is not an object, but employment is the thing.",
  "sample_02765.wav": "has whose profession. The imposing effect of this last argument was equal to his wishes. The silence of the lady proved it to be unanswerable. Something had been said the evening before of her being shown over the house, and he now offered himself as her conductor.",
  "sample_02766.wav": "And though Catherine had hoped to explore it, accompanied only by his daughter, it was a proposal of too much happiness in itself under any circumstances not to be gladly accepted.",
  "sample_02767.wav": "and had seen only a few of its rooms. The netting-box, just leisurely drawn forth, was closed with joyful haste, and she was ready to attend him in a moment.",
  "sample_02768.wav": "the pleasure of accompanying her into the shrubberies and garden. She curtsied her acquiescence. But perhaps it might be more agreeable to her to make those her first object.",
  "sample_02769.wav": "The weather was at present favorable, and at this time of year the uncertainty was very great of its continuing so. Which would she prefer? He was equally at her service.",
  "sample_02770.wav": "He yielded implicitly, and would fetch his hat and attend them in a moment. He left the room, and Catherine, with a disappointed, anxious face, began to speak of her unwillingness that he should be taking them out of doors against his own inclination, under a mistaken idea of pleasing her.",
  "sample_02771.wav": "CHAPTER XXVII. But we must follow Edward for a time. On his arrival at Paris, he was kindly received by King Charles, who promised to assist his views in joining the army.",
  "sample_02772.wav": "You have to choose between two generals, both great in the art of war.",
  "sample_02773.wav": "and Turin. I have no doubt that they will be opposed to each other soon. That will be the better for you, as you will learn tactics from such great players. Which would your majesty recommend me to follow, inquired Edward?",
  "sample_02774.wav": "and he will soon be opposed to this truculent and dishonest court, who have kept me here as an instrument to accomplish their own wishes, but who have never intended to keep their promises, and place me on the English throne.",
  "sample_02775.wav": "I will give you letters to Conda, and recollect that whatever general you take service under, you will follow him without pretending to calculate how far his movements may be right or wrong. That is not your affair.",
  "sample_02776.wav": "Conde is just now released from Vincennes, but depend upon it he will be in arms very soon. As soon as he was furnished with the necessary credentials from the king, Edward presented himself at the levy of the Prince of Conde.",
  "sample_02777.wav": "\"'You are here highly spoken of,' said the prince, for so young a man. \"'So you are at the affair of Worcester? We will retain you, for your services will be wanted by and by.'",
  "sample_02778.wav": "Can you procure any of your countrymen? I know but of two that I can recommend from personal knowledge, but these two officers I can venture to pledge myself for. Any more?",
  "sample_02779.wav": "Bring me the officers tomorrow at this hour, Mr. Beverly. Au revoir.",
  "sample_02780.wav": "Edward went to Chalonier and Granville, who were delighted with the intelligence which he brought them. The next day they were at the prince's levy and introduced by Edward. I am fortunate, gentlemen,",
  "sample_02781.wav": "said the prince, in securing the services of such fine young men. \"'You will oblige me by enlisting as many of your countrymen as you may consider likely to do good service. And then follow me to Guian, to which province I am now about to depart.'",
  "sample_02782.wav": "and after my absence you will receive from them every assistance and necessary supplies which may be required. A month after this interview, Konda, who had been joined by a great number of nobles,",
  "sample_02783.wav": "and had been reinforced by troops from Spain, set up the standard of revolt. Edward and his friends joined them, with about three hundred English and Scotchmen, which they had enlisted. And very soon afterwards,",
  "sample_02784.wav": "Cond\u00e9 obtained the victory at B\u00e9lenin and in April 1652 advanced to Paris. Turenne, who had taken the command of the French army, followed him.",
  "sample_02785.wav": "and a severe action was fought in the streets of the suburb of Saint-Antoine, in which neither party had the advantage.",
  "sample_02786.wav": "and, not receiving the assistance he expected from the Spaniards, he fell back to the frontiers of Champagne. Previous to his departure from Paris, Edward had received Humphrey's letter, explaining away the intendants' conduct.",
  "sample_02787.wav": "and the contents removed to heavy load from Edward's mind. But he now thought of nothing but war, and although he cherished the idea of patience heatherstone, he was resolved to follow the fortunes of the prince as long as he could.",
  "sample_02788.wav": "He wrote a letter to the Intendant, thanking him for his kind feelings and intentions toward him, and he trusted that he might one day have the pleasure of seeing him again. He did not, however, think it advisable to mention the name of his daughter.",
  "sample_02789.wav": "except in inquiring after her health, and sending his respects. It may be years before I see her again, thought Edward. And who knows what may happen.",
  "sample_02790.wav": "and Edward, with his friends, followed his fortunes, and gained his goodwill. They were rapidly promoted. Time flew on, and in the year 1654 the court of France concluded an alliance with Cromwell.",
  "sample_02791.wav": "and expelled King Charles from the French Frontiers. The war was still carried on in the Netherlands. Turenne bore down Conde, who had gained every campaign, and the court of Spain wearied with reverses.",
  "sample_02792.wav": "made overtures of peace, which was gladly accepted by the French. During these wars Cromwell had been named protector and had shortly afterward died.",
  "sample_02793.wav": "Edward, who but rarely heard from Humphrey, was now anxious to quit the army and go to the king who was in Spain. But to leave his colors while things were adverse was impossible.",
  "sample_02794.wav": "After the peace and the pardon of Conde by the French king, the armies were disbanded, and the three adventurers were free. They took their leave of the prince, who thanked them for their long and meritorious services.",
  "sample_02795.wav": "and they then hastened to King Charles, who had left Spain and come to the Low Countries. At the time of their joining the King, Richard, the son of Cromwell, who had been nominated protector, had resigned, and everything was ready for the restoration.",
  "sample_02796.wav": "On the 15th of May, 1660, the news arrived that Charles had been proclaimed king on the eighth, and a large body of gentlemen went to invite him over. The king sailed from Shevelling.",
  "sample_02797.wav": "was met at Dover by General Monk, and conducted to London, which he entered amid the acclamations of the people on the 29th of the same month. We may leave the reader to suppose that Edward",
  "sample_02798.wav": "were among the most favorite of those in his train. As the procession moved slowly along the strand, through a countless multitude, the windows of all the houses were filled with well-dressed ladies, who waved their white kerchiefs to the king.",
  "sample_02799.wav": "and his attendant suit. Chalonier, Edward, and Grenville, who rode side by side as gentlemen in waiting, were certainly the most distinguished among the king's retinue. Look, Edward!",
  "sample_02800.wav": "at those lovely girls at Yon-Windo. Do you recognize them? Indeed I do not. Are they any of our Paris beauties?",
  "sample_02801.wav": "CHAPTER XXX. Catherine's disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious. Whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort.",
  "sample_02802.wav": "her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased. She could neither sit still nor employ herself for ten minutes together, walking round the garden and orchard again and again, as if nothing but motion was voluntary.",
  "sample_02803.wav": "And it seemed as if she could even walk about the house rather than remain fixed for any time in the parlour. Her loss of spirits was a yet greater alteration. In her rambling and her idleness.",
  "sample_02804.wav": "But when a third night's rest had neither restored her cheerfulness, improved her in useful activity, nor given her a greater inclination for needlework, she could no longer refrain from the gentle reproof of.",
  "sample_02805.wav": "My dear Catherine, I am afraid you are growing quite a fine lady. I do not know when poor Richard's cravats would be done if he had no friend but you. Your head runs too much upon Bath.",
  "sample_02806.wav": "Catherine took up her work directly, saying, in a dejected voice, that her head did not run upon Bath much. And you are fretting about General Tilney. And that is very simple of you.",
  "sample_02807.wav": "for ten to one whether you ever see him again. You should never fret about trifles.\" After a short silence. I hope, my Catherine, you are not getting out of humor with home, because it is not so grand as Northanger.",
  "sample_02808.wav": "That would be turning your visit into an evil indeed. Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time. I did not quite like at breakfast.",
  "sample_02809.wav": "to hear you talk so much about the French bread at Northanger. I am sure I do not care about the bread. It is all the same to me what I eat. There is a very clever essay in one of the books upstairs upon much such a subject.",
  "sample_02810.wav": "about young girls that have been spoilt for home by great acquaintance. The Mirror, I think. I will look it out for you some day or other, because I am sure it will do you good.\" said no more, and with an endeavor to do right,",
  "sample_02811.wav": "applied to her work. But, after a few minutes, sunk again, without knowing it herself, into languor and listlessness, moving herself in her chair, from the irritation of weariness, than she moved her needle.",
  "sample_02812.wav": "hastily left the room to fetch the book in question, anxious to lose no time in attacking so dreadful a malady. It was some time before she could find what she looked for, and other family matters occurring to detain her.",
  "sample_02813.wav": "A quarter of an hour had elapsed ere she returned downstairs with the volume from which so much was hoped. Her avocations above having shut out all noise but what she created herself, were as if to",
  "sample_02814.wav": "She knew not that a visitor had arrived within the last few minutes till, on entering the room, the first object she beheld was a young man whom she had never seen before.",
  "sample_02815.wav": "With a look of much respect he immediately rose, and being introduced to her by her conscious daughter as Mr. Henry Tilney, with the embarrassment of real sensibility, he was immediately taken",
  "sample_02816.wav": "began to apologize for his appearance there, acknowledging that after what had passed he had little right to expect a welcome at Fullerton, and stating his impatience to be assured of Miss Morland's having reached her home in safety.",
  "sample_02817.wav": "as the cause of his intrusion. He did not address himself to an uncandidate judge, or a resentful heart. Far from comprehending him or his sister in their father's misconduct.",
  "sample_02818.wav": "Mrs. Morland had been always kindly disposed towards each, and instantly, pleased by his appearance, received him with the simple professions of unaffected benevolence. Seeing him for such an attention to her daughter,",
  "sample_02819.wav": "Though his heart was greatly relieved by such unlooked-for mildness, it was not just at that moment in his power to say anything to the purpose. He was falling in silence to his seat, therefore.",
  "sample_02820.wav": "But her glowing cheek and brightened eye made her mother trust that this good-natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time, and gladly therefore did she lay aside the first volume of The Mirror for a future hour.",
  "sample_02821.wav": "Desirous of Mr. Morland's assistance, as well in giving encouragement, as in finding conversation for her guest, whose embarrassment on his father's account she earnestly pitied,",
  "sample_02822.wav": "Mrs. Marland had very early dispatched one of the children to summon him, but Mr. Marland was from home. And being thus without any support, at the end of a quarter of an hour she had nothing to say.",
  "sample_02823.wav": "After a couple of minutes' unbroken silence, Henry, turning to Catherine for the first time since her mother's entrance, asked her, with sudden alacrity, if Mr. and Mrs. Allan were now at Fullerton.",
  "sample_02824.wav": "And, on developing, from amidst all her perplexity of words in reply, the meaning, which one short syllable would have given, immediately expressed his intention of paying his respects",
  "sample_02825.wav": "asked her if she would have the goodness to show him the way. \"'You may see the house from this window, sir,' was information on Sarah's side, which produced only a bow of acknowledgement from the gentleman, and a silencing nod from her mother.",
  "sample_02826.wav": "For Mrs. Marland, thinking it probable, as a secondary consideration in his wish of waiting on their worthy neighbors, that he might have some explanation to give of his father's behavior.",
  "sample_02827.wav": "which it must be more pleasant for him to communicate only to Catherine, would not on any account prevent her accompanying him. They began their walk, and Mrs. Morland was not entirely mistaken in his object in wishing",
  "sample_02828.wav": "Some explanation on his father's account he had to give, but his first purpose was to explain himself. And before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds, he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often.",
  "sample_02829.wav": "and delighted in all the excellencies of her character, and truly loved her society. I must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude, or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for him.",
  "sample_02830.wav": "had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought. It is a new circumstance in romance, I acknowledge, and dreadfully derogatory of a heroine's dignity. But if it be as new in common life...",
  "sample_02831.wav": "The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed night. Above its shadows, heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of Marius and Cosette. The day had been adorable.",
  "sample_02832.wav": "It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and cupids over the heads of the bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be placed over a door. But it had been sweet and smiling.",
  "sample_02833.wav": "The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is today. France had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off one's wife, of fleeing.",
  "sample_02834.wav": "on coming out of a church, of hiding oneself with shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of the bankrupt with the delights of the song of songs. People had not yet grasped to the full the chastity, exquisiteness,",
  "sample_02835.wav": "the most sacred of the souvenirs of life, mingled, pell-mell, with the tete-tete of the conductor of the diligence, and the maidservant of the inn. In the second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest,",
  "sample_02836.wav": "Oats to the Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galoons, varnished hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility.",
  "sample_02837.wav": "and raining down on the post chaise of the bridal pair, a hailed storm of slippers, trodden down at heel, and of worn-out shoes in memory of Churchill.",
  "sample_02838.wav": "which brought him good luck. Old shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial celebrations, but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall come to that. In 1833, a hundred years ago,",
  "sample_02839.wav": "marriage was not conducted at a full trot. Strange to say at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was a private and a social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil a domestic solemnity, that gaiety even in excess...",
  "sample_02840.wav": "provided it be honest and decent, does happiness no harm, and that in short it is a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies, whence a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the household should thenceforth",
  "sample_02841.wav": "Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the bans to publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayorality, and the church produced some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of February.",
  "sample_02842.wav": "Now, we note this detail for the pure satisfaction of being exact. It chanced.",
  "sample_02843.wav": "As the marriage was taking place under the regime of community of property, the papers had been simple.",
  "sample_02844.wav": "An accident happened to Jean Valjean. He crushed the thumb of his right hand.",
  "sample_02845.wav": "nor even to see his hurt, not even coset. Nevertheless, this had forced him to sway his hand in a linen bandage, and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing.",
  "sample_02846.wav": "and his capacity of cosette supervising guardian had supplied his place. We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent.",
  "sample_02847.wav": "to the Church of St. Paul at that epoch.",
  "sample_02848.wav": "was in process of repaving. It was barred off.",
  "sample_02849.wav": "and Jean Valjean. Marius, still separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the second.",
  "sample_02850.wav": "became entangled in a long procession of vehicles, which'd form an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard.",
  "sample_02851.wav": "Mary Andrew, pantaloon, and clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be seen nowadays.",
  "sample_02852.wav": "anyone in these vehicles as it once a spectator and a spectacle. Police sergeants maintained on the sides of the boulevard these two interminable parallel files moving in contrary directions and saw to it that nothing interfered with that double current.",
  "sample_02853.wav": "those two brooks of carriages, flowing the one downstream, the other upstream.",
  "sample_02854.wav": "and, please and with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably",
  "sample_02855.wav": "had the same privilege. In this gaiety of Paris, England cracked her whip. Lord Seymour's post chaise, harassed by a nickname from the populace, passed with great noise. In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like sheepdogs,",
  "sample_02856.wav": "Honest family coaches, loaded down with great aunts and grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in disguise. Clowns of seven years of age, columbines of six, ravishing little creatures who felt that they formed an official part of the public mirth.",
  "sample_02857.wav": "One carriage delayed suffice to paralyze the whole line, then they set out again on the march. The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding toward the Bastille and skirting the right side of the boulevard.",
  "sample_02858.wav": "Nearly at the same moment, the other file, which was proceeding toward the Madeleine, halted also. At that point of the file, there was a carriageload of maskers. These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagonloads of maskers",
  "sample_02859.wav": "are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove Tuesday or at the Midland, it would be taken in bad part and people would say, there's something behind that, probably the ministry is about to undergo a change.",
  "sample_02860.wav": "toe wigs, pink tights, dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer.",
  "sample_02861.wav": "The author is pleased to be able to present a sequel to Aunt Jane's Nieces, the book which was received with so much favor last year. Yet it is not necessary one should have read the first book to fully understand the present volume.",
  "sample_02862.wav": "the characters being taken to entirely new scenes. The various foreign localities are accurately described.",
  "sample_02863.wav": "while those who have not been so fortunate may acquire a clear conception of them.",
  "sample_02864.wav": "Lest I be accused of undue sensationalism in relating the somewhat dramatic Sicilian incident, I will assure my reader that the story does not exaggerate present conditions in various parts of the island. In fact, Il Duca and Tato",
  "sample_02865.wav": "are drawn from life, although they did not have their mountain layer so near to Tormina as I have ventured to locate it. Except that I have adapted their clever system of brigandage to the exigencies of this story, their history is truly related.",
  "sample_02866.wav": "Many who have traveled somewhat outside the beaten tracks in Sicily will frankly vouch for this statement. Italy is doing its best to suppress the mafia and to eliminate brigandage from the beautiful islands it controls, but so few of the inhabitants are Italians.",
  "sample_02867.wav": "or in sympathy with the government, that the work of reformation is necessarily slow. Americans especially must exercise caution in traveling in any part of Sicily, yet with proper care not to tempt the irresponsible natives.",
  "sample_02868.wav": "they are as safe in Sicily as they are at home. Aunt Jane's nieces are shown to be as frankly adventurous as the average clear-headed American girl, but their experiences amid the environments of an ancient and still primitive civilization are in no wise extraordinary.",
  "sample_02869.wav": "The Doyles are astonished. It was Sunday afternoon in Miss Patricia Doyle's Pretty Flat at 3708 Willing Square. In the small drawing room, Patricia, or Patsy as she preferred to be called, was sitting",
  "sample_02870.wav": "was seated at the piano softly playing the one piece the music teacher had succeeded in drilling into her flighty head, by virtue of much patience and perseverance, in a thick cushioned Morris chair, reclining the motionless form of Uncle John,",
  "sample_02871.wav": "a chubby little man in a gray suit, whose features were temporarily eclipsed by the newspaper that was spread carefully over them. Occasionally, a gasp or snore from beneath the paper suggested that the little man was snoozing.",
  "sample_02872.wav": "as he sometimes gravelly called it, instead of listening to the music. Major Doyle sat opposite, stiffly erect, with his admiring eyes full upon Patsy. At times he drummed upon the arms of his chair in unison with the music,",
  "sample_02873.wav": "nodding his grizzled head to mark the time, as well as to emphasize his evident approbation. Patsy had played the same piece from start to finish seven times since dinner, because it was the only one she knew.",
  "sample_02874.wav": "But the major could have listened to it seven hundred times, without the flicker of an eyelash. It was not that he admired so much the piece the girl was playing as the girl who was playing the piece. His pride in Patsy was unbounded.",
  "sample_02875.wav": "That she should have succeeded at all in mastering that imposing looking instrument, making it actually play tunes, was surely a thing to wonder at. But then Patsy could do anything, if she but tried. Suddenly, Uncle John gave a dreadful snort.",
  "sample_02876.wav": "and sat bolt upright, gazing at his companions with a startled look that melted into one of benign complacency as he observed his surroundings and realized where he was. The interruption gave Patsy an opportunity to stop playing the tune.",
  "sample_02877.wav": "She swung around on the stool and looked with amusement at her newly awakened uncle. \"'You've been asleep,' she said. \"'No, indeed quite a mistake,' replied the little man seriously. \"'I've only been thinking.'\"",
  "sample_02878.wav": "And such beautiful thoughts, observed the Mayor testily, for he resented the interruption of his Sunday afternoon treat. You thought him aloud, sir, and the sound of it was a bad imitation of a bullfrog in a marsh.",
  "sample_02879.wav": "You'll have to give up eating the salad, sir.\" \"'Bah, don't I know?' asked Uncle John indignantly. \"'Well, if your knowledge is better than our hearing, I suppose you do,' retorted the major. \"'But to an ignorant individual like me-self...'",
  "sample_02880.wav": "The impression conveyed was that you snored like a man that has forgotten his manners and gone to sleep in the prisons of a lady.\" Then no one has a better right to do that, declared Patsy soothingly. And I'm sure our dear Uncle John's thoughts",
  "sample_02881.wav": "were just the most beautiful dreams in the world. Tell us of them, sir, and we'll prove the Major utterly wrong.\" Even her father smiled at the girl's diplomacy, and Uncle John, who was on the verge of unreasonable anger beamed upon her gratefully.",
  "sample_02882.wav": "I'm going to Europe,\" he said. The Major gave an involuntary start, and then turned to look at him curiously. And I'm going to take Patsy along, he continued with a mischievous grin. The Major frowned.",
  "sample_02883.wav": "You're dreaming again!\" Patsy swung her feet from side to side, for she was such a little thing that the stool raised her entirely off the floor. There was a thoughtful look on her round-freckled face and a wistful one in her great blue eyes.",
  "sample_02884.wav": "as the full meaning of Uncle John's abrupt devout became apparent. The major was still frowning, but a half-frightened expression had replaced the one of scornful raillery, for he too knew that his eccentric brother-in-law was likely to propose any preposterous thing.",
  "sample_02885.wav": "and then carry it out in spite of all opposition. But to take Patsy to Europe would be like pulling the major's eye teeth or amputating his good right arm. Worse, far worse. It would mean taking the sunshine out of her old father's sky altogether.",
  "sample_02886.wav": "and painting it a grim, despairing gray. But he resolved not to submit without a struggle. Sir, said he sternly, he always called his brother-in-law sir when he was in a sarcastic or reproachful mood, I've had an idea for some time that you were plotting mischief.",
  "sample_02887.wav": "I will ask you to explain to us, sir, the brutal suggestion you have just advanced.\" Uncle John laughed. In the days when Major Doyle had thought him a poor man and in need of a helping hand,",
  "sample_02888.wav": "The grizzled old Irishman had been as tender toward him as a woman, and studiously avoided any speech or epithet that, by chance, might injure the feelings of his dead wife's only brother. But the major's invariable courtesy to the poor unfortunate.",
  "sample_02889.wav": "was no longer in evidence when he found that John Merrick was a multimillionaire with a strongly defined habit of doing good to others and striving in obscure and unconventional ways to make everybody around him happy.",
  "sample_02890.wav": "His affection for the little man increased mightily, but his respectful attitude promptly changed, and a chance to reprove or discomfort his absurdly rich brother-in-law was one of his most satisfactory diversions. Uncle John appreciated this.",
  "sample_02891.wav": "I was burning with impatience to impart my news to him, and this fact, together with the ghostly proceedings of Poulton, worked me up to a state of nervous tension that rendered either rest or thought equally impossible. I looked out of the window at the lamp below, glaring redly through the fog.",
  "sample_02892.wav": "At this moment, Polton made a silent appearance on the stairs leading from the laboratory, giving me quite a start, and I was about to retire into the room when my ear caught the tinkle of a handsome approaching from paper buildings.",
  "sample_02893.wav": "The vehicle drew nearer, and at length stopped opposite the house, on which Poulton slid down the stairs with the agility of a harlequin. A few moments later I heard his voice ascending from the hall. I do hope, sir, you're not much hurt.",
  "sample_02894.wav": "though very disreputable to look at. \"'Just came a cropper in the mud, Jervis,' he added, as he noted my dismayed expression. \"'Dinner and a clothes brush are what I chiefly need.' Nevertheless, he looked very pale and shaken when he came into the light on the landing.\"",
  "sample_02895.wav": "and he sank into his easy chair in the limp manner of a man either very weak or very fatigued. How did it happen? I asked, when Poulton had crept away on tiptoe to make ready for dinner. Thorndyke looked round to make sure that his henchmen had departed and said,",
  "sample_02896.wav": "A queer affair, Jervis. A very odd affair indeed. I was coming up from the borough, picking my way mighty carefully across the road on account of the greasy, slippery mud, and had just reached the foot of London Bridge when I heard a heavy lorry coming down the slope a good deal too fast.",
  "sample_02897.wav": "The horses came stamping and sliding straight on to me, and before I could wriggle out of the way the hoof of one of them smashed in my hat. That was a new one that I came home in, and half stunned me. Then the near wheel struck my head, making a dirty little scalp wound, and pinned down so that I couldn't pull away my arm.",
  "sample_02898.wav": "Yes, I went into dry-dock in the O.P. room, and then old Langdale insisted on my lying down for an hour or so, in case any symptoms of concussion should appear. But I was only a trifle shaken and confused. Still, it was a queer affair. You mean the man pushing you down in that way?",
  "sample_02899.wav": "You don't think it was intentional, surely?\" I said. No, of course not, he replied, but without much conviction, as it seemed to me, and I was about to pursue the matter when Poulton reappeared and my friend abruptly changed the subject. After dinner I recounted my conversation with Walter Hornby.",
  "sample_02900.wav": "watching my colleague's face with some eagerness to see what effect this new information would produce on him. The result was, on the whole, disappointing. He was interested, keenly interested, but showed no symptoms of excitement.",
  "sample_02901.wav": "\"'So John Hornby has been plunging in mind, Zah,' he said, when I had finished. \"'He ought to know better at his age. Did you learn how long he had been in difficulties?' \"'No, but it can hardly have been quite sudden and unforeseen.' \"'I should think not,' Thorndyke agreed.",
  "sample_02902.wav": "in which case the depreciation would not have affected him in the same way. It would be interesting to know for certain. It might have a considerable bearing on the present case, might it not?\" Undoubtedly, said Thorndyke, it might bear on the case in more ways than one.",
  "sample_02903.wav": "That is well considered, said my colleague, but what is the special bearing on the case supposing it was so? On the supposition, I replied, that Mr. Hornby was in actual peculiar difficulties at the date of the robbery. It seems to be possible to construct a hypothesis.",
  "sample_02904.wav": "In fact, it is almost fantastic.\" \"'Never mind that,' said he. A sound thinker gives equal consideration to the probable and the improbable. Thus encouraged, I proceeded to set forth the theory of the crimes that had occurred to me on my way home in the fog.",
  "sample_02905.wav": "and I was gratified to observe the close attention with which Thorndyke listened, and his little nods of approval at each point that I made. When I had finished he remained silent for some time, looking thoughtfully into the fire, and evidently considering how my theory and the new facts on which it was based,",
  "sample_02906.wav": "really adds to the achievement, for the dullest mind can perceive the obvious, as, for instance, the importance of a fingerprint. You have really done a great thing, and I congratulate you, for you have emancipated yourself, at least to some extent,",
  "sample_02907.wav": "from the great fingerprint obsession which has possessed the legal mind ever since Galton published his epic-making monograph. In that work I remember he states that a fingerprint affords evidence requiring no corroboration, a most dangerous and misleading statement,",
  "sample_02908.wav": "which has been fastened upon eagerly by the police, who have naturally been delighted at obtaining a sort of magic touchstone by which they are saved the labor of investigation. But there is no such thing as a single fact that affords evidence requiring no corroboration.",
  "sample_02909.wav": "As well might one expect to make a syllogism with a single premise. I suppose they would hardly go so far as that, I said, laughing. No, he admitted, but the kind of syllogism that they do make is this. The crime was committed by the person who made this fingerprint.",
  "sample_02910.wav": "was the crime committed by the person who made this fingerprint. That is where the corroboration is required. That practically leaves the case to be investigated without reference to the fingerprint, which thus becomes of no importance. Not at all, Rejoin Thorndyke.",
  "sample_02911.wav": "The fingerprint is a most valuable clue as long as its evidential value is not exaggerated. Take our present case for instance. Without the thumbprint, the robbery might have been committed by anybody. There is no clue whatever.",
  "sample_02912.wav": "\"'Quite,' replied Thorndyke, \"'I have entertained it from the first, and the new facts that you have gathered increase its probability. You remember I said that four hypotheses were possible, that the robbery was committed either by Reuben, by Walter, by John Hornby, or by some other person. \"'Quite,' replied Thorndyke, \"'I have entertained it from the first, and the new facts that you have gathered increase its probability. You remember I said that four hypotheses were possible, that the robbery was committed either by Reuben, by Walter, by John Hornby, or by some other person. You remember I said that four hypotheses were possible, that the robbery was committed either by Reuben, by Walter, by John Hornby, or by some other person.",
  "sample_02913.wav": "Now, putting aside the some other person for consideration only if the first three hypotheses fail, we have left Reuben, Walter, and John. But if we leave the thumbprint out of the question, the probabilities evidently point to John Hornby.",
  "sample_02914.wav": "since he admittedly had access to the diamonds, whereas there is nothing to show that the others had. The thumbprint, however, transfers the suspicion to Rubin, but yet, as your theory makes evident, it does not completely clear John Hornby.",
  "sample_02915.wav": "As the case stands, the balance of probabilities may be stated thus. John Hornby undoubtedly had access to the diamonds, and therefore might have stolen them. But if the thumb mark was made after he closed the safe, and before he opened it again,",
  "sample_02916.wav": "but there is no evidence that he had access to them, and if he had not, he could not have made the thumb mark in the manner and at the time stated. But John Hornby may have had access to the previously made thumb mark of Reuben, and may possibly have obtained it, in which case he is almost certainly the thief.",
  "sample_02917.wav": "As to Walter Hornby, he may have had the means of obtaining Ruben's thumb mark, but there is no evidence that he had access either to the diamonds or to Mr. Hornby's memorandum block.",
  "sample_02918.wav": "The actual points at issue then, I said, are whether Ruben had any means of opening the safe, and whether Mr. Hornby ever did actually have the opportunity of obtaining Ruben's thumb mark and blood on his memorandum block.",
  "sample_02919.wav": "\"'Yes,' replied Thorndyke, \"'those are the points with some others, and they are likely to remain unsettled. Rubin's rooms have been searched by the police, who failed to find any skeleton or duplicate keys. But this proves nothing, as he would probably have made away with them when he heard of the thumb-mark being found.\"",
  "sample_02920.wav": "But by the end of the two weeks she grew tired of waiting, and the days were so very long that at length, not without some slight compunction, she made up her mind to go and pay a guileless visit to Miss Priscilla Gower herself.",
  "sample_02921.wav": "where he spent his time in knocking his head against the wall, until the courtiers were afraid he would kill himself. They accordingly placed stuffed mattresses over every wall, and allowed all his subjects, who desired,",
  "sample_02922.wav": "covered from head to foot in a long crepe veil, who wept and sobbed so much that the king noticed her. She told him that she did not come, like the rest, to console him, but rather to encourage his grief.",
  "sample_02923.wav": "She herself had lost the best of husbands, and here she began to weep so profusely that it was a wonder her eyes were not melted out of her head. The king began to weep in company and to talk to her of his dear wife.",
  "sample_02924.wav": "She did the same of her dear husband. In fact, they talked so much that they talked their sorrow quite away. Then, lifting up her veil, she showed lovely blue eyes and dark eyelashes.",
  "sample_02925.wav": "The king noticed her more and more. He spoke less and less of the departed queen. By and by he ceased to speak of her at all. The end was that he courted the inconsolable lady in the black veil and married her.",
  "sample_02926.wav": "By his first marriage he had one daughter called Florina or the little Flora because she was so fresh and lovely. At the time of his second marriage she was quite 15 years old. The new queen also had a daughter.",
  "sample_02927.wav": "who was being brought up by her godmother, the fairy Susio. Her name was Troutina, because her complexion was all spotted like a trout's back. Indeed, she was altogether ugly and disagreeable. And when contrasted with Florina,",
  "sample_02928.wav": "The king disputed nothing. Indeed. He never did the Queen ruled him in all things Sometime after news came that King charming would shortly arrive",
  "sample_02929.wav": "When the queen heard this news, she sent for milliners, dressmakers, jewelers, and decked Troutina from head to foot. But to Florina she allowed not a single new frock. The poor princess had to put on her old one.",
  "sample_02930.wav": "who presented to him Troutina, all blazing with jewels, yet so ugly that King Charming involuntarily turned away his eyes. But, madam, is there not another princess called Florina?",
  "sample_02931.wav": "He rose and made her a profound reverence, paying her besides so many elegant compliments that the Queen became very much displeased. King Charming took no heed.",
  "sample_02932.wav": "but conversed with Florina for three hours without stopping. Indeed, his admiration of her was so plain that the Queen and Troutina begged of the King that she might be shut up in a tower during the whole time of his visit.",
  "sample_02933.wav": "Four men in masks entered and carried her off, leaving her in a dark cell and in the utmost desolation. Meantime, King Charming eagerly awaited her reappearance, but he saw her no more.",
  "sample_02934.wav": "And by the Queen's orders, everyone about him spoke all the evil they could of poor Florina. But he refused to believe one word. No, he said, nature could not have united a base nature to such a sweet innocent face.",
  "sample_02935.wav": "Florina, shut up in her tower, lamented bitterly. Ah, would I had been sent here before I saw this amiable prince, who was so kind to me. It is to prevent my meeting him again that the Queen treats me so cruelly.",
  "sample_02936.wav": "Alas, the little beauty I have has cost me sore. The Queen, to win King Charming for her daughter, made him many presents, among the rest an order of knighthood, a golden heart.",
  "sample_02937.wav": "but pierced by one only, the motto being, She Alone. The heart was made of a single ruby, as big as an ostrich's egg.",
  "sample_02938.wav": "a finger's length, and the chain was of pearls, each weighing a pound. When the young king received this very handsome present, he was much perplexed.",
  "sample_02939.wav": "As I cannot fulfill it to Troutina, I would rather decline the favour she offers me, than become unworthy of it. Civil as this answer was, it irritated the Queen and her daughter exceedingly.",
  "sample_02940.wav": "And when, since in all his audiences, with their majesties he never saw Florina, he at last inquired where the younger princess was, the queen answered fiercely that she was shut up in prison and would remain there till Troutino was married.",
  "sample_02941.wav": "When he was alone he sent for one of his attendants, whom he trusted very much, and begged him to gain information from some court lady about the Princess Florina. This scheme succeeded so well.",
  "sample_02942.wav": "Next night, Troutina thickly veiled.",
  "sample_02943.wav": "King Charming met her, received her in his arms, and vowed to love her forever. Then he lifted her into the fairy chariot, and they sailed about in the air for some hours.",
  "sample_02944.wav": "But as he was not likely to wish to sail about forever, he at last proposed that they should descend to earth and be married. Troutina agreed with all her heart, but wished that the ceremony should be performed at her godmother's.",
  "sample_02945.wav": "\"'My child,' replied the godmother, \"'that is more easily said than done. He is too deeply in love with Florina.'\" Meantime the king was left waiting in a chamber with diamond walls, so thin and transparent",
  "sample_02946.wav": "that through them he saw Troutina and Susio conversing together. He stood like a man in a dream. What? Am I betrayed? Has this enemy to my peace carried away my dear Florina?",
  "sample_02947.wav": "How great was his despair when Susio said to him in a commanding voice, King Charming, behold the Princess Troutina, to whom you have promised your faith, marry her immediately.",
  "sample_02948.wav": "\"'Do you think me a fool?' cried the king. \"'I have promised her nothing. She is\u2014' \"'Stop! If you show me any disrespect, I will respect you as much as a fairy deserves to be respected.'\"",
  "sample_02949.wav": "if you will only give me back my princess.\" \"'Am not I she?' said Troutina. \"'It was to me you gave this ring. To me you spoke at the window.' \"'I have been wickedly deceived,' cried the king.\"",
  "sample_02950.wav": "but I will love no one except Florina. Susio employed persuasions, threats, promises, and treaties.",
  "sample_02951.wav": "or any painful job so full of pleasures, as the task of conducting a newspaper column.",
  "sample_02952.wav": "It's disheartened because nobody notices it. He soon outgrows this, and is disheartened because too many people notice it, and he imagines that all see the paltriness of it as plainly as he does.",
  "sample_02953.wav": "There is nothing so amazing to him as to find that anyone really enjoys his stuff. Poor soul, he remembers how he groaned over it at his desk. He remembers the hours he sat with lackluster eye and addled brain.",
  "sample_02954.wav": "brooding at the sluttish typewriter. He remembers the flush of shame that tingled him as he walked sadly homeward, thinking of some atrocious inanity he had sent upstairs to the composing room. It is a job that engenders a healthy humility.",
  "sample_02955.wav": "I had always wanted to have a try at writing a column. Heaven help me, I think I had an idea that I was born for the job. I may as well be candid. There was a time when I seriously thought of inserting the following ad in a Philadelphia newspaper.",
  "sample_02956.wav": "I find a memorandum of it in my scrapbook. Humorist, young and untamed, lineal descendant of Eugene Field, Frank Stockton, and Francois Rabelais, desires to run a column in a Philadelphia newspaper.",
  "sample_02957.wav": "a guaranteed circulation getter. Said humorist can also supply excellent veins of philosophy, poetry, satire, uplift, glad material, and indiscriminate musings.",
  "sample_02958.wav": "remarkable opportunity for any newspaper desiring a really unusual editorial feature, address humorist, etc. So besotted was I, I would have paid to have this printed if I had not been counseled by an older and wiser head.",
  "sample_02959.wav": "I instance this to show that the Columnist is likely to begin his job with the conception that it is to be a perpetual uproar of mirth and high spirits. This lasts about a week.",
  "sample_02960.wav": "He has to deal with the most elusive and grotesque material he knows, his own mind, and the unhappy creature everlastingly probing himself in the hope of discovering what is so rare in minds. A thought is likely to end in a ferment of bitterness.",
  "sample_02961.wav": "If you have to be endlessly speculating, watching, and making mental notes, your brain gears soon get a hot box. The original of all paragraphers.",
  "sample_02962.wav": "came very near ending as a complete cynic, though in what F.P.A. would call his last line, he managed to wriggle into a more hopeful mood. The first valuable discovery that the Columnist is likely to make is that all minds are very much the same.",
  "sample_02963.wav": "The doctors tell us that all patent medicines are built on a stock formula, a sedative, a purge, and a bitter. If you are to make steady column topers out of your readers, your daily dose must...",
  "sample_02964.wav": "as far as possible, average up to that same prescription. If you employ the purge all the time, or the sedative, or the acid, your clients will soon ask for something with another label.",
  "sample_02965.wav": "It is hard to get the Columnist to admit this, for he fears spoofing worse than the Devil, but it is eminently true. If I were the owner of a newspaper...",
  "sample_02966.wav": "The following words from Isaiah, the best of all watchwords for all who write. Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.",
  "sample_02967.wav": "The most painful privilege of the Columnist's job is the number of people who drop in to see him, usually when he is imprecating his way toward the hour of going to press. This is all a part of the great and salutary human instinct against work.",
  "sample_02968.wav": "Yet now and then he gets a glimpse into a human vexation so sincere, so honest, and so moving that he turns away from the typewriter with a sigh. He wonders how one dare approach the chronicling of this muddled panorama.",
  "sample_02969.wav": "with anything but humility and despair. Frank Harris once said of Oscar Wilde, if England insists on treating her criminals like this, she doesn't deserve to have any. Similarly,",
  "sample_02970.wav": "If the public insists on bringing its woes to its columnists, it doesn't deserve to have any columnists. Then the battered jester turns again to his machine and ticks off something like this.",
  "sample_02971.wav": "A pessimist, he says, is a man who wears both belt and suspenders. When a big jewelry firm in the city puts out a large ad, Bailey Banks and Biddle Company watches for women of superior design and perfection of movement.",
  "sample_02972.wav": "All that one needs to do to that is to write over it the caption, So do we all, and pass on to the next paragraph. The more a columnist is out,",
  "sample_02973.wav": "On the streets, making himself the reporter of the moods and oddities of men, the better his stuff will be. It seems to me that his job ought to be good training for a novelist, as it teaches him a habit of human sensitiveness.",
  "sample_02974.wav": "He becomes filled with an extraordinary curiosity about the motives and the purposes of the people he sees.",
  "sample_02975.wav": "who was standing on Chestnut Street studying a pocket notebook. His umbrella leaned against a shop window, on the sill of which he had laid a carefully rolled up newspaper. By his feet was a neat leather briefcase, plumply filled with contents not discernible.",
  "sample_02976.wav": "There he stood, a sort of unsuccessful Cyrus Curtis, very diminutive, his grey hair rather long, a-baft his neck, his yellowish straw hat, with curly brim, tilted backward, as though in perplexity.",
  "sample_02977.wav": "His timid and absorbed blue eyes pouring over his memorandum book, which was full of penciled notes. He had a slightly unkempt, brief beard and whiskers, his cheekbones pinkish, his linen a little frayed. There was something strangely pathetic about him.",
  "sample_02978.wav": "and I would have given much to have been able to speak to him. I halted at a window farther down the street and studied him, then returned to pass him again and watched him patiently. He stood quite absorbed and was still there when I went on.",
  "sample_02979.wav": "That is just one of the thousands of vivid little pictures one sees on the city streets day by day. To catch some hint of the meaning of all this, to present a few scrawled notes of the amazing interest and color of the city's life.",
  "sample_02980.wav": "This is the columnist's task as I see it. It is a task not a wit less worthy, less painful, or less baffling than that of the most conscientious novelist.",
  "sample_02981.wav": "And in its gyre had not turned wholly round Before another in a ring enclosed it, And motion joined to motion, song to song. Song that is greatly doth transcend our muses, Our sirens in those dulcet clarions, As primal splendour that which is reflected.",
  "sample_02982.wav": "When Juno to her handmaid gives command, The one without born of the one within, Like to the speaking of that vagrant one Whom love consumed as doth the sun the vapors.",
  "sample_02983.wav": "After the dance and other grand rejoicings, both of the singing and the flaming forth, Ifulgance with Ifulgance, blythe and tender, together at once with one accord had stopped, even as the eyes, that as volition moves them, must needs together shut and lift themselves.",
  "sample_02984.wav": "Out of the heart of one of the new lights there came a voice, that needle to the star made me appear in turning thitherward. And it began, The love that makes me fair draws me to speak about the other leader, by whom so well is spoken here of mine.",
  "sample_02985.wav": "Tis right where one is to bring in the other, That as they were united in their warfare Together likewise may their glory shine. The soldiery of Christ which it had cost So dear to arm again behind the standard, Moved slow and doubtful and in numbers few.",
  "sample_02986.wav": "When the Emperor who reigneth evermore Provided for the host that was in peril, Through grace alone and not that it was worthy. And as was said, he to his bride brought succor, With champions twain, at whose deed, at whose word, The straggling people were together drawn.",
  "sample_02987.wav": "Within that region where the sweet west wind rises to open the new leaves, wherewith Europe is seen to clothe herself afresh, not far off from the beating of the waves behind which in his long career the sun sometimes conceals himself from every man.",
  "sample_02988.wav": "Is situate the fortunate Calahorra, Under protection of the mighty shield In which the lion's subject is unsovereign. Therein was born the amorous paramour of Christian faith, The athlete consecrate, kind to his own and cruel to his foes.",
  "sample_02989.wav": "And when it was created was his mind replete with such a living energy that in his mother her it made prophetic. As soon as the espousals were complete, between him and the faith at Holy Fount, where they with mutual safety dowered each other.",
  "sample_02990.wav": "The woman who for him had given a scent saw in a dream the admirable fruit that issue would from him and from his heirs, and that he might become strewed as he was, a spirit from this place went forth to name him, with his possessive whose he wholly was.",
  "sample_02991.wav": "Dominic was he called, and him I speak of, even as of the husbandman whom Christ elected to his garden to assist him. Envoy and servant soothed he seemed of Christ, for the first love made manifest in him was the first counsel that was given by Christ.",
  "sample_02992.wav": "Silent and wakeful many a time was he, Discovered by his nurse upon the ground, As if he would have said, For this I came. O thou his father, Felix Verily, O thou his mother, Verily Joanna, If this interpreted means as is said.",
  "sample_02993.wav": "Not for the world which people toil for now, In following Ostiense and Tadio, But through his longing after the true manna. He in short time became so great a teacher That he began to go about the vineyard, Which fadeth soon if faithless be the dresser.",
  "sample_02994.wav": "Not through itself, but him who sits there and degenerates. Not to dispense or two or three for sex, Not any fortune of first vacancy, Non decimas que sunt pauperum Dei.",
  "sample_02995.wav": "He asked for but against the errant world permission to do battle for the seed, of which these four and twenty plants surround thee. Then with the doctrine and the will together, with office apostolical he moved like torrent which some lofty vein outpresses.",
  "sample_02996.wav": "And in among the chutes heretical his impetus with greater fury smote, wherever the resistance was the greatest. Of him were made thereafter diverse runnels whereby the garden catholic is watered, so living its plantation stand.",
  "sample_02997.wav": "In which the holy church itself defended, And in the field its civic battle won. Truly full manifest should be to thee The excellence of the other, Unto whom Thomas so courteous was before my coming.",
  "sample_02998.wav": "But still the orbit which the highest part of its circumference made is derelict, so that the mould is where was once the crust. His family, that had straight-forward moved with feet upon his footprints, are turned round so that they set the point upon the heel.",
  "sample_02999.wav": "I am as I am wont. Twill not be from Cassal nor Aquasparter, From whence come such unto the written word That one avoids it and the other narrows.",
  "sample_03000.wav": "Who always in great offices postponed considerations sinister. Here are Illuminato and Agostino, Who of the first barefooted beggars were, That with the court the friends of God became. The few of Saint Victor is among them here.",
  "sample_03001.wav": "and Peter Mangiador and Peter of Spain, who down below in volumes 12 is shining. Nathan the Seer and Metropolitan Chrysostom",
  "sample_03002.wav": "Here is Robinus, and beside me here shines the Calabrian abbot Joachim, he with the spirit of prophecy endowed. To celebrate so great a paladin have moved me the impassioned courtesy and the discreet discourses of Friar Thomas.",
  "sample_03003.wav": "Let him imagine who would well conceive what now I saw, and let him while I speak retain the image as a steadfast rock. The fifteen stars that in their diverse regions the sky enliven with a light so great.",
  "sample_03004.wav": "That in the point beginneth of the axis Round about which the primal wheel revolves, To a fashion of themselves two signs in heaven.",
  "sample_03005.wav": "the moment when she felt the frost of death, and want to have its rays within the other, and both to whirl themselves in such a manner that one should forward go, the other backward.",
  "sample_03006.wav": "And he will have some shadowing forth of that true constellation and the double dance that circled round the point in which I was. Because it is as much beyond our want as swifter than the motion of the kiana, moveth the heaven that all the rest outspeeds.",
  "sample_03007.wav": "Then broke the silence of those saints' concordant, the light in which the admirable life of God's own mendicant was told to me, and said,",
  "sample_03008.wav": "that it weighs down the balance of all sin. What air of light it has to human nature been lawful to possess was all infused by the same power that both of them created, and hence at what I said above, doth wonder.",
  "sample_03009.wav": "When I narrated that no second had the good Which in the fifth light is enclosed. Now open thine eyes to what I answer thee, And thou shalt see thy creed and my discourse fit in the truth as center in a circle. That which can die.",
  "sample_03010.wav": "And that which dieth not are nothing but the splendour Of the idea which by his love our Lord brings into being. Because that living light which from its fount effulgent flows So that it disunites not from him, nor from the love in them",
  "sample_03011.wav": "I leave you to it.\" His round face betrayed little or no vestiges of his overnight irritation. \"'Ought you to leave me to it?' smiled Sir Richmond. \"'I shall be interested to learn what happens.' \"'But if you won't stay to see.'",
  "sample_03012.wav": "\"'Now, sir, please,' said the guard respectfully but firmly, and Dr. Martin oh God in. Sir Richmond walked thoughtfully down the platform towards the exit. \"'What else could I do?' he asked aloud to nobody in particular.",
  "sample_03013.wav": "Section 2 For the better part of 40 hours, Sir Richmond had either been talking to Miss Grimont or carrying on imaginary conversations with her in her absence,",
  "sample_03014.wav": "and she repeated no remembered comments and profits of her contemporaries about herself. She either concealed or she had lost any great interest in her own personality.",
  "sample_03015.wav": "But she was interested in and curious about the people she had met in life, and her talk of them reflected a considerable amount of light upon her own upbringing and experiences. And her liking for Sir Richmond was pleasingly manifest.",
  "sample_03016.wav": "She liked his turn of thought. She watched him with a faint smile on her lips as he spoke. And she spread her opinions before him carefully in that soft voice of hers, like a shy child showing its treasures to some suddenly trusted and favored visitor.",
  "sample_03017.wav": "as a crisis in which they were called upon to do something they did not yet clearly know what. Into this topic they peered as into some deep pool, side by side, and in it they saw each other reflected.",
  "sample_03018.wav": "Its delight was particularly manifest in the cream and salad it produced for lunch. Both Miss Grimont and Miss Seifert displayed an intelligent interest in their food. After lunch they had all gone out to the stones and the wall.",
  "sample_03019.wav": "to a happy use by clambering to the top of it and sliding on their little beehives down its smooth and sloping side amidst much mirthful squealing.",
  "sample_03020.wav": "Sir Richmond and Miss Grimont had walked round the old circumvallation together, but Belinda Seifert had strayed away from them, professing an interest in flowers.",
  "sample_03021.wav": "That it would be possible to take this confused old world and reshape it set it marching towards that new world of yours of 250 million fully developed beautiful and happy people Why not?",
  "sample_03022.wav": "Nobody is doing anything with the world except muddle about. Why not give it a direction? You'd take it in your hands like clay? Obdurate clay with a sort of recalcitrant, unintelligent life of its own.",
  "sample_03023.wav": "Her imagination glowed in her eyes and warmed her voice. I believe what you say is possible if people dare. I am tired of following little motives that are like flames that go out when you get to them.",
  "sample_03024.wav": "I am tired of seeing all the world doing the same. I am tired of a world in which there is nothing great but great disasters. Here is something mankind can attempt, that we can attempt, and will. I believe that as mankind grows up",
  "sample_03025.wav": "We pride ourselves upon our freedom from the sin of presumption. Not quite that. Well, how do you put it? We are afraid, she said. It's too vast. We want bright little lives of our own.",
  "sample_03026.wav": "sensible little piggy-wiggies. We have a right to life and happiness.\" First, said Sir Richmond, as much right as a pig has to food. But whether we get life and happiness or fail to get them, we human beings",
  "sample_03027.wav": "who have imaginations want something more nowadays. Of course we want bright lives, of course we want happiness, just as we want food, just as we want sleep. But when we have eaten, when we have slept, when we have jolly things about us, it is nothing.",
  "sample_03028.wav": "We have been made an exception of, and got our rations. The big thing confronts us still.",
  "sample_03029.wav": "I do not know why it should be so, but I am compelled by something in my nature to want to serve this idea of a new age for mankind. I want it as my culminating want. I want a world in order.",
  "sample_03030.wav": "disciplined mankind going on to greater things don't you now you tell me of it she said with a smile I do but before no you've made it clear it wasn't clear before",
  "sample_03031.wav": "I've been talking of this sort of thing with my friend Dr. Martino, and I've been thinking as well as talking. That perhaps is why I'm so clear and positive.\" I don't complain that you are clear and positive. I've been coming along the same way.",
  "sample_03032.wav": "It's refreshing to meet you.\" I found it refreshing to meet Martino. A twinge of conscience about Dr. Martino turned Sir Richmond into a new channel. He's a most interesting man, he said. Rather shy in some respects.",
  "sample_03033.wav": "devoted to his work, and he's writing a book which has saturated him in these ideas. Only two nights ago he stood here and talked about it, the psychology of a new age. The world, he believes, is entering upon a new phase in its history.",
  "sample_03034.wav": "the adolescence, so to speak, of mankind. It is an idea that seizes the imagination. There is a flow of new ideas abroad, he thinks, widening realizations, unprecedented hopes and fears.",
  "sample_03035.wav": "There is a consciousness of new powers and new responsibilities. We are sharing the adolescence of our race. It is giving history a new and more intimate meaning for us.",
  "sample_03036.wav": "making them matter as formerly they didn't seem to matter. That idea of the bright little private life has to go by the board.\" \"'I suppose it has,' she said, meditatively, as though she had been thinking over some such question before.",
  "sample_03037.wav": "Incidentally,\" he smiled, \"'I want to get a lasso over the neck of that very forcible and barbaric person, your father. I am doing my best to help lay the foundation of a scientific world control of fuel production and distribution.'",
  "sample_03038.wav": "but controlling Father, as distinguished from managing him. She reviewed some private and amusing memories. He is a most intractable man. Section 3",
  "sample_03039.wav": "They had gone on to talk of her father and of the types of men who controlled international business. She had had plentiful opportunities for observation in their homes and her own.",
  "sample_03040.wav": "Gunter Lake, the big banker, she knew particularly well because it seemed she had been engaged or was engaged to marry him. All these people, she said, are pushing things about, affecting millions of lives.",
  "sample_03041.wav": "Appendix A. The Influence of Menstruation on the Position of Women. A question of historical psychology.",
  "sample_03042.wav": "in regard to which it is impossible to speak with certainty. But we here strike on a factor of such importance, such neglected importance, for the proper understanding of the sexual relations of men and women that it cannot be wholly ignored.",
  "sample_03043.wav": "Among the Negroes of Suriname, a woman must live in solitude during the time of her period. It is dangerous for any man or woman to approach her, and when she sees a person coming near, she cries out anxiously.",
  "sample_03044.wav": "I am unclean, I am unclean. Throughout the world we find traces of the custom of which this is a typical example, but we must not too hastily assume that this custom is evidence of the inferior position occupied by semi-civilized women.",
  "sample_03045.wav": "It is necessary to take a broad view not only of the beliefs of semi-civilized man regarding menstruation.",
  "sample_03046.wav": "have been credited with some design, sinister or erotic, on women.",
  "sample_03047.wav": "All these figures are reproduced by Plas and Bartels. Even in modern Europe, the same ideas prevail. In Portugal, according to Reyes, it is believed that during menstruation women are liable to be bitten by lizards.",
  "sample_03048.wav": "and to guard against this risk, they wore drawers during their period. In Germany, again, it was believed, up to the 18th century at least,",
  "sample_03049.wav": "to build up this worldwide belief regarding the origin of menstruation. This primitive theory of the origin of menstruation probably brings before us, in its earliest shape, the special and intimate bond which has ever been held to connect women",
  "sample_03050.wav": "by virtue of the menstrual process, with the natural or supernatural powers of the world. Everywhere, menstruating women are supposed to be possessed by spirits and charged with mysterious forces. It is at this point that a serious misconception",
  "sample_03051.wav": "As a matter of fact, however, the savage rarely discriminates between bad and good spirits. Every spirit may have either a beneficial or malignant influence.",
  "sample_03052.wav": "The importance of recognizing the special sense in which the word unclean is used in this connection was clearly pointed out by Robertson Smith in the case of the Semites.",
  "sample_03053.wav": "is not the ordinary word for things physically foul. It is a ritual term, and corresponds exactly to the idea of taboo. The ideas unclean and holy seem to us to stand in polar opposition to one another,",
  "sample_03054.wav": "but it was not so with the Semites. Among the later Jews, the holy books defiled the hands of the reader as contact with an impure thing did. Among Lucian Syrians,",
  "sample_03055.wav": "Wellhausen, however, dealing with the early Arabians, expressly mentions that in pre-Islamic days, clean and unclean were used solely with reference to women in and out of the menstrual state.",
  "sample_03056.wav": "At a later date, Frazer developed this aspect of the conception of taboo, and showed how it occurs among savage races generally. He pointed out that the conceptions of holiness and pollution, not having yet been differentiated,",
  "sample_03057.wav": "Women at childbirth and during menstruation are on the same level as divine kings, chiefs, and priests, and must observe the same rules of ceremonial purity. To seclude such persons from the rest of the world so that the dreaded spiritual dangers shall not spread.",
  "sample_03058.wav": "is the object of the taboo, which Fraser compares to an electrical insulator to preserve the spiritual force with which these persons are charged from suffering or inflicting, harmed by contact with the outer world.",
  "sample_03059.wav": "After describing the phenomena, especially the prohibition to touch the ground or see the sun, found among various races, Fraser concludes,",
  "sample_03060.wav": "The object of secluding women at menstruation is to neutralize the dangerous influences which are supposed to emanate from them at such times. The general effect of these rules is to keep the girl suspended, so to say, between heaven and earth.",
  "sample_03061.wav": "Whether enveloped in her hammock and slung up to the roof, as in South America, or elevated above the ground in a dark and narrow cage, as in New Zealand, she may be considered to be out of the way of doing mischief, since, being shut off both from the earth and from the sun.",
  "sample_03062.wav": "The precautions thus taken to isolate or insulate the girl are dictated by regard for her own safety as well as for the safety of others. In short, the girl is viewed as charged with a powerful force which, if not kept within bounds,",
  "sample_03063.wav": "may prove the destruction both of the girl herself, and of all with whom she comes in contact. To repress this force within the limits necessary for the safety of all concerned, is the object of the taboos in question.",
  "sample_03064.wav": "The same explanation applies to the observance of the same rules by divine kings and priests.",
  "sample_03065.wav": "and arguing that it proceeds from the custom of exogamy, or marriage outside the clan, and that this rests on certain ideas about blood which, again, are traceable to totemism, a theory which we need not here discuss.",
  "sample_03066.wav": "Durkheim is brought face to face with the group of conceptions that now concern us. He insists on the extreme ambiguity found in primitive culture concerning the notion of the Divine, and the close connection between aversion and veneration.",
  "sample_03067.wav": "and points out that it is not only at puberty and each recurrence of the menstrual epoch that women have aroused these emotions, but also at childbirth. A sentiment of religious horror, he continues.",
  "sample_03068.wav": "which can reach such a degree of intensity, which can be called forth by so many circumstances, and reappears regularly every month to last for a week at least, cannot fail to extend its influence beyond the periods to which it was originally confined.",
  "sample_03069.wav": "and to affect the whole course of life. A being who must be secluded or avoided for weeks, months, or years preserves something of the characteristics to which the isolation was due, even outside the special periods.",
  "sample_03070.wav": "And, in fact, in these communities, the separation of the sexes is not merely intermittent. It has become chronic. The two elements of the population live separately.",
  "sample_03071.wav": "They had undergone a remarkable change since our arrival at the butcher's shop. They now wandered about fat, sleek and contented, and their former veracity had completely disappeared.",
  "sample_03072.wav": "As regards ourselves, a day or two longer made no difference. Our most important article of diet, the pemmican, was practically left untouched. As for the time being, dog had completely taken its place.",
  "sample_03073.wav": "There was thus no great sign of depression to be noticed, when we came back into the tent after finishing our work, and had to while away the time. As I went in, I could describe whisting a little way off kneeling on the ground.",
  "sample_03074.wav": "and engaged in the manufacture of cutlets. The dog stood in a ring round him and looked on with interest. The northeast wind whistled and howled, the air was thick with driving snow, and whisting was not to be envied.",
  "sample_03075.wav": "to whatever age I may live. In the course of the night the wind had gone back to the north and increased to a gale. It was blowing and snowing so that, when we came out in the morning, we could not see the sledges. They were half snowed under.",
  "sample_03076.wav": "The temperature was not so very low.",
  "sample_03077.wav": "We had all taken a turn outside to look at the weather, and were sitting on our sleeping bags discussing the poor prospect. \"'It's the devil's own weather here at the Butchers,' said one. It looks to me as if it would never get any better.\"",
  "sample_03078.wav": "This is the fifth day and it's blowing worse than ever.\" We all agreed. \"'There's nothing so bad as lying weather-bound like this,' continued another. \"'It takes more out of you than going from morning to night.' Personally I was of the same opinion.\"",
  "sample_03079.wav": "One day may be pleasant enough, but two, three, four...",
  "sample_03080.wav": "No, it was awful. Shall we try it? No sooner was the proposal submitted than it was accepted unanimously and with acclamation. When I think of my four friends on the Southern Journey",
  "sample_03081.wav": "It is the memory of that morning that comes first to my mind. All the qualities that I most admire in a man were clearly shown at that juncture, courage and dauntlessness, without boasting or big words.",
  "sample_03082.wav": "Amid joking and chaff, everything was packed, and then\u2014out into the blizzard. It was practically impossible to keep one's eyes open. The fine drift-snow penetrated everywhere.",
  "sample_03083.wav": "The dogs were not much inclined to start, and it took time to get them into their harness. But at last we were ready. One more glance over the camping ground to see that nothing we ought to have with us had been forgotten.",
  "sample_03084.wav": "which we now thought would not be required, were left behind. The last thing to be done was planting a broken ski upright by the side of the depot. It was Whisting who did this, thinking, presumably, that an extra mark would do no harm.",
  "sample_03085.wav": "That it was a happy thought the future will show. And then we were off. It was a hard poll to begin with, both for men and beasts. As the high Sestruji continued towards the south.",
  "sample_03086.wav": "and made it extremely difficult to advance. Those who had sludges to drive had to be very attentive, and support them so that they did not capsize on the big waves. And we who had no sludges found great difficulty in keeping our feet.",
  "sample_03087.wav": "as we had nothing to lean against. We went on like this, slowly enough, but the main thing was that we made progress. The ground at first gave one the impression of rising, though not much. The going was extremely heavy.",
  "sample_03088.wav": "It was like dragging oneself through sand. Meanwhile, the Sestruci grew smaller and smaller, and finally they disappeared altogether, and the surface became quite flat. The going also improved by degrees.",
  "sample_03089.wav": "For what reason it is difficult to say, as the storm continued unabated, and the drift, now combined with falling snow, was thicker than ever. It was all the driver could do to see his own dogs. The surface,",
  "sample_03090.wav": "which had become perfectly level, had the appearance at times of sinking. In any case, one would have thought so from the pace of the sledges. Now and again the dogs would set off suddenly at a gallop. The wind aft, no doubt, helped the pace somewhat.",
  "sample_03091.wav": "But it alone could not account for the change. I did not like this tendency of the ground to fall away. In my opinion, we ought to have done with anything of that sort after reaching the height at which we were. A slight slope upward.",
  "sample_03092.wav": "Possibly. But down? No. That did not agree with my reckoning. So far the incline had not been so great as to cause uneasiness. But if it seriously began to go downhill, we should have to stop and camp.",
  "sample_03093.wav": "would be madness. We might risk falling into some chasm before we had time to pull up. Hansen, as usual, was driving first. Strictly speaking, I should now have been going in advance, but the uneven surface at the start\u2014",
  "sample_03094.wav": "and the rapid pace afterwards, had made it impossible to walk as fast the dogs could pull. I was therefore following by the side of Whisting Sledge, and chatting with him. Suddenly I saw Hansen's dogs shoot ahead, and I saw Hansen's dogs run away from me.",
  "sample_03095.wav": "and downhill they went at the wildest pace. Whisting after them, I shouted to Hansen to stop,",
  "sample_03096.wav": "by twisting his sledge. The others, who were following, stopped when they came up to him. We were in the middle of a fairly steep descent. What there might be below was not easy to decide, nor would we try to find out in that weather.",
  "sample_03097.wav": "We trampled down a place for the tent in the loose snow, and soon got it up. It was not a long day's march that we had done, eleven and three-quarter miles, but we had put an end to our stay at the butcher's shop, and that was a great thing.",
  "sample_03098.wav": "The boiling-point test that evening showed that we were ten thousand three hundred feet above the sea, and that we had thus gone down six hundred twenty feet from the butchers. We turned in and went to sleep. As soon as it brightened,",
  "sample_03099.wav": "one has to seize every opportunity in these regions. If one neglects to do so, it may mean a long wait, and much may be lost. We therefore all slept with one eye open.",
  "sample_03100.wav": "and we knew well that nothing could happen without our noticing it. At three in the morning the sun cut through the clouds and weaved through the tent door. To take in the situation was more than the work of a moment.",
  "sample_03101.wav": "The administration of government, in its largest sense, comprehends all the operations of the body politic, whether legislative, executive, or judiciary. But in its most usual, and perhaps in its most precise, signification,",
  "sample_03102.wav": "It is limited to executive details and falls peculiarly within the province of the executive department. The actual conduct of foreign negotiations, the preparatory plans of finance,",
  "sample_03103.wav": "the application and disbursement of the public monies in conformity to the general appropriations of the legislature, the arrangement of the Army and Navy, the direction of the operations of war,",
  "sample_03104.wav": "These and other matters of a like nature constitute what seems to be most properly understood by the administration of government. The persons therefore to whose immediate management these different matters are committed",
  "sample_03105.wav": "ought to be considered as the assistants or deputies of the Chief Magistrate, and on this account they ought to derive their offices from his appointment, at least from his nomination, and ought to be subject to his superintendents.",
  "sample_03106.wav": "This view of the subject will at once suggest to us the intimate connection between the duration of the executive magistrate in office, and the stability of the system of administration. To reverse and undo what has been done by a predecessor,",
  "sample_03107.wav": "the person substituted is warranted in supposing that the dismissal of his predecessor has proceeded from a dislike to his measures, and that the less he resembles him, the more he will recommend himself to the favor of his constituents.",
  "sample_03108.wav": "These considerations, and the influence of personal confidences and attachments, would be likely to induce every new president to promote a change of men to fill the subordinate stations.",
  "sample_03109.wav": "And these causes together could not fail to occasion a disgraceful and ruinous mutability in the administration of the government. With a positive duration of considerable extent, I connect the circumstance of re-eligibility.",
  "sample_03110.wav": "The first is necessary to give to the officer himself the inclination and the resolution to act his part well, and to the community time and leisure to observe the tendency of his measures, and thence to form an experimental estimate of their merits.",
  "sample_03111.wav": "The last is necessary to enable the people, when they see reason to approve of his conduct, to continue him in his station, in order to prolong the utility of his talents and virtues, and to secure to the government the advantage of permanency.",
  "sample_03112.wav": "in a wise system of administration. Nothing appears more plausible at first sight, nor more ill-founded upon close inspection, than a scheme which in relation to the present point has had some respectable advocates. I mean...",
  "sample_03113.wav": "that of continuing the chief magistrate in office for a certain time and then excluding him from it, either for a limited period or forever after. This exclusion, whether temporary or perpetual, would have nearly the same effects.",
  "sample_03114.wav": "when they were conscious that the advantages of the station with which it was connected must be relinquished at a determinate period, than when they were permitted to entertain a hope of obtaining",
  "sample_03115.wav": "is to make their interest coincide with their duty. Even the love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds, which would prompt a man to plan and undertake extensive and arduous enterprises for the public benefit,",
  "sample_03116.wav": "and must commit that, together with his own reputation, to hands which might be unequal or unfriendly to the task. The most to be expected from the generality of men in such a situation is the negative merit of not doing harm.",
  "sample_03117.wav": "instead of the positive merit of doing good. Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and in some instances to usurpation.",
  "sample_03118.wav": "An avaricious man who might happen to fill the office, looking forward to a time when he must at all events yield up the emoluments he enjoyed, would feel a propensity not easy to be resisted by such a man.",
  "sample_03119.wav": "to make the best use of the opportunity he enjoyed while it lasted, and might not scruple to have recourse to the most corrupt expedience to make the harvest as abundant as it was transitory. Though the same man probably with a different prospect before him,",
  "sample_03120.wav": "might content himself with the regular perquisites of his situation, and might even be unwilling to risk the consequences of an abuse of his opportunities. His avarice might be a guard upon his avarice.",
  "sample_03121.wav": "Add to this that the same man might be vain or ambitious, as well as avaricious. And if he could expect to prolong his honors by his good conduct, he might hesitate to sacrifice his appetite for them to his appetite for gain.",
  "sample_03122.wav": "But, with the prospect before him of approaching an inevitable annihilation, his avarice would be likely to get the victory over his caution, his vanity, or his ambition. An ambitious man, too.",
  "sample_03123.wav": "when he found himself seated on the summit of his country's honors, when he looked forward to the time at which he must descend from the exalted eminence for ever, and reflected that no exertion of merit on his part could save him from the unwelcome reverse.",
  "sample_03124.wav": "and sighing for a place which they were destined never more to possess. A third ill effect of the exclusion would be",
  "sample_03125.wav": "in the exercise of his office. That experience is the parent of wisdom, is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind. What more desirable or more essential than this quality in the governors of nations?",
  "sample_03126.wav": "where more desirable or more essential than in the first magistrate of a nation? Can it be wise to put this desirable and essential quality under the ban of the Constitution, and to declare that the moment it is acquired, its possessor shall be compelled",
  "sample_03127.wav": "to abandon the station in which it was acquired, and to which it is adapted. This nevertheless is the precise import of all those regulations which exclude men from serving their country.",
  "sample_03128.wav": "by the choice of their fellow citizens, after they have by a course of service fitted themselves for doing it with a greater degree of utility. A fourth ill effect of the exclusion would be the banishing men from stations in which",
  "sample_03129.wav": "in certain emergencies of the state, their presence might be of the greatest moment to the public interest or safety. There is no nation which has not, at one period or another, experienced an absolute necessity of the services of particular men.",
  "sample_03130.wav": "in particular situations. Perhaps it would not be too strong to say to the preservation of its political existence. How unwise, therefore, must be every such self-denying ordinance, as serves to prohibit the nation from making use of its own citizens.",
  "sample_03131.wav": "Catherine was completely awakened. Henry's address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.",
  "sample_03132.wav": "Most bitterly did she cry. It was not only with herself that she was sunk, but with Henry. Her folly, which now seemed even criminal, was all exposed to him, and he must despise her for ever.",
  "sample_03133.wav": "The liberty which her imagination had dared to take with the character of his father, could he ever forgive it? The absurdity of her curiosity and her fears, could they ever be forgotten?",
  "sample_03134.wav": "She hated herself more than she could express. He had, she thought he had once or twice before this fatal morning, shown something like affection for her. But now...",
  "sample_03135.wav": "In short, she made herself as miserable as possible, for about half an hour, went down when the clock struck five with a broken heart, and could scarcely give an intelligible answer to Eleanor's inquiry if she was well.",
  "sample_03136.wav": "The formidable Henry soon followed her into the room, and the only difference in his behaviour to her was that he paid her rather more attention than usual. Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he looked as if he was aware of it.",
  "sample_03137.wav": "The evening wore away with no abatement of this soothing politeness, and her spirits were gradually raised to a modest tranquillity. She did not learn either to forget or defend the past.",
  "sample_03138.wav": "But she learned to hope that it would never transpire further, and that it might not cost her Henry's entire regard. Her thoughts being still chiefly fixed on what she had, with such causeless terror felt Nothing could shortly be clearer.",
  "sample_03139.wav": "than that it had been all a voluntary, self-created delusion, each trifling circumstance receiving importance from an imagination resolved on alarm, and everything forced to bend to one purpose by a mind which...",
  "sample_03140.wav": "long before her quitting bath, and it seemed as if the whole might be traced to the influence of that sort of reading, which she had there indulged.",
  "sample_03141.wav": "Charming as were all Mrs. Radcliffe's works, and charming even as were the works of all her imitators, it was not in them, perhaps, that human nature, at least in the Midland counties of England, was to be looked for.",
  "sample_03142.wav": "and even of that, if hard-pressed, would have yielded at the northern and western extremities. But in the central part of England there was surely some security for the existence, even of a wife not beloved, in the laws of the land and the manners of the age.",
  "sample_03143.wav": "Murder was not tolerated, servants were not slaves, and neither poison nor sleeping potions to be procured, like rhubarb, from every druggist. Among the Alps and the Pyrenees, perhaps, there were no mixed characters.",
  "sample_03144.wav": "There, such as were not as spotless as an angel might have the dispositions of a fiend, but in England it was not so. Among the English, she believed, in their hearts and habits.",
  "sample_03145.wav": "Upon this conviction she would not be surprised if even in Henry and Eleanor Tilney some slight imperfection might hereafter appear.",
  "sample_03146.wav": "And upon this conviction she need not fear to acknowledge some actual specs in the character of their father, who, though cleared from the grossly injurious suspicions which she must ever blush to have entertained, she did believe.",
  "sample_03147.wav": "upon serious consideration, to be not perfectly amiable. Her mind made up on these several points, and her resolution formed, of always judging and acting in future with the greatest good sense.",
  "sample_03148.wav": "She had nothing to do but to forgive herself, and be happier than ever. And the lenient hand of time did much for her, by insensible gradiations in the course of another day. Henry's astonishing generosity.",
  "sample_03149.wav": "and nobleness of conduct, in never eluding in the slightest way to what had passed, was of the greatest assistance to her. And sooner than she could have supposed it possible in the beginning of her distress, her spirits became absolutely comfortable.",
  "sample_03150.wav": "and capable, as hitherto fore, of continual improvement by any thing he said. There were still some subjects, indeed, under which she believed they must always tremble. The dimension of a chest, or a cabinet, for instance.",
  "sample_03151.wav": "and she did not love the sight of Japan in any shape, but even she could allow that an occasional memento of past folly, however painful, might not be without use.",
  "sample_03152.wav": "The anxieties of common life began soon to succeed to the alarms of romance. Her desire of hearing from Isabella grew every day greater. She was quite impatient to know how the bath world went on and how the rooms were attended.",
  "sample_03153.wav": "and especially was she anxious to be assured of Isabella's having matched some fine netting cotton on which she had left her intent, and of her continuing on the best terms with James.",
  "sample_03154.wav": "Her only dependence for information of any kind was on Isabella. James had protested against writing to her till his return to Oxford, and Mrs. Allen had given her no hopes of a letter till she had got back to Fullerton.",
  "sample_03155.wav": "She thanked him as heartily as if he had written it himself. \"'Tis only from James, however.\" As she looked at the direction, she opened it. It was from Oxford. And to this purpose. Dear Catherine.",
  "sample_03156.wav": "Though God knows with little inclination for writing, I think it my duty to tell you that everything is at an end between Miss Thorpe and me. I left her and Beth yesterday, never to see either again.",
  "sample_03157.wav": "I shall not enter into particulars. They would only pain you more. You will soon hear enough from another quarter To know where lies the blame.",
  "sample_03158.wav": "Thank God! I am undeceived in time. But it is a heavy blow, after my father's consent had been so kindly given. But no more of this. She has made me miserable forever.",
  "sample_03159.wav": "Let me soon hear from you, dear Catherine. You are my only friend. Your love I do build upon. I wish your visit at Northanger may be over before Captain Tilney makes his engagement known.",
  "sample_03160.wav": "Or you will be uncomfortably circumcistanced. Poor Thorpe is in town. I dread the sight of him. His honest heart would feel so much. I have written to him and my father. Her duplicity hurts me more than all.",
  "sample_03161.wav": "Mr. Collins was not left long to the silent contemplation of his successful love, for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door.",
  "sample_03162.wav": "Then she entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself.",
  "sample_03163.wav": "Mr. Collins received and returned these felicitations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview. With the result of which he trusted, he had every reason to be satisfied.",
  "sample_03164.wav": "since the refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character. This information, however, startled Mrs. Bennet.",
  "sample_03165.wav": "She would have been glad to be equally satisfied that her daughter had meant to encourage him by protesting against his proposals. But she dared not to believe it.",
  "sample_03166.wav": "She added, That Lizzy shall be brought to reason.",
  "sample_03167.wav": "She is a very headstrong, foolish girl, and does not know her own interest. But I will make her know it.\" \"'Pardon me for interrupting you, madam,' cried Mr. Collins.\"",
  "sample_03168.wav": "But if she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state.",
  "sample_03169.wav": "If, therefore, she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because, if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.",
  "sample_03170.wav": "\"'Sir, you quite misunderstand me,' said Mrs. Bennet, alarmed. \"'Lizzie is only headstrong in such matters as these. In everything else she is as good natured a girl as ever lived.'\"",
  "sample_03171.wav": "her!\" Mr. Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them on her face with a calm unconcern, which was not in the least altered by her communication.",
  "sample_03172.wav": "\"'I have not the pleasure of understanding you,' said he.",
  "sample_03173.wav": "Your mother insists upon your accepting it. Is it not so, Mrs. Bennet?\" Yes, or I will never see her again! An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth.",
  "sample_03174.wav": "From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.",
  "sample_03175.wav": "\"'My dear,' replied her husband, \"'I have two small favors to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion, and secondly, that",
  "sample_03176.wav": "of my room. I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.\" Not yet, however, in spite of her disappointment in her husband, did Mrs. Bennet give up the point?",
  "sample_03177.wav": "She talked to Elizabeth again and again, coaxed and threatened her by turns. She endeavoured to secure Jane in her interest, but Jane, with all possible mildness, declined interfering.",
  "sample_03178.wav": "And Elizabeth, sometimes with real earnestness, and sometimes with playful gaiety, replied to her attacks. Although her manner varied, however, her determination never did.",
  "sample_03179.wav": "Mr. Collins, meanwhile, was meditating in solitude on what had passed. He thought too well of himself to comprehend on what motive his cousin could refuse him. And though his pride was hurt\u2014",
  "sample_03180.wav": "While the family were in this confusion, Charlotte Lucas came to spend the day with them. She was met in the vestibule by Lydia, who, flying to her, cried in a half-whisper.",
  "sample_03181.wav": "I am glad you are come, for there is such fun here. What do you think has happened this morning?\"",
  "sample_03182.wav": "who came to tell the same news. And no sooner had they entered the breakfast-room, where Mrs. Bennet was alone, than she likewise began on the subject, calling on Miss Lucas for her compassion.",
  "sample_03183.wav": "She added in a melancholy tone.",
  "sample_03184.wav": "I have no pleasure in talking to untutiful children.",
  "sample_03185.wav": "And people who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking.",
  "sample_03186.wav": "But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.\" Her daughters listened in silence to this effusion.",
  "sample_03187.wav": "would only increase the irritation. She talked on, therefore, without interruption from any of them, till they were joined by Mr. Collins.",
  "sample_03188.wav": "And on perceiving whom, she said to the girls,",
  "sample_03189.wav": "Elizabeth passed quietly out of the room. Jane and Kitty followed. But Lydia stood her ground, determined to hear all she could. And Charlotte?",
  "sample_03190.wav": "detained first by the facility of Mr. Collins, whose inquiries after herself and all her family were very minute, and then, by a little curiosity, satisfied herself with walking to the window and pretending not to hear.",
  "sample_03191.wav": "to achieve a correct appreciation of the Chinese.",
  "sample_03192.wav": "and then, one fine day, cross over the Yalu into Manchuria. It would be of exceptional advantage to the correctness of appreciation that he cross over the Yalu on the heels of a hostile and alien army.",
  "sample_03193.wav": "War is today the final arbiter in the affairs of men, and it is as yet the final test of the worthwhileness of peoples. Tested thus, the Korean fails.",
  "sample_03194.wav": "He lacks the nerve to remain when a strange army crosses his land. The few goods and chattels he may have managed to accumulate, he puts on his back, along with his doors and windows, and away he heads for his mountain fastnesses.",
  "sample_03195.wav": "Later, he may return, sans goods, chattels, doors, and windows, impelled by insatiable curiosity for a look see. But it is curiosity merely, a timid, deer-like curiosity.",
  "sample_03196.wav": "He is prepared to bound away on his long legs at the first hint of danger or trouble. Northern Korea was a desolate land when the Japanese passed through. Villages and towns were deserted.",
  "sample_03197.wav": "The fields lay untouched. There was no plowing nor sowing, no green things growing. Little or nothing was to be purchased. One carried one's own food with him.",
  "sample_03198.wav": "In many a lonely village, not an ounce nor a grain of anything could be bought. And yet there might be standing around scores of white-garmited stalwart Koreans, smoking yard-long pipes and chattering, chattering, ceaselessly chattering.",
  "sample_03199.wav": "Love, money, or force could not procure from them a horseshoe or a horseshoe nail. Upso was their invariable reply. Upso, cursed word which means have not got.",
  "sample_03200.wav": "They had tramped probably 40 miles that day, down from their hiding places just for a look-see, and 40 miles back they would cheerfully tramp, chattering all the way over what they had seen.",
  "sample_03201.wav": "And the gloom of the landscape will be filled with tall flitting ghosts, bounding like deer with great springy strides which one cannot but envy. They have splendid vigor and fine bodies, but they are accustomed to being beaten and robbed without protest or resistance.",
  "sample_03202.wav": "by every chance foreigner who enters their country. From this nerveless, forsaken Korean land, I rode down upon the sandy islands of the Yalu. For weeks, these islands had been the dread between the lines of two fighting armies.",
  "sample_03203.wav": "The air above had been rent by screaming projectiles. The echoes of the final battle had scarcely died away. The trains of Japanese wounded and Japanese dead were trailing by.",
  "sample_03204.wav": "On the Koniko Hill, a quarter of a mile away, the Russian dead were being buried in their trenches and in the shell holes made by the Japanese. And here, in the thick of it all, a man was plowing. Green things were growing.",
  "sample_03205.wav": "young onions, and the man who was weeding them paused from his labor long enough to sell me a handful. Nearby was the smoke-blackened ruin of the farmhouse, fired by the Russians when they retreated from the riverbed. Two men were removing the debris.",
  "sample_03206.wav": "Cleaning the confusion, preparatory to rebuilding. They were clad in blue, pigtails hung down their backs. I was in China! I rode to the shore, into the village of Kualian Qing.",
  "sample_03207.wav": "There were no lounging men smoking long pipes and chattering. The previous day, the Russians had been there, a bloody battle had been fought, and today the Japanese were there. But what was that to talk about? Everybody was busy.",
  "sample_03208.wav": "Men were offering eggs and chickens and fruit for sale upon the street and bread as I live Bread in small round loaves or buns. I Wrote on into the country Everywhere a toiling population was in evidence",
  "sample_03209.wav": "The houses and walls were strong and substantial. Stone and brick replaced the mud walls of the Korean dwellings. Twilight fell and deepened and still the plows went up and down the fields, the sowers following after.",
  "sample_03210.wav": "Trains of wheelbarrows, heavily loaded, squeaked by, and pecan carts drawn by from four to six cows, horses, mules, ponies, or jackasses. Cows, even with their newborn calves, tottering along on puny legs outside the traces.",
  "sample_03211.wav": "Everybody worked. Everything worked. I saw a man mending the road. I was in China. I came to the city of Antung and lodged with a merchant. He was a grain merchant.",
  "sample_03212.wav": "Corn he had, hundreds of bushels stored in great bins of stout matting, peas and beans and sacks, and in the backyard his millstones went round and round grinding out meal. Also in his backyard were buildings containing vats sunk into the ground.",
  "sample_03213.wav": "and here the tanners were at work making leather. I bought a measure of corn from my host for my horses and he overcharged me 30 cents. I was in China. Antung was jammed with Japanese troops.",
  "sample_03214.wav": "It was the thick of war, but it did not matter. The work of Antung went on just the same. The shops were wide open. The streets were lined with peddlers. One could buy anything, get anything made.",
  "sample_03215.wav": "I dined at a Chinese restaurant, cleansed myself at a public bath in a private tub with a small boy to assist in the scrubbing. I bought condensed milk, bitter, canned vegetables, bread and cake. I repeat it, cake. Good cake.",
  "sample_03216.wav": "I bought knives, forks, and spoons, granite ware dishes, and mugs. There were horseshoes and horseshoers. A worker in iron realized for me new designs of mine for my tent poles. My shoes were sent out to be repaired.",
  "sample_03217.wav": "A barber shampooed my hair. A servant returned with corned beef in tins, a bottle of port, another of cognac, and beer.",
  "sample_03218.wav": "to wash out from my throat the dust of an army. It was the land of Canaan. I was in China. The Korean is the perfect type of inefficiency, of utter worthlessness.",
  "sample_03219.wav": "The Chinese is the perfect type of industry. For sheer work, no worker in the world can compare with him. Work is the breath of his nostrils. It is his solution of existence.",
  "sample_03220.wav": "Liberty, to him, epitomizes itself in access to the means of toil. To till the soil and labor interminably with rude implements and utensils is all he asks of life, and of the powers that be.",
  "sample_03221.wav": "which was the big news of the day, and how could I not have been?",
  "sample_03222.wav": "This mystery puzzled me. Finding it impossible to form any views, I drifted from one extreme to the other. Something was out there that much was certain, and any doubting Thomas was invited to place his finger on the Scotia's wound. When I arrived in New York,",
  "sample_03223.wav": "Also discredited was the idea of a floating hull or some other enormous wreckage, and again because of this speed of movement. So only two possible solutions to the question were left, creating two very distinct groups of supporters.",
  "sample_03224.wav": "it couldn't stand up to inquiries conducted in both the new world and the old. That a private individual had such a mechanism at his disposal was less than probable. Where and when had he built it and how could he have built it in secret?",
  "sample_03225.wav": "Only some government could own such an engine of destruction, and in these disaster-filled times when men tax their ingenuity to build increasingly powerful, aggressive weapons, it was possible that, unknown to the rest of the world, some nation could have been testing such a fearsome machine.",
  "sample_03226.wav": "And the torpedo has led to this underwater battering ram, which in turn will lead to the world putting its foot down. At least I hope it will. But this hypothesis of a war machine collapsed in the face of formal denials from the various governments.",
  "sample_03227.wav": "Since the public interest was at stake and transoceanic travel was suffering",
  "sample_03228.wav": "Besides, how could the assembly of this underwater boat have escaped public notice? Keeping a secret under such circumstances would be difficult enough for an individual, and certainly impossible for a nation, whose every move is under constant surveillance by rival powers.",
  "sample_03229.wav": "So, after inquiries conducted in England, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Italy, America, and even Turkey, the hypothesis of an underwater monitor was ultimately rejected. And so the monster surfaced again.",
  "sample_03230.wav": "despite the endless witticisms heaped on it by the popular press.",
  "sample_03231.wav": "After I arrived in New York, several people did me the honor of consulting me on the phenomenon in question. In France, I had published a two-volume work in Corteau entitled, The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths. Well received in scholarly circles,",
  "sample_03232.wav": "I confined myself to a flat, no comment. But soon, pinned to the wall, I had to explain myself straight out. And in this vein, the Honorable Pierre Aronach's Professor at the Paris Museum was summoned by the New York Herald to formulate his views no matter what.",
  "sample_03233.wav": "I complied. Since I could no longer hold my tongue, I let it wag. I discussed the question in its every aspect, both political and scientific, and this is an excerpt from the well-padded article I published in the issue of April 30th.",
  "sample_03234.wav": "Therefore, I wrote, after examining these different hypotheses one by one, we are forced \u2013 every other supposition having been refuted \u2013 to accept the existence of an extremely powerful marine animal.",
  "sample_03235.wav": "The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us. No soundings have been able to reach them. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit or could inhabit those regions 12 or 15 miles beneath the surface of the water?",
  "sample_03236.wav": "What is the constitution of these animals? It's almost beyond conjecture. However, the solution to this problem submitted to me can take the form of a choice between two alternatives. Either we know every variety of creature populating our planet, or we do not.",
  "sample_03237.wav": "If we do not know every one of them, if nature still keeps ichthyological secrets from us, nothing is more admissible than to accept the existence of fish, or cetaceans of new species, or even new genera, animals with a basically cast iron constitution.",
  "sample_03238.wav": "that inhabit strata beyond the reach of our soundings, in which some development or other, an urge or a whim if you prefer, can bring to the upper level of the ocean for long intervals. If on the other hand we do know every living species,",
  "sample_03239.wav": "We must look for the animal in question among those marine creatures already catalogued, and in this event I would be inclined to accept the existence of a giant narwhal.",
  "sample_03240.wav": "Increase its dimensions fivefold or even tenfold, then give the cetacean a strength and proportion to its size while enlarging its offensive weapons, and you have the animal we're looking for. It would have the proportions determined by the officers of the Shannon.",
  "sample_03241.wav": "the instrument needed to preferate the Scotia, and the power to pierce a steamer's hull. In essence, the narwhal is armed with a sword of ivory sword or lance, as certain naturalists have expressed it. It's a king-sized tooth as hard as steel.",
  "sample_03242.wav": "which the narwhal attacks with invariable success. Others have been wrenched, not without difficulty.",
  "sample_03243.wav": "owns one of these tusks with a length of 2.25 meters and a width at its base of 48 centimeters. Alright then, imagine this weapon to be 10 times stronger and the animal 10 times more powerful.",
  "sample_03244.wav": "launch it at a speed of 20 miles per hour, multiply its mass times its velocity, and you get just the collision we need to cause the specified catastrophe. So until information becomes more abundant, I plump for a sea unicorn of colossal dimensions.",
  "sample_03245.wav": "no longer armed with a mere lance but with an actual spur, like iron-clad frigates or those warships called rams whose mass and motor power it would possess simultaneously. This inexplicable phenomenon is thus explained away.",
  "sample_03246.wav": "These last words were cowardly of me, but as far as I could I wanted to protect my professional dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans who, when they do laugh, laugh raucously.",
  "sample_03247.wav": "I had left myself a loophole, yet deep down I had accepted the existence of the monster. My article was hotly debated, causing a fine old uproar.",
  "sample_03248.wav": "Moreover, the solution it proposed allowed for free play of the imagination. The human mind enjoys impressive visions of unearthly creatures. Now then, the sea is precisely their best medium.",
  "sample_03249.wav": "Our creator casts them using a colossal mold that time has gradually made smaller. With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age?",
  "sample_03250.wav": "continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia? But I mustn't let these fantasies run away with me.",
  "sample_03251.wav": "said Craggs, pushing Billy towards them as he spoke. \"'Fick, and you might have got worse,' muttered a very old man. \"'Billy Trainer has the lucky hand.' \"'How is my lord now, Nelly?'",
  "sample_03252.wav": "asked the corporal of a woman who, with bare feet and dressed in the humblest fashion of the peasantry, appeared. He's getting weaker and weaker, sir. I believe he's sinking. I'm glad its billy has come. I'd rather see him than all the doctors in the country.",
  "sample_03253.wav": "Follow me,\" said Craggs, giving a signal to step lightly, and he led the way up a narrow stone stair with a wall on either hand.",
  "sample_03254.wav": "Traversing a long, low corridor, they reached a door at which, having waited for a second or two to listen, Craggs turned the handle and entered. The room was very large and lofty, and, seen in the dim light of a small lamp upon the hearthstone,",
  "sample_03255.wav": "the better to admit heir to the sick man. As Billy drew nigh with cautious steps, he perceived that although worn and wasted by long illness, the patient was a man still in the very prime of life.",
  "sample_03256.wav": "muttered he as he finished, and then gently displacing the bedclothes, laid his hand upon the heart. With a long drawn sigh, like that of utter weariness, the sick man moved his head round and fixed his eyes upon him.",
  "sample_03257.wav": "turning as he went to look back towards the bed and evidently going with reluctance. Is it fever? asked the sick man in a faint but unfaltering accent. It's a kind of cerebral congestion, a matter of them membranes that's over the brain.",
  "sample_03258.wav": "The accentuation of these words marked as it was by the strongest provincialism of the peasant attracted the sick man's attention and he bent upon him a look at once searching and severe. What are you? Who are you?",
  "sample_03259.wav": "cried he angrily. What I am isn't so easy to say, but who I am is clean beyond me. Are you a doctor? asked the sick man fiercely. I'm afraid I'm not.",
  "sample_03260.wav": "Billy obeyed without speaking. What do you mean by this, Craggs? said the Viscount, trembling with passion. Who have you brought me? What beggar have you picked off the highway? Or is he the traveling fool of the district?",
  "sample_03261.wav": "But the anger that supplied strength hitherto now failed to impart energy, and he sank back wasted and exhausted. The corporal bent over him and spoke something in a low whisper. But whether the words were heard or not, the sick man now lay still.",
  "sample_03262.wav": "breathing heavily. Can you do nothing for him? asked Craggs, peevishly. Nothing but anger him? To be sure I can if you let me.",
  "sample_03263.wav": "said Billy, producing a very ancient lancet case of boxwood tipped with ivory. I'll just take a dash of blood from the temporal artery to relieve the cerebrum, and then we'll put cauld on his head and keep him quiet.",
  "sample_03264.wav": "It's the same as opening a sluice in a mill dam. He's better already.\" He looks easier,\" said Craigs. Aye, and he feels it,\" continued Billy. Just notice the respiratory organs and see how easy the intercostal's is doing their work now.",
  "sample_03265.wav": "I'll have that hair off of him if he isn't cold towards evening.\" So saying, he covered the sick man with the wetted clothes, and bathed his hands in the cooling fluid.",
  "sample_03266.wav": "asked the corporal eagerly. \"'He'll do, he'll do,' said Billy. \"'He's a sanguineous temperament, and he'll bear the lancet. \"'It's just like whether an appointed, say, \"'if you have a craft that will carry canvas, \"'there's always a chance for you.'\"",
  "sample_03267.wav": "He perceived that you were not a doctor,\" said Craggs when they reached the corridor.",
  "sample_03268.wav": "But for all that, it would be going too far to say that I wasn't a doctor. Tis the same with physics and poetry. You take to it, or you don't take to it. There's chaps, eh? And far from stupid ones either.",
  "sample_03269.wav": "that couldn't compose you ten hexameters if you'd put them on a hot griddle for it. And there's others that would talk rhyme rather than raisin'. And so, with the air's metacatrix, everybody hasn't an eye for a hectic or an ear for a cough. Non-contigit.",
  "sample_03270.wav": "Hush, be still,\" muttered Craigs. Here's the young master. And as he spoke, a youth of about fifteen, well-grown and handsome, but poorly, even meanly clad, approached them. Have you seen my father?",
  "sample_03271.wav": "Relieve the gorged vessels and don't drown the grand hydraulic machine. The heart, them's my sentiments.\" Turning from the speaker with a look of angry impatience, the boy whispered some words in the corporal's ear. \"'What could I do, sir?' was the answer.\"",
  "sample_03272.wav": "It was this fellow or nothing. And better, a thousand times better, nothing, said the boy, then trust his life to the coarse ignorance of this wretched quack. And in his passion the words were uttered loud enough for Billy to overhear them.",
  "sample_03273.wav": "Don't be hasty, your honor,\" said Billy submissively, and don't be unjust. The realms of disease is like an unknown tract of country or a country that's only known a little, just around the coast, as it might be once you're beyond that.",
  "sample_03274.wav": "One man is as good a God as another.",
  "sample_03275.wav": "\"'What have you done? Have you given him anything?' broke in the boy hurriedly. \"'I took a blading from him, little short of sixteen ounces, from the Temporial,' said Billy, proudly.",
  "sample_03276.wav": "And I'll give him now a concoction of metal saffron with a pinch of saltpeter in it to cause diaphoresis. Do you mind? Meanwhile...",
  "sample_03277.wav": "just as he may have a knowledge of nature by observation. What is sickness after all, but just one of the phenomenons of all organic and inorganic matter? A regular sort of shindy in a man's inside, like a thunderstorm or hurricane outside?",
  "sample_03278.wav": "He turned to the corporal and said, Look to him, Craigs, and let him have his supper, And when he has eaten it, send him to my room. Billy bowed in acknowledgement and followed the corporal to the kitchen. That's my lord's son, I suppose.",
  "sample_03279.wav": "said he, as he seated himself, and a fine young creature too, pure and genus, with a grand frontal development. And with this reflection he addressed himself to the coarse but abundant fair which Craggs placed before him.",
  "sample_03280.wav": "and with an appetite that showed how much he relished it. \"'This is elegant living you have here, Mr. Craggs,' said Billy, as he drained his tancred of beer and placed it with a sigh on the table. \"'Many happy years of it to you.'",
  "sample_03281.wav": "Chapter 16. No one in all Raymond, including the rectangle, felt Laureen's death more keenly than Virginia. It came like a distinct personal loss to her.",
  "sample_03282.wav": "That short week while the girl had been in her home had opened Virginia's heart to a new life. She was talking it over with Rachel the day after the funeral.",
  "sample_03283.wav": "I am going to do something with my money to help those women to a better life. Virginia looked over to the end of the hall where, the day before, Loreen's body had lain. I have decided on a good plan as it seems to me.",
  "sample_03284.wav": "I have talked it over with Roland. He will devote a large part of his money also to the same plan.\" \"'How much money have you, Virginia, to give in this way?' asked Rachel. Once, she would never have asked such a personal question.\"",
  "sample_03285.wav": "Now it seemed as natural to talk frankly about money as about anything else that belonged to God. I have available for use at least $450,000. Roland has as much more.",
  "sample_03286.wav": "It is one of his bitter regrets now that his extravagant habits of life before his conversion practically threw away half that Father left him. We are both eager to make all the reparation in our power. What would Jesus do with this money?",
  "sample_03287.wav": "We want to answer that question honestly and wisely. The money I shall put into the news is I am confident in align with his probable action.",
  "sample_03288.wav": "It is as necessary that we have a Christian daily paper in Raymond, especially now that we have the saloon influence to meet, as it is to have a church or a college. So I am satisfied that the $500,000 that Mr. Norman will know how to use so well",
  "sample_03289.wav": "will be a powerful factor in Raymond to do as Jesus would. About my other plan, Rachel, I want you to work with me.",
  "sample_03290.wav": "The field where the tent now is has been in litigation for years. We mean to secure the entire tract as soon as the courts have settled the title. For some time I have been making a special study of the various forms of college settlements and residence methods.",
  "sample_03291.wav": "of Christian work and institutional church work in the heart of great city slums. I do not know that I have yet been able to tell just what is the wisest and most effective kind of work that can be done in Raymond, but I do know this much.",
  "sample_03292.wav": "My money, I mean God's, which he wants me to use, can build wholesome lodging houses, refuges for poor women, asylums for shop girls, safety for many and many a lost girl like Lorene.",
  "sample_03293.wav": "And I do not want to be simply a dispenser of this money. God help me. I do want to put myself into the problem. But you know Rachel, I have a feeling all the time that all that limitless money and limitless personal sacrifice can possibly do.",
  "sample_03294.wav": "will not really lessen very much the awful condition at the rectangle, as long as the saloon is legally established there. I think that is true of any Christian work now being carried on in any great city.",
  "sample_03295.wav": "The saloon furnishes material to be saved faster than the settlement or residence or rescue mission work can save it. Virginia suddenly rose and paced the hall. Rachel answered sadly and yet with a note of hope in her voice.",
  "sample_03296.wav": "But, Virginia, what a wonderful amount of good can be done with this money! And the saloon cannot always remain here. The time must come when the Christian forces in the city will triumph. Virginia paused near Rachel, and her pale, earnest face lighted up.",
  "sample_03297.wav": "believe that too. The number of those who have promised to do as Jesus would is increasing. If we once have, say, 500 such disciples in Raymond, the saloon is doomed.",
  "sample_03298.wav": "But now dear, I want you to look at your part in this plan for capturing and saving the rectangle. Your voice is a power. I have had many ideas lately. Here is one of them. You could organize among the girls a musical institute.",
  "sample_03299.wav": "Give them the benefit of your training. There are some splendid voices in the rough there. Did anyone ever hear such singing as that yesterday by those women? Rachel, what a beautiful opportunity.",
  "sample_03300.wav": "You shall have the best of material in the way of organs and orchestras that money can provide, and what cannot be done with music to win souls there into higher and purer and better living.",
  "sample_03301.wav": "Before Virginia had ceased speaking, Rachel's face was perfectly transformed with the thought of her life work. It flowed into her heart and mind like a flood, and the torrent of her feeling overflowed in tears that could not be restrained.",
  "sample_03302.wav": "It was what she had dreamed of doing herself. It represented to her something that she felt was in keeping with the right use of her talent. Yes, she said, as she rose and put her arm about Virginia.",
  "sample_03303.wav": "While both girls and the excitement of their enthusiasm paced the hall. Yes, I will gladly put my life into that kind of service. I do believe that Jesus would have me use my life in this way. Virginia, what miracles can we not accomplish in humanity?",
  "sample_03304.wav": "if we have such a lever as consecrated money to move things with. Add to it consecrated personal enthusiasm like yours and it certainly can accomplish great things,\" said Virginia smiling.",
  "sample_03305.wav": "Roland came back and sat down, and together the three discussed their future plans. Roland was apparently entirely free from embarrassment in Rachel's presence while Virginia was with them. Only his manner with her was almost precise, if not cold.",
  "sample_03306.wav": "The past seemed to have been entirely absorbed in his wonderful conversion. He had not forgotten it, but he seemed to be completely caught up for this present time in the purpose of his new life.",
  "sample_03307.wav": "After a while, Roland was called out and Rachel and Virginia began to talk of other things. By the way, what has become of Jasper Chase? Virginia asked the question innocently, but Rachel flushed, and Virginia added with a smile.",
  "sample_03308.wav": "I suppose he is writing another book. Is he going to put you into this one, Rachel? You know I always suspected Jasper Chase of doing that very thing in his first story. Virginia.",
  "sample_03309.wav": "Rachel spoke with the frankness that had always existed between the two friends. Jasper Chase told me the other night that he, in fact, he proposed to me, or he would, if...",
  "sample_03310.wav": "Rachel stopped and sat with her hands clasped on her lap and there were tears in her eyes. Virginia, I thought a little while ago I loved him as he said he loved me. But when he spoke my heart felt repelled and I said what I ought to say.",
  "sample_03311.wav": "Frank Hoskins' elbow wound healed quickly without any serious results, and Tom Rall, who had been under treatment at the field hospital, was able to get about the camp.",
  "sample_03312.wav": "But on the eighth day a veritable fury launched itself upon that section of the American French front in the shape of seemingly endless brigades of boshes that were hurled over the top of their own breastwork across no man's land and upon the first-line trenches of the Allies.",
  "sample_03313.wav": "For several days the American and French aviators had been reporting heavy German formations in that region, evidently with the design of a terrific assault, but the Allied commanders had not expected it so soon, and in truth they were not fully prepared for it.",
  "sample_03314.wav": "It was a surprise attack in every sense of the word, with all the terrible carnage that such a battle brings.",
  "sample_03315.wav": "and their hidden artillery to the rear of them. This was kept up for about seven hours and the duel of heavy guns shook the earth like a quake and was deafening. Then, just as dawn was breaking, the infantry onslaught.",
  "sample_03316.wav": "including food and ammunition trains.",
  "sample_03317.wav": "Everything moved like clockwork and with the greatest possible speed. And throughout it all, men on both sides were shooting, shouting, shrieking, and screaming.",
  "sample_03318.wav": "or lifeless before superior numbers.",
  "sample_03319.wav": "A stationary balloon showed where Jerry and an observation officer were doing duty on that fateful day. Jerry was operating a telephone that ran directly to division headquarters, and hardly a moment passed when he was not repeating some observation of the other man in the basket with him.",
  "sample_03320.wav": "Every detail of that tremendous battle Jerry knew. His own occasional glimpses over the side informed him of the temporary reverses his own army was suffering, while the remarks of the officer told him where the Germans were meeting their bitterest repulses.",
  "sample_03321.wav": "where they were drawing up their heaviest forces of reserves, what quick changes were being made in the general line of formation, and how far back their forces seemed to extend. Slim Goodwin",
  "sample_03322.wav": "to make sure that thus far his friend was still safe.",
  "sample_03323.wav": "The wavering, swaying target was watched from time to time, and speculations made as to how long it could remain without being punctured by a bullet.",
  "sample_03324.wav": "It was now well into the afternoon. The Germans had swept into the places vacated by the Americans and French and still the battle raged. It was now that Slim began to wait anxiously for the new development.",
  "sample_03325.wav": "The Americans and French had retreated to a general line which permitted a quick remobilization to the best advantage. There, their front line ranks held firm while the new formation was being affected behind them. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon when this was complete.",
  "sample_03326.wav": "and soon, in great measure at least, hostilities would be suspended for the night. Their work completed.",
  "sample_03327.wav": "So you can judge pretty well for yourself.\" Guess he had a pretty good bird's-eye view of the whole thing, said Joe, as they passed on to meet again before mess. Except for spasmodic outbursts here and there, the trench-dual had almost entirely subsided.",
  "sample_03328.wav": "and the heavy roar of the artillery also was punctuated with longer pauses.",
  "sample_03329.wav": "while each side took account of stock and made necessary repairs or altered their plans to meet the new situation. Our young friends were busy with wash basins, soap and water, and they were busy with the",
  "sample_03330.wav": "taking off the grime in preparation for the evening meal and wondering where Jerry was keeping himself all the while, when suddenly a very strange thing happened beyond the enemy line.",
  "sample_03331.wav": "more easily handled airplanes and used in great numbers by the Germans, shot into the air at great speed from behind the Bosch entrenchments.",
  "sample_03332.wav": "It simply indicated that those manning the American and French anti-aircraft guns",
  "sample_03333.wav": "And even this might have been considered a well-designed hoax.",
  "sample_03334.wav": "Still going at maximum speed and now on a straight line towards the American side without seeking a further height, the top several times wavered and a moment later almost turned over. but the pilot rides her.",
  "sample_03335.wav": "He pointed her nose downward towards the American lines. Four American planes sailed off and upward to meet the oncoming German Aramada, but from the ground it could be seen that the man in the observer's place in the top was making desperate signals.",
  "sample_03336.wav": "The American planes maneuvered in such a way as to encircle the tub.",
  "sample_03337.wav": "and the other German planes turned back towards their own lines. The top continued on its wavering cripple downward course towards allied lines.",
  "sample_03338.wav": "as the top came within 100 yards of the ground and righted herself for a landing.",
  "sample_03339.wav": "of its own momentum it rolled within a two-minute run where the lieutenant and the others had been standing. In another instant it was entirely surrounded by a crowd of curious American soldiers.",
  "sample_03340.wav": "and after descending a little by permitting some of the gas to escape, we jumped over the side of the basket and came down on our parachutes.",
  "sample_03341.wav": "The sleepers open their eyes and raise themselves on their elbows. Then the shepherd hears a warning voice which comes and goes like the wind, saying, If the horn is blown once again, the world will be upset altogether.",
  "sample_03342.wav": "Terrified by the voice and the ferocious appearance of the heroes, the shepherd retreats hurriedly, locking the door behind him.",
  "sample_03343.wav": "Shaman Ser, Shama Shadad, Ashwardhan.",
  "sample_03344.wav": "The Syro-Cabodoshan Hittites had grown once again powerful and prosperous, but no great leader like Subiluleuma arose to weld the various states into an empire.",
  "sample_03345.wav": "so as to ensure the protection of the mingled peoples from the operations of the aggressive and ambitious warlords of Assyria. One kingdom had its capital at Hamath and another at Karkomish on the Euphrates. The kingdom of Tabal flourished in Cilicia, Hilaku.",
  "sample_03346.wav": "It included several city-states like Tarsus, Tiana, and Kamanu. Farther west was the dominion of the Thracophrygian Muski. The tribes around the shores of Lake Van",
  "sample_03347.wav": "had asserted themselves and extended their sphere of influence. The state of Rurartu was of growing importance, and the Nairi tribes had spread from the southeastern shores of Lake Bon.",
  "sample_03348.wav": "The northern frontier of Assyria was continually menaced by groups of independent tail states, which would have been irresistible had they operated together against a common enemy, but were liable to be extinguished when attacked in detail.",
  "sample_03349.wav": "A number of Aramaic kingdoms had come into existence in Mesopotamia and throughout Syria.",
  "sample_03350.wav": "I'm an Oshawa Natsir Paul III.",
  "sample_03351.wav": "Groups of the Arameans had acquired a high degree of culture and become traders and artisans.",
  "sample_03352.wav": "Accustomed for generations to desert warfare, they were fearless warriors. Their armies had great mobility, being composed mostly of mounted infantry, and were not easily overpowered by the Assyrian forces of Footman.",
  "sample_03353.wav": "The former had raided North Syria and apparently penetrated as far as the Mediterranean coast. In consequence, he came into conflict with Babylonia, but he ultimately formed an alliance with that kingdom. His son, Tukwulti-Ninip,",
  "sample_03354.wav": "operated in southern Mesopotamia.",
  "sample_03355.wav": "In the north, he had to drive back, invading bands of the Muski.",
  "sample_03356.wav": "A sure indication that Assyria was once again becoming powerful in northern Mesopotamia and the regions towards Armenia. A sure not Sir Paul III",
  "sample_03357.wav": "inaugurated a veritable reign of terror in Mesopotamia and northern Syria. His methods of dealing with revolting tribes were of a most savage character. Chiefs were skinned alive, but when he sacked their cities...",
  "sample_03358.wav": "not only fighting men, but women and children were either slaughtered or burned at the stake. It is not surprising to find, therefore, that, on more than one occasion, the kings of petty states made submission to him without resistance as soon as he invaded their domains.",
  "sample_03359.wav": "In his first year, he overran the mountainous district between Lake Van and the upper sources of the Tigris. Bubu, the rebel son of the governor of Nishtun, who had been taken prisoner, was transported to Arbella, where he was skinned alive.",
  "sample_03360.wav": "Like his father, Ashur Natsir Paul fought against the Muski, whose power was declining. Then he turned southward from the borders of Asia Minor and dealt with a rebellion in northern Mesopotamia. An Araman pretender named Ahiababa",
  "sample_03361.wav": "had established himself at Suru in the region to the east of the Euphrates, enclosed by its tributaries the Chabar and the Balik. He had come from the neighboring Aramean state of Bit Adini, and was preparing, it would appear,",
  "sample_03362.wav": "to form a powerful confederacy against the Assyrians. When Ashur Natsir Paul approached Suru, a part of its population welcomed him. He entered the city, seized the pretender and many of his followers.",
  "sample_03363.wav": "these he disposed of with characteristic barbarity. Some were skinned alive, and some impaled on stakes, while others were enclosed in a pillar which the king had erected, to remind the aramans of his determination to brook no opposition.",
  "sample_03364.wav": "and when they had been flayed, their skins were nailed upon the city walls. Another revolt broke out in the Kirhi district between the upper reaches of the Tigris and the southwestern shores of Lake Van.",
  "sample_03365.wav": "It was promoted by the Nairi tribes, and even supported by some Assyrian officials. Terrible reprisals were meted out to the rebels. When the city of Kinabu was captured, no fewer than 3,000 prisoners were burned alive.",
  "sample_03366.wav": "the unfaithful governor being flayed. The city of Dom de Moussa was set on fire. Then Tello was attacked. A sure nutsier Paul's own account of the operations runs as follows.",
  "sample_03367.wav": "The city of Telo was very strong.",
  "sample_03368.wav": "They did not come down or embrace my feet. With battle and slaughter I assaulted and took the city. Three thousand warriors I slew in battle. Their booty and possessions, cattle, the sheep, I carried away.",
  "sample_03369.wav": "Many captives I burned with fire. Many of the soldiers I took alive. Of some I cut off hands and limbs. Of others the noses, ears, and arms. Of many soldiers I put out the eyes.",
  "sample_03370.wav": "I reared a column of the living and a column of heads. I hung on high their heads on trees in the vicinity of their city. Their boys and girls I burned up in flames. I devastated the city, dug it up, in fire burned it.",
  "sample_03371.wav": "He had found at last that the draughts containing dissolved pearls which the quack doctor, Leone di Spolito, prescribed for him, as if he desired to adapt his remedies rather to the riches of his patients than to his necessities,",
  "sample_03372.wav": "were useless and unavailing. And so he had come to understand that he must part from those gentle-tongued women of his, those sweet-voiced poets, his palaces and the rich hangings. Therefore he had summoned to give him absolution for his sins,",
  "sample_03373.wav": "in a man of less high place they might perhaps have been called crimes, the Dominican, Girolamo Francesco Savonarola. It was not, however, without an inward fear, against which the praises of his friends availed nothing,",
  "sample_03374.wav": "that the pleasure-seeker and usurper awaited that severe and gloomy preacher by whose words all Florence was stirred, and on whose pardon henceforth depended all his hope for another world. Indeed, Savonarola was one of those men of stone.",
  "sample_03375.wav": "coming, like the statue of the Commandante, to knock at the door of Adan Giovanni, and in the midst of feast and orgy, to announce that it is even now the moment to begin to think of heaven. He had been born at Ferrara.",
  "sample_03376.wav": "had fled from his father's house and had taken the vows in the cloister of Dominican monks at Florence. There, where he was appointed by his superiors to give lessons in philosophy, the young novice had from the first to battle against the defects of a voice that was both harsh and weak.",
  "sample_03377.wav": "a defective pronunciation, and above all, the depression of his physical powers, exhausted as they were by too severe abstinence. Savanarola from that time condemned himself to the most absolute seclusion, and disappeared in the depths of his convent.",
  "sample_03378.wav": "as if the slab of his tomb had already fallen over him. There, kneeling on the flags, praying unceasingly before a wooden crucifix, fevered by vigils and penances, he soon passed out of contemplation into ecstasy and began to feel in himself",
  "sample_03379.wav": "that inward prophetic impulse which summoned him to preach the reformation of the church. Nevertheless, the reformation of Savonarola, more reverential than Luther's, which followed about five and twenty years later, respected the thing while attacking the man.",
  "sample_03380.wav": "and had as its aim the altering of teaching that was human, not faith that was of God. He did not work like the German monk by reasoning, but by enthusiasm. With him logic always gave way before inspiration. He was not a theologian.",
  "sample_03381.wav": "but a prophet. Yet although hitherto he had bowed his head before the authority of the Church, he had already raised it against the temporal power. To him, religion and liberty appeared as two virgins equally sacred.",
  "sample_03382.wav": "The result of this was that, so long as Lorenzo lived in riches, happiness and magnificence, Savonarola had never been willing, whatever entreaties were made, to sanction by his presence a power which he considered illegitimate.",
  "sample_03383.wav": "But Lorenzo on his deathbed sent for him, and that was another matter. The austere preacher set forth at once, bareheaded and barefoot, hoping to save not only the soul of the dying man, but also the liberty of the Republic.",
  "sample_03384.wav": "Lorenzo, as we have said, was awaiting the arrival of Savonarola with an impatience mixed with uneasiness, so that when he heard the sound of his steps, his pale face took a yet more death-like tinge.",
  "sample_03385.wav": "appeared on the threshold. When he perceived him, Lorenzo de' Medici, reading in his marble brow the inflexibility of a statue, fell back on his bed, breathing a sigh so profound that one might have supposed it was his last.",
  "sample_03386.wav": "Then he advanced with a slow and solemn step towards the bed. Lorenzo watched his approach with terror. Then when he was close beside him, he cried, Oh my father, I have been a very great sinner. The mercy of God is infinite, replied the monk.",
  "sample_03387.wav": "You believe then that God will forgive my sins? cried the dying man, renewing his hope as he heard from the lips of the monk such unexpected words. Your sins and also your crimes, God will forgive them all replied Savva Nerola.",
  "sample_03388.wav": "God will forgive your vanities, your adulterous pleasures, your obscene festivals, so much for your sins.",
  "sample_03389.wav": "Francesco Frescobaldi, and more than 300 others whose names were nonetheless dear to Florence because they were less renowned. So much for your crimes. And at each of these names, which Savonaroli pronounced slowly, his eyes fixed on the dying man.",
  "sample_03390.wav": "He replied with a groan, which proved the monk's memory to be only too true. Then at last, when he had finished, Lorenzo asked in a doubtful tone, Then do you believe, my father, that God will forgive me everything, both my sins and my crimes?",
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  "sample_03392.wav": "My father replied to Renzo eagerly, I feel this faith in the very depths of my heart. The second, said Savonarola, is that you give back the property of others which you have unjustly confiscated and kept.",
  "sample_03393.wav": "My father, shall I have time? asked the dying man. God will give it to you replied the monk.",
  "sample_03394.wav": "exclaimed Lorenzo, falling back on his bed and shaking his head. Never! The monk, without replying a single word, made a step to withdraw. My father, my father, said the dying man. Do not leave me thus. Have pity on me. Have pity on Florence, said the monk.",
  "sample_03395.wav": "But my father cried Lorenzo Florence is free Florence is happy Florence is a slave Florence is poor cried Severo, Norola poor in genius poor in money and poor in courage poor in genius because after you Lorenzo",
  "sample_03396.wav": "will come your son Puro. Pour in money because from the funds of the Republic you have kept up the magnificence of your family and the credit of your business houses. Pour in courage because you have robbed the rightful magistrates of the authority which was constitutionally theirs.",
  "sample_03397.wav": "and diverted the citizens from the double path of military and civil life, wherein before they were innervated by your luxuries they had displayed the virtues of the ancients. And therefore, when the day shall dawn which is not far distant, continued the monk.",
  "sample_03398.wav": "It is not I who desire it. It is the Lord replied Savonarola coldly impossible impossible murmured Lorenzo Very well, then die as you have lived cried the monk in the midst of your courtiers and flatterers",
  "sample_03399.wav": "Let them ruin your soul as they have ruined your body. And at these words the austere Dominican, without listening to the cries of the dying man, left the room as he had entered it, with face and step unaltered. Far above human things he seemed to soar.",
  "sample_03400.wav": "a spirit already detached from the earth. At the cry which broke from Lorenzo de' Medici when he saw him disappear,",
  "sample_03401.wav": "administration terrorism. The administration tried in another way to stop picketing.",
  "sample_03402.wav": "the agitation would certainly weaken, so thought the administration. To their great surprise, however, in the face of that reckless and extreme sentence, the longest picket line of the entire campaign formed at the White House in the late afternoon of November 10th.",
  "sample_03403.wav": "41 women picketed in protest against this wanton persecution of their leader, as well as against the delay in passing the amendment. Face to face with an embarrassing number of prisoners, the administration used its wits",
  "sample_03404.wav": "to reduce the number to a manageable size before imprisoning this group. Failing of that, they tried still another way out. They resorted to imprisonment with terrorism.",
  "sample_03405.wav": "In order to show how widely representative of the nation this group of pickets was, I give its personnel complete. First group, New York. Mrs. John Winters Brannon, Miss Belle Sheinberg,",
  "sample_03406.wav": "Mrs. Cynthia Cohen, Ms. M. Tilden Burritt.",
  "sample_03407.wav": "Massachusetts, Mrs. Agnes H. Moray Brookline, Mrs. William Bergen and Miss Camilla Whitcomb Wooster, Miss Ella Feindyson Lawrence, Miss L.J.C. Daniels Boston, New Jersey.",
  "sample_03408.wav": "Mrs. George Scott, Montclair. Pennsylvania. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis. Miss Elizabeth McShane. Miss Catherine Lincoln, Philadelphia. Third group. California. Mrs. William Kent, Kentfield.",
  "sample_03409.wav": "Oregon, Miss Alice Graham, Miss Betty Graham, Portland. Utah, Mrs. R.B.K. Mrs. T.C. Robertson, Salt Lake City. Colorado, Mrs. Eva Decker.",
  "sample_03410.wav": "Colorado Springs, Mrs. Genevieve Williams, Manitou. Fourth group, Indiana, Mrs. Charles W. Barnes, Indianapolis, Oklahoma, Mrs. Kate Stafford, Oklahoma City.",
  "sample_03411.wav": "Minnesota, Mrs. J. H. Short, Minneapolis, Iowa.",
  "sample_03412.wav": "Des Moines, Mrs. Catherine Martinet, Eagle Grove. Fifth group, New York, Miss Lucy Burns, New York City. District of Columbia, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Louisiana.",
  "sample_03413.wav": "Mrs. Alice M. Kosu, New Orleans. Maryland. Miss Mary Bartlett Dixon, Easton. Miss Julia Emery, Baltimore. Florida. Mrs. Mary I. Nolan, Jacksonville.",
  "sample_03414.wav": "as she said in court. We took this action with great consecration of spirit, with willingness to sacrifice personal liberty.",
  "sample_03415.wav": "Judge Maloney addressed the prisoners with many high-sounding words about the seriousness of obstructing the traffic in the national capital and inadvertently slipped into a discourse on Russia and the dangers of revolution.",
  "sample_03416.wav": "But their minds were too full of the political aspect of our offence to conceal it. The truth of the situation is that the court has not been given power to meet it, the judge lamented. It is very, very puzzling. I find you guilty of the offence charged.",
  "sample_03417.wav": "but will take the matter of sentence under advisement.\" And so the guilty pickets were summarily released. The administration did not relish the incarceration of 41 women for another reason than limited housing accommodations.",
  "sample_03418.wav": "41 women representing 16 states in the Union might create a considerable political dislocation. But these same 41 women were determined to force the administration to take its choice. It would allow them to continue their peaceful agitation.",
  "sample_03419.wav": "or it could stand the reaction which was bound to come from imprisoning them. And so the 41 women returned to the White House gates to resume their picketing. They stood guard several minutes before the police, taken unawares, could summon sufficient force to arrest them.",
  "sample_03420.wav": "Come back on Friday. I am not yet prepared to try the case. Logic dictated that either we had a right to stand at the gates with our banners, or we did not have that right.",
  "sample_03421.wav": "it had to stop picketing. Whether this was done legally or illegally, logically or illogically, clumsily or dextrously, was of secondary importance. Picketing must be stopped.",
  "sample_03422.wav": "Using their welcome release to continue their protest, the women again marched with their banners to the White House in an attempt to picket. Again, they were arrested. No one who saw that line will ever forget the impression it made, not only on Friends of the Suffragists,",
  "sample_03423.wav": "but on the general populace of Washington to see these women force with such magnificent defiance the hand of a wavering administration. On the following morning...",
  "sample_03424.wav": "Ms. Burns received six months. In pronouncing the lightest sentence upon Mrs. Nolan, the judge said that he did so on account of her age. He urged her, however, to pay her fine, hinting that jail might be too severe on her and might bring on death.",
  "sample_03425.wav": "At this suggestion, Tiny Mrs. Nolan pulled herself up on her toes and said with great dignity,",
  "sample_03426.wav": "I have a nephew fighting for democracy in France.",
  "sample_03427.wav": "I should be ashamed if I did not join these brave women in their fight for democracy in America. I should be proud of the honor to die in prison.",
  "sample_03428.wav": "for the liberty of American women.",
  "sample_03429.wav": "or do prison labor. Any words of mine would be inadequate to tell the story of the prisoner's reception at the Akaquan Workhouse. The following is the statement of Mrs. Nolan, dictated upon her release in the presence of Mr. Dudley Field Malone.",
  "sample_03430.wav": "Mrs. Harrington was standing behind a desk when we were brought into this office and there were five or six men also in the room.",
  "sample_03431.wav": "Chapter 21, A Soul Overboard.",
  "sample_03432.wav": "Somebody had called his name. He sat up in bed and listened. There was not a sound. He drew up the blind and looked out on a gray autumn morning, windy and rainy. He went back to bed and tried to sleep, but in vain.",
  "sample_03433.wav": "There were strange voices in the wind. They moaned and warned and wept and whimpered. He tried to think of something pleasant, of his happiness. He took his part and began to learn it. It seemed to be nothing but, Yes, my prince.",
  "sample_03434.wav": "He tried to picture himself on a stage as Horatio. He tried to picture Agnes in the part of Ophelia.",
  "sample_03435.wav": "spreading nets for Hamlet at Polonius' advice. He attempted to drive away the thought, and instead of Agnes, he saw the coquettish Miss Jacquet, who had been the last to play the part at the Municipal Theatre.",
  "sample_03436.wav": "He tried in vain to drive away these disagreeable fancies. They followed him like gnats. At last, exhausted with the strain, he fell asleep, but only to suffer the same torment in his dream. He roused himself with an effort, but soon dropped off to sleep again.",
  "sample_03437.wav": "He dressed hastily, and as he picked up his boot, a big spider ran across the floor. The sight pleased him, for he believed in the superstition that a spider is a harbinger of happiness.",
  "sample_03438.wav": "He could not tell why, but he thought of the spider and calmly opened the door. A servant handed him a letter from Philander, begging him to come to his rooms at ten. On very important business. Again, he was assailed by the indescribable feeling of fear.",
  "sample_03439.wav": "which had troubled his morning slumber. He tried to wallow wait a time until ten. It was impossible. He dressed and went to Flanders' house. The latter had risen early. His room had been put straight, and he was ready to receive his friend.",
  "sample_03440.wav": "He greeted Renhelm cordially, but with unusual gravity. Renhelm overwhelmed him with questions, but Philander refused to reply before 10 o'clock. Renhelm's anxiety grew, and he wanted to know whether there was unpleasant news.",
  "sample_03441.wav": "Andy declared that many so-called unbearable situations could be borne quite easily if only one did not exaggerate their importance. The time passed slowly, but at last it struck ten. A gentle double-rap at the door relieved the tension.",
  "sample_03442.wav": "Philander opened at once and admitted Agnes. Without a look at those present, she drew the key from the lock and locked the door from the inside. A momentary embarrassment seized her when, on turning around, she was confronted by two men instead of only one.",
  "sample_03443.wav": "but her embarrassment gave away a pleasant surprise when she recognized Wrenhelm. Throwing off her waterproof, she ran towards him.",
  "sample_03444.wav": "A long time? What do you mean? I feel as if I hadn't seen you for a lifetime. How splendid you are looking. Did you sleep well? Do you think I look better than usual? Yes, you are flushed and there are little dimples on your cheeks. Won't you say good morning to Flandre?",
  "sample_03445.wav": "The latter stood quietly listening to the conversation, but his face was deadly white, and he seemed to be absorbed in thought. How, Warren, you are looking! said Agnes, crossing the room with the graceful movements of a kitten, as Renhelm released her from his arms.",
  "sample_03446.wav": "Philander made no reply. Agnes looked at him more keenly.",
  "sample_03447.wav": "A fleeting expression of trouble passed across her face as the surface of a pond is rippled by the breeze. But she immediately regained her usual serenity, glanced at Renhelm, realized the situation, and was prepared for anything.",
  "sample_03448.wav": "May we be told what important business has brought us together here, at this early hour?\" She asked Ailey, putting her hand on Flanders' shoulder. Certainly,\" said the latter with such firm resolution that her face paled.",
  "sample_03449.wav": "as if he wanted to force his thoughts into another groove. It's my birthday and I want you to have breakfast with me. Agnes, who had seen the train rushing straight at her, felt relieved. She burst into merry laughter and embraced Philander. But as breakfast has been ordered for eleven, we'll have to wait a while.",
  "sample_03450.wav": "Won't you sit down?\" There was an ominous silence. \"'An angel is passing through the room,' said Agnes. \"'You,' said Ranhelm, respectfully and ardently, kissing her hand. It looked as if he had been thrown out of his saddle.\"",
  "sample_03451.wav": "and was making violent efforts to regain it. I saw a spider this morning, said Ranholm, that predicts happiness. Arragnem a ten shagren, said Philander. Have you never heard of that? What does that mean? asked Agnes. A Spider on the Moral. Grief and Sorrow.",
  "sample_03452.wav": "The only sound which disturbed his stillness was the sound of the rain beating in gusts against the windows.",
  "sample_03453.wav": "I hardly slept a wink. What book was that? asked Ranhelm, without betraying very much interest. Its title was Pierre Clement, and its subject the usual woman's game.",
  "sample_03454.wav": "Wasn't she later on engaged to a man whom she really loved? Yes, that was it. And during all the time she kept up her old liaison. The author wanted to show that a woman can love in two ways, a man only in one. That's true enough, isn't it? Certainly.",
  "sample_03455.wav": "But the day came when her fiance was going to compete with a picture. To cut my tale short, she gave herself to the president, and Pierre Clement was happy and could be married. And by this the author wanted to show that a woman will sacrifice everything to the man she loves?",
  "sample_03456.wav": "A man, on the other hand, that is the most infamous statement I ever heard. burst out philander. He rose, went to his writing desk, threw open the flap, and took out a black box. Here! he said, handing it to Agnes.",
  "sample_03457.wav": "What's that? laughed Agnes opening the box and taking out a six-barreled revolver. I say what a sweet thing!",
  "sample_03458.wav": "Lock it up,\" she said. This is no toy, my friends. Renhelm had watched the scene speechlessly. He understood the meaning well enough, but he was unable to say a word, and he was so much under the girl's spell that he could not even feel angry with her.",
  "sample_03459.wav": "He realized that he had been stabbed, but he had as yet not had time to feel the pain. The girl's impudence disconcerted Flander. He wanted time to recover. His moral execution had been a complete failure, and his coup d'etat had been disastrous to himself.",
  "sample_03460.wav": "Hadn't we better go now?\" asked Agnes, straightening her hat before the glass. Philander opened the door. \"'Go and be damned to you,' he said. \"'You have ruined an honest man's peace of mind.' \"'What are you talking about?' \"'Shut the door. It's none too warm here.'\"",
  "sample_03461.wav": "the rough riders at Guacimas. On the day the American troops landed on the coast of Cuba, the Cubans informed General Wheeler",
  "sample_03462.wav": "blocking the way to Santiago.",
  "sample_03463.wav": "nor even a collection of houses. It is the meeting place of two trails which join at the apex of a V, three miles from the seaport town of Cibon\u00e9 and continue merged in a single trail to Santiago.",
  "sample_03464.wav": "General Wheeler, guided by the Cubans, reconnoitered this trail on the 23rd of June, and with the position of the enemy fully explained to him, returned to Cibone, and informed General Young and Colonel Wood.",
  "sample_03465.wav": "that on the following morning he would attack the Spanish position",
  "sample_03466.wav": "and what he was to do when he found him. That night no one slept, for until two o'clock in the morning, troops were still being disembarked in the surf, and two ships of war had their searchlights turned on the landing place.",
  "sample_03467.wav": "lay the camp of the Rough Riders, and through it Cuban officers were riding their half-starved ponies, and scattering the ashes of the campfires.",
  "sample_03468.wav": "Below them was the beach and the roaring surf in which a thousand or so naked men were assisting and impeding the progress shoreward of their comrades in pontoons and shoreboats.",
  "sample_03469.wav": "which were being hurled at the beach like sleds down a watershoot. It was one of the most weird and remarkable scenes of the war, probably of any war.",
  "sample_03470.wav": "or shouting with delight as they plunged into the first bath that had offered in seven days, and those in the launches as they were pitched head first at the soil of Cuba, signalized their arrival by howls of triumph.",
  "sample_03471.wav": "On either side rose black overhanging ridges.",
  "sample_03472.wav": "of the searchlights shaming the quiet moonlight.",
  "sample_03473.wav": "The Rough Riders left camp at five in the morning. With the exception of half a dozen officers, they were dismounted and carried their blanket rolls, heavy sacks, ammunition, and carbines.",
  "sample_03474.wav": "along the trail to the west, which was on high ground, and a half mile to a mile distant from the trail, along which General Young and his regulars were marching.",
  "sample_03475.wav": "There was a valley between us and the bushes were so thick on both sides of our trail.",
  "sample_03476.wav": "to distinguish the other column. As soon as the Rough Riders had reached the top of the ridge not twenty minutes after they had left camp, which was the first opportunity that presented itself, Colonel Wood ordered Captain Capron.",
  "sample_03477.wav": "No flankers were placed for the reason that the dense undergrowth and the tangle of vines that stretched from the branches of the trees to the bushes below made it a physical impossibility.",
  "sample_03478.wav": "a Cuban officer, and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt. They rode slowly in consideration of the troopers on foot, who under a cruelly hot sun carried heavy burdens. To those who did not have to walk,",
  "sample_03479.wav": "We advanced, talking in that fashion and in high spirits, and congratulating ourselves in being shut of the transport and on breathing fine mountain air again.",
  "sample_03480.wav": "We had been riding in this pleasant fashion for an hour and a half with brief halts for rest when Wood stopped the head of the column and rode down the trail to meet Capron, who was coming back.",
  "sample_03481.wav": "There was, on one side of it, a stout barbed wire fence of five strands. By some fortunate accident, this fence had been cut just where the head of the column halted. On the left of the trail,",
  "sample_03482.wav": "It shut off fields of high grass blocked at every 50 yards with great barricades of undergrowth, and tangled trees and chaparral. On the other side of the trail.",
  "sample_03483.wav": "There was not a foot of free ground, the bushes seemed absolutely impenetrable, as indeed they were later found to be. When we halted, the man set out to the forest.",
  "sample_03484.wav": "or fanned the air with their hats. They had no knowledge of the situation such as their leaders possessed, and their only emotion was one of satisfaction at the chance the Halt gave them.",
  "sample_03485.wav": "at the ready, peering into the bushes. We must have waited there while Wood reconnoitered for over ten minutes. Then he returned and began deploying his troops out at either side of the trail.",
  "sample_03486.wav": "G-troop was ordered to beat into the bushes on the right and K and A were sent over the ridge on which we stood down into the hollow to connect with General Young's column on the opposite side of the valley.",
  "sample_03487.wav": "F&E troops were deployed in skirmish line on the other side of the wire fence. Wood had discovered the enemy a few hundred yards from where he expected to find him, and so far from being surprised, he had time.",
  "sample_03488.wav": "acting on a false alarm and that there were no Spaniards ahead of us, I guessed it was Capron's men firing at random to disclose the enemy's position. I ran after G-troop under Captain Lulun and found",
  "sample_03489.wav": "he would have been lost in the thicket. At one moment the underbrush seemed swarming with our men, and the next except that you heard the twigs breaking and heavy breathing or a crush as a vine pulled someone down.",
  "sample_03490.wav": "Through the two hours of fighting that followed, although men were falling all around us, the Spaniards on the ridge were the only ones that many of us saw. But the fire against us was not more than 80 yards away.",
  "sample_03491.wav": "The chief street of Mowbray, called Castle Street, after the ruins of the old baronial stronghold in its neighborhood, was as significant of the present civilization of this community as the haughty keep had been of its ancient dependence.",
  "sample_03492.wav": "The dimensions of Castle Street were not unworthy of the metropolis. It traversed a great portion of the town, and it was proportionately wide. Its broad pavements and its blazing gas-lights indicated its modern order and prosperity.",
  "sample_03493.wav": "while on each side of the street rose huge warehouses, not as beautiful as the palaces of Venice, but in their way not less remarkable magnificent shops. And here and there, though rarely, some ancient factory built among the fields, and the",
  "sample_03494.wav": "in the infancy of Mowbray by some mill owner not sufficiently prophetic of the future, or sufficiently confident in the energy and enterprise of his fellow citizens, to foresee that the scene of his labors",
  "sample_03495.wav": "would be the future eyesore of a flourishing posterity. Pursuing their course along Castle Street for about a quarter of a mile, Gerard and Stephen turned down a street which intersected it.",
  "sample_03496.wav": "and so on, through a variety of ways and winding lanes, till they arrived at an open portion of the town, a district where streets and squares and even rows disappeared, and where the tall chimneys and bulky barrack-looking buildings.",
  "sample_03497.wav": "that rose in all directions, clustering yet isolated, announced that they were in the principal scene of the industry of Mowbray. Crossing this open ground, they gained a suburb, but one of a very different description.",
  "sample_03498.wav": "to that in which was situ at the convent where they had parted with Sybil. This one was populous, noisy, and lighted. It was Saturday night, the streets were thronged, an infinite population kept swarming to and fro.",
  "sample_03499.wav": "by narrow archways, like the entrance of hives, so low that you were obliged to stoop for admission, while ascending to these same streets, from their dank and dismal dwellings by narrow flights of steps.",
  "sample_03500.wav": "the subteraneous nation of the cellars poured forth to enjoy the coolness of the summer night and market for the day of rest. The bright and lively shops were crowded, and groups of purchasers were gathered round the stalls.",
  "sample_03501.wav": "still offered many temptations to many who could not purchase. \"'And so it is, widow,' said a little pale man, wistfully. \"'Come, come, it's getting late, and your wife's ill. You're a good soul.'",
  "sample_03502.wav": "or the mayor of Mowbray at least.\" \"'Wages,' said the man, I wish you may get him. Those villains Shuffle and Screw have starved me with another bait ticket and a pretty vicar too.\"",
  "sample_03503.wav": "Oh, the carnal monsters, exclaimed the widow, If there day don't come the bloody-minded knaves. And for small cops, too, small cops be hanged. Am I the man to send up a bad bottom cop, widow Carrie?",
  "sample_03504.wav": "You sent up for snicks. I have known you man and boy John Hill these twenty summers, and never heard a word against you till you got into shuffle-and-screws mill. Oh, they are a bad yarn, John.",
  "sample_03505.wav": "They do us all, widow. They pretends to give the same wages as the rest, and works it out in fines. You can't come and you can't go, but there's a fine. You never paid wages, but there's a bait ticket.",
  "sample_03506.wav": "I've heard they keep their whole establishment on factory fines.\" \"'Soul alive, but those shuffle-and-screw are rotten, snicky, bad yarns,' said Mistress Carey.\"",
  "sample_03507.wav": "\"'Wheel, indeed! You look very like a soul as feeds on wheel,' continued Mrs. Carey in an undertone as her declining customer moved away. \"'Well, it gets late,' said the widow. \"'I'll be back soon. I'll be back soon. I'll be back soon. I'll be back soon.",
  "sample_03508.wav": "And if you like to take this scrag end home to your wife, Neighbor Hill, we can talk of the rest next Saturday.\" \"'And what you will, sir,' said the widow, with a stern expression to a youth, who now stopped at her stall.\"",
  "sample_03509.wav": "He was about sixteen, with a lithe figure and a handsome, faded, impudent face. His long, loose, white trousers gave him height. He had no waistcoat, but a pink silk handkerchief was twisted carelessly round his neck.",
  "sample_03510.wav": "a high-crowned, dark brown hat, which relieved his complexion and heightened the effect of his mischievous blue eye. \"'Well, you need not be so fierce, Mother Carrie,' said the youth, with an affected air of deprecation.",
  "sample_03511.wav": "\"'Don't mother me,' said the jolly widow with a kindling eye, \"'go to your own mother, who is dying in a back cellar without a winder, while you've got lodgings in a two-pair.' \"'Dying? She's only drunk,' said the youth.\"",
  "sample_03512.wav": "What makes her drink but toil, working from five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock at night, and for the like of such as you?\" \"'That's a good one,' said the youth. \"'I should like to know what my mother ever did for me, but give me treacle and laudanum when I was a babby.'",
  "sample_03513.wav": "to stop my tongue and fill my stomach, by the token of which, as my gal says, she stunted the growth of the prettiest figure in all Mowbray. And here the youth drew himself up, and thrust his hands into the side pockets of his pea-jacket.",
  "sample_03514.wav": "\"'I never,' said Mrs. Carey, \"'no, I never heard a thing like that.' \"'What, not when you cut up the jackass and sold it for veal cutlets, mother?' \"'Hold your tongue, Mr. and Perrance,' said the widow. \"'It's very well known you're no Christian, and who'll believe what you say?'",
  "sample_03515.wav": "\"'It's very well known that I'm a man what pays his way,' said the boy, \"'and don't keep a huckster stall to sell carrion by starlight, but live in a two-pair, if you please, and has a wife and family, or is good.'",
  "sample_03516.wav": "said a good, humoured voice. It came from one of two factory girls, who were passing her stall and stopped. They were gaily dressed, a light handkerchief tied under the chin, their hair scrupulously arranged, they wore coral necklaces and earrings of gold.",
  "sample_03517.wav": "She added in a lower tone. \"'Well, I have left Mr. Trafford's mill,' said the girl. \"'That's a bad job,' said Mrs. Carey, for those Traffords are kind to their people.",
  "sample_03518.wav": "\"'So it is,' said the girl, but then it was so dull. \"'I can't stand a country life, Mrs. Carey. I must have company.' \"'Well, I do love a bit of gossip myself,' said Mrs. Carey, with great frankness.",
  "sample_03519.wav": "\"'And then I'm no scholar,' said the girl, and never could take the learning, and those Trafford's had so many schools.' \"'Learning is better than house and land,' said Mrs. Carey, though I'm no scholar myself. But then, in my time, things was different.'",
  "sample_03520.wav": "But young persons\u2014' \"'Yes,' said Mick. I don't think I could get through the day if it weren't for our institute.' \"'And what's that?' asked Mrs. Carey, with a sneer. \"'The shoddy court literary and scientific, to be sure,' said Mick.",
  "sample_03521.wav": "The war message concluded was still another defense of the fight for political liberty. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know,",
  "sample_03522.wav": "We were face to face with the question, which we had considered at the convention the previous month when war was rumored, as to what position we, as an organization, should take in this situation. The atmosphere of that convention had been dramatic in the extreme.",
  "sample_03523.wav": "Most of the delegates assembled had been approached either before going to Washington or upon arriving and urged to use their influence to persuade the organization to abandon its work for the freedom of women and turn its activities into war channels.",
  "sample_03524.wav": "Although war was then only rumored, the historical attitude was already prevalent. Women were asked to furl their banners and give up their half-century struggle for democracy to forget the liberty that was most precious to their hearts.",
  "sample_03525.wav": "The President will turn this imperialistic war into a crusade for democracy. Lay aside your own fight and help us crush Germany and you will find yourselves rewarded with a vote out of the nation's gratitude, or some of the appeals made to our women by government officials high and low.",
  "sample_03526.wav": "and by the rank and file of men and women. Never in history did a band of women stand together with more sanity and greater solidarity than did these one thousand delegates representing thousands more throughout the states. As our official organ, the suffragist,",
  "sample_03527.wav": "pointed out editorially in its issue of April 21, 1917.",
  "sample_03528.wav": "We were united on no other subject. Some would offer passive resistance to the war, others would become devoted followers of a vigorous military policy. Between these, every shade of opinion was represented. Each was loyal to the ideas which she held for her country.",
  "sample_03529.wav": "had nothing to do. It was concerned only with the effort to obtain for women the opportunity to give effective expression through political power to their ideals whatever they might be.",
  "sample_03530.wav": "The thousand delegates present at the convention, though differing widely on the duty of the individual in war, were unanimous in voting that in the event of war, the National Women's Party as an organization should continue to work for political liberty for women and for that alone.",
  "sample_03531.wav": "believing, as the Convention stated in its resolutions, that in so doing the organization serves the highest interest of the country.",
  "sample_03532.wav": "They were also unanimous in the opinion that all service which individuals wished to give to war or peace should be given through groups organized for such purposes.",
  "sample_03533.wav": "for one purpose only, to secure an amendment to the United States Constitution and franchising women. We declared officially through our organ that this held as the policy of the Women's Party, whatever turn public events may take.",
  "sample_03534.wav": "and announced that no subjects would be considered by them unless the President urged them as war measures. Our task was, from that time on, to make national suffrage a war measure. We at once urged upon the Administration the wisdom of accepting this proposed reform as a war measure.",
  "sample_03535.wav": "and pointed out the difficulty of waging a war for democracy abroad while democracy was denied at home. But the government was not willing to profit by the experience of its allies in extending suffrage to women without first offering a terrible and brutal resistance.",
  "sample_03536.wav": "was most perplexing. Here were we, citizens without power and recognition, with the only weapons to which a powerless class which does not take up arms can resort. We could not and would not fight with men's weapons.",
  "sample_03537.wav": "Compare the methods women adopted to those menus in the pursuit of democracy.",
  "sample_03538.wav": "bayonets, machine guns, poison gas, deadly grenades, liquid fire, bombs, armored tanks, pistols, barbed wire entanglements, submarines, mines, every non-scientific device with which to annihilate the enemy.",
  "sample_03539.wav": "What did we do? We continued to fight, with our simple, peaceful, almost quaint device, a banner. A little more fiery, perhaps, pertinent to the latest political controversy, but still only a banner inscribed with militant truth.",
  "sample_03540.wav": "Just as our political strategy had been to oppose, at elections, the party in power, which had failed to use its power to free women, so now our military strategy was based on the military doctrine of concentrating all one's forces on the enemy's weakest point.",
  "sample_03541.wav": "and the denial of democracy at home. This was the untenable position of President Wilson and the Democratic administration from which we must force them to retreat. We could force such a retreat when we had exposed to the world this week as point.",
  "sample_03542.wav": "Just as the bluff of a democratic crusade must be called, so must the night leader of the crusade be exposed to the critical eyes of the world.",
  "sample_03543.wav": "Here was the champion of their democratic aspirations. Here was a kind of universal Moses expected to lead all the peoples out of bondage, no matter what the bondage, no matter of how long standing.",
  "sample_03544.wav": "It was an advantage to us in that it made our attack more dramatic. One supposed to be impeccable was more vulnerable. It was a disadvantage to have to overcome his universal trust and worldwide popularity.",
  "sample_03545.wav": "But this conflict of wits and brains against power only enhanced our ingenuity. On the day the English mission headed by Mr. Balfour and the French mission headed by M. Viviani visited the White House, we took these inscriptions to the picket line.",
  "sample_03546.wav": "In our capacity to embarrass Mr. Wilson and his administration, Lair only hope of success.",
  "sample_03547.wav": "We intended to know why, if democracy were so precious as to demand the nation's blood and treasure for its achievement abroad, its execution at home was so undesirable. Meanwhile\u2014",
  "sample_03548.wav": "I tell you solemnly, ladies and gentlemen, we cannot any longer postpone justice in these United States.",
  "sample_03549.wav": "And if he doesn't listen to my advice, I am going to make it as unpleasant as I can, President Wilson.",
  "sample_03550.wav": "Some rumblings of political action began to be heard. The Democratic majority had appointed a Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage whose members were overwhelmingly for federal action. The chairman, Senator Andreas Jones of New Mexico,",
  "sample_03551.wav": "There were a few stars dying out in the dark west. The atmosphere was clear and when the sun rose I knew he would turn the sable pall overhead into blueness. The hull lay very deep.",
  "sample_03552.wav": "I had at one time during the black hours struck into a mournful calculation and reckoned that the brig would float some 2 or 3 hours after sunrise.",
  "sample_03553.wav": "and a deep of rolling sapphire, I started with sudden terror to observe how close the covering board sat upon the water, and how the head of every swell ran past as high as the bulwark rail.",
  "sample_03554.wav": "Yet for a few moments I stood contemplating the scene of ruin. It was visible now to its most trifling detail. The foremast was gone smooth off at the deck. It lay over the starboard bow.",
  "sample_03555.wav": "One extraordinary stroke I quickly detected. The jolly boat had lain stowed in the long boat. It was thus we carried those boats, the little one lying snugly enough in the other. The sea that had flooded our decks",
  "sample_03556.wav": "had floated the jolly boat out of the longboat and swept it bottom up to the gangway where it lay, as though God's mercy designed it should be preserved for my use. For not long after it had been floated out, the brig struck the berg, the masts fell, and the bridge was broken.",
  "sample_03557.wav": "and there lay the longboat crushed into staves. The signal and surprising intervention filled my heart with thankfulness, though my spirit sank again at the sight of my poor drowned shipmates.",
  "sample_03558.wav": "and so made a tackle, by the help of which I turned the jolly boat over. I then with a hand spike prized her nose to the gangway, secured a bunch of rope on either side her to act as fenders or buffers,",
  "sample_03559.wav": "when she should be launched and lying alongside, ran her midway out by the tackle and, attaching a line to a ring bolt in her bow, shoved her over the side and she fell with a splash, shipping scarce a hat full of water.",
  "sample_03560.wav": "but I met with an oar that had belonged to the other boat, and this, with the mast and sail, I dropped into her, the swell lifting her up to my hand when the blue fold swung past. My next business was to victual her.",
  "sample_03561.wav": "I ran to the cabin, but the lazarette was full of water, and none of the provisions in it to be come at. I thereupon ransacked the cabin and found a whole Dutch cheese, a piece of raw pork, half a ham,",
  "sample_03562.wav": "8 or 10 biscuits, some candles, a tinderbox, several lemons, a little bag of flour and 13 bottles of beer. These things I rolled up in a cloth and placed them in the boat.",
  "sample_03563.wav": "The heavy, sluggish, sodden movement of the hull advised me to make haste. She was now barely lifting to the swell that came brimming in broad liquid blue brows to her stem.",
  "sample_03564.wav": "It seemed as though another ton of water would sink her, and if the swell fell over her bows and filled the decks, down she would go. I had a small parcel of guineas in my chest and was about to fetch this money.",
  "sample_03565.wav": "when a sort of staggering sensation in the upward slide of the hull gave me a fright, and, watching my chance, I jumped into the boat and cast the line that held her adrift. The sun was an hour above the horizon.",
  "sample_03566.wav": "heaving very slowly, though you felt the weight of the mighty ocean in every fold. And eastwards, the shoulder of the swell, catching the glorious reflection of the sun, hurled the splendor along.",
  "sample_03567.wav": "till all that quarter of the sea looked to be a mass of leaping dazzle. Upon the eastern sea-line lay a range of white clouds, compact as the chalk cliffs of Dover.",
  "sample_03568.wav": "shot with pearly luster, floated overhead very high. It was in truth a fair and pleasant morning, of an icy coldness indeed, but the air being dry, its shrewdness was indurable.",
  "sample_03569.wav": "with us, had it dawned yesterday instead of today. My companions would have been alive, and yonder sinking ruined fabric, a trim ship capable of bearing us stoutly into warm seas, and to our homes at last.",
  "sample_03570.wav": "I threw the oar over the stern of the boat to keep her near to the brig, not so much because I desired to see the last of her.",
  "sample_03571.wav": "into those prodigious leagues of ocean which lay stretched under the sky. Whilst the hull floated, she was something to hold on to, so to say, something for the eye amid the vastness of water to rest upon.",
  "sample_03572.wav": "and her main deck blew up with a loud clapper blast of noise. I could follow the line of her bulwarks, fluctuating and waving in the clear dark blue when she was some feet under.",
  "sample_03573.wav": "and what she dragged down with her. On a sudden, when the last fragment of mast had disappeared, and when the hollows of the whirlpools were flattening to the level surface of the sea, up rose a body with a sort of leap.",
  "sample_03574.wav": "It was the sailor that had leaned round on the starboard side of the forward deck. Being frozen stiff, he rose in the posture in which he had expired, that is, with his arms extended.",
  "sample_03575.wav": "so that when he jumped to the surface he came with his hands lifted up to heaven, and thus he stayed a minute, sustained by the eddies which also revolved him. The shock occasioned by this melancholy object was so great",
  "sample_03576.wav": "and such was the state of my mind that imagination might quickly have worked the apparition, had it lingered, into an instrument for the unsettling of my reason. I rose from the seat onto which I had sunk, and loosed the sail.",
  "sample_03577.wav": "hauling the sheet aft put the oar over the stern and brought the little craft's head to an easterly course. The draft of air was extremely weak and scarce furnished impulse enough to the sail to raise a bubble alongside.",
  "sample_03578.wav": "The boat was about 15 feet long.",
  "sample_03579.wav": "ere I could heave a civilized coast or a habitable island into view. At the start I had a mind to steer north-west and blow, as the wind would suffer, into the South Sea.",
  "sample_03580.wav": "Where, perchance, I might meet a whaler or a south seaman from New Holland, but my heart sank at the prospect of the leagues of water which rolled between me and the islands and the western American seaboard. Indeed,",
  "sample_03581.wav": "We had breakfast in the tavern kitchen.",
  "sample_03582.wav": "was a short, smooth-faced, voluble, overgrown boy sort of man. The mother was dumpy, coarse, and good-natured. They had a greasy, easy-tempered daughter of eighteen, with a frowsy head and a face like a full moon.",
  "sample_03583.wav": "while the heir of the household, somewhat younger, was a gaping, grinning youth of the Simple Simon order, who shoveled mashed potatoes into his mouth alternately with knife and fork, and took bites of bread large enough for a ravenous dog.",
  "sample_03584.wav": "The old grandmother with a face like parchment and one gleaming eye sat in a low rocking chair by the stove, crooning over a corn cob pipe and using the wood box for a cuspidor. She had a vinegary, slangy tongue.",
  "sample_03585.wav": "and being somewhat deaf, would break in upon the conversation with remarks sharper than they were pat. With our host a glib and rapid talker in a swaggering tone, one could not but be much amused",
  "sample_03586.wav": "as he exhibited a degree of self-appreciation that was decidedly refreshing. He had been a veteran in the war of the rebellion, he proudly assured us, and pointed with his knife to his discharge paper, which was hung up in an old-looking glass frame.",
  "sample_03587.wav": "by the side of the clock. Jemun, he invariably thus addressed us as though we were a coterie of checker players at a village grocery. Jemun, when I seen how them Johnny Rebs was a-usin' our boys in them prison pens.",
  "sample_03588.wav": "Joe, my boy, you go now and do something for your country. A crack shot like you is, Joe says I to myself, as can hit a duck on the wing every time and no mistake.",
  "sample_03589.wav": "And so I jined, and I stuck her out, Jemmin, till the thing was done. They ain't no coward bout me.",
  "sample_03590.wav": "Now, he says, hold on a minute, you didn't have shakes before the war? Says he. Not as much, I says, not knowing what the feller was driving at. But some. I was a kid then, and kids don't shake much, says I.",
  "sample_03591.wav": "Well, Jim, and sure enough, when I came to think things over and talk it up with the doctor chap, I loathe he was right. Then he let on he was a claim agent, and I let him try his hand on working up a pension for me.",
  "sample_03592.wav": "and I don't know what my show is, but I ought to have a pension and no mistake, Jemmin. They want no fellers did harder work than me in the war if I do say it myself.\" W ventured to ask what battles our host had been in.",
  "sample_03593.wav": "What I wanted was to get a bead on old Wade himself, and if I do say it myself the old man would have hunted his hole, Jemmin. When I get a sight on a duck, Jemmin, that duck's mine and no mistake.",
  "sample_03594.wav": "And if I had sighted Wade Hampton, then good-bye Wade. I told the captain what I wanted, but he said as how I was more use at taking care of the supplies. That captain had no enterprise about him.",
  "sample_03595.wav": "There was heaps of blood spilled unnecessary by us boys of fighting to save the old flag.",
  "sample_03596.wav": "I said to our landlord, by way of helping along the conversation. There was a momentary silence broken by Simple Simon, who wiped his knife on his tongue, and made a wild attack on the butter dish. Bah, he drove a mule team for government.",
  "sample_03597.wav": "with a big ammunition wagon on behind?",
  "sample_03598.wav": "This sudden revelation of the strength that the veterans claimed a glory and a pension put a damper upon his reminiscences of the war, and giving the innocent Simon a savage",
  "sample_03599.wav": "He soon contrived to turn the conversation upon his wonderful exploits in duck-shooting and fishing, industries in the pursuit of which he, with so many of his fellow farmers on the bottoms, appeared to be more eager than in tilling the soil.",
  "sample_03600.wav": "It was quite evident that the breakfast we were eating was a special spread in honor of probably the only guests the Quantum Tavern had had these many months. Canoists must not be too particular about the fare set before them, but on this occasion...",
  "sample_03601.wav": "We were able to swallow but a few mouthfuls of the repast, and our lunch basket was drawn on as soon as we were once more afloat. It is a great pity that so many farmers' wives are the wretched cooks they are.",
  "sample_03602.wav": "With an abundance of good materials already about them, and rare opportunities for readily acquiring more, tens of thousands of rural dames do manage to prepare astonishingly inedible meals.",
  "sample_03603.wav": "sour, doughy bread, potatoes which if boiled are but half cooked, and if mashed are floated with abominable butter or pasty flour gravy, salt pork either swimming in a bowl of grease or fried to a leathery chip.",
  "sample_03604.wav": "Tea and coffee extremely weak or strong enough to kill an ox, as chance may dictate, and inevitably adulterated beyond recognition.",
  "sample_03605.wav": "Eggs that are spoiled by being fried to the consistency of rubber in a pan of fat deep enough to float donuts While the biscuits are yellow and bitter with celeratus This bill of fare warranted to destroy the best of appetites",
  "sample_03606.wav": "will be recognized by too many of my readers as that to be found at the average American farmhouse. Although we all doubtless know of some magnificent exceptions which only prove the rule, we establish public cooking schools in our cities.",
  "sample_03607.wav": "and economists like Edward Atkinson and hygienists like the late D.O. Lewis assiduously explained to the metropolitan poor their processes of making a tempting meal out of nothing.",
  "sample_03608.wav": "But our most crying need in this country today is a training school for rural housewives, where they may be taught to evolve a respectable and economical spread out of the great abundance with which they are surrounded.",
  "sample_03609.wav": "It is no wonder that country boys drift to the cities, where they can obtain properly cooked food and live like rational beings. The river continues to widen as we approach the junction with the Mississippi, 39 miles below Erie.",
  "sample_03610.wav": "and to assume the characteristics of the great river into which it pours its flood. The islands increase in number and in size, some of them being over a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth.",
  "sample_03611.wav": "At first he saw nothing reprehensible in this, but in the second year of his marriage his view of that form of punishment suddenly changed. Once in summer he had sent for the village elder, Fumboguchirovo, to the village elder",
  "sample_03612.wav": "a man who had succeeded to the post when drone died and who was accused of dishonesty and various irregularities. Nicholas went out into the porch to question him, and immediately after the elder had given a few replies the sound of cries and blows were heard.",
  "sample_03613.wav": "On returning to lunch, Nicholas went up to his wife, who sat with her head bent low over her embroidery frame, and as usual began to tell her what he had been doing that morning. Among other things he spoke of the Bogucherovo elder. Countess Mary turned red, and then pale.",
  "sample_03614.wav": "Such an insolent scoundrel, he cried, growing hot again at the mere recollection of him, if he had told me that he was drunk and did not see. But what is the matter with you, Mary?\" he suddenly asked.",
  "sample_03615.wav": "Why, whatever is the matter, my dearest? The looks of the plain Countess Mary always improved when she was in tears. She never cried from pain or vexation, but always from sorrow or pity. And when she wept, her radiant eyes acquired an irresistible charm.",
  "sample_03616.wav": "The moment Nicholas took her hand she could no longer restrain herself and began to cry. Nicholas, I saw it. He was to blame. But why do you\u2014 Nicholas. And she covered her face with her hands. Nicholas said nothing. He flushed Crimson, left her side, and paced up and down the room.",
  "sample_03617.wav": "He understood what she was weeping about, but could not in his heart at once agree with her that what he had regarded from childhood as quite an everyday event was wrong. Is it just sentimentality? Old wives' tales? Or is she right? He asked himself.",
  "sample_03618.wav": "Mary, he said softly, going up to her, It will never happen again. I give you my word. Never. He repeated in a trembling voice, like a boy asking for forgiveness.",
  "sample_03619.wav": "She took his hand and kissed it. Nicholas, when did you break your cameo? She asked to change the subject, looking at his finger on which he wore a ring with a cameo of Laukun's head. Today. It was the same affair. Oh, Mary, don't remind me of it. And again he flushed.",
  "sample_03620.wav": "I give you my word of honor at Shantakur again, and let this always be a reminder to me.\" And he pointed to the broken ring. After that, when in discussions with his village elders or stewards, the blood rushed to his face and his fists began to clench.",
  "sample_03621.wav": "Nicholas would turn the broken ring on his finger and would drop his eyes before the man who was making him angry. But he did forget himself once or twice within a twelve month, and then he would go and confess to his wife and would again promise that this should really be the very last time.",
  "sample_03622.wav": "Mary, you must despise me, he would say. I deserve it. You should go. Go away at once if you don't feel strong enough to control yourself, she would reply sadly, trying to comfort her husband. Among the gentry of the province, Nicholas was respected but not liked.",
  "sample_03623.wav": "He did not concern himself with the interests of his own class, and consequently some thought him proud and others thought him stupid. The whole summer, from spring sowing to harvest, he was busy with the work on his farm. In autumn he gave himself up to hunting with the same business-like seriousness.",
  "sample_03624.wav": "leaving home for a month or even two with his hunt. In winter he visited his other villages or spent his time reading. The books he read were chiefly historical and on these he spent a certain sum every year.",
  "sample_03625.wav": "reading, a task he first imposed upon himself as a duty, but which afterwards became a habit affording him a special kind of pleasure and a consciousness of being occupied with serious matters.",
  "sample_03626.wav": "In winter, except for business excursions, he spent most of his time at home making himself one with his family and entering into all the details of his children's relations with their mother. The harmony between him and his wife grew closer and closer.",
  "sample_03627.wav": "and he daily discovered fresh spiritual treasures in her. From the time of his marriage, Sonia had lived in his house. Before that, Nicholas had told his wife all that had passed between himself and Sonia, blaming himself and commending her.",
  "sample_03628.wav": "He had asked Princess Mary to be gentle and kind to his cousin. She thoroughly realized the wrong he had done Sonia, felt herself to blame toward her, and imagined that her wealth had influenced Nicholas's choice.",
  "sample_03629.wav": "but often felt ill will toward her which she could not overcome. Once she had a talk with her friend Natasha about Sonia and about her own injustice toward her. You know said Natasha, you have read the Gospels a great deal. There is a passage in them that just fits Sonia. What? asked Countess Mary surprised.",
  "sample_03630.wav": "To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away. You remember, she is one that hath not. Why? I don't know. Perhaps she lacks egotism. I don't know, but from her is taken away and everything has been taken away.",
  "sample_03631.wav": "She is a sterile flower, you know, like some strawberry blossoms.",
  "sample_03632.wav": "Though Countess Mary told Natasha that those words in the gospel must be understood differently, yet looking at Sonia she agreed with Natasha's explanation.",
  "sample_03633.wav": "and had grown quite reconciled to her lot as a sterile flower. She seemed to be fond not so much of individuals as of the family as a whole. Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people, but to the home.",
  "sample_03634.wav": "She waited on the old countess, petted and spoiled the children, was always ready to render the small services for which she had a gift, and all this was unconsciously accepted from her, with insufficient gratitude. The country seat at Bald Hills had been rebuilt, though not on the same scale as under the old prince.",
  "sample_03635.wav": "The buildings, begun under strange circumstances, were more than simple. The immense house on the old stone foundations was of wood, plastered only inside. It had bare-deal floors and was furnished with very simple hard sofas, armchairs, tables, and chairs.",
  "sample_03636.wav": "made by their own surf carpenters out of their own birch wood. The house was spacious and had rooms for the house surfs and apartments for visitors. Whole families of the Rostovs and Bulkanskys relations sometimes came to Bald Hills with sixteen horses and dozens of servants and stayed for months.",
  "sample_03637.wav": "At the end of January, Pierre went to Moscow and stayed in an annex of his house which had not been burned. He called on Count Rustopchin and on some acquaintances who were back in Moscow, and he intended to leave for Petersburg two days later.",
  "sample_03638.wav": "Everybody was celebrating the victory. Everything was bubbling with life in the ruined but reviving city. Everyone was pleased to see Pierre. Everyone wished to meet him. And everyone questioned him about what he had seen. Pierre felt particularly well disposed toward them all.",
  "sample_03639.wav": "but was now instinctively on his guard for fear of binding himself in any way. To all questions put to him, whether important or quite trifling, such as, where would he live? Was he going to rebuild? When was he going to Petersburg?",
  "sample_03640.wav": "And would he mind taking a parcel for someone? He replied, Yes, perhaps. Or I think so. And so on. He had heard that the Rostovs were at Kostroma, but the thought of Natasha seldom occurred to him.",
  "sample_03641.wav": "Chapter 23 It was eight o'clock when we landed. We walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn.",
  "sample_03642.wav": "The wind, which had followed in the south, now rose with great violence in the west. The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend.",
  "sample_03643.wav": "The clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves.",
  "sample_03644.wav": "that were beginning to rise. Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended. I had been calm during the day, but so soon as night obscured the shapes of objects,",
  "sample_03645.wav": "and not shrink from the conflict until my own life, or that of my adversary, was extinguished. Elizabeth observed my agitation for some time in timid and fearful silence.",
  "sample_03646.wav": "When suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired. As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind. My arms dropped. The motion of every muscle and fiber was suspended.",
  "sample_03647.wav": "I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs. The state lasted but for an instant.",
  "sample_03648.wav": "Great God, why did I not then expire? Why am I here to relate the destruction of the best hope?",
  "sample_03649.wav": "She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features, half covered by her hair. Everywhere I turn I see the same figure, her bloodless arms in relaxed form.",
  "sample_03650.wav": "flung by the murderer on its bridle-brier. Could I behold this and live? Alas, life is obstinate and clings closest, where it is most hated.",
  "sample_03651.wav": "But the horror of others appeared only as a mockery, a shadow of the feelings that oppressed me. I escaped from them.",
  "sample_03652.wav": "to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy. She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her.",
  "sample_03653.wav": "But the deadly languor and coldness of the limbs told me That what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished Their murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck",
  "sample_03654.wav": "and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber. The shutters had been thrown back, and with a sensation of horror not to be described.",
  "sample_03655.wav": "I saw at the open window a figure the most hideous and abhorred. A grin was on the face of the monster. He seemed to jeer as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.",
  "sample_03656.wav": "But he eluded me, leapt from his station and running with the swiftness of lightning plunged into the lake. The report of the pistol brought a crowd into the room.",
  "sample_03657.wav": "Nets were cast but in vain. After passing several hours, we returned, hopeless.",
  "sample_03658.wav": "After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines. I attempted to accompany them and proceed the short distance from the house.",
  "sample_03659.wav": "A film covered my eyes and my skin was parched with the heat of fever. In this state I was carried back and placed on a bed, hardly conscious of what had happened. My eyes wandered round the room.",
  "sample_03660.wav": "as if to seek something that I had lost. After an interval I rose and, as if by instinct, crawled into the room where the corpse of my beloved lay. There were women weeping around. I hung over it.",
  "sample_03661.wav": "and joined my sad tears to theirs. All this time no distinct idea presented itself to my mind.",
  "sample_03662.wav": "subjects reflecting confusedly on my misfortunes and their cause. I was bewildered in a cloud of wonder and horror. The death of William, the execution of Justine.",
  "sample_03663.wav": "the murder of Clairvaux, and lastly of my wife. Even at that moment, I knew not that my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the Fiend.",
  "sample_03664.wav": "My father, even now, might be writhing under his grasp, And Ernest might be dead at his feet. This idea made me shudder, and recalled me to action.",
  "sample_03665.wav": "There were no horses to be procured, and I must return by the lake. But the wind was unfavorable, and the rain fell in torrents.",
  "sample_03666.wav": "However, it was hardly morning, and I might reasonably hope to arrive by night.",
  "sample_03667.wav": "But nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness. No creature had ever been so miserable as I was, so frightful an event as single in the history of man.",
  "sample_03668.wav": "But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event? Mine has been a tale of horrors. I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate\u2014",
  "sample_03669.wav": "Know that one by one my friends were snatched away. I was left desolate. My own strength is exhausted.",
  "sample_03670.wav": "and I must tell in a few words what remains of my hideous narration. I arrived at Geneva. My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore.",
  "sample_03671.wav": "The young party at Roseland's had now grown so large, several additions having been made to it on Monday afternoon and evening, that a separate table was ordered to be spread for them in the nursery, where they took their meals together.",
  "sample_03672.wav": "Mrs. Brown, the housekeeper, taking the head of the table, for the double purpose of keeping them in order and seeing that their wants were well supplied. Elsie came into breakfast from a brisk walk with her papa, looking fresh and rosy and bright as the morning.",
  "sample_03673.wav": "quite different from some of the little guests, who had been up far beyond their usual hours the night before, and, having just left their beds, had come down pale and languid in looks, and in some instances showing peevish and fretful tempers.",
  "sample_03674.wav": "very trying to the patience of their attendance. Oh, Elsie! exclaimed Carrie Howard.",
  "sample_03675.wav": "We were all so sorry that you had to leave us so soon last night. We had lots of fun after you left. I think your papa might have let you stay up a little longer but he has promised that tonight, as we are to have the Christmas tree, and ever so much will be going on, we'll going on.",
  "sample_03676.wav": "Late hours and rich food are very bad for little folks, and I notice that Miss Elsie has grown a deal stronger and healthier-looking since her Papa came home. He takes such good care of her.\" \"'Indeed he does,' said Elsie heartily, thanking Mrs. Brown with one of her sweetest smiles.\"",
  "sample_03677.wav": "Whatever you all prefer,\" said Elsie. If you like, I will practice that duet with you the first hour after breakfast, or do anything else you wish, but the second hour I must spend with Papa, and after that I have nothing to do but entertain my company all day.",
  "sample_03678.wav": "Do you do lessons in holidays?\" asked Mary Leslie, a merry, fun-loving child about Elsie's own age, who considered lessons an intolerable bore, and had some vague idea that they must have been invented for the sole purpose of tormenting children.",
  "sample_03679.wav": "Her blue eyes opened wide with astonishment when Elsie quietly replied that her papa had kindly arranged to give her an hour every morning.",
  "sample_03680.wav": "then spending the whole day in play. Elsie did keenly enjoy that quiet hour spent in studying and reciting to her father, sitting on a low stool at his feet, or perhaps oftener on his knee, with his arm around her waist.",
  "sample_03681.wav": "loving also his little pupil with all of father's fond yearning affection, delighted in his task. When Elsie left her father, she found that the Carringtons had just arrived.",
  "sample_03682.wav": "She and Lucy had not seen each other since the week the latter had spent at Roseland's early in the summer, and both felt pleased to meet. Mrs. Carrington gave Elsie a warm embrace, remarking that she had grown, and was looking extremely well, better than she had ever seen her.",
  "sample_03683.wav": "But no one was more delighted to meet Elsie than Herbert, and she was very glad to learn that his health was gradually improving. He was not, however, at all strong, even yet, and his mother thought it best for him to lie down and rest a little after his ride.",
  "sample_03684.wav": "A variety of story books, toys, and games had been provided for their amusement. Elsie's entrance was hailed with delight, for she was a general favorite. Oh, Elsie, can't you tell us what to play? cried Mary Leslie. I'm so tired.",
  "sample_03685.wav": "and she yawned wearily. \"'Here are some dissected maps, Mary,' replied Elsie, opening a drawer. \"'Would you not like them?' \"'No, indeed, thank you. They are too much like lessons.'",
  "sample_03686.wav": "Will you play jackstones? Here are some smooth pebbles.\" \"'Yes, if you and Carrie and Lucy will play with me.' \"'Agreed,' said the others. Let's have a game.' So Elsie having first set the little ones to building block houses,",
  "sample_03687.wav": "supplied Harry Carrington, an older brother of Lucy's, with a book, and two younger boys with dissected maps to arrange, the four girls sat down in a circle on the carpet and began their game. For a few moments all went on smoothly.",
  "sample_03688.wav": "who was sobbing and wiping her eyes with the corner of her apron. \"'Anna took my blocks!' sobbed the child.\"",
  "sample_03689.wav": "You know Flora is a visitor, and we must be very polite to her.\" \"'No, I won't,' returned Anna flatly. \"'She's got enough now.' \"'No, I haven't. I can't build a house with those,' Flora said, with another sob.",
  "sample_03690.wav": "Elsie stood a moment, looking much perplexed, then, with a brightening face, exclaimed in her cheerful, pleasant way, Well, never mind, Flora dear, I will get you my doll.",
  "sample_03691.wav": "The little weeper answered eagerly, smiling through her tears. Elsie ran out of the room and was back again almost in a moment with the doll in her arms. There, dear little Flora, she said, laying it gently on the child's lap.",
  "sample_03692.wav": "Please be careful of it, for I have had it a long while, and prize it very much, because my guardian gave it to me when I was a very little girl, and he is dead now.\" I won't break it, Elsie. Indeed I won't, replied Flora confidently.",
  "sample_03693.wav": "and Elsie sat down to her game again. A few moments afterward Mr. Horace Dinsmore passed through the room. Elsie, he said, as he caught sight of his little daughter, go up to my dressing-room. There was evidently displeasure and reproof in his tone, and he was not able to speak. He was not able to speak, and he was not able to speak. He was not able to speak, and he was not able to speak. He was not able to speak, and he was not able to speak.",
  "sample_03694.wav": "Mr. Dinsmore passed out of one door while Elsie left by the other. The three little girls looked inquiringly into each other's faces. What is the matter? What has Elsie done? asked Carrie in a whisper. I don't know.",
  "sample_03695.wav": "\"'Nothing, I guess,' replied Lucy indignantly. \"'I do believe he's just the crossest man alive. When I was here last summer he was all the time scolding and punishing poor Elsie for just nothing at all.' \"'I think he must be very strict,' said Carrie.",
  "sample_03696.wav": "and that was the conclusion they all came to. In the meantime, Elsie sat down alone in her banishment and tried to think what she could have done to deserve it. It was some time before she could form any idea of its cause.",
  "sample_03697.wav": "But at length it suddenly came to her recollection that once, several months before this, her father had found her sitting on the carpet, and had bade her get up immediately and sit on a chair or stool, saying, Never let me see you sitting on the floor, Elsie.",
  "sample_03698.wav": "when there are plenty of seats at hand, I consider it a very unladylike and slovenly trick. She covered her face with her hands, and sat thus for some moments, feeling very sorry for her forgetfulness and disobedience, very penitent on account of it, and, as she was",
  "sample_03699.wav": "and then kneeling down she asked forgiveness of God. A full hour she had been there alone and the time had seemed very long when at last the door opened and her father came in. Elsie rose and came forward to meet him",
  "sample_03700.wav": "with the air of one who had offended, and knew she was in disgrace. But putting one of her little hands in his, she looked up pleadingly into his face, asking, in a slightly tremulous tone, Dear Papa, are you angry with me?",
  "sample_03701.wav": "I know no way in which a writer may more fittingly introduce his work to the public than by giving a brief account of who and what he is. By this means, some of the blame for what he has done is very properly shifted to the extenuating circumstances of his life.",
  "sample_03702.wav": "My parents migrated to Canada in 1876 and I decided to go with them. My father took up a farm near Lake Simcoe in Ontario. This was during the hard times of Canadian farming.",
  "sample_03703.wav": "and my father was just able by great diligence to pay the hired men, and in years of plenty, to raise enough grain to have seed for the next year's crop without buying any. By this process my brothers and I were inevitably driven off the land.",
  "sample_03704.wav": "that is induced by honest manual toil. I was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, of which I was head boy in 1887. From there I went to the University of Toronto, where I graduated in 1891.",
  "sample_03705.wav": "At the university I spent my entire time in the acquisition of languages, living, dead, and half-dead, and knew nothing of the outside world. In this diligent pursuit of words I spent about 16 hours of each day.",
  "sample_03706.wav": "In other words, I was what is called a distinguished graduate, and as such I took to school teaching as the only trait I could find that need neither experience nor intellect. I spent my time from 1891 to 1899 on the staff of Upper Canada College.",
  "sample_03707.wav": "An experience which has left me with a profound sympathy for the many gifted and brilliant men who are compelled to spend their lives in the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world.",
  "sample_03708.wav": "And by means of this and some temporary employment by McGill University, I survived until I took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1903. The meaning of this degree is that the recipient of instruction is examined for the last time in his life and is pronounced completely full.",
  "sample_03709.wav": "After this, no new ideas can be imparted to him. From this time and since my marriage, which had occurred at this period, I have belonged to the staff of McGill University, first as lecturer in political science and later as head of the department of economics and political science.",
  "sample_03710.wav": "I am able to regard myself as singularly fortunate. The emolument is so high as to place me distinctly above the policemen, postmen, streetcar conductors and other salaried officials of the neighborhood.",
  "sample_03711.wav": "While I am able to mix with the poorer of the businessmen of the city on terms of something like equality. In point of leisure I enjoy more in the four corners of a single year than a businessman knows in his whole life. I thus have what the businessman can never enjoy.",
  "sample_03712.wav": "ability to think and what is still better to stop thinking altogether for months at a time. I have written a number of things in connection with my college life, a book on political science and many essays, magazine articles and so on.",
  "sample_03713.wav": "A few years ago I went all around the British Empire delivering addresses on imperial organization. When I state that these lectures were followed almost immediately by the Union of South Africa, the Banana Riots in Trinidad, and the Turco-Italian War.",
  "sample_03714.wav": "nor to construct even the smallest section of the transcontinental railway. This, however, is a form of national ingratitude to which one becomes accustomed in this dominion. Apart from my college work, I have written two books, one called Literary Lapses,",
  "sample_03715.wav": "and the other nonsense novels. Each of these is published by John Lane, London and New York, and either of them can be obtained, absurd though it sounds, for the mere sum of three Schelling's and sixpence. Any reader of this preface, for example, ridiculous though it appears.",
  "sample_03716.wav": "could walk into a bookstore and buy both of these books for seven shillings. Yet these works are of so humorous a character that for many years it was found impossible to print them. The compositors fell back from their tasks suffocated with laughter and gasping for air.",
  "sample_03717.wav": "Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perform the serious labors of the economist. My own experience is exactly the other way.",
  "sample_03718.wav": "But to write something out of one's own mind worth reading for its own sake is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between.",
  "sample_03719.wav": "In regard to the present work, I must disclaim at once all intentions of trying to do anything so ridiculously easy as writing about a real place and real people. Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about 70 or 80 of them.",
  "sample_03720.wav": "You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets, and the same maple trees, and the same churches and hotels, and everywhere the sunshine of the land of hope. Similarly, the Reverend Mr. Drone is not one person, but about eight or ten.",
  "sample_03721.wav": "To make him, I clapped the gators of one ecclesiastic round the legs of another, added the sermons of a third and the character of a fourth, and so let him start on his way in the book to pick up such individual attributes as he might find for himself.",
  "sample_03722.wav": "Mullins and Bagshaw and Judge Pepperly and the rest are, it is true, personal friends of mine. But I have known them in such a variety of forms, with such alternations of tall and short, dark and fair, that individually I should have much to do to know them.",
  "sample_03723.wav": "and needs a teller. As for Mr. Smith with his 280 pounds, his horse voice, his loud check suit,",
  "sample_03724.wav": "All of this is known by everybody to be a necessary and universal adjunct to the hotel business. The inspiration of the book.",
  "sample_03725.wav": "A land of hope and sunshine where little towns spread their square streets and their trim maple trees beside placid lakes almost within echo of the primeval forest, is large enough.",
  "sample_03726.wav": "The fault lies rather with an art that is deficient than in an affection that is wanting.",
  "sample_03727.wav": "It was not until the mining boom, at the time when everybody went simply crazy over the cobalt and porcupine mines of the new silver country near the Hudson Bay,",
  "sample_03728.wav": "there were always people going in and out of the barbershop. Mullins, the manager of the exchange bank, took his morning shave from Jeff as a form of resuscitation, with enough wet towels laid on his face to stew him, and with Jeff moving about in the steam, razor in hand.",
  "sample_03729.wav": "as grave as an operating surgeon. Then as I think I said Mr. Smith came in every morning and there was a tremendous outpouring of Florida water and rums, essences and revivers and renovators regardless of expense.",
  "sample_03730.wav": "What with Jeff's white coat and Mr. Smith's flowered waistcoat and the red geranium in the window and the Florida water and the double extract of hyacinth, the little shops seem multicolored and luxurious enough for the annex of a sultan's harem. But what I mean is that...",
  "sample_03731.wav": "The people march. He became aware of someone urging a glass of clear fluid upon his attention, looked up, and discovered this was a dark young man in a yellow garment. He took the dose forthwith, and in a moment he was glowing.",
  "sample_03732.wav": "A tall man in a black robe stood by his shoulder and pointed to the half-open door into the hall. This man was shouting close to his ear, and yet what was said was indistinct because of the tremendous uproar from the great theater.",
  "sample_03733.wav": "Behind the man was a girl in a silvery gray robe, whom Graham, even in this confusion, perceived to be beautiful. Her dark eyes, full of wonder and curiosity, were fixed on him. Her lips trembled apart.",
  "sample_03734.wav": "A partially opened door gave a glimpse of the crowded hall, and admitted a vast uneven tumult, a hammering clapping and shouting that died away and began again, and rose to a thunderous pitch.",
  "sample_03735.wav": "and so continued intermittently all the time that Gram remained in the little room. He watched the lips of the man in black, and gathered that he was making some explanation. He stared stupidly for some moments at these things, and then stood up abruptly.",
  "sample_03736.wav": "He grasped the arm of this shouting person. Tell me, he cried, who am I? Who am I? The others came nearer to hear his words.",
  "sample_03737.wav": "His eyes searched their faces. They have told him nothing, cried the girl. Tell me, tell me, cried Graham. You are the master of the earth. You are owner of the world.",
  "sample_03738.wav": "He did not believe he heard a right. He resisted the persuasion. He pretended not to understand, not to hear. He lifted his voice again. I've been awake three days, a prisoner, three days.",
  "sample_03739.wav": "It is London.\" \"'Yes,' said the younger man. \"'And those who meet in the Great Hall with the White Atlas, how does it concern me?'",
  "sample_03740.wav": "counselors under the Atlas. Why should they try to drug me?\" To keep you insensible, said the man in yellow, to prevent your interference.",
  "sample_03741.wav": "\"'Because you are the Atlas, sire,' said the man in yellow. \"'The world is on your shoulders. They rule it in your name.'\" The sounds from the hall had died into a silence.",
  "sample_03742.wav": "Threaded by one monotonous voice. Now suddenly, trampling on these last words, came a deafening tumult, Aroaring and thundering, cheer, crowded on cheer, Voices hoarse and shrill, beating, overlapping, and while it lasted,",
  "sample_03743.wav": "The people in the little room could not hear each other's shout. Graham stood, his intelligence clinging helplessly to the thing he had just heard. The Council? He repeated blankly, and then snatched at a name that had struck him.",
  "sample_03744.wav": "But who is Ostrog?\" he said.",
  "sample_03745.wav": "our leader in your name. In my name.",
  "sample_03746.wav": "Why is he not here? He has deputed us. I am his brother, his half-brother, Lincoln. He wants you to show yourself to these people and then come on to him. That is why he has sent...",
  "sample_03747.wav": "He's at the wind vane offices directing the people are marching in your name shouted the younger man They have ruled crushed tyrannized at last even in my name my name master",
  "sample_03748.wav": "The young man suddenly became audible in a pause of the outer thunder",
  "sample_03749.wav": "No one expected you to wake. They were cunning. Damn tyrants! But they were taken by surprise. They did not know whether to drug you, hypnotize you, kill you. Again, the hall dominated everything. Ostrog is at the Windvane offices, ready.",
  "sample_03750.wav": "Even now, there's a rumor of fighting beginning. The man who had called himself Lincoln came close to him. Ostrog has it planned. Trust him. We have our organizations ready. We shall seize the flying stages.",
  "sample_03751.wav": "Even now he may be doing that. Then... This public theater, balled the man in yellow, it's only a contingent. We have five myriads of drilled men. We have arms, cried Lincoln. We have plans, a leader.",
  "sample_03752.wav": "masked in the... inaudible. It is now or never, the Council is rocking, they cannot trust even their drilled men. Hear the people calling to you!\" Graham's mind was like a night of moon and swift clouds.",
  "sample_03753.wav": "Now dark and hopeless, now clear and ghastly, he was master of the earth. He was a man sodden with thawing snow. Of all his fluctuating impressions, the dominant ones presented an antagonism.",
  "sample_03754.wav": "On the one hand was the White Council. Powerful, disciplined, few.",
  "sample_03755.wav": "Monstrous crowds, packed masses of indistinguishable people clamoring his name, hailing him master. The other side had imprisoned him, debated his death. These shouting thousands beyond the little doorway had rescued him.",
  "sample_03756.wav": "But why these things should be so, he could not understand. The door opened. Lincoln's voice was swept away and drowned, and a rash of people followed on the heels of the tumult. These intruders came towards him.",
  "sample_03757.wav": "Lincoln, gesticulating, the voices without explained their soundless lips. Show us the sleeper, show us the sleeper, was the burden of the uproar. Men were bawling for order! Silence!",
  "sample_03758.wav": "A waving, incessant confusion of crowded, shouting faces, men and women together, waving pale blue garments, extended hands. Many were standing, one man in rags of dark brown, a gaunt figure, stood on the seat and waved a black cloth.",
  "sample_03759.wav": "He met the wonder and expectation of the girl's eyes. What did these people expect from him? He was dimly aware that the tumult outside had changed its character, was in some way beating, marching. His own mind, too, changed.",
  "sample_03760.wav": "but a moment that was near to panic passed. He tried to make audible inquiries of",
  "sample_03761.wav": "The following day was the 3rd of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on the horizon of Paris, in the state of lightning-charged clouds.",
  "sample_03762.wav": "which she had not yet done. Up to that time she had contented herself with watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted to address him.",
  "sample_03763.wav": "So Eponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact.",
  "sample_03764.wav": "and readily recognized the one which Marius had moved.",
  "sample_03765.wav": "None of that, Lissette. She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the bar as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where the railing touched the neighbouring wall. There was a dim nook there.",
  "sample_03766.wav": "She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without breathing, a prey to her thoughts.",
  "sample_03767.wav": "an old, belated bourgeois who was making haste to escape from this",
  "sample_03768.wav": "as he skirted the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, heard a dull and threatening voice saying, I am no longer surprised that he comes here every evening.",
  "sample_03769.wav": "six men who were marching separately and at some distance from each other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a great patrol.",
  "sample_03770.wav": "The first to arrive at the garden railing halted and waited for the others.",
  "sample_03771.wav": "grasping each bar in succession and shaking them cautiously. Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, fell upon his arm.",
  "sample_03772.wav": "He felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not loudly, There's a dog.",
  "sample_03773.wav": "The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He bristled up and hideous-wise. Nothing is so formidable to behold as ferocious beasts who are uneasy. Their terrified air evokes terror.",
  "sample_03774.wav": "Brugon, and Montparnasse, had noiselessly drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with a sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands.",
  "sample_03775.wav": "which prowlers call fensions. Ah! See here! What are you about there?",
  "sample_03776.wav": "and threw herself on his neck. I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to sit on the stones nowadays?",
  "sample_03777.wav": "There's nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father. It's a long time since I've seen you. So you're out?\" The Nardier tried to disentangle himself from Eponine's arms and grumbled, That's good.",
  "sample_03778.wav": "Then Artier replied, \"'She's well, I don't know. Let me alone and be off, I tell you.' I won't go. So there now.\"",
  "sample_03779.wav": "small, bony and feeble as that of a skeleton.",
  "sample_03780.wav": "You know well that I am no fool.",
  "sample_03781.wav": "I have rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries. You will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that there is nothing in this house.\" There are lone women, said Goumer.",
  "sample_03782.wav": "who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. Eponine made a final effort. Well,\" said she, they're very poor folks.",
  "sample_03783.wav": "cried Denardier. When we've turned the house upside down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell you what there is inside and whether it's Franks or Sioux or half-farthings.\"",
  "sample_03784.wav": "And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. My good friend Mr. Montparnasse, said Eponine. I entreat you. You are a good fellow. Don't enter.",
  "sample_03785.wav": "Take care, you'll cut yourself,\" replied Montparnasse. The Nardier resumed in his decided tone, Decap, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs.",
  "sample_03786.wav": "The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. She went on. Friends, listen well. This is not what you want.",
  "sample_03787.wav": "If you lay a hand on this gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police.\" She'd do it too.",
  "sample_03788.wav": "You don't frighten me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house because it doesn't suit me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me!",
  "sample_03789.wav": "Parteen, I am not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men?",
  "sample_03790.wav": "She fastened her intent gaze upon Thonardier and said, \"'Not even you, father!' Then she continued, as she cast her bloodshot, specterlike eyes upon the ruffians in turn.",
  "sample_03791.wav": "Chapter 18 Chained in Warhoon It must have been several hours before I regained consciousness.",
  "sample_03792.wav": "and bending over me was an ancient and ugly female. As I opened my eyes she turned to one of the warriors, saying, \"'He will live, O Jed.'\" \"'Tis well,\" replied the one so addressed.",
  "sample_03793.wav": "rising and approaching my couch. He should render rare sport for the great games. And now, as my eyes fell upon him, I saw that he was no thark, for his ornaments and metal were not of that horde.",
  "sample_03794.wav": "He was a huge fellow, terribly scarred about the face and chest, and with one broken tusk and a missing ear.",
  "sample_03795.wav": "and depending from these a number of dried human hands. His reference to the great games of which I had heard so much while among the Tharks convinced me that I had but jumped from Purgatory into Gehenna.",
  "sample_03796.wav": "After a few more words with the female, during which she assured him that I was now fully fit to travel, the Jud ordered that we mount and ride after the main column.",
  "sample_03797.wav": "I was strapped securely to as wild and unmanageable a thoat as I had ever seen, and, with a mounted warrior on either side to prevent the beast from bolting.",
  "sample_03798.wav": "We rode forth at a furious pace in pursuit of the column. My wounds gave me but little pain, so wonderfully and rapidly had the applications and injections of the female exercise their therapeutic powers.",
  "sample_03799.wav": "who proved to be the jeddak of the hordes of warhoon. Like the jedd who had brought me, he was frightfully scarred, and also decorated with a breastplate of human skulls and dried dead hands.",
  "sample_03800.wav": "which seemed to mark all the greater warriors among the war-hoons, as well as to indicate their awful ferocity, which greatly transcends even that of the Tharks. To Jeddak, Barcomus, who was comparatively young.",
  "sample_03801.wav": "was the object of the fierce and jealous hatred of his old lieutenant, Doc Kova, the jed who had captured me, and I could not but note the almost studied efforts which the latter made to affront his superior.",
  "sample_03802.wav": "He entirely omitted the usual formal salutation as we entered the presence of the jeddak, and as he pushed me roughly before the ruler he exclaimed in a loud and menacing voice,",
  "sample_03803.wav": "I have brought a strange creature wearing the metal of a thark whom it is my pleasure to have battle with a wild thoat at the great games. He will die as Barcomas, your jeddak, sees fit, if at all.",
  "sample_03804.wav": "with emphasis and dignity. If at all, roared Dekhova, by the dead hands at my throat, but he shall die, bar comus, no maudlin weakness on your part shall save him.",
  "sample_03805.wav": "rather than by a water-hearted weakling from whom even old Doc Kova could tear the metal with his bare hands. Barcomas eyed the defiant and insubordinate Chieftain for an instant, his expression one of hearty.",
  "sample_03806.wav": "fearless contempt and hate, and then without drawing a weapon and without uttering a word, he hurled himself at the throat of his defamer.",
  "sample_03807.wav": "I never before had seen two green Martian warriors battle with nature's weapons, and the exhibition of animal ferocity which ensued was as fearful a thing as the most disordered imagination could picture.",
  "sample_03808.wav": "Barcomas had much the better of the battle as he was stronger, quicker, and more intelligent. It soon seemed that the encounter was done saving only the final death-thrust when Barcomas slipped in.",
  "sample_03809.wav": "breaking away from a clinch. It was the one little opening that Dachkova needed, and hurling himself at the body of his adversary,",
  "sample_03810.wav": "and with a last powerful effort ripped the young jeddak wide open the full length of his body. The great tusk",
  "sample_03811.wav": "Victor and Vanquish rolled limp and lifeless upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh.",
  "sample_03812.wav": "Barcomas was stone-dead, and only the most herculean efforts on the part of Dachova's females saved him from the fate he deserved. Three days later he walked without assistance to the body of Barcomas, which,",
  "sample_03813.wav": "by custom, had not been moved from where it fell, and placing his foot upon the neck of his erstwhile ruler, he assumed the title of Jeddak of Warhoon.",
  "sample_03814.wav": "The injuries to Dachkove had delayed the march so greatly that it was decided to give up the expedition, which was arrayed upon a small Thark community in retaliation for the destruction of the incubator until after the great games.",
  "sample_03815.wav": "They are a smaller horde than the Tharks, but much more ferocious.",
  "sample_03816.wav": "Food was brought me at intervals, but owing to the utter darkness of the place, I do not know whether I lay there days, or weeks, or months. It was the most horrible experience of all my life.",
  "sample_03817.wav": "and that my mind did not give way to the terrors of that inky blackness has been a wonder to me ever since. The place was filled with creeping, crawling things. Cold, sinuous bodies passed over me when I lay down.",
  "sample_03818.wav": "And in the darkness I occasionally caught glimpses of gleaming fiery eyes fixed in horrible intentness upon me. No sound reached me from the world above, and no word would my jailer vouchsafe when my food was brought to me.",
  "sample_03819.wav": "although I at first bombarded him with questions. Finally, all the hatred and maniacal loathing for these awful creatures who had placed me in this horrible place was centred by my tottering reason upon this single emissary.",
  "sample_03820.wav": "who represented to me the entire horde of warhoons. I had noticed that he always advanced with his dim torch to where he could place the food within my reach, and as he stooped to place it upon the floor, he was able to see",
  "sample_03821.wav": "There never was a prouder mama than Madame Cluck when she led forth her family of eight downy little chicks. Chanticleer, Strutt, Snowball, Speck, Peep, Peck, Downy and Blot were their names.",
  "sample_03822.wav": "And no sooner were they out of the shell than they began to chirp and scratch as gaily as if the big world in which they suddenly found themselves was made for their especial benefit. It was a fine brood.",
  "sample_03823.wav": "but poor Madame Cluck had bad luck with her chicks, for they were her first and she didn't know how to manage them. Old Aunt Cocklesop told her that she didn't, and predicted that those poor deers would come to bad ends.",
  "sample_03824.wav": "Ann Cocklethop was right, as you will see, when I have told the sad history of this unfortunate family. The tragedy began with Chanty, who was the boldest little cockadoodle who ever tried to crow.",
  "sample_03825.wav": "Before he had a feather to his bit of a tail, Chanty began to fight, and soon was known as the most quarrelsome chick in the farmyard. Having pecked his brothers and sisters, he tried to do the same to his playmates.",
  "sample_03826.wav": "the ducklings, goslings and young turkeys, and was so disagreeable that all the fowls hated him. One day a pair of vantums arrived. Pretty little white birds with red crests and nice yellow feet.",
  "sample_03827.wav": "Chanty thought he could beat Mr. Bantam easily. He was so small, and invited him to fight. Mr. B declined. Then Chanty called him a coward and gave Mrs. B a peck.",
  "sample_03828.wav": "which ended in Chanty's utter defeat, for he died from his wounds. Downey and Snowball soon followed, for the two sweet little things would swing on the burdock leaves that grew over the brook.",
  "sample_03829.wav": "Sitting side by side, the plump sisters were placidly swaying up and down over the clear brown water rippling below, when Ah said to relate. The stem broke and down went Leith.",
  "sample_03830.wav": "chickens and all to a watery death. I'm the most unlucky hen ever hatched, grown",
  "sample_03831.wav": "And it did seem so, for the very next week, Speckle, the best and prettiest of the brood, went to walk with Aunt Cockle-top, grasshoppering they called it, in the great field across the road.",
  "sample_03832.wav": "What a nice time Speckle did have, to be sure, for the grasshoppers were lively and fat, and Ant was in an unusually amiable mood. Never run away from anything, but face danger and conquer it.",
  "sample_03833.wav": "like a brave chick,\" said the old Biddy, as she went clucking through the grass, with her gray turban wagging in the wind. Specklehead hopped away from a toad with a startled chirp, which caused Ant to utter that remark.",
  "sample_03834.wav": "The words had hardly left her beak when a shadow above made her look up, gave one loud croak of alarm, and then scuttled away, as fast as legs and wings could carry her. Little Speckle, remembering the advice,",
  "sample_03835.wav": "and, unconscious of the danger, stood her ground as a great hawk came circling nearer and nearer, till, with a sudden dart, he pounced on the poor chicken and bore it away, chirping dismally.",
  "sample_03836.wav": "What shall I do? It was a dreadful blow to Mrs. Cluck, and Aunt Cockle Top didn't show herself for a whole day after that story was known.",
  "sample_03837.wav": "for every fowl in the yard twitted her with the difference between her preaching and her practice.",
  "sample_03838.wav": "He was at it from morning till night and everyone was tired to death of hearing his shrill, small voice make funny attempts to produce hoarse little crows as he sat on the wall and stretched his yellow neck. He was at it from morning till night and everyone was tired to death of hearing his shrill, small voice make funny attempts to produce hoarse little crows as he sat on the wall and stretched his yellow neck.",
  "sample_03839.wav": "till his throat quite ached with the effort. Ah, if I could only fly to the highest beam in the barn, and give a splendid crow that everyone could hear, I should be perfectly happy, said the silly little fowl.",
  "sample_03840.wav": "So he tried every day to fly in crow, and at last managed to get up. Then how he did strut and rustle his feathers, while his playmate sat below and watched him.",
  "sample_03841.wav": "\"'You'll fall and get hurt,' said his sister blot. \"'Hold your tongue, you ugly little thing, and don't talk to me. I'm going to crow and can't be interrupted by any silly bit of a hen. Be quiet down there.'",
  "sample_03842.wav": "and hear if I can't do it as well as Daddy.\" The chick stopped scratching and peeping, and sat in a row to hear Struck Crow. Perching himself on the beam, he tried his best",
  "sample_03843.wav": "came of it, and all the chicks laughed. That made Strutt mad, and he resolved to crow, even if he killed himself doing it. He gave an angry cluck, slapped his wings, and tried again. Alas, alas!",
  "sample_03844.wav": "for poor strut. He leaned so far forward in his frantic effort to get a big crawl out that he toppled over and fell bump on the hard barn floor, killing himself instantly.",
  "sample_03845.wav": "For some time after this Mrs. Cluck kept her three remaining little ones close to her side, watching over them with maternal care till they were heartily tired of her anxious cluckings. Peep and Peck were always together",
  "sample_03846.wav": "being very fond of one another. Peep was a most inquisitive chicken, poking her head into every nook and corner, and never satisfied till she had seen all there was to see. Peck was a glutton.",
  "sample_03847.wav": "eating everything she could find and often making herself ill by gobbling too fast and forgetting to eat a little gravel to help digest her food Don't go out of the barn children. I'm going to lay an egg",
  "sample_03848.wav": "and can't look after you just now,\" said their mother one day. Yes, ma'am, chirped the chickens. And then as she went rustling into the hay-mo, they began to run about and enjoy themselves with all their might.",
  "sample_03849.wav": "Peep found a little hole into the meal-room and slipped in, full of joy at the sight of the bags, boxes and bins. I'll eat all I want and then I'll call Peck,\" she said.",
  "sample_03850.wav": "and having taken a taste of everything, she was about to leave, when she heard the stablemen coming, and in her fright couldn't find the hole, so flew into the meal-bin and hid herself.",
  "sample_03851.wav": "The day was still young and far below us was stretched the moving floor of the channel with a silver-gray film of night mists not yet lifted in the offing. A hummocky up-and-down line of cliffs",
  "sample_03852.wav": "with the straight sun path across it, spangled and gleaming like a mackerel's back. The relief of being once more on firm ground, and the exultation of an escape from immediate danger, removed my pain and made me forget that my leg was broken.",
  "sample_03853.wav": "and the wind, which a few minutes before threatened to blow me from that narrow ledge, seemed now but the gentlest of breezes, fresh with the breath of the kindly sea. But this was only for a moment, for the anguish came back and grew apace.",
  "sample_03854.wav": "and I felt a thinking dismally of the plight we were in. How things had been against us in these last days. First, there was losing the why not, and that was bad enough. Second,",
  "sample_03855.wav": "There was the being known by the excise for smugglers, and perhaps for murderers. Third, and last, there was the breaking of thy leg, which made escape so difficult. But most of all,",
  "sample_03856.wav": "There came before my eyes that grey face turned up against the morning sun, and I thought of all it meant for grace and would have given my own life to call back that of our worst enemy. Then Elzevir sat up, stretching himself like one waking out of a sleep.",
  "sample_03857.wav": "said, we must be gone they will not be back for some time yet and when they come we'll not think to search closely for us hereabouts but that we cannot risk and must get clear away",
  "sample_03858.wav": "This leg of thine will keep us tied for weeks, and we must find some place where we can lie hid and tend it. Now I know such a hiding hole in Purbeck, which to call Joseph's pit, and thither we must go, but it will take all the day to get there.",
  "sample_03859.wav": "And so he took me in his arms again, and started off across the fields. I need not tell of that weary journey, and indeed could not if I wished, for the pain went to my head and filled me with such a drowsy anguish.",
  "sample_03860.wav": "that I knew nothing except when some unlooked-for movement gave me a sharper twinge and made me cry out. At first, Elsevier walked briskly, but as the day wore on went slower.",
  "sample_03861.wav": "It was afternoon, for the sun was past the meridian, and very hot for the time of year, when the face of the country began to change, and instead of the short sward of the open down, sprinkled with tiny white snail shells,",
  "sample_03862.wav": "The ground was brashy with flat stones and divided up into tillage fields. It was a bleak, wide-bidden place enough, looking as if it would never pay for turning, and instead of hedges there were dreary walls built of dry stone without mortar.",
  "sample_03863.wav": "Behind one of these walls, broken down in places, but held together with straggling ivy, and buttressed here and there with a bramble-bush, Elzavir put me down at length and said, I am beat and can carry thee no farther for this present.",
  "sample_03864.wav": "though there is not now much farther to go. We have passed Purbek gates, and these walls will screen us from prying eyes, if any chance come or pass along the down. And as for the soldiers, they are not like to come this way so soon.",
  "sample_03865.wav": "And if they come, I cannot help it, for weariness and the sun's heat have made my feet like lead. A square of years ago I would have laughed at such a task, but now it is different.",
  "sample_03866.wav": "So sit thee here, and lean thy shoulder up against the wall, and thus thou canst look through this broken place, and watch both ways. Then, if thou seest aught moving, wake me up.",
  "sample_03867.wav": "I wish I had a thimble full of powder to make this whistle sound, and he took Mesquieu's silver-budded pistol again from his bosom and handled it lovingly.",
  "sample_03868.wav": "With that, he flung himself down where there was a narrow shadow close against the bottom of the wall, and in a minute I knew from his heavy breathing that he was asleep. The wind had freshened much and was blowing strong from the west.",
  "sample_03869.wav": "and now that I was under the lee of the wall.",
  "sample_03870.wav": "and gets at length into the shelter. Moreover, though I was not tired by grievous toil like Elsevier, I had passed a night without sleep and felt besides the weariness of pain to love me to slumber.",
  "sample_03871.wav": "Then I sought something to fix my thoughts, and looking on that side of the wall where the sward was, felt a counting the wall hills that were cast up in numbers thereabout. And when I had exhausted them, and reckoned up thirty little heaps of dry and powdery",
  "sample_03872.wav": "that lay at random on the green turf. I turned my eyes to the tillage field on the other side of the wall and saw the inch-high blades of corn coming up between the stones. Then I felt accounting the blades, feeling glad to have discovered a reckoning that would not be exhausted at 30.",
  "sample_03873.wav": "but would go on for millions and millions and millions, and before I had reached ten in so heroic enumeration was fast asleep. A sharp noise woke me with a start that set the pain tingling in my leg.",
  "sample_03874.wav": "and though I could see nothing, I knew that a shot had been fired very near us. I was for waking Elsevier, but he was already full awake, and put a finger on his lip to show I should not speak. Then",
  "sample_03875.wav": "Enough for him to look through the leaves without being seen. He dropped down again with a look of relief and said, Tis but a lad scaring rooks with a blunderbuss. We will not stir unless he makes this way. A minute later he said, the boy is coming straight for the wall.",
  "sample_03876.wav": "we shall have to show ourselves. And while he spoke, there was a rattle of falling stones, where the boy was partly climbing, and partly pulling down the dry wall. And so Elsevier stood up. The boy looked frightened, and made as if he would run off.",
  "sample_03877.wav": "But Elzavir passed him the time of day in a civil voice, and he stopped and gave it back. What are you doing here, son? block asked. Scaring rooks for Farmer Top was the answer.",
  "sample_03878.wav": "Have you got a charge of powder to spare?\" said Elsevier, showing his pistol. I want to get a rabbit in the gorus for supper, and have dropped my flask. Maybe you've seen a flask in walking through the furrows.\" He whispered to me to lie still.",
  "sample_03879.wav": "No time was wasted in words. Elzavir had the flask in his pocket, and the boy was biting the crown. What shot have you? said Elzavir. What? Have you dropped your shot flask too? asked the boy.",
  "sample_03880.wav": "and his voice had something of surprise in it. Nay, but my shot are over small.",
  "sample_03881.wav": "hastening to begin his work. The town is an old-fashioned one, and although the observance of the ancient church festival is no longer frowned upon, as in years past, yet it has been little regarded.",
  "sample_03882.wav": "especially in the church, of which Nathan is a member. As the saddler mounted the steps of his shop, he felt the blood so rush along his limbs, and tingle in his fingers.",
  "sample_03883.wav": "that he could not forbear standing without the door for a moment, as if to enjoy the triumph of the warmth within him over the cold morning air. The Little Stone Church",
  "sample_03884.wav": "which Nathan attends stands in the same square with his shop, and nearly opposite. It was closed, as usual on Christmas day, and a recent snow had heaped the steps and roof, and loaded the windows.",
  "sample_03885.wav": "Nathan thought that it looked uncommonly beautiful in the softening twilight of the morning. While Nathan stood musing, with his eyes fixed upon the church,",
  "sample_03886.wav": "Although a good deal stooping, with long straight and very white hair falling over his shoulders, which was the more conspicuous from the black velvet cap as it appeared that he wore.",
  "sample_03887.wav": "as to who the stranger could be, when he beheld him turn in between the posts by the path that leads to the church, tread lightly over the snow and up the steps, and knock hastily and vigorously at the church door.",
  "sample_03888.wav": "But half recovered from his wonder, he was just raising his voice to utter a remonstrance, when to his seven-fold amazement the door was opened to the knock, and the old man disappeared within.",
  "sample_03889.wav": "It was not without a creeping feeling of awe, mingled with his astonishment, that Nathan gazed upon the door through which this silent figure had vanished. But he was not easily to be daunted.",
  "sample_03890.wav": "He did not care to follow the steps of the stranger into the church, but he remembered a shed so placed against the building near the farther end that he had often, when a child, at some peril indeed, climbed upon its top.",
  "sample_03891.wav": "and looked into the church through a little window at one side of the pulpit. For this he started, but he did not fail to run across the square and leap over the church gate at the top of his speed.",
  "sample_03892.wav": "in order to gather warmth and courage for the attempt. When Nathan stoddard climbed upon the old shed and pressed his face against the glass of the little church window, he had at first only a confused impression of the glass, and the glass was not as strong as the old one. Nathan was not able to see the glass",
  "sample_03893.wav": "as he glared through the darkness into the old Kirk of Allouay. The great chandelier of the church was partly lighted, and there were besides many candles and lanterns burning in different parts of the room.",
  "sample_03894.wav": "who were dressed in breeches and ruffled shirts and hooped petticoats and towering headdresses, such as he had only seen in old pictures. They were mounted upon benches and ladders,",
  "sample_03895.wav": "and boards laid along the tops of the pews, and were apparently just completing the decoration of the church, which was already dressed with green, with little trees in the corners, and with green letters upon the walls.",
  "sample_03896.wav": "The whole party appeared full of life and cheerfulness, while the old man whom Nathan had seen enter stood near the door, looking quietly on with a little girl holding his hand.",
  "sample_03897.wav": "It was not until Nathan Stoddard had looked for some little time upon this spectacle that he began to feel that he was witness of anything more than natural. The whole party had so homelike an air.",
  "sample_03898.wav": "the more he was filled for all their appearance of youth and their simple manners with a strange sort of veneration. The sweet and cheerful faces of the young women seemed to grow awfully calm.",
  "sample_03899.wav": "beautiful as they brought their task to a close, and their foreheads with the hair brought back in the old-fashioned way to become more and more serene and high. There was a strange beauty too",
  "sample_03900.wav": "about the old man's face. He appeared to Nathan as if he felt that the group before him only waited his command to fade away in the morning light that struggled among the candles. But he could not bear to give the word.",
  "sample_03901.wav": "and so they kept playing with the festoons and stepping about the pews to please him. Nathan felt a cold thrill, partly from pleasure and partly from awe, running up his back and a strong pain across his forehead.",
  "sample_03902.wav": "until he felt that he was near swooning and liked to fall, and he clung desperately to his hold. When the fit was over he dared venture no more, but hastened to the ground.",
  "sample_03903.wav": "that led Nathan Stoddard to keep secret what he had witnessed. But it was like some deep and holy experience",
  "sample_03904.wav": "So he went back to his shop, and sat looking upon the church and watching, almost with dread, the doves that lighted upon its roof and fluttered about and beat their wings against its windows.",
  "sample_03905.wav": "The minister of Nathan's Parish was a young man by the name of Dudley, and it so happened that he had driven out before light on the morning we have spoken of to visit a sick man at some distance.",
  "sample_03906.wav": "In returning home, he had to pass along the rather unfrequented street, which runs in the rear of his church and close to it. As he was driving rapidly along, his ear caught what seemed the peel of an organ.",
  "sample_03907.wav": "He stopped his horse to listen.",
  "sample_03908.wav": "and drove round into the square to the shop of Nathan Stoddard. There is music today in our church, Nathan, he cried to the young saddler. What can it mean? But Nathan answered not a word. He caught the horse by the head",
  "sample_03909.wav": "and fastened him to a post before the door. Then, stepping to the side of the sleigh, he said to Mr. Dudley, Come with me, sir. Mr. Dudley looked upon the pale face and trembling lips of his parishioner.",
  "sample_03910.wav": "followed in silence. Nathan sprang upon the shed at the side of the church and scrambled up to the little window. Mr. Dudley followed and with Nathan's help gained the same precarious foothold. Look in, sir.",
  "sample_03911.wav": "The azure fields of heaven were symboled right in a large round set with flowers of light. The flowers diluce and the round sparks of dew that hung upon their azure leaves did show like twinkling stars that sparkle in the evening blue.",
  "sample_03912.wav": "Giles Fletcher. No more remarkable man ever lived than my friend, the young Ellison. He was remarkable in the entire and continuous profusion of good gifts ever lavished upon him by fortune.",
  "sample_03913.wav": "From his cradle to his grave, a gale of the blandest prosperity bore him along. Nor do I use the word prosperity in its mere worldly or external sense. I mean it as synonymous with happiness.",
  "sample_03914.wav": "The person of whom I speak seemed born for the purpose of foreshadowing the wild doctrines of Tigre, Price, Priestley, and Condorcet, of exemplifying by individual instance",
  "sample_03915.wav": "what has been deemed the mere chimera of the perfectionists. In the brief existence of Ellison, I fancy that I have seen refuted the dogma that in man's physical and spiritual nature lies some hidden principle.",
  "sample_03916.wav": "the antagonist of bliss. An intimate and anxious examination of his career has taught me to understand that, in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind.",
  "sample_03917.wav": "that, as a species, we have in our possession the as-yet unwrought elements of content, and that even now, in the present blindness and darkness of all idea on the great question of the social condition.",
  "sample_03918.wav": "It is not impossible that man, the individual, under certain unusual and highly fortuitous conditions may be happy. With opinions such as these was my young friend fully imbued.",
  "sample_03919.wav": "and thus is it especially worthy of observation that the uninterrupted enjoyment which distinguished his life was in great part the result of preconcert. It is, indeed, evident.",
  "sample_03920.wav": "experience, Mr. Ellison would have found himself precipitated by the very extraordinary successes of his life into the common vortex of unhappiness which yawns for those of preeminent endowments.",
  "sample_03921.wav": "But it is by no means my present object to pen an essay on happiness. The ideas of my friend may be summed up in a few words. He admitted, but for unvarying loss.",
  "sample_03922.wav": "or rather elementary principles of bliss. That which he considered chief was strange to say, the simple and purely physical one of free exercise in the open air. The health, he said.",
  "sample_03923.wav": "Attainable by other means than this is scarcely worth the name.\" He pointed to the tillers of the earth, the only people who, as a class, are proverbially more happy than others.",
  "sample_03924.wav": "and then he instanced the high ecstasies of the fox hunter. His second principle was the love of woman.",
  "sample_03925.wav": "His fourth was an object of unceasing pursuit, and he held that, other things being equal, the extent of happiness was proportioned to the spirituality of this object.",
  "sample_03926.wav": "I have said that Ellison was remarkable in the continuous perfusion of good gifts lavished upon him by fortune. In personal grace and beauty he exceeded all men.",
  "sample_03927.wav": "His intellect was of that order to which the attainment of knowledge is less a labor than a necessity and an intuition. His family was one of the most illustrious of the empire. His bride was the loveliest and most devoted of women.",
  "sample_03928.wav": "His possessions had been always ample, but upon the attainment of his one and twentieth year it was discovered that one of those extraordinary freaks of fate had been played in his behalf which startled the whole social world amid which they occur.",
  "sample_03929.wav": "and seldom fell radically to alter the entire moral constitution of those who are their objects. It appears that about 100 years prior to Mr. Ellison's attainment of his majority, there had died, in a remote province,",
  "sample_03930.wav": "Elyson. This gentleman had amassed a princely fortune and, having no very immediate connections, conceived the whim of suffering his wealth to accumulate for a century after his decease.",
  "sample_03931.wav": "Minutely and sagaciously directing the various modes of investment, he bequeathed the aggregate amount to the nearest of blood, bearing the name Ellison, who should be alive at the end of a hundred years.",
  "sample_03932.wav": "Many futile attempts had been made to set aside the singular bequest. Their ex-post facto character rendered them abortive.",
  "sample_03933.wav": "and a decree finally obtained forbidding all similar accumulations. This act did not prevent young Ellison upon his 21st birthday.",
  "sample_03934.wav": "from entering into possession as the heir of his ancestor, Sebright, of a fortune of...",
  "sample_03935.wav": "There were, of course, many speculations as to the mode of its disposal. The gigantic magnitude and the immediately available nature of the sum dazzled and bewildered all who thought upon the topic.",
  "sample_03936.wav": "The possessor of any appreciable amount of money might have been imagined to perform any one of a thousand things. With riches merely surpassing those of any citizen,",
  "sample_03937.wav": "It would have been easy to suppose him engaging to supreme excess in the fashionable extravagances of his time, or busying himself with political intrigue, or aiming at ministerial power, or purchasing increase of nobility.",
  "sample_03938.wav": "devising gorgeous architectural piles, or collecting large specimens of virtue, or playing the munificent patron of letters and art, or endowing and bestowing his name upon extensive institutions of charity.",
  "sample_03939.wav": "But for the inconceivable wealth in the actual possession of the young heir, these objects and all ordinary objects are felt to be inadequate. Recourse was hat to figures.",
  "sample_03940.wav": "figures but suffice to confound. It was seen that even at 3% the annual income of the inheritance amounted to no less than 13 millions and five hundred thousand dollars.",
  "sample_03941.wav": "The day after the cutters left, Antonia came over to see us. Grandmother noticed that she seemed troubled and distracted. You've got something on your mind, Antonia, she said anxiously.",
  "sample_03942.wav": "She hesitated, and then told us how strangely Mr. Cutter had behaved before he went away.",
  "sample_03943.wav": "as he had just put a new Yale lock on the front door. Cutter had been so insistent in regard to these details that now she felt uncomfortable about staying there alone.",
  "sample_03944.wav": "or the way he looked at her. I feel as if he's up to some of his tricks again.",
  "sample_03945.wav": "Grandmother was apprehensive at once. I don't think it's right for you to stay there, feeling that way. I suppose it wouldn't be right for you to leave the place alone either.",
  "sample_03946.wav": "Maybe Jim would be willing to go over there and sleep, and you could come here nights. I'd feel safer, knowing you were under my own roof. I guess Jim could take care of the silver and old usury notes as well as you could.",
  "sample_03947.wav": "Antonia turned to me eagerly. Oh, would you, Jim?",
  "sample_03948.wav": "The third night I spent at the Cutters I awoke suddenly with the impression that I had heard a door open and shut. Everything was still however, and I must have gone to sleep again immediately.",
  "sample_03949.wav": "I was only half awake, but I decided that he might take the cutter's silver, whoever he was.",
  "sample_03950.wav": "I held my breath and lay absolutely still. A hand closed softly on my shoulder, and at the same moment I felt something hairy and clone-scented brushing my face.",
  "sample_03951.wav": "The man became insane. He stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other, hissing and chuckling and letting out a flood of abuse. So this is what she's up to when I'm away, is it? Where is she, you nasty whelp?",
  "sample_03952.wav": "Where is she? Under the bed? Are you hussy? I know your tricks. Wait till I get at you. I'll fix this rat you've got in here. He's caught all right.\" So long as Cutter had me by the throat there was no chance for me at all.",
  "sample_03953.wav": "When I got home I climbed in at the kitchen window. I was covered with blood from my nose and lip, but I was too sick to do anything about it. I found a shawl and an overcoat on the hat rack, laid down on the parlor sofa and in spite of my hurts went to sleep.",
  "sample_03954.wav": "Her cry of fright awakened me. Truly I was a battered object. As she helped me to my room I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. My lip was cut and stood out like a snout. My nose looked like a big blue plum.",
  "sample_03955.wav": "and one eye was swollen shut and hideously discoloured. Grandmother said, We must have a doctor at once, but I implored her, as I had never begged for anything before not to send for him. I could stand anything, I told her.",
  "sample_03956.wav": "She seemed to understand, though I was too faint and miserable to go into explanations. When she took a look at the",
  "sample_03957.wav": "She spent the whole morning bathing and poulticing me and robbing me with arnica. I heard Antonia sobbing outside my door, but I asked grandmother to send her away. I felt that I never wanted to see her again.",
  "sample_03958.wav": "She had let me in for all this disgustingness. Grandmother kept saying how thankful we ought to be that I had been there instead of Antonia. But I lay with my disfigured face to the wall and felt no particular gratitude.",
  "sample_03959.wav": "If this story once got abroad, I would never hear the last of it. I could well imagine what the old men down at the drugstore would do with such a theme.",
  "sample_03960.wav": "and had left again on the 6 o'clock train for Denver that morning. The agent said his face was striped with court plaster and he carried his left hand in a sling. He looked so used up that the agent asked him what had happened to him since 10 o'clock the night before.",
  "sample_03961.wav": "My own garments have been treated so badly that I never saw them again. Grandmother burned them in the cutter's kitchen range. While Antonia was packing her trunk and putting her room in order to leave it, the front doorbell rang violently.",
  "sample_03962.wav": "There stood Mrs. Cutter, locked out, for she had no key to the new lock, her head trembling with rage. I advised her to control herself or she would have a stroke, grandmother said afterwards.",
  "sample_03963.wav": "Antonia was frightened and was going home to stay for a while, she told Mrs. Cutter. It would be useless to interrogate the girl, for she knew nothing of what had happened. Then Mrs. Cutter told her story.",
  "sample_03964.wav": "She and her husband had started home from Omaha together the morning before. They had to stop over several hours and way more junction to catch the Black Hawk train.",
  "sample_03965.wav": "When he returned he told her that he would have to stay overnight there.",
  "sample_03966.wav": "She saw him slip a twenty dollar bill into her handbag with her ticket. That bill, she said, should have aroused her suspicions at once, but did not. The trains are never called at Little Junction towns. Everybody knows when they come in.",
  "sample_03967.wav": "Mr. Cutter showed his wife's ticket to the conductor and settled her in her seat before the train moved off.",
  "sample_03968.wav": "and that Cutter must have planned it so. The conductor told her the Blackhawk train was due at Waymoor 12 minutes after the Kansas City train left. She saw at once that her husband had played this trick in order to get back to Blackhawk without her.",
  "sample_03969.wav": "She had no choice but to go on to Kansas City and take the first fast train for home. Cutter could have got home a day earlier than his wife by any one of a dozen simpler devices. He could have left her in the Omaha Hotel.",
  "sample_03970.wav": "But apparently it was part of his fun to outrage her feelings as much as possible. \"'Mr. Cutter will pay for this, Mrs. Burton. He will pay,' Mrs. Cutter avowed, nodding her horse-like head and rolling her eyes.",
  "sample_03971.wav": "The confession of Odette Ryder. He could only gaze in stupefied silence. \"'You,' he said, wonderingly. The girl was pale, and her eyes never left his face. She nodded. \"'Yes, it is I,' she said in a low voice.",
  "sample_03972.wav": "You!\" he said again, and walked towards her. He held out his hand, and she gave him the wallet without a word. \"'Sit down,' he said kindly. He thought she was going to faint. I hope I didn't hurt you. I hadn't the slightest idea\u2014'",
  "sample_03973.wav": "She shook her head. Oh, I'm not hurt, she said wearily.",
  "sample_03974.wav": "She drew a chair to the table and dropped her face upon her hands, and he stood by, embarrassed, almost terrified by this unexpected development. So you were the visitor on the bicycle, he said at last. I didn't suspect.",
  "sample_03975.wav": "It struck him at that moment that it was not an offence for Odette Ryder to go up to her mother's house on a bicycle, or even to take away a wallet which was probably hers. If there was any crime at all\u2014",
  "sample_03976.wav": "She looked up at his words. I? On the bicycle? She asked. No. It was not I. Not you? She shook her head. I was in the grounds.",
  "sample_03977.wav": "I saw you using your lamp, and I was quite close to you when you picked up the wallet,\" she said listlessly. But I was not on the bicycle.\" \"'Who was it?' he asked. She shook her head. \"'May I have that, please?'",
  "sample_03978.wav": "She held out her hand, and he hesitated. After all, he had no right or title to this curious purse. He compromised by putting it on the table, and she did not attempt to take it. Oh, Dad, he said gently, and walked round to her.",
  "sample_03979.wav": "laying his hand on her shoulder. Why don't you tell me?\" \"'Tell you what?' she asked without looking up. \"'Tell me all there is to be told,' he said. I could help you. I want to help you.' She looked up at him.",
  "sample_03980.wav": "He was tongue-tied for a second. \"'Because I love you,' he said, and his voice shook. It did not seem to him that he was talking. The words came of their own volition. He had no more intention of telling her he loved her.",
  "sample_03981.wav": "He had no more idea that he did love her than Whiteside would have had, yet he knew he spoke the truth and that a power greater than he had framed the words and put them on his lips. The effect on the girl seemed extraordinary to him.",
  "sample_03982.wav": "She did not shrink back. She did not look surprised. She showed no astonishment whatever.",
  "sample_03983.wav": "Oh, that calm?",
  "sample_03984.wav": "was the second shock of the evening. It was as though she had known it all along. He was on his knees by her side, and his arm was about her shoulders, even before his brain had willed the act. My girl, my girl,\" he said gently, won't you please tell me?",
  "sample_03985.wav": "Her head was still bent, and her voice was so low as to be almost inaudible. \"'Tell you what?' she asked. \"'What you know of this business,' he said. \"'Don't you realize how every new development brings you more and more under suspicion?'",
  "sample_03986.wav": "What business do you mean?\" He hesitated. The murder of Thornton Lyne? I know nothing of that. She made no response to that tender arm of his, but sat rigid. Something in her attitude chilled him.",
  "sample_03987.wav": "and he dropped her hand and rose. When she looked up she saw that his face was white and set. He walked to the door and unlocked it. I'm not going to ask you anymore, he said quietly. You know best why you came to me tonight.",
  "sample_03988.wav": "She got up to her feet unsteadily and swayed toward him. In a second he was by her side, his arms about her. She made no resistance, but rather he felt a yielding toward him which she had missed before. Her pale face was upturned to his, and he stooped and kissed her.",
  "sample_03989.wav": "Odette, Odette he whispered, don't you realize that I love you and would give my life to save you from unhappiness? Won't you tell me everything, please?\" No, no, no, she murmured with a little catch in her voice. Please don't ask me.",
  "sample_03990.wav": "I'm afraid, oh, I'm afraid!\" He crushed her in his arms, his cheek against hers, his lips tingling with the caress of her hair. But there's nothing to be afraid of. Nothing, he said eagerly. If you were as guilty as hell, I would save you.",
  "sample_03991.wav": "If you were shielding somebody, I would shield them, because I love you, Odette.\" No, no, she cried and pushed him back, both her little hands pressing against his chest. Don't ask me, don't ask me, ask me. Tarling swung round.",
  "sample_03992.wav": "There was a man standing in the doorway in the act of closing the door behind him. Milbur, he said between his teeth. Milbur smiled the other mockingly. I'm sorry to interrupt this beautiful scene.",
  "sample_03993.wav": "But the occasion is a desperate one, and I cannot afford to stand on ceremony, Mr. Tarling.\" Tarling put the girl from him and looked at the smirking manager. One comprehensive glance the detective gave him.",
  "sample_03994.wav": "noted the cycling clips and the splashes of mud on his trousers, and understood. \"'So you were the cyclist, eh?' he said. \"'That's right,' said Milbur. \"'It is an exercise to which I am very partial.' \"'What do you want?' asked Tarling, alert and watchful.",
  "sample_03995.wav": "I want you to carry out your promise, Mr. Tarling,\" said Milbur smoothly. Tarling stared at him. My promise? He said. What promise? To protect not only the evildoer,",
  "sample_03996.wav": "Tarling started. \"'Do you mean to say,' he said hoarsely, \"'do you mean to accuse?' \"'I accuse nobody,' said Millbur, with a wide sweep of his hands. \"'I merely suggest that both Miss Ryder and myself are in very serious trouble.'\"",
  "sample_03997.wav": "and that you have it in your power to get us safely out of this country to one where extradition laws cannot follow.\" Tarling took one step towards him, and Milbur shrank back. Do you accuse Miss Ryder of complicity in this murder? he demanded. Milbur smiled.",
  "sample_03998.wav": "but it was an uneasy smile. I make no accusation, he said.",
  "sample_03999.wav": "He shrugged his shoulders. \"'You will understand better when you read the contents of that wallet, which I was endeavouring to remove to a place of safety.' Tarling picked up the wallet from the table and looked at it. \"'I shall see the contents of this wallet to-morrow,' he said.",
  "sample_04000.wav": "locks will present very little difficulty.",
  "sample_04001.wav": "\"'There's no sense in wasting our time here,' said Solomon Owl to his small cousin, Simon Screecher. \"'It's a fine night. The mice will all be out sooner or later. Let's go over and sit in that old oak on the edge of the meadow.'",
  "sample_04002.wav": "Simon's creature was more than willing, and they had no sooner settled themselves among the bare branches of the oak, when Simon started to amuse himself by giving his well-known quavering whistle. Solomon's owls stopped him quickly.",
  "sample_04003.wav": "Don't do that,\" he said sharply. Do you want to scare the mice? Simon Screecher cut his whistle off right in the middle of it. I forgot, he murmured, but I don't believe my whistling would do any harm.",
  "sample_04004.wav": "I don't think there are many mice left on Farmer Green's place. It's my opinion that they've moved away\u2014most of them. Or maybe old rough-legged the hawk has caught more than his share.",
  "sample_04005.wav": "Solomon Owl made no reply. He was a person of few words. If anybody asked his opinion, he was ready to give it, but he seldom gave any unsought advice.",
  "sample_04006.wav": "I've about made up my mind,\" said Simon's creature, that I'd moved to some other neighborhood. If I knew where there was good mousing, I'd move to-morrow. While he was speaking, Solomon Owl started ever so slightly.",
  "sample_04007.wav": "You might as well send them a telegram saying that you'll be on hand to meet them at eight p.m. Simon's creature was silenced for the time being, and it wasn't long before Solomon Owl gave another start. There's that squeak again, he whispered.",
  "sample_04008.wav": "I believe it is getting nearer, too.\" Now Master Metamouse had a tunnel that led right beneath the tree where the two cousins were sitting.",
  "sample_04009.wav": "And he had strolled that way after scurrying under the snow, when he heard Solomon Owl laughing in the woods earlier in the evening. It was he that Solomon heard. It was he that stuck his head out of a hole in the snow, and peeped up at the star-sprinkled sky.",
  "sample_04010.wav": "He must have hurried over here from the woods. He must be very hungry. As Solomon Owl returned to the old oak, his cousin Simon Screecher laughed somewhat unpleasantly. Missed him, didn't you? he inquired. Yes.",
  "sample_04011.wav": "Why didn't you grab him out of the snow?\" Simon asked. What are your claws for? What's your beak for? I couldn't dig him out, Solomon Owl replied. The snow is three feet deep.",
  "sample_04012.wav": "and it has seven different crusts, one under another.\" This is a hard winter, said Simon Screecher. I wish I'd gone south last fall. I wonder how the mousing is down there.",
  "sample_04013.wav": "Eating a Tree As Simon Screecher remarked to his cousin, Solomon Owl, it was a hard winter. The snow was deep, the days were cold, and the nights were colder. And worst of all, food became scarce.",
  "sample_04014.wav": "It seemed as if there wasn't anything to eat anywhere except at the farm buildings, which Farmer Green had stuffed full of hay and grain during the summer and autumn. Many of the forest folks stole down from Blue Mountain after nightfall.",
  "sample_04015.wav": "and visited the farmyard in the hope of getting a bite of something or other. Even Master Metamouse began to find it harder and harder to get enough seeds under the snow to satisfy his hunger.",
  "sample_04016.wav": "He had stored away a stock of food, but it hadn't been big enough, and that was a great mistake. Master Metamouse promised himself that he would not repeat it another time.",
  "sample_04017.wav": "Unfortunately, all the promises in the world wouldn't give him a square meal when he needed one.",
  "sample_04018.wav": "\"'This is my first winter,' Master Metamouse explained. \"'I'm running short of food, and I wish you'd tell me what to do in such a case.' \"'That's easy,' his cousin answered. \"'Get more.'\"",
  "sample_04019.wav": "And then he hurried away, for he had important business to attend to. Poor Master Metamouse ran after him. It was hard to follow his cousin through the winding galleries beneath the snow.",
  "sample_04020.wav": "Several times Master Meta Mouse took the wrong turn and had to retrace his steps, but at last he found his busy cousin again. You advised me to get more food said Master Meta Mouse, but you didn't tell me where to get it.",
  "sample_04021.wav": "\"'In the orchard,' his cousin cried, and then he hurried away again. \"'I wish he'd wait a minute,' Master Metamouse grumbled as he tore after his cousin once more.",
  "sample_04022.wav": "I don't feel like running. I haven't had a hearty meal for days.\" The cousin seemed surprised when Master Metamouse overtook him. What? the busy gentleman exclaimed. Have you been to the orchard and back so soon? No.",
  "sample_04023.wav": "Having said those three words, he dashed off again, even faster than before. Trees? Master Metamouse echoed. I can't eat trees.",
  "sample_04024.wav": "There must be something that my cousin forgot to explain, so I suppose I'll have to run after him again and ask him what he meant. The fourth time that Master Metamouse found his cousin, he took no chances.",
  "sample_04025.wav": "He caught his cousin by his tail and held on firmly. \"'You're not going to get away from me till I've found out what I want to know,' he declared. \"'How can I eat a tree?' Master Metamouse demanded. \"'You can't!'",
  "sample_04026.wav": "His cousin replied, struggling desperately to free himself, for he was too busy to stop long. Then explain what you mean! Master Metamouse cried. Eat the bark! his cousin answered.",
  "sample_04027.wav": "Then, and not till then, did Master Metta-Mouse let him go. Master Metta-Mouse chased his cousin no more, but hurried away to Farmer Green's orchard, where he gnawed a ring.",
  "sample_04028.wav": "But Farmer Green didn't agree with him. When he happened to go into the orchard one day later and saw tree after tree ruined, he was very, very much displeased.",
  "sample_04029.wav": "I ought to have put wire netting around those young trees,' he told the hired man. This is what comes of a hard winter.",
  "sample_04030.wav": "A Cold Dip In one way Peter Mink was like Master Metamouse. He enjoyed swimming, and he spent a great deal of his time along the streams that threaded their way through Pleasant Valley. Sometimes Peter dawdled on the banks of Swift River.",
  "sample_04031.wav": "The ferns drenched his stirrups as he brushed through them, and each dripping treetop broke the sunlight and let it drop intent-like beams through the shimmering under-mist. A bird flashed here and there through the green gloom.",
  "sample_04032.wav": "But there was no sound in the air but the footfalls of his horse, and the easy creaking of leather under him, the drip of dew overhead and the running of water below. Now and then he could see the same slender footprints in the rich loam.",
  "sample_04033.wav": "and he saw them in the sand where the first tiny brook tinkled across the path from a gloomy ravine. There the little creature had taken a flying leap across it, and beyond he could see the prince no more. He little guessed that while he halted to let his horse drink.",
  "sample_04034.wav": "He turned back up the creek and passed so close to where she had slipped aside into the bushes that she came near shrieking. But his eyes were fixed on a pool of the creek above, and to her wonder he strolled straight into the water with his boots on.",
  "sample_04035.wav": "pushing the net in front of him. He was a raider, sure, she thought now, and he was looking for a moonshine still. And the wild little thing in the bushes smiled cunningly. There was no still up that creek.",
  "sample_04036.wav": "And as he had left his horse below and his gun she waited for him to come back, which he did by and by, dripping and soaked to his knees. Then she saw him untie the queer gun on his saddle, pull it out of the case and\u2014",
  "sample_04037.wav": "Her eyes got big with wonder. Take it to pieces and make it into a long limber rod. In a moment he had cast a minnow into the pool and waded out into the water up to his hips. She had never seen so queer a fishing pole, so queer a fisherman.",
  "sample_04038.wav": "How could he get a fish out with that little switch, she thought contemptuously? By and by something hummed queerly. The man gave a slight jerk, and a shining fish flopped two feet into the air. It was surely very queer.",
  "sample_04039.wav": "but stood still, winding something with one hand, and again the fish would flash into the air, and then that humming would start again while the fisherman would stand quiet and waiting for a while, and then he would begin to wind again. And her wonder.",
  "sample_04040.wav": "drowning him, stepping backward at the same time. And a moment later the fish slid easily out of the edge of the water, gasping along the edge of a low sand bank, and the fisherman reaching down with one hand caught him in the gills. Then",
  "sample_04041.wav": "He looked up and smiled, and she had seen no smile like that before. Had you, little girl? One bare toe went burrowing suddenly into the sand, one finger went to her red mouth, and that was all.",
  "sample_04042.wav": "And he smiled again. Cat got your tongue? Her eyes fell at the ancient banter, but she lifted them straightway and stared again. You live around here? She stared on.",
  "sample_04043.wav": "Where? No answer. What's your name, little girl? And still she stared. She looked at me, and she said, What's your name, little girl? And still she stared. And still she said, What's your name, little girl? And still she stared.",
  "sample_04044.wav": "The steady eyes leaped angrily, but there was still no answer, and he bent to take the fish off his hook, put on a fresh minnow, turned his back, and tossed it into the pool. He looked up again.",
  "sample_04045.wav": "His line rang suddenly. Jack! she cried. You got a bat! He pulled, missed the strike, and wound in. The minnow was all right, so he tossed it back again. That isn't your name, he said.",
  "sample_04046.wav": "he said, shaking his head affirmatively. A long cry came down the ravine.",
  "sample_04047.wav": "and the fisherman wondered if he had heard her write, June. The little girl gave a shrill answering cry, but she did not move. \"'Fire now,' she said. \"'Who's that, your mammy?' \"'No taint.' \"'Fire now,' she said. \"'Who's that, your mammy?' \"'No taint.'",
  "sample_04048.wav": "It's my step, Mammy. I'm a-gonna catch hell now.\" Her innocent eyes turned sullen and her baby-mouth tightened. Good Lord! said the Fisherman, startled, and then he stopped. The words were as innocent on her lips as a benediction.",
  "sample_04049.wav": "Have you got a father?\" Like a flash her whole face changed.",
  "sample_04050.wav": "drawled a voice from the bushes, and it had a tone that made the fisherman whorl suddenly. A giant mountaineer stood on the bank above him, with a Winchester in the hollow of his arm. How are you?",
  "sample_04051.wav": "The giant's heavy eyes lifted quickly, but he spoke to the girl. You go on home.",
  "sample_04052.wav": "The girl shrank to the bushes, but she cried sharply back. Don't you hurt him now, Dad. He ain't even got a pistol. He ain't no\u2014 SHIT UP!",
  "sample_04053.wav": "The little creature vanished, and the mountaineer turned to the fisherman, who had just put on a fresh minnow and tossed it into the river. \"'Pretty well, Fanky,' he said shortly. \"'How are you?' \"'Fine,' was the nonchalant answer.",
  "sample_04054.wav": "For a moment there was silence, and a puzzled frown gathered on the mountaineer's face. That's a bright little girl of yours.",
  "sample_04055.wav": "No, not in these mountains. Why?\" The fisherman looked around and was almost startled by the fierce gaze of his questioner. Stop that, please,\" he said with a humorous smile. You make me nervous.",
  "sample_04056.wav": "The Mountaineer's bushy brows came together across the bridge of his nose, and his voice rumbled like distant thunder. \"'What's your name, stranger? And what's your business over here?' \"'Dear me, there you go. You can see I'm fishin'.'",
  "sample_04057.wav": "But why does everybody in these mountains want to know my name?\" \"'You heared me.'\" \"'Yes.'\" The fisherman turned again and saw the giant's rugged face, stern and pale with open anger, now.",
  "sample_04058.wav": "He had not moved hand or foot, and he said nothing, but his mouth was set hard and his bewildered blue eyes had a glint in them that the Mountaineer did not at the moment see. He was leaning with one arm on the muzzle of his Winchester. His face had suddenly become suave and shrewd and now he laughed again.",
  "sample_04059.wav": "I might have a gun myself sometimes. Did you think you could scare me?\" The Mountaineer stared in genuine surprise. \"'Twasn't no joke,\" he said shortly.",
  "sample_04060.wav": "I reckon you don't know who I be. I don't care who you are.\" Again the Mountaineer stared. \"'No use getting mad, young feller,' he said coolly. \"'I mistaken ye for somebody else, and I ask your pardon.'",
  "sample_04061.wav": "The Yosemite, or grizzly bear tribe, fancying themselves secure in their deep mountain stronghold, were the most troublesome and defiant of all. And it was while the Mariposa Battalion, under command of Major Savage,",
  "sample_04062.wav": "was trying to capture this warlike tribe and conduct them to the Fresno reservation that their deep mountain home, the Yosemite Valley, was discovered.",
  "sample_04063.wav": "instructing them to tell the Indians that if they would come in and make treaty with the commissioners, they would be furnished with food and clothing and be protected. But if they did not come in, he would make war upon them and kill them all.",
  "sample_04064.wav": "informed him of the wishes of the commissioners. But the old chief was very suspicious of Savage and feared that he was taking this method of getting the tribe into his power for the purpose of revenge in his personal wrong.",
  "sample_04065.wav": "Taniya inquired what was the object of taking all the Indians to the San Joaquin Plain. My people....",
  "sample_04066.wav": "My young men have sometimes taken horses and mules from the whites.",
  "sample_04067.wav": "My young men believed that the gold diggers were our enemies.",
  "sample_04068.wav": "and we shall be glad to live in peace with them. We will stay here and be friends. My people do not want to go to the plains. Some of the tribes who have gone there are very bad. We cannot live with them. Here we can defend ourselves.",
  "sample_04069.wav": "To that Major Savage firmly said, Your people must go to the commissioners. If they do not, your young men will again steal horses and kill and plunder the whites.",
  "sample_04070.wav": "It was your people who robbed my stores, burned my houses, and murdered my men. If they do not make a treaty, your whole tribe will be destroyed. Not one of them will be left alive.\" To this the old chief replied,",
  "sample_04071.wav": "It is useless to talk to you about who destroyed your property and killed your people. I am old and you can kill me if you will. But it is useless to lie to you who know more than all the Indians.",
  "sample_04072.wav": "Therefore I will not lie to you, but if you will let me return to my people I will bring them in.\" He was allowed to go. The next day he came back.",
  "sample_04073.wav": "and said his people were on the way to our camp to go with the men sent by the great father, who was so good and rich. Another day passed, but no Indians from the deep valley appeared.",
  "sample_04074.wav": "After waiting still another day the expedition started for the valley. When Tanaya was questioned as to the route and distance, he said that the snow was so deep that the horses could not go through it.",
  "sample_04075.wav": "Savage told Tanaya that he was not telling the truth, for Indians could not cross the mountains in the deep snow, and that he knew they must still be in his village or hiding somewhere near it.",
  "sample_04076.wav": "to see your people who will not come. They will come if I find them.\" You will not find any of my people there, said Tanaya. I do not know where they are. My tribe is small.",
  "sample_04077.wav": "Many of the people of my tribe have come from other tribes, and if they go to the plains and are seen, they will be killed by the friends of those with whom they have quarreled. I was told that I was growing old, and it was well that I should go.",
  "sample_04078.wav": "But that young and strong men can find plenty in the mountains. Therefore, why should they go to the hot plains to be penned up like horses and cattle? My heart has been sore since that talk.",
  "sample_04079.wav": "but I am now willing to go, for it is best for my people.\" Pushing ahead, taking turns and breaking away through the snow, they arrived in sight of the great valley early in the afternoon.",
  "sample_04080.wav": "and guided by one of Taniya's Indians, descended by the same route as that followed by the Mariposa Trail, and the weary party went into camp on the riverbank opposite El Capitan. After supper, seated around a big fire,",
  "sample_04081.wav": "Pohono, the bridal veil, being the principal one. The expedition remained only one day and two nights in the valley, hurrying out on the approach of a storm and reached the South Fork headquarters.",
  "sample_04082.wav": "on the evening of the third day after starting out.",
  "sample_04083.wav": "Most of it had been explored in a general way, and some of its principal features had been named. But the Indians had fled up the Taniya Canyon Trail, and none of them were seen, except an old woman unable to follow the fugitives.",
  "sample_04084.wav": "A second expedition was made in the same year under command of Major Bowling. When the valley was entered no Indians were seen, but the many wigwams with smoldering fires.",
  "sample_04085.wav": "showed that they had been hurriedly abandoned that very day. Later, five young Indians who had been left to watch the movements of the expedition were captured at the foot of the three brothers after a lively chase.",
  "sample_04086.wav": "That same day the old chief was captured on the cliff in the east side of Indian Canyon by some of bowling scouts As Taniya walked towards the camp his eye fell upon the dead body of his favorite son Captain bowling",
  "sample_04087.wav": "through the interpreter, expressed his regret at the occurrence, but not a word did Taniya utter in reply. Later.",
  "sample_04088.wav": "but was caught as he was about to swim across the river.",
  "sample_04089.wav": "And when brought into the presence of Captain Bowling, he said in great emotion, Kill me, Sir Captain, yes, kill me as you killed my son, as you would kill my people if they were to come to you.",
  "sample_04090.wav": "But wait a little, and when I am dead I will call my people to come, and they shall hear me in their sleep, and come to avenge the death of their chief and his son. Yes, Sir America, my spirit will make trouble for you and your people.",
  "sample_04091.wav": "Her willingness to break our friendship at the first opportunity gave me little room to think of anything else. That she should risk her reputation to run after that man was inexplicable, but it was just like a woman.",
  "sample_04092.wav": "If she could get along without me, I could get along without her. I'm the easiest-going person in the world, but when it comes to allowing the girl you are practically engaged to, to make a fool of herself over another man, I won't stand for it.",
  "sample_04093.wav": "and she didn't know, but I made up my mind that she would have to give me an awfully good reason for her sudden interest in Frank Woods before I would forgive her. These thoughts held my attention all the way out.",
  "sample_04094.wav": "Now and again I would be recalled from my gloom by some question from the coroner. He was trying to solve the problem of who murdered Jim.",
  "sample_04095.wav": "As we neared the bridge I noticed again how scant the vegetation was on both sides of the road. Anyone wishing to murder Jim would have been able to see him coming.",
  "sample_04096.wav": "could be seen the thirteenth hole of the country club golf-links. When we reached the crest of the hill, leading down to the bridge, our eyes at once caught sight of a tall maple tree on the right-hand side of the road, and about two hundred yards from it.",
  "sample_04097.wav": "As he saw it the coroner gave a grunt of satisfaction, There's our tree. We stopped the car and scrambled through the thorny bushes that lined the road. The ground was hard clay with only burdock and weeds growing on it.",
  "sample_04098.wav": "There was nothing that would lead us to believe that anyone had been there before. When we reached the tree the coroner examined the ground around it carefully. When he rose he seemed disappointed. What did you expect to find here? I asked.",
  "sample_04099.wav": "I didn't know what we might find. If the man who fired those shots used this tree, I thought we might find an empty cartridge or two. There ought to be at least some broken twigs or something to show that he was up there, but I find nothing at all.",
  "sample_04100.wav": "Still, the fact that the tree is where it is makes the theory plausible.\" He shook his head. No, now that I've seen how far we are from the road, I don't think it does.",
  "sample_04101.wav": "Those bullet holes in the back of the car were fired from above and behind the machine. They slanted down, but not sideways.",
  "sample_04102.wav": "But if the murderer used this tree, two hundred yards from the road, he would have started firing before the car came opposite.",
  "sample_04103.wav": "I'm sorry for when I saw this tree. I thought we'd struck the right track.\" There's one thing I can't make out, I stated, and that is the strange cry of my sister in her delirium. Look out, Jim, it's going to hit us, she called out.",
  "sample_04104.wav": "and I would be willing to swear it had something to do with the murder.\" The coroner thought a moment, then turned to me. What else did she say? Nothing that seemed to refer to the accident. All the rest was apparently delirium.",
  "sample_04105.wav": "She begged forgiveness for some fancied wrong, and repeated that a certain man was not guilty of dishonesty. But her first weird cry had to do with the murder, I'm sure.",
  "sample_04106.wav": "Everything points to an airplane. It was done a hundred, yes, a thousand times in the war. While I was over there with my hospital unit, we used to get a lot of cases of motorcycle dispatch riders who had been picked off by German aviators.",
  "sample_04107.wav": "and is the head of an airplane firm, but I don't think he has an airplane here. He could get one easy enough. The clever devil! Look over there! He has the broad sweep of the golf course as a perfect landing ground.",
  "sample_04108.wav": "helpless before approaching death. I could imagine Helen's agony as she saw that dim black shape.",
  "sample_04109.wav": "Look out, Jim, it's going to hit us.\" Yes, but how are we going to prove it?\" I asked. That's up to us now. An airplane has such speed that it was easy for Woods to fashion an ingenious alibi.",
  "sample_04110.wav": "to account for every minute of his time on the night of the murder, but there must be some holes in it. There always is in a manufactured alibi. I want you to go over to the country club and check up Mr. Wood's schedule of that night.",
  "sample_04111.wav": "while I examined the golf links to see if he landed there. We jumped into my car and drove rapidly to the club. I went into the house by the back way to avoid meeting people and asked for Jackson.",
  "sample_04112.wav": "Jackson, what time did Mr. Woods get out here on the evening Mr. Felderston was killed?",
  "sample_04113.wav": "Did you see him at the time?",
  "sample_04114.wav": "When was the first time you did see him, Jackson? I guess it was at dinnertime, sir.",
  "sample_04115.wav": "You sure he was here all through dinner, I asked. Yes, sir, he must have been, cause he ordered dinner. What time was he through dinner, do you know?\" The darkie scratched his head. I reckon it was...",
  "sample_04116.wav": "I asked. The boy was trembling. He rolled frightened eyes toward Jackson, who was glaring at him. Finally he broke into a wail.",
  "sample_04117.wav": "motioning the angry Jackson away. He\u2014he sat down at the table, but he ain't it none, the boy stuttered. What do you mean, George?\"",
  "sample_04118.wav": "I'll bring him some soup, but he got up powerful sudden like he had a call to the telephone and he ain't come back. Are you sure of that, George? Yes, sir.\"",
  "sample_04119.wav": "I asked him did he want dinner after he come back but he say he ain't hungry. What time was it when he came back? I asked.",
  "sample_04120.wav": "I gave the boy a dollar and he went away happy. Jackson had a sheepish look on his face. Then Mr. Woods wasn't here all through dinner, Jackson. Dread that boy!",
  "sample_04121.wav": "another form of desert. It was Weymouth which he had just entered. Weymouth then was not the respectable and fine Weymouth of today. Ancient Weymouth did not present like the present one.",
  "sample_04122.wav": "For the same reason they had not yet designed on the slope of the green hill toward the east, fashioned flat on the soil by cutting away the turf and leaving the bare chalk to the view, the white horse, an acre long, and the white horse, an acre long, and the white",
  "sample_04123.wav": "George III, having lost in his old age the intellect he had never possessed in his youth, was not responsible for the calamities of his reign. He was an innocent. Why not erect statues to him?",
  "sample_04124.wav": "even good women in their houses. A peltmel of sheds thrown from her devil's bag would give an idea of that irregular Weymouth. The good women in the sheds included the music hall remains as a specimen of those buildings.",
  "sample_04125.wav": "A confusion of wooden dens carved and eaten by worms, which carve in another fashion, shapeless overhanging buildings, some with pillars, leaning one against the other for support against the sea wind.",
  "sample_04126.wav": "and leaving between them awkward spaces of narrow and winding channels, lanes and passages, often flooded.",
  "sample_04127.wav": "The deserted child carrying the foundling passed through the first street, then the second, then the third.",
  "sample_04128.wav": "But all were closed and dark. At intervals he knocked at the doors. No one answered. Nothing makes the heart so like a stone as being warm between sheets. The noise and the shaking had at length awakened the infant.",
  "sample_04129.wav": "He knew this because he felt her suck his cheek. She did not cry, believing him her mother. He was about to turn and wander long perhaps in the intersections of the scammer's lanes.",
  "sample_04130.wav": "Then more cultivated plots than dwellings, more thorn hedges than houses. But fortunately he struck into a passage which exists to this day near Trinity Schools. This passage led him to a water brink.",
  "sample_04131.wav": "with Malcolm Regis, and under the arches of which the backwater joins the harbor. Weymouth, a hamlet, was then the suburb of Malcolm Regis, a city and port. Now Malcolm Regis is a parish of Weymouth.",
  "sample_04132.wav": "The village had absorbed the city. It was the bridge which did the work. Bridges are strange vehicles of suction which inhale the population and sometimes swell one river bank at the expense of its opposite neighbor.",
  "sample_04133.wav": "The boy went to the bridge, which at that period was a covered timber structure. He crossed it.",
  "sample_04134.wav": "The bridge opened on a rather fine street called St. Thomas's Street. He entered it. Here and there were high carved gables and shop fronts. He set to knocking at the doors again.",
  "sample_04135.wav": "He had no strength left to call or shout. At Malcolm Regis, as at Weymouth, no one was stirring. The doors were all carefully double-locked. The windows were covered by their shutters, as the eyes by their lids.",
  "sample_04136.wav": "All its lethargies mingle their nightmares, its slumbers are a crowd, and from its human bodies lying prone there arises a vapor of dreams. Sleep has gloomy associates beyond this life.",
  "sample_04137.wav": "The decomposed thoughts of the sleepers float above them in a mist which is both of death and of life, and combine with the possible, which has also perhaps the power of thought as it floats in space.",
  "sample_04138.wav": "Hence arise entanglements. Dreams, those clouds, interpose their folds and their transparencies over that star, the mind.",
  "sample_04139.wav": "into impalpability. Mysterious diffused existences amalgamate themselves with life on that border of death which sleep is. Those larvae and souls mingle in the air.",
  "sample_04140.wav": "Even he who sleeps not feels a medium press upon him full of sinister life. The sounding chimera in which he suspects a reality impedes him. The Waking Man",
  "sample_04141.wav": "Wending his way amidst the sleep, phantoms of others unconsciously push his back, passing shadows, has, or imagines that he has, a vague fear of adverse contact with the invisible.",
  "sample_04142.wav": "and feels at every moment the obscure pressure of a hostile encounter which immediately dissolves. There is something of the effect of a forest in the nocturnal diffusion of dreams. This is what is called being afraid without reason.",
  "sample_04143.wav": "What a man feels, a child feels still more. The uneasiness of nocturnal fear, increased by the spectral houses, increased the weight of the sad burden under which he was struggling.",
  "sample_04144.wav": "which he took for the ocean. He no longer knew in what direction the sea lay. He retraced his steps, struck to the left by Maiden Street, and returned as far as St. Alban's Row.",
  "sample_04145.wav": "There, by chance, and without selection, he knocked violently at any house that he happened to pass. His blows, on which he was expending his last energies, were jerky and without aim, now ceasing altogether for a time.",
  "sample_04146.wav": "One voice answered, That of time. Three o'clock told slowly behind him from the old belfry of St. Nicholas. Then all sank into silence again.",
  "sample_04147.wav": "there were just over a somewhat severe outbreak of the plague in London, and that the fear of receiving sick vagabonds caused a diminution of hospitality everywhere. People would not even open their windows for fear of inhaling the poison.",
  "sample_04148.wav": "The child felt the coldness of men more terribly than the coldest of night.",
  "sample_04149.wav": "The pitiless desert he had understood, the unrelenting town was too much to bear. The hour, the strokes of which he had just counted, had been another blow.",
  "sample_04150.wav": "Nothing is so freezing in certain situations as the voice of the hour. It is a declaration of indifference. It is eternity saying, What does it matter to me? He stopped.",
  "sample_04151.wav": "The Little Peasant. There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one whom they called The Little Peasant. She had not even so much as a cow, and still less money to buy one.",
  "sample_04152.wav": "And yet he and his wife did so wish to have one. One day he said to her, Listen, I have a good idea. There is our gossip, the carpenter. He shall make us a wooden calf, and paint it brown, so that it looks like any other, and in time.",
  "sample_04153.wav": "it will certainly get big and be a cow. The woman also liked the idea, and their gossip the carpenter cut and planned the calf, and painted it as it ought to be, and made it with its head hanging down, as if it were eating. Next morning, when the cows were being driveled out,",
  "sample_04154.wav": "The little peasant called the cowherd in and said, \"'Look, I have a little calf there, but it is still small and has to be carried.' The cowherd said, \"'All right,' and took it in his arms and carried it to the pasture, and set it among the grass.",
  "sample_04155.wav": "The little calf always remained standing like one which was eating, and the cowherd said, It will soon run by itself. Just look how it eats already. At night, when he was going to drive the herd home again, he said to the calf,",
  "sample_04156.wav": "If you can stand there and eat your fill, you can also go on your four legs. I don't care to drag you home again in my arms.",
  "sample_04157.wav": "And when the cowherd drove the cows through the village and the calf was missing, he inquired where it was. The cowherd answered, \"'It is still standing out there eating. It would not stop and come with us.' But the little peasant said,",
  "sample_04158.wav": "Oh, but I must have my beast back again.\" Then they went back to the meadow together, but someone had stolen the calf, and it was gone. The cowherd said, it must have run away. The peasant, however, said, don't tell me that.",
  "sample_04159.wav": "and led the cowherd before the mayor, who for his carelessness condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf which had run away. And now the little peasant and his wife had the cow for which they had so long wished, and they were heartily glad.",
  "sample_04160.wav": "but they had no food for it and could give it nothing to eat, so it soon had to be killed. They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds. On the way, he passed by a mill.",
  "sample_04161.wav": "And there sat a raven with broken wings, and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin. But as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could go no farther and turn back to the mill and beg for shelter.",
  "sample_04162.wav": "The miller's wife was alone in the house and said to the peasant, Lay yourself on the straw there, and gave him a slice of bread and cheese. The peasant ate it and lay down with his skin beside him, and the woman thought, He is tired and has gone to sleep.",
  "sample_04163.wav": "In the meantime came the parson. The miller's wife received him well and said, My husband is out, so we will have a feast. The peasant listened, and when he heard them talk about feasting he was vexed that he had been forced to make shift with a slice of bread and cheese.",
  "sample_04164.wav": "Then the women served up four different things\u2014roast meat, salad, cakes, and wine. Just as they were about to sit down and eat there was a knocking outside. The women said, Oh heavens! It is my husband! They quickly hid the roast meat inside the tiled stove.",
  "sample_04165.wav": "the wine under the pillow, the salad on the bed, the cakes under it, and the parson in the closet on the porch. Then she opened the door for her husband and said, Thank heaven you are back again.",
  "sample_04166.wav": "There is such a storm it looks as if the world were coming to an end.\" The miller saw the peasant lying on the straw and asked, \"'What is that fellow doing there?' \"'Ah,' said the wife, the poor knave came in the storm and rain and begged for shelter.\"",
  "sample_04167.wav": "The man said, I have no objection, but be quick, get me something to eat. The woman said, But I have nothing but bread and cheese. I am contented with anything, replied the husband. So far as I am concerned, bread and cheese will do. The woman looked at the peasant inside.",
  "sample_04168.wav": "Come, and eat some more with me.\" The peasant did not require to be invited twice, but got up and ate. After this the miller saw the skin in which the raven was, lying on the ground, and asked, What have you there? The peasant answered, I have a soothsayer inside it.",
  "sample_04169.wav": "\"'Can you foretell anything to me?' said the miller. \"'Why not?' answered the peasant. \"'But he only says four things, and the fifth he keeps to himself.' The miller was curious and said, \"'I don't know what you're talking about. \"'I don't know what you're talking about. \"'I don't know what you're talking about. \"'I don't know what you're talking about.",
  "sample_04170.wav": "and went tither and found the roast meat.",
  "sample_04171.wav": "Thirdly, he says, that there is some salad on the bed. That would be a fine thing, cried the miller, and went there and found the salad.",
  "sample_04172.wav": "Fourthly, he says that there are some cakes under the bed. \"'That would be a fine thing,' cried the Miller, and looked there and found the cakes. And now the two sat down to the table together, but the Miller's wife was frightened to death and went to bed and took all the keys with her.",
  "sample_04173.wav": "The miller would have liked much to know the fifth, but the little peasant said, First we will quickly eat the four things, for the fifth is something bad. So they ate, and after that they bargained how much the miller was to give for the fifth",
  "sample_04174.wav": "until they agreed on three hundred tailors. Then the peasant once more pinched the raven's head till he croaked loudly. The miller asked, What did he say? The peasant replied, He says that the devil is hiding outside there in the closet on the porch. The miller said,",
  "sample_04175.wav": "The devil must go out, and open the house door. Then the woman was forced to give up the keys, and the peasant unlocked the closet. The parson ran out as fast as he could, and the miller said, It was true, I saw the black rascal with my own eyes.",
  "sample_04176.wav": "The peasant, however, made off the next morning by daybreak with the three hundred tailors. At home the small peasant gradually launched out. He built a beautiful house and the peasant said, The small peasant has certainly been to the place where golden snow falls.",
  "sample_04177.wav": "and people carry the gold home in shovels. Then the small peasant was brought before the mayor, and bidden to say from whence his wealth came. He answered, I sold my cow's skin in the town for three hundred tailors. When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit.",
  "sample_04178.wav": "and ram home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage. The mayor, however, said, But my servant must go first.",
  "sample_04179.wav": "And when the others came, he did not give them so much, and said, What can I do with all these skins? Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus outwitted them, wanted to take a vengeance on him, and accused him of this treachery before the Mayor.",
  "sample_04180.wav": "The innocent little peasant was unanimously sentenced to death, and was to be rolled into the water in a barrel pierced full of holes. He was led forth, and a priest was brought, who was to say a mass for his soul.",
  "sample_04181.wav": "crisis in my mental history one stage onward. For some years after this time I wrote very little and nothing regularly for publication, and great were the advantages which I derived from the intermission.",
  "sample_04182.wav": "It was of no common importance to me at this period to be able to digest and mature my thoughts for my own mind only, without any immediate call for giving them out in print. Had I gone on writing...",
  "sample_04183.wav": "might truly be called an object in life, to be a reformer of the world. My conception of my own happiness was entirely identified with this object. The personal sympathies I wished for were those of fellow laborers",
  "sample_04184.wav": "in this enterprise. I endeavored to pick up as many flowers as I could by the way.",
  "sample_04185.wav": "but as a serious and permanent personal satisfaction to rest upon, my whole reliance was placed on this, and I was accustomed to felicitate myself on the certainty of a happy life, which I enjoyed.",
  "sample_04186.wav": "through placing my happiness in something durable and distant, in which some progress might be always making, while it could never be exhausted by complete attainment. This did very well for several years, during which the general",
  "sample_04187.wav": "As from a dream, it was in the autumn of 1826 I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to, unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement. One of those moods",
  "sample_04188.wav": "In this frame of mind, it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself. Suppose that all your objects in life were realized, that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to,",
  "sample_04189.wav": "The whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means?",
  "sample_04190.wav": "I awoke to a renewed consciousness of the woeful fact. I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Barely anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.",
  "sample_04191.wav": "For some months the clouds seemed to grow thicker and thicker, the lines and collarages dejection. I was not then acquainted with them exactly described my case. A grief without a pang. Void.",
  "sample_04192.wav": "In vain I sought relief from my favorite books, those memorials of past nobleness and greatness from which I had always hitherto drawn strength and animation. I read them now without feeling.",
  "sample_04193.wav": "Or with the accustomed feeling, minus all its charm, and I became persuaded that my love of mankind, and of excellence for its own sake, had worn itself out.",
  "sample_04194.wav": "I sought no comfort by speaking to others of what I felt. If I had loved anyone sufficiently to make confiding my griefs a necessity, I should not have been in the condition I was.",
  "sample_04195.wav": "I felt, too, that mine was not an interesting or in any way respectable distress. There was nothing in it to attract sympathy. Advice",
  "sample_04196.wav": "and I saw no use in giving him the pain of thinking that his plans had failed when the failure was probably irremediable and at all events beyond the power of his will.",
  "sample_04197.wav": "his remedies. Of other friends I had at the time, none to whom I had any hope of making my condition intelligible. It was, however, abundantly intelligible to myself.",
  "sample_04198.wav": "And the more I dwelt upon it, the more hopeless it appeared. My course of study",
  "sample_04199.wav": "whether of a good or of a bad kind, with the results of association, that we love one thing and hate another. Take pleasure in one sort of action or contemplation",
  "sample_04200.wav": "with all things beneficial to the great whole.",
  "sample_04201.wav": "all things hurtful to it. This doctrine appeared inexpungible, but it now seemed to me on retrospect that my teachers had occupied themselves",
  "sample_04202.wav": "salutary associations. They seem to have trusted altogether to the old familiar instruments, praise and blame, reward and punishment. Now, I will read the words of the Bible.",
  "sample_04203.wav": "I did not doubt that by these means, begun early and applied unremittingly, intense associations of pain and pleasure, especially of pain, might be created.",
  "sample_04204.wav": "and might produce desires and aversions capable of lasting undiminished to the end of life. But there must always be something artificial and casual in associations thus produced.",
  "sample_04205.wav": "What I had always before received was incredulity, that the habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings, as indeed it has when no other mental habit is cultivated.",
  "sample_04206.wav": "and the analyzing spirit remains without its natural complements and correctives. The very excellence of analysis, I argued, is that it tends to weaken and undermine whatever is the result of prejudice.",
  "sample_04207.wav": "that it enables us mentally to separate ideas which have only casually clung together, and no associations whatever could ultimately resist this dissolving force.",
  "sample_04208.wav": "Were it not that we owe to analysis our clearest knowledge of the permanent sequences in nature, the real connections between things not dependent on our will and feelings, natural laws, by virtue of which in many cases,",
  "sample_04209.wav": "One thing is inseparable from another, in fact. Which laws, in proportion as they are clearly perceived and imaginatively realized, cause our ideas of things which are always joined together in nature?",
  "sample_04210.wav": "To cohere more and more closely in our thoughts, analytic habits may thus even strengthen the associations between causes and effects, means and ends, but tend altogether to weaken those which are",
  "sample_04211.wav": "the principal character in the story. If you, presuming you are of the sex that does such things, if you had gone into the drapery emporium, which is really only magnificent for shop,",
  "sample_04212.wav": "a perfectly fictitious co by the by, of Putney on the 14th of August 1895, had turned to the right hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blueprints depend,",
  "sample_04213.wav": "You might have been served by the central figure of this story that is now beginning. He would have come forward, bowing and swaying.",
  "sample_04214.wav": "what he might have the pleasure of showing you. Under certain circumstances, as for instance, hats, baby linen, gloves, silks, lace or curtains,",
  "sample_04215.wav": "and making a kind of circular sweep, invited you to step this way. And so, led you behind his can.",
  "sample_04216.wav": "Huckaback, Blankets, Dimity, Cretone, Linen, Calico are cases in point.",
  "sample_04217.wav": "Under which happier circumstances you might, if of an observing turn of mind and not too much of a housewife to be inhuman, have given the central figure of this story less cursory attention.",
  "sample_04218.wav": "Now, if you had noticed anything about him, it would have been chievly to notice how little he was noticeable. Here were the black morning coat, the black tie, and the speckled gray nether parts descending into shadow and mystery below the counter of his craft.",
  "sample_04219.wav": "hair of a kind of dirty fairness, grayish eyes, and a skimpy, immature mustache under his peaked, indeterminate nose. His features were all small, but none ill-shaped. A rosette of pins decorated the lapel of his coat.",
  "sample_04220.wav": "We could show you something better, of course. No trouble, madam, I assure you. Such were the simple counters of his intercourse. So I say...",
  "sample_04221.wav": "He would have danced about behind the counter, have neatly refolded the goods he had shown you, have put on one side those you selected, extracted a little book with a carbon leaf and a tin foil sheet from a fixture,",
  "sample_04222.wav": "made you out a little bill in that weak flourishing hand peculiar to drapers.",
  "sample_04223.wav": "Sign! Then a puffy little shopwalker would have come into view.",
  "sample_04224.wav": "have scribbled still more flourishing. J.M. all over the document have asked you if there was nothing more, have stood by you supposing that you were paying cash until the central figure of this story reappeared with the change.",
  "sample_04225.wav": "One glance more at him, and the puffy little shop-walker would have been bowing you out, with fountains of civilities at work all about you.",
  "sample_04226.wav": "But real literature, as distinguished from anecdote, does not concern itself with superficial appearances alone. Literature is revelation. Modern literature is indecorous revelation.",
  "sample_04227.wav": "It is the duty of the earnest author to tell you what you would not have seen, even at the cost of some blushes. And the thing that you would not have seen about this young man, and the thing of the greatest moment to this story...",
  "sample_04228.wav": "The thing that must be told if the book is to be written was, let us face it bravely, the remarkable condition of this young man's legs. Let us approach the business with dispassionate explicitness.",
  "sample_04229.wav": "Let us assume something of the scientific spirit, the hard, almost professional tone of the conscientious realist. Let us treat this young man's legs as a mere diagram and indicate the points of interest where the unemotional...",
  "sample_04230.wav": "And so, to our revelation, on the internal aspect of the right ankle of this young man, you would have observed, ladies and gentlemen, a contusion and an abrasion. On the internal aspect of the left ankle, a contusion also.",
  "sample_04231.wav": "on its external aspect a large yellowish bruise. On his left chin there were two bruises, one a leaden yellow graduating here and there into purple and another, obviously of a more recent date, of a blotchy red.",
  "sample_04232.wav": "tumid and threatening. Proceeding up the left leg in a spiral manner, an unnatural hardness and reddish would have been discovered on the upper aspect of the calf.",
  "sample_04233.wav": "and above the knee and on the inner side an extraordinary expanse of bruised surface, a kind of closely stippled shading of contused points.",
  "sample_04234.wav": "The right leg would be found to be bruised in a marvelous manner all about and under the knee, and particularly on the interior aspect of the knee. So far, we may proceed with our details.",
  "sample_04235.wav": "Fired by these discoveries, an investigator might perhaps have presumed his inquiries further, to bruises on the shoulders, elbows, and even the finger joints of the central figure of our story.",
  "sample_04236.wav": "He had indeed been bumped and battered at an extraordinary number of points, but enough of realistic description is as good as a feast.",
  "sample_04237.wav": "Even in literature, one must know where to draw the line. Now, the reader may be inclined to wonder how a respectable young shopman",
  "sample_04238.wav": "One might fancy that he had been sitting with his nether extremities in some complicated machinery. A threshing machine, say, or one of those haymaking furies. But Sherlock Holmes...",
  "sample_04239.wav": "would have fancied nothing of the kind.",
  "sample_04240.wav": "considered in the light of the distribution of the other abrasions and contusions, pointed unmistakably to the violent impact of the mounting beginner upon the bicycle saddle, and that the ruinous state of the right knee was equally eloquent,",
  "sample_04241.wav": "Above this couple there was Anne, Queen of England. An ordinary woman was Queen Anne. She was gay, kindly, august, to a certain extent. No quality of her is attained to virtue, none to vice.",
  "sample_04242.wav": "Her stoutness was bloated, her fun heavy, her good-nature stupid, she was stubborn and weak. As a wife she was faithless and faithful, having favorites to whom she gave up her heart, and a husband for whom she kept her bed.",
  "sample_04243.wav": "As a Christian she was a heretic and a bigot. She had one beauty.",
  "sample_04244.wav": "The rest of her person was indifferently formed. She was a clumsy coquette and a chaste one. Her skin was white and fine. She displayed a great deal of it. It was she who introduced the fashion of necklaces, of large pearls clasped round the throat.",
  "sample_04245.wav": "She had a narrow forehead, sensual lips, fleshy cheeks, large eyes, short sight. Her short sight extended to her mind. Beyond a burst of merriment now and then, almost as ponderous as her anger, she was",
  "sample_04246.wav": "She lived in a sort of taciturn grumble and a grumbling silence. Words escaped from her which had to be guessed at. She was a mixture of a good woman and a mischievous devil. She liked surprises, which is extremely womanlike. Anne was a pattern.",
  "sample_04247.wav": "She had fits of rage. She was violent, a brawler. Nobody more awkward than Anne in directing affairs of state. She allowed events to fall about as they might chance. Her whole policy was cracked.",
  "sample_04248.wav": "She excelled in bringing about great catastrophes from little causes. When a whim of authority took hold of her,",
  "sample_04249.wav": "She did not explain her thought. She exuded it. There was something of the Sphinx in this goose. She rather liked fun, teasing, and practical jokes. Could she have made Apollo a hunchback, it would have delighted her. But she would have left him a god.",
  "sample_04250.wav": "Good-natured, her ideal was to allow none to despair, and to worry all. She had often a rough word in her mouth.",
  "sample_04251.wav": "with which she reddened her lips, and having coloured her mouth, would laugh. She was greedily fond of the flat zeal and gingerbread cakes. She was proud of being fat. More of a Puritan than anything else, she would, nevertheless.",
  "sample_04252.wav": "have liked to devote herself to stage plays. She had an absurd academy of music, copied after that of France. In 1700 a Frenchman named Forte-Aroche wanted to build a royal circus at Paris at a cost of 400,000 francs.",
  "sample_04253.wav": "The assembly of twelve persons, were it only to eat oysters and drink porter, was a felony. Under her reign, otherwise relatively mild, pressing for the fleet was carried on with extreme violence, a gloomy evidence that the Englishman is a subject rather than a citizen.",
  "sample_04254.wav": "For centuries England suffered under that process of tyranny which gave the lie to all the old charters of freedom, and out of which France especially gathered a cause of triumph and indignation. What in some degrees diminishes the triumph is that while sailors were pressed in England",
  "sample_04255.wav": "Soldiers were pressed in France. In every great town of France any able-bodied man, going through the streets on his business, was liable to be shoved by the crimps into a house called the Oven.",
  "sample_04256.wav": "Those fit for service were picked out.",
  "sample_04257.wav": "In 1695 there were thirty of these ovens in Paris. The laws against Ireland, emanating from Queen Anne, were atrocious. Anne was born in 1664, two years before the Great Fire of London, on which the astrologers There were some left.",
  "sample_04258.wav": "predicted that, being the elder sister of Fire, she would be Queen. And so she was, thanks to astrology and the revolution of 1688. She had the humiliation of having only Gilbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, for godfather. To be godchild of the Pope was no longer possible in England.",
  "sample_04259.wav": "A mere primate is but a poor sort of godfather. Anne had to put up with one, however. It was her own fault. Why was she a Protestant? Denmark had paid for her virginity\u2014Virginitas Emte, as the old charters expressed it.",
  "sample_04260.wav": "There was never a bon mort, but in French. Anne paid a deal of attention to her coins, especially to copper coins, which are the low and popular ones. She wanted to cut a great figure on them. Six farthings were struck during her reign.",
  "sample_04261.wav": "On the back of the first three she had merely a throne struck. On the back of the fourth she ordered a triumphal chariot, and on the back of the sixth a goddess holding a sword in one hand and an olive branch in the other, with the scroll of a thousand",
  "sample_04262.wav": "Why? France excludes them. There is a reason at once. Perhaps there is no other. With English historians Elizabeth embodies grandeur and good nature, as they will, be it so. But there is nothing delicate in the reigns of these women. The lines are heavy.",
  "sample_04263.wav": "3. One idiotic habit of the people is to attribute to the king what they do themselves. They fight. Who is the glory? The kings. They pay. Who is the generosity? The kings. Then the people love him for being so rich.",
  "sample_04264.wav": "The equestrian statue, reserved for kings alone, is an excellent figure of royalty. The horse is the people. Only that the horse becomes transfigured by degrees. It begins in an ass, it ends in a lion.",
  "sample_04265.wav": "Then it throws its rider, and you have 1642 in England and 1789 in France, and sometimes it devours him, and you have in England 1649 and in France 1793. That the lion should relapse into the donkey is astonishing, but it is so.",
  "sample_04266.wav": "counted a hundred and fifty in her fleet. The English had three armies, five thousand men in Catalonia, ten thousand in Portugal, fifty thousand in Flanders.",
  "sample_04267.wav": "to monarchial and diplomatic Europe, a sort of prostitute the English people had always had in keeping. Parliament, having voted a patriotic loan of thirty-four million francs of annuities, there had been a crush at the Exchequer to subscribe it.",
  "sample_04268.wav": "and that he would be but too happy if England would only tolerate the King of France fishing for cod at Cape Breton. England was about to impose upon him the shame of demolishing himself the fortifications of Dunkirk. Meanwhile she had taken Gibraltar and was taking Barcelona.",
  "sample_04269.wav": "What great things accomplished! How is it possible to refuse an admiration for taking the trouble of living at the period?",
  "sample_04270.wav": "bears to him the vague resemblance of a reflection. Like him, she plays at a great reign. She has her monuments, her arts, her victories, her captains, her men of letters, her privy to pension celebrities, her gallery of chef d'oeuvre.",
  "sample_04271.wav": "in latitude 47 degrees",
  "sample_04272.wav": "and longitude 17 degrees.",
  "sample_04273.wav": "In the aftermath of this storm we were thrown back to the east, away went any hope of escaping to the landing places of New York or the St. Lawrence.",
  "sample_04274.wav": "Poor Ned went into seclusion like Captain Nemo. Consul and I no longer left each other. As I said, the Nautilus veered to the east. To be more accurate, I should have said to the northeast.",
  "sample_04275.wav": "Sometimes beneath them, the ship wandered for days amid these mists so feared by navigators. These are caused chiefly by melting ice, which keeps the air extremely damp.",
  "sample_04276.wav": "How many ships have perished in these waterways as they tried to get directions from the hazy lights on the coast? How many casualties have been caused by these opaque mists? How many collisions have occurred with these reefs?",
  "sample_04277.wav": "where the breaking surf is covered by the noise of the wind. How many vessels have rammed each other?",
  "sample_04278.wav": "So the floor of this sea had the appearance of a battlefield, where every ship defeated.",
  "sample_04279.wav": "others newer and reflecting our beacon light on their ironwork and copper undersides. Among these vessels, how many went down with all hands, with their crews and hosts of immigrants?",
  "sample_04280.wav": "at these trouble-spots so prominent in the statistics Cape Race, St. Paul Island, the Strait of Belle Isle, the St. Lawrence Estuary",
  "sample_04281.wav": "And in only a few years, how many victims have been furnished to the obituary notices, by the Royal Mail, Inman, and Montreal lines, by vessels named the Solway, the ISIS, the",
  "sample_04282.wav": "The Hungarian, the Canadian, the Anglo-Saxon, the Humboldt.",
  "sample_04283.wav": "all run aground, by the Arctic and the Linesis, sunken collisions, by the President, the Pacific, and the City of Glasgow.",
  "sample_04284.wav": "of their gloomy rubble, the Nautilus navigated.",
  "sample_04285.wav": "By May 15th, we were off the southern tip of the Great Banks of Newfoundland. These banks are the result of marine sedimentation, an extensive accumulation of organic waste",
  "sample_04286.wav": "brought either from the equator by the Gulf Stream's current, or from the North Pole by the countercurrent of cold water that skirts the American coast. Here, too, erratically drifting chunks collect from the ice breakup.",
  "sample_04287.wav": "Here, a huge boneyard forms from fish, mollusks, and",
  "sample_04288.wav": "dying over it by the billions. The sea is of no great depth at the Great Banks, a few hundred fathoms at best. But to the south there is a deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep,",
  "sample_04289.wav": "Suddenly occurring depression. A 3,000 meter pit. Here the Gulf Stream widens.",
  "sample_04290.wav": "a one meter lumpfish, blackish, on top.",
  "sample_04291.wav": "and rare among its brethren, in that it practices monogamy, a good-sized eel-pout, a type of emerald moray, whose flavor is excellent, wolfish, with big eyes, and a",
  "sample_04292.wav": "Viva Paris Blenny's, whose eggs hatch inside their bodies like those of snakes. Bloated goby-o.",
  "sample_04293.wav": "measuring two decimeters. Grenadiers with long tails and gleaming with a silvery glow. Speedy fish venturing far from their high Arctic seas. Our nets also hauled in a bold",
  "sample_04294.wav": "daring, vigorous and muscular fish armed with prickles on its head and stings on its fins. A real scorpion measuring two to three meters. The ruthless enemy.",
  "sample_04295.wav": "blennies, and salmon. It was the bowhead of the northerly seas, a fish with red fins, and a brown body covered with nodules.",
  "sample_04296.wav": "The Nautilus' fisherman had some trouble getting a grip on this animal, which, thanks to the formation of its gill covers,",
  "sample_04297.wav": "can protect its respiratory organs from any parching contact with air and can live out of water for a good while. And I'll mention, for the record, some little banded blennies.",
  "sample_04298.wav": "that follow ships into the northernmost seas, sharp-snouted carp exclusive to the North Atlantic, scorpion fish, and lastly,",
  "sample_04299.wav": "chiefly the cod species, which I detected in their waters of choice over these inexhaustible grand banks. Because Newfoundland is simply an underwater peak,",
  "sample_04300.wav": "You could call these cod mountain fish. While the Nautilus was clearing a path through their tight ranks,",
  "sample_04301.wav": "of this venerable and ancient city gradually slipping from our grasp, trembling on the lips of narrative old age, and day by day dropping piecemeal into the tomb. In a little while, thought I, and those revered Dutch burgers,",
  "sample_04302.wav": "who serve as the tottering monuments of good old times, will be gathered to their fathers. Their children, engrossed by the empty pleasures or insignificant transactions of the present age, will neglect to treasure up the recollections of the past.",
  "sample_04303.wav": "and posterity will search in vain for memorials of the days of the patriarchs. The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion, and even the names and achievements of Walter von Twiller",
  "sample_04304.wav": "Strange as it may seem, though such multitudes of excellent work have been written about this country, there are none extant which give any full and satisfactory account of the early history of New York.",
  "sample_04305.wav": "or of its three first Dutch governors. I have however gained much valuable and curious matter from an elaborate manuscript written",
  "sample_04306.wav": "excepting a few errors in orthography, which was found in the archives of the Stuyvesant family. Many legends, letters, and other documents have I likewise gleaned in my researches among the family chess and lumber garrets of our respectable",
  "sample_04307.wav": "by that admirable and praiseworthy institution, the New York Historical Society, to which I here publicly return my sincere acknowledgments. In the conduct of this inestimable work, I have adopted no individual model,",
  "sample_04308.wav": "and the strictest adherence to truth throughout my history. I have enriched it after the Manor of Solace with various characters of ancient worthies, drawn at full length and faithfully colored.",
  "sample_04309.wav": "sweetened it with the graces of sentiment like Tacitus, and infused into the whole the dignity, the grandeur, and magnificence of Livy. I am aware that I shall incur the censure of numerous very learned and judicious critics for",
  "sample_04310.wav": "of the historian and entice him to turn aside and refresh himself from his wayfaring. But I trust it will be found that I have always resumed my staff and addressed myself to my weary journey with renovated spirits.",
  "sample_04311.wav": "Yet the loose and unconnected matter in which many of the facts herein recorded have come to hand, rendered such an attempt extremely difficult. This difficulty was likewise increased by one of the grand objects contemplated in my work,",
  "sample_04312.wav": "But the chief merit on which I value myself and found my hopes for future regard is that faithful veracity with which I have compiled this invaluable little work.",
  "sample_04313.wav": "carefully winnowing away the shaft of hypothesis, and discarding the tears of fable, which are too apt to spring up and choke the seeds of truth and wholesome knowledge. I've been anxious to captivate the superficial throng.",
  "sample_04314.wav": "the infant years of our city, to introduce a thousand pleasing fictions. But I have scrupulously discarded many a pithy tale and marvelous adventure, whereby the drowsy ear of summer indolence might be enthralled.",
  "sample_04315.wav": "jealousy maintaining that fidelity, gravity, and dignity which should ever distinguish the historian. For a writer of this class, observes an elegant critic, must sustain the character of a wise man writing for the instruction of posterity.",
  "sample_04316.wav": "to decay, who gathers together their scattered fragments as they rot, and who piously at leith collects their ashes into the mausoleum of his work, and rears a triumphant monument.",
  "sample_04317.wav": "to transmit their renown to all succeeding ages. What has been the fate of many fair cities of antiquity, whose nameless ruins encumber the plains of Europe and Asia, and awaken the fruitless inquiry of the traveller?",
  "sample_04318.wav": "they have perished from remembrance for want of a historian. The philanthropists may weep over their desolation. The poet may wander among their moldering arches and broken columns.",
  "sample_04319.wav": "and indulge the visionary flights of his fancy. But alas, alas, the modern historian, whose pen, like my own, is doomed to confine itself to dull matter of fact",
  "sample_04320.wav": "reunite the thread of generations. The same sad misfortune which has happened to so many ancient cities will happen again and from the same sad cause to nine-tenths of those which now flourish on the face of the globe.",
  "sample_04321.wav": "Chapter 8. Duko van der Stal had taken a large vault-like studio with a chilly north light up three flights of stairs in the Via del Babuino. Here he painted, modeled, and studied.",
  "sample_04322.wav": "in the little shops along the Tiber or in the Mercato dei Fiori. That was his passion, to hunt through Rome for a panel of an old triptych or a fragment of ancient sculpture.",
  "sample_04323.wav": "In this way his studio had not remained the large, chilly vault-like workroom bearing witness to zealous and serious study, but had become a refuge for dim-colored remnants of antiquity.",
  "sample_04324.wav": "and ancient art, a museum for his dreaming spirit. Already as a child, as a boy, he had felt that passion for antiquity developing. He learned how to rummage through the stocks of old Jewish dealers.",
  "sample_04325.wav": "He spent all his pocket money on it and later, without reserve, the little that he was able to earn. For sometimes, very seldom, he would finish something and sell it.",
  "sample_04326.wav": "When he had the money to keep himself going, and his personal needs were very small, he felt rich and was content in his studio, or would wander perfectly content through the streets of Rome.",
  "sample_04327.wav": "And his favorite headgear was a faded hat, battered out of shape by the rain.",
  "sample_04328.wav": "He would wander for hours through the ruins and see, in a dazzling vision of phantom columns, ethereal temples and translucent marble palaces, looming up in a shimmering sunlight twilight, and the tourists going by with their beideckers.",
  "sample_04329.wav": "Who, past this long, lean young man, seated carelessly on the foundations of the temple of Saturn, would never have believed in his architectural allusions of harmonious ascending lines, crowned by an array of statues and noble",
  "sample_04330.wav": "and godlike attitudes high in the blue sky. But he saw them before him. He raised the shafts of the pillars. He fluted the severe Doric columns. He bent and curved the cushioned ionic capitals.",
  "sample_04331.wav": "Chapter 5. Through Solway Sands, through Taurus Moss, Blindfold he knew the paths to cross. By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best bloodhounds.",
  "sample_04332.wav": "In Esk or Liddell, Fords were none, but he would ride them one by one. A like to him was time or tide, December snow or July's pride. A like to him was tide or time, moonless midnight or matting prime.",
  "sample_04333.wav": "Walter Scott. All the members of the Wharton family laid their heads on their pillows that night, with a foreboding of some interruption to their ordinary quiet. Uneasiness kept the sisters from enjoying their usual repose.",
  "sample_04334.wav": "and they rose from their beds on the following morning unrefreshed and almost without having closed their eyes. On taking an eager and hasty survey of the valley from the windows of their room nothing however but its usual serenity was to be seen.",
  "sample_04335.wav": "compose the season for enjoyment in the open air. They have their storms, but they are distinct and not of long continuance, leaving a clear atmosphere and a cloudless sky.",
  "sample_04336.wav": "The sisters descended to the parlor with a returning confidence in their brother's security and their own happiness. The family were early in assembling around the breakfast table, and Miss Peyton with",
  "sample_04337.wav": "had pleasantly insisted that the absence of her nephew should in no manner interfere with the regular hours she had established. Consequently, the party were already seated when the captain made his appearance.",
  "sample_04338.wav": "though the untasted coffee sufficiently proved that by none of his relatives was his absence disregarded. I think I did much better, he cried, taking a chair between his sisters and receiving their offered salutes.",
  "sample_04339.wav": "turning to his younger and evidently favorite sister and tapping her cheek. Did you see banners in the clouds and mistake Miss Peyton's Aeolian harp for rebellious music? Nay, Henry rejoined the maid.",
  "sample_04340.wav": "looking at him affectionately. Much as I love my own country, the approach of her troops just now would give me great pain. The brother made no reply, but returning the fondness expressed in her eye by a look of fraternal tenderness,",
  "sample_04341.wav": "he gently pressed her hand in silence, when Caesar, who had participated largely in the anxiety of the family, and who had risen with the dawn and kept a vigilant watch on the surrounding objects, as he stood gazing from one of the windows,",
  "sample_04342.wav": "Run. Masahari, run!",
  "sample_04343.wav": "Run, repeated the British officer, gathering himself up in military pride. No, Mr. Caesar, running is not my trade. He walked deliberately to the window.",
  "sample_04344.wav": "where the family were already collected in the greatest consternation.",
  "sample_04345.wav": "His house was surrounded by a dozen sentinels. Two or three of the dragoons now dismounted and disappeared. In a few minutes, however, they returned to the yard, followed by Katie, from whose house",
  "sample_04346.wav": "violent gesticulations, it was evident that matters of no trifling concern were on the carpet. A short communication with the loquacious housekeeper followed the arrival of the main of the troop and the advance party remounting.",
  "sample_04347.wav": "but they were all haughtily rejected by the young man as unworthy of his character. It was too late to retreat to the woods in the rear of the cottage, for he would unavoidably be seen, and followed by a troop of horse, as inevitably taken.",
  "sample_04348.wav": "At length, his sisters, with trembling hands, replaced his original disguise, the instruments of which had been carefully kept at hand by Caesar in expectation of some sudden emergency.",
  "sample_04349.wav": "This arrangement was hastily and imperfectly completed as the dragoons entered the lawn and orchard of the locusts, riding with the rapidity of the wind, and in their turn the wardens were surrounded.",
  "sample_04350.wav": "Nothing remained now but to meet the impending examination with as much indifference as the family could assume. The leader of the horse dismounted, and followed by a couple of his men, he approached the outer door of the building.",
  "sample_04351.wav": "which was slowly and reluctantly open for his admission by Caesar. The heavy tread of the trooper as he followed the black to the door of the parlor rang in the ears of the females as it approached nearer and nearer.",
  "sample_04352.wav": "and drove the blood from their faces to their hearts, with a chill that nearly annihilated feeling. A man whose colossal stature manifested the possession of vast strength entered the room, and removing his cap,",
  "sample_04353.wav": "his appearance did not indicate as belonging to his nature. His dark hair hung around his brow in perfusion, though stained with powder which was worn at that day, and his face was nearly hid in the whiskers by which it was disfigured.",
  "sample_04354.wav": "Still, the expression of his eye, though piercing, was not bad, and his voice, though deep and powerful, was far from unpleasant. Thomas ventured to throw a timid glance at his figure as he entered.",
  "sample_04355.wav": "and saw at once the man from whose scrutiny Harvey Birch had warned them there was so much to be apprehended. \"'You have no cause for alarm, ladies,' said the officer, pausing a moment, and contemplating the pale faces around him.",
  "sample_04356.wav": "My business will be confined to a few questions, which, if freely answered, will instantly remove us from your dwelling.\" And what may they be, sir? stammered Mr. Wharton.",
  "sample_04357.wav": "rising from his chair and waiting anxiously for the reply. \"'Has there been a strange gentleman staying with you during the storm?' continued the Dugun, speaking with interest, and in some degree sharing in the evident anxiety of the father.",
  "sample_04358.wav": "and has not yet departed. This gentleman,\" repeated the other, turning to Captain Wharton and contemplating his figure for a moment,",
  "sample_04359.wav": "He approached the youth with an air of comet gravity and with a low bow, continued, \"'I am sorry for the severe cold you have in your head, sir.'\" \"'I?' exclaimed the captain in surprise.\"",
  "sample_04360.wav": "I have no cold in my head.\" I fancied it then, from seeing you had covered such handsome black locks with that ugly old wig. It was my mistake. You will please to pardon it.",
  "sample_04361.wav": "Ponds and Bee Sound, Build Wigwams and Settle the Fuegians, Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel, Glaciers, Return to the Ship, Second Visit in the Ship to the Settlement, Equality of Condition amongst the Natives.",
  "sample_04362.wav": "Having now finished with Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, I will describe our first arrival in Tierra del Fuego. A little afternoon we doubled Cape San Diego and entered the famous Strait of La Mer.",
  "sample_04363.wav": "We kept close to the Fuegian shore, but the outline of the rugged, inhospitable statin land was visible amidst the clouds. In the afternoon, we anchored in the Bay of Good Success. While entering, we were saluted in a manner becoming the inhabitants of this savage land.",
  "sample_04364.wav": "A group of Fuegians, partly concealed by the entangled forest, were perched on a wild point overhanging the sea, and as we passed by they sprang up, and waving their tattered cloaks, sent forth a loud and sonorous shout. The savages followed the ship.",
  "sample_04365.wav": "and just before dark we saw their fire and again heard their wild cry. The harbor consists of a fine piece of water half surrounded by low rounded mountains of clay slate which are covered to the water's edge by one dense gloomy forest.",
  "sample_04366.wav": "A single glance at the landscape was sufficient to show me how widely different it was from anything I had ever beheld. At night it blew a gale of wind, and heavy squalls from the mountains swept past us.",
  "sample_04367.wav": "and we as well as others may call this good success bay. In the morning the captain sent a party to communicate with the Fuegians. When we came within hail,",
  "sample_04368.wav": "and began to shout most vehemently, wishing to direct us where to land. When we were on shore the party looked rather alarmed, but continued talking and making gestures with great rapidity. It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld.",
  "sample_04369.wav": "I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilized man. It is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal.",
  "sample_04370.wav": "The chief spokesman was old, and appeared to be the head of the family. The three others were powerful young men, about six feet high. The women and children had been sent away. These Fuegians are a very different race from the stunted, miserable wretches farther westward.",
  "sample_04371.wav": "and they seem closely allied to the famous Patagonians of the Strait of Magellan. Their only garment consists of a mantle made of guanoco skin with the wool outside. This they wear just thrown over their shoulders, leaving their persons as often exposed as covered.",
  "sample_04372.wav": "His face was crossed by two broad transverse bars, one painted bright red, reached from ear to ear, and included the upper lip. The other, white like chalk, extended above and parallel to the first, so that even his eyelids were thus coloured.",
  "sample_04373.wav": "The other two men were ornamented by streaks of black powder made of charcoal. The party altogether closely resembled the devils which come on the stage in plays like Defreischutz. Their very attitudes were abject.",
  "sample_04374.wav": "and the expression of their countenances distrustful, surprised, and startled. After we had presented them with some scarlet cloth, which they immediately tied round their necks, they became good friends. This was shown by the old man patting our breasts.",
  "sample_04375.wav": "as people do when feeding chickens. I walked with the old man, and this demonstration of friendship was repeated several times. It was concluded by three hard slaps which were given me on the breast and back at the same time. He then bared his bosom for me to return the compliment, which being done, I had to give him.",
  "sample_04376.wav": "he seemed highly pleased. The language of these people, according to our notions, scarcely deserves to be called articulate. Captain Cook has compared it to a man clearing his throat, but certainly no European ever so many horse, guttural and clicking sounds.",
  "sample_04377.wav": "They are excellent mimics. As often as we coughed or yawned or made any odd motion, they immediately imitated us. Some of our party began to squint and look awry, but one of the young Fuegines, whose face was painted black, accepting a white band across his eyes.",
  "sample_04378.wav": "succeeded in making far more hideous grimaces. They could repeat with perfect correctness each word in any sentence we address them, and they remembered such words for some time. Yet we Europeans all know how difficult it is to distinguish apart the sounds in a foreign language.",
  "sample_04379.wav": "Which of us, for instance, could follow an American Indian through a sentence of more than three words? All savages appear to possess, to an uncommon degree, this power of mimicry. I was told, almost in the same words, of the same ludicrous habit among the Khafres.",
  "sample_04380.wav": "The Australians, likewise, have long been notorious for being able to imitate and describe the gait of any man so that he may be recognized. How can this faculty be explained? Is it a consequence of the more practiced habits of perception and keener senses common to all men in a savage state?",
  "sample_04381.wav": "as compared with those long civilized. When a song was struck up by our party I thought the Fuegians would have fallen down with astonishment. With equal surprise they viewed our dancing but one of the young men when asked had no objection to a little waltzing.",
  "sample_04382.wav": "Little accustomed to Europeans as they appeared to be, yet they knew and dreaded our firearms. Nothing would tempt them to take a gun in their hands. They begged for knives, calling them by the Spanish word.",
  "sample_04383.wav": "They explained also what they wanted, by acting as if they had a piece of blubber in their mouths and then pretending to cut instead of tear it. I have not as yet noticed the Fuegians whom we had on board.",
  "sample_04384.wav": "During the former voyage of the Adventure and Beagle in 1826 to 1830, Captain Fitzroy seized on a party of natives as hostages for the loss of a boat which had been stolen to the great jeopardy of a party employed on the survey.",
  "sample_04385.wav": "and some of these natives, as well as a child whom he bought for a pearl button, he took with him to England, determining to educate them and instruct them in religion at his own expense. To settle these natives in their own country,",
  "sample_04386.wav": "was one chief inducement to Captain Fitzroy to undertake our present voyage. And before the Admiralty had resolved to send out this expedition, Captain Fitzroy had generously chartered a vessel and would himself have taken them back. The natives were accompanied by a missionary.",
  "sample_04387.wav": "are Matthews, of whom and of the natives Captain Fitzroy has published a full and excellent account. Two men, one of whom died in England of the smallpox, a boy and a little girl, were originally taken, and we had now on board.",
  "sample_04388.wav": "York Minster, Jemmy Button, whose name expresses his purchase money, and Fuegia Basket. York Minster was a full-grown, short, thick, powerful man. His disposition was reserved, taciturn, morose, and",
  "sample_04389.wav": "and, when excited, violently passionate. His affections were very strong towards a few friends on board, his intellect good. Jemmy Button was a universal favourite, but likewise passionate. The expression of his face at once showed his nice disposition.",
  "sample_04390.wav": "He was merry and often laughed, and was remarkably sympathetic with any one in pain. When the water was rough I was often a little seasick, and he used to come to me and say in a plaintive voice, Poor, poor fellow! But the notion after his aquatic life...",
  "sample_04391.wav": "He surveyed the house from the sidewalk, watching, with a sort of speculative satisfaction, a man's shadow that passed constantly to and fro across the drawn blinds of one of the lower windows.",
  "sample_04392.wav": "The rest of the house was in darkness. \"'Yes,' said Jimmy Dale, nodding his head. \"'I rather thought so. The servants will have retired hours ago. It's safe enough.'",
  "sample_04393.wav": "I want to see Mr. Thomas H. Carling, cashier of the Hudson Mercantile National Bank. It's very important,\" said Jimmy Dale earnestly. I am Mr. Carling,\" replied the other. What is it?",
  "sample_04394.wav": "Jimmy Dale leaned forward. \"'From headquarters. With a report,' he said, in a low tone. \"'Ah!' exclaimed the bank official sharply. \"'Well, it's about time. I've been waiting up for it.'",
  "sample_04395.wav": "Though I expected you would telephone rather than this. Come in.\" \"'Thank you,' said Jimmy Dale courteously, and stepped into the hall. The other closed the front door. The servants are in bed, of course.",
  "sample_04396.wav": "He explained, as he led the way toward the lighted room. This way, please.\" Behind the other, across the hall, Jimmy Dale followed, and close at Carling's heels entered the room, which was fitted up.",
  "sample_04397.wav": "quite evidently, regardless of cost, as a combination library and study. Carling, in a somewhat pompous fashion, walked straight ahead toward the carved mahogany flat-top desk and, as he reached it,",
  "sample_04398.wav": "waved his hand. \"'Take a chair,' he said, over his shoulder, and then, turning in the act of dropping into his own chair, grasped suddenly at the edge of the desk, instead, he took a look at the",
  "sample_04399.wav": "and, with a low, startled cry, stared across the room. Jimmy Dale was leaning back against the door that was closed now behind him, and on Jimmy Dale's face was a black silk mask.",
  "sample_04400.wav": "For an instant neither man spoke nor moved. Then Carling, spare-built, dapper in evening clothes, edged back from the desk and laughed a little uncertainly.",
  "sample_04401.wav": "As he smiled. In private. You've a strange method of securing privacy, haven't you? A bit melodramatic, isn't it?",
  "sample_04402.wav": "Jimmy Dale smiled indulgently. \"'My mask is only for effect,' he said. \"'My name is ... Smith.' \"'Yes,' said Carling. \"'I'm very stupid. Thank you.'",
  "sample_04403.wav": "He had reached the other side of the room now, and with a quick, sudden movement, churched his hand to the dial of the safe that stood against the wall. But Jimmy Dale was quicker, without shifting his position, his automatic, whipped from his pocket.",
  "sample_04404.wav": "held a disconcerting bead on Carling's forehead. \"'Please don't do that,' said Jimmy Dale softly. \"'It's rather a good make, that's safe. \"'I dare say it would take me half an hour to open it.'",
  "sample_04405.wav": "His voice was rising gradually. \"'Well, sir, let me tell you that.' \"'Mr. Carling,' said Jimmy Dale, in a low, even tone, \"'unless you moderate your voice someone in the house might hear you. I am quite well aware of that.'",
  "sample_04406.wav": "extracted the key from the door-lock, held it up for the other to see, then dropped it into his pocket, and his voice, cold before,",
  "sample_04407.wav": "Jimmy Dale moved over and stood in front of Carling on the other side of the desk, and stared silently at the immaculate, fashionably groomed figure before him. Under the prolonged gaze, Carling's composure and his",
  "sample_04408.wav": "in a measure at least, seemed to forsake him. He began to drum nervously with his fingers on the desk, and shift uneasily in his chair. And then, from first one pocket, and then the other.",
  "sample_04409.wav": "said Jimmy Dale slowly. I haven't counted it. Your bank was robbed this evening at closing time, I understand.\" Yes! Jimmy's voice was excited now.",
  "sample_04410.wav": "But you, how do you mean that you are returning the money to the bank?\" \"'Exactly,' said Jimmy Dale. The money was once more to Pompous Bank official.",
  "sample_04411.wav": "He leaned back and surveyed Jimmy Dale critically with his little black eyes. Ah, quite so, he observed. That accounts for the mask. But I am still a little in the dark. Under the circumstances.",
  "sample_04412.wav": "It is quite impossible that you should have stolen the money yourself, and---- I didn't, said Jimmy Dale. I found it hidden in the home of one of your employees.",
  "sample_04413.wav": "In Moynes home, up in Harlem.",
  "sample_04414.wav": "You're wiser than you know, my man. That's what we suspected.",
  "sample_04415.wav": "I'll telephone headquarters to make the arrest at once. Just a minute, interposed Jimmy Dale Gravely. I want you to listen to a little story first. A story?",
  "sample_04416.wav": "\"'What has a store got to do with this?' snapped Carling. \"'The man has got a home,' said Jimmy Dale softly. \"'A home and a wife and a little baby girl.'",
  "sample_04417.wav": "You want to plead for him?\" Carling flung out gruffly. Well, he should have thought of all that before. It's quite useless for you to bring it up. The man has had his chance already.",
  "sample_04418.wav": "said Carling icely. \"'You refuse? Absolutely?' Jimmy Dale's voice had a lingering wistful note in it. \"'I refuse,' said Carling bluntly. \"'I won't have anything to do with it.'\"",
  "sample_04419.wav": "Your bank was robbed tonight of one hundred thousand dollars. There are ten thousand here. The other ninety thousand are in your safe. You lie!\" Ashen to the lips. The ring had risen in his chair.",
  "sample_04420.wav": "You lie!\" he cried. Do you hear? You lie! I tell you! You lie!\" Jimmy Dale's lips parted ominously. \"'Sit down!' he gritted between his teeth. The white in Carling's face had turned to gray.",
  "sample_04421.wav": "That series of terrific events by which our quiet city and university in the northeastern quarter of Germany were convulsed during the year 1816 has in itself and considered merely as a blind movement of human tiger passion.",
  "sample_04422.wav": "ranging unchained among men, something too memorable to be forgotten or left without its own separate record. But the moral lesson impressed by these events is yet more memorable.",
  "sample_04423.wav": "and deserves the deep attention of coming generations in their struggle after human improvement, not merely in its own limited field of interest directly awakened, but in all analogous fields of interest.",
  "sample_04424.wav": "As, in fact, already, and more than once, in connection with these very events, this lesson has obtained the effectual attention of Christian kings and princes assembled in Congress.",
  "sample_04425.wav": "I knew familiarly all the parties who were concerned in it, either as sufferers or as agents. I was present from first to last, and watched the whole course of the mysterious storm which fell upon our devoted city.",
  "sample_04426.wav": "in a strength like that of a West Indian hurricane, and which did seriously threaten at one time to depopulate our university through the dark suspicions which settled upon its members, and the natural reaction of generous indignation in repelling them.",
  "sample_04427.wav": "by sacrificing, whenever circumstances allowed them, their houses and beautiful gardens, in exchange for days uncursed by panic, and nights unpolluted by blood. Nothing I can take upon myself to assert.",
  "sample_04428.wav": "in every one of which these precautionary aids had failed to yield the slightest assistance. The horror, the perfect frenzy of fear, which seized upon the town after that experience, baffles all attempt at description.",
  "sample_04429.wav": "The astounded police, after an examination the most searching, pursued from day to day.",
  "sample_04430.wav": "had finally pronounced that no attempt apparently had been made to benefit by any of the signals preconcerted, that no footstep apparently had moved in that direction. Then, and after that result,",
  "sample_04431.wav": "and the general feeling as it was described to me by a grave citizen whom I met in a morning walk. For the overmastering sense of a public calamity broke down every barrier of reserve, and all men talked freely to all men in the streets.",
  "sample_04432.wav": "as they would have done during the rockings of an earthquake, was even among the boldest, like that which sometimes takes possession of the mind in dreams, when one feels oneself sleeping alone, utterly divided from all call or hearing of friends,",
  "sample_04433.wav": "Doors open that should be shut, or unlocked that should be triply secured, the very walls gone, Barriers swallowed up by unknown abysses, nothing around one but frail curtains and a world of ill-admittable night.",
  "sample_04434.wav": "whisperings at a distance, correspondence going on between darkness and darkness, like one deep calling to another, and the dreamer's own heart, the center from which the whole network of this unimaginable chaos radiates.",
  "sample_04435.wav": "and in which the heart beats in conscious sympathy with an entire city, through all its regions of high and low, young and old, strong and weak. Such agencies avail to raise and transfigure the natures of men.",
  "sample_04436.wav": "In that respect, therefore, I had an advantage, being upon the spot through the whole course of the affair, for giving a faithful narrative. As I had still more eminently from the sort of central station which I occupied,",
  "sample_04437.wav": "with respect to all the movements of the case. I may add that I had another advantage, not possessed or not in the same degree by any other inhabitant of the town. I was personally acquainted with every family of the slightest account belonging to the resident population.",
  "sample_04438.wav": "a nobleman connected with the diplomacy of Russia, from which I quote an extract. I wish in short to recommend to your attentions, and in terms stronger than I know how to devise,",
  "sample_04439.wav": "a young man on whose behalf the Tsar himself is privately known to have expressed the very strongest interest. He was at the Battle of Waterloo as an aide-de-camp to a Dutch general officer and is decorated with distinctions won upon that awful day.",
  "sample_04440.wav": "However, though serving in that instance under English orders, and although an Englishman of rank, he does not belong to the English military service. He has served, young as he is,",
  "sample_04441.wav": "which may account for his somewhat Moorish complexion, though, after all, that is not of a deeper tinge than I have seen among many an Englishman. He is himself one of the noblest-looking of God's creatures.",
  "sample_04442.wav": "Mr. Winnem's succession to the vast family estates is inevitable and probably near at hand. Meanwhile, he is anxious for some assistance in his studies. Intellectually...",
  "sample_04443.wav": "as I am sure you will not be slow to discover. But his long military service, and the unparalleled turmoil of our European history since 1805, have interfered, as you may suppose, with the cultivation of his mind.",
  "sample_04444.wav": "For he entered the cavalry service of a German power when a mere boy, and shifted about from service to service, as the hurricane of war blew from this point or from that.",
  "sample_04445.wav": "And, ten years hence, you will look back with pride upon having contributed your part to the formation of one whom all here at St. Petersburg, not soldiers only, but we diplomats, look upon as certain to prove a great man.",
  "sample_04446.wav": "He was to keep a table and an establishment of servants at his own cost was to have an apartment of some dozen or so of rooms The unrestricted use of the library with some other public privileges willingly conceded by the magistracy of the town",
  "sample_04447.wav": "that all was closed before the end of September. And when once that consummation was attained, I that previously had breathed no syllable of what was stirring, now gave loose to the interesting tidings, and suffered them to spread through the whole compass of the town.",
  "sample_04448.wav": "It will be easily imagined that such a story, already romantic enough in its first outline, would lose nothing in the telling. An Englishman, to begin with, which name of itself, and at all times, is a passport into German favor,",
  "sample_04449.wav": "Next, an Englishman of rank.",
  "sample_04450.wav": "Then a soldier covered with brilliant distinctions and in the most brilliant arm of the service. Young moreover and yet a veteran by his experience. Fresh from the most awful battle of this planet since the day of Pharsalia.",
  "sample_04451.wav": "many of the cars are moderately priced affairs. The Tonneau well filled with children of miscellaneous ages and enlivened by a family dog or two, for this is the way that the average American household spends its modern Sabbath holiday.",
  "sample_04452.wav": "for a road originally marked by the moccasin feet of Indians and widened gradually by the toilsome journeyings of rough colonial carts and coaches.",
  "sample_04453.wav": "It is difficult to say which feature of the steadily moving travel would most forcibly strike the original Puritan settlers of the town. The fact that even the common man, the poor man, could own such a vehicle of speed and ease, or the fact that America...",
  "sample_04454.wav": "such a short time ago wilderness, could produce, not as the finest flower of its tree of evolution, but certainly as its most exotic, the plutocrat who lives in a palace with 50 servants to do his bidding.",
  "sample_04455.wav": "the fine lady whose sole exercise of her mental and physical functions consists in allowing her maid to dress her. Yes, New England has changed amazingly in the revolutions of three centuries.",
  "sample_04456.wav": "And here, under the shadow of this square, plain building, Hingham's Old Ship Church, while we pause to watch the Sunday pageant of 1920, we can most easily call back the Sabbath rites and the ideals which created those rites.",
  "sample_04457.wav": "This wooden meeting house with a truncated pyramidal roof and belfry to serve as a lookout station has just been built. A stage ahead architecturally of the log meeting house with clay-filled chinks, thatched roof, oiled papered windows,",
  "sample_04458.wav": "earth and floor, and a stage behind the charming steeple style made popular by Sir Christopher Wren, and now multiplied in countless graceful examples all over New England.",
  "sample_04459.wav": "The old ship is entirely unconscious of the distinction which is awaiting it, the distinction of being the oldest house for public worship in the United States which still stands on its original site in which is still used for its original purpose.",
  "sample_04460.wav": "In the year 1681, it is merely the new meeting house of the little hamlet of Hingham. The people are very proud of their new building. The timbers have been hewn with a broad axe out of solid white pine.",
  "sample_04461.wav": "The marks are still visible, particularly in those rafters of the roof open to the attic. The belfry is precisely in the center of the four-sided pitched roof. To be sure, this necessitates ringing the bell from one of the pews.",
  "sample_04462.wav": "but a little later the bell ringer will stand above, and through a pane of glass let into the ceiling he will be able to see when the minister enters the pulpit. The original backless benches were replaced by box pews with narrow seats like shelves.",
  "sample_04463.wav": "No paint, no decorations, no colored windows, no organ, or anything which could even remotely suggest the color, the beauty, the formalism of the Churches of England.",
  "sample_04464.wav": "Since in 1635, the general court decreed that no dwelling",
  "sample_04465.wav": "of any new plantation, thus eliminating the excuse of too great distance. Everyone is expected, nay, commanded, to come to church. In fact, after the tolling of the last bell, the houses may all be searched.",
  "sample_04466.wav": "Each ten families is under an inspector, if there is any question of delinquents hiding in them. And so, in twos and threes, often the man trudging ahead with his gun, and the woman carrying her baby while the smaller children cling to her skirts,",
  "sample_04467.wav": "Sometimes man and woman and a child or two on horseback, no matter how wild the storm, how swollen the streams, how deep the whirling snow, they all come to church.",
  "sample_04468.wav": "The congregation either waits for the minister and his wife outside the door, or stands until he has entered the pulpit. Once inside, they are seated with the most meticulous exactness, according to rank, age, sex, and wealth.",
  "sample_04469.wav": "the slaves and Indians are in the rear, to seek oneself in the wrong pew as an offense punishable by a fine. Here is the church and here are the people as the old rhyme has it, what then of the services?",
  "sample_04470.wav": "That they are interminable we know the tithing man or clerk may turn the brass bound hourglass by the side of the pulpit two and three times during the sermon and once or twice during the prayer interminable",
  "sample_04471.wav": "The old ship was not heated until 1822. The only relief from the chill and stiffness comes during the prayer when the congregation stands. Kneeling, of course, would savor too strongly of idolatry and the Church of Rome.",
  "sample_04472.wav": "They stand too while the Psalms and hymns are lined out and as they sing them very uncertainly and very incorrectly. This performance alone sometimes takes an hour as there is no organ nor notes.",
  "sample_04473.wav": "and only a few copies of the Bay Psalm Book, of which, by the way, a copy now would be worth many times its weight in gold. After the morning service there is a noon intermission in which the half-frozen congregation stirs around.",
  "sample_04474.wav": "One sometimes wonders how the little things had any impulse to laugh in such an abysmal atmosphere, but apparently the Puritan boys and girls were entirely normal and even wholesomely mischievous, as proved by the constantly required services of the tithing man.",
  "sample_04475.wav": "These external trappings of the service sound depressing enough, but if the message received within these chilly walls is cheering, maybe we can forget or ignore the physical discomforts. But is the message cheering? Hell, damnation, eternal tortures,",
  "sample_04476.wav": "painful theological hair splitings, harrowing self examinations, and humiliating public confessions. This is what they gather on the narrow wooden benches to listen to hour after hour, searching their souls for sin with an almost frenzied eagerness.",
  "sample_04477.wav": "appealing to the emotions quite as vividly, although through a different channel, as the most elaborate ceremonial. When the soul is wrought to a certain pitch, each hardship is merely an added opportunity to prove its faith.",
  "sample_04478.wav": "from the mother church and the mother country and fortify them in their struggle in a new land. It was religious zeal which furnished this mode of power. Different implements and differently directed force are needed to extract the diamond from the earth.",
  "sample_04479.wav": "Having done its work, having founded soundly and peopled strongly an exceptional region, the New England conscience had no further necessity for being. Those whom it now tortures with its hot pincers of doubt and self-reproach",
  "sample_04480.wav": "are sacrificed to a cause long since won. The Puritans themselves grew away from many of their excessive severities, but as they gained bodily strength from their conflict with the elements, so they gained a certain moral stamina",
  "sample_04481.wav": "Chapter 18 grave questions",
  "sample_04482.wav": "And Barbacayne and his two companions watched with scrupulous attention the brilliant rays which the celebrated mountains shed so curiously over the horizon. What was this radiant glory?",
  "sample_04483.wav": "Some 12 miles others 30 miles rod",
  "sample_04484.wav": "and seemed to cover, particularly toward the east, the northeast, and the north, the half of the southern hemisphere. One of these jets extended as far as the circle of Neander, situated on the 40th meridian.",
  "sample_04485.wav": "Another, by a slight curve, furrowed the sea of nectar, breaking against a",
  "sample_04486.wav": "with a luminous network. What was the origin of these sparkling rays, which shone on the planes as well as on the reliefs at whatever height they may be? All started from a common center, the crater.",
  "sample_04487.wav": "They sprang from him. Herschel attributed their brilliancy to currents of lava congealed by the cold, an opinion, however, which has not been generally adopted.",
  "sample_04488.wav": "because the regularity of these luminous lines and the violence necessary to carry volcanic matter to such distances is inexplicable.",
  "sample_04489.wav": "By Jove replied Michelle Ardenne.",
  "sample_04490.wav": "\"'Indeed,' said Barbican. \"'Indeed,' continued Michelle. \"'It is enough to say.'\"",
  "sample_04491.wav": "Well,\" replied Barbicanes, smiling, and what hand would be powerful enough to throw a ball to give such a shock as that? The hand is not necessary, answered Nicole, not at all confounded.",
  "sample_04492.wav": "the shock which produced that rent.",
  "sample_04493.wav": "A contraction, something like a lunar stomach ache? said Michelle Ardan. Besides added Barbacayne, this opinion is that of an English savant.",
  "sample_04494.wav": "That NASMITHE was no fool replied Michelle",
  "sample_04495.wav": "Their projectile, saturated with luminous gleams in the double irradiation of sun and moon, must have appeared like an incandescent globe.",
  "sample_04496.wav": "to intense heat. Nature was thus preparing them to become selenites. Become selenites. That idea brought up once more the question of the habitability of the moon. After what they had seen, could the travelers solve it?",
  "sample_04497.wav": "Would they decide for or against it? Michelle Ardan persuaded his two friends to form an opinion and asked them directly If they thought that men and animals were represented in the lunar world",
  "sample_04498.wav": "I think that we can answer,\" said Barbacayne, but according to my idea the question ought not to be put in that form. I ask it to be put differently. But it your own way, replied Michelle.",
  "sample_04499.wav": "Here it is continued Barbican the problem is a double one and requires a double solution Is the moon habitable has the moon ever been? Inhabitable good",
  "sample_04500.wav": "replied Nicole. First, let us see whether the moon is habitable. To tell the truth, I know nothing about it, answered Michelle. And I answer in the negative, continued Barbara Kane.",
  "sample_04501.wav": "In her actual state, with her surrounding atmosphere certainly very much reduced, her seas for the most part dried up, her insufficient supply of water restricted, vegetation, sudden alternations of cold and heat.",
  "sample_04502.wav": "Her days and nights of 354 hours? The moon does not seem habitable to me, nor does she seem propitious to animal development, nor sufficient for the wants of existence as we understand it.",
  "sample_04503.wav": "Agreed, replied Nicole, but is not the moon habitable for creatures differently organized from ourselves?",
  "sample_04504.wav": "seemed to us to move on the moon's surface.",
  "sample_04505.wav": "And what have we seen? Everywhere, and always, the geological works of nature, never the work of man. If then there exist representatives of the animal kingdom on the moon,",
  "sample_04506.wav": "They must have fled to those unfathomable cavities which the eye cannot reach, which I cannot admit, for they must have left traces of their passage on those plains which the atmosphere must cover, however slightly raised it may be.",
  "sample_04507.wav": "These traces are nowhere visible. There remains but one hypothesis, that of a living race to which motion, which is life, is foreign. One might as well say living creatures which do not live, replied Michelle.",
  "sample_04508.wav": "The scientific commission assembled in the projectile of the gun club, after having founded their argument on facts recently observed, decide unanimously upon the question of the habitability of the moon. No, the moon.",
  "sample_04509.wav": "said Nicole, let us attack the second question, an indispensable compliment of the first. I ask the Honorable Commission, if the moon is not habitable, has she ever been inhabited? Citizen Barbacayne?",
  "sample_04510.wav": "My friends,\" replied Barbican, I did not undertake this journey in order to form an opinion on the past habitability of our satellite, but I will add that our personal observations only confirm me in this opinion.",
  "sample_04511.wav": "Steventon is a small rural village upon the chalk hills of North Hauntz, situated in a winding valley about seven miles from Basingstoke. The southwestern railway crosses it by a short embankment.",
  "sample_04512.wav": "and as it curves around, presents a good view of it on the left hand to those who are travelling down the line, about three miles before entering the tunnel under Popham Beacon. It may be known to some sportsmen as lying in one of the best portions of the Vine Hunt.",
  "sample_04513.wav": "It is certainly not a picturesque country. It presents no grand or extensive views, but the features are small rather than plain. The surface continually swells and sinks, but the hills are not bold nor the valleys deep.",
  "sample_04514.wav": "And though it is sufficiently well clothed with woods and hedgerows, yet the poverty of the soil in most places prevents the timber from attaining a large size. Still, it has its beauties. The lanes wind along in a natural curve.",
  "sample_04515.wav": "continually fringed with the regular borders of native turf and lead to pleasant nooks and corners. One who knew and loved it well very happily expressed its quiet charms when he wrote, True taste is not fastidious.",
  "sample_04516.wav": "nor rejects, because they may not come within the rule of composition pure and picturesque, unnumbered simple scenes which fill the leaves of Nature's sketchbook. Off this somewhat tame country, Steventon from the fall of the ground and the abundance of its timber,",
  "sample_04517.wav": "is certainly one of the prettiest spots.",
  "sample_04518.wav": "compared with the broad river, the rich valley, and the noble hills which she had been accustomed to behold at her native home near Henley-upon-Thames. The house itself stood in a shallow valley surrounded by sloping meadows, well sprinkled with elm trees at the end of a small village of cottages.",
  "sample_04519.wav": "each well provided with a garden, scattered about prettily on either side of the road. It was sufficiently commodious to hold pupils in addition to a growing family, and was in those times considered to be above the average of parsonages.",
  "sample_04520.wav": "No cornice marked the junction of wall and ceiling, while the beams which supported the upper floors projected into the rooms below in all their naked simplicity, covered only by a coat of paint or whitewash.",
  "sample_04521.wav": "And about 45 years ago, it was pulled down for the purpose of erecting a new house in a far better situation on the opposite side of the valley.",
  "sample_04522.wav": "On the south side the ground rose gently, and was occupied by one of those old-fashioned gardens in which vegetables and flowers are combined, flanked and protected down the east by one of the thatched mud walls common in that country, and overshadowed by fine alms.",
  "sample_04523.wav": "Along the upper or southern side of this garden ran a terrace of the finest turf.",
  "sample_04524.wav": "But the chief beauty of Steventon consisted in its hedgerows. A hedgerow in that country does not mean a thin formal line of quickset, but an irregular border of copse wood and timber, often wide enough to contain within it a winding footpath or a rough cart track.",
  "sample_04525.wav": "and, now and then, the unwelcome adder. Two such hedgerows radiated, as it were, from the parsonage garden. One, a continuation of the turf terrace, proceeded westward, forming the southern boundary of the home meadows.",
  "sample_04526.wav": "and was formed into a rustic shrubbery with occasional seats entitled the woodwalk. The other ran straight up the hill under the name of the church walk because it led to the parish church.",
  "sample_04527.wav": "who have for more than a century rented it, together with the chief farm and the parish, the church itself. I speak of it as it then was, before the improvements made by the present rector.",
  "sample_04528.wav": "might have appeared mean and uninteresting to an ordinary observer, but the Adopt-in-Church architecture would have known that it must have stood there some seven centuries and would have found beauty in the very narrow early English windows.",
  "sample_04529.wav": "While its solitary position, far from the home of the village and within sight of no habitation except a glimpse of the grey manor-house through its circling screen of sycamores, hasn't it something solemn and appropriate to the last resting place of the silent dead?",
  "sample_04530.wav": "Sweet violets, both purple and white, grow in abundance beneath its south wall. One may imagine for how many centuries the ancestors of those little flowers have occupied that undisturbed, sunny nook.",
  "sample_04531.wav": "thick-coming fancies rose in her mind, and gradually assumed the forms in which they came forth to the world.",
  "sample_04532.wav": "The family wasn't broken by death and seldom visited by sorrow. Their situation had some peculiar advantages beyond those of ordinary rectuaries. Steventon was a family living. Mr. Knight, the patron, was also a proprietor of nearly the whole parish.",
  "sample_04533.wav": "They shared with the principal tenant the command of an excellent manner, and enjoyed, in this reflected way, some of the consideration usually awarded to landed proprietors.",
  "sample_04534.wav": "They had enough to afford a good education to their sons and daughters, to mix in the best society of the neighborhood, and to exercise a liberal hospitality to their own relations and friends. A carriage and a pair of horses were kept.",
  "sample_04535.wav": "This might imply a higher style of living in our days than it did in theirs. There were then no assessed taxes. The carriage once bought entailed little further expense. And the horses probably, like Mr. Bennet's, were often employed on farm work.",
  "sample_04536.wav": "Moreover, it should be remembered that a pair of horses in those days were almost necessary if ladies were to move about at all.",
  "sample_04537.wav": "When one looks at the few specimens still remaining of coach building in the last century, it strikes one that the chief object of the builders must have been to combine the greatest possible weight with the least possible amount of accommodation.",
  "sample_04538.wav": "The family lived in close intimacy with two cousins Edward and Jane Cooper the children of mrs. Austin's eldest sister and Dr. Cooper the vicar of sunning near Reading the Coopers lived for some years at Bath",
  "sample_04539.wav": "I believe that Cassandra and Jane sometimes visited them there, and that Jane thus acquired the intimate knowledge of the topography and customs of Bath, which enabled her to write Northanger Abbey long before she recited there herself.",
  "sample_04540.wav": "After the death of their own parents, the two young Coopers paid long visits at Steventon. Edward Cooper did not live undistinguished.",
  "sample_04541.wav": "A certain king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise. The fame of her beauty was so great.",
  "sample_04542.wav": "that strangers from neighboring countries came in crowds to enjoy the sight, and looked on her with amazement, paying her that homage which is due only to Venus herself. In fact, Venus found her altars deserted.",
  "sample_04543.wav": "while men turned their devotion to this young virgin. As she passed along, the people sang her praises, and strewed her way with chaplets and flowers. This perversion of homage due only to the immortal powers to the exaltation of immortal",
  "sample_04544.wav": "gave great offence to the real Venus. Shaking her ambrosial locks with indignation, she exclaimed, Am I then to be eclipsed in my honours by a mortal girl? In vain then did that royal shepherd, whose judgment was approved by Jove himself,",
  "sample_04545.wav": "Give me the palm of beauty over my lustrous rivals, Pallas and Juno. But she shall not so quietly usurp my honors. I will give her cause to repent of so unlawful a beauty.",
  "sample_04546.wav": "mischievous enough in his own nature, and rouses and provokes him yet more by her complaints. She points out psyche to him and says, My dear son, punish that contumacious beauty. Give thy mother a revenge as sweet as her injuries are great.",
  "sample_04547.wav": "infuse into the bosom of that haughty girl a passion for some low, mean, unworthy being, so that she may reap a mortification as great as her present exultation and triumph. Cupid prepared to obey the command of his mother.",
  "sample_04548.wav": "There are two fountains in Venus' garden, one of sweet waters, the other of bitter. Cupid filled two amber vases, one from each fountain, and suspended them from the top of his quiver, He sent to the chamber of Psyche, whom he found asleep.",
  "sample_04549.wav": "He shed a few drops from the bitter fountain over her lips, though the sight of her almost moved him to pity, then touched her side with the point of his arrow. At the touch she awoke, and opened up eyes upon Cupid, himself invisible.",
  "sample_04550.wav": "which so startled him that in his confusion he wounded himself with his own arrow. Heedless of his wound, his whole thought now was to repair the mischief he had done, and he poured the balmy drops of joy over all her silken ringlets.",
  "sample_04551.wav": "Psyche henceforth, frowned upon by Venus, Derived no benefit from all her charms. True all eyes were cast eagerly upon her, And every mouth spoke her praises.",
  "sample_04552.wav": "Her two older sisters of moderate charms had now long been married to two royal princes, but Psyche in her lonely apartment deplored her solitude, sick of that beauty which, while it procured abundance of flattery, had failed to awaken love.",
  "sample_04553.wav": "The Virgin is destined for the bride of no mortal lover. Her future husband awaits her on the top of the mountain. He is a monster whom neither gods nor men can resist.",
  "sample_04554.wav": "This dreadful decree of the oracle filled all the people with dismay, and her parents abandoned themselves to grief. But Psyche said, Why, my dear parents, do you now lament me?",
  "sample_04555.wav": "You should rather have grieved when the people showered upon me undeserved honors, and with one voice called me a Venus. I now perceive that I am a victim to that name. I submit. Lead me to that rock to which my unhappy fate has destined me.",
  "sample_04556.wav": "Accordingly, all things being prepared, the royal maid took her place in the procession, which more resembled a funeral than a nuptial pomp, and with her parents, amid the lamentations of the people, ascended the mountain.",
  "sample_04557.wav": "on the summit of which they left her alone, and with sorrowful hearts returned home. While Psyche stood on the ridge of the mountain, panting with fear and with eyes full of tears, the gentle Zephyr raised her from the earth.",
  "sample_04558.wav": "and bore her with an easy motion into a flowery dale. By degrees her mind became composed, and she laid herself down on the grassy bank to sleep. When she awoke,",
  "sample_04559.wav": "She entered it, and in the midst discovered a fountain, sending forth clear and crystal waters, and fast by a magnificent palace whose august front impressed the spectator that it was not the work of mortal hands.",
  "sample_04560.wav": "drawn by admiration and wonder, she approached the building and ventured to enter. Every object she met filled her with pleasure and amazement. Golden pillars supported the vaulted roof, and the walls were covered with a layer of gold. The walls were covered with a layer of gold, and the walls were covered with a layer of gold.",
  "sample_04561.wav": "and the walls were enriched with carvings and paintings representing beasts of the chase and rural scenes, adapted to delight the eye of the beholder. Proceeding onward, she perceived that besides the apartments of state,",
  "sample_04562.wav": "There were others filled with all manner of treasures, and beautiful and precious productions of nature and art. While her eyes were thus occupied, a voice addressed her, though she saw no one uttering these words. Sovereign Lady,",
  "sample_04563.wav": "Retire, therefore, to your chamber, and repose on your bed of down, and when you see fit repair to the bath. Supper awaits you in the adjoining alcove when it pleases you to take your seat there. Becky gave ear to the admonitions of her vocal attendants.",
  "sample_04564.wav": "and after repose and the refreshment of the bath, seated herself when the alcove, where a table immediately presented itself without any visible aid from waiters or servants, and covered with the greatest delicacies of food and the most nocturious wines.",
  "sample_04565.wav": "Her ears, too, were feasted with music from invisible performers, of whom one sang, another played on the lute, and all closed in the wonderful harmony of a full chorus. She had not yet seen her destined husband.",
  "sample_04566.wav": "But his accents were full of love, and inspired a like passion in her. She often begged him to stay and let her behold him, but he would not consent. On the contrary, he charged her to make no attempt to see him.",
  "sample_04567.wav": "For it was his pleasure, for the best of reasons, to keep concealed. \"'Why should you wish to behold me?' he said. \"'Have you any doubt of my love? \"'Have you any wish ungratified? \"'If you saw me, perhaps you would fear me, perhaps adore me.'\"",
  "sample_04568.wav": "But all I ask of you is to love me. I would rather you would love me as an equal than adore me as a god.\" This reasoning somewhat quieted Psyche for a time, and while the novelty lasted she felt quite happy.",
  "sample_04569.wav": "But at length the thought of her parents left an ignorance of her fate.",
  "sample_04570.wav": "prayed on her mind, and made her begin to feel her palace as but a splendid prison. When her husband came one night, she told him her distress, and at last drew from him an unwilling consent that her sister should be brought to see her.",
  "sample_04571.wav": "Chapter 16, A Girl and a Bit of Lowest Oft Immediately after breakfast the next morning, Billy was summoned to the telephone. Oh, good morning, Uncle William, she called in answer to the masculine voice that replied to her, hello.",
  "sample_04572.wav": "Billy, are you very busy this morning? No indeed, not if you want me. Well, I do my dear. Uncle Williams voice was troubled. I want you to go with me if you can to see a Mrs. Gregory. She's got a teapot I want.",
  "sample_04573.wav": "It's a genuine Lowestoft, Harlow says. Will you go? Of course I will. What time? Eleven if you can, at Park Street. She's at the West End.",
  "sample_04574.wav": "Harlow says others will have to know of it, of course. You see, she's just made up her mind to sell it, and asked him to find a customer. I wouldn't trouble you, but he says they're peculiar, the daughter especially, and may need some careful handling. That's why I wanted you.",
  "sample_04575.wav": "though I wanted you to see the teapot too.",
  "sample_04576.wav": "that she was one day to be mistress of the strata and all it contained was still anything but common to her. I'd love to see it and I'll come gladly, but I'm afraid I won't be much help, Uncle William,\" she worried. I'll take the risk of that.",
  "sample_04577.wav": "Why, how funny! Well I'll come. At eleven, you say, at Park Street? Yes, and thank you, my dear. I tried to get Kate to go too, but she wouldn't. By the way, I'm going to bring you home to luncheon. Kate leaves this afternoon, you know.",
  "sample_04578.wav": "And it's been so snowy she hasn't thought best to try to get over to the house. Maybe Aunt Hannah would come too for luncheon, would she? I'm afraid not, returned Billy with a rueful laugh. She's got three shawls on this morning.",
  "sample_04579.wav": "I'll tell her, though, and I'll see you at eleven,\" finished Billy, as she hung up the receiver. Promptly, at the appointed time, Billy met Uncle William at Park Street, and together they set out for the West End Street, named on the paper in his pocket.",
  "sample_04580.wav": "But when the shabby house on the narrow little street was reached the man looked about him with a troubled frown. I Declare Billy. I'm not sure but we'd better turn back. He fretted. I didn't mean to take you to such a place as this Billy shivered a little",
  "sample_04581.wav": "Nonsense, Uncle William. Of course you won't turn back.",
  "sample_04582.wav": "She finished, just above her breath. Mrs. Gregory was found to be living in two back rooms at the top of four flights of stairs, up which William Henshaw toiled with increasing weariness and dismay, punctuating each flight with a despairing",
  "sample_04583.wav": "Billy, really, I think we should turn back.\" But Billy would not turn back, and at last they found themselves in the presence of a white-haired sweet-faced woman who said yes, she was Mrs. Gregory, yes she was. Even as she uttered the words,",
  "sample_04584.wav": "However, she looked fearfully over her shoulders, as if expecting to hear from the hall behind them a voice denying her assertion. Mrs. Gregory was a cripple. Her slender little body was poised on two once costly crutches.",
  "sample_04585.wav": "Both the worn places on the crutches and the skill with which the little woman swung herself about the room testified that the crippled condition was not a new one. Billy's eyes were brimming with pity and dismay.",
  "sample_04586.wav": "Mechanically, she had taken the chair toward which Mrs. Gregory had motioned her. She had tried not to seem to look about her, but there was not one detail of the bare little room from its faded rug to the patched but spotless tablecloth that was not stamped on her brain.",
  "sample_04587.wav": "Mrs. Gregory had seated herself now and William Henshaw had cleared his throat nervously.",
  "sample_04588.wav": "We, er, I came from Harlow, Mrs. Gregory. He gave me to understand that you had a teapot that, er... With his eyes on the cracked white crockery pitcher on the table, William Henshaw came to a helpless pause.",
  "sample_04589.wav": "A curious expression, or rather series of expressions, crossed Mrs. Gregory's face. Terror, joy, dismay, and relief seemed one after the other to fight for supremacy. Relief in the end conquered.",
  "sample_04590.wav": "Though even yet there was a second hurriedly apprehensive glance toward the door before she spoke. The Loa stopped. Yes, I'm so glad. That is, of course, I must be glad. I'll get it. Her voice broke as she pulled herself from her chair.",
  "sample_04591.wav": "There was only despairing sorrow on her face now. The man rose at once.",
  "sample_04592.wav": "What a beauty! Mrs. Gregory had thrown open the door of a small cupboard near the collector's chair, disclosing on one of the shelves a beautifully shaped teapot, creamy in tint and exquisitely decorated in a rose design.",
  "sample_04593.wav": "Near it set a tray-like plate of the same wear and decoration. \"'If you'll lift it down, please yourself,' motioned Mrs. Gregory. \"'I don't like to with these,' she explained, tapping the crutches at her side.",
  "sample_04594.wav": "With fingers that were almost reverent in their appreciation, the collector reached for the teapot. His eyes sparkled. Billy, look, what a beauty! And it's a lowest off, too, the real thing, the genuine true soft paste.",
  "sample_04595.wav": "And there's the tray, did you notice?\" he exalted, turning back to the shelf. You don't see that every day. They get separated most generally, you know. These pieces have been in our family for generations, said Mrs. Gregory with an accent of pride.",
  "sample_04596.wav": "You'll find them quite perfect, I think.\" \"'Perfect? I should say they were,' cried the man.\" \"'They are then valuable?' Mrs. Gregory's voice shook. \"'Indeed they are, but you must know that.'",
  "sample_04597.wav": "I have been told so, yet to me their chief value, of course, lies in their association. My mother and my grandmother own that teapot, sir.\" Again her voice broke. And Henshaw cleared his throat.",
  "sample_04598.wav": "But madam, if you do not wish to sell\u2014' he stopped abruptly. His longing eyes had gone back to the enticing bit of China. Mrs. Gregory gave a low cry. But I do\u2014that is, I must.",
  "sample_04599.wav": "that it will bring in money, and we need money.\" She threw a quick glance toward the hall door, though she did not pause in her remarks. I can't do much at work that pays. I sew,\" she nodded toward the machine by the window.",
  "sample_04600.wav": "But with only one foot to make it go, you see the other is...",
  "sample_04601.wav": "in their expressive language have named it the lion's den, probably because the captives possess teeth which frequently gnaw the bars and sometimes the keepers also. It is a prison within a prison.",
  "sample_04602.wav": "The walls are double the thickness of the rest. The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose Herculean proportions and cold, pitiless expression",
  "sample_04603.wav": "prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence. The courtyard of this quarter is enclosed by enormous walls, over which the sun glances obliquely.",
  "sample_04604.wav": "when it deigns to penetrate into this gulf of moral and physical deformity. On this paved yard are to be seen pacing to and fro from morning till night, pale, careworn and haggard, like so many shadows.",
  "sample_04605.wav": "the men whom justice holds beneath the steel she is sharpening. There, crouched against the side of the wall, which attracts and retains the most heat, they may be seen sometimes talking to one another, but more frequently alone.",
  "sample_04606.wav": "watching the door, which sometimes opens to call forth one from the gloomy assemblage, or to throw in another outcast from society. The court of Saint Bernard has its own particular apartment.",
  "sample_04607.wav": "It is a wretched, damp, nay, even horrible spot, more especially when we consider the agonizing conferences which have taken place between those iron bars. And yet, frightful though this spot may be,",
  "sample_04608.wav": "It is looked upon as a kind of paradise by the men whose days are numbered. It is so rare for them to leave the lion's den for any other place than the barrier St. Jacques or the galleys.",
  "sample_04609.wav": "soon recovered its gloss in the parts which were still perfect, for the wearer tried his best to make it assume the appearance of a new coat. He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color Thanks for watching!",
  "sample_04610.wav": "We're watching the operations of the prisoner's toilette with considerable interest.\" \"'See, the prince is pluming himself,' said one of the thieves. \"'He's a fine-looking fellow,' said another.\"",
  "sample_04611.wav": "His coat looks almost new and his boots shine like a nigger's face. It's pleasant to have such well-dressed comrades But didn't those Gerdams behave shameful? Must have been jealous to tear such clothes",
  "sample_04612.wav": "He looks like a big bug,\" said another, dresses in fine style, and then, to be here so young, oh what larks! Meanwhile the object of this hideous admiration approached the wicket.",
  "sample_04613.wav": "against which one of the keepers was leaning. Come, sir, he said. Lend me twenty francs. You will soon be paid. You run no risk with me. Remember, I have relations who possess more millions.",
  "sample_04614.wav": "Come, I beseech you, lend me twenty francs, so that I may buy a dressing-gown. It is intolerable always to be in a coat and boots. And what a coat, sir, for a prince of the calvicante.",
  "sample_04615.wav": "You are a man void of compassion. I'll have you turned out.\" This made the keeper turn around, and he burst into a loud laugh. The prisoners then approached and formed a circle.",
  "sample_04616.wav": "The latter, sure of quelling the tempest when the waves became too violent, allowed them to rise to a certain pitch that he might be revenged on the important Andrea, and besides it would afford him some recreation during the long day.",
  "sample_04617.wav": "The thieves had already approached Andrea, some screaming.",
  "sample_04618.wav": "another kind of recreation, in which a handkerchief is filled with sand, pebbles,",
  "sample_04619.wav": "rolled his tongue around his cheeks and smacked his lips in a manner equivalent to a hundred words among the bandits when forced to be silent. It was a Masonic sign. Caderosa had taught him.",
  "sample_04620.wav": "He was immediately recognized as one of them. The handkerchief was thrown down and the iron-heeled shoe replaced on the foot of the wretch to whom it belonged. Some voices were heard to say that the gentleman was right.",
  "sample_04621.wav": "that he intended to be civil in his way, and that they would set the example of liberty of conscience. And the mob retired. The keeper was so stupefied at this scene that he took Andrea by the hands",
  "sample_04622.wav": "said the same voice. You see, someone pays me a visit. Ah, my dear sir, you will see whether a Cavalcanti is to be treated like a common person.",
  "sample_04623.wav": "proves me to be under the protection of some powerful person. This sudden fortune, the facility with which I have overcome all obstacles, an unexpected family, and an illustrious name awarded to me,",
  "sample_04624.wav": "Gold showered down upon me and the most splendid alliances about to be entered into an Unhappy lapse of fortune and the absence of my protector have cast me down Certainly, but not forever",
  "sample_04625.wav": "The hand which has retreated for a while will be again stretched forth to save me at the very moment when I shall think myself sinking into the abyss. Why should I risk an imprudent step? It might alienate my protector.",
  "sample_04626.wav": "upon the iron bars, the bolted doors, and the shadow which moved behind the other grating.",
  "sample_04627.wav": "said Andrea, deeply affected. Good morning, Benedetto.",
  "sample_04628.wav": "with his deep hollow voice. You, you, said the young man, looking fearfully around him. Do you not recognize me, unhappy child? Silence!",
  "sample_04629.wav": "You wish to speak with me alone, do you not?",
  "sample_04630.wav": "Oh yes, that as well.",
  "sample_04631.wav": "with two beds in it, one laid on the floor. It is ten o'clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one-dip candle by which Bartle is pretending to read.",
  "sample_04632.wav": "the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sickbed. His heavy black hair hangs over his forehead, and there is no active impulse in him which inclines him to push it off, that he may be more awake to what is around him.",
  "sample_04633.wav": "He has one arm over the back of the chair and he seems to be looking down at his clasped hands. He is roused by a knock at the door.",
  "sample_04634.wav": "said Bartlemassey, rising hastily and unfastening the door. It was Mr. Irwin. Adam rose from his chair with instinctive respect, as Mr. Irwin approached him and took his hand. I am late, Adam.",
  "sample_04635.wav": "Let us all sit down.\" Adam took his chair again mechanically, and Bartle, for whom there was no chair remaining, sat on the bed in the background. Have you seen her, sir?",
  "sample_04636.wav": "Yes, Adam. I and the chaplain have both been with her this evening. Did you ask her, sir, did you say anything about me? Yes, said Mr. Irwin with some hesitation.",
  "sample_04637.wav": "It is not only you. Some fatal influence seems to have shut up her heart against her fellow creatures. She has scarcely said anything more than no, either to me or the Chaplain. Three or four days ago, before you were mentioned to her,",
  "sample_04638.wav": "When I asked her if there was any one of her family whom she would like to see, to whom she could open her mind, she said with a violent shudder, Tell them not to come near me. I won't see any of them.",
  "sample_04639.wav": "if they now urge you strongly to go and see her tomorrow morning, even without her consent.",
  "sample_04640.wav": "that the interview might affect her favorably. But I grieve to say I have scarcely any hope of that. She didn't seem agitated when I mentioned your name. She only said no in the same cold, obstinate way as usual.",
  "sample_04641.wav": "And if the meeting had no good effect on her, it would be pure, useless suffering to you. Severe suffering, I fear. She is very much changed. Adam started up from his chair.",
  "sample_04642.wav": "and seized his hat which lay on the table. But he stood still then, and looked at Mr. Irwin, as if he had a question to ask, which it was yet difficult to utter. Bono Massey rose quietly, turned the key in the door,",
  "sample_04643.wav": "and put it in his pocket. Is he come back? said Adam at last. No, he is not, said Mr. Irwin quietly. Lay down your hat, Adam, unless you like to walk out with me for a little fresh air.",
  "sample_04644.wav": "I fear you have not been out again today. You needn't deceive me, sir, said Adam, looking hard at Mr. Irwin and speaking in a tone of angry suspicion. You needn't be afraid of me. I only want justice.",
  "sample_04645.wav": "I want him to feel what she feels. It's his work. She was a child, as it had gone to anybody's heart to look at it. I don't care what she's done. It was him brought her to it. And he shall know it. He shall feel it.",
  "sample_04646.wav": "to sin and misery. I'm not deceiving you, Adam, said Mr. Irwin. Arthur Donnathorn is not come back, was not come back when I left. I have left a letter for him. He will know.",
  "sample_04647.wav": "He will know. He will suffer, long and bitterly. He has a heart and a conscience. I can't be entirely deceived in his character. I am convinced.",
  "sample_04648.wav": "He may be weak, but he is not callous, not coldly selfish. I am persuaded.",
  "sample_04649.wav": "all his life. Why do you crave vengeance in this way? No amount of torture that you could inflict on him could benefit her. No, oh God, no! Adam groaned out, sinking on the chair again.",
  "sample_04650.wav": "But then that's the deepest curse of all. That's what makes the blackness of it. It can never be undone. My poor Hedy. She could never be my sweet Hedy again. The prettiest thing God had made.",
  "sample_04651.wav": "smiling up at me. I thought she loved me, and was good. Adam's voice had been gradually sinking into a hoarse undertone, as if he were only talking to himself. But now he said abruptly, looking at Mr. Irwin.",
  "sample_04652.wav": "But she isn't as guilty as they say. You don't think she is, sir? She can't have done it.\" That, perhaps, can never be known with certainty, Adam. Mr. Irwin answered gently.",
  "sample_04653.wav": "In these cases we sometimes form our judgment on what seems to us strong evidence, and yet, for want of knowing some smaller fact, our judgment is wrong. But suppose the worst. You have no right to say.",
  "sample_04654.wav": "that the guilt of her crime lies with him, and that he ought to bear the punishment. It is not for us men to apportion the shares of moral guilt and retribution. We find it impossible to avoid mistakes",
  "sample_04655.wav": "even in determining who has committed a single criminal act. And the problem...",
  "sample_04656.wav": "You have a mind that can understand this fully, Adam, when you are calm. Don't suppose I can't enter into the anguish that drives you into this state of revengeful hatred. But...",
  "sample_04657.wav": "For it is passion, and you deceive yourself in calling it justice. It might be with you precisely as it has been with Arthur. Nay, worse, your passion might lead you, yourself, into a horrible crime.",
  "sample_04658.wav": "No, not worse, said Adam bitterly. I don't believe it's worse. I'd sooner do it. I'd sooner do a wickedness as I could suffer, for by myself than it brought her to do wickedness.",
  "sample_04659.wav": "and then stand by and see him punish her while they let me alone, and all for a bit of pleasure, as if he'd had a man's heart in him. He'd have cut his hand off sooner than he had taken it. What if he didn't foresee what's happened?",
  "sample_04660.wav": "He foresaw enough. He had no right to expect anything but harm and shame to her.",
  "sample_04661.wav": "Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, some in their wealth, some in their body's force, some in their garments, though newfangled ill.",
  "sample_04662.wav": "some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse. And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure, wherein it finds a joy above the rest. But these particulars are not my measure.",
  "sample_04663.wav": "All these I better in one general best. Thy love is better than high birth to me, Richer than wealth, prouder than garments cost.",
  "sample_04664.wav": "Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.",
  "sample_04665.wav": "Happy to have thy love, happy to die.",
  "sample_04666.wav": "Thy looks with me thy heart in other place. For there can live no hatred in thine eye. Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.",
  "sample_04667.wav": "In many's looks the false heart's history is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange. But heaven in thy creation did decree that in thy face sweet love should ever dwell.",
  "sample_04668.wav": "whate'er thy thoughts or thy hearts workings be.",
  "sample_04669.wav": "How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow, If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show?",
  "sample_04670.wav": "and will do none, that do not do the thing they most do show, who, moving others, are themselves as stone.",
  "sample_04671.wav": "They rightly do inherit Heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expanse. They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence.",
  "sample_04672.wav": "The summer's flower is to the summer's sweet, though to itself it only live and die. But if that flower with base infection meet, the basest weed",
  "sample_04673.wav": "outbraves his dignity. For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds. Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.",
  "sample_04674.wav": "Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name.",
  "sample_04675.wav": "That tongue that tells the story of thy days, making lascivious comments on thy sport, cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise. Naming thy name blesses an ill report.",
  "sample_04676.wav": "O, what a mansion have those vices got, Which for their habitation chose out thee! Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot, And all things turns to fair that eyes can see.",
  "sample_04677.wav": "Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege.",
  "sample_04678.wav": "Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport. Both grace and faults are loved of more and less.",
  "sample_04679.wav": "What old December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed was summer's time, The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,",
  "sample_04680.wav": "Like widowed wombs after their Lord's decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me but hope of orphans and unfothered fruit. For summer and his pleasures wait on thee.",
  "sample_04681.wav": "And thou away the very birds are mute, Or if they sing, tis with so dull a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the winters near.",
  "sample_04682.wav": "From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud Pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.",
  "sample_04683.wav": "Yet, nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell of different flowers in odor and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew.",
  "sample_04684.wav": "Nor did I wonder at the lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose. They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.",
  "sample_04685.wav": "Yet seemed it winter still, and you away, As with your shadow I with these did play.",
  "sample_04686.wav": "The forward violet thus did I chide. Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal Thy sweet that smells, if not from my love's breath?",
  "sample_04687.wav": "The purple pride which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells, In my love's veins thou hast too grossly died.",
  "sample_04688.wav": "The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair. A third, nor red nor white, had stolen of both, And to his robbery had annexed thy breath.",
  "sample_04689.wav": "But for his theft, in pride of all his growth, a vengeful canker ate him up to death.",
  "sample_04690.wav": "Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long to speak of that which gives thee all thy might? Spen'st thou thy fury on some worthless song?",
  "sample_04691.wav": "The Slow Little Mud Turtle When the 20 little mud turtles broke their eggshells one hot summer day and poked their way up through the warm sand in which they had been buried, they looked almost as much alike as so many raindrops.",
  "sample_04692.wav": "The mother turtle, who was sunning herself on the bank nearby, said to her friends, Why, there are my children. Did you ever see a finer family? I believe I will go over and speak to them.",
  "sample_04693.wav": "and then sat down until it should stop aching. Wait for me, he called out to his brothers and sisters. I'm coming in a minute. The other little turtles waited, but when his toe was comfortable again and he started toward them, he met a very interesting snail.",
  "sample_04694.wav": "and talked a while with him. Come on, said the biggest little turtle, don't let's wait any longer, he can catch up. So they sprawled along until they came to a place where they could sit in a row on an old log. And they climbed onto it and sat just close enough together.",
  "sample_04695.wav": "and not at all too close. Then the slow little turtle came hurrying over the sand with a rather cross look in his eyes and putting his feet down a little harder than he needed to, quite as though he were out of patience about something. Why didn't you turtles wait for me?",
  "sample_04696.wav": "You certainly are, for I saw you scrambling out of the sand a little while ago, and you came from the very place where I laid my eggs, and covered them during the first really warm nights this year. I was telling your father only yesterday that it was about time for you to hatch.",
  "sample_04697.wav": "The sun has been so hot lately that I was sure you would do well. The mother turtle stretched her head this way and that until there was hardly a wrinkle left in her neck skin. She was so eager to see them all.",
  "sample_04698.wav": "Why are you not up here with your brothers and sisters?\" she asked suddenly of the slow little turtle, who was trying to make a place for himself on the log. They didn't wait for me, he said. I was coming right along, but they wouldn't wait. I think they are just as meat\u2014",
  "sample_04699.wav": "The mother turtle raised one of her forefeet until all five of its toes with their strong claws were pointing at him. She also raised her head as far as her upper shell would let her. So you are the one, she said.",
  "sample_04700.wav": "I thought you were when I heard you trying to make the others wait. It is too bad.",
  "sample_04701.wav": "Yet down in his little turtle heart he thought, now they are going to catch it. He was sure his mother was going to scold the other turtle children for leaving him. He wanted to see what they would do, so he looked out of his right eye at the ten brothers and sisters on that side.",
  "sample_04702.wav": "The first year I had only a few children, the next year I had more, and so it is gone. Every year a few more children than the year before. Until now I never know quite how many I do have, but there is always one slow little turtle.",
  "sample_04703.wav": "who lags behind and wants the others to wait for him. That makes him miss his share of good things, and then he is quite certain to be cross and think it is somebody else's fault. The slow little turtle felt the ten brothers and sisters on his right side looking at him out of their left eyes.",
  "sample_04704.wav": "and the nine brothers and sisters on his left side looking at him out of their right eyes. He drew in his head and his tail and his legs until all they could see was his rounded upper shell, his shell side walls, and the yellow edge of his flat lower shell.",
  "sample_04705.wav": "I did hope, said the Mother Turtle, that I might have one family without such a child in it. I cannot help loving even a slow child who is cross, if he is hatched from one of my eggs, yet it makes me sad, very, very sad.",
  "sample_04706.wav": "And you,\" she added, turning to his brothers and sisters, \"'must be patient with him. We shall not have him with us long.'\"",
  "sample_04707.wav": "I remember so well my first slow child, and how he\u2014she began to cry, and since she could not easily get her forefeet to her eyes, she sprawled to the pond and swam off with only her head and a little of her upper shell showing above the water.",
  "sample_04708.wav": "The slow little turtle was really frightened by what his mother had said, and for a few days he tried to keep up with the others. Nothing happened to him and so he grew careless and made people wait for him just because he was not quite ready to go with them.",
  "sample_04709.wav": "or because he wanted to do this, or look at that, or talk to some other person. He was a very trying little turtle, yet his mother loved him and did not like it when the rest called him a land tortoise. It is all right, you know, to be a land tortoise when your father and mother are land tortoises.",
  "sample_04710.wav": "and these cousins of the turtles look so much like them that some people cannot tell them apart. That is because they forget that the tortoises live on land, have higher back shells, and move very, very slowly. Turtles live more in the water.",
  "sample_04711.wav": "and can move quickly if they will. This is why other turtles sometimes make fun of a slow brother by calling him a land tortoise. One beautiful, sunshiny afternoon, when most of the twenty little turtles were sitting on a floating log by the edge of the pond,",
  "sample_04712.wav": "Their mother was with some of her friends on another log nearby. She looked often at her children and thought how handsome their rounded up back shells were in the sunshine with the little red and yellow markings showing on the black.",
  "sample_04713.wav": "She could see their strong little pointed tails too, and their webbed feet with a stout claw on each toe. She was so proud that she could not help talking about them.",
  "sample_04714.wav": "Yes, said a fine old fellow who was floating near her, a row of their mothers. He was a turtle whom she had never liked very well, but now she began to think that he was rather agreeable after all.",
  "sample_04715.wav": "She was just noticing how beautifully the skin wrinkled on his neck when she heard a splash and saw two terrible great two-legged animals wading into the pond from the shore. Boys! she cried. Boys! and she sprawled off the end of her log",
  "sample_04716.wav": "and slid into the water. All her friends following her. The biggest little turtle saw these great animals coming toward him. He sprawled off the end of his log and slid into the water, and all his brothers and sisters followed him, except the slow little turtle.",
  "sample_04717.wav": "Then one of these great animals stooped over and picked him up, and held him bottom side uppermost and wrapped on that side, which was flat, and on the other side, which was rounded, and stared at him with two great eyes.",
  "sample_04718.wav": "Next, the other great animal took him and turned him over and wrapped on his shells and stared at him.",
  "sample_04719.wav": "He was thinking over and over, something has happened, something has happened, and he knew that back in the pond his mother would be trying to find him and could not. The boys carried him to the edge of the meadow and put him down on the grass.",
  "sample_04720.wav": "He lay perfectly still for a long, long time. And when he thought they had forgotten about him, he tried to run away. Then they laughed and picked him up again, and one of them took something sharp and shiny and cut marks into his upper shell.",
  "sample_04721.wav": "So far I have been dealing with our general outfit and shall now pass to the special equipment of the shore party. The hut we took out was built on my property on Bundefjord so that I was able to watch the work as it progressed.",
  "sample_04722.wav": "It was built by the brothers Hans and Jorgen Stuberud, and was throughout a splendid piece of work, which did honor to both the brothers. The materials prove excellent in every way. The hut was twenty-six feet long by thirteen feet wide,",
  "sample_04723.wav": "Its height from the floor to the ridge of the roof was about 12 feet. It was built as an ordinary Norwegian house with pointed gable and had two rooms. One of these was 19 and a half feet long and was to serve as our dormitory dining room and sitting room.",
  "sample_04724.wav": "The other room was six and a half feet long and was to be Lindstrom's kitchen. From the kitchen a double trapdoor led to the loft where we intended to keep a quantity of provisions and outfit. The walls consisted of three inch planks.",
  "sample_04725.wav": "For insulation we used cellulose pulp. The floor and the ceiling between the rooms and the loft were double.",
  "sample_04726.wav": "The doors were extraordinarily thick and strong and fitted into oblique grooves so that they closed very tightly. There were two windows, a triple one in the end wall of the main room and a double one in the kitchen.",
  "sample_04727.wav": "For the covering of the roof we took out roofing paper and for the floor linoleum. In the main room there were two air pipes.",
  "sample_04728.wav": "There were bunks for ten men in two stages, six on one wall and four on the other. The furniture of the room consisted of a table, a stool for each man, and a lux lamp.",
  "sample_04729.wav": "The hut was tarred several times, and every part was carefully marked so that it could easily be set up. To fasten it to the ground and prevent the Antarctic storms from blowing it away, I had strong eye bolts screwed into each end of the roof ridge,",
  "sample_04730.wav": "and the four corners of the roof. We carried six strong eye bolts, a meter long, to be rammed into the barrier. Between these bolts and those on the hut, steel wires were to be stretched, which could be drawn quite tight. We also had two spare cables.",
  "sample_04731.wav": "which could be stretched over the roof if the gales were too severe. The two ventilating pipes and the chimney were secured outside with strong stays. As will be seen, every precaution was taken to make the hut warm and comfortable.",
  "sample_04732.wav": "and to hold it down on the ground. We also took on board a quantity of loose timber, boards, and planks. Besides the hut, we took with us fifteen tenths for sixteen men each. Ten of these were old but good.",
  "sample_04733.wav": "They were served out to us from the naval stores. The other five were new and we bought them from the army depots. It was our intention to use the tents as temporary houses. They were easily and quickly set up and were strong and warm.",
  "sample_04734.wav": "On the voyage to the south, Rhone sewed new floors of good strong canvas to the five new tents. All cases of provisions that were intended for winter quarters were marked and stowed separately in the hold.",
  "sample_04735.wav": "We had ten sledges made by a firm of sporting outfitters in Christiana. They were built like the old Nansen sledges, but rather broader and were 12 feet long. The runners were of the best American hickory shod with steel.",
  "sample_04736.wav": "The other parts were of good, tough Norwegian ash. To each sledge belonged a pair of spare runners, which could easily be fitted underneath by means of clamps, and as easily removed when not required.",
  "sample_04737.wav": "The steel shoeing of the runners was well coated with red lead, and the spare runners with tar. These sledges were extremely strongly built, and could stand all kinds of work on every sort of surface. At that time,",
  "sample_04738.wav": "I did not know the conditions on the barrier as I afterwards came to know them. Of course, these sledges were very heavy. We took 20 pairs of ski, all of the finest hickory. They were 8 feet long and proportionately narrow.",
  "sample_04739.wav": "I chose them of this length with a view to being able to cross the numerous cracks in the glaciers. The greater the surface over which the weight could be distributed, the better prospect we should have of slipping over the snow bridges.",
  "sample_04740.wav": "We had 40 ski poles with ebonite points. The ski bindings were a combination of the Huttfeld and the Hoyer-Elefson bindings. We also had quantities of loose straps.",
  "sample_04741.wav": "We had six three-man tents all made in the Navy workshops. The workmanship could not have been better. They were the strongest and most practical tents that have ever been used. They were made of the closest canvas with the floor in one piece.",
  "sample_04742.wav": "One man was sufficient to set up the tent in the stiffest breeze. I have come to the conclusion that the fewer poles a tent has, the easier it is to set up, which seems quite natural. These tents have only one pole.",
  "sample_04743.wav": "how often one reads in narratives of polar travel that it took such and such a time, often hours, to set up the tent, and then, when at last it was up, one lay expecting it to be blown down at any moment.",
  "sample_04744.wav": "There was no question of this with our tents. They were up in a twinkling and stood against all kinds of wind. We could lie securely in our sleeping bags and let it blow. The arrangement of the door was on the usual sack principle.",
  "sample_04745.wav": "which came from the estate of Paulsgaard in Jutland, and the material did all it promised. These cases were one foot square and fifteen and a half inches high.",
  "sample_04746.wav": "They had only a little round opening on the top, closed with an aluminum lid, which fitted exactly like the lid of a milk can. Large lids weakened the cases, and I had therefore chosen this form. We did not have to throw off the lashing of the case to get the lid off.",
  "sample_04747.wav": "And this is a very great advantage. We could always get at it. A case with a large lid covered by the lashing gives constant trouble. The whole lashing has to be undone for every little thing one wants out of the case. This is not always convenient.",
  "sample_04748.wav": "If one is tired and slack, it may sometimes happen that one will put off till tomorrow what ought to be done today, especially when it is bitterly cold.",
  "sample_04749.wav": "the handier one's sledging outfit, the sooner one gets into the tent and to rest, and that is no small consideration on a long journey. Our outfit of clothing was abundant and more complete, I suppose, than that of any former polar expedition.",
  "sample_04750.wav": "We may divide it into two classes, the outfit for specially low temperatures and that for more moderate temperatures. It must be remembered that no one had yet wintered on the barrier, so we had to be prepared for anything.",
  "sample_04751.wav": "Chapter 6 How Saint Monica lived in the days of her widowhood and how she put all her trust in God Patricia's had not much in the way of worldly goods to leave to his wife",
  "sample_04752.wav": "She needed little, it is true, for herself, but there was Augustine. Would it be possible for her, even if she practiced the strictest economy, to keep him at Carthage, where he was doing so well?",
  "sample_04753.wav": "Romanianus divined her anxiety and hastened to set it at rest. He had a house in Carthage, he said. It should be Augustine's as long as he required it.",
  "sample_04754.wav": "This would settle the question of lodging. For the rest, continued Romanianus. As an old friend of Patricius, he had the right to befriend his son, and Monica must grant him the privilege of being a friend of his son.",
  "sample_04755.wav": "of acting a father's part to Augustine until he was fairly launched in life. He had a child of his own.",
  "sample_04756.wav": "If Monica would befriend his boy, they would be quits. The gratitude of both mother and son towards this generous friend and benefactor lasted throughout their lives.",
  "sample_04757.wav": "You it was, Romanianus, wrote Augustine in his confessions, who, when I was a poor young student in Carthage, opened to me your house, your purse, and still more your heart.",
  "sample_04758.wav": "You it was who when I had the sorrow to lose my father, comforted me by your friendship, helped me with your advice, and assisted me with your fortune.",
  "sample_04759.wav": "Monica mourned her husband's death with true devotion, but hers was not a selfish sorrow. She had love and sympathy for all who needed them.",
  "sample_04760.wav": "and forgot her own grief in solacing that of others. There were certain good works which the Church gave to Christian widows to perform. The hospitals, for instance, were entirely in their hands.",
  "sample_04761.wav": "They were small as yet, built according to the needs of the moment from the funds of the faithful, and held but few patients. These devoted women succeeded each other at intervals,",
  "sample_04762.wav": "in their task of washing and attending to the sick, watching by their beds and cleaning their rooms. Their ministrations did not even cease there. With reverent care they prepared the dead for burial.",
  "sample_04763.wav": "thinking the while of the preparation of Christ's body for the tomb, and of him who said, Inasmuch as ye do it to the least of my brethren, ye do it unto me.",
  "sample_04764.wav": "It was a happy moment for Monika, when her turn came to serve the sick. She would kiss their sores for very pity as she washed and dressed them, and their faces grew bright at her coming.",
  "sample_04765.wav": "They called her Mother. It seemed such a natural name to give her, for she was a mother to them all, and gave them a mother's love. To some of the poor creatures, friendless slaves as they often were,",
  "sample_04766.wav": "who had known little sympathy or tenderness in their hard lives. It was a revelation of Christianity, which taught them more than hours of preaching could have done. But there was other work besides that at the hospital.",
  "sample_04767.wav": "There were the poor to be helped, the hungry to be fed, the naked to be clothed. She would gather the orphan children at her knee to teach them the truths of their faith. When they were very poor",
  "sample_04768.wav": "she would keep them in her own house, feed them at her own table, and clothe them with her own hands. If I am a mother to these motherless ones, she would say to herself, He will have mercy and give me back my boy.",
  "sample_04769.wav": "If I teach them to know and love him as a father, he will watch over my son. It was a custom of the time on the feasts of saints and martyrs to make a pilgrimage to their tombs.",
  "sample_04770.wav": "with a little basket of food and wine. This was laid on the grave, after which the faithful would partake of what they had brought, while they thought and spoke of the noble lives of God's servants who had gone before.",
  "sample_04771.wav": "The custom was abolished not long after, on account of the abuses which had arisen. But Monica observed it to the end. She scarcely tasted of her offering herself.",
  "sample_04772.wav": "but gave it all away to the poor. Often indeed she went cold and hungry that they might be clothed and fed. Her love of prayer too could now find full scope.",
  "sample_04773.wav": "Every morning found her in her place in church for the holy sacrifice. Every evening she was there again silent absorbed in God. The place where she knelt was often wet with her tears.",
  "sample_04774.wav": "The time passed by unheeded. Patricius, her husband, was safe in God's hands. But Augustine, her eldest-born, her darling, In what dark paths was he wandering?",
  "sample_04775.wav": "And yet in her heart of hearts there was a deep conviction that no sad news of his life at Carthage could shake. His was not the nature to find contentment in the things of earth.",
  "sample_04776.wav": "He was born to something higher. His noble heart, his strong intelligence, would bring him back to God. And yet, and yet...",
  "sample_04777.wav": "Her heart sank as she thought of graces wasted, of conscience trampled underfoot, of light rejected. No, there was no hope anywhere but with God. In Him she would trust, and in Him alone.",
  "sample_04778.wav": "He was infinite in mercy and strong to save. He had promised that he would never fail those who put their trust in him. At his feet and at his feet alone",
  "sample_04779.wav": "Monica poured out her tears and her sorrow. With others she was serene and hopeful as of old, even joyous, always ready to help and comfort. It was said of her after her death,",
  "sample_04780.wav": "that no one had such a gift of helping others as she. She never preached at people. Most people have an insurmountable dislike to being preached at. But every word she said had a strange power of drawing souls to God.",
  "sample_04781.wav": "As we approached the inn at Amherst, the clockmaker grew uneasy. \"'It's pretty well on in the evening, I guess,' said he, \"'and Morham Pugwash is as uncertain in her temper as a morning in April.'",
  "sample_04782.wav": "It's all sunshine or all clouds with her, and if she's in one of her tantrums, she'll stretch out her neck and hiss like a goose with a flock of goslings.",
  "sample_04783.wav": "The old minister had an orchard of most particular good fruit, for he was a great hand at Budden, Grafton, and what not. And the orchard? It was on the south side of the house, stretched right up to the road. Well\u2014",
  "sample_04784.wav": "There were some trees hung over the fence. I never see'd such bearers. The apples hung in ropes, for all the world like strings of onions, and the fruit was beautiful. Nobody touch'd the minister's apples.",
  "sample_04785.wav": "So I said to him one day, Minister, said I, how on earth do you manage to keep your fruit that's so exposed, when no one else can't do it know-how? Why, says he, they're dreadfully pretty fruit, ain't they?\"",
  "sample_04786.wav": "That R outward row I grafted myself with the choicest kind I could find, and I succeeded. They are beautiful, but so eternal sour no human soul can eat them. Well,",
  "sample_04787.wav": "The boys think the old minister's grafton has all succeeded about as well as that row.",
  "sample_04788.wav": "If Pugwash had a watery mouth when he married, I guess it's pretty puckery by this time. However, if she goes to act ugly...",
  "sample_04789.wav": "I'll give her a dose of soft solder that will take the frond out of her frontis piece and make her dowel plate as smooth as a lick of copal varnish. It's a pity she's such a kickin' devil, too, for she has good points. Good eye, good foot.",
  "sample_04790.wav": "Neat, fine chest, a clean set of limbs, and carries a good, but here we are. Now you'll see what soft solder will do. When we entered the house, the Traveler's Room was all in darkness.",
  "sample_04791.wav": "and on opening the opposite door into the sitting-room we found the female part of the family extinguishing the fire for the night. Mrs. Pugwash had a broom in her hand and was in the act, the last act of female housewifery, of sweeping the hearth.",
  "sample_04792.wav": "The strong flickering light of the fire, as it fell upon her tall, fine figure and beautiful face, revealed a creature worthy of the clockmaker's comments. Good evening, Marm,\" said Mr. Slick. How do you do?",
  "sample_04793.wav": "And how's Mr. Pugwash?\" \"'He,' said she. \"'Why, he's been a-bed this hour.' You don't expect to disturb him this time of night, I hope?\" \"'Oh, no,' said Mr. Slick. Certainly not.\"",
  "sample_04794.wav": "and I am sorry to have disturbed you, but we got detained longer than we expected. I am sorry that---- So am I,\" said she. But if Mr. Pugwash will keep an in when he has no occasion to, his family can't expect no rest.",
  "sample_04795.wav": "Here the clockmaker, seeing the storm gathering, stooped down suddenly and, staring intently, held out his hand and exclaimed, Well, if that ain't a beautiful child. Come here, my little man.",
  "sample_04796.wav": "and shake hands along with me. Well, I declare, if that our little fella ain't the finest child I ever What? Not a bed yet? Ah, you rogue!",
  "sample_04797.wav": "Well, I wish my old mother could see that child. It is such a treat.\" \"'In our country,' said he, turning to me, \"'the children are all as pale as chalk or as yellow as an orange. Lord!'",
  "sample_04798.wav": "That our little fellow would be a show in our country. Come to me, my man.\" Here the soft-soldier began to operate. Mrs. Pugwash said, in a milder tone than we had yet heard, Go, my dear, to the gentleman.",
  "sample_04799.wav": "Go, dear.\" Mr. Slick kissed him, asked him if he would go to the States along with him, told him all the little girls would fall in love with him, for they didn't see such a beautiful face once in a month of Sundays. Black eyes, let me see.",
  "sample_04800.wav": "\"'She ought to be proud of you,' he continued. \"'Well, if I live to return here, I must paint your face, and have it put on my clocks, and all our folks will buy the clocks for the sake of the face. Did you ever see?' said he.",
  "sample_04801.wav": "again addressing me, such a likeness between one human and another, as between this beautiful little boy and his mother.\" \"'I am sure you have had no supper,' said Mrs. Pugwash to me. \"'You must be hungry and weary, too.'",
  "sample_04802.wav": "I will get you a cup of tea.\" I am sorry to give you so much trouble,\" said I. Not the least trouble in the world, she replied. On the contrary, a pleasure. We were then shown into the next room.",
  "sample_04803.wav": "where the fire was now blazing up. But Mistress Slick protested he could not proceed without the little boy, and lingered behind to ascertain his age, and concluded by asking the child if he had any aunts that looked like Mama.",
  "sample_04804.wav": "As the door closed, Mr. Slick said, It's a pity she don't go well in gear. The difficulty with those critters is to get them to start. Arder that there's no trouble with them, if you don't check them too short. If you do, they'll stop again.",
  "sample_04805.wav": "Run back and kick like mad, and then old Nick himself wouldn't start him. Pugwash, I guess, don't understand the nature of the Critter. She'll never go kind in harness for him.\" When I see a chow, said the clockmaker.",
  "sample_04806.wav": "I always feel safe with these woman folk, for I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child.\" \"'You seem,' said I, \"'to understand the female heart so well. I make no doubt you are a general favorite among the fair sex.\"",
  "sample_04807.wav": "Any man,\" he replied, \"'that understands horses has a pretty considerable fair knowledge of women, for they are just alike in temper, and require the very identical same treatment. Encourage the timid ones?'",
  "sample_04808.wav": "And I tell you there ain't one in a thousand that knows a grain about either on him. You hear folks say, oh, such a man is an ugly grain, Critter. He'll break his wife's heart, just as if a woman's heart was as brittle as a pipe stock.",
  "sample_04809.wav": "The female heart, as far as my experience goes, is just like a new India rubber shoe. You may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long.",
  "sample_04810.wav": "Their hearts are made of stout leather. I tell you.",
  "sample_04811.wav": "in 1665. Written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before.",
  "sample_04812.wav": "It was about the beginning of September 1664 that I, among the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland.",
  "sample_04813.wav": "It was brought, some said, from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet. Others said it was brought from Candia, others from Cyprus.",
  "sample_04814.wav": "spread rumors and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I have lived to see practiced since.",
  "sample_04815.wav": "and from them was handed about by word of mouth only, so that things did not spread instantly over the whole nation as they do now. But it seems that the government had a true account of it",
  "sample_04816.wav": "and several councils were held about ways to prevent its coming over. But all was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumor died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in.",
  "sample_04817.wav": "and that we hoped was not true, till the latter end of November, or the beginning of December 1664, when two men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Longacre.",
  "sample_04818.wav": "or rather at the upper end of Drury Lane.",
  "sample_04819.wav": "endeavored to conceal it as much as possible, but as it had gotten some vent in the discourse of the neighborhood, the Secretaries of State got knowledge of it, and concerning themselves to inquire about it in order to be certain of the truth.",
  "sample_04820.wav": "Two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house and make inspection. This they did. Finding evident tokens of the sickness upon both the bodies that were dead.",
  "sample_04821.wav": "and it was printed in the weekly bill of mortality in the usual manner. Thus, Plague 2. Parishes infected 1.",
  "sample_04822.wav": "But after that, I think it was about the 12th of February, another died in another house, but in the same parish and in the same manor. This turned the people's eyes pretty much towards that end of the town.",
  "sample_04823.wav": "It began to be suspected that the plague was among the people at that end of the town, and that many had died of it, though they had taken care to keep it as much from the knowledge of the public as possible.",
  "sample_04824.wav": "This possessed the heads of the people very much, and few cared to go through Drury Lane, or the other streets suspected, unless they had extraordinary business that obliged them to it.",
  "sample_04825.wav": "The usual number of burials in a week in the parishes of St. Giles in the fields and St. Andrews, Holborn, were from 12 to 17 or 19 each, few more or less.",
  "sample_04826.wav": "it was observed that the ordinary burials increased in number considerably. For example, from December 27th to January 3rd,",
  "sample_04827.wav": "The like increase of the bills was observed in the parishes of St. Bride, adjoining on one side of Holburn Parish and in the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, adjoining on the other side of Holburn.",
  "sample_04828.wav": "St. Bride's, 0, St. James, 8.",
  "sample_04829.wav": "St. Bride's 6, St. James 9.",
  "sample_04830.wav": "St. James, 7.",
  "sample_04831.wav": "St. Bride's 8.",
  "sample_04832.wav": "St. James, 6. Besides this, it was observed, with great uneasiness by the people, that the weekly bills in general increased very much during these weeks, although it was at a time of the year when",
  "sample_04833.wav": "in one week since the preceding visitation of 1656. However, all this went off again, and the weather proving cold, and the frost, which began in December,",
  "sample_04834.wav": "still continuing very severe, even till near the end of February, attended with sharp, though moderate winds, the bills decreased again, and the city grew healthy, and everybody began to look upon the danger as good as over.",
  "sample_04835.wav": "From the beginning of April, especially, they stood at 25 each week. Till the week from the 18th to the 25th.",
  "sample_04836.wav": "There was none of the plague, and but four of the spotted fever. But the following week it returned again, and the distemper was spread into two or three other parishes.",
  "sample_04837.wav": "not knowing that he was already infected. This was the beginning of May, yet the weather was temperate, variable and cool enough, and people had still some hopes. That which encouraged them was that the city was healthy.",
  "sample_04838.wav": "There died but three, of which not one within the whole city, or liberties, and St. Andrews buried but fifteen, which was very low.",
  "sample_04839.wav": "But still, as there was but one of the plague, people began to be easy. The whole bill also was very low. For the week before, the bill was but 347.",
  "sample_04840.wav": "So that now all our extenuations abated, and it was no more to be concealed. Nay, it quickly appeared that the infection had spread itself beyond all hopes of abatement, in the parish of St. Giles.",
  "sample_04841.wav": "Mrs. Savering sat up waiting for her lord until long past midnight, but her vigil was in vain. LaPierre, after closing up his inn for the night, dropped in, according to his promise, to see if any news of the absentee had arrived.",
  "sample_04842.wav": "Nothing further could be done in the way of searching for the latter personage until daylight. It was getting on pretty well towards morning when Mrs. Savarin sought her couch, and when she got there her slumber was broken and disturbed. She knew not what to think.",
  "sample_04843.wav": "but she was haunted by a dread that she would never again see her husband alive. Next morning, soon after daylight, the whole neighborhood was astir, and the country round was carefully searched for any trace of the missing man.",
  "sample_04844.wav": "Squire Harrington went down to town and made inquiries at the bank, where he ascertained that the story told by Severine to old Jonathan Perry",
  "sample_04845.wav": "was substantially correct. This effectually disposed of any possible theory as to Jonathan and his wife having mistaken someone else for Severine. Squire Harrington likewise learned all about the man's doings on the previous afternoon.",
  "sample_04846.wav": "and was able to fix the time at which he had started for home. He had ridden from the door of the peacock at about a quarter to eight.",
  "sample_04847.wav": "Perry professed to have seen and conversed with him. There was no longer any room for doubt. That interview and conversation had actually taken place at eight o'clock on the previous evening, and Severine had ridden northward from the gate within five minutes afterwards. He could not have proceeded more than a hundred.",
  "sample_04848.wav": "or at the very outside, 200 yards further, or he must inevitably have been encountered by Lapierre.",
  "sample_04849.wav": "but the horse, which had disappeared in this unaccountable manner. It seemed improbable that two living substances of such bulk should pass out of being and leave no trace behind them. They must literally have melted into thin air. No, they hadn't. At least the black mare hadn't.",
  "sample_04850.wav": "which she was discovered by several members of the searching party a little before noon. When found, she was quietly cropping the damp herbage at the edge of the cranberry swamp at the rear of Squire Harrington's farm. She was wholly uninjured, and had evidently spent the night there.",
  "sample_04851.wav": "The bit had been removed from her mouth, but the bridle hung intact around her neck. The saddle, however, like its owner, had disappeared from her back. Then the man began a systematic search in the interior of the swamp. They soon came upon the saddle, which had apparently been deliberately unbuckled.",
  "sample_04852.wav": "and deposited on a dry patch of the ground near the edge of the morass. A little farther in the interior they came upon a man's coat made of dark brown stuff.",
  "sample_04853.wav": "as belonging to Savarin. It was wet and was smirked with mud, and in fact was lying half in and half out of a little puddle of water when it was found. Then the searchers made sure of finding the body. But in this they were disappointed.",
  "sample_04854.wav": "but found nothing further to remord their search. The ground was too soft and marshy to retain any traces of footsteps, and the mare and saddle furnished the only evidence that the object of their quest had been in the neighborhood of the swamp, and of course this evidence was of the most vague and inconclusive character.",
  "sample_04855.wav": "Then the party proceeded in a body to the missing man's house. Here another surprise awaited them. The coat was at once recognized by Mrs. Savarin as belonging to her husband, but it was not the coat worn by him at the time of his disappearance. Of this there was no doubt whatever.",
  "sample_04856.wav": "In fact, he had not worn it for more than a week previously. His wife distinctly remembered having folded and laid it away in the top of a large trunk on the Saturday of the week before last, since which time she had never set eyes on it. Here was a deepening of the mystery.",
  "sample_04857.wav": "The search was kept up without intermission for several days, nearly all of the farmers in the Vincenny taking part of it, even to the neglect of the harvest work which demanded their attention. Squire Harrington was especially active and left no stone unturned to unravel the mystery.",
  "sample_04858.wav": "La Pierre gave up all his time to the search and left the Royal Oak to the care of its landlady. The local constabulary bestirred themselves as they had never done before.",
  "sample_04859.wav": "where a man's body might possibly lie concealed, every tract of bush and woodland, every barn and outbuilding, every hollow and ditch, every field and fence corner was explored with careful minuteness. Even the wells of the district were peered into.",
  "sample_04860.wav": "from off the face of the earth. Dr. Scott, the local coroner, held himself in readiness to summon a coroner's jury at the shortest notice. When all these measures proved unavailing, a public meeting of the inhabitants was convened and funds were subscribed to still further prosecute the search.",
  "sample_04861.wav": "Dead or alive or which should throw any light upon his fate handbills proclaiming this reward and describing the man's personal appearance were exhibited in every bar room and other conspicuous place Throughout Westchester and the adjacent townships",
  "sample_04862.wav": "Advertisements setting forth the main facts were inserted in the principal newspapers of Toronto, Hamilton, and London.",
  "sample_04863.wav": "A stitch in time saves embarrassing exposure.",
  "sample_04864.wav": "Wonderful. Parents are yet to be heard from who don't think theirs is a wonder. A nocturnal animal to which everyone in a sleeping car is eager to give a wide birth. Bachelor from Latin Bacchus, a stick unattached.",
  "sample_04865.wav": "Hence an unattached man, which any lady may stick, stick to, or get stuck on. Backbiter. A mosquito. Balance. Something wanted by bookkeepers and often lost by toppers.",
  "sample_04866.wav": "may be found in a cash book or the Tangaroo Gate. Bandit, an outlaw. C. Alderman. Barber, a brilliant conversationalist who occasionally shaves and cuts hair.",
  "sample_04867.wav": "Bars. Things found in harbors, hotels, fences, prisons, courts, and music.",
  "sample_04868.wav": "developed in department stores on Mondays. Symptoms loud talk pushing and shoving a combination prize fight and football scrimmage. Old spelling bark gain. Baseball.",
  "sample_04869.wav": "A game in which the young man who bravely strikes out for himself receives no praise for it. Bat. Senior partner of Bat Ball & Co. and never found without the rest of the firm as it takes several high balls to make one short bat. Beach.",
  "sample_04870.wav": "strip of sand skirted by water covered with lady killers in summer lifesavers in winter",
  "sample_04871.wav": "and so might marry again when he would.",
  "sample_04872.wav": "and to assist and support me as long as I lived, and that if he died before me he would leave sufficient to his mother to take care of me still, in the name of a sister, and he was in some respects careful of me, when he heard of me.",
  "sample_04873.wav": "as you shall hear in its time. I came away for England in the month of August, after I had been eight years in that country, and now a new scene of misfortunes attended me, which perhaps few women have gone through the life of.",
  "sample_04874.wav": "We had an indifferent good voyage till we came just upon the coast of England and where we arrived in two and thirty days But were then ruffled with two or three storms",
  "sample_04875.wav": "got some refreshment on shore, and put to sea again, though we met with very bad weather again in which the ship sprung her main mast, as they called it, for I knew not what they meant. But we got at last into Milford Haven, in Wales.",
  "sample_04876.wav": "where though it was remote from our port,",
  "sample_04877.wav": "the Isle of Britain, I resolved to venture it no more upon the waters, which had been so terrible to me, so getting my clothes and money on shore, with my bills of loading and other papers, I resolved to come for London.",
  "sample_04878.wav": "The port, whither she was bound, was to Bristol, where my brother's chief correspondent lived. I got to London in about three weeks, where I heard a little while after that the ship was arrived in Bristol.",
  "sample_04879.wav": "the breaking of her main-mast, she had great damage on board, and that a great part of her cargo was spoiled. I had now a new scene of life upon my hands, and a dreadful appearance it had. I was come away with a kind of final farewell.",
  "sample_04880.wav": "What I brought with me was indeed considerable, had it come safe, and by the help of it I might have married again tolerably well, but as it was I was reduced to between two or three hundred pounds in the hole, and this without any hope of recruit.",
  "sample_04881.wav": "I was entirely without friends, nay, even so much as without acquaintance.",
  "sample_04882.wav": "that set me up formally for a fortune, she was dead, and her husband also, as I was informed, upon sending a person unknown to inquire. The looking after my cargo of goods soon after obliged me to take a journey to Bristol, and",
  "sample_04883.wav": "I took the diversion of going to the bath, for as I was still far from being old, so my humour, which was always gay, continued so to an extreme, and being now, as it were, a woman of fortune, though I was a woman without a fortune,",
  "sample_04884.wav": "as had been my case before. The bath is a place of gallantry enough, expensive, and full of snares. I went thither indeed.",
  "sample_04885.wav": "But I must do myself justice, as to protest I knew nothing amiss. I meant nothing but in an honest way, nor had I any thoughts about me at first that looked the way which afterwards I suffered them to be guided.",
  "sample_04886.wav": "as it is called there, and contracted some unhappy acquaintances, which rather prompted the follies I fell afterwards into, than fortified me against them. I lived pleasantly enough, kept good company, that is to say gay fine company, and was not",
  "sample_04887.wav": "But had the discouragement to find this way of living sunk me exceedingly, and that, as I had no settled income, so spending upon the main stock was but a certain kind of bleeding to death, and this gave me many sad reflections in the interval of my other thoughts.",
  "sample_04888.wav": "However, I shook them off.",
  "sample_04889.wav": "But I was in the wrong place for it. I was not now at Red Drift, where, if I had set myself tolerably up, some honest sea-captain or other might have talked with me upon the honourable terms of matrimony. But I was at the bath.",
  "sample_04890.wav": "where men find a mistress sometimes, but very rarely look for a wife, and consequently all the particular acquaintances a woman can expect to make there must have some tendency that way. I had spent the first season well enough.",
  "sample_04891.wav": "For though I had contracted some acquaintance with the gentleman who came to the bath for his diversion,",
  "sample_04892.wav": "as it might be called. I resisted some casual offers of gallantry, and had managed that way well enough. I was not wicked enough to come into the crime for the mere vice of it, and I had no extraordinary offers made me that tempted me with the main thing which I wanted.",
  "sample_04893.wav": "I contracted an acquaintance with a woman in whose house I lodged, who though she did not keep an ill-house, as we call it, yet had none of the best principles in herself. I had on all occasions behaved myself so well.",
  "sample_04894.wav": "as not to get the least slur upon my reputation, on any account whatever. And all the men that I had conversed with were of so good reputation that I had not given the least reflection by conversing with them.",
  "sample_04895.wav": "for wicked correspondence, if they had any of them offered it. Yet there was one gentleman, as above, who always singled me out for the diversion of my company, as he called it, which, as he was pleased to say, was very agreeable to him.",
  "sample_04896.wav": "There was no more in it. I had many melancholy hours at the bath after the company was gone.",
  "sample_04897.wav": "and for recruits of money, yet I chose to come back to Bath for my residence, because being on good terms with the woman in whose house I lodged in the summer, I found that during the winter I lived rather cheaper there.",
  "sample_04898.wav": "Here, I say, I passed the winter as heavily as I had passed the autumn cheerfully.",
  "sample_04899.wav": "of what lay hardest upon my mind, and particularly the narrowness of my circumstances, and the loss of my fortune by the damage of my goods at sea. I told her also that I had a mother and a brother in Virginia, in good circumstances,",
  "sample_04900.wav": "and as I had really written back to my mother in particular to represent my condition, and the great loss I had received,",
  "sample_04901.wav": "CHAPTER TWELVE THE STRANGE BARGON Ronecky drew his gun and waited. Good, said the man of the sneer. Go ahead. It was down in the cellar that we found the first tracks.",
  "sample_04902.wav": "That dropped him into the coal-bin. Did he get coal-dust on his shoes? Right, and he didn't have sense enough to wipe it off. An amateur, a rank amateur! I told you, said the man of the sneer, with satisfaction.",
  "sample_04903.wav": "You followed his trail. Up the stairs to the kitchen, and down the hall, and up to Harry's room. We already knew he'd gone there. But he left that room again and came down the hall. Yes?\"",
  "sample_04904.wav": "And where did it lead? Right to this room. He stepped from among the smooth silks.",
  "sample_04905.wav": "The time had almost come for one desperate attempt to escape, and he was ready to shoot to kill. A moment of pause had come, a pause which, in the imagination of Ronnike, had been a",
  "sample_04906.wav": "That's a likely story. I can show you the tracks.",
  "sample_04907.wav": "You fool! They simply grew dim when they got to this door. I've been here for some time. Go back and tell them to hunt some more. Go up to the attic and search there. That's the place an amateur would most likely hide.\"",
  "sample_04908.wav": "The man growled some retort and left, closing the door heavily behind him, while Ronnike Dune breathed freely again for the first time. Now, said the man of the sneer, tell me the whole of it, Ruth. Ronnike said his teeth.",
  "sample_04909.wav": "Had the clever devil guessed at the truth so easily? Had he sent his follower away merely to avoid having it known that a man had taken shelter in the room of the girl he loved? Go on, the leader was repeating, let me hear the whole truth.",
  "sample_04910.wav": "I\u2014I\u2014stammered the girl, and she could say no more. The man of the sneer laughed unpleasantly. Let me help you. It was somebody you met somewhere.",
  "sample_04911.wav": "You smiled so much, in fact, that he followed you and found that you had come here. The only way he could get in was by stealth. Is that right?\"",
  "sample_04912.wav": "So he came in exactly that way, like a robber, but really only to keep at rest with his lady love. A pretty story, a true romance.",
  "sample_04913.wav": "my dear girl.\" John, began Ruth Tolliver, her voice shaking, Tush! he broke in as smoothly as ever. Let me tell the story for you, and spare you your blushes.",
  "sample_04914.wav": "Although you were glad to see him, you warned him that it was dangerous to play with fire. Fire being me. Do I gather the drift of the story fairly well? Finally, you have him worked up to the right pitch.",
  "sample_04915.wav": "You show him that it is possible.",
  "sample_04916.wav": "Yes, said the girl, unevenly. That is\u2014 Ah! murmured the man of the sneer. You seem rather relieved that I have guessed he left the house. In that case\u2014",
  "sample_04917.wav": "Now he pushed it open and stepped out. He was only barely in time, for the man of the sneer was turning quickly in his direction since there was only one hiding-place in the room.",
  "sample_04918.wav": "He was brought up with a shock by the sight of Ronnike's big colt, held at the hip, and covering him with absolute certainty. Ruth Tolliver did not cry out, but every muscle in her face and body seemed to contract.",
  "sample_04919.wav": "as if she were preparing herself for the explosion. \"'You don't have to put up your hands,' said Ronnocky Doon, wondering at the familiarity of the face of the man of the sneer. He had brooded on it so often in the past few days that it was like the face of an old acquaintance.\"",
  "sample_04920.wav": "He knew every line in that sharp profile. Thank you.",
  "sample_04921.wav": "I congratulate you on your good taste. A regular Apollo, my dear Ruth!\" He turned back to Ronnaki Dune. \"'And I suppose you have overheard our entire conversation?' \"'The whole lot of it,' said Ronnaki.",
  "sample_04922.wav": "though I wasn't playing my hand at eavesdropping. I couldn't help hearing you, partner.\" The man of the sneer looked him over leisurely. \"'Western,' he said at last. Decidedly, Western. Are you staying long in the East, my friend?\"",
  "sample_04923.wav": "\"'I don't know,' said Ronnike Dune, smiling faintly at the coolness of the other. \"'What do you think about it?' \"'Meaning that I'm liable to put an end to your stay?' \"'Maybe. Tush-tush.' Tush-tush.'",
  "sample_04924.wav": "I suppose Ruth has filled your head with a lot of rot about what a terrible fellow I am. But I don't use poison, and I don't kill with mysterious X-rays. I am, as you see, a very quiet and ordinary sort.",
  "sample_04925.wav": "Ronnaki Doon smiled again. \"'You just obliged me, partner,' he replied in his own soft voice. \"'Just stay away from the walls of the room. Don't even sit down. Stand right where you are.'",
  "sample_04926.wav": "You'd murder me if I took another step?\" asked the man of the sneer, and a contemptuous and sardonic expression flitted across his face for the first time. I'd sure blow you full of lead,\" said Ronnike fervently.",
  "sample_04927.wav": "I'd kill you like a snake, stranger, which I mostly think you are. So step light and step quick when I talk.\" \"'Certainly,' said the other, bowing, \"'I am entirely at your service.'\" He turned a little to Ruth.",
  "sample_04928.wav": "I see that you have a most determined cavalier. I suppose he'll instantly abduct you and sweep you away from beneath my eyes.\" She made a vague gesture of denial. Go ahead, said the leader. By the way,",
  "sample_04929.wav": "My name is John Mark. I'm Dune. Some call me Roniky Dune. I'm glad to know you, Roniky Dune. I imagine that name fits you. Now tell me the story of why you came to this house. Of course it wasn't to see a girl.",
  "sample_04930.wav": "You're wrong. It was. Ah! In spite of himself the face of John Mark wrinkled with pain and suspicious rage. I came to see a girl, and her name, I figure, is Carolyn Smith.",
  "sample_04931.wav": "The children are justified when they peep so curiously and timidly at a company of unknown faces. Each individual atom of everlasting time is capable of comprising a world of joy.",
  "sample_04932.wav": "and at the same time of opening up a fathomless abyss of pain and suffering.",
  "sample_04933.wav": "I understand now the old fairy-tale about the man whom the sorcerer allowed to live a great many years and a few moments, for I know by my own experience the terrible omnipotence of the fantasy.",
  "sample_04934.wav": "Since the last letter from your sister, it is three days now, I have undergone the sufferings of an entire life, from the bright sunlight of glowing youth to the pale moonlight of seditious old age.",
  "sample_04935.wav": "Every little detail she wrote about your sickness, taken with what I had already gleaned from the doctor and had observed myself, confirmed my suspicion that it was far more dangerous than you thought.",
  "sample_04936.wav": "Indeed, no longer dangerous, but decided, past hope. Lost in this thought, and my strength entirely exhausted on account of the impossibility of hurrying to your side.",
  "sample_04937.wav": "My state of mind was really very disconsolate. Now, for the first time, I understood what it really was, being newborn by the joyful news that you are well again.",
  "sample_04938.wav": "I did not think of it as about to happen in the future or even in the present. Everything was already past. For a long time you had been wrapped in the bosom of the cold earth.",
  "sample_04939.wav": "Flowers had started to grow on the beloved grave, and my tears had already begun to flow more gently. Mute and alone I stood, and saw nothing but the features I had loved, and the sweet glances of the expressive eyes.",
  "sample_04940.wav": "Now and then the pale face smiled and seemed asleep, just as it had looked the last time I saw it. Then of a sudden the different memories all became confused.",
  "sample_04941.wav": "With unbelievable rapidity the outlines changed, reassumed their first form, and transformed themselves again and again until the wild vision vanished.",
  "sample_04942.wav": "Only your holy eyes remained in the empty space and hung there motionless, even as the friendly stars shine eternally over our poverty.",
  "sample_04943.wav": "Now a piercing pain from dark suns burned me with an insupportable glare. Now a beautiful radiance hovered about, as if to entice me. Then I seemed to feel a fresh breath of morning air fan me.",
  "sample_04944.wav": "I held my head up and cried aloud.",
  "sample_04945.wav": "Why should you torment yourself? In a few minutes you can be with her.",
  "sample_04946.wav": "I was already hastening to you when suddenly a new thought held me back, and I said to my spirit,",
  "sample_04947.wav": "Unworthy man, you cannot even endure the trifling dissonances of this ordinary life, and yet you regard yourself as ready for and worthy of a higher life. Go away and do and suffer as your calling is.",
  "sample_04948.wav": "and then present yourself again when your orders have been executed.",
  "sample_04949.wav": "Is it not to you also remarkable how everything on this earth moves toward the center? How orderly everything is? How insignificant and trivial? So it has always seemed to me.",
  "sample_04950.wav": "And for that reason I suspect, if I am not mistaken, I have already imparted my suspicion to you that the next life will be larger, and in the good as well as in the bad, stronger, wilder, bolder, and more tremendous.",
  "sample_04951.wav": "as when a person suddenly finds himself alone in the midst of immeasurable mountains of ice. Everything about me and in me was cold and strange, and even my tears froze.",
  "sample_04952.wav": "Wonderful worlds appeared and vanished before me in my uneasy dream. I was sick and suffered great pain, and I loved my sickness and welcomed the suffering.",
  "sample_04953.wav": "I hated everything earthly and was glad to see it all punished and destroyed. I felt so alone and so strangely.",
  "sample_04954.wav": "And as a delicate spirit often grows melancholy in the very lap of happiness over its own joy, and at the very acme of its existence becomes conscious of the futility of it all.",
  "sample_04955.wav": "So did I regard my suffering with mysterious pleasure. I regarded it as the symbol of life in general. I believed that I was seeing and feeling the everlasting discord",
  "sample_04956.wav": "In the lovely forms of refined culture seem dead and trivial to me, in comparison with this monstrous world of infinite strength and of unending struggle and warfare.",
  "sample_04957.wav": "even into the most hidden depths of existence. On account of this remarkable feeling, sickness acquired the character of a peculiar world complete in itself.",
  "sample_04958.wav": "I felt that its mysterious life was richer and deeper than the vulgar health of the dreaming sleep-walkers all around me. And with the sickness, which was not at all unpleasant, I was able to sleep.",
  "sample_04959.wav": "This feeling also clung to me and completely separated me from other men. Just as I was sundered from the earth by the thought of your nature and my love had been too sacred.",
  "sample_04960.wav": "It seemed to me that all was right so, and that your unavoidable death was nothing more than a gentle awakening after a light sleep. I too thought that I was awake when I saw your picture.",
  "sample_04961.wav": "My loyalty towards the afflicted man, whose friendly advances I had seen good reason to return, was in no sense shaken. His undeserved misfortunes, his manly appeal to me at the spring,",
  "sample_04962.wav": "Still, while Crystal's entreaties and Crystal's influence had failed to shake me, Glutie's strange language and Glutie's incomprehensible conduct had troubled my mind. I felt vaguely uneasy, irritated by my own depression of spirits.",
  "sample_04963.wav": "If I had been a philosopher, I should have recognized the symptoms of a very common attack, of a very widely spread moral malady. The meanest of all human infirmities is also the most universal, and the name of it is self-esteem.",
  "sample_04964.wav": "It is perhaps only right to add that my patience had been tried by the progress of domestic events, which affected Lady Lena and myself, viewed as victims. I was spending with my stepmother at Lord Upperford's house later in the day.",
  "sample_04965.wav": "or made an opportunity of talking together confidentially in a corner, and once or twice I caught them looking at Lady Lena and at me. Even Lord Uppercliff, perhaps not yet taken into their confidence, had not yet been taken into their confidence.",
  "sample_04966.wav": "noticed the proceedings of the two ladies, and seemed to be at a loss to understand them. When Mrs. Roy Lake and I were together again on our way home, I was prepared to hear the praise of Lady Lena, followed by a delicate examination into the state of my heart.",
  "sample_04967.wav": "Neither of these anticipations was realized. Once more my clever stepmother had puzzled me. Mrs. Roylake talked as affluently as ever, exhausting one commonplace subject after another.",
  "sample_04968.wav": "without the slightest allusion to my lord's daughter, to my matrimonial prospects, or to my visits at the mill. I was secretly annoyed, feeling that my stepmother's singular indifference to domestic interests of paramount importance",
  "sample_04969.wav": "Returning to the house I tried to occupy myself with my collection of insects, sadly neglected of late. Useless. My own moths failed to interest me. I went back to the garden, passing the open window of one of the lower rooms which looked out on the terrace.",
  "sample_04970.wav": "I saw Mrs. Roylake reading a book in sad coloured binding. She was yawning over it fearfully when she discovered that I was looking at her. Equal to any emergency, this remarkable woman instantly handed to me a second and similar volume.",
  "sample_04971.wav": "I looked at the book. I opened the book. I recovered my presence of mine and handed it back. If a female humbug was on one side of the window, a male humbug was on the other.",
  "sample_04972.wav": "Which way did I turn my steps? Men will wonder what possessed me. Women will think it a proceeding that did me credit. I took the familiar road which led to the gloomy wood in the guilty river. The longing in me to see Crystal again was more than I could resist.",
  "sample_04973.wav": "not because I was in love with her, only because I had left her in distress. Beyond the spring and within a short distance of the river I saw a lady advancing toward me on the path which led from the mill. Brisk, smiling, tripping along like a young girl,",
  "sample_04974.wav": "Behold the mock Republican, known in our neighborhood as Lady Rachel. She held out both hands to me, but for her petticoats I should have thought I had met with a jolly young man.",
  "sample_04975.wav": "patronising piety on the way to afternoon church. I must positively make a sketch of the cottage by the mill. I mean, of course, the picturesque side of it. That fine girl of Toller's was standing at the door. She is really handsomer than ever. Are you going to see her, you wicked man?",
  "sample_04976.wav": "When we had left each other, I thought of the absent captain in the Navy, who was Lady Rachel's husband. He was a perfect stranger, but I put myself in his place and felt that I, too, should have gone to sea.",
  "sample_04977.wav": "Old Toller was alone in his kitchen, evidently annoyed and angry. We are all at sixes and sevens, Mr. Gerard. I've had another row with that deaf devil, my new name for him, and I think it's rather clever.",
  "sample_04978.wav": "You swear, sir, that he won't go at the end of his week's notice?",
  "sample_04979.wav": "and shoot the man and shoot himself.",
  "sample_04980.wav": "I'll be even with him. You mock my words. I'll be even with him.\" That old toller, the most exasperating of men, judged by a quick temper, had irritated my friend into speaking rashly was plain enough. Nevertheless I felt some anxiety.",
  "sample_04981.wav": "About Crystal after looking around the kitchen again. I asked where she was Sitting forlorn in a bedroom crying her father told me I went out for a walk by the river And I sat down and being Sunday. I fell asleep when I woke and got home again. Just now that",
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  "sample_04983.wav": "But Mr. Taller, I objected, something must have happened to distress her. Has she not told you what it is? Not she, obstinate about it. Leaves me to guess. It's clear to my mind, Mr. Girard, that somebody has guarded her in my absence.",
  "sample_04984.wav": "You will ask me who the person is",
  "sample_04985.wav": "But you mean to try?\" Yes, I mean to try. He answered me with little of the energy which generally distinguished him. Perhaps he was fatigued, or perhaps he had something else to think of. I offered a suggestion. When we ought\u2014",
  "sample_04986.wav": "in want of help, I said, we sometimes find it nearer than we had ventured to expect, at our own doors.\" The ancient miller rose at that hint like a fish at a fly. \"'Ludy!' he cried. \"'Find him at once, Mr. Taller.'\"",
  "sample_04987.wav": "I've got burdens on my mind, he explained, or I should have thought of it too.\" Having done justice to his own abilities, he bustled out. In less than a minute he was back again in a state of breathless triumph. Glutiestine the person, you announced, and...",
  "sample_04988.wav": "I beckoned to Gludy, waiting modestly at the door to come in and tell me what he had discovered. I saw her outside, sir, wrapping at the door here with her parasol. That was the servant's report. Her parasol?",
  "sample_04989.wav": "Miss Crystal looked like a person surprised at seeing a stranger\u2014what I should call a free and easy stranger. She walked in, sir, as if the place belonged to her. I am not suspicious by nature, as I hope and believe.",
  "sample_04990.wav": "The hat I had seen on the head of that hateful woman was now sufficiently described\u2014for a man. Sly old Taller, leaving Gludy unnoticed, and keeping his eye on me, saw the signs of conviction my face, and said with his customary audacity.",
  "sample_04991.wav": "Jason had persuaded Orpheus to accompany the Argonauts when they went to fetch back the golden fleece, for he knew that the perils of the way would be lightened by song. To the sound of his lyre the Argo had floated down to the sea.",
  "sample_04992.wav": "and he played so sweetly when they passed the rocks of the sirens that the dreadful monsters sang their most alluring strains in vain.",
  "sample_04993.wav": "whom he loved dearly, and who returned his love. But at their marriage the omens were not favourable. Hymen, the marriage god, came to it with a gloomy countenance, and the wedding torches smoked.",
  "sample_04994.wav": "I would not give forth a cheerful flame.",
  "sample_04995.wav": "was to be but short-lived, for as the new-made bride wandered through the woods with the other nymphs, a poisonous serpent stung her heel, and no remedy availed to save her. Orpheus was thrown into the dark night.",
  "sample_04996.wav": "into the most passionate grief at his wife's death. He could not believe that he had lost her forever, but prayed day and night without ceasing to the gods above to restore her to him. When they would not listen,",
  "sample_04997.wav": "he resolved to make one last effort to win her back. He would go down to the lower world and seek her among the dead, and try whether any prayer or persuasion could move Pluto to restore his beloved. Near Tanaram",
  "sample_04998.wav": "In Lyconia was a cave among dark and gloomy rocks, through which led one of the entrances to the lower world. This was the road by which Hercules descended when he went to carry off Cerberus.",
  "sample_04999.wav": "the three-headed dog that guards the threshold of Pluto. Undaunted by the terrors of the place, Orpheus passed through this gate, and down a dark and dismal road to the Kingdom of the Dead.",
  "sample_05000.wav": "Here he came in safety through the crowd of ghosts and phantoms, and stood at last before the throne of Pluto and Proserpina. Then he touched the cords of his lyre and chanted these words.",
  "sample_05001.wav": "Great lords of the world below the earth, To which all we mortals must one day come, Grant me to tell a simple tale.",
  "sample_05002.wav": "the lifeless ghosts came flocking. And as they heard they wept, Tantalus forgot his hunger and thirst.",
  "sample_05003.wav": "sat on his stone to listen. Never yet had such sweet strains been heard in the world of gloom. Then, for the first time, tears moistened the cheeks of the furies, and even the king and queen of the dead were moved to pity.",
  "sample_05004.wav": "and she came, yet halting from her recent wound. Take her, says Pluto, and lead her back to the light.",
  "sample_05005.wav": "Nor must you once turn round to look upon her.",
  "sample_05006.wav": "Else the boom we grant you will be but vain. A steep path led upward from the realm of darkness, and the way was hard to find through the gloom. Then silence orpheus led on, till the goal was close at hand.",
  "sample_05007.wav": "and the welcoming light of the upper air began to penetrate the darkness. Then a sudden fear struck his heart.",
  "sample_05008.wav": "He turned to gaze on his beloved. Dimly he saw her, but for the last time, for a power she could not resist drew her back. Orpheus stretched out his arms and tried to seize her, but he only clasped the empty air.",
  "sample_05009.wav": "He sat on the further bank, without food or drink.",
  "sample_05010.wav": "Then at last he knew that the gods below were pitiless and full of sorrow. He returned to the upper earth for three years",
  "sample_05011.wav": "finding his only consolation in the music of his lyre, for he shunned all men and women.",
  "sample_05012.wav": "One day he sat down to rest on a grassy hill in the sunshine, and played and sang to beguile his sorrow. As he played, the coolness of shady branches seemed all about him, and looking up he found himself in the midst of a wood.",
  "sample_05013.wav": "Oak, poplar, lime, beech, laurel, ash, pine, plain, and maple, and many another tree, had gathered together here, drawn from their distant forest homes by the sounds of Orpheus's lyre.",
  "sample_05014.wav": "Yes, and the beasts and the birds of the field came too, and Orpheus sat in their midst, and sang and played the tunes of sorrow. Suddenly a great noise was heard of laughter and shouting and merry-making.",
  "sample_05015.wav": "For this was one of the feasts of Bacchus, and the women were celebrating his rites, wandering over the mountains with dance and revel. When they saw Orpheus, they set up a shout of derision. See? They cried.",
  "sample_05016.wav": "the wretched singer who mocks at women and will have no bride but the dead, come, let us kill him, and show that no man shall despise us unpunished.\" With these words they began to throw wands and stones at him.",
  "sample_05017.wav": "fell harmlessly to the ground. Then the women raised a wild shout and made such a clamor with trumpets and cymbals that the soft tones of the harp were drowned by the noise. Now at last the shots took effect.",
  "sample_05018.wav": "And in their fury the women fell upon him, Dealing blow on blow, Orpheus fell lifeless to the ground. But he was not to die unwept, The little birds of the forest mourned for him, Even the stony rocks wept.",
  "sample_05019.wav": "The trees shed their leaves with grief, and the dryads and niads tore their hair and put on the garb of sorrow. Only the pitiless revelers knew no remorse. They seized the singer's head.",
  "sample_05020.wav": "and threw it with his lyre into the river Hebrus. There it floated downstream, and, strange to tell, the cords gave forth a lament, and the lifeless tongue uttered words.",
  "sample_05021.wav": "When a mysterious crime has been perpetrated, or a great catastrophe has happened, and the identity of the victims has not been established, a great day invariably follows at the morgue.",
  "sample_05022.wav": "The attendants are so accustomed to the horrors of the place that the most sickly sight fails to impress them, and even under the most distressing circumstances they hasten gaily to and fro",
  "sample_05023.wav": "exchanging jests well calculated to make an ordinary mortal's flesh creep. As a rule, they are far less interested in the corpses laid out for public view on the marble slabs in the principal hall.",
  "sample_05024.wav": "As the vehicle conveying Lecoq reached the key,",
  "sample_05025.wav": "The newspapers had reported the tragedy at the widow Choupan's drinking-den, of course, more or less correctly, and everybody wished to see the victims.",
  "sample_05026.wav": "I prefer to alight here rather than in front of the morgue,\" he said, springing to the ground. Then producing first his watch and next his purse, he added,",
  "sample_05027.wav": "We have been an hour and forty minutes, my good fellow. Consequently, I owe you\u2014 Nothing at all, replied the driver decidedly. But no, not a sue.",
  "sample_05028.wav": "I am too worried already to think that I took the money these hussies offered me. It would only have served me right if the liquor I bought with it had given me the gripes. Don't be uneasy about the score, and if you need a trap, use mine for nothing.",
  "sample_05029.wav": "till you have caught the jades.\" As Lecoq's purse was low, he did not insist. \"'You will at least take my name and address,' continued the driver. Certainly.\"",
  "sample_05030.wav": "The magistrate will want your evidence, and a summons will be sent you. All right, then address it to Papillon, Eugene, driver.",
  "sample_05031.wav": "I lodge at his place because I have some small interest in the business, you see.\" The young detective was hastening away when Papillon called him back. When you leave the morgue you will want to go somewhere else, he said.",
  "sample_05032.wav": "You told me that you had another appointment, and that you were already late.' Yes, I ought to be at the Palais du Justice, but it is only a few steps from here. No matter.",
  "sample_05033.wav": "I will wait for you at the corner of the bridge. It's useless to say no. I've made up my mind. And I'm a Brayton. You know.",
  "sample_05034.wav": "Accordingly, the cock made a gesture of ascent, and then hurried toward the morgue. If there was a crowd on the roadway outside, it was because the gloomy building itself was crammed full of people. Indeed, the sightseers",
  "sample_05035.wav": "most of whom could see nothing at all, were packed as closely as sardines.",
  "sample_05036.wav": "that Lecoq managed to affect an entrance. As usual, he found among the mob a large number of girls and women, for, strange to say, he",
  "sample_05037.wav": "to the disgusting sights and horrible emotions that repay a visit to the morgue. The shop and work girls who reside in the neighborhood readily go out of their way to catch a glimpse of the corpses.",
  "sample_05038.wav": "which crime, accident, and suicide bring to this horrible place. A few",
  "sample_05039.wav": "may come no further than the door, but the others enter, and after a long stare, return and recount their impressions to their less courageous companions. If there should be no corpse exhibited,",
  "sample_05040.wav": "If all the marble slabs are unoccupied, strange as it may seem, the visitors turn hastily away with an expression of disappointment or discontent. There was no fear of their doing so, however.",
  "sample_05041.wav": "for the mysterious murderer whose identity Lecoque was trying to establish had furnished three victims for their delectation",
  "sample_05042.wav": "And yet a damp chill came from beyond the iron railings, while from the crowd itself rose an infectious vapor impregnated with a stench of the chloride of lime used as a disinfectant.",
  "sample_05043.wav": "As a continuous accompaniment to the exclamations, sighs, and whispered comments of the bystanders, came the murmur of the water trickling from a spigot at the head of each slab, a tiny stream that flowed forth.",
  "sample_05044.wav": "only to fall in fine spray upon the marble. Through the small arched windows a gray light stole in on the exposed bodies, bringing each muscle into bold relief.",
  "sample_05045.wav": "revealing the ghastly tints of the lifeless flesh, and imparting a sinister aspect to the tattered clothing hung around the room to aid in the identification of the corpses. This clothing, after a certain time, is sold.",
  "sample_05046.wav": "For nothing is wasted at the morgue. However Lecoq was too occupied with his own thoughts to remark the horrors of the scene. He scarcely bestowed a glance on the three victims.",
  "sample_05047.wav": "whom he could not perceive? Has G\u00e9ve Rol, intentionally or unintentionally, failed to fulfill his promise?",
  "sample_05048.wav": "Unable to explain the cause of his comrade's absence, the cock addressed himself to the head-keeper. It would seem that no one has recognized the victims, he remarked. No one, and yet...",
  "sample_05049.wav": "Ever since opening, we have had an immense crowd. If I were master here on days like this, I would charge an admission fee of two sous",
  "sample_05050.wav": "It would bring in around some more than enough to cover the expenses. The keeper's reply seemed to offer an inducement to conversation, but the cock did not seize it.",
  "sample_05051.wav": "No sooner had Charles taken into his hands the reins of government, than he showed an impatience to assemble the great Council of the Nation, and he would gladly, for the sake of dispatch, have called together the same Parliament which had sitten under his father, the great Council of the Nation.",
  "sample_05052.wav": "which lay at that time under prorogation. But being told that this measure would appear unusual, he issued Ritz for summoning a new parliament on the 7th of May, and it was not without regret that the arrival of the Princess Henrietta",
  "sample_05053.wav": "unexperienced and impolitic, regarded as sincere all the praises and caresses with which he had been loaded while active in procuring the rupture with the House of Austria, and besides that he labored under great necessities,",
  "sample_05054.wav": "He lightly mentioned the occasion which he had for supply. He employed no intrigue to influence the suffrages of the members. He would not even allow the officers of the Crown, who had seats in the House, to enter the House.",
  "sample_05055.wav": "and that great anticipations were likewise made on the revenues of the crown. They were not ignorant that Charles was loaded with a large debt contracted by his father, who had borrowed money both from his own subjects and from foreign princes.",
  "sample_05056.wav": "They had learned by experience that the public revenue could with difficulty maintain the dignity of the Crown, even under the ordinary charges of government.",
  "sample_05057.wav": "They were sensible that the present war was very lately the result of their own importunate applications and entreaties, and that they had solemnly engaged to support their sovereign in the management of it.",
  "sample_05058.wav": "They were acquainted with the difficulty of military enterprises directed against the whole House of Austria, against the King of Spain possessed of the greatest riches and most extensive dominions of any prince in Europe,",
  "sample_05059.wav": "against the Emperor Ferdinand, hitherto the most fortunate monarch of his age, who had subdued and astonished Germany by the rapidity of his victories. Deep impressions they saw must be made by the English sword",
  "sample_05060.wav": "and a vigorous offensive war be waged against these mighty potentates ere they would resign a principality which they had now fully subdued, at which they held insecure possession by its being surrounded with all their other territories.",
  "sample_05061.wav": "To answer, therefore, all these great and important ends, to satisfy their young king in the first request which he made them, to prove their sense of the many royal virtues, particularly economy, with which Charles was endued.",
  "sample_05062.wav": "The House of Commons, conducted by the wisest and ablest senators that had ever flourished in England, thought proper to confer on the King a supply of two subsidies.",
  "sample_05063.wav": "which the present conjuncture could suggest to them. It is not to be doubted but spleen and ill-will against the Duke of Buckingham had an influence with many. So vast and rapid a fortune, so little merited.",
  "sample_05064.wav": "could not fail to excite public envy, and however men's hatred might have been suspended for a moment while the Duke's conduct seemed to gratify their passions and their prejudices, it was impossible for him long to preserve the affections of the people.",
  "sample_05065.wav": "His influence over the modesty of Charles exceeded even that which he had acquired over the weakness of James, nor was any public measure conducted but by his counsel and direction.",
  "sample_05066.wav": "His vehement temper prompted him to raise suddenly to the highest elevation his flatterers and dependants, and upon the least occasion of displeasure he threw them down with equal impetuosity and violence. Implacable in his hatred,",
  "sample_05067.wav": "Fickle in his friendships, all men were either regarded as his enemies, or dreaded soon to become such. The whole power of the kingdom was grasped by his insatiable hand, while he both engrossed the entire confidence of his master.",
  "sample_05068.wav": "and held invested in his single person the most considerable offices of the Crown. However the ill humor of the Commons might have been increased by these considerations, we are not to suppose them the sole motives.",
  "sample_05069.wav": "The last parliament of James, amidst all their joy and festivity, had given him a supply very disproportionate to his demand and to the occasion, and as every House of Commons which was elected during forty years",
  "sample_05070.wav": "succeeded to all the passions and principles of their predecessors. We ought rather to account for this obstinacy from the general situation of the kingdom during that whole period than from any circumstances which attended this particular conjuncture.",
  "sample_05071.wav": "The nation was very little accustomed at that time to the burden of taxes, and had never opened their purses in any degree for supporting their sovereign. Even Elizabeth, notwithstanding her vigor and frugality,",
  "sample_05072.wav": "and the necessary wars in which she was engaged, had reason to complain of the commons in this particular. Nor could the authority of that princess, which was otherwise almost absolute, ever extort from them the requisite supplies.",
  "sample_05073.wav": "would not augment their number in the same proportion. The Puritanical party, though disguised, had a great authority over the kingdom, and many of the leaders among the commons had secretly embraced the rigid tats of that sect.",
  "sample_05074.wav": "All these were disgusted with the court, both by the prevalence of the principles of civil liberty essential to their party, and on account of the restraint under which they were held by the established hierarchy.",
  "sample_05075.wav": "In order to fortify himself against the resentment of James, Buckingham had affected popularity and entered into the cabal's of the Puritans. But being secure of the confidence of Charles, he had since abandoned this party and joined the Puritans.",
  "sample_05076.wav": "and on that account was the more exposed to their hatred and resentment. Though the religious schemes of many of the Puritans, when explained, appear pretty frivolous, we are not thence to imagine that they were pursued by none but persons of weak understandings.",
  "sample_05077.wav": "The match with France, and the articles in favor of Catholics, which were suspected to be in the treaty, were likewise causes of disgust to this whole party.",
  "sample_05078.wav": "though it must be remarked that the connections with that crown were much less obnoxious to the Protestants, and less agreeable to the Catholics, than the alliance formerly projected the Spain, and were therefore received rather with pleasure than dissatisfaction.",
  "sample_05079.wav": "as by the hardships which some of them had undergone in prosecution of them. Among these we may mention the names of Sir Edward Cope, Sir Edwin Sands, Sir Robert Phillips, Sir Francis Seymour,",
  "sample_05080.wav": "Sir Dudley Diggs, Sir John Elliott, Sir Thomas Wentworth, Mr. Selden, and Mr. Pym. Animated with a warm regard to liberty.",
  "sample_05081.wav": "CHAPTER XIV. WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ANG\u00c9R\u00c0S MISTRESS.",
  "sample_05082.wav": "continued to insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles, which is called grapeshot, passed overhead with its terrible sound, he assailed it with a burst of irony. You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal old fellow.",
  "sample_05083.wav": "You pain me, you are wasting your roww. That's not thunder, it's a cough.\" And the bystanders laughed.",
  "sample_05084.wav": "Who make us crazy, that is to say, brave, when a man is as much in love as a tiger?",
  "sample_05085.wav": "That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers that Mme. Algrisette play on us. Roland gets himself killed for Angelique. All our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger. It is the woman that sets the man off.",
  "sample_05086.wav": "He is not in love, and yet he manages to be intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice and as bold as fire.",
  "sample_05087.wav": "Had anyone been near him that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice, PATRIA.",
  "sample_05088.wav": "And, assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added, My name is Eight Pounder. In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second piece of ordinance.",
  "sample_05089.wav": "and placed this second piece in line with the first. This outlined the catastrophe. A few minutes later the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point-blank at the readout.",
  "sample_05090.wav": "The platoon, firing of the line and of the soldiers from the suburbs, sustained the artillery. Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that the two guns were furiously attacking the readout from the Rue de la Chanverie,",
  "sample_05091.wav": "The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other.",
  "sample_05092.wav": "the other balls. The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, mingled with bursts of grapeshot.",
  "sample_05093.wav": "The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the summit of the readout, and to compel them to gather close in the interior. That is to say, this announced the assault. The combatants, once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and",
  "sample_05094.wav": "from the windows of the cabaret by grapeshot, the attacking columns could venture into the street without being picked off. Perhaps, even without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the readout.",
  "sample_05095.wav": "and he shouted, FIRE on the artillerymen! All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth a desperate fire. Seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of rage and joy.",
  "sample_05096.wav": "The street was filled with blinding smoke, and at the end of a few minutes, a thwart this missed all streak with flame, two thirds of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the cannons.",
  "sample_05097.wav": "Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. Things are going well now, said Basri to Anjohra. Success!",
  "sample_05098.wav": "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any cartridges left in the barricade. It appears that Gavrash overheard this remark. CHAPTER XV. Gavrash Outside. CHAPTER X.",
  "sample_05099.wav": "Korfirok suddenly caught sight of someone at the base of the barricade outside in the street amid the bullets. Gavrosh had taken a bottle-basket from the wine-shop, had made his way out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying",
  "sample_05100.wav": "the full cartridge boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the slope of the Redoubt into his basket. \"'What are you doing there?' asked Korfirok. Gavrosh raised his face. \"'I'm filling my basket, citizen.' \"'Don't you see the grape-shot?'",
  "sample_05101.wav": "Gavros replied, \"'Well, it is raining. What then?' Korfairok shouted, \"'Come in!' \"'Instanter!' said Gavros, and with a single bound he plunged into the street.",
  "sample_05102.wav": "It will be remembered that Fanico's company had left behind it a trail of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavrash meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade.",
  "sample_05103.wav": "The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of lofty houses.",
  "sample_05104.wav": "It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed, hence a twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other short as it was.",
  "sample_05105.wav": "This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful to Gavrash. With the folds of this veil of smoke and thanks to his small size.",
  "sample_05106.wav": "He rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket and his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to another.",
  "sample_05107.wav": "and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a nut. They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade which was quite near for fear of attracting attention to him. In one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder flask.",
  "sample_05108.wav": "For thirst, said he, putting it in his pocket. By dint of advancing he reached a point where the fog of the fuselage became transparent, so that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the outlook behind their paving stone dike",
  "sample_05109.wav": "and the sharpshooters of the baliom, masked at the corner of the street, suddenly pointed out to each other something moving through the smoke. At the moment when Gavrash was relieving a sergeant who was lying near a stone door-post of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body.",
  "sample_05110.wav": "\"'Fixre!' ejaculated Gavros. \"'They are killing my dead men for me!' A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him. A third overturned his basket.",
  "sample_05111.wav": "It was true that his teacher was long past his prime, slow upon his feet, and stiff in his joints, but even so he was still a tough antagonist. But Montgomery had found at last that he could more than hold his own with him. He had won the university medal, and his teacher,",
  "sample_05112.wav": "in which he had had the worst of it, but had made the prizefighter stretch himself to the uttermost. There was his whole record. And was it enough to encourage him to stand up to the Master of Croxley? He had never heard of the Master before.",
  "sample_05113.wav": "But then he had lost touch of the ring during the last few years of hard work. After all, what did it matter? If he won, there was the money, which meant so much to him. If he lost, it would only mean a thrashing. He could take the punishment without flinching. Of that he was certain.",
  "sample_05114.wav": "matched against a pugilist over at Croxley. I cannot understand why the law does not step in and stop so degrading an exhibition. It is really a prize fight. A glove fight, you said.",
  "sample_05115.wav": "I am informed that a two ounce glove is an evasion by which they dodge the law and make it difficult for the police to interfere.",
  "sample_05116.wav": "to think that such scenes can be enacted within a few miles of our peaceful home? But you will realize, Mr. Montgomery, that while there are such influences for us to counteract, it is very necessary that we should live up to our highest.",
  "sample_05117.wav": "The doctor's sermon would have had more effect if the assistant had not once or twice had occasion to test his highest, and come upon it at unexpectedly humble elevations. It is always so particularly easy to",
  "sample_05118.wav": "Compound for sins we're most inclined to by damning those we have no mind to. In any case, Montgomery felt that of all the men concerned in such a fight, promoters, backers, spectators, it is the actual fighter.",
  "sample_05119.wav": "who holds the strongest and most honorable position. His conscience gave him no concern upon the subject. Endurance and courage are virtues, not vices, and brutality is, at least, better than effeminacy.",
  "sample_05120.wav": "The assistant strolled down there after tea and asked, in a casual way, whether the tobacco Could swim.",
  "sample_05121.wav": "The little man could hardly articulate in his astonishment, Why, sir, he's the first man of the district, And his name is well known in the West writing as the winner of Tudorby. But lo, sir! Here he stopped and rummaged among a heap of papers.",
  "sample_05122.wav": "And so the Croxley Herald has his life on record, and here it is, and thou canst read it for thyself. The sheet of the paper which he held up was a lake of print around an island of illustration. The latter was a coarse woodcut of a pugilist head and neck.",
  "sample_05123.wav": "Silas Craggs, and beneath the Master of Croxley. \"'They'll find all about him there, sir,' said the tobacconist. \"'He's a wither and tyke he is, and we're proud to have him in the county. If he hadn't broke his leg he'd have been champion of England.'\"",
  "sample_05124.wav": "broke his leg, has he? Yes, and it said badly. They call him old K, behind his back, for that is how his two legs look. But his arms, if they was both dropped to a bench, as the saying is,",
  "sample_05125.wav": "I'll take this with me,\" said Montgomery, and putting the paper into his pocket he returned home. It was not a cheering record which he read there. The whole history of the Croxley Master was given in full, his many victories, his few defeats.",
  "sample_05126.wav": "Born in 1857, said the provincial biographer, Silence Craggs, better known in sporting circles as the Master of Crocsley, is now in his fortieth year. Hang it! I'm only 23!",
  "sample_05127.wav": "and won the proud title which he still holds. Ambitious of a more than local fame, he secured a patron and fought his first fight against Jack Barton of Birmingham in May 1880 at the Old Loiterers Club. Craig's",
  "sample_05128.wav": "who fought at Tinstone II at the time, had the better of fifteen rattling rounds, and gained an award on points against the Midlander. Having disposed of James Dunn, of Rotherhithe, Cameron of Glasgow, and a youth named Fernie,",
  "sample_05129.wav": "It was owing to this that he was defeated in several rounds by Willex, the man whom he had previously beaten, and afterwards by James Shaw of London, though the latter acknowledged that he had fought the toughest customer of his career. Undismayed by his reverses.",
  "sample_05130.wav": "The master adapted the style of his fighting to his physical disabilities and resumed his career of victory. Defeating Norton, the black, Hobbie Wilson and Levi Cohen, the latter a heavyweight. Conceding two stone, he fought a draw with the famous Billy McQuire.",
  "sample_05131.wav": "who may wish to learn the difference between a bar room scramble and a scientific contest. The latest of these ambitious souls comes from the Wilson Colpits, which have undertaken to put up a stake of 100 pounds and back their local champion.",
  "sample_05132.wav": "There are various rumors afloat as to who their representative is to be, the name of Ted Barton being freely mentioned. But the betting, which is 7 to 1 on the master against any untried man, is a fair reflection of the feeling of the community.",
  "sample_05133.wav": "No light matter this which he had undertaken, no battle with a rough-and-tumble fighter who presumed upon a local reputation. The man's records show that he was first class, or nearly so. There were a few points in his favor, and he must make the most of them.",
  "sample_05134.wav": "There was age, 23 against 40. There was an old ring proverb that, youth will be served, but the annals of the ring offer a great number of exceptions. A hard veteran full of cool valor and ring craft,",
  "sample_05135.wav": "could give 10 or 15 years and a beating to most striplings. He could not rely too much upon his advantage and age. But then there was the lameness. That must surely count for a great deal. And lastly, there was the chance that the master might underrate his opponent.",
  "sample_05136.wav": "that he might be remiss in his training and refuse to abandon his usual way of life, if he thought that he had an easy task before him. In a man of his age and habits this seemed very possible. Montgomery prayed that it might be so.",
  "sample_05137.wav": "Meanwhile, if his opponent were the best man who ever jumped the ropes into a ring, his own duty was clear. He must prepare himself carefully, throw away no chance, and do the very best that he could. But he knew enough to appreciate the difference which exists in boxing, as in every sport.",
  "sample_05138.wav": "between the amateur and the professional. The coolness, the power of hitting, above all the capability of taking punishment, count for so much. Those specially developed, gutta-percha-like, abdominal muscles of the heart and pugilist",
  "sample_05139.wav": "will take without flinching a blow which would leave another man writhing on the ground. Such things are not to be acquired in a week, but all that could be done in a week should be done. The medical assistant had a good basis to start from.",
  "sample_05140.wav": "tall enough for anything on two legs as the old ring men used to say, lithe and spare, with the activity of a panther and a strength which had hardly yet ever found its limitations. His muscular development was finally hard.",
  "sample_05141.wav": "What, were they disputing then? said Emily. No, Mamzell, not fighting, but almost as good, for I believe there was not one of the Signors sober.",
  "sample_05142.wav": "and what is more, not one of those fine ladies sober either. I thought when I saw them first, that all those fine silks and fine veils\u2014 Why, Mom's elder, veils were worked with silver.",
  "sample_05143.wav": "And fine trimmings, bowed no good, I guessed what they were. Good God! exclaimed Emily, what will become of me?",
  "sample_05144.wav": "if you were to go running about the castle among all these drunken seniors.",
  "sample_05145.wav": "and across the great hall, and up the marble staircase and along the north gallery, and through the west wing of the castle, and I am in the corridor in a minute.\" \"'Are you so?' says he, and, what is to become of you if you meet any of those noble cavaliers in the way?'",
  "sample_05146.wav": "Well, says I, if you think there is danger, then go with me, and guard me. I am never afraid when you are by. What, says he, when I am scarcely recovered of one wound, shall I put myself in the way of getting another?",
  "sample_05147.wav": "No, no,' says he, \"'I will cut the way shorter than through the vaulted passage, and up the marble staircase, and along the north gallery, and through the west wing of the castle. For you shall stay here, Annette. You shall not go out of this room to-night.'",
  "sample_05148.wav": "Well, well,\" said Emily impatiently and anxious to inquire on another subject.",
  "sample_05149.wav": "Yes, he did indeed, Mumsel, notwithstanding all I could say to the contrary.",
  "sample_05150.wav": "and he mistook Ludovico's hall for old Carlo's.",
  "sample_05151.wav": "So, we were all as still as night that he might suppose there was nobody in the room, but the Signor was as cunning as the best of us, and kept calling out at the door, and",
  "sample_05152.wav": "Come forth, my valorous Signor Steward!' Just then old Carlo opened his door, and he came with a flask in his hand, for as soon as the Signor saw him, he was so happy that he was about to cry out, and he was so happy",
  "sample_05153.wav": "He was as tame as could be, and followed him away as naturally as a dog does a butcher with a piece of meat in his basket. All this I saw through the keyhole. Well, Annette,\" said Ludovico jeeringly, Shall I let you out now?",
  "sample_05154.wav": "Interrupted Emily, quite wearied by this story. Do you know whether there are any prisoners in the castle and whether they are confined at this end of the edifice?",
  "sample_05155.wav": "but it is expected back to-night, or to-morrow, and I shall know then, perhaps.\" Emily inquired if she had ever heard the servants talk of prisoners. \"'Ah, mum's zeal,' said Annette archly.\"",
  "sample_05156.wav": "Now, I dare say you are thinking of Monsieur Valingourt, and that he may have come among the armies, which they say are come from our country, to fight against this state, and that he has met with some of our people, and is taking captive.",
  "sample_05157.wav": "O Lord, how glad I should be if it was so! Would you indeed be glad?' said Emily in a tone of mournful reproach. To be sure I should.",
  "sample_05158.wav": "\"'Good ma'am,' replied Annette, and, would not you be glad, too, to see Signior Valancourt? I don't know any chevalier I like better. I have a very great regard for the Signior, truly.\"",
  "sample_05159.wav": "\"'Your regard for him cannot be doubted,' said Emily, since you wished to see him a prisoner.\" \"'Why, no, mam'zel, not a prisoner, either. But one must be glad to see him, you know, and it was only the other night I dreamt\u2014'",
  "sample_05160.wav": "And then it was gone, and nothing to be seen but the old castle walls. So they helped one another up again as fast as they could. You would not believe, Mamzel, though I showed you the very cannon where it used to appear.",
  "sample_05161.wav": "\"'And are you indeed so simple, Annette?' said Emily, smiling at this curious exaggeration of the circumstances she had witnessed, as to credit these stories. \"'Credit them, Mumsel, why, I'm not going to tell you why I'm here.",
  "sample_05162.wav": "All the world could not persuade me out of them. Roberto and Sebastian, and half a dozen more of them, went into fits. To be sure there was no occasion for that, I said myself, there was no need of that.",
  "sample_05163.wav": "For, says I, when the enemy comes, what a pretty figure they will cut, if they are to fall down in fits all of a row. The enemy won't be so civil, perhaps, as to walk off, like the ghost, and leave them to help one another up.",
  "sample_05164.wav": "But will fall too, cutting and slashing, Till he makes them all rise up dead men. No, no, says I, there is reason in all things.",
  "sample_05165.wav": "being, because it is no business of mine to look gruff and fight battles. Emily endeavoured to correct the superstitious weakness of Annette, though she could not entirely subdue her own, to which the latter only replied,",
  "sample_05166.wav": "Nay, Mam-zel, you will believe nothing. You are almost as bad as the Signor himself, who was in a great passion when they told of what had happened, and swore that the first man who repeated such nonsense should be thrown into the dungeon under the east turret. This was a hard part of the plan.",
  "sample_05167.wav": "But I dare say he had other reasons for calling it so than you have, ma'am.\" Emily looked displeased and made no reply, as she mused upon the recollected appearance, which had lately so much alarmed her, and considered the circumstances of the figure having stationed itself.",
  "sample_05168.wav": "opposite to her casement. She was for a moment inclined to believe it was Valancourt whom she had seen. Yet if it was he, why did he not speak to her when he had the opportunity of doing so? And if he was a prisoner in the castle...",
  "sample_05169.wav": "and he could be here in no other character. How could he obtain the means of walking abroad on the rampart?",
  "sample_05170.wav": "were the same, or, if they were, whether this was Valancourt. She however desired that Annette would endeavour to learn whether any prisoners were in the castle and also their names. Oh dear, Mamzell,\" said Annette, I forget to tell you what you bade me ask about.",
  "sample_05171.wav": "Night and morning he recited the prayer.",
  "sample_05172.wav": "Although the fame of His virtue did not reach far, yet His neighbors respected and revered Him.",
  "sample_05173.wav": "And when his roof or his walls fell out of repair, they would mend them for him. So for the things of this world he took no thought. One very cold night, when he little thought any one was outside, he heard a voice calling,",
  "sample_05174.wav": "Your reverence, your reverence!' So he rose and went out to see who it was. And there he beheld an old badger standing. Any ordinary man would have been greatly alarmed at the apparition.",
  "sample_05175.wav": "But now I am growing old, and this severe cold is more than I can bear. I pray you to let me enter and warm myself at the fire of your cottage, that I may live through this bitter night.",
  "sample_05176.wav": "went into the hut, and squatting down by the fire, began to warm itself, and the priest, with renewed fervour, recited his prayers, and struck his bell before the image of Buddha, looking straight before him.",
  "sample_05177.wav": "After two hours the badger took its leave, with profuse expressions of thanks, and went out, and from that time forth it came every night to the hut, as the badger would collect and bring with it dried branches and dead leaves from the hills for firewood.",
  "sample_05178.wav": "The priest at last became very friendly with it and got used to its company, so that if ever, as the night wore on, the badger did not arrive, he used to miss it and wonder why it did not come.",
  "sample_05179.wav": "And even after my death I must remember them. What can I do to requite them? If there is anything that you wish for, pray tell me.\" The priest, smiling at this speech, answered,",
  "sample_05180.wav": "Being such as I am, I have no desire and no wishes. Glad as I am to hear your kind intentions, there is nothing that I can ask you to do for me. You need feel no anxiety on my account, as long as I live when the winter comes.",
  "sample_05181.wav": "You shall be welcome here.\" The badger on hearing this could not conceal its admiration of the depth of the old man's benevolence, but having so much to be grateful for, it felt hurt at not being able to requite it.",
  "sample_05182.wav": "As this subject was often renewed between them, the priest, at last, touched by the goodness of the Badger's heart, said, Since I have shaven my head, renounced the world, and forsaken the pleasures of this life, I have no desire to gratify.",
  "sample_05183.wav": "Yet, I own, I should like to possess three ryo's in gold. Food and raiment I receive by the favor of the villagers, so I take no heed for those things. Were I to die to-morrow, and attain my wish of being born again into the next world.",
  "sample_05184.wav": "The same kind folk have promised to meet and bury my body. Thus, although I have no other reason to wish for money, still if I had three riows, I would offer them up at some holy shrine, that masses and prayers might be said for me.",
  "sample_05185.wav": "whereby I might enter into salvation. Yet I would not get this money by violent or unlawful means. I only think of what might be if I had it. So you see, since you have expressed such kind feelings toward me,",
  "sample_05186.wav": "I have told you what is on my mind.\" When the priest had done speaking the badger leant its head on one side with a puzzled and anxious look, so much so that the old man was sorry he had expressed a wish which seemed to give the beast trouble.",
  "sample_05187.wav": "and tried to retract what he had said. Post-humous honours, after all, are the wish of ordinary men. I, who am a priest, ought not to entertain such thoughts, or to want money. So pray, pay no attention to what I have said.",
  "sample_05188.wav": "And the badger, feigning assent to what the priest had impressed upon it, returned to the hills as usual. From that time forth the badger came no more to the hut.",
  "sample_05189.wav": "The priest thought this very strange, but imagined either that the badger stayed away because it did not like to come without the money, or that it had been killed in an attempt to steal it, and he blamed himself for having added to his sins for no purpose.",
  "sample_05190.wav": "repenting when it was too late. Persuaded, however, that the badger must have been killed, he passed his time in putting up prayers upon prayers for it. After three years had gone by, one night,",
  "sample_05191.wav": "The old man heard a voice near his door calling out, Your reverence, your reverence. As the voice was like that of the badger, he jumped up as soon as he heard it, and ran to open the door, and there, sure enough, was the badger.",
  "sample_05192.wav": "If the money which you required had been for unlawful purposes, I could easily have procured as much as ever you might have wanted. But when I heard that it was to be offered to a temple for masses for your soul, I was",
  "sample_05193.wav": "Fused it afresh in the fire, and at this work I spent months and days. As the badger finished speaking, the priest looked at the money which it had produced, and sure enough he saw that it was bright and new and clean.",
  "sample_05194.wav": "As he was thanking the badger with great politeness and ceremony, the beast said, In doing this I have but fulfilled my own wish. Still I hope that you will tell this thing to no man.\" Indeed replied the priest.",
  "sample_05195.wav": "But I shall say that the badger that gave me the money has ceased coming to my hut. You need not fear being waylaid, but can come as of old, and shelter yourself from the cold.\" To this the badger nodded assent, and as long as the old priest lived, he was not a good man.",
  "sample_05196.wav": "It came and spent the winter nights with him. From this story, it is plain that even beasts have a sense of gratitude. In this quality, dogs excel all other beasts.",
  "sample_05197.wav": "written in the annals of Japan.",
  "sample_05198.wav": "on the same errand as themselves. As soon as the children saw the foxes, they picked up a bamboo stick, and took the creatures stealthily in the rear. And when the old foxes took to flight, they surrounded them and beat them with a stick.",
  "sample_05199.wav": "so that they ran away as fast as their legs could carry them. But two of the boys held down the cub, and, seizing it by the scruff of the neck, went off in high glee. The two friends were looking on all the while, and one of them, raising his voice, shouted out,",
  "sample_05200.wav": "Hello, you boys, what are you doing with that fox?\" The eldest of the boys replied, We're going to take him home and sell him to a young man in our village. He'll buy him, and then he'll boil him in a pot and eat him.",
  "sample_05201.wav": "THE BUTTERFLY'S CHILDREN by Mrs. Alfred Gatti Let me hire you as a nurse for my poor children, said a butterfly to a quiet caterpillar who was strolling along a cabbage leaf in her",
  "sample_05202.wav": "Who will take care of my baby butterflies when I am gone? Will you, kind, mild, green caterpillar? But you must mind what you give them to eat, caterpillar. They cannot, of course, live on your rough food.",
  "sample_05203.wav": "You must give them early dew and honey from the flowers. And you must let them fly about only a little way at first, for of course one can't expect them to use their wings properly all at once.",
  "sample_05204.wav": "Dear me, it is a sad pity you cannot fly yourself. But I have no time to look for another nurse now. So you will do your best, I hope. Dear, dear.",
  "sample_05205.wav": "And with these words the butterfly drooped her wings and died. And the green caterpillar, who had not had the opportunity of even saying yes or no to the request,",
  "sample_05206.wav": "was left standing alone by the side of the butterfly's eggs. A pretty nurse she has chosen, indeed, poor lady, exclaimed she, and a pretty business I have in hand. Why, her senses must have left her.",
  "sample_05207.wav": "Or she never would have asked a poor crawling creature like me to bring up her dainty little ones. Much they'll mind me truly when they feel the gay wings on their backs and can fly away out of my sight whenever they choose.",
  "sample_05208.wav": "However, there lay the eggs on the cabbage leaf, and the green caterpillar had a kind heart, so she resolved to do her best. But she got no sleep that night. She was so very anxious.",
  "sample_05209.wav": "She made her back quite ache with walking all night round her young charges, for fear any harm should happen to them. And in the morning, says she to herself, Two heads are better than one.",
  "sample_05210.wav": "Whom should the caterpillar consult? There was the shaggy dog, who sometimes came into the garden. But he was so rough, he would most likely whisk all the eggs off the cabbage leaf with one brush of his tail.",
  "sample_05211.wav": "sighed the Caterpillar in great distress. And then she thought and thought, till at last she thought of the lark. And she fancied that because he went up so high, and nobody knew where he went to, he",
  "sample_05212.wav": "He must be very clever, and know a great deal, for to go up very high, which she could never do, was the caterpillar's idea of perfect glory. Now in the neighboring cornfield, there lived a lark.",
  "sample_05213.wav": "And the caterpillar sent a message to him, to beg him to come and talk to her. And when he came, she told him all her difficulties and asked him what she was to do, to feed and rear the little creatures so different from herself.",
  "sample_05214.wav": "Perhaps you will be able to inquire, and hear something about it next time you go up high,\" observed the Caterpillar timidly. The Lark said perhaps he should, but he did not satisfy her curiosity any further.",
  "sample_05215.wav": "Soon afterwards, however, he went singing upwards into the bright blue sky. By degrees his voice died away in the distance, till the green caterpillar could not hear a sound.",
  "sample_05216.wav": "So she resumed her walk round the butterfly's eggs, nibbling a bit of the cabbage leaf now and then as she moved along.",
  "sample_05217.wav": "I believe everything I am told,\" observed the Caterpillar hastily. Well, then, first of all, I will tell you what these little creatures are to eat. What do you think it is to be? Guess.",
  "sample_05218.wav": "\"'Do and the honey out of flowers, I am afraid,' sighed the Caterpillar. \"'No such thing, old lady. Something simpler than that. Something that you can get at quite easily.'",
  "sample_05219.wav": "Never,\" said the Caterpillar indignantly. It was their dying mother's last request that I should do no such thing. Their dying mother knew nothing about the matter, persisted the Lark.",
  "sample_05220.wav": "But why do you ask me and then disbelieve what I say? You have neither faith nor trust.\" \"'Oh, I believe everything I am told,' said the caterpillar.\" \"'Nay, but you do not,' replied the lark. \"'You won't believe me even about the food.'\"",
  "sample_05221.wav": "And yet that is but a beginning of what I have to tell you. Why, Caterpillar, what do you think those little eggs will turn out to be?\" \"'Butterflies, to be sure,' said the Caterpillar. \"'Caterpillars!' sang the Lark.\"",
  "sample_05222.wav": "But I find that he is foolish and saucy instead.",
  "sample_05223.wav": "\"'I would tell you if you would believe me,' sang the lark, descending once more. \"'I believe everything I am told,' reiterated the caterpillar, with as grave a face as if it were a fact.",
  "sample_05224.wav": "\"'Then I'll tell you something else,' cried the lark, \"'for the best of my news remains behind. You will one day be a butterfly yourself.'\" \"'Wretched bird!' exclaimed the caterpillar.\"",
  "sample_05225.wav": "You jest with my inferiority. Now you are cruel as well as foolish.",
  "sample_05226.wav": "I will ask your advice no more.\" \"'I told you you would not believe me,' cried the Lark, nettle'd in his turn. \"'I believe everything that I am told,' persisted the Caterpillar.",
  "sample_05227.wav": "I see so many wonderful things, I know no reason why there should not be more. Oh, Caterpillar, it is because you crawl, because you never get beyond your cabbage leaf that you call anything impossible.",
  "sample_05228.wav": "as well as you do. Look at my long green body and these endless legs, and then talk to me about having wings and a painted feathery coat. Fool!\" \"'And fool you!' cried the indignant lark.\"",
  "sample_05229.wav": "O Caterpillar, what comes to you from thence? Receive as I do.",
  "sample_05230.wav": "interrupted the lark. How am I to learn faith? asked the caterpillar. At that moment she felt something at her side. She looked round. Eight or ten little green caterpillars were moving about.",
  "sample_05231.wav": "21. Why Puck the Pony was Beaten. Mark Robarts returned home the day after the scene at the Albany, considerably relieved in spirit.",
  "sample_05232.wav": "Indeed, after what Mr. Sowerby had said, and after Lord Lufton's assent to it, it would have been madness, he considered, to decline it. And then, too, Mr. Sowerby's promise about the bills was very comfortable to him.",
  "sample_05233.wav": "On the day after his return, he received proper authentic tidings of his presentation to the Prebend. He was, in fact, already Prebendry.",
  "sample_05234.wav": "The income was already his own.",
  "sample_05235.wav": "The enjoyment of one's own happiness at such windfalls depends so much on the free and freely expressed enjoyment of others. Lady Lufton's congratulations had nearly made him throw up the whole thing, but his wife's smiles re-encouraged him.",
  "sample_05236.wav": "and Lucy's warm and eager joy made him feel quite delighted with Mr. Sowerby and the Duke of Omnium. And then that splendid animal, Dandy, came home to the Parsonage stables, much to the delight of the groom and gardener.",
  "sample_05237.wav": "which he had bought from Mr. Sowerby some little time since, with the object of obliging him. He, Mark, intended to sell him again as soon as he could do so judiciously. This, as I have said above, was not satisfactory.",
  "sample_05238.wav": "Neither of the two ladies at Family Parsonage knew much about horses, or of the manner in which one gentleman might think it proper to oblige another by purchasing the superfluities of his stable. But they did both feel that there were horses enough in the Parsonage stable without dandy.",
  "sample_05239.wav": "and that the purchasing of a hunter with a view of immediately selling him again was, to say the least of it, an operation hardly congenial with the usual tastes and pursuits of a clergyman. I hope you did not give very much money for him, Mark, said Fanny.",
  "sample_05240.wav": "Not more than I shall get again, Sid Mark.",
  "sample_05241.wav": "I suppose I shall have to go into residence almost immediately,\" said Mark, recurring to the more agreeable subject of the stall.",
  "sample_05242.wav": "\"'The house will not be furnished, will it, Mark?' said his wife. \"'I don't know how we shall get on.' \"'Don't frighten yourselves. I shall take lodgings in Barchester.' \"'And we shall not see you all the time,' said Mrs. Robards, with dismay.",
  "sample_05243.wav": "But the prep<|pt|>",
  "sample_05244.wav": "The worst of it is that both of them are obliged to wear wigs. Shall you have a hat-mark with curly things at the side and strings through to hold them up? asked Lucy. I fear that does not come with my perquisites. Nor rosette.",
  "sample_05245.wav": "It was now the month of April, and the fields were beginning to look green, and the wind had got itself out of the yeast and was soft and genial, and the early spring flowers were showing their bright colours in the parsonage garden, and all things were sweet and pleasant.",
  "sample_05246.wav": "went away when the spring came, leaving their houses innocent and empty. The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also. At such period he was a patterned person and a patterned husband.",
  "sample_05247.wav": "atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal. And then, though she had never acknowledged it to herself, the absence of her dear friend Lady Lufton was perhaps in itself not disagreeable. Mrs. Robarts did love Lady Lufton heartily.",
  "sample_05248.wav": "Indeed, just at this moment,",
  "sample_05249.wav": "Dandy was rather a thorn in his side. Those wretched bills were to come due early in May, and before the end of April, Sobey wrote to him, saying that he was doing his utmost to provide for the evil day.",
  "sample_05250.wav": "But that if the price of dandy could be remitted to him at once it would greatly facilitate his object Nothing could be more different than mr. Sorby's tone about money at different times When he wanted to raise the wind everything was so important",
  "sample_05251.wav": "Haste and superhuman efforts and men running to and fro with blank acceptances in their hands could alone stave off the crack of doom. But at other times, when retaliatory applications were made to him...",
  "sample_05252.wav": "He could prove with the easiest voice and most jaunty manner that everything was quite serene. Now, at this period, he was in that mood of superhuman efforts and he called loudly for the 130 pounds for Dandy. Remember what had passed.",
  "sample_05253.wav": "Mark could not bring himself to say that he would pay nothing till the bills were safe. And therefore, with the assistance of Mr. Forrest of the bank, he did remit the price of dandy to his friend Sowerby in London. And Lucy Robarts.",
  "sample_05254.wav": "She had declared to him plainly that she did not love him, and could not love him, and had thus thrown away not only riches and honour and high station, but more than that, much worse than that. She had flung away from her the lover to whose love her warm heart clung.",
  "sample_05255.wav": "That her love did cling to him she knew even then, and owned more thoroughly as soon as he was gone. So much her pride had done for her, and that strong resolve that Lady Lufton should not scowl on her and tell her that she had entrapped her son.",
  "sample_05256.wav": "I know what will be said of Lord Lefton himself, that, putting aside his peerage and broad acres and handsome, sunsy face, he was not worth a girl's care and love.",
  "sample_05257.wav": "But what would the world come to if none but absolute true heroes were to be thought worthy of women's love? What would the men do? And what, oh what, would become of the women?",
  "sample_05258.wav": "Lucy Robarts, in her heart, did not give her dismissed lover credit for much more heroism than did truly appertain to him. Did not, perhaps, give him full credit for a certain amount of heroism, which did really appertain to him.",
  "sample_05259.wav": "treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen, makes hardly more of herself of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and a soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex, who earns her bread in the lowest stage of degradation.",
  "sample_05260.wav": "But a title and an estate and an income are matters which will weigh in the balance with all Eve's daughters, as they do with all Adam's sons. Pride of place and the power of living well in front of the world's eye are dear to us all, are doubtless intended to be dear.",
  "sample_05261.wav": "Some disorder had surely crept into the course of the elements, destroying their benignant influence. The wind, prince of air, raged through his kingdom, lashing the sea into fury.",
  "sample_05262.wav": "subduing the rebel earth into some sort of obedience. The God sends down his angry plagues from high. Famine and pestilence and heaps they die. Again in vengeance of his wrath he falls.",
  "sample_05263.wav": "on their great host and breaks their tottering walls, arrests their navies on the ocean's plain, and whelms their strength with mountains of the main.",
  "sample_05264.wav": "Their deadly power shook the flourishing countries of the south, and during winter, even we, in our northern retreat, began to quake under their ill effects.",
  "sample_05265.wav": "That fable is unjust, which gives the superiority to the sun over the wind. Who has not seen the lightsome earth, the balmy atmosphere, and basking nature become dark cold?",
  "sample_05266.wav": "and ungenial, when the sleeping wind has awoke in the east, or when the done clouds thickly veil the sky.",
  "sample_05267.wav": "until the dank earth refusing to imbibe the super abundant moisture it lies and pools on the surface. When the torch of day seems like a meteor to be quenched",
  "sample_05268.wav": "Who has not seen the cloud stirring north arise? The streak blue appear, and soon an opening made in the vapors in the eye of the wind, through which the bright azure shines.",
  "sample_05269.wav": "The clouds become thin and arc is formed forever rising upwards till the universal cope being unveiled The Sun pours forth its rays Reanimated and fed by the breeze",
  "sample_05270.wav": "Then mighty art thou a wind, to be thrown above all.",
  "sample_05271.wav": "Whether thou comest destroying from the east, or pregnant with elementary life from the west, thee the clouds obey, the sun is subservient to thee, the shoreless",
  "sample_05272.wav": "Ocean is thy slave. Thou sweepest over the earth and oaks the growth of centuries. Submit to thy viewless acts. The snowdrift is scattered on the pinnacles of the Alps.",
  "sample_05273.wav": "The avalanche thunders down their valleys. Thou holdest the keys of the frost, Encanced first chain, and then set free the streams. Under thy gentle governance, the buds and leaves are born.",
  "sample_05274.wav": "They flourish, nursed by thee. Why dost thou howl thus, O wind, by day and by night? For four long months thy roaring have not ceased. The shores of the sea are strewn with wrecks.",
  "sample_05275.wav": "The earth has shed her beauty in obedience to thy command. The frail balloon dares no longer sail on the agitated air. Thy ministers, the clouds deluge the land with rain.",
  "sample_05276.wav": "Rivers forsake their banks, The wild torrent tears up the mountain path, Plain and wood, And verdant dale are despoiled of their loveliness.",
  "sample_05277.wav": "Our very cities are wasted by thee. Alas, what will become of us? It seems as if the giant waves of ocean and vast arms of the sea were about to wrench the deep-rooted island from its center and cast it.",
  "sample_05278.wav": "a ruin and a wreck upon the fields of the Atlantic. What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity.",
  "sample_05279.wav": "of our being is subject to merest accident. Day by day we are forced to believe this. He whom a scratch has disorganized, he who disappears from apparent life under the influence of the hostile agency at work around us.",
  "sample_05280.wav": "had the same powers as I. I...",
  "sample_05281.wav": "In the face of all this, we call ourselves lords of the creation, welders of the elements, masters of life and death, and we allege in excuse of this arrogance that though the individual is destroyed",
  "sample_05282.wav": "man continues forever. Thus, losing our identity, that of which we are chiefly conscious, we glory in the continuity of our species and learn to regard death without terror.",
  "sample_05283.wav": "But when any whole nation becomes the victim of the destructive powers of exterior agents, then indeed man shrinks into insignificance. He feels his tenure of life insecure.",
  "sample_05284.wav": "his inheritance on earth cut off. I remember after having witnessed the destructive effects of a fire. I could not even behold a small one in a stove without a sensation of fear.",
  "sample_05285.wav": "The mounting flames had curled around the building as it fell and was destroyed. They insinuated themselves into the substances about them.",
  "sample_05286.wav": "and the impediments to their progress yielded at their touch. Could we take integral parts of this power and not be subject to its operation? Could we domesticate a cub of this wild beast?",
  "sample_05287.wav": "and not fear its growth and maturity. Thus we begin to fail with regard to many visaged death, let loose on the chosen districts of our fair habitation.",
  "sample_05288.wav": "And above all, with regard to the plague, we fear the coming summer, nations bordering on the already infected countries, begin to enter upon serious plans for the better keeping out of the enemy.",
  "sample_05289.wav": "We, a commercial people, were obliged to bring such schemes under consideration. And the question of contagion became matter of earnest disquisition.",
  "sample_05290.wav": "that the plague was not what is commonly called contagious, like the scarlet fever or extinct smallpox was proved. It was called an epidemic. But the grand question...",
  "sample_05291.wav": "He said, speaking of the ship, she went over whatever it was as easy as a snake crawling over a stick. The illustration was good. The questions were aiming at facts.",
  "sample_05292.wav": "and the official inquiry was being held in the police court of an eastern port. He stood elevated in the witness box with burning cheeks in a cool lofty room.",
  "sample_05293.wav": "the big framework of punkas move gently to and fro high above his head, and from below many eyes were looking at him out of dark faces, out of white faces, out of red faces, out of faces attentive, spellbound.",
  "sample_05294.wav": "as if all these people sitting in orderly rows upon narrow benches had been enslaved by the fascination of his voice. It was very loud. It rang, startling in his own ears. It was the only sound audible in the world.",
  "sample_05295.wav": "for the terribly distinct questions that extorted his answers seemed to shape themselves in anguish and pain within his breast, came to him poignant and silent.",
  "sample_05296.wav": "Outside the court the sun blazed, within was the wind of great punkas that made you shiver, the shame that made you burn, the attentive eyes whose glance stabbed. The face of the presiding magistrate",
  "sample_05297.wav": "Clean-shaved and impassable, looked at him deadly pale between the red faces of the two nautical assessors. The light of a broad window under the ceiling fell from above on the heads and shoulders of the three men.",
  "sample_05298.wav": "as if facts could explain anything. After you had concluded you had collided with something floating awash, say a waterlogged wreck, you were ordered by your captain to go forward and ascertain if there was any damage done.",
  "sample_05299.wav": "looking at Jim with thoughtful blue eyes. The other, a heavy, scornful man, thrown back in his seat, his left arm extended full length, drummed delicately with his fingertips on a blotting pad. In the middle, the magistrate,",
  "sample_05300.wav": "I was told to call no one and to make no noise for fear of creating a panic. I thought the precaution reasonable. I took one of the lamps that were hung under the awnings and went forward. After opening the forepeak hatch I heard splashing in there.",
  "sample_05301.wav": "His fingers played incessantly, touching the paper without noise. I did not think of danger just then. I might have been a little startled. All this happened in such a quiet way, and so very suddenly...",
  "sample_05302.wav": "I knew there was no other bulkhead in the ship, but the collision bulkhead separating the forepeak from the forehold. I went back to tell the captain. I came upon the second engineer getting up at the foot of the bridge ladder. He seemed dazed and",
  "sample_05303.wav": "told me he thought his left arm was broken. He had slipped on the top step when getting down while I was forward. He exclaimed, My God, that rotten bulkhead'll give way in a minute.",
  "sample_05304.wav": "He did not strike him again, he stood bending over him and speaking angrily but quite low.",
  "sample_05305.wav": "stopped the engines instead of making a row about it on deck. I heard him say, Get up! Run! Fly! He swore also. The engineer slid down the starboard ladder and bolted round the skylight to the engine room companion.",
  "sample_05306.wav": "which was on the port side, he moaned as he ran. He spoke slowly. He remembered swiftly and with extreme vividness. He could have reproduced like an echo the moaning of the engineer for the better information of these men.",
  "sample_05307.wav": "who wanted facts. After his first feeling of revolt, he had come round to the view that only a meticulous precision of statement would bring out the true horror behind the appalling face of things.",
  "sample_05308.wav": "The facts those men were so eager to know had been visible, tangible, open to the senses, occupying their place in space and time, requiring for their existence a fourteen hundred ton steamer.",
  "sample_05309.wav": "perdition that dwelt within like a malevolent soul in a detestable body. He was anxious to make this clear. This had not been a common affair. Everything in it had been of the utmost importance.",
  "sample_05310.wav": "And, fortunately, he remembered everything. He wanted to go on talking for truth's sake, perhaps for his own sake also. And while his utterance was deliberate, his mind positively flew round and round the serrated circle of facts. Thanks for watching. I'm Mike. I'll see you next time. Bye.",
  "sample_05311.wav": "He seemed calm enough. Only he stumbled several times. And once, as I stood speaking to him, he walked right into me as though he had been stone-blind. He made no definite answer to what I had to tell.",
  "sample_05312.wav": "felt a shiver run down his back. The big assessor had dropped his eyelids, and drummed on without a sound, careless and mournful. The eyes of the other above the sunburnt clasped fingers",
  "sample_05313.wav": "The magistrate had swayed forward.",
  "sample_05314.wav": "he rested his temple in the palm of his hand. The wind of the punkas eddied down on the heads, on the dark-faced natives wound about in voluminous draperies, on the Europeans sitting together very hot.",
  "sample_05315.wav": "and in drill suits that seemed to fit them as close as their skins, and holding their round pith-hats on their knees. While gliding along the walls, the court peons, button-tight in long white coats, flitted rapidly to and fro.",
  "sample_05316.wav": "rested upon a white man who sat apart from the others, with his face worn and clouded, but with quiet eyes that glanced straight, interested and clear. Jim answered another question, and was tempted to cry out,",
  "sample_05317.wav": "What's the good of this? What's the good?\" He tapped with his foot slightly, bit his lip, and looked away over the heads. He met the eyes of the white man. The glance directed at him was not the fascinated stare of the others.",
  "sample_05318.wav": "It was an act of intelligent volition. Jim, between two questions, forgot himself so far as to find leisure for a thought. This fellow, ran the thought, looks at me as though he could see somebody or something past my shoulder.",
  "sample_05319.wav": "He had come across that man before, in the street perhaps. He was positive he had never spoken to him. For days, for many days, he had spoken to no one, but had held silent, incoherent, and endless converse with himself.",
  "sample_05320.wav": "like a prisoner alone in his cell, or like a wayfarer lost in a wilderness. At present he was answering questions that did not matter, though they had a purpose, but he doubted whether he would ever again speak out as long as he lived.",
  "sample_05321.wav": "It would be a little hard to blame the rector of Pentecote, that in the course of looking at things from every point of view, he looked at Gwendolyn as a girl likely to make a brilliant marriage.",
  "sample_05322.wav": "Why should he be expected to differ from his contemporaries in this matter, and wish his niece a worse end of her charming maidenhood than they would approve as the best possible?",
  "sample_05323.wav": "It is rather to be set down to his credit that his feelings on the subject were entirely good-natured, and in considering the relation of means to ends, it would have been mere folly to have been guided by the exceptional and idyllic",
  "sample_05324.wav": "in order that a marquee might fall in love with her, or to have insisted that since a fair maiden was to be sought, she should keep herself out of the way. Mr. Gasquand's calculations were of the kind called rational.",
  "sample_05325.wav": "And he did not even think of getting a too-frisky horse in order that Gwendolyn might be threatened with an accident and be rescued by a man of property. He wished his niece well, and he meant her to be seen to advantage in the best society of the neighborhood.",
  "sample_05326.wav": "Her uncle's intention fell in perfectly with Gwendolyn's own wishes. But let no one suppose that she also contemplated a brilliant marriage as the direct end of her witching the world with her grace on horseback, or with any other accomplishment.",
  "sample_05327.wav": "that she was to be married some time or other, she would have felt obliged to admit, and that her marriage would not be of a middling kind such as most girls were contented with, she felt quietly, unargumentatively sure.",
  "sample_05328.wav": "But her thoughts never dwelt on marriage as the fulfillment of her ambition. The dramas in which she imagined herself a heroine were not wrought up to that close. To be very much sued or hopelessly sighed for as a bride was indeed",
  "sample_05329.wav": "an indispensable and agreeable guarantee of womanly power. But to become a wife, and where all the domestic fetters of that condition, was on the whole a vexatious necessity. Her observation of matrimony had inclined her to think it rather a dreary state, and",
  "sample_05330.wav": "in which a woman could not do what she liked, had more children than were desirable, was consequently dull, and became irrevocably immersed in humdrum. Of course, marriage was social promotion.",
  "sample_05331.wav": "She could not look forward to a single life. But promotions have sometimes to be taken with bitter herbs. A peerage will not quite do instead of leadership to the men who meant to lead. And this delicate-limbed sylph of twenty meant to lead.",
  "sample_05332.wav": "For such passions dwell in feminine breasts also. In Gwendolyn's, however, they dwelt among strictly feminine furniture, and had no disturbing reference to the advancement of learning, or the balance of the constitution.",
  "sample_05333.wav": "her knowledge being such as with no sort of standing-room or length of lever could have been expected to move the world. She meant to do what was pleasant to herself in a striking manner.",
  "sample_05334.wav": "and to have their lives blown hither and thither like empty ships in which no will was present. It was not to be so with her. She would no longer be sacrificed to creatures worth less than herself.",
  "sample_05335.wav": "but would make the very best of the chances that life offered her, and conquer circumstances by her exceptional cleverness.",
  "sample_05336.wav": "the archery club, and invitations to dine with the arrow points as the highest lights in her scenery was not a position that seemed to offer remarkable chances. But Gwendolyn's confidence lay chiefly in herself.",
  "sample_05337.wav": "she felt well equipped for the mastery of life. With regard to much in her lot hitherto, she held herself rather hardly dealt with, but as to her education, she would have admitted that it had left her under no disadvantages.",
  "sample_05338.wav": "In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts, which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.",
  "sample_05339.wav": "And what remained of all things knowable, she was conscious of being sufficiently acquainted with through novels, plays, and poems. About her French and music, the two justifying accomplishments of a young lady, she felt no ground for uneasiness.",
  "sample_05340.wav": "And when to all these qualifications, negative and positive, we add the spontaneous sense of capability some happy persons are born with, so that any subject they turn their attention to impresses them with their own power of forming a correct judgment on it,",
  "sample_05341.wav": "Who can wonder if Gwendolyn felt ready to manage her own destiny? There were many subjects in the world, perhaps the majority, in which she felt no interest, because they were stupid.",
  "sample_05342.wav": "For subjects are apt to appear stupid to the young, as light seems dull to the old. But she would not have felt at all helpless in relation to them if they had turned up in conversation. It must be remembered that no one had disputed her power or her general superiority.",
  "sample_05343.wav": "What will Gwendolyn think? If the voodman trod heavily in creaking boots, or if the laundress's work was unsatisfactory, the maid said, This will never do for Miss Harloth.",
  "sample_05344.wav": "If the wood smoked in the bedroom fireplace, Mrs. Davilow, whose own weak eyes suffered much from this inconvenience, spoke apologetically of it to Gwendolyn.",
  "sample_05345.wav": "If, when they were under the stress of travelling, she did not appear at the breakfast-table till every one else had finished, the only question was, how Gwendolyn's coffee and toast should still be of the hottest and crispest.",
  "sample_05346.wav": "It was always she herself who had to be tolerant, to beg that Alice, who sat waiting on her, would not stick up her shoulders in that frightful manner, and that Isabelle, instead of pushing up to her and asking questions, would go away to Miss Mary.",
  "sample_05347.wav": "Always she was the princess in exile, who in time of famine was to have her breakfast roll made of the finest bolted flour from the seven thin ears of wheat, and in a general decampment was to have her silver fork kept out of the baggage.",
  "sample_05348.wav": "How is this to be accounted for? The answer may seem to lie quite on the surface. In her beauty, a certain unusualness about her.",
  "sample_05349.wav": "A decision of will which made itself felt in her graceful movements and clear unhesitating tones, so that if she came into the room on a rainy day when everybody else was flaccid and the use of things in general was not apparent to them,",
  "sample_05350.wav": "There seemed to be a sudden sufficient reason for keeping up the forms of life, and even the waiters at hotels showed the moral acuity in doing away with crumbs and creases and dregs with struggling flies in them.",
  "sample_05351.wav": "Friday was a comfortable day in the household of King. Everybody was in a good humor. The story girls sparkled through several tales that ranged from the aphrites and gins of Eastern myth, through the piping days of chivalry, down to the homely anecdotes of Carlisle workday folks.",
  "sample_05352.wav": "She was in turn an Oriental princess behind a silken veil, the bride who followed her bridegroom to the wars of Palestine disguised as a page, the gallant lady who ransomed her diamond necklace by dancing a coronto.",
  "sample_05353.wav": "with the highwayman on a moonlit heath, and Buscrux's girl, who joined the sons and daughters of Temperance, just to see what was into it. And in each impersonation she was so thoroughly the thing impersonated.",
  "sample_05354.wav": "Cecily and Sarah Rae found a sweet new knitted lace pattern in an old magazine",
  "sample_05355.wav": "Chancing accidentally, I vowed to overhear certain of these secrets. I learned that Sarah Ray had named an apple for Johnny Price. And Cecily, true to live, there was eight seeds in it, and you know eight means they both love.",
  "sample_05356.wav": "While Sicily admitted that Willie Fraser had written on his slate and showed it to her, If you love me as I love you, no knife can cut our love in two. But Sarah Ray, never you breathe this to a living soul.",
  "sample_05357.wav": "Cecily, how old must we be before we can have a real bow? But Sarah always denied it, so I'm inclined to believe Felix simply made it up himself. Patty distinguished himself by catching a rat.",
  "sample_05358.wav": "and being intolerably conceited about it, until Sarah Ray cured him by calling him a dear sweet cat and kissing him between the ears. Then Pat sneaked abjectly off, his tail drooping.",
  "sample_05359.wav": "Very few cats have, and most of them have such an inordinate appetite for flattery, that they will swallow any amount of it and thrive thereon. Patty had a finer taste. The story-girl and I were the only ones who could pay him compliments to his liking.",
  "sample_05360.wav": "The story girl would box his ears with her fist and say, Bless your grey heart, Patty, you're a good sort of old rascal. And Pat would purr his satisfaction. I used to take a handful of skin on his back, shake him gently and say,",
  "sample_05361.wav": "Pat, you've forgotten more than any human being ever knew. And I vow Patty would lick his chops with delight, But to be called a sweet cat. Oh, Sarah, Sarah!",
  "sample_05362.wav": "Felicity tried and had the most gratifying luck with a new and complicated cake recipe, a gorgeous compound.",
  "sample_05363.wav": "The number of eggs she used in it would have shocked Aunt Janet's thrifty soul, but that cake, like beauty, was its own excuse. Uncle Roger ate three slices of it at tea time and told Felicity she was an artist.",
  "sample_05364.wav": "The poor man meant it as a compliment, but Felicity, who knew Uncle Blair was an artist, and had a poor opinion of such fry, looked indignant and retorted. Indeed she wasn't.",
  "sample_05365.wav": "I'd like to, said Felicity, but we'd come home tired, and with all the milking to do, you boys better go alone.\" Peter and I will attend to the milking for one evening, said Uncle Roger. You can all go.",
  "sample_05366.wav": "I have an idea that a raspberry pie for tomorrow night when the folks come home would hit the right spot. Accordingly, after tea we all set off armed with jugs and cups. Felicity, thoughtful creature, also took a small basketful of jelly cookies along with her.",
  "sample_05367.wav": "A pretty walk through a world of green, Whispering boughs and spiced sweet ferns, And shifting patches of sunlight, The raspberries were plentiful.",
  "sample_05368.wav": "Then we foregathered around a tiny wood spring, cold and polluted under its young maples, and ate the jelly cookies, and the story girl told us a tale of a haunted spring in a mountain glen where a fair white lady dwelt.",
  "sample_05369.wav": "who pledged all comers in a golden cup with jewels bright. And if you drink of the cup with her, said the story girl, her eyes glowing through the emerald dusk about us, you were never seen in the world again. You were whisked straight way to Fairyland and lived there with the fairy bride.",
  "sample_05370.wav": "I think there is such a place in spite of Uncle Edward,\" said the story girl, Drimley, and I think there is a way of getting there too, if we could only find it.",
  "sample_05371.wav": "One bitter day when they seek it.",
  "sample_05372.wav": "And that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them, and age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few who remain children at heart can ever find that fair lost path again.",
  "sample_05373.wav": "They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned, and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers.",
  "sample_05374.wav": "As we sat there the Awkward Man passed by, with his gun over his shoulder and his dog at his side. He did not look like an Awkward Man, there in the heart of the Maple Woods.",
  "sample_05375.wav": "He strode along right masterfully, and lifted his head with the air of one who was monarch of all he surveyed. The story girl kissed her fingertips to him with a delightful audacity which was a part of her.",
  "sample_05376.wav": "You'd understand why if you ever saw him at a party or a picnic,\" said Felicity, trying to pass plates and dropping them whenever a woman looked at him. They say it's pitiful to see him. I must get well acquainted with that man next summer,\" said the story girl.",
  "sample_05377.wav": "If I put it off any longer, it will be too late. I'm growing so fast, Aunt Olivia says I'll have to wear ankle skirts next summer. If I begin to look grown up, he'll get frightened of me, and then I'll never find out the golden milestone mystery.",
  "sample_05378.wav": "Do you think he'll ever tell you who Alice is? I asked. I have a notion who Alice is already, said the mysterious creature, but she would tell us nothing more. When the jelly cookies were all eaten, it was high time to be moving homeward.",
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  "sample_05380.wav": "And I got back about fifteen minutes ago. I sat down on the front door steps for a moment, and all at once I heard a bell ring in the house eight times. I tell you, I was scared. I made a bolt for the orchard, and you won't catch me going near the house till your Uncle Roger comes home.",
  "sample_05381.wav": "Chapter 13 Somebody Runs Away School is done, now we'll have fun! I'm Bab and Betty",
  "sample_05382.wav": "Tired teacher had dismissed them for eight whole weeks and gone away to rest. The little school-house was shut up, lessons were over, spirits rising fast, and vacation had begun. The quiet town seemed suddenly inundated with children.",
  "sample_05383.wav": "all in such a rampant state that busy mothers wondered how they ever should be able to keep their frisky darlings out of mischief. Thrifty fathers planned how they could bribe the idle hands to pick berries or rake hay, and the old folks",
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  "sample_05385.wav": "Every hillside bloomed with gay gowns, looking as if the flowers had gone out for a walk, and the woods were full of featherless birds chirping away as blithely as the thrushes, robins and wrens.",
  "sample_05386.wav": "The boys took to baseball like ducks to water, and the common was the scene of tremendous battles, waged with much tumult, but little bloodshed. To the uninitiated, it appeared as if these young men had lost their wits.",
  "sample_05387.wav": "For, no matter how warm it was, there they were, tearing about in the maddest manner, jackets off, sleeves rolled up, queer caps flung on any way, all batting shabby leather balls and catching the same.",
  "sample_05388.wav": "as if their lives depended on it. Every one talking in his gruffest tone, bawling at the top of his voice, squabbling over every point of the game, and seeming to enjoy himself immensely in spite of the heat, dust, uproar, and the",
  "sample_05389.wav": "imminent danger of getting eyes or teeth knocked out. Thorny was an excellent player, but not being strong enough to show his prowess he made Ben his proxy, and, sitting on the fence, acted as umpire to his heart's content.",
  "sample_05390.wav": "Ben was a promising pupil, and made rapid progress, for eye, foot, and hand had been so well trained that they did him good service now. And Brown was considered a first-rate catcher.",
  "sample_05391.wav": "and guarded jackets when not needed, with the air of one of the old guard on Judy at the tomb of Napoleon. I have also longed to join in the fun, which suited her better than stupid picnics or fussing over dolls.",
  "sample_05392.wav": "but her heroes would not have her at any price, and she was obliged to content herself with sitting by Thorny and watching with breathless interest the varying fortunes of our side. A grand match was planned for the Fourth of July, but when the club met\u2014",
  "sample_05393.wav": "unperpicious. Thorny had gone out of town with his sister to pass the day. Two of the best players did not appear, and the others were somewhat exhausted by the festivities which began at sunrise for them.",
  "sample_05394.wav": "So they lay about on the grass in the shade of the big elm, languidly discussing their various wrongs and disappointments. It's the meanest forth I ever saw. Can't have no crackers, because somebody's horse got scared last year.",
  "sample_05395.wav": "growled Sam Kitteridge, bitterly resenting the stern edict which forbade free-born citizens to burn as much gunpowder as they lacked on that glorious day. Last year, Jimmy got his arm blown off when they fired the old cannon.",
  "sample_05396.wav": "Didn't we have a lovely time going for the doctors and getting him home?\" asked another boy, looking as if he felt defrauded of the most interesting part of the anniversary because no accident had occurred. Ain't going to be fireworks either, unless somebody's",
  "sample_05397.wav": "Barn burns up. Don't I just wish there would!\" Gloomily responded another youth, who had so rashly indulged in pyrotechnics on a former occasion that her neighbour's cow had been roasted whole.",
  "sample_05398.wav": "I wouldn't give two cents for such a slow old place as this. Why, last fourth at this time.",
  "sample_05399.wav": "all in my best togery. Hot as pepper, but good fun looking in at the upper windows, and hearing the women scream when the old thing waggled round, and I made believe I was going to tumble off,\" said Ben.",
  "sample_05400.wav": "and felt some natural regret at descending from so lofty a sphere. Catch me cutting away if I had such a chance as that, answered Sam, trying to balance his bat on his chin.",
  "sample_05401.wav": "and getting a smart wrap across the nose as he failed to perform the feat. Much you know about it, old chap. It's hard work, I can tell you. And that wouldn't suit such a lazy bones. Then you are too big to begin\u2014",
  "sample_05402.wav": "Though you might do for a fat boy if Smithers wanted one,\" said Ben, surveying the stout youth with calm contempt. Let's go in swimming, not loaf around here if we can't play.",
  "sample_05403.wav": "proposed a red and shiny boy, panting for a game of leapfrog and sandy-pond. May as well. Don't see much else to do, sighed Sam, rising like a young elephant. The others were about to follow.",
  "sample_05404.wav": "tearing down the street like a runaway colt, waving a long strip of paper as he ran. \"'Now then, what's the matter?' demanded Ben, as the other came up grinning and puffing, but full of great news.",
  "sample_05405.wav": "Pounded Billy, putting the paper into Sam's hand, and surveying the crowd with a face as beaming as a full moon. Look out for the big show, right Sam?",
  "sample_05406.wav": "You Great Golden Menagerie, Circus and Coliseum, will exhibit at Berryville, July 4, at 1 and 7 precisely. Admission fifty cents, children half price.",
  "sample_05407.wav": "Don't forget day and date. H. Frost, manager. While Sam read, the other boys had been gloating about the enticing pictures which covered the bill. There was the golden car.",
  "sample_05408.wav": "filled with noble beings and helmets, all playing on immense trumpets, the twenty-four prancing steeds with manes, tails, and feathered heads tossing in the breeze, the clowns, the tumblers, the strongmen,",
  "sample_05409.wav": "and the riders flying about in the air as if the laws of gravitation no longer existed. But best of all was the grand conglomeration of animals, where the giraffe appears to stand on the elephant's back.",
  "sample_05410.wav": "the zebra to be jumping over the seal, the hippopotamus to be lunching off a couple of crocodiles, and lions and tigers to be raining down in all directions with their mouths, wide open, and their tails as stiff as that of the famous Northumberland house lion.",
  "sample_05411.wav": "Of the number of letters that arrived in Monk's Haven, the Fosters, shopkeepers, and bankers had the largest share. The morning succeeding the day on which Sylvia had engaged herself to Kinraid, the Fosters seemed unusually anxious to obtain their letters.",
  "sample_05412.wav": "Several times, Jeremiah came out of the parlor in which his brother, John, was sitting in expectant silence, and passing through the shop, looked up and down the marketplace in search of the old lame woman who was charitably employed to deliver letters.",
  "sample_05413.wav": "and who must have been lamer than ever this morning, to judge from the lateness of her coming. Although none but the Fosters knew the cause of their impatience for their letters, yet there was such tacit sympathy between them and those whom they employed.",
  "sample_05414.wav": "with her basket of letters. One of these seemed of a special consequence to the good brothers. They each separately looked at the direction and then at one another, and without a word they returned with it unread into the parlor, shutting the door and drawing the green silk curtain close, the better to read it in privacy.",
  "sample_05415.wav": "and were, perhaps, as full of consideration as to the possible contents of this London letter.",
  "sample_05416.wav": "A minute ago, Philip and he were on a level of ignorance, from which the former was evidently going to be raised. But he soon returned to his usual state of acquiescence in things as they were, which was partly constitutional and partly the result of his Quaker training.",
  "sample_05417.wav": "It was apparently by John Foster's wish that Philip had been summoned. Jeremiah, the less energetic and decided brother, was still discussing the propriety of the step when Philip entered.",
  "sample_05418.wav": "that the Fosters had for some time received anonymous letters warning them with distinct meaning, though in ambiguous terms, against a certain silk manufacturer in Spidalfields, with whom they had had straightforward business dealings for many years.",
  "sample_05419.wav": "but to whom they had latterly advanced money. The letters hinted at the utter insolvency of this manufacturer. They had urged their correspondent to give them his name and confidence, and this morning's letter had brought it.",
  "sample_05420.wav": "but the name was totally unknown to them, though there seemed no reason to doubt the reality of either it or the address, the latter of which was given in full.",
  "sample_05421.wav": "and was publicly distinguished for his excellent and philanthropic character. But these letters were provocative of anxiety, especially since this morning's post had brought out the writer's full name, and various particulars showing his intimate knowledge of Dickinson's affairs.",
  "sample_05422.wav": "After much perplexed consultation, John had hit upon the plan of sending Hepburn to London to make secret inquiries respecting the true character and commercial position of the man whose creditors, not a month ago, they had esteemed it and honored to be.",
  "sample_05423.wav": "Even now, Jeremiah was ashamed of their want of confidence and one so good. He believed that the information they had received would all prove a mistake, found it on erroneous grounds, if not a pure invention of an enemy.",
  "sample_05424.wav": "and he had only been brought partially to consent to the sending of Hepburn by his brothers pledging himself that the real nature of Philip's errand should be unknown to any human creature, save them three. As all this was being revealed to Philip, he sat apparently unmoved and simply attentive.",
  "sample_05425.wav": "In fact, he was giving all his mind to understanding the probabilities of the case, leaving his own feelings in the background till his intellect should have done its work. He said little, but what he did say was to the point and satisfied both brothers.",
  "sample_05426.wav": "John perceived that his messenger would exercise penetration and act with energy while Jeremiah was soothed by Philip's caution and not hastily admitting the probability of any charge against Dickinson, and in giving full weight to his previous good conduct and good character.",
  "sample_05427.wav": "Philip had the satisfaction of feeling himself employed on a mission which would call out his powers and yet not exceed them. In his own mind, he forestalled the instructions of his masters and was silently in advance of John Foster's plans and arrangements.",
  "sample_05428.wav": "while he appeared to listen to all that was said with quiet businesslike attention. It was settled that the next morning he was to make his way northwards to Harderpool, whence he could easily proceed either by land or sea to Newcastle, from which place smacks were constantly sailing to London.",
  "sample_05429.wav": "saying it was more than he should require. But they repeated, with fresh urgency, their warnings about the terrible high prices of London, till he could only resolve to keep a strict account and bring back all that he did not expend, since nothing but his taking the whole sum would satisfy his employers.",
  "sample_05430.wav": "The latter was silent, brooding over the confidence which Philip had apparently received, but which was withheld from him. He did not yet know of the culminating point of Philip's proposed journey to London.",
  "sample_05431.wav": "That great city of London, which from its very inaccessibility 50 years ago, looms so magnificent through the mist of men's imaginations. It is not to be denied that Philip felt exultant at the mere fact of going to London. But then again, the thought of leaving Sylvia.",
  "sample_05432.wav": "of not seeing her for a week, a fortnight. Nay, he might be away for a month, for no rash hurry was to mar his delegate negotiation. Gnawed at his heart.",
  "sample_05433.wav": "Several times that day as he perceived Colson's jealous sullenness.",
  "sample_05434.wav": "As they all sat at tea in Alice Rose's house place, Philip announced his intended journey.",
  "sample_05435.wav": "To London, exclaimed Alice. Hester said nothing.",
  "sample_05436.wav": "said Coulson. Luck, said Alice, turning sharp round on him. Never let me hear such a vain word out of thy mouth, laddie, again. It's the Lord's doing, and the luck's the devil's way of putting it.",
  "sample_05437.wav": "Never fret thyself, mother, about the shirt, said Philip. If I need a shirt.",
  "sample_05438.wav": "But if that's the frame of mind thou art in, London is like for it to be a sore place of temptation. There's pitfalls for men and traps for money in every turn, as I've heard say.",
  "sample_05439.wav": "said Coulson. He sent photo.",
  "sample_05440.wav": "Philip knows, said Hester, and then somehow her voice failed her and she stopped. Philip paid no attention to this half-uttered sentence. He was eager to tell Coulson, as far as he could do so without betraying his master's secret, how many drawbacks there were to his proposed journey.",
  "sample_05441.wav": "What seemed at the moment an incomprehensible puzzle had, as we afterwards learned, a very simple explanation. One of the GS directors, Mr. Baldwin, who had come in on Mr. Camp's car, was a very",
  "sample_05442.wav": "Seeing through the device, the party had at once gone to this ranch where the owner, Baldwin, mounted them, and it was their dust-cloud we had seen as they rode up to Ash Forks.",
  "sample_05443.wav": "To make matters more serious, Baldwin had rounded up his cowboys and brought them along with him in order to make any resistance impossible. I made no objection to the sheriff serving the paper.",
  "sample_05444.wav": "and the stars in their courses are against Sisera. With the sheriff and Mr. Camp I then walked over to the saloon, where Judge Wilson was waiting to dispose of my case.",
  "sample_05445.wav": "and answered that I asked an adjournment of the case so that I might be heard by counsel. It was denied, as was to have been expected. Indeed, why they took the trouble to go through the forms was beyond me.",
  "sample_05446.wav": "I told Wilson I should not produce the letters, and he asked if I knew what that meant. I couldn't help laughing and retorting, It very appropriately means contempt of the court, your honor.",
  "sample_05447.wav": "Seeing that I understood the moves too well to be bluffed, the judge, Mr. Camp and the lawyer held a whispered consultation. My surprise can be imagined when, at its conclusion, Mr. Camp said,",
  "sample_05448.wav": "on the night of October 14, and ask that he be taken into custody on that charge. I couldn't make out this new move and puzzled over it, while Judge Wilson ordered my commitment.",
  "sample_05449.wav": "But the next step revealed the object, for the lawyer then asked for a search warrant to look for stolen property. The judge was equally obliging and began to fill one out on the incident.",
  "sample_05450.wav": "This made me feel pretty serious, for the letters were in my breast pocket, and I swore at my own stupidity in not having put them in the station safe when I had first arrived at Ash Forks.",
  "sample_05451.wav": "There weren't many moments in which to think, while the judge scribbled away at the warrant, but in what time there was I did a lot of head-work, without, however, finding more than one way out of the snarl.",
  "sample_05452.wav": "And, when I saw the judge finish off his signature with a flourish, I played a pretty desperate card. \"'You're just too late, gentlemen,' I said, pointing out the side window of the saloon. There come the cavalry.\"",
  "sample_05453.wav": "The three conspirators jumped to their feet and bolted for the window.",
  "sample_05454.wav": "As he did so I gave him a shove towards the three which sent them all sprawling on the floor in a pretty badly mixed-up condition. I made a dash for the door, and as I went through it\u2014",
  "sample_05455.wav": "I grabbed the key and locked them in. When I turned to do so, I saw the lot struggling up from the floor, and knowing that it wouldn't take them many seconds to find their way out through the window, I looked out the window",
  "sample_05456.wav": "as only western horses will stand. It didn't take me long to have those bridles back in place, and as I tossed each over the peak of the Mexican saddle,",
  "sample_05457.wav": "I gave two of the pony's slaps which started them off at a lope across the railroad tracks. I swung myself into the saddle of the third, and flicked him with the loose ends of the bridle in a way which made him understand that I meant business.",
  "sample_05458.wav": "And, considering that he had covered over forty miles that afternoon in pretty quick time, it was not surprising that there wasn't very much go left in him.",
  "sample_05459.wav": "Two hundred feet, therefore, brought me to the edge of the town, and I wheeled my pony and rode down behind the rear of the buildings. In turning I looked back, and saw half a dozen mounted men already in pursuit.",
  "sample_05460.wav": "But I lost sight of them the next moment. As soon as I reached a street leading back to the railroad I turned again and rode towards my one thought being to get back, if possible, to the station.",
  "sample_05461.wav": "and put the letters into the railroad agent's safe. When I reached the main street I saw that my hope was futile, for another batch of cowboys were coming in full gallop towards me, very thoroughly heading me off in that direction.",
  "sample_05462.wav": "To escape them, I headed up the street away from the station with the pack in close pursuit. They yelled at me to hold up, and I expected every moment to hear the crack of revolvers",
  "sample_05463.wav": "in expectation of hearing the shooting begin, and to know that any moment may be your last. I don't suppose I was on the ragged edge more than thirty seconds, but they were enough to prove to me that...",
  "sample_05464.wav": "To keep one's back turned to an enemy as one runs away takes a deal more pluck than to stand up and face his gun. Fortunately for me, my pursuers felt so sure of my capture",
  "sample_05465.wav": "that not one of them drew a bead on me. The moment I saw that there was no escape, I put my hand in my breast pocket and took out the letters, intending to tear them into a hundred pieces, but\u2014",
  "sample_05466.wav": "As I did so, I realized that to destroy United States mail not merely entailed criminal liability, but was off-color morally. I faltered.",
  "sample_05467.wav": "balancing the outwitting of camp against State's prison, the doing my best for Madge against the wrong of it. I think I'm as honest a fellow as the average, but I have to confess that I couldn't decide to do right.",
  "sample_05468.wav": "till I thought that Madge wouldn't want me to be dishonest, even for her. I turned across the railroad tracks and cut in behind some freight cars that were standing on a siding.",
  "sample_05469.wav": "This put me out of view of my pursuers for a moment, and in that instant I stood up in my stirrups, lifted the broad leather flap of the saddle, and tucked the letters underneath it, as far in as I could force them.",
  "sample_05470.wav": "It was a desperate place in which to hide them, but the game was a desperate one at best, and the very boldness of the idea might be its best chance of success.",
  "sample_05471.wav": "Why, if you will believe me, they were the sons of that very Phryxis, who, in his childhood, had been carried to Colchis on the back of the golden fleeced ram. At once that time, Phryxis had married the king's daughter.",
  "sample_05472.wav": "and had spent their play days in the outskirts of the grove, in the center of which the golden fleece was hanging upon a tree. They are now on their way to Greece, in hopes of getting back a kingdom that had been wrongfully taken from their father.",
  "sample_05473.wav": "When the princes understood whether the Argonauts were going, they offered to turn back and guide them to Colchis.",
  "sample_05474.wav": "every person who might venture within his reach. There are other difficulties in the way, continue the young princess.",
  "sample_05475.wav": "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible. You have grown up from infancy in the fear of this monster.",
  "sample_05476.wav": "At all events, turn back who may. I will never see Greece again unless I carry with me the golden fleece.\" \"'We will none of us turn back,' cried his nine and forty brave comrades.\"",
  "sample_05477.wav": "Much good may it do him. And Orpheus, whose custom it was to set everything to music, began to harp and sing most gloriously",
  "sample_05478.wav": "and nothing so truly honorable as to be eaten up at one mouthful in case of the worst. After this, being now under the guidance of the two princes, who were well-acquainted with the way,",
  "sample_05479.wav": "Heard of their arrival, he instantly summoned Jason to the court.",
  "sample_05480.wav": "who dethroned his father. You are welcome, brave Jason.",
  "sample_05481.wav": "Pray, are you on a pleasure voyage?",
  "sample_05482.wav": "Or what other cause has procured me the happiness of seeing you at my court?\" Great sir replied Jason.",
  "sample_05483.wav": "for Chiron had taught him how to behave with propriety, whether to kings or beggars.",
  "sample_05484.wav": "provided I bring him the golden fleece. This, as your majesty is aware, is now hanging on a tree here at Colchis, and I humbly solicit your gracious leave to take it away. In spite of himself, the king's face twisted itself into an angry frown.",
  "sample_05485.wav": "For, above all things else in the world, he prized the Golden Fleece, and was even suspected of having done a very wicked act in order to get it into his own possession.",
  "sample_05486.wav": "had come to Colchis with the sole purpose of taking away his cheap treasure.",
  "sample_05487.wav": "What are the conditions which you must fulfill before getting position of the Golden Fleece? I have heard, rejoined the youth, that a dragon lies beneath a tree on which the prize hangs, and that whoever approaches him runs the risk of being devoured at a mouthful.",
  "sample_05488.wav": "True, said the king, with a smile that did not look particularly good-natured. Very true, young man, but there are other things as hard, or perhaps a little harder, to be done before you can even have the privilege of being devoured by the dragon. For example...",
  "sample_05489.wav": "which Vulcan, the wonderful blacksmith, made for me. There is a furnace in each of their stomachs, and they breathe such hot fire out of their mouths and nostrils that nobody has hitherto gone nigh them without being instantly burned to a small black cinder.",
  "sample_05490.wav": "I must encounter the peril, answered Jason compositely, since it stands in the way of my purpose.",
  "sample_05491.wav": "from which Cadmus raised a crop of armed men. They are an unruly set of reprobates, those sons of the dragon's teeth, and unless you treat them suitably, they will fall upon you sword in hand.",
  "sample_05492.wav": "and the four-footed pendant, his schoolmaster, into the bargain. Why what a foolhardy, self-conceited coxcomb he is! We'll see what my fire-breathing bulls will do for him.\" Well, Prince Jason, he continued aloud, and as complacently as he could.",
  "sample_05493.wav": "Make yourself comfortable for today, and tomorrow morning, since you insist upon it, you shall try your skill at the plow.\" While the king talked with Jason, a beautiful young woman was standing behind the throne. She fixed her eyes earnestly upon the youthful stranger.",
  "sample_05494.wav": "This young woman followed him out of the room. I am the king's daughter, she said to him, and my name is Medea. I know a great deal of which other young princesses are ignorant, and can do many things which they would be afraid so much as to dream of. If you will trust me,",
  "sample_05495.wav": "I can instruct you how to tame the fiery bulls and sew the dragon's teeth and get the golden fleece. Indeed, beautiful princess,\" answered Jason, if you will do me this service, I promise to be grateful to you my whole life long. Gazing at Medea,",
  "sample_05496.wav": "He beheld a wonderful intelligence in her face. She was one of those persons whose eyes are full of mystery, so that while looking into them,",
  "sample_05497.wav": "yet can never be certain whether you see into the farthest steps or whether there be not something else hidden at the bottom. Jason had been capable of fearing anything",
  "sample_05498.wav": "Princess, he exclaimed, you seem indeed very wise and very powerful, but how can you help me and do the things of which you speak? Are you an enchantress?\" Yes, Prince Jason answered Medea with a smile.",
  "sample_05499.wav": "It is well for you that I am favorably inclined, for otherwise you would hardly escape being snapped up by the dragon.\" \"'I should not so much care for the dragon,' replied Jason, if I only knew how to manage the brazen-footed and fiery-lunged bulls.",
  "sample_05500.wav": "which will prevent you from being burned up and cure you if you chance to be a little scorched.",
  "sample_05501.wav": "CHAPTER XXIX As bibs came out of the new house, a Sunday trio was in course of passage upon the sidewalk. An ample young woman, placid of face, a black-clad,",
  "sample_05502.wav": "thin young man, whose expression was one of habitual anxiety, habitual wariness, and habitual eagerness. He propelled a perambulator containing the third.",
  "sample_05503.wav": "sundified, and made fit to dine with the wife's relatives. \"'How'd you like for me to be that young fella, Mama?' the husband whispered. \"'He's one of the sons, and there ain't but two left now.'\"",
  "sample_05504.wav": "The wife stared curiously at Bibs. \"'Well, I don't know,' she returned. \"'He looks to me like he had his own troubles.' \"'I expect he has, like anybody else,' said the young husband. \"'But I guess we could stand a good deal if we had his money.'",
  "sample_05505.wav": "Well, maybe, if you keep on the way you've been.",
  "sample_05506.wav": "She glanced back at Bibs, who had turned north. He walks kind of slow and stooped over like. So much money in his pockets it makes him sag, I guess, said the young husband, with bitter admiration.",
  "sample_05507.wav": "Mary, happening to glance from a window, saw Bibs coming, and she started, clasping her hands together, in a sudden alarm.",
  "sample_05508.wav": "What's the matter? I saw something was terribly wrong when I-",
  "sample_05509.wav": "She paused, and he came in, not lifting his eyes to hers. Always, when he crossed that threshold, he had come with his head up and his wistful gaze seeking hers.",
  "sample_05510.wav": "Poor boy,\" she said, with a gesture of understanding and pity. I know what it is. He followed her into the room where they always sat, and sank into a chair. You needn't tell me, she said.",
  "sample_05511.wav": "They've made you give up. Your father's won. You're going to do what he wants. You've given up.",
  "sample_05512.wav": "affirmation. She gave a little cry of compassion and came and sat near him. \"'Bibs!' she said. \"'I can be glad of one thing, though it's selfish. I can be glad you came straight to me. It's more to me than even if you'd come because you were happy.'",
  "sample_05513.wav": "She did not speak again for a little while. Then she said,",
  "sample_05514.wav": "Could you tell me about it?\" Do you want to?\" Still he did not look up. But in a voice shaken and husky he asked her a question so grotesque that at first she thought she had misunderstood his words.",
  "sample_05515.wav": "Mary, he said. Could you marry me?\" What did you say, Bibs? She asked quietly. His tone and attitude did not change. Will you marry me?",
  "sample_05516.wav": "Both of her hands leaped to her cheeks. She grew red and then white. She rose slowly and moved backward from him, staring at him, at first incredulously, then with an intense more and more luminous in her wide eyes.",
  "sample_05517.wav": "It was like a spoken question. The room filled with strangeness in the long silence. The two were so strange to each other. At last she said, What made you say that? He did not answer.",
  "sample_05518.wav": "Bibs, look at me.\" Her voice was loud and clear. What made you say that? Look at me. He could not look at her, and he could not speak. What was it that made you? She said, I want you to tell me.",
  "sample_05519.wav": "You've given up to your father,\" she said slowly. And then you came to ask me... She broke off.",
  "sample_05520.wav": "Yes, he said, just audibly. No!\" she cried. You do not. Then what made you ask me? What is it that's happened? Nothing. Wait, she said.",
  "sample_05521.wav": "Let me think. It's something that happened since our walk this morning. Yes, since you left me at noon. Something happened that\u2014 She stopped abruptly.",
  "sample_05522.wav": "with a tremulous murmur of amazement and dawning comprehension. She remembered that Sibyl had gone to the new house. Bibs swallowed painfully and contrived to say, I do. I do want you to marry me if...",
  "sample_05523.wav": "You could?\" She looked at him and slowly shook her head. \"'Bibs, do you\u2014' Her voice was as unsteady as his, little more than a whisper. \"'Do you think I'm\u2014'",
  "sample_05524.wav": "In love with you?\" No, he said. Somewhere in the still air of the room there was a whispered word. It did not seem to come from Mary's parted lips, but he was aware of it. Why?",
  "sample_05525.wav": "I've had nothing but dreams,\" Bibb said desolately. But they weren't like that. Sibyl said no girl could care about me. He smiled faintly.",
  "sample_05526.wav": "And when I first came home, Edith told me Sibyl was so anxious to marry that she'd have married me. She meant it to express Sibyl's extremity, you see. But I hardly needed either of them to tell me. I hadn't thought of myself as\u2014",
  "sample_05527.wav": "Well, not as particularly captivating. Oddly enough Mary's pallor changed to an angry flush. \"'Those too!' she exclaimed sharply, and then, with thoroughgoing contempt, That's like them.\"",
  "sample_05528.wav": "She turned away, went to the bare little black mantle, and stood leaning upon it. Presently she asked, When did Mrs. Rusk go Sherrod and say that no girl could care about you?",
  "sample_05529.wav": "Today, Mary drew a deep breath. I think I'm beginning to understand a little. She bit her lip. There was anger and good truth in her eyes and in her voice.",
  "sample_05530.wav": "Answer me once more,\" she said. Vibs, do you know now why I stopped wearing my furs? Yes. I thought so. Your sister-in-law told you, didn't she? I-",
  "sample_05531.wav": "Once upon a time there was a servant who served a wise man.",
  "sample_05532.wav": "day after day, time in and time out, for seven years. In those years the servant was well enough contented, but no one likes to abide in the same place forever, and so one day he took it into his head that he would like to go out into the world.",
  "sample_05533.wav": "to see what kind of a fortune a man might make there for himself.",
  "sample_05534.wav": "You have served me faithfully these seven years gone, and now that you asked to leave to go, you shall go. But it is little or nothing in the way of money that I can give you, and so you will have to be content with what I can afford.",
  "sample_05535.wav": "See, here is a little pebble, and its like is not to be found in the seven kingdoms. For whoever holds it in his mouth can hear while he does so.",
  "sample_05536.wav": "paying his way with the few pennies he had saved in his seven years of service. But for all of his travelling nothing good happened to him, until, one morning, he came to a lonely place where there stood a gallows. And there he sat him down to rest.",
  "sample_05537.wav": "And it is just in such an unlikely place as this, that a man's best chance of fortune comes to him sometimes. As the servant sat there, there came two ravens flying, and lit upon the cross-beam overhead.",
  "sample_05538.wav": "There they began talking to one another, and the servant popped the pebble into his mouth to hear what they might say. Yonder is a traveler in the world, said the first raven. Yes, said the second.",
  "sample_05539.wav": "Why thus? said the second.",
  "sample_05540.wav": "And there he would find a man sitting.",
  "sample_05541.wav": "that man would lead him to the garden.",
  "sample_05542.wav": "\"'The fruit of happiness,' said the first raven, \"'and of what use would the fruit of happiness be to him?'",
  "sample_05543.wav": "and wish, and whatever one asks for one shall have.\" You may guess that when the servant understood the talk of the ravens he was not slow in making use of what he had heard. Up he scrabbled.",
  "sample_05544.wav": "and away he went as fast as his legs could carry him. On and on he travelled until he came to the crossroads, and the stone cross of which the raven spoke. And there, sure enough, sat the traveller.",
  "sample_05545.wav": "There is one condition you must fulfill. Many strange things will happen upon our journey between here and there.",
  "sample_05546.wav": "and say not a word. Do you agree to that?\" \"'Yes,' said the servant. \"'I do.'\" \"'Very well,' said his new comrade. \"'Then let us be jogging.'\"",
  "sample_05547.wav": "and the time is not too long to get there. So all the rest of that day they journeyed onward together, until towards evening they came to a town with high towers and steep roofs and tall spires.",
  "sample_05548.wav": "The servants companioned into the gate as though he knew the place right well, and led the way up one street and down another, until by and by they came to a noble house that stood a little apart by itself, with gardens of flowers and fruit trees all around it.",
  "sample_05549.wav": "There, the traveling companion stopped, and drawing out a little pipe from under his jacket.",
  "sample_05550.wav": "to listen to the music. Well, he played and played until by and by the door opened and out came a serving man. Ho Piper, said he.",
  "sample_05551.wav": "where dozens of servants were serving a fine feast. But only one man sat at the table, a young man with a face so sorrowful that it made a body's heart ache to look upon him. Can you play a good music, Piper? said he.",
  "sample_05552.wav": "but suddenly everything went wrong. His wife and he fell out and quarrelled until there was no living together, and she had to go back to her old home. Then his companions deserted him, and now he lived all alone. Yours is a hard case, said the traveling companion.",
  "sample_05553.wav": "Thereupon he drew out his pipe and began to play, and it was such a tune as no man had ever listened to before. He played and he played, and after a while one after another of those who listened to him began to get drowsy. First they winked.",
  "sample_05554.wav": "Then they shut their eyes, and then they nodded until all were as dumb as logs, and as sound asleep as though they would never waken again. Only the servant and the piper stayed awake, for the music did not make them drowsy as it did the rest.",
  "sample_05555.wav": "Then, when all but they too were tight and fast asleep,",
  "sample_05556.wav": "and stepping up to the young man took from off his finger a splendid ruby ring, as red as blood and as bright as fire, and popped the same into his pocket. And all the while the serving man stood gaping like a fish.",
  "sample_05557.wav": "to see what his comrade was about.",
  "sample_05558.wav": "None was more ugly than this. To bewitch the poor, sorrowful young man into a sleep, and then to rob him of the ruby ring,",
  "sample_05559.wav": "But the next day they jogged on together again until by and by they came to a great forest. There they wandered up and down, till night came upon them and found them still stumbling onward through the darkness.",
  "sample_05560.wav": "He seemed to doubt nothing nor fear nothing, but trudged straight ahead until, by and by, they saw a light twinkling far away, and, when they came to it, they found a gloomy stone house, as ugly as eyes ever looked upon.",
  "sample_05561.wav": "How I hate the man who talks about the brute creation with an ugly emphasis on brute. As for me, I'm proud of my close kinship with other animals.",
  "sample_05562.wav": "I take a jealous pride in my simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees, and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms.",
  "sample_05563.wav": "and amphioxus, fish, dinosaurs, and apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden? W.N.P. Barbelian.",
  "sample_05564.wav": "Last Sunday, Potter took me out driving along Upper Broadway, where those long rows of tall, new apartment houses were built a few years ago. It was a mild afternoon, and great crowds of people were out.",
  "sample_05565.wav": "Sunday afternoon crowds. They were not going anywhere. They were just strolling up and down staring at each other and talking. There were thousands and thousands of them.",
  "sample_05566.wav": "I turned and asked, what about them? I wasn't sure whether he had an idea or a headache. Other creatures don't do it, he replied with a discouraged expression.",
  "sample_05567.wav": "Are any other beings ever found in such masses but vermin? aimless staring vacant minded look at them",
  "sample_05568.wav": "I could get no sense whatever of individual worth or of value in men as a race when I see them like this. It makes one almost despair of civilization. I thought this over for a while.",
  "sample_05569.wav": "And yet at other times I too feel like a spectator, an alien. But even then I had never felt so alien or despairing as Potter. Let's remember, I said, it's a simian civilization.",
  "sample_05570.wav": "Potter was staring disgustedly at some vaudeville signboards. \"'Yes,' I said. \"'Those, for example, are distinctively simian. Why should you feel disappointment at something inevitable?' And I went on to argue that it wasn't as though we were descended from\u2014'",
  "sample_05571.wav": "eagles, for instance, instead of, broadly speaking, from ape-like or monkeyish beings. Being of simian stock, we had simian traits. Our development naturally bore the marks of our origin.",
  "sample_05572.wav": "What could you expect? 2. If we had been made directly from clay, the way it says in the Bible, and had therefore inherited no intermediate characteristics...",
  "sample_05573.wav": "If a god or some principle of growth had gone that way to work with us, he or it might have molded us in much more splendid forms. But considering our Simeon descent, it has done very well.",
  "sample_05574.wav": "The only people who are disappointed in us are those who still believe that clay story or who unconsciously still let it color their thinking There certainly seems to be a power at work in the world",
  "sample_05575.wav": "by virtue of which every living thing grows and develops, and it tends toward splendor. Seeds become trees, and weak little nations grow great. But the push or the force that is doing this\u2014the yeast, as it were.",
  "sample_05576.wav": "has to work in and on certain definite kinds of material. Because this yeast is in us, there may be great and undreamed of possibilities awaiting mankind. But because of our line of descent,",
  "sample_05577.wav": "there are also queer limitations. 3. In those distant, invisible epochs, before men existed, before even the proud, missing link strutted around through the woods.",
  "sample_05578.wav": "little realizing how we his great-grandsons would smile wryly at him much as our own descendants may shudder at us ages hence, the various animals were desperately competing for power. They couldn't or didn't live as equals.",
  "sample_05579.wav": "Certain groups sought the headship. Many strange forgotten dynasties rose, met defiance, and fell. In the end it was our ancestors who won, and became simian kings, and bequeathed the whole planet to us.",
  "sample_05580.wav": "and kept us in cages, or show us for sport in the forest while they ruled the world. So Potter and I, developing this train of thought, began to imagine we had lived many ages ago, and somehow or other had alighted here from some older planet.",
  "sample_05581.wav": "Familiar with the ways of evolution elsewhere in the universe, we naturally should have wondered what course it would take on this Earth. Even in this out-of-the-way corner of the cosmos, we might have reflected, and on this tiny star.",
  "sample_05582.wav": "It may be of interest to consider the trend of events. We should have tried to appraise the different species as they wandered around, each with its own set of good and bad characteristics. Which group, we would have wondered, would ever contrive to rule all the rest?",
  "sample_05583.wav": "and how great a development could they attain to thereafter?",
  "sample_05584.wav": "We might first have considered the lemurs or apes. They had hands. Aesthetically viewed, the poor simians were simply grotesque, but travelers who knew other planets might have known what beauty may spring from an uncouth beginning in this magic universe.",
  "sample_05585.wav": "Still, those frowsy, unlovely hordes of apes and monkeys were so completely lacking in signs of kingship. They were so flighty, too, in their ways, and had so little purpose, and so much love for absurd and idle chatter.",
  "sample_05586.wav": "They are not easily left behind, even after long stages, and they form a terrible obstacle to all high advancement.",
  "sample_05587.wav": "The bees or the ants might have seemed to us more promising. Their smallness of size was not necessarily too much of a handicap. They could have made poison their weapon for the subjugation of rivals.",
  "sample_05588.wav": "And in these orderly insects there are obviously a capacity for labor, and cooperative labor at that, which could carry them far. We all know that they have a Marx genius. Great gifts of their own.",
  "sample_05589.wav": "In a civilization of super ants or bees, there would have been no problem of the hungry unemployed, no poverty, no unstable government, no riots, no strikes for short hours.",
  "sample_05590.wav": "No derision of eugenics, no thieves, perhaps no crime at all. Ants are good citizens. They place group interests first. But they carry it so far. They have few or no political rights.",
  "sample_05591.wav": "as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it. But in fact the British public remained for the present, profoundly indifferent to Miss Isabel Archer, whose fortune had dropped her, as her cousin said, into the dullest house in England.",
  "sample_05592.wav": "Her gaudy uncle received very little company, and Mrs. Touchet, not having cultivated the relations with her husband's neighbors, was not warranted in expecting visits from them. She had, however, a peculiar taste. She liked to receive cards.",
  "sample_05593.wav": "For what is usually called social intercourse, she had very little relish, but nothing pleased her more than to find her whole table whitened with oblong morsels of symbolic pasteboard. She flattered herself that she was a very just woman.",
  "sample_05594.wav": "and had mastered the sovereign truth that nothing in this world is God for nothing. She had played no social part as mistress of garden court, and it was not to be supposed that in the surrounding country a minute account should be kept of her comings and goings.",
  "sample_05595.wav": "but it is by no means certain that she did not feel it to be wrong that so little notice was taken of them, and that her failure, really very gratuitous, to make herself important in the neighborhood, had not much to do with the acrimony of her allusions to her husband's adopted country.",
  "sample_05596.wav": "Isabel presently found herself in the singular situation of defending the British Constitution against her aunt.",
  "sample_05597.wav": "Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins, not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, but because it seemed to her, her aunt might make better use of her sharpness.",
  "sample_05598.wav": "She was very critical herself. It was incidental to her age, her sex and her nationality. But she was very sentimental as well. And there was something in Mrs. Touchet's dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing. Now what is your point of view?",
  "sample_05599.wav": "She asked of her aunt, When you criticize everything here, you should have a point of view. Yours doesn't seem to be American. You thought everything over there so disagreeable. When I criticize, I have mine. It's thoroughly American.",
  "sample_05600.wav": "There are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them. You may say that doesn't make them very numerous. American? Never in the world. That's shockingly narrow. My point of view, thank God, is personal.",
  "sample_05601.wav": "Isabel thought this a better answer than she admitted. It was a tolerable description of her own manner of judging, but it would not have sounded well for her to say so.",
  "sample_05602.wav": "would savour of immodesty, even of arrogance.",
  "sample_05603.wav": "with whom she talked a great deal, and with whom her conversation was of a sort that gave a large license to extravagance. Her cousin used, as the phrase is, to chafe her.",
  "sample_05604.wav": "He very soon established with her a reputation for treating everything as a joke, and he was not a man to neglect the privileges such a reputation conferred.",
  "sample_05605.wav": "of laughing at all things, beginning with himself. Such slender faculty of reverence as he possessed centered wholly upon his father. For the rest he exercised his wit indifferently upon his father's son, this gentleman's weak lungs.",
  "sample_05606.wav": "his useless life, his fantastic mother.",
  "sample_05607.wav": "his adopted and his native country, his charming newfound cousin. I keep a band of music in my auntie room, he said once to her. It has orders to play without stopping. It renders me two excellent services.",
  "sample_05608.wav": "It keeps the sounds of the worlds from reaching the private apartments, and it makes the world think that dancing's going on within.",
  "sample_05609.wav": "The liveliest waltzes seemed to float upon the air. Isabelle often found herself irritated by this perpetual fiddling.",
  "sample_05610.wav": "and enter the private apartments. It mattered little that he had assured her they were a very dismal place. She would have been glad to undertake to sweep them and set them in order. It was but half hospitality to let her remain outside.",
  "sample_05611.wav": "It must be said that her wit was exercised to a large extent in self-defense, for her cousin amused himself with calling her Columbia, and accusing her of a patriotism so heated that it scorched. He drew a caricature of her.",
  "sample_05612.wav": "in the folds of the national banner. Isabelle's chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow-minded. What she feared next afterwards was that she should really be so. But she never left.",
  "sample_05613.wav": "She would be as American as it pleased him to regard her, and if he chose to laugh at her, she would give him plenty of occupation. She defended England against his mother, but when Ralph sang its praises on purpose, as she said, to work her up.",
  "sample_05614.wav": "She found herself able to defer from him on a variety of points. In fact, the quality of this small, ripe country seemed as sweet to her as the taste of an October pear.",
  "sample_05615.wav": "and her satisfaction was at the root of the good spirits which enabled her to take her cousin's chafe.",
  "sample_05616.wav": "If her good humor flagged at moments it was not because she thought herself ill-used, but because she suddenly felt sorry for Ralph. It seemed to her he was talking as a blind and had little heart in what he said.",
  "sample_05617.wav": "I don't know what's the matter with you,\" she observed to him once, but I suspect you're a great humbug. That's your privilege, Ralph answered, who had not been used to being so crudely addressed. I don't know what you care for.",
  "sample_05618.wav": "I don't think you care for anything. You don't really care for England when you praise it. You don't care for America even when you pretend to abuse it. I care for nothing but you, dear cousin,\" said Ralph. If I could believe that",
  "sample_05619.wav": "Even that I should be very glad.\" \"'Ah, well, I should hope so,' the young man exclaimed. Isabel might have believed it, and not have been far from the truth. He thought a great deal about her. She was constantly present to his mind.",
  "sample_05620.wav": "At a time when his thoughts had been a good deal of a burden to him, her sudden arrival, which promised nothing and was an open-handed gift of fate, had refreshed and quickened them, given them wings and something to fly for.",
  "sample_05621.wav": "Bell had declared that her sister would be very happy to see John Ames if he would go over to Allington, and he had replied that of course he would go there, so much having been as it were settled.",
  "sample_05622.wav": "He was able to speak of his visit as a matter of course at the breakfast table on the morning after the Earl's dinner party. I must get you to come round with me Dale and see what I am doing to the land, the Earl said.",
  "sample_05623.wav": "But the squire preferred walking, and in this way they were disposed of soon after breakfast. John had it in his mind to get Bell to himself for half an hour and hold a conference with her. But it either happened that Lady Julia was too keen in her duties as a hostess, or that",
  "sample_05624.wav": "or else as was more possible, Bell avoided the meeting. No opportunity for such an interview offered itself, though he hung about the drawing room all the morning. You had better wait for luncheon now, Lady Julia said to him about twelve.",
  "sample_05625.wav": "But this he declined, and taking himself away hid himself about the place for the next hour and a half. During this time he considered much whether it would be better for him to ride or walk. If she should give him any hope",
  "sample_05626.wav": "He could ride back triumphant as a field-martial. Then the horse would be delightful to him. But if she should give him no hope, if it should be his destiny to be rejected utterly on that morning, then the horse would be terribly in the way of his sorrow.",
  "sample_05627.wav": "resting when he might choose to rest, and running when it might suit him to run. And she is not like other girls, he thought to himself. She won't care for my boots being dirty. So at last he elected to walk.",
  "sample_05628.wav": "Stand up to her boldly, man,\" the earl had said to him. By George, what is there to be afraid of?",
  "sample_05629.wav": "There's nothing sets them against a man like being sheepish. How the Earl knew so much.",
  "sample_05630.wav": "I am not prepared to say. But Ames took his advice as being in itself good, and resolved to act upon it. Not that any resolution will be of any use, he said to himself as he walked along.",
  "sample_05631.wav": "When the moment comes, I know that I shall tremble before her, and I know that she'll see it.",
  "sample_05632.wav": "He had last seen her on the lawn behind the small house, just at that time when her passion for Crosby was at the strongest. Ames had gone thither impelled by a foolish desire to declare to her his hopeless love.",
  "sample_05633.wav": "And she had answered him by telling him that she loved Mr. Crosby better than all the world besides. Of course she had done so at that time. But nevertheless her manner of telling him had seemed to him to be cruel. And he also had been cruel.",
  "sample_05634.wav": "He had told her that he hated Crosby, calling him that man, and assuring her that no earthly consideration should induce him to go into that man's house. Then he had walked away moodily, wishing him all manner of evil.",
  "sample_05635.wav": "Was it not singular that all the evil things which he, in his mind, had meditated for the man had fallen upon him? Crosby had lost his love. He had so proved himself to be a villain that his name might not be so much as mentioned.",
  "sample_05636.wav": "He had been ignominiously thrashed. But what good would all this be if his image were still dear to Lily's heart? I told her that I loved her then, he said to himself, though I had no right to do so.",
  "sample_05637.wav": "At any rate, I have a right to tell her now.\" When he reached Allington he did not go in through the village and up to the front of the small house by the cross street, but turned by the church gate and passed over the squire's",
  "sample_05638.wav": "Here he encountered Hopkins.",
  "sample_05639.wav": "Mr. John, may I make so bold?\" And Hopkins held out a very dirty hand, which Ames of course took, unconscious of the cause of this new affection. I'm just going to call it the small house and I thought I'd come this way.",
  "sample_05640.wav": "To be sure this way or that way or any way who's so welcome Mr. John? I envy you I envy you more than I envy any man if I could have got him by the scruff of the neck I'd have treated him just like any worm and I would indeed he was worming I",
  "sample_05641.wav": "Always said it. I hated him always. I did indeed, Mr. John.",
  "sample_05642.wav": "He never looked at one as though one were a Christian, did he, Mr. John?",
  "sample_05643.wav": "Only she, poor young lady. She'll be better now, Mr. John, a deal better.",
  "sample_05644.wav": "Tell me, Mr. John, did you give it him well when you got him? I heard you did. Two black eyes and all his face one mash of gore. And Hopkins, who was by no means a young man, stiffly put himself into a fighting attitude.",
  "sample_05645.wav": "Ames passed on over the little bridge, which seemed to be in a state of fast decay, unattended to by any friendly carpenter now that the days of its use were so nearly at an end, and on into the garden, lingering on the spot where he had last said farewell to Lily.",
  "sample_05646.wav": "But there was no one to be seen in the garden, and no sound to be heard. As every step brought him nearer to her whom he was seeking, he became more and more conscious of the hopelessness of his errand, him she had never loved.",
  "sample_05647.wav": "And why should he venture to hope that she would love him now?",
  "sample_05648.wav": "Had he not been aware that his promise to others required that he should persevere? He had said that he would do this thing, and he would be as good as his word, but he hardly ventured to hope that he might be successful.",
  "sample_05649.wav": "In this frame of mind he slowly made his way up across the lawn. \"'My dear, there is John Ames,' said Mrs. Dale, who had first seen him from the parlour window. Don't go, Mama.\"",
  "sample_05650.wav": "I don't know, perhaps it will be better that I should. No, Mama, no. What good can it do? It can do no good. I like him as well as I can like anyone. I love him dearly. But it can do no good. Let him come in here and be very kind to him.",
  "sample_05651.wav": "How the subject feels under hypnotization. Dr. Cooper's experience. Effective music. Dr. Alfred Martiou's experiments.",
  "sample_05652.wav": "The sensations produced during a state of hypnosis are very interesting. As may be supposed, they differ greatly in different persons.",
  "sample_05653.wav": "One of the most interesting accounts ever given is that of Dr. James R. Koch, a hypnotist himself who submitted to being operated upon by a professional magnetizer.",
  "sample_05654.wav": "He was, at that time, a firm believer in the theory of personal magnetism, a delusion, from which he afterward escaped. On the occasion which he describes, the operator commanded him to close his eyes, and to go",
  "sample_05655.wav": "but he did open them at once. Again he told him to close the eyes and at the same time he gently stroked his head and face and eyelids with his hand. Dr. Cok fancied he felt a tingling sensation in his forehead and eyes.",
  "sample_05656.wav": "which he supposed came from the hand of the operator. Afterward he came to believe that this sensation was purely imaginary on his part. Then he says, a sensation akin to fear came over me.",
  "sample_05657.wav": "The operator said, \"'You are going to sleep. You are getting sleepy. You cannot open your eyes.' I was conscious that my heart was beating rapidly, and I felt a sensation of terror.\"",
  "sample_05658.wav": "He then made passes over my head, down over my hands and body, but did not touch me. He then said to me, You cannot open your eyes. The motor apparatus of my lids would not seemingly respond to my will.",
  "sample_05659.wav": "Yet I was conscious that while one part of my mind wanted to open my eyes, another part did not want to. So I was in a paradoxical state. I believed that I could open my eyes, and yet could not.",
  "sample_05660.wav": "The feeling of not wishing to open my eyes was not based upon any desire to please the operator. I had no personal interest in him in any way, but, be it understood, I firmly believed in his power to control me.",
  "sample_05661.wav": "Then he stroked the arm and said it was growing numb. He said, \"'You have no feeling in it, have you?' Dr. Cock goes on. I said, And I knew that I said no.",
  "sample_05662.wav": "The operator went on, pricking the arm with a pin, and though Dr. Koch felt the pain, he said he did not feel it, and at the same time the sensation of terror increased. I was not conscious of my body at all, he says further on.",
  "sample_05663.wav": "But I was painfully conscious of the two contradictory elements within me. I knew that my body existed, but could not prove it to myself. I knew that the statements made by the operator were, in a measure, untrue.",
  "sample_05664.wav": "I obeyed them voluntarily and involuntarily. This is the last remembrance that I have of that hypnotic experience. After this, however, the operator caused the doctor to do a number of things which he learned from his friends after the performance was over.",
  "sample_05665.wav": "It seemed to me that the hypnotist commanded me to awake as soon as I dropped my arm, and yet ten minutes of unconsciousness had passed. On a subsequent occasion, Dr. Cock, who was blind, was put into a deep hypnotic sleep.",
  "sample_05666.wav": "by fixing his mind on the number 26 and holding up his hand. This time he experienced a still greater degree of terror and incidentally learned that he could hypnotize himself. The matter of self-hypnotism",
  "sample_05667.wav": "we shall consider in another chapter. In this connection we find great interest in an article in the Medical News, July 28, 1894.",
  "sample_05668.wav": "in which he describes the effects of music upon hypnotic subjects, while in Vienna he took occasion to observe closely the enthusiastic musical devotees as they sat in the audience at the performance of one of Wagner's operas.",
  "sample_05669.wav": "He believed they were in a condition of self-induced hypnotism, in which their subjective faculties were so exalted as to supersede their objective perceptions. Music was no longer to them a succession of pleasing sounds.",
  "sample_05670.wav": "but the embodiment of a drama in which they became so wrapped up that they forgot all about the mechanical and external features of the music and lived completely in a fairy world of dream.",
  "sample_05671.wav": "This observation suggested to him an interesting series of experiments. His first subject was easily hypnotized and of an emotional nature. Wagner's",
  "sample_05672.wav": "was played from the piano score. The pulse of the subject became more rapid and at first of higher tension, increasing from a normal rate of 60 beats a minute to 120. Then,",
  "sample_05673.wav": "As the music progressed, the tension diminished. The respiration increased from 18 to 30 per minute. Great excitement in the subject was evident. His whole body was thrown into motion. His legs were drawn up, his arms tossed into the air.",
  "sample_05674.wav": "The state of mind brought up before him in the most realistic and vivid manner possible the picture of the ride of Tam O'Shanter Which he had seen years before the picture",
  "sample_05675.wav": "soon became real to him, and he found himself taking part in a wild chase, not as witch, devil, or Tam even, but in some way his consciousness was spread through every part of the scene, being of it.",
  "sample_05676.wav": "and yet playing the part of spectator, as is often the case in dreams. Dr. Warthen tried the same experiment again, this time on a young man who was not so emotional, and was hypnotized with much more difficulty.",
  "sample_05677.wav": "This subject did not pass into such a deep state of hypnotism, but the result was practically the same. The pulse rate rose from 70 to 120. The sensation remembered was that of riding furiously through the air.",
  "sample_05678.wav": "The experiment was repeated on other subjects in all cases with the same result.",
  "sample_05679.wav": "To him, it always expressed the pictured wild ride of the daughters of Wotan, the subject taking part in the ride. It was noticeable in each case that the same music played to them in the waking state produced no special impression.",
  "sample_05680.wav": "At first it seemed to produce the opposite effect, for the pulse was lowered. Later it rose to a rate double the normal and the tension was diminished. The impression described by the subject afterward.",
  "sample_05681.wav": "This is a painful chapter for me to write. Mercifully, it is to be a short one. Later on I shall become used to the situation, inclined even to dwell upon its humorous side.",
  "sample_05682.wav": "But for the moment I cannot see beyond the sadness of it, That to a prince of the royal house of Araby",
  "sample_05683.wav": "Roger Scurvylegs frankly breaks down over it. That abominable woman, he says, meaning, of course, Bellevane, and he has hysterics for more than a page. Let us describe it calmly.",
  "sample_05684.wav": "Coronel came back from his stroll in the same casual way in which he had started.",
  "sample_05685.wav": "He was not thinking of Udo. He was wondering if Princess Hyacinth had an attendant of surpassing beauty, or a dragon of surpassing malevolence, if in fact...",
  "sample_05686.wav": "there were any adventures in Euralia for a humble fellow like himself. Coronel?\" said a small voice behind him. He turned round indifferently.",
  "sample_05687.wav": "He said, Isn't it time we were starting?\" \"'We aren't starting,' said the voice. \"'What's the matter? What are you hiding in the bushes for? Whatever's the matter, Udo?'",
  "sample_05688.wav": "Coronel stopped. Your Royal Highness's commands, he began rather coldly. There was an ominous sniffing from the bushes. Coronel, said an unhappy voice at last,",
  "sample_05689.wav": "I think I'm coming out.\" Wondering what it all meant, Coronel waited in silence. Yes, I am coming out, Coronel,\" said the voice, but you mustn't be surprised if I don't look very well.",
  "sample_05690.wav": "I'm... I'm... Corridel, here I am.\" said Udo pathetically.",
  "sample_05691.wav": "It is difficult to say what he was, save that there was an impression of magnificence about his person. Such magnificence, anyhow, as is given by an astrakhan-trimmed fur coat.",
  "sample_05692.wav": "Coronel decided that it was an occasion for tact. \"'Ah, here you are,' he said cheerfully. \"'Shall we get along?' \"'Don't be a fool, Coronel,' said Udo, almost crying.",
  "sample_05693.wav": "Well, think of that.\" Udo showed what he thought of it by waving it peevishly. \"'This is not a time for tact,' he said. \"'Tell me what I look like.'\" Cornell considered for a moment.",
  "sample_05694.wav": "Really? Frankly?\" he asked.",
  "sample_05695.wav": "said Udo nervously. \"'Then, frankly, your Royal Highness looks funny.' \"'Very funny,' said Udo wistfully. \"'Very funny,' said Coronel. His Highness sighed.\"",
  "sample_05696.wav": "\"'I was afraid so,' he said. \"'That's the cruel part about it. Had I been a lion there would have been a certain pathetic splendour about my position. Isolated, cut off, suffering in regal silence.'",
  "sample_05697.wav": "He waved an explanatory paw. Even in the most hideous of beasts there might be a dignity. He meditated for a moment. Have you ever seen a yak, Coronel? he asked. Never.",
  "sample_05698.wav": "I saw one once in Barodia. It is not a beautiful animal, Coronel, but as a yak I should not have been entirely unlovable. One does not laugh at a yak, Coronel.",
  "sample_05699.wav": "And where one does not laugh, one may come to love.",
  "sample_05700.wav": "striking. I haven't seen it, you see. To one who didn't know your royal highness.",
  "sample_05701.wav": "A rabbit, he sobbed, so undignified.",
  "sample_05702.wav": "He added bitterly. How did it happen? I don't know, Coronel. I just went to sleep.",
  "sample_05703.wav": "He sat up suddenly and stared at Cornell. It was that old woman did it. You mock my words, Cornell. She did it. What should she?",
  "sample_05704.wav": "I was very polite to her. Don't you remember my saying to you, be polite to her because she's probably a fairy?",
  "sample_05705.wav": "So they held a council of war. Prince Udo put forward two suggestions. The first was that Coronel should go back on the morrow and kill the old woman.",
  "sample_05706.wav": "was that Coronel should go back that afternoon and kill the old woman. Coronel pointed out that as she had turned Prince Udo into into a uh quite so said Udo.",
  "sample_05707.wav": "It was likely that she alone could turn him back again, and that in that case he had better only threaten her. \"'I want somebody killed,' said Udo, rather naturally. \"'Suppose,' said Cornel, \"'I want somebody killed,' said Udo, rather naturally.",
  "sample_05708.wav": "and make her tell me what she knows. She knows something, I'm certain. Then we shall see better what to do.\" Udo mused for a space. Why didn't they turn you into anything? He asked.",
  "sample_05709.wav": "Really, I don't know. Perhaps because I'm too unimportant.\" Yes, that must be it. He began to feel a little brighter. Obviously, that's it. He caressed a whisker with one of his paws.",
  "sample_05710.wav": "They were afraid of me.\" He began to look so much happier that Coronel thought it was a favorable moment in which to withdraw. Shall I go now, your Royal Highness?",
  "sample_05711.wav": "I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, had made me what I am.",
  "sample_05712.wav": "It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and myrrh.",
  "sample_05713.wav": "My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight and a thousand sights of beauty. It was on one of these days when my cottagers periodically rested from labor. The old man played on his guitar.",
  "sample_05714.wav": "That I observed the countenance of Felix was melancholy beyond expression. He sighed frequently, and once his father paused in his music, and I conjectured...",
  "sample_05715.wav": "that he inquired the cause of the son's sorrow. Felix replied in a cheerful accent, and the old man was recommencing his music when someone tapped at the door. It was a lady on horseback, accompanied by a countryman as a guide.",
  "sample_05716.wav": "The lady was dressed in a dark suit and covered with a thick black veil. Agatha asked a question, to which the stranger only replied by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix.",
  "sample_05717.wav": "On hearing this word, Felix came up hastily to the lady, who, when she saw him, threw up her veil and said,",
  "sample_05718.wav": "and her complexion wondrously fair.",
  "sample_05719.wav": "Every trait of sorrow vanished from his face, and it instantly expressed a degree of ecstatic joy, of which I could hardly have believed capable.",
  "sample_05720.wav": "She appeared affected by different feelings, wiping a few tears from her lovely eyes.",
  "sample_05721.wav": "She did not appear to understand him, but smiled. He assisted her to dismount, and, dismissing her guide, conducted her into the cottage.",
  "sample_05722.wav": "and would have kissed his hand, but he raised her and embraced her affectionately.",
  "sample_05723.wav": "She was neither understood by nor herself understood the cottagers. They made many signs which I did not comprehend, and I saw that her presence diffused gladness through the cottage, dispelling their sorrow as the sun dissipates the morning mist.",
  "sample_05724.wav": "and pointing to her brother, made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sorrowful until she came. Some hours passed thus while they, by their countenances, expressed joy, the cause of which I did not comprehend.",
  "sample_05725.wav": "Presently I found, by the frequent recurrence of some sound which the stranger repeated after them, that she was endeavouring to learn their language, and the idea instantly occurred to me that I should make use of the same instructions to the same end.",
  "sample_05726.wav": "retired early. When they separated, Felix kissed the hand of the stranger and said, Good night, sweet Safi. He sat up much longer, conversing with his father, and by the frequent repetition of her name, I conjectured that their lovely guest",
  "sample_05727.wav": "was the subject of their conversation. I ardently desired to understand them and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible. The next morning, Felix went out to his work.",
  "sample_05728.wav": "And after the usual occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the old man, and taking his guitar, played some airs so intransigly beautiful, that they at once drew tears of sorrow and delight from my eyes.",
  "sample_05729.wav": "When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first declined it. She played a simple air and her voice accompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.",
  "sample_05730.wav": "The old man appeared enraptured, and said some words with Agatha endeavoured to explain to Safi, and by which she appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music.",
  "sample_05731.wav": "The days now passed as peacefully as before with the sole alteration that",
  "sample_05732.wav": "and accountances of my friends. Safi was always gay and happy. She and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protectors.",
  "sample_05733.wav": "In the meanwhile, also, the black ground was covered with herbage, and the green banks interspersed with innumerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlit woods. The sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy.",
  "sample_05734.wav": "although they were considerably shortened by the late setting and early rising of the sun, for I never ventured abroad during daylight.",
  "sample_05735.wav": "My days were spent in close attention that I might more speedily master the language, and that I may boast.",
  "sample_05736.wav": "who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitane almost every word that was spoken. While I improved in speech, I also learned the science of letters, as it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me the",
  "sample_05737.wav": "The book from which Felix instructed Safi was Volney's Ruins of Empires. I should not have understood the purport of this book had not Felix in reading it.",
  "sample_05738.wav": "He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors.",
  "sample_05739.wav": "and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world. It gave me an insight into the manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the Earth.",
  "sample_05740.wav": "degenerating, of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings. I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere.",
  "sample_05741.wav": "He was obliged from time to time to visit his correspondence on business. And one day, being under the necessity of going a long journey on an affair of importance, he took horse and carried with him a wallet containing biscuits and dates.",
  "sample_05742.wav": "because he had a great desert to pass over where he could procure no sorts of provisions. He arrived without any incident at the end of his journey and having dispatched his affairs, took course again in order to return home.",
  "sample_05743.wav": "the fourth day of his journey. He was so much incomodated by the heat of the Sun that the reflection of that heat from the earth",
  "sample_05744.wav": "Having alighted, he tied his horse to a branch, and sitting down by the fountain, took some biscuits and dates out of his wallet. As he ate his dates, he threw the shells carelessly in different directions. When he had finished his repast.",
  "sample_05745.wav": "being a good Muslim, he washed his hands, face and feet and said his prayers. Before he had finished and while he was yet on his knees, he saw a genie, white with age,",
  "sample_05746.wav": "The genie spoke to him in a terrible voice, rise that I may kill thee with this scimitar, as thou hast killed my son. And accompanied these words with a frightful cry.",
  "sample_05747.wav": "The merchant, being as much alarmed at the hideous shape of the monster as at his threatening language answered him trembling, Alas, my good lord, of what crime can I be guilty toward you, that you should take away my life?",
  "sample_05748.wav": "demanded the genie. Did you not take dates out of your wallet?",
  "sample_05749.wav": "I did all that you say, answered the merchant. I cannot deny it. If it be so, resumed the genie, I tell thee that thou hast killed my son. And in this manner, when thou wert throwing the shells about, my son was passing by.",
  "sample_05750.wav": "and now didst throw one into his eye, which killed him. Therefore I must kill thee.",
  "sample_05751.wav": "Pardon me cried the merchant. No pardon exclaimed a genie. No mercy Is it not just to kill him that has killed another?",
  "sample_05752.wav": "replied the merchant. But certainly I never killed your son, and if I have, it was unknown to me, and I did it innocently. I beg you therefore to pardon me, and suffer me to live.\" No! No! returned the genie.",
  "sample_05753.wav": "persisting in his resolution. I must kill thee, since thou hast killed my son. Then, taking the merchant by the arm, he threw him with his face on the ground, and lifted up his scimitar to cut off his head. The merchant, with tears,",
  "sample_05754.wav": "protested he was innocent, bewailed his wife and children, and supplicated the genie in the most moving expressions. The genie, with his scimitar still lifted up, had the patience to hear his unfortunate victims to the end of his lamentations.",
  "sample_05755.wav": "All this whining said the monster is to no purpose",
  "sample_05756.wav": "What? exclaimed the merchant. Can nothing prevail with you? Will you absolutely take away the life of a poor innocent? Yes, replied the genie. I am resolved.",
  "sample_05757.wav": "As soon as she had spoken these words, perceiving it was day and knowing that the Sultan rose early in the morning to say his prayers and hold his council, Shahrazad discontinued her story. Your sister, said Dinarzad.",
  "sample_05758.wav": "The remainder of it replied Sharazad is more surprising, and you will be of this opinion if the Sultan will but permit me to live over this day.",
  "sample_05759.wav": "I will wait till tomorrow, for I can at any time put her to death when she has concluded her story.\" Having thus resolved not to put Scheherazade to death that day, he rose and went to his prayers and to attend his counsel.",
  "sample_05760.wav": "Instead of sleeping, he spent the night in sighs and groans bewailing the lot of his daughter, of whom he believed he should himself shortly be the executioner. As, with this melancholy prospect before him, he dreaded to meet the Zoltan,",
  "sample_05761.wav": "He was agreeably surprised when he found the prince entered the council chamber without giving him the fatal orders he expected. The Sultan, according to his customs, spent the day in regulating his affairs, and when the night had closed in, retired with Shahr-e-Azad.",
  "sample_05762.wav": "The next morning before day, Dinerjad failed not to call to her sister. My dear sister, if you be not asleep, I pray you till daybreak, which is very near, to go on with the story you began last night.",
  "sample_05763.wav": "The Sultan, without waiting for Sherazad to ask his permission, bade her proceed with the story of the genie and the merchant, upon which Sherazad continued her relation as follows. F.N.",
  "sample_05764.wav": "In the original work, Scheherazade continually breaks off to ask the sultan to spare her life for another day, that she may finish the story she is relating. As these interruptions considerably interfere with the continued interest of the stories, it has been deemed advisable to omit them.",
  "sample_05765.wav": "For heaven's sake, hold your hand. Allow me one word.",
  "sample_05766.wav": "to bid my wife and children adieu.",
  "sample_05767.wav": "that they may not go to law after my death. When I have done this, I will come back and submit to whatever you shall please to command. But,\" said the Genie, If I grant you the time you ask, I doubt you will never return.",
  "sample_05768.wav": "If you will believe my oath, answered the merchant, I swear by all that is sacred that I will come and meet you here without fail. What time do you require then? demanded the genie.",
  "sample_05769.wav": "I ask a year,\" said the merchant, I cannot, unless, settle my affairs, and prepare myself to die without regret. But I promise you that this day, twelve months, I will return under these trees.",
  "sample_05770.wav": "to put myself into your hands.\" \"'Do you take heaven to be witness to this promise?' said the Genie. \"'I do,' answered the Merchant, and, \"'You may rely upon my oath.'\" Upon this the Genie left him near the fountain and disappeared.",
  "sample_05771.wav": "All the witnesses who had anything to say had long ago given in their testimony, and when at or near noon...",
  "sample_05772.wav": "It was defined in two faces only any signs of the eagerness and expectancy which filled his own breast to suffocation. But as these faces were those of Agnes Halliday and Amabel Page,",
  "sample_05773.wav": "He soon recognized that his own judgment was not at fault, and that notwithstanding outward appearances and the languid interest shown in the now lagging proceedings, he was not",
  "sample_05774.wav": "but vital consequence. Frederick was not visible in the Great Hall, but that he was near at hand soon became evident from the change Sweetwater now saw in Amabel.",
  "sample_05775.wav": "For while she had, Hitherto sat under the universal gaze with only the faint smile of conscious beauty on her inscrutable features.",
  "sample_05776.wav": "and glanced at the great door of entrance with an evil expectancy that startled even Sweetwater. So little had he really understood the nature of the passions laboring in that venomous breast.",
  "sample_05777.wav": "smiled as she met his eye with that curious slow dipping of redimples, which had more than once confounded the coroner and rendered her at once the admiration and abhorrence of the crowd.",
  "sample_05778.wav": "looked away as soon as possible.",
  "sample_05779.wav": "from which he had removed the ring which up to this hour he had invariably worn on his third finger. In this glance of hers and this action of his began the struggle that was to make the day memorable in many hearts.",
  "sample_05780.wav": "And to him, a full attention was being given in the hope that some real enlightenment would come at last to settle the questions which had been raised by Amabelle's incomplete and unsatisfactory testimony. But no man can furnish what he does not possess.",
  "sample_05781.wav": "the few final minutes before noon passed by without any Addition being made to the facts which had already been presented for general consideration as the witness sat down the clock began to strike as the slow",
  "sample_05782.wav": "Hesitating strokes rang out. Sweetwater saw Frederick yield to a sudden but most profound emotion. The old fear, which we understand, if Sweetwater did not, had again seized the victim of Amabel's",
  "sample_05783.wav": "with a fell and steady purpose. He found his right hand stealing toward the left in the significant action she expected. Better to yield than fall headlong into the pit one word of hers would open.",
  "sample_05784.wav": "He had not meant to yield, but now that the moment had come, now that he must at once and forever choose between a course that led simply to personal unhappiness and one that involved not only himself.",
  "sample_05785.wav": "But those dears to him, in disgrace and sorrow, he felt himself weakened to the point of clutching at whatever would save him from the consequences of confession. All strength in that tenacity of purpose.",
  "sample_05786.wav": "which only comes from years of self-control, were too lately awakened in his breast to sustain him now. As stroke after stroke fell on the ear, he felt himself yielding beyond recovery.",
  "sample_05787.wav": "and had almost touched his finger in the significant action of scent, which Amabelle awaited with breathless expectation. When, was it miracle, or only the suggestion of his better nature?",
  "sample_05788.wav": "The memory of a face full of holy pleading rose from the past before his eyes, and with an inner cry of, Mother! He flung his hand out and clutched his father's arm in a way to break the charm of his own dread.",
  "sample_05789.wav": "and end forever the effects of intolerable fascination that was working upon him. Next minute, the last stroke of noon rang out, and the hour was up, which Amabelle had set as the limit of her silence. A pause.",
  "sample_05790.wav": "Which to their two hearts, if to no other, seemed strangely appropriate, followed the cessation of these sounds. Then the witness who was dismissed, an amabelle, and the",
  "sample_05791.wav": "when Frederick, leaping with a bound to his feet, drew all eyes towards himself with a cry, Let me be put on my oath. I have testimony to give of the utmost importance of this case. The coroner was astounded.",
  "sample_05792.wav": "Everyone was astounded. No one had expected anything from him, and instinctively every eye turned towards Amabel to see how she was affected by his action. Strangely, evidently, Amabel was not the only one who was shocked.",
  "sample_05793.wav": "ever forgot, though it conveyed no hint of real feelings, which were somewhat chaotic. Frederick, who had forgotten her now that he had made up his mind to speak, waited for the coroner's reply. If you have testimony,",
  "sample_05794.wav": "Said that gentleman after exchanging a few hurried words with mr Courtney and the surprise nap you can do no better than give it to us at once mr. Frederick Sutherland Will you take the stand?",
  "sample_05795.wav": "With the noble air from which all hesitation had vanished, Frederick started towards the place indicated, but stopped before he had taken a half dozen steps",
  "sample_05796.wav": "Go!\" he whispered, but in so thrilling a tone it was heard to the remotest corner of the room. Spare me the anguish of saying what I have to say in your presence. I could not bear it. You could not bear it. Later.",
  "sample_05797.wav": "If you will wait for me in one of these rooms, I will repeat my tale in your ears. But go now. It is my last entreaty.\" There was a silence. No one ventured a dissent.",
  "sample_05798.wav": "No one so much as made a gesture of disapproval. Then Mr. Sutherland struggled to his feet, cast one last look around him, and disappeared through a door which had opened like magic before him. Then and not till then.",
  "sample_05799.wav": "did Frederick move forward. The moment was intense. The coroner seemed to share the universal excitement.",
  "sample_05800.wav": "This you will believe when I tell you that I was the person Miss Page followed into Miss Web's house and whom she heard descend the stairs during the moment she crouched behind the figure of the sleeping filmon. It was more.",
  "sample_05801.wav": "The two were alone in the grassy courtyard of the ruined castle. The rest of the picnic party had wandered away from them, or they from it. Out of the green grown mound of fallen masonry by the corner of the chapel a great May bush grew.",
  "sample_05802.wav": "silvered and pearled on every scented still spray. The sky was deep, clear, strong, blue above, and against the blue the wall flowers shone bravely from the cracks and crevices of ruined arch and wall and buttress.",
  "sample_05803.wav": "They shine like gold, she said.",
  "sample_05804.wav": "Do you want some?\" he said, and on the instant his hand had found a strong jutting stone, his foot a firm ledge, and she saw his figure, gray flannel against gray stone, go up the wall towards the yellow flowers.",
  "sample_05805.wav": "Oh, don't!\" she cried. I don't really want them. Please, not... I wish... Then she stopped, because he was already some twelve feet from the ground, and she knew that one should not speak to a man who was climbing ruined walls.",
  "sample_05806.wav": "had loved him these two years, had loved him since the day of their first meeting, and that was just as long as he had loved her. But he had never told his love. There is a code of honor, right or wrong,",
  "sample_05807.wav": "and it forbids a man with an income of 150 a year to speak of love to a girl who is reckoned an heiress. There are plenty who transgress the code, but they are in all the other stories.",
  "sample_05808.wav": "He drove his passion on the curb and mastered it. Yet the questions, does she love me? Does she know I love her? Does she wonder why I don't speak? And the counter questions, will she think I don't care?",
  "sample_05809.wav": "when we let our emotions play the primitive games with us. But always the morning brought strength to keep to his resolution. He saw her three times a year when Christmas, Easter, and mid-summer brought her to stay with an aunt, brought him home to his people for holidays.",
  "sample_05810.wav": "And though he had denied himself the joy of speaking in words, he had let his eyes speak more than he knew. And now he had reached the wall-flowers high up, and was plucking them, and throwing them down so that they fell in a wavering bright shower round her feet.",
  "sample_05811.wav": "There was no sound at all but the grating of his feet as he set them on the stones, and the movement, now and then, of a bird in the ivy. Then came a rustle, a gritty clatter, loud, falling stones. His foot had slipped, and he had fallen.",
  "sample_05812.wav": "No, he was hanging by his hands above the great refectory arch, and his body swung heavily with the impetus of the checked fall. He was moving along now, slowly, hanging by his hands. Now he grasped an ivy root, another.",
  "sample_05813.wav": "and pulled himself up till his knee was on the molding of the arch. She would never have believed anyone who had told her that only two minutes had been lived between the moment of his stumble and the other moment when his foot touched the grass.",
  "sample_05814.wav": "caught him by the arms just above the elbow, shook him angrily as one shakes a naughty child, looked him once in the eyes, and buried her face in his neck, sobbing long, dry, breathless sobs. Even then he tried to be strong.",
  "sample_05815.wav": "Don't, he said tenderly. Don't worry. It's all right. I was a fool. Pull yourself together. There's someone coming. I don't care, she said.",
  "sample_05816.wav": "For the touch of his cheek, pressed against her hair, told her all that she wanted to know. Let them come. I don't care. Oh, how could you be so silly and horrid?",
  "sample_05817.wav": "Oh, how could you? Of course, a really honorable young man.",
  "sample_05818.wav": "He didn't. He accepted it with his arms round her and his lips against the face where the tears now ran warm and salt. It was one of the immortal moments. The picture was charming, too.",
  "sample_05819.wav": "a picture to ring the heart of the onlooker with envy or sympathy according to his nature. But there was only one onlooker, a man of forty or thereabouts, who paused for an instant under the great gate of the castle and took in the full charm and meaning of the scene.",
  "sample_05820.wav": "He turned away and went back along the green path with hell in his heart. The other two were in paradise. The onlooker felt like the third in Eden, the serpent in fact. Two miles away he stopped and lit a pipe.",
  "sample_05821.wav": "It's got to be born, I suppose,\" he said, like all the rest of it. She's happy enough. I ought to be glad. Anyway, I can't stop it. Perhaps he swore a little.",
  "sample_05822.wav": "If he did, the less precise and devotional may pardon him. He had loved the girl since her early teens, and it was only yesterday's post that had brought him the appointment that one might marry on. The appointment had come through her father.",
  "sample_05823.wav": "The lover, who came to his love over strewn wall-flowers, desired always, as has been seen, to act up to his moral ideas. So he took next day a much earlier train than was at all pleasant.",
  "sample_05824.wav": "and called on her father to explain his position and set forth his prospects. His coming was heralded by a letter from her. One must not quote it. It is not proper to read other people's letters, especially letters to a trusted father from a child only and adored.",
  "sample_05825.wav": "Its effect may be indicated briefly. It showed the father that the girl's happiness had had two long years in which to learn to grow round the thought of the young man, whom he now faced for the first time. Odd.",
  "sample_05826.wav": "for to the father he seemed just like other young men. It seemed to him that there were so many more of the same pattern from whom she might have chosen, and many of them well off too. However, the letter lay in the prosperous pocket-book and the breast of the father's frock-coat.",
  "sample_05827.wav": "and the lover was received as though that letter were a charm to ensure success. A faulty, or at least a slow working charm, however, for the father did not lift a bag of gold from his safe and say, Take her, take this also, be happy.",
  "sample_05828.wav": "He only consented to a provisional engagement, took an earnest interest in the young man's affairs, and offered to make his daughter an annual allowance on her marriage. At my death she will have more, he said.",
  "sample_05829.wav": "The young man made a reverent note of the name and the interview seemed played out. It's a complicated nuisance, the father mused. It isn't even as if I knew anything of the chap. I oughtn't to have allowed the child to make these long visits to her aunt.",
  "sample_05830.wav": "but as uncomfortable as toothache all the same. He had another caller that afternoon. He, whom we know as the onlooker, came to thank him for the influence that had got him the appointment as doctor to the influential insurance company. The father opened his heart to the onlooker.",
  "sample_05831.wav": "None of us, whether children or adults, needs an introduction to Mother Goose. Those things which are earliest impressed upon our minds cling to them most tenaciously. The snatches sung in the nursery are never forgotten.",
  "sample_05832.wav": "Nor are they ever recalled without bringing back with them Marades of slumbering feelings and half-forgotten images. We hear the sweet, low voice of the mother, Singing soft lullabies to her darling.",
  "sample_05833.wav": "and see the kindly wrinkled face of the grandmother as she croons the old ditties to quiet our restless spirits. One generation is linked to another by the everlasting spirit of song.",
  "sample_05834.wav": "The ballads of the nursery follow us from childhood to old age, and they are readily brought from memories recesses at any time to amuse our children or our grandchildren. The collection of jingles we know and love as the melodies of Mother Goose",
  "sample_05835.wav": "are evidently drawn from a variety of sources. While they are, taken all together, a happy union of rhyme, wit, and",
  "sample_05836.wav": "The research after the author of each individual verse would indeed be hopeless. It would be folly to suppose them all the composition of uneducated old nurses, for many of them contained much reflection, wit, and melody.",
  "sample_05837.wav": "It is said that Shelley wrote Pussycat Mew and Dean Swift Little Bo Peep, and these assertions are as difficult to disprove as to prove. Some of the older verses, however.",
  "sample_05838.wav": "are doubtless offshoots from ancient folklore songs and have descended to us through many centuries. The connection of Mother Goose with the rhymes which bear her name is difficult to determine and in fact three countries claim her for their own.",
  "sample_05839.wav": "France, England, and America. About the year 1650, there appeared in circulation in London a small book named Rhymes of the Nursery or Lullabies for Children.",
  "sample_05840.wav": "which contained many of the identical pieces that have been handed down to us, but the name of Mother Goose was evidently not then known. In this edition were the rhymes of Little Jack Homer, Old King Cole, Mistress Mary, Sing a Song of Sixpence,",
  "sample_05841.wav": "and Little Boy Blue. In 1697, Charles Perrault published in France",
  "sample_05842.wav": "Although Perot's tales differ materially from those we now know under this title. They comprised The Sleeping Beauty, The Fairy, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots,",
  "sample_05843.wav": "Riquet with the Tuft, Cinderella, and Little Thumb, eight stories in all. On the cover of the book was depicted an old lady holding in her hand a distaff, a little",
  "sample_05844.wav": "America bases her claim to Mother Goose upon the following statement, made by the late John Fleet Elliott, a descendant of Thomas Fleet, the printer. At the beginning of the eighteenth century there lived in Boston a lady named Eliza Goose.",
  "sample_05845.wav": "written also for Goose and Vertigoose, who belonged to a wealthy family. Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth Goose, or Vertigoose,",
  "sample_05846.wav": "and in due time gave birth to a son. Like most mothers-in-law, in our day the importance of Mrs. Goose increased with the appearance of her grandchild, and poor Mr. Fleet, half distracted with her endless nursery ditties, meaning all other means fail.",
  "sample_05847.wav": "tried what ridicule could affect and actually printed a book under the title Songs of the nursery or mother goose's melodies for children on The title page was the picture of a goose with a very long neck and a mouth wide open and below this",
  "sample_05848.wav": "Printed by T. Fleet at his printing house in Pudding Lane, 1719. Price, 2 coppers. Mr. William A. Wheeler, the editor of Herd and Houghton's elaborate edition of Mother Goose, 1870, reiterated this assertion.",
  "sample_05849.wav": "and the writer in the Boston transcript of June 17, 1864 says, Fleet's book was partly a reprint of an English collection of songs, Barclays, and the new title was doubtless a compliment by the printer to his mother-in-law Goose for her contributions.",
  "sample_05850.wav": "She was the mother of 16 children and a typical old woman who lived in a shoe. We may take it to be true that Fleet's wife was of the Vergoose family and that the name was often contracted to Goose.",
  "sample_05851.wav": "but the rest of the story is unsupported by any evidence whatever. In fact, all that Mr. Elliott knew of it was the statement of the late Edward A. Cronenshield of Boston that he had seen Fleet's edition in the library of the American Antiquarian Society.",
  "sample_05852.wav": "Repeated researches at Worcester having failed to bring to light the supposed copy, and no record of it appearing on any catalogue there, we may dismiss the entire story with the supposition that Mr. Elliott misunderstood the remarks made to him.",
  "sample_05853.wav": "Indeed, as Mr. William H. Whitmore points out in his clever monograph upon Mother Goose, Albany, 1889, it is very doubtful whether in 1719,",
  "sample_05854.wav": "Boston children at that date, says Mr. Whitmore, were fed upon gospel food, and it seems extremely improbable that an addition could have been sold.",
  "sample_05855.wav": "is of about the same date as Boston's. They're lived in a town in Sussex, about the year 1704, an old woman named Martha Gooch. She was a capital nurse, and in great demand to care for newly born babies. Therefore,",
  "sample_05856.wav": "Through long years of service as nurse, she came to be called Mother Gooch. This good woman had one peculiarity. She was accustomed to croon queer rhymes and jingles over the cradles of her charges. And these rhymes...",
  "sample_05857.wav": "seemed so senseless and silly to the people who overheard them that they began to call her Mother Goose, in derision, the term being derived from Queen Goosefoot, the mother of Charlemagne. The old nurse paid no attention to her critics,",
  "sample_05858.wav": "but continued to sing her rhymes as before. 4. However much grown people might laugh at her, the children seemed to enjoy them very much, and not one of them was too peevish to be quieted and soothed by her verses.",
  "sample_05859.wav": "At one time, Mr. Scooch was nursing a child of Mr. Ronald Barclay, a physician residing in the town, and he noticed the rhymes she sang and became interested in them. In time he wrote them all down and made a book of them.",
  "sample_05860.wav": "which it is said was printed by John Worthington and son in the Strand London in 1712 under the name of Ye Melodious Rhymes of Mother Goose. But even this story of Martha Gooch",
  "sample_05861.wav": "and a girl called Bella Postick. They were cousins, and as their mothers were great friends, and constantly in and out of each other's houses, they had often been laid in the same cradle and had played and fought over their games. When they are grown up they will marry, said the mothers.",
  "sample_05862.wav": "And soon they might have been heard bewailing to each other the hardness of their lots.",
  "sample_05863.wav": "I would rent a bit of ground from the master, and then we could be married.\" Yes, answered Bella with a deep sigh, but we live in such hard times, and at the last fair the price of pigs had risen again. We shall have long to wait.",
  "sample_05864.wav": "that is quite clear,\" replied Huarne, turning away to his work. Whenever they met they repeated their grievances, and at length Huarne's patience was exhausted, and one morning he came to Bella and told her that he was going away to seek his fortune.",
  "sample_05865.wav": "The girl was very unhappy as she listened to this, and felt sorry that she had not tried to make the best of things. She implored Huorn not to leave her, but he would listen to nothing. The birds, he said, continue flying until they reach a field of corn.",
  "sample_05866.wav": "Like them I shall seek to like at what I want, that is, money to buy a cow and a pig to fatten. And if you love me, Bella, you won't attempt to hinder a plan which will hasten our marriage.\" The girl saw it was useless to say more, so she answered sadly,",
  "sample_05867.wav": "Well, go then, since you must, but first I will divide with you all that my parents left me.\" And going to her room she opened a small chest, and took from it a bell, a knife, and a little stick. This bell, she said, can be heard at any distance, however far.",
  "sample_05868.wav": "but it only rings to warn us that our friends are in great danger. The knife frees all it touches from the spells that have been laid on them, while the stick will carry you wherever you want to go. I will give you the knife to guard you against the enchantments of wizards.",
  "sample_05869.wav": "and the bell to tell me of your perils, the stick I shall keep for myself so that I can fly to you if ever you have need of me.\" Then they cried for a little on each other's necks and who warn started for the mountains. But in those days as in these beggars abounded.",
  "sample_05870.wav": "And through every village he passed they followed who warn in crowds, mistaking him for a gentleman, because there were no holes in his clothes. There is no fortune to be made here, he thought to himself. It is a place for spending and not earning. I see I must go further.",
  "sample_05871.wav": "and he walked on to Pont-Aven, a pretty little town built on the bank of a river. He was sitting on a bench outside an inn.",
  "sample_05872.wav": "And the men answered that it was the name given to the fairy that dwelt in the lake.",
  "sample_05873.wav": "and besought him not to be so mad and to throw away his life in such a foolish manner. But he only laughed.",
  "sample_05874.wav": "But the men did not know how this was to be done, and shaking their heads over his obstinacy left him to his fate.",
  "sample_05875.wav": "The island was large, and lying almost across it was a lake, with a narrow opening to the sea. K'wharn paid the boatman and sent him away, and then proceeded to walk round the lake.",
  "sample_05876.wav": "As soon as the young man had recovered from his surprise he prepared to jump into the lake and swim to shore. But the bird had guessed his intentions, and plunged beneath the water.",
  "sample_05877.wav": "The pink and white of her face reminded you of the shells of her palace, while her long black hair was intertwined with strings of coral, and her dress of green silk seemed formed out of the sea. At the sight of her, Hwarin stopped, dazzled by her beauty.",
  "sample_05878.wav": "My name is Warren, he answered.",
  "sample_05879.wav": "And she beckoned him to follow her into a second hall, whose floors and walls were formed of pearls, while down the sides there were tables laden with fruit and wines of all kinds.",
  "sample_05880.wav": "came from ship-wrecked vessels, and were brought to her palace by a magic current of water. \"'I do not wonder,' exclaimed Huorn, who now felt quite at home, \"'I do not wonder that the people on the earth have so much to say about you. The rich are always envied.'\"",
  "sample_05881.wav": "The young man gazed at her in surprise. Could any one so rich and so beautiful really wish to be his wife? He looked at her again, and Bella was forgotten, as he answered. A man would be mad indeed to refuse such an offer. I can only accept it with joy.",
  "sample_05882.wav": "When it was full she went into a large kitchen and threw them all into a golden pot.",
  "sample_05883.wav": "but it did not sound the least like that to Hwarn. There it is again, he said after a short pause.",
  "sample_05884.wav": "jump,\" she replied, but soon the noise grew louder and like cries. What is it?\" asked Warren, beginning to feel uncomfortable. Just the crickets on the hearth, said she, and broke into a song which drowned the cries from the pot.",
  "sample_05885.wav": "But though Hoarn held his peace he was not as happy as before. Something seemed to have gone wrong, and then he suddenly remembered Bella. Is it possible I can't have forgotten her so soon?",
  "sample_05886.wav": "And four men stood before him. \"'Hawarren, save us, we entreat you, and save yourself, too,' murmured they, not daring to raise their voices.",
  "sample_05887.wav": "and no sooner was the ceremony over than she turned us into fishes, as she had done to all our forerunners, who were in the fish-pond still, where you will shortly join them.",
  "sample_05888.wav": "It was at this very moment that Bella, who was skimming the milk in the farm-dairy, heard the fairy-bell tinkle violently. At the sound she grew pale, for she knew it meant that Warren was in danger.",
  "sample_05889.wav": "Little staff of apple-tree, over the earth and over the sea, up in the air beguide to me everywhere to wander free. And immediately the stick became a smart little horse, with a rosette at each ear and a feather on his forehead. He stood quite still.",
  "sample_05890.wav": "The swallow is less swift than the wind, The wind is less swift than the lightning, But you, my horse, if you love me, must be swifter than them all, For there is the part of my heart that suffers, The best part of my heart that is in danger. And the horse heard her.",
  "sample_05891.wav": "When it was the three hundred and forty-seventh night, she said, It hath reached me, O auspicious king, That Ibrahim, son of Almaty, continued. Now when the housemaster heard my name, he sprang to his feet and said,",
  "sample_05892.wav": "Indeed, I wondered that such gifts should belong to any but the like of thee, and fortune hath done me a good turn for which I cannot thank her too much. But happily this is a dream, for how could I hope that one of the Caliphate House should my humble home?",
  "sample_05893.wav": "and carouse with me this night.",
  "sample_05894.wav": "as to the cause of my visit in the most courteous terms. So I told him the whole affair, first and last, hiding not, and said to him, Now as to the food I have had my will, but of the hand and wrist I have still to win my wish.",
  "sample_05895.wav": "Quoth he, Thou shalt have thy desire of the hand and wrist also in Shalah. Then said he to the slave-girl, Ho, such an one, bid such an one come down. And he called his slave-girls down, one by one, and shewed them to me.",
  "sample_05896.wav": "But I saw not my mistress among them, and he said, O my lord, there is none left save my mother and sister, but, by Allah, I must needs have them also down and show them to thee. So I marveled at his courtesy and large-heartedness and said, O my lord, I must need have them also down and show them to thee.",
  "sample_05897.wav": "May I be thy sacrifice, begin with the sister.' And he answered, With joy and good-will. So she came down, and he shewed me her hand, and, behold, she was the owner of the hand and wrist. Quoth I.",
  "sample_05898.wav": "Seeketh in marriage my sister such in one, and I call you to witness that I give her in wedlock to him, and that he hath settled upon her ten thousand dinars. And he said to me, I give thee my sister in marriage, at the portion aforesaid.",
  "sample_05899.wav": "I consent, answered I, and am herewith content.\" Whereupon he gave one of the bags to her and the other to the witnesses, and said to me, O our Lord, I desire to adorn a chamber for thee, where thou mayst sleep with thy wife.",
  "sample_05900.wav": "But I was abashed at his generosity and was ashamed to lie with her in his house. So I said, equip her and send her to my place.",
  "sample_05901.wav": "And by thy being, O Commander of the faithful, He sent me with her such an equipage that my house, for all its greatness, was too straight to hold it. And I begot on her this boy that standeth in thy presence.",
  "sample_05902.wav": "Then Al-Ma'mun marveled at the man's generosity and said, Gifted of Allah is he, never heard I of his like. And he bade Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi bring him to court, that he might see him. He brought him and the Caliph conversed with him.",
  "sample_05903.wav": "And his wit and good breeding so pleased him that he made him one of his chief officers. And Allah is the giver, the bestower. Men also relate the tale of the woman whose hands were cut off for giving alms to the poor.",
  "sample_05904.wav": "A certain king once made proclamation to the people of his realm saying, If any of you give alms of aught, I will verily and assuredly cut off his hand.",
  "sample_05905.wav": "Wherefore all the people abstained from alms-deed, And none could give anything to any one. Now it chanced that one day a beggar accosted a certain woman, And indeed hunger was sore upon him, and said to her,",
  "sample_05906.wav": "Give me an alms.\" And Shah Razaad perceived the dawn of day, and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was three hundred and forty-eighth night, she said,",
  "sample_05907.wav": "It hath reached me, O auspicious king, that, Quoth the beggar to the woman, Give me an alms, however small. But she answered him, How can I give the ought, When the king cutteth off the hands Of all who give alms?",
  "sample_05908.wav": "Then he said, I conjure thee by Allah Almighty, give me an alms. So when he adjured her by the holy name of Allah, she had Ruth on him and gave him two scones.",
  "sample_05909.wav": "The king heard of this, whereupon he called her before him and cut off her hands, after which she returned to her house. Now it chanced after a while that the king said to his mother, I have a mind to take a wife.",
  "sample_05910.wav": "So do thou marry me to a fair woman.\" Quoth she, There is among our female slaves One who is unsurpassed in beauty, But she hath a grievous blemish. The king asked, What is that? And his mother answered,",
  "sample_05911.wav": "she hath had both her hands cut off,\" said he, let me see her. So she brought her to him, and he was ravished by her and married her and went in unto her and begat upon her a son.",
  "sample_05912.wav": "Now this was the woman who had given two scones as an alms to the asker, and whose hands had been cut off therefore. And when the king married her, her fellow wives envied her, and wrote to the common husband that she was an unchaste.",
  "sample_05913.wav": "having just given birth to the boy. So he wrote to his mother, bidding her carry the woman into the desert and leave her there. The old queen obeyed his commandment and abandoned the woman and her son in the desert.",
  "sample_05914.wav": "Whereupon she fell to weeping for that which had befallen her, and wailing with exceeding sore wail. As she went along she came to a river and knelt down to drink, being overcome with excessive thirst.",
  "sample_05915.wav": "for fatigue of walking and for grief. But as she bent her head, the child, which was at her neck, fell into the water. Then she sat weeping bitter tears for her child, and as she wept, behold came up two men, who said to her,",
  "sample_05916.wav": "What maketh thee weep?\" Quoth she, I had a child at my neck, and he hath fallen into the water. They asked, Wilt thou that we bring him out to thee? And she answered, Yes.",
  "sample_05917.wav": "So they prayed to Almighty Allah, and the child came forth of the water to her, safe and sound.",
  "sample_05918.wav": "Yes, replied she, whereupon they prayed to Allah, extolled and exalted be he.",
  "sample_05919.wav": "and with the profit he laid in daily bread for his household. One morning he went out and sold the day's yarn as want, when there met him one of his brethren who complained to him of need. So he gave him the price of the thread and returned empty-handed to his family.",
  "sample_05920.wav": "who said to him, Where is the cotton and the food? Quoth he, Such and one met me, and complained to me of want, whereupon I gave him the price of the yarn. And they said, How shall we do? We have nothing to sell.",
  "sample_05921.wav": "exceedingly unhappy. In fact, D'Artagnan, D'Artagnan we say for we must call him by his name to remind our readers of his existence, D'Artagnan we repeat.",
  "sample_05922.wav": "had absolutely nothing whatever to do amidst these brilliant butterflies of fashion. After following the king during two whole days at Fontainebleau",
  "sample_05923.wav": "The musketeer felt that he needed something more than this to satisfy the cravings of his nature. At every moment assailed by people asking him, How do you think this costume suits me, Monsieur d'Artagnan? He would reply to them in quiet sarcastic tones.",
  "sample_05924.wav": "Why? I think you're quite as well dressed as the",
  "sample_05925.wav": "It was just such a compliment D'Artagnan would choose when he did not feel disposed to pay any other.",
  "sample_05926.wav": "Whenever anyone asked him, How do you intend to dress yourself this evening? He replied, I shall undress myself. At which the ladies all laughed.",
  "sample_05927.wav": "and also to receive an exchange, d'Artagnan asked the king for leave of absence for a matter of private business. At the moment d'Artagnan made his request,",
  "sample_05928.wav": "quite exhausted from dancing. \"'You wish to leave me, Monsieur d'Artagnan?' inquired the king, with an air of astonishment.",
  "sample_05929.wav": "Anyone who had the distinguished honor of being near him could wish to leave him. Sire said to D'Artagnan,",
  "sample_05930.wav": "Ah, if I could only hold the balancing pole while you were dancing, it would be a very different affair.\" But, my dear Monsieur d'Artagnan, said the king gravely, people dance without balancing poles.",
  "sample_05931.wav": "Ah, indeed, said the Musketeer, continuing his imperceptible tone of irony.",
  "sample_05932.wav": "Therefore, at Phantom Bleu, for to do so would be useless, but with the permission of our readers follow him to the Rue de Lombarde, where he was located at the sign of the Pyl\u00f4ne d'Or.",
  "sample_05933.wav": "and the weather was exceedingly warm. There was only one window open and that one belonging to a room.",
  "sample_05934.wav": "A perfume of spices mingled with another perfume less exotic, but more penetrating, namely that which arose from the street, ascended to salute the nostrils of the musketeer. D'Artagnan reclining in an immense straight-backed chair, with his legs not stretched out, he",
  "sample_05935.wav": "but simply placed upon a stool, formed an angle of the most obtuse form that could possibly be seen. Both his arms were crossed over his head, his head reclining upon his left shoulder like Alexander the Great, his eyes.",
  "sample_05936.wav": "usually so quick and intelligent in their expression, were now half-closed, and seemed fastened, as it were, upon a small corner of blue sky that was visible behind the opening of the chimneys.",
  "sample_05937.wav": "There was just enough blue, and no more, to fill one of the sacks of lentils or aricots, which formed the principal furniture of the shop on the ground floor. Thus extended at his ease, and sheltered in his place of observation behind the window,",
  "sample_05938.wav": "seemed as if he had ceased to be a soldier, as if he were no longer an officer belonging to the palace, but was, in the contrary, a quiet, easygoing citizen in a state of stagnation between his dinner and supper, or between his supper and his bed.",
  "sample_05939.wav": "while the windows of the upper apartments were being closed and the rhythmic steps of a troll of soldiers forming the night watch could be heard retreating. D'Artagnan continued, however, to think of nothing except the blue corner of the sky. A few paces from him,",
  "sample_05940.wav": "and his eyes fixed on d'Artagnan who was either thinking, dreaming, or sleeping with his eyes open.",
  "sample_05941.wav": "But d'Artagnan did not stir.",
  "sample_05942.wav": "After a prolonged reflection on the subject, the most ingenious means that suggested itself to him under the present circumstances was to let himself roll off the sack onto the floor, murmuring at the same time against himself the word stupid. But",
  "sample_05943.wav": "Notwithstanding the noise produced by Planche's fall, d'Artagnan, who had in the course of his existence heard many other and very different falls, did not appear to pay the least attention to the present one. Besides...",
  "sample_05944.wav": "And yet, Planche fancied that, in token of tacit approval, he saw him imperceptibly smile at the word stupid. This emboldened him to say, Are you asleep, Mr. d'Artagnan? No, Planche, I am not even asleep, replied the Musketeer.",
  "sample_05945.wav": "I am in despair,\" said Planchet, to hear such a word as even. Well, I'll be damned if I don't get to hear that word! I'll be damned if I don't get to hear that word!",
  "sample_05946.wav": "Of course, Monsieur d'Artagnan. Well? Well, then, the word distresses me beyond measure. Tell me why you are distress-plancher, said d'Artagnan. If you say that you are not even asleep,",
  "sample_05947.wav": "Planchet, you know that I am never bored. Except today and the day before yesterday. Bah! Monsieur d'Otonion, it is a week since you returned here from Fontainebleau.",
  "sample_05948.wav": "In other words, you have no longer your orders to issue or your men to review and maneuver. You need the sound of guns, drums, and all that din of confusion.",
  "sample_05949.wav": "When you were there, when we both were there, a certain Arab...",
  "sample_05950.wav": "He was a clever fellow, although of a very odd complexion, which was the same color as your olives. Well, this Arab, whenever he had done eating or working, used to sit down to rest himself.",
  "sample_05951.wav": "As Wingfold came out of the room, which was near the stair, Helen rose from the top of it where she had been sitting all the time he had been in with her brother. He closed the door gently behind him and stepped softly along the landing.",
  "sample_05952.wav": "A human soul in guilt and agony is an awful presence, but there was more than that in the hush of the curate. He felt as if he had left the physician of souls behind him at the bedside.",
  "sample_05953.wav": "But at his head stood one who watched his throws with the throbs of such a human heart as never beaten any bosom but his own, and the executioners were angels of light. No wonder if with such a feeling in his breast Wingfold walked softly and his face glistened.",
  "sample_05954.wav": "He was not aware that the tears stood in his eyes, but Helen saw them. You know all, she faltered. I do. Will you let me out by the garden again? I wish to be alone. She led the way down the stair.",
  "sample_05955.wav": "and walked with him through the garden. Wingfold did not speak. \"'You don't think very badly of my poor brother, do you, Mr. Wingfold?' said Helen Meekly. \"'It is a terrible fate,' he returned.",
  "sample_05956.wav": "I think I never saw a lovelier disposition. I do hope his mind will soon be more composed. I think he knows where alone he can find rest. I am well aware how foolish that of which I speak seems to some minds, Miss Lingard.",
  "sample_05957.wav": "But when a man is once overwhelmed in his own deeds, when they have turned into spectres to mock at him, when he loathes himself and turns with sickness from past, present, and future, I know but one choice left.",
  "sample_05958.wav": "into the life I hope your brother will enter. I am so glad you don't hate him. Hate him? Who but a demon could hate him? Helen lifted a grateful look from eyes that swam in tears.",
  "sample_05959.wav": "The terror of his possible counsel for the moment vanished. He could never tell him to give himself up.",
  "sample_05960.wav": "The dwarf! exclaimed Helen, shuddering at the remembrance of what she had gone through at the cottage. Yes, that man's soul is as grand and beautiful and patient as his body is insignificant and distorted and troubled.",
  "sample_05961.wav": "He is the wisest and best man I have ever known. I must ask Leopold,\" returned Helen, who, the better the man was represented, felt the more jealous and fearful of the advice he might give.",
  "sample_05962.wav": "Her love and her conscience were not yet at one with each other. They parted at the door from the garden and she returned to the stick room. She paused, hesitating to enter. All was still as the grave. She turned the handle softly and peeped in.",
  "sample_05963.wav": "Could it be that Wingfold's bearing had communicated to her mind a shadow of the awe, with which she had left the place where perhaps a soul was being born again? Leopold did not move. Terror laid hold of her heart.",
  "sample_05964.wav": "She stepped quickly in and round the screen to the side of the bed. There, to her glad surprise, he lay fast asleep, with the tears not yet dried upon his face. Her heart swelled with some sense unknown before.",
  "sample_05965.wav": "Was it rudimentary thankfulness to the father of her spirit? As she stood gazing with the look of a mother over her sick child, he lifted his eyelids and smiled a sad smile. When did you come into the room? He said. A minute ago, she answered.",
  "sample_05966.wav": "I did not hear you,\" he returned. No, you were asleep. Not I. Mr. Wingfold is only just gone. I have let him out on the meadow since. Leopold stared, looked half alarmed, and then said,",
  "sample_05967.wav": "Did God make me sleep, Helen?\" She did not answer. The light of a new hope in his eye, as if the dawn had begun at last to break over the dark mountains, was already reflected from her heart. Oh, Helen, he said.",
  "sample_05968.wav": "That is a good fellow, such a good fellow! A pang of jealousy the first she had ever felt shot to her heart. She had hither-o since his trouble been all in all to her Leopold.",
  "sample_05969.wav": "Had the curate been a man she liked, she would not perhaps have minded it so much. You will be able to do without me now,\" she said sadly. I never could understand taking to people at first sight. Some people are made so, I suppose, Helen.",
  "sample_05970.wav": "I know I took to you at first sight. I shall never forget the first time I saw you, when I came to this country, a lonely little foreigner. And you, a great, beautiful lady, for such you seem to me, though you have told me since you were only a great gawky girl.",
  "sample_05971.wav": "I know that could never have been. You ran to meet me, and took me in your arms and kissed me. I was as if I had crossed the sea of death and found paradise in your bosom. I am not likely to forget you for Mr. Wingfold.",
  "sample_05972.wav": "good and kind and strong as he is. Even she could not make me forget you, Helen. But neither you nor I can do without Mr. Wingfold anymore, I fancy. I wish you liked him better.",
  "sample_05973.wav": "But you will in time. You see, he's not one to pay young ladies compliments, as I have heard some Parsons do, and he may be a little, no, not unpolished. Not that, that's not what I mean, but un-ornamental in his manners.",
  "sample_05974.wav": "You know all about him, though you never saw him before. That is true, returned Leopold. But then he came to me with his door open, and let me walk in.",
  "sample_05975.wav": "He hasn't got a secret like us, Helen,\" he added sadly. What did he say to you? Watch what he said to you from the pulpit the other day, I should think. Then she was right. For all his hardness and want of sympathy, the curate had yet had regard to her entreaties",
  "sample_05976.wav": "and was not going to put any horrid notions about duty and self-sacrifice into the poor boy's head. He's coming again tomorrow, added Leopold almost gleefully, and then perhaps he will tell me more and help me on a bit. Did he tell you he wants to bring a friend with him?",
  "sample_05977.wav": "No, I can't see the good of taking more people into our confidence. Why should he not do what he thinks best, Helen? You don't interfere with the doctor, why should you with him? When a man is going to the bottom as fast as he can.",
  "sample_05978.wav": "And another comes diving after him. It isn't for me to say how he is to take hold of me. No, Helen, when I trust, I trust out and out. Helen sighed, thinking how ill that had worked with Emmeline.",
  "sample_05979.wav": "It was some moments before either of them spoke, and it did not help Wingfold that she sat ploughed by a dark-coloured veil. At length he said, You must not fear to trust me, because I doubt my ability to help you. I can at least assure you of my sympathy.",
  "sample_05980.wav": "Can you tell me, she said, from behind more veils than that of lace, how to get rid of a haunting idea? That depends on the nature of the idea I should imagine, answered the curate. Such things sometimes arise merely from the state of the health.",
  "sample_05981.wav": "CHAPTER XIV It was sunset when we arrived in Rossville, and found Mr. Morgenson waiting for us with his carriage at the station. From its open sides,",
  "sample_05982.wav": "I looked out on a tranquil, agreeable landscape. There was nothing saline in the atmosphere. The western breeze, which flew in our faces, had an earthy scent, with fluctuating streams of odours from trees and flowers.",
  "sample_05983.wav": "As we passed through the town, Cousin Charles pointed to the Academy, which stood at the head of a green. Pretty houses stood round it, and streets branched from it in all directions. More gardens, shrubbery and trees were scattered everywhere.",
  "sample_05984.wav": "Rossville was larger and handsomer than Surrey. That is my house on the right, he said. We looked down the shady street through which we were going.",
  "sample_05985.wav": "and a peaked roof, and on the side towards us a large yard and stables. We drove into the yard, and a woman came out on the piazza to receive us. It was Mrs. Borgensen, or my wife, cousin Alice.",
  "sample_05986.wav": "as Mr. Morgenson introduced her. Giving us a cordial welcome, she led us into a parlour where tea was waiting. A servant came in for our bonnets and baskets. Cousin Alice begged us to take tea at once.",
  "sample_05987.wav": "We were hardly seated when we heard a cry of a young child. She left the table hastily to come back in a moment with an apology which she made to Cousin Charles rather than to us. I had never seen a table so well arranged.",
  "sample_05988.wav": "so fastidiously neat, it glittered with glass and French china. Cousin Charles sent away a glass and a plate frowning at the girl who waited. There must have been a speck or a flaw in them. The vines were as pretty as the dishes.",
  "sample_05989.wav": "The lamb chops were fragile, the bread was delicious, but cut in transparent slices, and the butter pat was nearly stamped through with its bouquet of flowers. This was all the feast except sponge cake, which felt like muslin in the fingers.",
  "sample_05990.wav": "I could have squeezed the whole of it into my mouth. Still hungry, I observed that Cousin Charles and Alice had finished, and though she shook her spoon in the cup, feigning to continue, and he snipped crumbs in his plate, he was",
  "sample_05991.wav": "I felt constrained to end my repast. He rose then, and pushing back the folding doors, we entered a large room, leaving Alice at the table. Alice extending to the floor, opening on the piazza.",
  "sample_05992.wav": "But notwithstanding the stream of light over the carpet, I thought it sombre, and out of keeping with the cottage exterior.",
  "sample_05993.wav": "The furniture was dark, the mantel and table-tops were black marble, and the vases and candelabra were bronze. He directed mother's attention to the portraits of his children, explaining them.",
  "sample_05994.wav": "dark and delicate, but to look at it made me shiver. Mother came towards us, pleading fatigue as an excuse for retiring, and Cousin Charles called Cousin Alice, who went with us to our room. In the morning, she said.",
  "sample_05995.wav": "We should see her three children.\" She never left them. She was so afraid of their being ill, also telling mother that she would do all in her power to make my stay in Rossville pleasant and profitable. As a mother...",
  "sample_05996.wav": "She could appreciate her anxiety and sadness in leaving me. Mother thanked her warmly, and was sure that I should be happy. But I had an inward misgiving that I should not have enough to eat. I hear Edward,\" said Alice. Good night.",
  "sample_05997.wav": "Presently a girl, the same who had taken our bonnets, came in with a pitcher of warm water and a plate of soda-biscuit. She directed us where to find the apparel she had nicely smoothed and folded, took off the handsome counterpane and the pillows trimmed with lace.",
  "sample_05998.wav": "putting others of a planer make in their places, shook down the window curtains, asked us if we would have anything more, and quietly disappeared. I offered Mother the warm water and appropriated the biscuits. There were six. I ate every one.",
  "sample_05999.wav": "undressing, meanwhile, and surveying the apartment. \"'Cassey, Mrs. Morgensen is an excellent housekeeper.' \"'Yes,' I said, huskily, for the dry biscuit choked me. What would Temperance and Hepsey say to this?'",
  "sample_06000.wav": "I think they would grumble and admire. Look at this!\" Showing her the tassels of the inner window curtains done up in little bags. And the glass is pinned up with nice yellow paper.",
  "sample_06001.wav": "And here is a Danish napkin fastened to the wall behind the washstand, and everything stands on a mat. I wonder if this is to be my room. It is probably the chamber for visitors. Why?",
  "sample_06002.wav": "It was Byron. And turning over the leaves till I came to Don Juan, I read it through.",
  "sample_06003.wav": "which was not the one we had taken tea in, but a small apartment with a door opening into the garden.",
  "sample_06004.wav": "and their mother was tending and watching them. The oldest was eight years, the youngest three months. Cousin Alice gave us descriptions of their tastes and habits, dwelling with emphasis on those of the baby.",
  "sample_06005.wav": "I drew from her conversation the opinion that she had a tendency to the rearing of children. I was glad when Cousin Charles came in, looking at his watch. Send off the babies, Alice, and ring the bell for breakfast. She sent out the two youngest.",
  "sample_06006.wav": "put little Edward in his chair, and breakfast began. \"'Mrs. Morgenson,' said Charles, \"'the horses will be ready to take you round Rossville. We will call on Dr. Price for you to see the kind of master Cassandra will have. I have already spoken to him about receiving a new pupil.'",
  "sample_06007.wav": "I said. Mother tried in vain to look hard-hearted and to persuade that it was good for me, but she lost her appetite with the thought of losing me, which the mention of Dr. Price brought home.",
  "sample_06008.wav": "The ham was most savoury, but cut in such thin slices that it curled, and the biscuits were as white and feathery as snowflakes.",
  "sample_06009.wav": "Cousinalis gave unremitting attention to Edward, who ate as little as the rest. Mother, I said afterward,",
  "sample_06010.wav": "I noticed how elegant their table appointments were, and I shall buy new chine in Boston to-morrow. I wish Hepsey would not load our table as she does. Hepsey is a good woman, mother. Do give my love to her, now that I think of it.",
  "sample_06011.wav": "Chapter 16",
  "sample_06012.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.",
  "sample_06013.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.",
  "sample_06014.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.",
  "sample_06015.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.",
  "sample_06016.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.",
  "sample_06017.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.",
  "sample_06018.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.",
  "sample_06019.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.",
  "sample_06020.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...",
  "sample_06021.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.",
  "sample_06022.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.",
  "sample_06023.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,",
  "sample_06024.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.",
  "sample_06025.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.",
  "sample_06026.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.",
  "sample_06027.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.\"",
  "sample_06028.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.",
  "sample_06029.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.",
  "sample_06030.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.'",
  "sample_06031.wav": "I happened to dodge a ball fired from the other side and it went through the glass. What?!",
  "sample_06032.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.",
  "sample_06033.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.",
  "sample_06034.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.'",
  "sample_06035.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.",
  "sample_06036.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,",
  "sample_06037.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.",
  "sample_06038.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.",
  "sample_06039.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.",
  "sample_06040.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,",
  "sample_06041.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.",
  "sample_06042.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,",
  "sample_06043.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.",
  "sample_06044.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.",
  "sample_06045.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.",
  "sample_06046.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,",
  "sample_06047.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.",
  "sample_06048.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.",
  "sample_06049.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.",
  "sample_06050.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.",
  "sample_06051.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...",
  "sample_06052.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.",
  "sample_06053.wav": "The place, however, muffled in convenience and decorum, constantly hummed for him with that thick irony.",
  "sample_06054.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.",
  "sample_06055.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.",
  "sample_06056.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.",
  "sample_06057.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...",
  "sample_06058.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.",
  "sample_06059.wav": "of a fall of tadpoles from the sky, as to there in the first place.",
  "sample_06060.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,",
  "sample_06061.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.",
  "sample_06062.wav": "Many instances of frogs that were seen to fall from the sky",
  "sample_06063.wav": "As to having been there in the first place...",
  "sample_06064.wav": "July 30th, 1838.",
  "sample_06065.wav": "Little toads found in a desert after a rainfall. Notes and queries.",
  "sample_06066.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.",
  "sample_06067.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,",
  "sample_06068.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.",
  "sample_06069.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.",
  "sample_06070.wav": "But a whirlwind is thought of as a condition of chaos, quasi-chaos.",
  "sample_06071.wav": "Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments. Each of its joys ripens into a new want. Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking.",
  "sample_06072.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.",
  "sample_06073.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.",
  "sample_06074.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.",
  "sample_06075.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.",
  "sample_06076.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.",
  "sample_06077.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.",
  "sample_06078.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.",
  "sample_06079.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.",
  "sample_06080.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.",
  "sample_06081.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.",
  "sample_06082.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.",
  "sample_06083.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?",
  "sample_06084.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.",
  "sample_06085.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.",
  "sample_06086.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",
  "sample_06087.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.",
  "sample_06088.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.",
  "sample_06089.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.",
  "sample_06090.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.",
  "sample_06091.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.",
  "sample_06092.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.",
  "sample_06093.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.",
  "sample_06094.wav": "full of Gasconade and bravado, but a regular, rich Don Rataplan, Santa Claus de la Muscovado, Senor Grandissimo Bastionado.",
  "sample_06095.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.",
  "sample_06096.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.",
  "sample_06097.wav": "and come and go at her pleasure. Jet and lava, silver and gold, garnets, emeralds rare to behold, diamonds, sapphires, wealth untold.",
  "sample_06098.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.",
  "sample_06099.wav": "But slowly our princess yielded, a diamond necklace caught her eye.",
  "sample_06100.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.",
  "sample_06101.wav": "After a long and tedious discourse of these six non-natural things and their several rectifications,",
  "sample_06102.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.",
  "sample_06103.wav": "because those countries which use it least live longest.",
  "sample_06104.wav": "relates of the Aels or Cades. The people are still sound of body and mind, without any use of physics.",
  "sample_06105.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.",
  "sample_06106.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,",
  "sample_06107.wav": "Most part they drink water and whey.",
  "sample_06108.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.",
  "sample_06109.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.",
  "sample_06110.wav": "Many that did ill under physicians' hands have happily escaped.",
  "sample_06111.wav": "left to God and nature and themselves.",
  "sample_06112.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.",
  "sample_06113.wav": "The devil himself was the first inventor of it.",
  "sample_06114.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.",
  "sample_06115.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.",
  "sample_06116.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.",
  "sample_06117.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",
  "sample_06118.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,",
  "sample_06119.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.",
  "sample_06120.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.",
  "sample_06121.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",
  "sample_06122.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,",
  "sample_06123.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...",
  "sample_06124.wav": "Lyman Cass gave Champ a warm birth as night watchman.",
  "sample_06125.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.",
  "sample_06126.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.",
  "sample_06127.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.",
  "sample_06128.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.",
  "sample_06129.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.",
  "sample_06130.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.",
  "sample_06131.wav": "Introduction. The humorous ghost is distinctly a modern character. In early literature, wraiths took themselves very seriously.",
  "sample_06132.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,",
  "sample_06133.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.",
  "sample_06134.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.",
  "sample_06135.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.",
  "sample_06136.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.",
  "sample_06137.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.",
  "sample_06138.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.",
  "sample_06139.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.",
  "sample_06140.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.",
  "sample_06141.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.",
  "sample_06142.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.",
  "sample_06143.wav": "The specters in classic and medieval literature were malarial, vaporous beings without energy to do anything but threaten.",
  "sample_06144.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.",
  "sample_06145.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.",
  "sample_06146.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.",
  "sample_06147.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.",
  "sample_06148.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,",
  "sample_06149.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.",
  "sample_06150.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.",
  "sample_06151.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.",
  "sample_06152.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.",
  "sample_06153.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.",
  "sample_06154.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.",
  "sample_06155.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.",
  "sample_06156.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.",
  "sample_06157.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.",
  "sample_06158.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.",
  "sample_06159.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.",
  "sample_06160.wav": "Transportation. The methods of traveling are so contrary to our conceptions and practices that I almost forbear to attempt any description.",
  "sample_06161.wav": "Their culture myth, which he has recorded,",
  "sample_06162.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.",
  "sample_06163.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.",
  "sample_06164.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.",
  "sample_06165.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,",
  "sample_06166.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.",
  "sample_06167.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",
  "sample_06168.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,",
  "sample_06169.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",
  "sample_06170.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.",
  "sample_06171.wav": "Language itself is proof of it. Many Algonquin words for East, Morning, Dawn, Day, Light.",
  "sample_06172.wav": "are derived from a radical signifying white.",
  "sample_06173.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",
  "sample_06174.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,",
  "sample_06175.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.",
  "sample_06176.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.",
  "sample_06177.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.",
  "sample_06178.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.",
  "sample_06179.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.",
  "sample_06180.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.",
  "sample_06181.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,",
  "sample_06182.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",
  "sample_06183.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.",
  "sample_06184.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.",
  "sample_06185.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.",
  "sample_06186.wav": "just as that teacher had observed her. As most of the girls present had heard Anne recite,",
  "sample_06187.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.",
  "sample_06188.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.",
  "sample_06189.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.",
  "sample_06190.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.",
  "sample_06191.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.",
  "sample_06192.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.",
  "sample_06193.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.",
  "sample_06194.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,",
  "sample_06195.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.",
  "sample_06196.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.",
  "sample_06197.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.",
  "sample_06198.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,",
  "sample_06199.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.",
  "sample_06200.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.",
  "sample_06201.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.",
  "sample_06202.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,",
  "sample_06203.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.",
  "sample_06204.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.",
  "sample_06205.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,",
  "sample_06206.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",
  "sample_06207.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.",
  "sample_06208.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.",
  "sample_06209.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.",
  "sample_06210.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!",
  "sample_06211.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.",
  "sample_06212.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.",
  "sample_06213.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.",
  "sample_06214.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.\"",
  "sample_06215.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.",
  "sample_06216.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.",
  "sample_06217.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.",
  "sample_06218.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.",
  "sample_06219.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.",
  "sample_06220.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.",
  "sample_06221.wav": "Diana is invited to tea with tragic results. October was a beautiful month at Green Gables.",
  "sample_06222.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.",
  "sample_06223.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.",
  "sample_06224.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.",
  "sample_06225.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.",
  "sample_06226.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.",
  "sample_06227.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.",
  "sample_06228.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.",
  "sample_06229.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.",
  "sample_06230.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!",
  "sample_06231.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.",
  "sample_06232.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.",
  "sample_06233.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.",
  "sample_06234.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.",
  "sample_06235.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.",
  "sample_06236.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.",
  "sample_06237.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",
  "sample_06238.wav": "that he would never willingly go into Mary's presence again. Why should he disturb his mind about such a girl?",
  "sample_06239.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.",
  "sample_06240.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.",
  "sample_06241.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.",
  "sample_06242.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.",
  "sample_06243.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.",
  "sample_06244.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.",
  "sample_06245.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?",
  "sample_06246.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?",
  "sample_06247.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.",
  "sample_06248.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,",
  "sample_06249.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.",
  "sample_06250.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.",
  "sample_06251.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.",
  "sample_06252.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.",
  "sample_06253.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.",
  "sample_06254.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.",
  "sample_06255.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.",
  "sample_06256.wav": "Percy, my husband, for God's sake fly! Armin, Armin, why don't you fire?",
  "sample_06257.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.",
  "sample_06258.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.",
  "sample_06259.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.",
  "sample_06260.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.",
  "sample_06261.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,",
  "sample_06262.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",
  "sample_06263.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.",
  "sample_06264.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.",
  "sample_06265.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?",
  "sample_06266.wav": "CHAPTER VII. LOUISE SENTS A MYSTERY. Louise Merrick was the eldest of Uncle John's nieces, having just passed her eighteenth birthday.",
  "sample_06267.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...",
  "sample_06268.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.",
  "sample_06269.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.",
  "sample_06270.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.",
  "sample_06271.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.",
  "sample_06272.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.",
  "sample_06273.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.",
  "sample_06274.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.",
  "sample_06275.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...",
  "sample_06276.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.",
  "sample_06277.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.",
  "sample_06278.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.",
  "sample_06279.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.",
  "sample_06280.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?",
  "sample_06281.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.",
  "sample_06282.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.",
  "sample_06283.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.",
  "sample_06284.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.",
  "sample_06285.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.",
  "sample_06286.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!",
  "sample_06287.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.",
  "sample_06288.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!",
  "sample_06289.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.",
  "sample_06290.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.",
  "sample_06291.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?",
  "sample_06292.wav": "You'll be captain next, I shouldn't wonder. Just oblige me with that torch again, will you? This pipe don't draw.",
  "sample_06293.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.",
  "sample_06294.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,",
  "sample_06295.wav": "You let the enemy out of this here trap for nothing. Why did they want out?",
  "sample_06296.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.",
  "sample_06297.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",
  "sample_06298.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",
  "sample_06299.wav": "were brought to act on a few strings, commanding often three octaves.",
  "sample_06300.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",
  "sample_06301.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.",
  "sample_06302.wav": "or keyboard instruments that came into use. Dance music found in them a congenial field.",
  "sample_06303.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.",
  "sample_06304.wav": "Also, it would bring you but little pleasure or renown if you should play badly.",
  "sample_06305.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.",
  "sample_06306.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.",
  "sample_06307.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.",
  "sample_06308.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",
  "sample_06309.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.",
  "sample_06310.wav": "The clavier gave promise of its destined career in the Elizabethan age. Shakespeare immortalized it and William Byrd",
  "sample_06311.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",
  "sample_06312.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.",
  "sample_06313.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.",
  "sample_06314.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.",
  "sample_06315.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.",
  "sample_06316.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.",
  "sample_06317.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.",
  "sample_06318.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.",
  "sample_06319.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.",
  "sample_06320.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.",
  "sample_06321.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.",
  "sample_06322.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.",
  "sample_06323.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.",
  "sample_06324.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.",
  "sample_06325.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.",
  "sample_06326.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.",
  "sample_06327.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",
  "sample_06328.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.",
  "sample_06329.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.",
  "sample_06330.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.",
  "sample_06331.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.",
  "sample_06332.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.",
  "sample_06333.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.",
  "sample_06334.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.'\"",
  "sample_06335.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.",
  "sample_06336.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?",
  "sample_06337.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",
  "sample_06338.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.",
  "sample_06339.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,",
  "sample_06340.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.\"",
  "sample_06341.wav": "The Peace of Righteousness.",
  "sample_06342.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",
  "sample_06343.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,",
  "sample_06344.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.",
  "sample_06345.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.",
  "sample_06346.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.",
  "sample_06347.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.",
  "sample_06348.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",
  "sample_06349.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",
  "sample_06350.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",
  "sample_06351.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.",
  "sample_06352.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",
  "sample_06353.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",
  "sample_06354.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.",
  "sample_06355.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.",
  "sample_06356.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.",
  "sample_06357.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.",
  "sample_06358.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.",
  "sample_06359.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...",
  "sample_06360.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.",
  "sample_06361.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.",
  "sample_06362.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?",
  "sample_06363.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.",
  "sample_06364.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.",
  "sample_06365.wav": "Somebody would get that worked out pretty soon, wouldn't they?",
  "sample_06366.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.",
  "sample_06367.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.",
  "sample_06368.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.",
  "sample_06369.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.",
  "sample_06370.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.",
  "sample_06371.wav": "Peter sees rose breast and finds red coat.",
  "sample_06372.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.",
  "sample_06373.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.",
  "sample_06374.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?",
  "sample_06375.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.",
  "sample_06376.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.",
  "sample_06377.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.",
  "sample_06378.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.",
  "sample_06379.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.",
  "sample_06380.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.",
  "sample_06381.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.",
  "sample_06382.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",
  "sample_06383.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.",
  "sample_06384.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!",
  "sample_06385.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.",
  "sample_06386.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.",
  "sample_06387.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.",
  "sample_06388.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.",
  "sample_06389.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.",
  "sample_06390.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.",
  "sample_06391.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.",
  "sample_06392.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.",
  "sample_06393.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.",
  "sample_06394.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.",
  "sample_06395.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.",
  "sample_06396.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.",
  "sample_06397.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.",
  "sample_06398.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.",
  "sample_06399.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.",
  "sample_06400.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.",
  "sample_06401.wav": "Pothier seems to think that property, like royalty, exists by divine right. He traces back its origin to God Himself.",
  "sample_06402.wav": "He begins in this way.",
  "sample_06403.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.",
  "sample_06404.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.",
  "sample_06405.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.",
  "sample_06406.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.",
  "sample_06407.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,",
  "sample_06408.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.",
  "sample_06409.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.",
  "sample_06410.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.",
  "sample_06411.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,",
  "sample_06412.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.",
  "sample_06413.wav": "Whoever violated it was unjust. Thus, labor gives birth to private possession. The right in a thing.",
  "sample_06414.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",
  "sample_06415.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.",
  "sample_06416.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.",
  "sample_06417.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,",
  "sample_06418.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.",
  "sample_06419.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,",
  "sample_06420.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.",
  "sample_06421.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.",
  "sample_06422.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.",
  "sample_06423.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.",
  "sample_06424.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.",
  "sample_06425.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.",
  "sample_06426.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.",
  "sample_06427.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?",
  "sample_06428.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?",
  "sample_06429.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?",
  "sample_06430.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.",
  "sample_06431.wav": "ministrant ars et natura instillante. They use cordials to keep the venom and malinity of the disease from the heart. 11. Meditation",
  "sample_06432.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?",
  "sample_06433.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.",
  "sample_06434.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.",
  "sample_06435.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?",
  "sample_06436.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.",
  "sample_06437.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.",
  "sample_06438.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",
  "sample_06439.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.",
  "sample_06440.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.",
  "sample_06441.wav": "Nomeum et Tuum, but a universal community overall.",
  "sample_06442.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.",
  "sample_06443.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,",
  "sample_06444.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.",
  "sample_06445.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.",
  "sample_06446.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.",
  "sample_06447.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.",
  "sample_06448.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.",
  "sample_06449.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.",
  "sample_06450.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.",
  "sample_06451.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.",
  "sample_06452.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,",
  "sample_06453.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.",
  "sample_06454.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.",
  "sample_06455.wav": "But the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rubazzle soon left him and went to be shepherd to his next neighbor.",
  "sample_06456.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.",
  "sample_06457.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.",
  "sample_06458.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.",
  "sample_06459.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.",
  "sample_06460.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.",
  "sample_06461.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.",
  "sample_06462.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.",
  "sample_06463.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.",
  "sample_06464.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.",
  "sample_06465.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.",
  "sample_06466.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.",
  "sample_06467.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.",
  "sample_06468.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.",
  "sample_06469.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,",
  "sample_06470.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.",
  "sample_06471.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,",
  "sample_06472.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",
  "sample_06473.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,",
  "sample_06474.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",
  "sample_06475.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.",
  "sample_06476.wav": "public prosecutor and determined jury sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening.",
  "sample_06477.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.",
  "sample_06478.wav": "Charles Evermond, called Darnay, had reason to know the usage. He had seen hundreds pass away so.",
  "sample_06479.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.",
  "sample_06480.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.",
  "sample_06481.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.",
  "sample_06482.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,",
  "sample_06483.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.",
  "sample_06484.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.",
  "sample_06485.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.",
  "sample_06486.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",
  "sample_06487.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.",
  "sample_06488.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.",
  "sample_06489.wav": "who wore their usual clothes and had not assumed the coarse garb.",
  "sample_06490.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.",
  "sample_06491.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",
  "sample_06492.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,",
  "sample_06493.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.",
  "sample_06494.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.",
  "sample_06495.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.",
  "sample_06496.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.",
  "sample_06497.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.",
  "sample_06498.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.",
  "sample_06499.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.",
  "sample_06500.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.",
  "sample_06501.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.",
  "sample_06502.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.",
  "sample_06503.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.",
  "sample_06504.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.",
  "sample_06505.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.",
  "sample_06506.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.",
  "sample_06507.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.",
  "sample_06508.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.",
  "sample_06509.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.",
  "sample_06510.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.",
  "sample_06511.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.",
  "sample_06512.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.",
  "sample_06513.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.",
  "sample_06514.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.",
  "sample_06515.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.",
  "sample_06516.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.",
  "sample_06517.wav": "An Eye for an Eye, 1879. Cousin Henry, 1879. Thackeray, 1879. The Duke's Children, 1880. Life of Cicero.",
  "sample_06518.wav": "1880. Ayala's Angel. 1881. Dr. Wardle's School. 1881. Frau Frohman and Other Stories. 1882.",
  "sample_06519.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.",
  "sample_06520.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.",
  "sample_06521.wav": "May 10, 1851. Madame.",
  "sample_06522.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.",
  "sample_06523.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.",
  "sample_06524.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.",
  "sample_06525.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.",
  "sample_06526.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,",
  "sample_06527.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.",
  "sample_06528.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,",
  "sample_06529.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.",
  "sample_06530.wav": "Her residence on the Piazzi Babadini being considered an insecure abode",
  "sample_06531.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.",
  "sample_06532.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",
  "sample_06533.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.",
  "sample_06534.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.",
  "sample_06535.wav": "And I have heard many of those who recovered speak with all the passionate fervor of the Italian nature",
  "sample_06536.wav": "Chapter 33, Roman Bandits.",
  "sample_06537.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.'",
  "sample_06538.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.\"",
  "sample_06539.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.",
  "sample_06540.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.",
  "sample_06541.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.\"",
  "sample_06542.wav": "Bravo! An excellent idea. We will disguise ourselves as monster Pulcinellas.",
  "sample_06543.wav": "and we shall have complete success.\" Do your excellencies still wish for a carriage from now to Sunday morning?",
  "sample_06544.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.",
  "sample_06545.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.",
  "sample_06546.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'",
  "sample_06547.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.",
  "sample_06548.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.",
  "sample_06549.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.",
  "sample_06550.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.",
  "sample_06551.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.",
  "sample_06552.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.",
  "sample_06553.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.",
  "sample_06554.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.",
  "sample_06555.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.",
  "sample_06556.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,",
  "sample_06557.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.",
  "sample_06558.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",
  "sample_06559.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.",
  "sample_06560.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.",
  "sample_06561.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.",
  "sample_06562.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.",
  "sample_06563.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.",
  "sample_06564.wav": "and she, a third-rate actress who had an ingenue part at a Strand theater,",
  "sample_06565.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",
  "sample_06566.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,",
  "sample_06567.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.",
  "sample_06568.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.",
  "sample_06569.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.",
  "sample_06570.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.",
  "sample_06571.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.",
  "sample_06572.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.",
  "sample_06573.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.",
  "sample_06574.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.\"",
  "sample_06575.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.",
  "sample_06576.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.",
  "sample_06577.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.",
  "sample_06578.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.",
  "sample_06579.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?'",
  "sample_06580.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.",
  "sample_06581.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.",
  "sample_06582.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.",
  "sample_06583.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.",
  "sample_06584.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.",
  "sample_06585.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. The Nizhny Protozsk post",
  "sample_06586.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.",
  "sample_06587.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,",
  "sample_06588.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.",
  "sample_06589.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.",
  "sample_06590.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.",
  "sample_06591.wav": "The scout hastened to cover the dead man's face with his coat. Alennan was struck.",
  "sample_06592.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.",
  "sample_06593.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.",
  "sample_06594.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.",
  "sample_06595.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.",
  "sample_06596.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.",
  "sample_06597.wav": "What decision have you been pleased to come to? said he. Rostov stopped.",
  "sample_06598.wav": "Decision? What decision?",
  "sample_06599.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.",
  "sample_06600.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.",
  "sample_06601.wav": "Without considering what he would do, he moved unconsciously with quick, resolute steps towards the crowd.",
  "sample_06602.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.",
  "sample_06603.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?",
  "sample_06604.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.",
  "sample_06605.wav": "You begrudged your lump of a son. A little old man suddenly began attacking Throne.",
  "sample_06606.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.",
  "sample_06607.wav": "Shouted the roast off, coming up to the crowd with quick steps. The Elder!",
  "sample_06608.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!",
  "sample_06609.wav": "Meek and flustered voices here and there were heard calling.",
  "sample_06610.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.",
  "sample_06611.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",
  "sample_06612.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.",
  "sample_06613.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.",
  "sample_06614.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.",
  "sample_06615.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,",
  "sample_06616.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.",
  "sample_06617.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,",
  "sample_06618.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.",
  "sample_06619.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.",
  "sample_06620.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.",
  "sample_06621.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.",
  "sample_06622.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.",
  "sample_06623.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.",
  "sample_06624.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.",
  "sample_06625.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.",
  "sample_06626.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.",
  "sample_06627.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.",
  "sample_06628.wav": "But I had not expected such contempt. Simanov was positively surprised at my turning up.",
  "sample_06629.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.",
  "sample_06630.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.",
  "sample_06631.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.",
  "sample_06632.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.",
  "sample_06633.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.",
  "sample_06634.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.",
  "sample_06635.wav": "I hated the abrupt self-confident tone of his voice, his admiration of his own witticisms.",
  "sample_06636.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.",
  "sample_06637.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.",
  "sample_06638.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.",
  "sample_06639.wav": "He all at once declared that he would not leave a single village girl on his estate unnoticed.",
  "sample_06640.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.",
  "sample_06641.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.",
  "sample_06642.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.",
  "sample_06643.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.",
  "sample_06644.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,",
  "sample_06645.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.",
  "sample_06646.wav": "For a while he walked the land as though he were in a dream. He looked at this and that and everything.",
  "sample_06647.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.",
  "sample_06648.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.",
  "sample_06649.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.",
  "sample_06650.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.",
  "sample_06651.wav": "It was a great hall, and it was full of richly dressed men. The fires shone on so many golden headbands and bracelets, and so many glittering swords and spears on the wall. And there was so much noise of talking and laughing.",
  "sample_06652.wav": "that at first Leaf did not know what to do. But at last he went and sat on the very end seat of the bench near him. As the feast went on, King Olaf sat in his high seat and looked about the hall and noticed this one and that one and spoke across the fire to many.",
  "sample_06653.wav": "He was keen-eyed and soon saw Leaf in his far seat. \"'Yonder is some man of Mark,' he said to himself. \"'He is surely worth knowing. His face is not the face of a fool.'",
  "sample_06654.wav": "He carries his head like a lord of men.\" He sent a thrall and asked Leif to come to him. So Leif walked down the long hall and stood before the king. I am glad to have you for a guest, the king said.",
  "sample_06655.wav": "What are your name and country?\" I am Leif Erikson, and I have come all the way from Greenland to see you and Old Norway.\" From Greenland, said the King. It is not often that I see a Greenlander.",
  "sample_06656.wav": "Many come to Norway to trade, but they seldom come to the king's hall. I shall be glad to hear about your land. Come up, and speak with me.\" So Leif went up the steps of the high seat and sat down by the king and talked with him.",
  "sample_06657.wav": "When the feast was over, the king said, \"'You shall live at my court this winter, Leif Erikson. You are a welcome guest.' So Leif stayed there that winter. When he started back in the spring\u2014'",
  "sample_06658.wav": "The king gave him two thralls as a parting gift. Let this gift show my love, Leif Erikson, he said. For your sake I shall not forget Greenland. Leif sailed back again and had good luck until he was past Iceland.",
  "sample_06659.wav": "Then great winds came out of the north and tossed his ship about so that the men could do nothing. They were blown south for days and days. They did not know where they were. Then they saw land and Leaf said,",
  "sample_06660.wav": "Surely, luck has brought us also to a new country.",
  "sample_06661.wav": "Part 2 Some Christian Subjects",
  "sample_06662.wav": "Outward forms and symbols must be used to convey intellectual conceptions.",
  "sample_06663.wav": "and of others of which we are about to speak, so that the essence of the problems may be understood is this, that human knowledge is of two kinds. One is the knowledge of things perceptible to the senses.",
  "sample_06664.wav": "That is to say, things which the eye or ear or smell or taste or touch can perceive, which are called objective or sensible. So the sun, because it can be seen, is said to be objective.",
  "sample_06665.wav": "It is a reality of the intellect, it has no outward form and no place, and it is not perceptible to the senses. For example, the power of intellect is not sensible, none of the inner qualities of man is a sensible thing.",
  "sample_06666.wav": "On the contrary, they are intellectual realities. So love is a mental reality and not sensible. For this reality the ear does not hear, the eye does not see, the smell does not perceive.",
  "sample_06667.wav": "The taste does not discern, the touch does not feel. Even ethereal matter, the forces of which are said in physics to be heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, is the force of which the physical body is made. The physical body is the force of which the physical body is made.",
  "sample_06668.wav": "is an intellectual reality and is not sensible. In the same way nature, also, in its essence is an intellectual reality and is not sensible. The human spirit is an intellectual, not sensible reality.",
  "sample_06669.wav": "In explaining these intellectual realities one is obliged to express them by sensible figures, because in exterior existence there is nothing that is not material. Therefore to explain the reality of the spirit",
  "sample_06670.wav": "its condition, its station, one is obliged to give explanations under the forms of sensible things, because in the external world all that exists is sensible. For example, grief and happiness are intellectual things.",
  "sample_06671.wav": "This is an intellectual or spiritual state, to explain which you are obliged to have recourse to sensible figures. Another example. You say, such an individual made great progress",
  "sample_06672.wav": "though he is remaining in the same place, or again, such in one's position was exalted, although, like everyone else, he walks upon the earth. This exultation and this progress are spiritual states and intellectual realities.",
  "sample_06673.wav": "But to explain them you are obliged to have recourse to sensible figures, because in the exterior world there is nothing that is not sensible. So the symbol of knowledge is light, and of ignorance darkness, but reflect.",
  "sample_06674.wav": "Is knowledge sensible light, or ignorance sensible darkness? No, they are merely symbols. These are only intellectual states.",
  "sample_06675.wav": "But when you desire to express them outwardly you call knowledge light and ignorance darkness. You say, My heart was gloomy. And it became enlightened.",
  "sample_06676.wav": "Now that light of knowledge and that darkness of ignorance are intellectual realities, not sensible ones. But when we seek for explanations in the external world we are obliged to give them in a sensible form.",
  "sample_06677.wav": "Then it is evident that the dove which descended upon Christ was not a material dove, but it was a spiritual state, which, that it might be comprehensible, was expressed by a sensible figure.",
  "sample_06678.wav": "Thus in the Old Testament it is said that God appeared as a pillar of fire. This does not signify the material form, it is an intellectual reality which is expressed by a sensible image.",
  "sample_06679.wav": "a simile, a metaphor, and is not to be accepted literally. It is not a state that can be comprehended by man. Sleeping and waking is passing from one state to another. Sleeping is the condition of repose.",
  "sample_06680.wav": "and wakefulness is the condition of movement. Sleeping is the state of silence.",
  "sample_06681.wav": "Sleeping is the state of mystery. Wakefulness is the state of manifestation. For example, it is a Persian and Arabic expression to say that the earth was asleep, and the spring came and it awoke.",
  "sample_06682.wav": "Or the earth was dead, and the spring came, and it revived. These expressions are metaphors, allegories, mystic explanations in the world of signification. Briefly, the holy manifestations have ever been.",
  "sample_06683.wav": "and ever will be luminous realities. No change or variation takes place in their essence. Before declaring their manifestation they are silent and quiet like a sleeper, and after their manifestation they speak and are illuminated.",
  "sample_06684.wav": "In regard to this question theologians and materialists disagree. The theologians believe that Christ was born of the Holy Spirit. But the materialists think this is impossible and inadmissible.",
  "sample_06685.wav": "and that without doubt he had a human father. In the Quran it is said, And we sent our spirit unto her.",
  "sample_06686.wav": "and he addressed Mary. The materialists believe that there must be marriage, and say that a living body cannot be created from a lifeless body, and without male and female there cannot be fecundation. And they think that not only with men,",
  "sample_06687.wav": "And of everything have we created two kinds. That is to say, we have created all the beings through pairing. Briefly. They say a man without a human father cannot be imagined.",
  "sample_06688.wav": "In answer the theologians say, This thing is not impossible and unachievable, but it has not been seen, and there is a great difference between a thing which is impossible and one which is unknown. For example,",
  "sample_06689.wav": "In former times the telegraph, which causes the East and the West to communicate, was unknown, but not impossible. Photography and phonography were unknown, but not impossible.",
  "sample_06690.wav": "The materialists insist upon this belief, and the theologians reply, Is this globe eternal or phenomenal? The materialists answer that according to science and important discoveries, it is established that it is phenomenal.",
  "sample_06691.wav": "The fates, who certainly all for knew of these amours of widow Wodman and my uncle Toby, have from the first creation of matter in motion, and with more courtesy than they usually do things of this kind, established such a chain of causes and effects, hanging so fast to one another.",
  "sample_06692.wav": "that it was scarce possible for my uncle Toby to have dwelt in any other house in the world, or to have occupied any other garden in Christendom, but the very house and garden which joined and laid parallel to Mrs. Wadman's. This, with the advantage of a thick set",
  "sample_06693.wav": "arbor in Mrs. Wadman's garden, but planted in the hedgerow of my Uncle Toby's, put all the occasions into her hands which love-militancy wanted. She could observe my Uncle Toby's motions.",
  "sample_06694.wav": "Quoth my uncle Toby, interrupting him as he mentioned the blind gut. In a discourse with my father the night my mother was brought to bed of me, I beseech you, quote my uncle Toby, to tell me which is the blind gut. For, old as I am, I vow I do not know to this day where it lies.",
  "sample_06695.wav": "The blind gut, answered Dr. Slopp, lies betwixt the Illean and the colon. And a man, said my father,",
  "sample_06696.wav": "and a woman. That's more than I know,\" quoth my father.",
  "sample_06697.wav": "neither at this inn or that, but, like a prodigal's candle, to light him, if possible, at both inns at once. Now, through all the lumber-rooms of military furniture, including both of horse and foot,",
  "sample_06698.wav": "and with Bridget to help her, she could not have found anyone blind or mantlet so fit for her purpose, as that which the expediency of my uncle Toby's affairs had fixed up ready to her hands. I believe I have not told you, but I don't know, possibly I have. Be it as it will.",
  "sample_06699.wav": "Tis one of the number of those many things which a man had better do over again than dispute about it, that whatever town or fortress the corporal was at work upon, during the course of their campaign, my uncle Tovey always took care on the inside of his sentry blocks.",
  "sample_06700.wav": "which was towards his left hand, to have a plan of the plays, fastened up with two or three pins at the top, but loose at the bottom.",
  "sample_06701.wav": "so that when an attack was resolved upon, Mrs. Wadman had nothing more to do when she had got advanced to the door of the sentry box, but to extend her right hand.",
  "sample_06702.wav": "to take hold of the map or plan, or upright, or whatever it was, and without stretched neck meeting it halfway, to advance it towards her, on which my Uncle Toby's passions were sure to catch fire. For he would instantly take hold of the other corner of the map in his left hand,",
  "sample_06703.wav": "and with the end of his pipe and the other begin an explanation. When the attack was advanced to this point, the world would naturally enter into the reasons of Mrs. Wadman's next stroke of gentrification, which was to take my Uncle Toby's tobacco pipe out of his hand as soon as she possibly could, which...",
  "sample_06704.wav": "Under one pretense or other, but generally that of pointing more distinctly at some redoubt or breast work in the map, she would affect before my Uncle Toby, poor soul, had well marched above half a dozen toys with it. It obliged my Uncle Toby to make use of his forefinger.",
  "sample_06705.wav": "The difference it made in the attack was this, that in going upon it, as in the first case, with the end of her forefinger against the end of my Uncle Toby's tobacco pipe, she might have travelled with it along the lines from Dan to Beersheba, had my Uncle Toby's lines reached so far.",
  "sample_06706.wav": "without any effect. For as there was no arterial or vital heat in the end of the tobacco pipe, it could excite no assentiment. It could neither give fire by pulsation or receive it by sympathy.",
  "sample_06707.wav": "Whereas, in following Michael Tovey's forefinger with hers, close through all the little turns and indentings of his works, pressing sometimes against the side of it, then treading upon its nail, then tripping it up, then touching it here, then there, and so on,",
  "sample_06708.wav": "it said something at least in motion. This, though slight skirmishing, and at a distance from the main body, yet drew on the rest. For here, the map usually falling with the back of it, close to the side of the sentry box, my Uncle Toby.",
  "sample_06709.wav": "and the simplicity of his soul, but lay his hand flat upon it, in order to go on with his explanation. And Mrs. Waldman, by a maneuver as quick as thought, would have certainly placed hers close beside it. This at once opened a communication.",
  "sample_06710.wav": "large enough for any sentiment to pass or repass, which a person skilled in the elementary and practical part of lovemaking has occasion for. By bringing a porfora finger parallel, as before to my Uncle Toby's, it unavoidably brought the thumb into action.",
  "sample_06711.wav": "and the forefinger and thumb being once engaged as naturally brought in the whole hand. Thine, dear Uncle Tombee.",
  "sample_06712.wav": "Mrs. Wadman had it ever to take up, or, with the gentlest pushings, protrusions, and equivocal compressions that a hand to be removed is capable of receiving, to get it pressed a hair-breath of one side out of her way.",
  "sample_06713.wav": "Whilst this was doing, how could she forget to make him sensible?",
  "sample_06714.wav": "was slightly pressed against the calf of his.",
  "sample_06715.wav": "Was it a wonder if now and then it put his center into disorder? The deuce take it, said my Uncle Toby.",
  "sample_06716.wav": "you will readily conceive to be of different kinds, varying from each other, like the attacks which history is full of, and from the same reasons. A general looker-on would scarce allow them to be attacks at all, or if he did, would confound them all together, but I write not to them.",
  "sample_06717.wav": "It will be time enough to be a little more exact in my descriptions of them, as I come up to them, which will not be for some chapters. Having nothing more to add in this, but that in a bundle of original papers and drawings which my father took care to roll up by themselves,",
  "sample_06718.wav": "there is a plan of Boucherne and perfect preservation, and shall be kept so, whilst I have power to preserve anything, upon the lower corner of which, on the right-hand side, there is still remaining the marks of a snuffy finger and thumb.",
  "sample_06719.wav": "which there is all the reason in the world to imagine were Mrs. Wadman's. For the opposite side of the margin, which I suppose to have been my Uncle Toby's, is absolutely clean. This seems an authenticated record of one of these attacks.",
  "sample_06720.wav": "but still visible on the opposite corner of the map, which are unquestionably the very holes through which it has been pricked up in the sentry box. By all that is priestly, I value this precious relic with its stigmata and pricks more than all the relics of the Romish church.",
  "sample_06721.wav": "every measure pursued by the Commons",
  "sample_06722.wav": "Besides numberless vexations and persecutions which the clergy underwent from the arbitrary power of the lower house, the peers, while the King was in Scotland,",
  "sample_06723.wav": "Having passed an order for the observance of the laws with regard to public worship, the Commons assumed such authority that, by a vote alone of their House, they suspended those laws, though enacted by the whole Legislature.",
  "sample_06724.wav": "They complained of the king's filling five vacant seas, and considered it as an insult upon them.",
  "sample_06725.wav": "They made a demand, the most absurd in the world, that the bishops, being all of them parties, should be refused a vote with regard to that question. After the resolution was once formed by the Commons,",
  "sample_06726.wav": "of invading the established government of church and state, it could not be expected that their proceedings, in such a violent attempt, would thenceforth be altogether regular and equitable, but it must be confessed that",
  "sample_06727.wav": "In their attack on the hierarchy, they still more openly passed all bounds of moderation, as supposing, no doubt.",
  "sample_06728.wav": "had already risen to a great height, and gave sufficient warning of their future attempts upon that order. They muttered somewhat of their regret that they should be obliged to save the kingdom alone.",
  "sample_06729.wav": "and that the House of Peers would have no part in the honor. Nay, they went so far as openly to tell the Lords that they themselves were the representative body of the whole Kingdom.",
  "sample_06730.wav": "and that the peers were nothing but individuals who held their seats in a particular capacity, and therefore, if their lordships will not consent to the passing of acts necessary for the preservation of the people, the Commons,",
  "sample_06731.wav": "together with such of the lords as are more sensible of the danger, must join together, and represent the matter to His Majesty. So violent was the democratic, enthusiastic spirit diffused throughout the nation.",
  "sample_06732.wav": "that a total confusion of all rank and order was justly to be apprehended, and the wonder was not that the majority of the nobles should seek shelter under the throne.",
  "sample_06733.wav": "But the tide of popularity seized many, and carried them wide of the most established maxims of civil policy. Among the opponents of the king are ranked the Earl of Northumberland, Lord Admiral, a man of the first family and fortune.",
  "sample_06734.wav": "and endowed with that dignified pride which so well became his rank and station, the Earl of Essex, who inherited all his father's popularity, and having from his early youth sought renown in arms.",
  "sample_06735.wav": "United to a middling capacity, that rigid inflexibility of honor which forms the proper ornament of a nobleman and a soldier, Lord Kimballton, soon after Earl of Manchester, a person distinguished by humanity, generosity,",
  "sample_06736.wav": "affability, and every amiable virtue. These men, finding that their credit ran high with the nation, ventured to encourage those popular disorders which, they vainly imagined,",
  "sample_06737.wav": "They possessed authority sufficient to regulate and control. In order to obtain a majority in the upper house, the commons had recourse to the populace, who on other occasions had done them such important service.",
  "sample_06738.wav": "Amidst the greatest security, they affected continual fears of destruction to themselves and the nation, and seemed to quake at every breath or rumor of danger.",
  "sample_06739.wav": "however ridiculous, were willingly attended to, and were dispersed among the multitude to whose capacity they were well adapted. Beel, a tailor, informed the commons that, walking in the fields,",
  "sample_06740.wav": "He had hearkened to the discourse of certain persons unknown to him, and had heard them talk of a most dangerous conspiracy. A hundred and eight ruffians, as he learned, had been appointed to murder a hundred and eight lords and commoners.",
  "sample_06741.wav": "and were promised rewards for these assassinations.",
  "sample_06742.wav": "forty shillings for each commoner. Upon this notable intelligence, orders were issued for seizing priests and Jesuits, a conference was desired with the lords, and",
  "sample_06743.wav": "and the deputy lieutenants of some suspected counties were ordered to put the people in a posture of defense. The pulpits likewise were called in aid.",
  "sample_06744.wav": "and resounded with the dangers which threatened religion from the desperate attempts of papists and malignants. Mototutes flocked towards Westminster, and insulted the prelates and such of the lords as adhered to the Crown.",
  "sample_06745.wav": "The peers voted a declaration against those two molts and assented to the lower house, but these refused their concurrence. Some seditious apprentices, being seized and committed to prison, immediately received their liberty.",
  "sample_06746.wav": "during this time of disorder and danger, offered their service to the king. Between them and the populace there passed frequent skirmishes, which ended not without bloodshed. By way of reproach",
  "sample_06747.wav": "These gentlemen gave the rabble the appellation of roundheads, on account of the short-cropped hair which they wore. These called the others Cavaliers. And thus the nation",
  "sample_06748.wav": "which was before sufficiently provided with religious as well as civil causes of quarrel, was also supplied with party names, under which the factions might rendezvous and signalize their mutual hatred.",
  "sample_06749.wav": "being distinguishable by their habit, and being the object of violent hatred to all the sectaries, were exposed to the most dangerous insults. Williams now created Archbishop of York.",
  "sample_06750.wav": "that though they had an undoubted right to sit and vote in Parliament, yet in coming thither they had been menaced, assaulted, affronted by the unruly multitude, and could no longer with safety attend their duty in the House.",
  "sample_06751.wav": "Soon we came in sight of a fleet of seven vessels lying at anchor in a large bay, several miles in extent. The sight of those seven vessels lying in the offing made a profound impression upon our minds.",
  "sample_06752.wav": "We had never before seen so many ships at one place. Curiously enough, among them was the good bark Mary Milville with her gruff mate and big-hearted master Captain Barston.",
  "sample_06753.wav": "Upon the eastern slope of the shores of this bay lay the two towns, Port Stilacum and Stilacum City, both established in 1851. A far larger trade centered here than at any other point on Puget Sound.",
  "sample_06754.wav": "and we decided on a halt to make ourselves acquainted with the surroundings. A mile and a half from the shore we found also Fort Steilacoom. It was simply the camp of a company of United States soldiers quartered in wooden shells of houses.",
  "sample_06755.wav": "and log cabins. Intense rivalry ran between the two towns, Upper and Lower Stilakum, at this time. As a result, things were booming.",
  "sample_06756.wav": "We were sorely tempted to accept the flattering offer of $4 a day for common labour in a timber camp, but concluded not to be squirred from the search for a new home site. During this visit we began seeing Indians in considerable numbers.",
  "sample_06757.wav": "They seemed to be a listless lot, with no thought for the future or even for the immediate present. The Indians in those days seemed to work or play by spurts and spells. Here and there we saw a family.",
  "sample_06758.wav": "But as a class, they seemed to me the laziest set of people on earth. That opinion was materially modified later as I became better acquainted with their habits. I have found just as industrious people both men and women",
  "sample_06759.wav": "among the Indians as among the whites. The workers, it may be said, are less numerous among the men. The women are all industrious. Should we camp here and spy out the land, or should we go forward and see what lay before us?",
  "sample_06760.wav": "After a sober second thought we realized that we had nothing to trade but labor and we had not come as far as this To be laborers for hire. We had come to find a place to make a farm",
  "sample_06761.wav": "and a farm we were going to have. Again we set about searching for clams and the more we searched the less we liked the look of things. Finally on the fourth day after a long wearisome tramp we cast off at high tide.",
  "sample_06762.wav": "and in a dead calm to continue our cruise. Oliver soon dropped into a comfortable afternoon nap, leaving me in full command. As the sun shone warm and the tide was taking us rapidly in the direction we wanted to go,",
  "sample_06763.wav": "Why shouldn't I doze a little too? Even if we did miss some of the sightseeing. I was aroused from my nap by Oliver's exclaiming, What is that? Then half to himself as I live, It's a deer swimming out here in the bay.",
  "sample_06764.wav": "It surely can't be, I responded, three quarters asleep. That's what it is, he asserted. We were wide awake now and gave chase. Very soon we caught up with the animal and succeeded in throwing a rope over its horns.",
  "sample_06765.wav": "By this time we had drifted into the narrows and we soon found we had something more important to do than to tow a deer.",
  "sample_06766.wav": "A perpendicular bluff rose from the high water mark, leaving no place for campfire or bed.",
  "sample_06767.wav": "and with contending forces of currents and counter currents, yet all moving in a general direction. It was our first introduction to a genuine tide rip. The waters boiled as if in a veritable cauldron, swelling up here and there.",
  "sample_06768.wav": "Give me the salmon caught by trolling in early summer in the deep waters of Putin's Sound. The fish so fat that the excess of oil must be turned out of the pan while cooking.",
  "sample_06769.wav": "The following day we could see Mount Rainier with its reflection in the placid waters of the bay. Theodore Withrop, the observant traveler who came into these same waters a few months later and wrote of it as Mount Tacoma.",
  "sample_06770.wav": "described it as a giant mountain dome of snow, seeming to fill the aerial spaces as the image displays the blue depths of tranquil water. A wondrous sight it was, and is whatever the name. Next day we entered the mouth of the Puyup.",
  "sample_06771.wav": "and that the current was very strong. We secured the services of an Indian in his canoe to help us up the river and left our boat at the Indians camp near the mouth. It took a tugging of two days to go six miles.",
  "sample_06772.wav": "and drag our canoe around the drifts. It was a story of constant toil with consequent discouragement not ending until we camped",
  "sample_06773.wav": "An Indian trail led up the river from",
  "sample_06774.wav": "But wagon roads there were none, and whether a feasible route for one could be found only time and labor could determine. We retraced our steps and in the evening landed again in the mouth of the river after a severe day's toil. We were in no cheerful mood.",
  "sample_06775.wav": "Oliver did not sing as usual while preparing for camp. Neither did I have much to say, but I fell to work mechanically preparing the much-needed meal. We ate in silence and then went to sleep.",
  "sample_06776.wav": "over hundreds of miles of unoccupied prairie land as rich as anything that ever lay out of doors on our way from Indiana to Oregon in search of land on which to make a home here at what we might call the end of our rope",
  "sample_06777.wav": "We had found the land, but with conditions that seemed almost too adverse to overcome. It was a discouraging outlook, even if there had been roads. Such timber. It seemed an appalling undertaking to clear this land.",
  "sample_06778.wav": "When we fell asleep that night, it was without visions of newfound wealth. And yet later, I did tackle a quarter section of that heaviest timberland, and never let up until the last tree, log, stump, and root had disappeared.",
  "sample_06779.wav": "Though of course, not all cleared off with my own hands. If we could have known what was coming four months later, we would have remained in spite of our discouragement.",
  "sample_06780.wav": "pass trail into Washington. It located in a body over nearly the whole valley and before the year was ended had made a rough wagon road out of the prairies.",
  "sample_06781.wav": "Chapter 6 of what took place between Don Quixote and his niece and housekeeper one of the most important chapters in the whole history",
  "sample_06782.wav": "but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron. Nevertheless, among many other representations made to him, the housekeeper said to him, In truth, Master, if you do not keep still and stay quiet at home,",
  "sample_06783.wav": "What answer God will give to your complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what His Majesty will answer either. I only know that if I were king I should decline to answer the numberless silly petitions they present every day.",
  "sample_06784.wav": "and therefore I should be sorry that any affairs of mine should worry him. Whereupon the housekeeper said, Tell us, Signor, at his majesty's court are there no knights? There are, replied Don Quixote, and plenty of them, and it is right there should be.",
  "sample_06785.wav": "to set off the dignity of the prince and for the greater glory of the king's majesty. Then might not your worship, said she, be one of those that, without stirring a step, serve their king and lord in his court?",
  "sample_06786.wav": "There must be all sorts in the world.",
  "sample_06787.wav": "There is a great difference between one and another. For the courtiers, without quitting their chambers, or the threshold of the court, range the world over by looking at a map, without it costing them a farthing, and without suffering heat or cold, hunger or thirst.",
  "sample_06788.wav": "But we, the true Knights Arrand, measure the whole earth with our own feet, exposed to the sun, to the cold, to the air, to the inclement seas of heaven, by day and night, on foot and on horseback.",
  "sample_06789.wav": "Nor do we only know enemies in pictures, but in their own real shapes, and at all risks, and on all occasions we attack them, without any regard to childish points or rules of single combat. Whether one has or has not a shorter lance or sword.",
  "sample_06790.wav": "whether one carries relics or any secret contrivance about him, whether or not the sun is to be divided and portioned out, and other niceties of the sort that are observed in set combats of man to man that you know nothing about, but I do.",
  "sample_06791.wav": "And you must know besides, that the true knight errant, though he may see ten giants, that not only touch the clouds with their heads but pierce them, and that go each of them on two tall towers by way of legs, and whose arms are like the mass of mighty ships, and each eye like a great mill wheel.",
  "sample_06792.wav": "and glowing brighter than a glass furnace, must not on any account be dismayed by them. On the contrary, he must attack and fall upon them, with a gallant bearing and a fearless heart, and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even though they have, for armor, the shells of a certain fish.",
  "sample_06793.wav": "wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel, or clubs studded with spikes also of steel, such as I have more than one seen.",
  "sample_06794.wav": "and it would be well if there were no prince who did not set a higher value on the second, or more properly speaking, first, kind of knight's errand. For, as we read in their histories,",
  "sample_06795.wav": "I would inflict a chastisement upon thee, For the blasphemy thou hast uttered, That all the world should ring with. What can it be the young hussy that hardly knows how to handle a dozen lace-bobbins, dares to wag her tongue, and criticise the histories of night's errant?",
  "sample_06796.wav": "for he was the most humble-minded and courteous night of his time.",
  "sample_06797.wav": "But some there are that might have heard thee, and it would not have been well for thee in that case, for they are not all courteous or mannerly. Some are ill-conditioned scoundrels, nor is it every one that calls himself a gentleman, that it is so in all respects. Some are gold, others pinchback.",
  "sample_06798.wav": "and one has need of experience and discernment to distinguish these two kinds of gentlemen.",
  "sample_06799.wav": "God bless me, said Denise, that you should know so much, uncle.",
  "sample_06800.wav": "And yet that you should fall into a delusion so great and a folly so manifest as to try to make yourself out vigorous when you are old, strong when you are sickly, able to put straight what is crooked when you yourself are bent by age, and, above all, a caballero when you are not one.",
  "sample_06801.wav": "All the lineages in the world, attend to what I am saying, can be reduced to four sorts, which are these. Those that had humble beginnings and went on spreading and extending themselves until they had attained surpassing greatness, those that had great beginnings and maintained them,",
  "sample_06802.wav": "and still maintain and uphold the greatness of their origin. Those, again, that from a great beginning have ended at a point like a pyramid, having reduced and lessened their original greatness,",
  "sample_06803.wav": "those that had a humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve.",
  "sample_06804.wav": "For examples of the second sort of lineage that began with greatness and maintained it still without adding to it",
  "sample_06805.wav": "of countless princes, monarchs, lords, maids, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians. All these lineages and lordships have ended in a point and come to nothing.",
  "sample_06806.wav": "For it would be impossible now to find one of their descendants, and even should we find one, it would be in some lowly and humble condition. Of plebeian lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the number of those that live.",
  "sample_06807.wav": "and not by spending as he pleases, but by knowing how to spend it well. The poor gentleman has no way of showing that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or censorous.",
  "sample_06808.wav": "but above all by being charitable. For by two Maravettis given with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he who distributes alms with bell ringing, and no one that perceives him to be endowed with the virtues I have named.",
  "sample_06809.wav": "even though he know him not, will fail to recognize and set him down as one of good blood. And it would be strange were it not so. Praise has ever been the reward of virtue, and those who are virtuous cannot fail to receive commendation.",
  "sample_06810.wav": "There are two roads, my daughters, by which men may reach wealth and honors. One is that of letters, the other that of arms.",
  "sample_06811.wav": "One warm day in winter, when some of the Pussy Willows made a mistake and began to grow because they thought spring had come, a party of Musgrats were visiting in the marsh beside the pond. All around them were their winter houses, built of mud and coarse grasses.",
  "sample_06812.wav": "These homes looked like heaps of dried rushes unless one went close to them. If one did that, he could plainly see what they were. And if one happened to be a muskrat and could dive and go into them through their watery doorways,",
  "sample_06813.wav": "and are awake at night. We wish it would always be warm weather, said the young mascrats. What's the use of winter?\" Hard to tell, answered one masqurat.",
  "sample_06814.wav": "who had lived in the Marsh longer than the rest, hard to tell. I know it always gives me a good appetite, though. Then all the muskrats laughed. They were a jolly, good-natured company, and easy to get along with.",
  "sample_06815.wav": "The other pond people liked them much better than they did their neighbors, the minks. The wild ducks, who nested in the sedges, were quite willing that the young muskrats should play with their children, and the mud hens were not afraid of them.",
  "sample_06816.wav": "Mud hens cannot bear minks. They say that when a mud chicken is missing from the nest,",
  "sample_06817.wav": "In spring and summer, when they can find fresh grasses in young rushes, or a few parsnips, carrots, and turnips from the farmer's field, other animals are quite safe. In the winter, they live mostly on roots.",
  "sample_06818.wav": "Yes, great pity chuckled the old muskrat. How glad you would be to see them! He smiled all around his little mouth and showed his gnawing teeth.",
  "sample_06819.wav": "He knew that the frogs were better off asleep in the mud at the bottom of the pond than they would be sitting in the sunshine with a few hungry gulls above them. The turtles were sleeping all winter, too.",
  "sample_06820.wav": "The eels were lying at the bottom, stupid and drowsy, and somewhere the water adders were hidden away, dreaming of spring. Of all the birds who lived by the water, only the gulls were there, and they were not popular.",
  "sample_06821.wav": "It is true that they helped keep the pond sweet and clean, and picked up and carried away many things which made the shore untidy. Still, they were rude, and talked too loudly, and wore their feathers in such a way that they looked like fine large birds.",
  "sample_06822.wav": "The other pond people said that was just like them, always pretending to be more than they really were. Fifteen young muskrats, all brothers and sisters, and all born the summer before, started off to look at the old home.",
  "sample_06823.wav": "where they were children together. That is to say,",
  "sample_06824.wav": "And when they were old enough to look out for themselves, five more came to live in the old nest. And when these were old enough to leave the nest, another five were born. It doesn't mean so much to muskrats to be brothers and sisters as it does to some people.",
  "sample_06825.wav": "and to hear them slap their long, scaly tails on the water when they dove. They had short, downy fur, almost black on the back, soft gray underneath, and a reddish-brown everywhere else.",
  "sample_06826.wav": "There was very little fur on their tails or on their feet, and those parts were black. These fifteen children had been fairly well brought up, but you can see that their mother had many cares.",
  "sample_06827.wav": "So it is not strange if they sometimes behaved badly. In some other families, where there were only nine or ten babies all the season, they had been brought up more strictly.",
  "sample_06828.wav": "Like all young muskrats, they were full of fun, and there were few, pleasanter sights than to see them frolicking on a warm, moonlit evening, when they looked like brown balls rolling and bounding around on the shore or plunging into the water.",
  "sample_06829.wav": "If they had all been exactly the same age, it would have been even pleasanter, for the oldest five would put on airs and call the others the children, and the next five would call the youngest five",
  "sample_06830.wav": "babies, although they were all well-grown. There was no chance for the youngest five to call other muskrats babies, so when they were warm and well-fed and good-natured they laughed and said, Who cares?",
  "sample_06831.wav": "When they were cold and hungry, they slapped their tails on the ground or on the water and said, Don't you think you're smart?",
  "sample_06832.wav": "she would say, now children, in such a way that they had to stop.",
  "sample_06833.wav": "Teasing is not so very bad, you know, although it is dreadfully silly, but when people begin by teasing, they sometimes get to saying things in earnest, even really hateful, mean things.",
  "sample_06834.wav": "And that was what made the muskrat father and mother stop it whenever they could. Now the whole fifteen crowded around the old summer home, and some of them went in one way and some of them went in another.",
  "sample_06835.wav": "for every muskrat's summer house has several burrows leading to it. When they reached the old nest at the end, all of them tried to get in at once, and they pushed each other around with their broad little heads.",
  "sample_06836.wav": "scrambled and clutched and held on with their strong little feet. Five of them said, It's our turn first. We're the oldest. And five more said, Well, it's our turn next anyway, cause we're next oldest.",
  "sample_06837.wav": "The others said, You might give up to us, because we're the youngest. They pushed and scrambled some more, and one of the youngest children said to one of the oldest, Well, I don't care. I'm just as big as you are.",
  "sample_06838.wav": "Which was so. And the older one answered back, Well, you're not so good-looking. Which was also true. Then parts of the brothers and sisters",
  "sample_06839.wav": "took sides with one, and part took sides with the other. What had been a lovely frolic became an unpleasant, disgraceful quarrel, and they said such things as these.",
  "sample_06840.wav": "You slapped your tail on my back!",
  "sample_06841.wav": "Chapter 7 Our Virtues",
  "sample_06842.wav": "Our virtues? It is probable that we too have still our virtues, although naturally they are not those sincere and massive virtues on account of which we hold our grandfathers in esteem.",
  "sample_06843.wav": "and also at a little distance from us. We Europeans of the day after tomorrow, we firstlings of the 20th century, with all our dangerous curiosity, our multifariousness and art of disguising.",
  "sample_06844.wav": "with our most ardent requirements. Well then, let us look for them in our labyrinths where, as we know, so many things lose themselves so many things get quite lost.",
  "sample_06845.wav": "And is there anything finer than to search for one's own virtues? Is it not almost to believe in one's own virtues? But this believing in one's own virtues...",
  "sample_06846.wav": "it will be different. 215. As in the stellar firmament, there are sometimes two suns which determine the path of one planet.",
  "sample_06847.wav": "Now with red light. Now with green.",
  "sample_06848.wav": "So we modern men, owing to the complicated mechanism of our firmament, are determined by different moralities.",
  "sample_06849.wav": "and are seldom unequivocal. And there are often cases also in which our actions are motley colored.",
  "sample_06850.wav": "Indeed, at times the higher and sublimer thing takes place, we learn to despise when we love, and precisely when we love best. All of it, however, unconsciously, without noise.",
  "sample_06851.wav": "is opposed to our taste nowadays. This is also an advance, as it was an advance in our fathers that religion as an attitude finally became opposed to their taste, including the enmity.",
  "sample_06852.wav": "and Voltarian bitterness against religion, and all that formerly belonged to a free-thinker pantomime. It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies",
  "sample_06853.wav": "moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.",
  "sample_06854.wav": "Let us be careful in dealing with those who attach great importance to being credited with moral tact and subtlety and moral discernment. They never forgive us if they have once made a mistake before us.",
  "sample_06855.wav": "For they get the better, even of their blunders.",
  "sample_06856.wav": "just as though, in short, they betray something thereby. Flaubert, for instance.",
  "sample_06857.wav": "I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure. Namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits.",
  "sample_06858.wav": "subtler even than the understanding of its victims. A repeated proof that instinct is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered.",
  "sample_06859.wav": "219. The practice of judging and condemning morally is the favorite revenge of the intellectually shallow on those who are less so.",
  "sample_06860.wav": "It is also a kind of indemnity for their being badly endowed by nature. And finally, it is an opportunity for acquiring spirit and becoming subtle.",
  "sample_06861.wav": "M\u00e9lis Spiritulis. They are glad in their inmost heart that there is a standard according to which those who are over-endowed with intellectual goods and privileges are equal to them.",
  "sample_06862.wav": "I shall take care not to say so. I would rather flatter them with my theory that lofty spirituality itself exists only as the ultimate product of moral qualities.",
  "sample_06863.wav": "is precisely the spiritualizing of justice.",
  "sample_06864.wav": "gradations of rank in the world, even among things and not only among men.",
  "sample_06865.wav": "And what are the things generally which fundamentally and profoundly concern ordinary men, including the cultured, even the learned, and perhaps philosophers also, if appearances do not deceive?",
  "sample_06866.wav": "The fact thereby becomes obvious that the greater part of what interests and charms higher natures, and more refined and fastidious tastes, seems absolutely uninteresting to the average man. If...",
  "sample_06867.wav": "notwithstanding, he perceived devotion to these interests. He calls it desinteresse, and wonders how it is possible to act disinterestedly. There have been philosophers,",
  "sample_06868.wav": "who could give this popular astonishment a seductive and mystical, otherworldly expression. Perhaps because they did not know the higher nature by experience? Instead of stating...",
  "sample_06869.wav": "Even an action for love's sake shall be un-egoistic. But you fools! And the praise of the self-sacrificer? But whoever has really offered sacrifice knows...",
  "sample_06870.wav": "that he wanted and obtained something for it. Perhaps something from himself, for something from himself, that he relinquished here in order to have more there. Perhaps in general to be more.",
  "sample_06871.wav": "But as sure as he found a princess, he found some fault in her. Of course, he could not marry a mere woman, however beautiful, and there was no princess to be found worthy of him.",
  "sample_06872.wav": "Whether the prince was so near perfection that he had a right to demand perfection itself, I cannot pretend to say. All I know is that he was a fine, handsome, and very kind prince.",
  "sample_06873.wav": "brave, generous, well-bred, and well-behaved youth, as all princes are. In his wanderings, he had come across some reports about our princess,",
  "sample_06874.wav": "He never dreamed that she could bewitch him. For what, indeed, could a prince do with a princess that had lost her gravity? Who could tell what she might not lose next? She might lose her visibility or her tangibility.",
  "sample_06875.wav": "Or, in short, the power of making impressions upon the radical sensorium, so that he should never be able to tell whether she was dead or alive. Of course, he made no further inquiries about her.",
  "sample_06876.wav": "One day, he lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes.",
  "sample_06877.wav": "In this way they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes. One lovely evening, after wandering about for many days,",
  "sample_06878.wav": "He found that he was approaching the outskirts of this forest, for the trees had got so thin that he could see the sunset through them, and he soon came upon a kind of heath. Next, he came upon signs of human neighborhood.",
  "sample_06879.wav": "At length he entered another wood, not a wild forest, but a civilized wood, through which a footpath led him to the side of a lake. Along this path, the prince pursued his way through the gathering darkness.",
  "sample_06880.wav": "Suddenly, he paused and listened. Strange sounds came across the water. It was, in fact, the Princess laughing. Now, there was something odd in her laugh, as I have already hinted.",
  "sample_06881.wav": "For the hatching of a real hearty laugh requires the incubation of gravity. And perhaps this was how the prince mistook the laughter for screaming. Looking over the lake, he saw something white in the water, and in an instant he had torn off his tunic.",
  "sample_06882.wav": "Now, I cannot tell how it came about, whether she pretended to be drowning, or whether he frightened her, or caught her so as to embarrass her. But certainly he brought her to shore in a fashion ignominious to a swimmer.",
  "sample_06883.wav": "and more nearly drowned than she had ever expected to be, for the water had got into her throat as often as she had tried to speak. At the place to which he bore her, the bank was only a foot or two above the water,",
  "sample_06884.wav": "So he gave her a strong lift out of the water to lay her on the bank. But, her gravitation ceasing the moment she left the water, away she went up into the air, scolding and screaming.",
  "sample_06885.wav": "You naughty, naughty, naughty, naughty man!\" she cried. No one had ever succeeded in putting her into a passion before. When the prince saw her ascend, he thought he must have been bewitched.",
  "sample_06886.wav": "The prince, meantime, stood in the water, staring, and forgetting to get out. But the princess disappearing, he scrambled on shore, and went in the direction of the tree.",
  "sample_06887.wav": "Until, reaching the ground and seeing him standing there, she caught hold of him and said, \"'I'll tell Papa.\" \"'Oh, no, you won't,' returned the prince.\" \"'Yes, I will,' she persisted.\"",
  "sample_06888.wav": "What business had you to pull me down out of the water and throw me to the bottom of the air? I never did you any harm. Pardon me, I did not mean to hurt you. I don't believe you have any brains, and that is a worse loss than your wretched gravity.",
  "sample_06889.wav": "I pity you!\" The prince now saw that he had come upon the bewitched princess, and had already offended her. But before he could think what to say next, she burst out angrily, giving a stamp with her foot.",
  "sample_06890.wav": "That would have sent her aloft again, but for the hold she had of his arm. \"'Put me up directly.' \"'Put you up where, you beauty?' asked the prince. He had fallen in love with her almost already.",
  "sample_06891.wav": "For her anger made her more charming than anyone else had ever beheld her. And as far as he could see, which certainly was not far, she had not a single fault about her, except, of course, that she had not any gravity.",
  "sample_06892.wav": "No prince, however, would judge of a princess by weight. The loveliness of her foot he would hardly estimate by the depth of the impression it could make in mud. \"'Put you up where, you beauty?' asked the prince. \"'In the water, you stupid!'",
  "sample_06893.wav": "answered the Princess. Come then, said the Prince. The condition of her dress, increasing her usual difficulty in walking, compelled her to cling to him, and he could hardly persuade himself that he was not in a delightful dream",
  "sample_06894.wav": "He turned towards the Princess, and said, \"'How am I to put you in?' \"'That is your business!' she answered, quite snappishly.",
  "sample_06895.wav": "Very well,\" said the prince, and catching her up in his arms, he sprang with her from the rock. The princess had just time to give one delighted shriek of laughter before the water closed over them.",
  "sample_06896.wav": "\"'It seemed to me like going up,' rejoined she. \"'My feeling was certainly one of elevation, too,' the prince conceded. The princess did not appear to understand him, for she retorted his question.",
  "sample_06897.wav": "said the Princess. \"'Beyond everything,' answered he, \"'for I have fallen in with the only perfect creature I ever saw.'\" \"'No more of that. I am tired of it,' said the Princess. Perhaps she shared her father's aversion to punning.\"",
  "sample_06898.wav": "\"'Don't you like falling in, then?' said the prince. \"'It is the most delightful fun I ever had in my life,' answered she. \"'I never fell before. I wish I could learn.'",
  "sample_06899.wav": "To think I am the only person in my father's kingdom that can't fall!\" Here the poor princess looked almost sad. \"'I shall be most happy to fall in with you any time you like,' said the prince, devotedly. Thank you.\"",
  "sample_06900.wav": "I don't know. Perhaps it would not be proper. But I don't care. At all events, as we have fallen in, let us have a swim together.\" With all my heart, responded the prince.",
  "sample_06901.wav": "But in the midst of gaiety his heart yearned all the while for his lost love, and his merriment was but mourning in disguise. At last the night wore on, and as he was retiring along the corridor he saw a man of about forty years of age.",
  "sample_06902.wav": "with long hair coming towards him, who, when he saw Gensaburo, cried out, Dear me! why this must be my young lord Gensaburo who has come out to enjoy himself. Gensaburo thought this rather strange, but",
  "sample_06903.wav": "looking at the man attentively, recognized him as a retainer whom he had had in his employ the year before, and said, This is a curious meeting. Pray, what have you been about since you left my service? At any rate,",
  "sample_06904.wav": "I may congratulate you on being well and strong. Where are you living now?\" Well, sir, since I parted from you I have been earning a living as a fortune teller at Kanda, and have changed my name to Kaji Sazin.",
  "sample_06905.wav": "I am living in a poor and humble house, but if your lordship at your leisure would honor me with a visit. Well, it's a lucky chance that has brought us together, and I certainly will go and see you. I want you to do something for me.",
  "sample_06906.wav": "Shall you be at home the day after tomorrow? Certainly sir, I shall make a point of being at home. Very well then, the day after tomorrow I will go to your house. I shall be at your service sir. And now as it is getting late.",
  "sample_06907.wav": "I will take my leave for to-night. Good night, then. We shall meet the day after to-morrow.\" And so the two parted, and went their several ways to rest. On the appointed day, Gensaburo made his preparations, and went in disguise, without any retainers.",
  "sample_06908.wav": "to call upon Sazan, who met him at the porch of his house, and said, \"'This is a great honour. My Lord Ganzaburo is indeed welcome. My house is very mean, but let me invite your lordship to come into an inner chamber.'\"",
  "sample_06909.wav": "Pray, replied Gonzaburo, don't make any ceremony for me. Don't put yourself to any trouble on my account. And so he passed in, and Sazan called to his wife to prepare wine and condiments, and they began to feast.",
  "sample_06910.wav": "At last Gonzaburo, looking sazun in the face, said, \"'There is a service which I want you to render me. A very secret service. But as if you were to refuse me I should be put to shame. Before I tell you what that service is...\"",
  "sample_06911.wav": "\"'Well, then,' said Gonzaburo, greatly pleased, and drawing ten rios from his bosom. \"'This is but a small present to make to you on my first visit, but pray accept it.' \"'No, indeed, I don't know what your lordship wishes of me.'\"",
  "sample_06912.wav": "how he had first met her and fallen in love with her at the Atsuma Bridge, how Chokichi had introduced her to him at the teahouse at Oji, and then when she fell ill and he wanted to see her again, instead of bringing her to him, had only given him good advice.",
  "sample_06913.wav": "And so Gonzaburo drew a lamentable picture of his state of despair. Sazan listened patiently to his story, and, after reflecting for a while, replied, Well, sir, it's not a difficult matter to set right.",
  "sample_06914.wav": "When Gonzaburo heard this he felt greatly relieved and, recommending Sazen to do his best in the matter, took his leave and returned home. That very night Sazen, after thinking over all that Gonzaburo had told him, was taken",
  "sample_06915.wav": "laid his plans accordingly, and went off to the house of Kihachi, the ette chief, and told him the commission with which he had been entrusted. Kihachi was, of course, greatly astonished, and said, Some time ago, sir, Chokichi came here.",
  "sample_06916.wav": "and said that my lord Gonsaburou, having been rebuked by his family for his profligate behavior, had determined to break off his connexion with my daughter. Of course I knew that a daughter of an etta was no fitting match for a nobleman.",
  "sample_06917.wav": "So when Chokichi came and told me the errand upon which he had been sent, I had no alternative but to announce to my daughter that she must give up all thought of his lordship. Since that time she has been fretting and pining and starving for love.",
  "sample_06918.wav": "But when I tell her what you have just said, how glad and happy she will be. Let me go and talk to her at once.\"",
  "sample_06919.wav": "Well, at any rate, I have some news for you that will make you happy. A messenger has come from my lord Gensaburo, for whom your heart yearns. At this Okoyo, who had been crouching down like a drooping flower, gave a great start and cried out. Is that really true?\"",
  "sample_06920.wav": "It is Chokuchi who has been throwing obstacles in the way. At last his lordship has secretly sent a man called Kaji Sazen, a fortune teller, to arrange an interview between you. So now, my child, you may cheer up.\"",
  "sample_06921.wav": "and go to meet your lover as soon as you please.\" When Okoyo heard this, she was so happy that she thought it must all be a dream, and doubted her own senses. Hihachi in the meanwhile rejoined Sazan in the other room. End",
  "sample_06922.wav": "After telling him of the joy with which his daughter had heard the news, put before him wine and other delicacies. \"'I think,' said Sazan, \"'that the best way would be for Okoyo to live secretly in my Lord Ganzaburo's house.'",
  "sample_06923.wav": "But as it will never do for all the world to know of it, it must be managed very quietly. And further, when I get home, I must think out some plan to lull the suspicions of that fellow Chokichi, and let you know my idea by letter.",
  "sample_06924.wav": "Meanwhile, Okoyo had better come home with me tonight. Although she is so terribly out of spirits now, she shall meet Gensaburo the day after tomorrow. Hihachi reported this to Okoyo, and as her pining for Gensaburo was the only cause of her sickness, she was not able to come home. She was so terribly out of spirits now, she shall meet Gensaburo the day after tomorrow.",
  "sample_06925.wav": "She recovered her spirits at once, and, seeing that she would go with Sazen immediately, joyfully made her preparations. Then Sazen, having once more warned Kiyachi to keep the matter secret from Chokichi, and to act upon the letter which he should send him.",
  "sample_06926.wav": "returned home, taking with him Okoyo, and after Okoyo had bathed and dressed her hair, and painted herself and put on beautiful clothes, she came out looking so lovely that no princes in the land could vie with her. and Sazen when he saw her.",
  "sample_06927.wav": "said to himself that it was no wonder that Ginzaburo had fallen in love with her. Then, as it was getting late, he advised her to go to rest, and after showing her to her apartments went to his own room and wrote his letter to Kiyachi.",
  "sample_06928.wav": "containing the scheme which he had devised. When Ki-Hachi received his instructions he was filled with admiration at Sazan's ingenuity, and putting on an appearance of great alarm and agitation, he was able to do so without",
  "sample_06929.wav": "went off immediately to call on Chokichi and said to him, \"'O Master Chokichi, such a terrible thing has happened. Pray let me tell you all about it.' \"'Indeed, what can it be?' \"'O, sir,' answered Kiyachi.\"",
  "sample_06930.wav": "pretending to wipe away his tears. My daughter Okoyo, mourning over her separation from my lord Gensaburo, at first refused all sustenance and remained nursing her sorrows until, last night, her woman's heart failing to bear up against her great grief, she was killed.",
  "sample_06931.wav": "He took a resolve after this not to misinterpret her words, even when Miss Stackpole appeared to strike the personal note most strongly. He bethought himself that persons, in her view, were simple and homogenous organisms.",
  "sample_06932.wav": "to deal with her in strict reciprocity. He carried out his resolve with a great deal of tact, and the young lady found in renewed contact with him, no obstacle to the exercise of her genius for unshrinking inquiry.",
  "sample_06933.wav": "the general application of her confidence. Her situation at Garden Court, therefore, appreciated as we have seen her to be by Isabel, and full of appreciation herself of that free play of intelligence.",
  "sample_06934.wav": "She presently discovered in truth that this obligation was of the lightest, and that Mrs. Touchett cared very little how Miss Stackpole behaved. Mrs. Touchett had defined her to Isabel.",
  "sample_06935.wav": "as both an adventurous and a bore. Adventurists usually giving one more of a thrill. She had expressed some surprise at her nieces having selected such a friend.",
  "sample_06936.wav": "yet had immediately added that she knew Isabel's friends were her own affair, and that she had never undertaken to like them all or to restrict the girl to those she liked.",
  "sample_06937.wav": "My dear, you'd have a very small society,\" Mrs. Touchett frankly admitted, and I don't think I like any man or woman well enough to recommend them to you. When it comes to recommending, it's a serious affair.",
  "sample_06938.wav": "I don't like Miss Stackpole. Everything about her displeases me. She talks so much too loud and looks at one as if one wanted to look at her. Which one doesn't?",
  "sample_06939.wav": "I'm sure she has lived all her life in a boarding house, and I detest the manners and the liberties of such places. If you ask me if I prefer my own manners, which you doubtless think very bad, I tell you that I prefer them immensely.",
  "sample_06940.wav": "and she detests me for detesting it.",
  "sample_06941.wav": "Mrs. Touchett was right in guessing that Henrietta disapproved of her, but she had not quite put her finger on the reason. A day or two after Miss Stackpole's arrival,",
  "sample_06942.wav": "which excited a vein of counter-argument on the part of the correspondent of the interviewer, who in the exercise of her profession had acquainted herself in the Western world with every form of caravansery.",
  "sample_06943.wav": "Ralph, with his experimental geniality, suggested, by way of healing the breach, that the truth lay between the two extremes, and that the establishments in question ought to be described as vermidlin.",
  "sample_06944.wav": "This contribution to the discussion, however, Ms. Stackpole rejected with scorn. Middling, indeed! If they were not the best in the world, they were the worst. But there was nothing middling about an American hotel.",
  "sample_06945.wav": "I like to be treated as an American lady.\" \"'Poor American ladies!' cried Mrs. Touchett with a laugh. \"'They're the slaves of slaves.' \"'They're the companions of free men,' Henrietta retorted.",
  "sample_06946.wav": "They're the companions of their servants. The Irish chambermaid and the negro waiter, they share their work. Do you call the domestics in an American household slaves?\" Miss Stackpole inquired.",
  "sample_06947.wav": "If that's the way you desire to treat them, no wonder you don't like America. If you've got good servants, you're miserable, Mrs. Touchett serenely said. They're very bad in America, but I've five perfect ones in Florence.",
  "sample_06948.wav": "I don't see what you want with five. Henrietta couldn't help observing. I don't think I should like to see five persons surrounding me in that menial position.",
  "sample_06949.wav": "Should you like me better if I were your butler, dear?\" Her husband asked. I don't think I should. You wouldn't at all have the tenue. The companions of free men. I like that, Miss Stackpole, said Ralph.",
  "sample_06950.wav": "It's a beautiful description. When I said free men I didn't mean you, sir.\" And this was the only reward that Ralph got for his compliment. Miss Stackpole was baffled.",
  "sample_06951.wav": "which she privately judged to be a mysterious survival of feudalism. It was perhaps because her mind was oppressed with this image that she suffered some days to elapse before she took occasion to say to Isabel,",
  "sample_06952.wav": "My dear friend, I wonder if you're growing faithless. Faithless? Faithless to you, Henrietta? No, that would be a great pain, but it's not that. Faithless to my country, then?",
  "sample_06953.wav": "That I hope will never be. When I wrote to you from Liverpool, I said I had something particular to tell you. You've never asked me what it is. Is it because you've suspected? Suspected what?",
  "sample_06954.wav": "You don't ask that right as if you thought it important. You're changed. You're thinking of other things Tell me what you mean, and I'll think of that Will you really think of it? That's what I wish to be sure of",
  "sample_06955.wav": "\"'I've not much control of my thoughts, but I'll do my best,' said Isabelle.\" Henrietta gazed at her in silence for a period which tried Isabelle's patience, so that our heroine added at last,",
  "sample_06956.wav": "Isabel responded, You say that right. I had a good deal of talk with him. He has come after you. Did he tell you so? No, he told me nothing. That's how I knew it, said Henrietta cleverly.",
  "sample_06957.wav": "He said very little about you, but I spoke of you a good deal.\" Isabelle waited. At the mention of Mr. Goodwood's name, she had turned a little pale. I'm very sorry you did that, she observed at last.",
  "sample_06958.wav": "I could have talked a long time to such a listener. He was so quiet, so intense. He drank it all in. What did you say about me? Isabel asked. I said you were on the whole the finest creature I know.",
  "sample_06959.wav": "while I talked. I never saw an ugly man look so handsome.\" He's very simple-minded,\" said Isabelle, and he's not so ugly. There's nothing so simplifying as a grand passion.",
  "sample_06960.wav": "It's not a grand passion. I'm very sure it's not that.\" \"'You don't say that as if you were sure.'\" Isabelle gave rather a cold smile. I shall say it better to Mr. Goodwood himself.",
  "sample_06961.wav": "In the centre of West Lynn stood two houses adjoining each other, one large, the other much smaller. The large one was the Carlisle residence, and the small one was devoted to the Carlisle offices. The name of Carlisle bore a lofty standing in the county.",
  "sample_06962.wav": "The first Mrs. Carlisle having been Mr. Davidson's sister. She had died and left one child. The second Mrs. Carlisle died when her son was born, Archibald, and his half-sister reared him, loved him, and ruled him.",
  "sample_06963.wav": "With an iron hand she liked to rule him now, in great things as in small, just as she had done in the days of his babyhood. And Archibald generally submitted, for the force of habit is strong. She was a woman of strong sense.",
  "sample_06964.wav": "was left equally divided between Cornelia and Archibald. Archibald was no blood relation to him, but he loved the open-hearted boy better than his niece Cornelia. Of Mr. Carlisle's property, a small portion only was bequeathed to his daughter.",
  "sample_06965.wav": "the rest to his son, and in this, perhaps, there was justice, since the twenty thousand pounds brought to Mr. Carlyle by his second wife had been chiefly instrumental in the accumulation of his large fortune. Miss Carlyle, or as she was called in town, Miss Corny.",
  "sample_06966.wav": "had never married. It was pretty certain she never would. People thought that her intense love of her young brother kept her single, for it was not likely that the daughter of the rich Mr. Carlisle had wanted for offers. Other maidens confessed to soft and tender impressions.",
  "sample_06967.wav": "Not so, Miss Carlyle. All who had approached her with the lovelorn tale she sent quickly to the right about. Mr. Carlyle was seated in his own private room in his office the morning after his return from town. His confidential clerk and manager stood near him.",
  "sample_06968.wav": "It was Mr. Dill, a little, meek-looking man with a bald head. He was on the rolls, had been admitted years and years ago, but he had never set up for himself. Perhaps he deemed the post of head manager in the office of Carlisle and Davidson",
  "sample_06969.wav": "with its substantial salary sufficient for his ambition, and manager he had been to them when the present Mr. Carlisle was in long petticoats. He was a single man, and occupied handsome apartments near.",
  "sample_06970.wav": "Here he saw clients when Mr. Carlisle was out or engaged, and here he issued private orders. A little window, not larger than a pane of glass, looked out from the clerk's office. They called it Old Dill's Peephole and wished it anywhere else.",
  "sample_06971.wav": "for his spectacles might be discerned at it more frequently than was agreeable. The old gentleman had a desk also in their office, and there he frequently sat. He was sitting there, in state, the same morning, keeping a sharp lookout around him,",
  "sample_06972.wav": "when the door timidly opened and the pretty face of Barbara Hare appeared at it, rosy with blushes. Can I see Mr. Carlisle? Mr. Dill rose from his seat and shook hands with her. She drew him into the passage and he closed the door. Perhaps he felt surprised.",
  "sample_06973.wav": "Presently, Miss Barbara, he is engaged just now. The justices are with him. The justices uttered Barbara in alarm, and Papa won. Whatever shall I do? He must not see me. I would not have him see me here for the world. An ominous sound of talking.",
  "sample_06974.wav": "The justices were evidently coming forth. Mr. Dill laid hold of Barbara, whisked her through the clerk's room, not daring to take her the other way, lest he should encounter them and shut her in his own. What the plague brought Papa here at this moment, thought Barbara, whose face was crimson.",
  "sample_06975.wav": "who was not well enough to come herself. It is a little private matter that she does not wish Papa to know of.\" Child answered the manager, A lawyer receives visits from many people, and it is not the place of those about him to think. He opened the doors he spoke,",
  "sample_06976.wav": "ushered her into the presence of Mr. Carlisle and left her. The latter rose in astonishment. You must regard me as a client and pardon my intrusion,\" said Barbara with a forced laugh to hide her agitation. I'm here on the part of Mama.",
  "sample_06977.wav": "Mr. Dill shut me into his room.\" Mr. Carlyle motioned to Barbara to seat herself, then resumed his own seat beside his table. Barbara could not help noticing how different his manners were in his office from his evening manners when he was off duty.",
  "sample_06978.wav": "She broke off with a look of dread. It would be\u2014it might be death.\" \"'It is quite impossible,' calmly replied Mr. Carlyle. \"'The doors are double doors. Did you notice that they were?' Nevertheless she left her chair and stood close to Mr. Carlyle.",
  "sample_06979.wav": "resting her hand upon the table. He rose, of course. \"'Richard is here.' \"'Richard?' repeated Mr. Carlyle. \"'At West Lynn.' \"'He appeared at the house last night in disguise, and made signs to me from the grove of trees. You may imagine my alarm.'",
  "sample_06980.wav": "He has been in London all this while, half-starving, working\u2014I feel ashamed to mention it to you\u2014in a stable-yard, and oh, Archibald, he says he is innocent!\" Mr. Carlyle made no reply to this. He probably had no faith in the assertion.",
  "sample_06981.wav": "Sit down, Barbara,\" he said, drawing her chair closer. Barbara sat down again, but her manner was hurried and nervous. Is it quite sure that no stranger will be coming in? It would look so peculiar to see me here. But Mama was too unwell to come herself.",
  "sample_06982.wav": "This room is sacred from the intrusion of strangers. What of Richard? He says that he was not in the cottage at the time the murder was committed, that the person who really did it was a man of the name of Thorn.\" What Thorn? asked Mr. Carlyle.",
  "sample_06983.wav": "suppressing all signs of incredulity. I don't know. A friend of Affy's, he said. Archibald, he swore to it, in the most solemn manner, and I believe, as truly that I am now repeating it to you, that he was speaking the truth.",
  "sample_06984.wav": "I want you to see Richard if possible. He is coming to the same place tonight. If he can tell his own tale to you, perhaps you may find out a way by which his innocence may be made manifest. You are so clever. You can do anything.\" Mr. Carlyle smiled.",
  "sample_06985.wav": "Not quite anything, Barbara. Was this the porpet of Richard's visit, to say this? Oh, no! He thinks it is of no use to say it, for nobody would believe him against the evidence. He came to ask for a hundred pounds.",
  "sample_06986.wav": "if he can have that sum. Mama has sent me to you. She has not the money by her, and she dare not ask Papa for it, as it is for Richard. She bade me say that if you will kindly oblige her with the money today, she will arrange with you about the repayment.",
  "sample_06987.wav": "Still, if he is to be in the Grove to-night, I may as well be there also. What disguise is he in? A farm, laborers, the best he could adopt about here, with large black whiskers. He is stopping about three miles off, he said.",
  "sample_06988.wav": "in some obscure hiding place. And now,\" continued Barbara, \"'I want you to advise me, had I better inform Mama that Richard is here or not.'\"",
  "sample_06989.wav": "I should have premised that I have not yet told Mama it is Richard himself who is here, but that he has sent a messenger to beg for this money. Would it be advisable to acquaint her? Why should you not? I think you ought to do so. Then I will.",
  "sample_06990.wav": "Richard also wishes for an interview. It is only natural. Mrs. Hare must be thankful to hear so far that he is safe. I never saw anything like it, returned Barbara. The change is akin to magic. She says it has put life into her anew. And now for the last thing.",
  "sample_06991.wav": "earnest now or you're fooling. The first speaker answers by some formula or as a separation as",
  "sample_06992.wav": "True as I live or hope I'll die if it isn't so, or simply hope I'll die.",
  "sample_06993.wav": "Hope to die if I don't. The speaker drawing with forefinger across the throat from ear to ear.",
  "sample_06994.wav": "First boy, on a bright. Second boy, hope to die. First boy, cut your throat. Second boy draws finger across throat.",
  "sample_06995.wav": "Certain, True, Black and Blue. A variant of the first line, certain and true.",
  "sample_06996.wav": "or the statement would be made and after it had been taken and believed the words over the left would be added.",
  "sample_06997.wav": "It shall have a bit. Ohio. Challenge. To stump another boy to do a thing is considered as putting a certain obligation on him to perform the action indicated.",
  "sample_06998.wav": "Sometimes it is to jump a certain distance, sometimes to skate out on thin ice.",
  "sample_06999.wav": "Once in Ohio several lads were collected together about a spring. One of them drew a pail of fresh water and by chance brought up a small live fish.",
  "sample_07000.wav": "The boys took the stump, one quickly cut up the unfortunate little animal, and each boy swallowed a bit. Often the dear is to eat some very untoothsome morsel.",
  "sample_07001.wav": "When the paper is decayed, you will find your wish in its place.",
  "sample_07002.wav": "After all, or collected the paper is secretly buried face downward and then dug up after two or three months when money is sometimes found under it.",
  "sample_07003.wav": "and the one who calls first is to receive a gift from the other.",
  "sample_07004.wav": "they will quarrel. Children avert this catastrophe by exclaiming bread and butter, which is a counter charm. On the other hand, if they say pepper and salt, the quarrel is made doubly certain.",
  "sample_07005.wav": "in country towns when girls are walking with young men.",
  "sample_07006.wav": "and as a token of indifference. In such a case one girl will cast a meaning look on her companion as much as to say he does not care for you. To use the local phrase it would be said, So-and-so is mad with naming the girl.",
  "sample_07007.wav": "I think, however, that I rather like to suppose it true, and firmly believe in the explanation.",
  "sample_07008.wav": "Thus in Croquet, no child in a town near Boston would take the red ball because it was supposed to mean hate.",
  "sample_07009.wav": "Pink and blue, he'll catch you.",
  "sample_07010.wav": "Prevent the stitch in the side which is liable to be induced by running by means of holding a pebble under the tongue.",
  "sample_07011.wav": "The best physicians in America could do nothing for him. After nine long years of awful suffering, and after the cancer had totally eaten away his nose and portions of his face, as shown in his picture here given, his palate was entirely destroyed together with portions of his throat.",
  "sample_07012.wav": "Father fortunately discovered the great remedy that cured him. He lived over forty years, and no return of the disease. The same discovery has now thousands who were threatened with operation and death, and to prove that this is the truth we will give their sworn statement if you will write us.",
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  "sample_07019.wav": "Delays are dangerous. Unexpected changes are apt to bring on coughs and colds. Mare's cough balsam.",
  "sample_07020.wav": "If you have children, you ought to have a bottle of this medicine on the mantle.",
  "sample_07021.wav": "It looks big and important, and it makes a great noise. Even people a long way up in the scale of civilization are in the habit of taking these attributes perhaps not as the essential ones of leadership, but at all events as those by which a leader may be recognized.",
  "sample_07022.wav": "The pointsman moves a handle, and the foaming giant, that would, it may be, have sped on to his destruction, and that of the passive crew who follow in his rear, is shunted to another line, running in a different direction, and to a more desirable goal.",
  "sample_07023.wav": "The great intellectual pointsman of our age, the man who has done more than any other of this generation to give direction to the thought of his contemporaries, has passed away, and we are left to measure the loss to humanity by the result of his labors.",
  "sample_07024.wav": "Mr. Mill's achievements in both branches of philosophy are such as to give him the foremost place in either. Whether we regard him as an expounder of the philosophy of mind, or the philosophy of society,",
  "sample_07025.wav": "the structure raised by Adam Smith, Malthus, and Ricardo, but raised it at least one story higher. His inestimable system of logic was a revolution. It hardly needs, of course, to be said that he owed much to his predecessors.",
  "sample_07026.wav": "that he borrowed from Huiwell much of his classification, from Brown the chief lines of his theory of causation, from Sir John Herschel the main principles of the inductive methods. Those who think this a disparagement of his work must have very little conception of the",
  "sample_07027.wav": "of the massive original thought that still remains, to Mr. Mill's credit, the great critical power that could gather valuable truth from so many discordant sources, and the wonderful ability required to weld these and his own contributions.",
  "sample_07028.wav": "into one organic whole. When Mr. Mill commenced his labors the only logic recognized was the syllogistic.",
  "sample_07029.wav": "in deducing from general propositions other propositions less general. It was even asserted confidently that nothing more was to be expected, than an inductive logic was impossible. This conception of logical science necessitated",
  "sample_07030.wav": "some general propositions to start with. And these general propositions being x...",
  "sample_07031.wav": "Incapable of being proved from other propositions, it followed that, if they were known to us at all, they must be original data of consciousness. Here was a perfect paradise of question begging. The ultimate major premise in every argument being assumed",
  "sample_07032.wav": "It could, of course, be fashioned according to the particular conclusion it was called in to prove. Thus an artificial ignorance, as Locke calls it, was produced, which had the effect of sanctifying prejudice by recognizing so-called necessities of thought.",
  "sample_07033.wav": "as the only basis of reasoning. It is true that outside of the logic of the schools, great advances had been made in the rules of scientific investigation. But these rules were not only imperfect in themselves, but their connection with the law of causation",
  "sample_07034.wav": "was but imperfectly realized, and their true relation to syllogism hardly dreamt of. Mr. Mill altered all this. He demonstrated that the general type of reasoning is neither from generals to particulars, nor from particulars to generals, but from particulars to particulars.",
  "sample_07035.wav": "but are now dead, we are entitled to conclude that all human beings are mortal. We might surely, without any logical inconsequence, have concluded at once from those instances that the Duke of Wellington is mortal.",
  "sample_07036.wav": "The mortality of John, Thomas, and others is, after all, the whole evidence we have for the mortality of the Duke of Wellington. Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition.",
  "sample_07037.wav": "We not only may, according to Mr. Mill, reason from some particular instances to others, but we frequently do so. As, however, the instances which are sufficient to prove one fresh instance",
  "sample_07038.wav": "The work of deduction is the interpretation of these formulas, and therefore, strictly speaking, is not inferential at all. The real inference was accomplished when the universal proposition was arrived at.",
  "sample_07039.wav": "All reasoning is shown to be at bottom inductive. Inductions and their interpretation make up the whole of logic. And to induction accordingly Mr. Mill devoted his chief attention. For the first time induction was treated as the opus magnum of logic.",
  "sample_07040.wav": "and the fundamental principles of science traced to their inductive origin. It was this, taken with his theory of the syllogism, which worked the great change. Both his system of logic and his examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy,",
  "sample_07041.wav": "are for the most part devoted to fortifying this position and demolishing the beliefs inconsistent with it. As a systematic psychologist, Mr. Mill has not done so much as either Professor Bain or Mr. Herbert Spencer.",
  "sample_07042.wav": "The perfection of his method, its application, and the uprooting of prejudices which stood in its way, this was the task to which Mr. Mill applied himself, with an ability and success rarely matched and never surpassed.",
  "sample_07043.wav": "The biggest lion in the path was the doctrine of so-called necessary truth. This doctrine was especially obnoxious to him, as it set up a purely subjective standard of truth, and a standard, as he was easily able to show, of the truth.",
  "sample_07044.wav": "varying according to the psychological history of the individual. Such thinkers as Dr. Whewell and Mr. Herbert Spencer had to be met in intellectual combat. Dr. Whewell held, not that the inconceivability",
  "sample_07045.wav": "of the contradictory of a proposition is a proof of its truth co-equal with experience, but that its value transcends experience. Experience may tell us what is, but it is by the impossibility of conceiving it otherwise .",
  "sample_07046.wav": "In his examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, Mr. Mill gives battle to this mode of thought. After reviewing, in an opening chapter, the various views which have been held respecting the relativity of human knowledge.",
  "sample_07047.wav": "As Mr. Mill says, the name of God is veiled under two extremely abstract phrases, the Infinite and the Absolute. So profound and friendly a thinker as the late Mr. Groat held this raising of the veil",
  "sample_07048.wav": "by a mistake he fell into, the necessity of looking at the matter in the concrete. He acknowledged the force of Mr. Mill's argument that the Infinite must include a forago of contradictions.",
  "sample_07049.wav": "in which these contradictory attributes in here. But it was against a corresponding being, the Infinite, that Mr. Mill was arguing. It is this that he calls a",
  "sample_07050.wav": "and regarded as the reductio ad absurdisium of the transcendental philosophy. Mr. Mill's religious tendencies may very well be gathered from a passage in his review of Auguste Comte, a philosopher with whom he agreed on all points",
  "sample_07051.wav": "That old nuisance of a Rachel Lind was here again today, pestering me for a subscription towards buying a carpet for the vestry room, said Mr. Harrison wrathfully. I detest that woman more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon here.",
  "sample_07052.wav": "text, comment, and application into six words and throw it at you like a brick. Anne, who was perched on the edge of the veranda, enjoying the charm of a mild west wind blowing across a newly plowed field on a gray November twilight,",
  "sample_07053.wav": "and piping a quaint little melody among the twisted furs below the garden, turned her dreamy face over her shoulder. The trouble is, you and Mrs. Lin don't understand one another, she explained. That is always what is wrong when people don't like each other.",
  "sample_07054.wav": "I didn't like Mrs. Lynde at first either, but as soon as I came to understand her, I learned to. Mrs. Lynde made me an acquired taste with some folks.",
  "sample_07055.wav": "I said some dreadful things to Mrs. Lynde long ago, but it was when I had lost my temper. I couldn't say them deliberately. It was the truth, and I believe in telling the truth to everybody.",
  "sample_07056.wav": "you only tell the disagreeable part of the truth. Now, you've told me a dozen times that my hair was red, but you've never once told me that I had a nice nose.",
  "sample_07057.wav": "I know I have red hair too, although it's much darker than it used to be, so there's no need of telling me that either. Well, well, I'll try and not mention it again since you're so sensitive.",
  "sample_07058.wav": "You must excuse me, Anne. I've got a habit of being outspoken, and folks mustn't mind it. But they can't help minding it, and I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying,",
  "sample_07059.wav": "Excuse me, you mustn't mind it, it's just a habit I've got. You'd think he was crazy, wouldn't you? And as for Mrs. Lynde being a busybody, perhaps she is. But did you tell her she had a very kind heart and always helped the poor?",
  "sample_07060.wav": "and never said a word when Timothy Cotton stole a crock of butter out of her dairy and told his wife he'd bought it from her? Mrs. Cotton cast it up to her the next time they met that it tasted of turnips, and Mrs. Lynn just said she was sorry it had turned out so poorly.",
  "sample_07061.wav": "Folks are everlasting begging for money here, it seems to me. How's your project of painting the hall coming along? Splendidly. We had a meeting of the AVIS last Friday night and found that we had plenty of money subscribed to paint the hall and shingle the roof too.",
  "sample_07062.wav": "Most people gave very liberally, Mr. Harrison. Anne was a sweet-souled lass, but she could instill some venom into innocent italics when occasion required. What color are you going to have it? We have decided on a very pretty green.",
  "sample_07063.wav": "Mr. Roger Pye is going to get the paint in town today. Who's got the job? Mr. Joshua Pye of Carmody. He has nearly finished the shingling. We had to give him the contract for every one of the Pyes. There are four families, you know.",
  "sample_07064.wav": "said they wouldn't give a cent unless Joshua got it. They had subscribed $12 between them, and we thought that was too much to lose, although some people think we shouldn't have given in to the pies. Mrs. Lin says they tried to run everything.",
  "sample_07065.wav": "The main question is will this Joshua do his work well? If he does I don't see that it matters whether his name is Pie or Pudding. He has the reputation of being a good workman though they say he's a very peculiar man. He hardly ever talks.",
  "sample_07066.wav": "He's peculiar enough, all right, then,\" said Mr. Harrison Dryley.",
  "sample_07067.wav": "I never was much of a talker till I came to Avonlea. And then I had to begin in self-defense or Mrs. Lynde would have said I was dumb and started a subscription to have me taught sign language.",
  "sample_07068.wav": "I must. I have some sewing to do for Dora this evening. Besides, Davey is probably breaking Merla's heart with some new mischief by this time. This morning, the first thing he said was, Where does the dart go, Anne? I want to know.",
  "sample_07069.wav": "The poor bird has been moping ever since. Those children must be a sight of trouble to you folks.\" \"'Everything that's worth having is some trouble,' said Anne, secretly resolving to forgive Davy's next defense, whatever it might be, since he had avenged her on Ginger.\"",
  "sample_07070.wav": "began painting the next day. He was not disturbed in his task. The hall was situated on what was called the lower road. In late autumn this road was always muddy and wet and people going to Carmody traveled by the longer upper road.",
  "sample_07071.wav": "The hall was so closely surrounded by fir woods that it was invisible unless you were near it Mr. Joshua pie painted away in a solitude and independence that were so dear to his unsociable heart Friday afternoon he finished his job and went home to Carmody",
  "sample_07072.wav": "The news flew like wildfire. Gilbert Blythe, pouring over a textbook at home, heard it from his father's hired boy at sunset, and rushed breathlessly to Green Gables, joined on the way by Fred Wright.",
  "sample_07073.wav": "arriving at this moment with a band box he had brought from town for Marilla. Haven't you heard? said Jane wrathfully. Well, it's simply this. Joshua Pye has gone and painted the hall blue instead of green, a deep brilliant blue.",
  "sample_07074.wav": "the shade they used for painting carts and wheelbarrows. And Mrs. Lin says it is the most hideous color for a building, especially when combined with a red roof that she ever saw or imagined. You could simply have knocked me down with a feather when I heard it.",
  "sample_07075.wav": "It's heartbreaking after all the trouble we've had. How on earth could such a mistake have happened, whale Diana? The blame of this unmerciful disaster was eventually narrowed down to the pies. The improvers had decided to use Morton Harris paints.",
  "sample_07076.wav": "and the Morton Harris paint cans were numbered according to a color card. A purchaser chose his shade on the card and ordered by the accompanying number.",
  "sample_07077.wav": "And when Mr. Roger Pye sent word to the improvers by his son, John Andrew, that he was going to town and would get their paint for them,",
  "sample_07078.wav": "And there the matter stands to this day. That night there was blank dismay in every Avonlea house where an improver lived. The gloom at Green Gables was so intense that it quenched even Davy. Anne wept and would not be comforted.",
  "sample_07079.wav": "and it sounds the death knell of our society, will simply be laughed out of existence. In life, as in dreams, however, things often go by contraries. The Avonlea people did not laugh, they were too angry.",
  "sample_07080.wav": "Their money had gone to paint the hall, and consequently they felt themselves bitterly aggrieved by the mistake. Public indignation centered on the Pies. Roger Pye and John Andrew had bungled the matter between them.",
  "sample_07081.wav": "I would here willingly have proceeded to exhibit the whole chain of truths which I deduced from these primary. But as with the view to this, it would have been necessary now to treat of many questions.",
  "sample_07082.wav": "I believe that it will be better for me to refrain from this exposition, and only mention in general what these truths are, that the more judicious may be able to determine whether a more special account of them would conduce to the public advantage.",
  "sample_07083.wav": "I have ever remained firm in my original resolution to suppose no other principle than that of which I have recently availed myself in demonstrating the existence of God and of the soul.",
  "sample_07084.wav": "and to accept as true nothing that did not appear to me more clear and certain than the demonstration of the geometers had formerly appeared. And yet I venture to state that not only have I found the means",
  "sample_07085.wav": "to satisfy myself in a short time on all the principal difficulties which are usually treated of in philosophy, but I have also observed certain laws established in nature by God in such a manner",
  "sample_07086.wav": "and of which he has impressed on our minds such notions, that after we have reflected sufficiently upon these, we cannot doubt that they are accurately observed in all that exists or takes place in the world and farther by considering",
  "sample_07087.wav": "But like the painters who, finding themselves unable to represent equally well on a plain surface all of the different faces of a solid body, select one of the chief on which alone they make the light fall, and throwing the rest into the shade,",
  "sample_07088.wav": "Fearing lest I should not be able to compense in my discourse all that was in my mind, I resolved to expound singly, though at considerable length, my opinion regarding light. Then...",
  "sample_07089.wav": "to take the opportunity of adding something on the Sun and fixed stars, since light almost wholly proceeds from them, on the heavens since they transmit it, on the planets, comets, and Earth since they reflect it, and particularly, on the Sun.",
  "sample_07090.wav": "on all the bodies that are upon the earth since they are either colored or transparent or luminous, and finally on man since he is the spectator of these objects.",
  "sample_07091.wav": "Further, to enable me to cast this variety of subjects somewhat into the shade and to express my judgment regarding them with greater freedom, without being necessitated to adopt or refute the opinions of the learned.",
  "sample_07092.wav": "I resolved to leave all the people here to their disputes. And to speak only of what would happen in a new world, if God were now to create somewhere in the imaginary spaces.",
  "sample_07093.wav": "matter sufficient to compose one, and were to agitate variously and confusedly the different parts of this matter, so that there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned.",
  "sample_07094.wav": "and after that did nothing more than lend his ordinary concurrence to nature, and allow her to act in accordance with the laws which he had established. On this supposition I, in the first place, described this matter.",
  "sample_07095.wav": "and assayed to represent it in such a manner that to my mind there can be nothing clearer and more intelligible except what has been recently said regarding God and the soul.",
  "sample_07096.wav": "For I even expressly supposed that it possessed none of those forms or qualities which are so debated in the schools, nor in general anything the knowledge of which is not so natural to our minds.",
  "sample_07097.wav": "I endeavored to demonstrate all those about which there could be any room for doubt.",
  "sample_07098.wav": "that even if God had created more worlds, there could have been none in which these laws were not observed. Thereafter, I showed how the greatest part of the matter of this chaos must, in accordance with these laws, dispose and arrange itself in such a way.",
  "sample_07099.wav": "as to present the appearance of heavens, how in the meantime some of its parts must compose an earth and some planets and comets and others a sun and fixed stars. And making a digression at this stage on the subject of light.",
  "sample_07100.wav": "I expounded at considerable length what the nature of that light must be.",
  "sample_07101.wav": "and how thence in an instant of time it traverses the immense spaces of the heavens, and how from the planets and comets it is reflected towards the earth. To this I likewise added much respecting the substance, the situation, the motions,",
  "sample_07102.wav": "and all the different qualities of these heavens and stars, so that I thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not, appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.",
  "sample_07103.wav": "I came next to speak of the earth in particular, and to show how, even though I had expressly supposed that God had given no weight to the matter of which it is composed, this should not prevent all its parts from tending exactly.",
  "sample_07104.wav": "to that observed in our seas, as also a certain current both of water and air from east to west, such as is likewise observed between the tropics, how the mountains, seas, fountains, and rivers might naturally be formed in it.",
  "sample_07105.wav": "and the metals produced in the mines, and the plants grown in the fields and in general, how all the bodies which are commonly denominated mixed or composite might be generated and, among other things, in the discoveries alluded to,",
  "sample_07106.wav": "I knew nothing except fire, which produces light. I spared no pains to set forth all that pertains to its nature, the manner of its production and support, and to explain how heat is sometimes found without light, and light without heat.",
  "sample_07107.wav": "to show how it can induce various colors upon different bodies and other diverse qualities, how it reduces some to a liquid state and hardens others, how it can consume almost all bodies or convert them into ashes and smoke.",
  "sample_07108.wav": "And finally, how from these ashes.",
  "sample_07109.wav": "For as this transmutation of ashes into glass appeared to me as wonderful as any other in nature, I took a special pleasure in describing it. I was not, however, disposed from these circumstances.",
  "sample_07110.wav": "to conclude that this world had been created in the manner I described.",
  "sample_07111.wav": "It oft times requires heroic courage to face fruitless effort, to take up the broken strands of a life work, to look bravely toward the future, and proceed undaunted on our way.",
  "sample_07112.wav": "But what to our eyes may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success. It may contain in its debris the foundation material of a mighty purpose, or the revelation of new and higher possibilities.",
  "sample_07113.wav": "Some years ago it was proposed to send logs from Canada to New York by a new method. The ingenious plan of Mr. Joggins was to bind great logs together by cables and iron girders.",
  "sample_07114.wav": "and the angry waters scattered the logs far and wide. The chief of the hydrographic department at Washington heard of the failure of the experiment, and it once sent word to ship masters the world over.",
  "sample_07115.wav": "urging them to watch carefully for these logs which he described, and to note the precise location of each in latitude and longitude, and the time the observation was made.",
  "sample_07116.wav": "noted the logs in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Mediterranean, in the South Seas, for into all waters did these venturesome ones travel. Hundreds of reports were made, covering a period of weeks and months.",
  "sample_07117.wav": "These observations were then carefully collated, systemized, and tabulated, and discoveries were made as to the course of ocean currents that otherwise would have been impossible. The loss of the Joggins raft was not a real failure.",
  "sample_07118.wav": "for it led to one of the great discoveries in modern marine geography and navigation. In our superior knowledge we are disposed to speak in a patronizing tone.",
  "sample_07119.wav": "But their failure to transmute the baser metals into gold resulted in the birth of chemistry. They did not succeed in what they attempted, but they brought into vogue the natural processes of sublimation, filtration.",
  "sample_07120.wav": "distillation, and crystallization. They invented the alimbec, the retort, the sand bath, the water bath, and other valuable instruments. To them is due the discovery of antimony, sulfuric ether and phosphorus.",
  "sample_07121.wav": "and its use in gunpowder, and the discovery of the distillation of essential oils. This was the success of failure, a wondrous process of nature for the highest growth, a mighty lesson of comfort, strength, and encouragement.",
  "sample_07122.wav": "In discovering America, Columbus failed absolutely. His ingenious reasoning and experiment led him to believe that by sailing westward he would reach India. Every Redman in America carries in his name Indian.",
  "sample_07123.wav": "the perpetuation of the memory of the failure of Columbus. The Genoese navigator did not reach India. The cargo of souvenirs he took back to Spain to show to Ferdinand and Isabella as proofs of his success.",
  "sample_07124.wav": "really attested his failure, but the discovery of America was a greater success than was any finding of a back door to India. When David Livingstone had supplemented his theological education by a medical course",
  "sample_07125.wav": "opened a whole continent to light and truth. His study proved an ideal preparation for his labors as physician, explorer, teacher, and evangel in the wilds of Africa.",
  "sample_07126.wav": "Business reverses, and the failure of his partner threw upon the broad shoulders and the still broader honor and honesty of Sir Walter Scott a burden of responsibility that forced him to write.",
  "sample_07127.wav": "His brush strokes, put on in the early morning hours before going to his menial duties as a railway porter in the dusk like that perpetrated on his canvas, meant strength, food and medicine for the dying wife he adored.",
  "sample_07128.wav": "The art failure that cast him into the depths of poverty unified with marvelous intensity all the finer elements of his nature. This rare spiritual unity.",
  "sample_07129.wav": "This purging of all the dross of triviality as he passed through the furnace of poverty, trial and sorrow, gave eloquence to his brush and enabled him to paint as never before, as no prosperity would have made possible.",
  "sample_07130.wav": "Failure is often the turning point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels. It may not be financial success. It may not be fame. It may be new draughts of spiritual, moral, or mental inspiration.",
  "sample_07131.wav": "There is but one question for him to answer, to face boldly and honestly, as an individual alone with his conscience and his destiny. How will I let that poverty or wealth affect me? Has that trial or deprivation has left me better?",
  "sample_07132.wav": "truer, nobler, then poverty has been riches, failure has been a success. If wealth has come to me and has made me vain, arrogant, contemptuous, uncharitable, cynical,",
  "sample_07133.wav": "It has not been riches, it has been dark, treacherous poverty, that stole from me even myself. All things become for us then what we take from them. Failure is one of God's educators.",
  "sample_07134.wav": "It is experience leading man to higher things. It is the revelation of a way, a path hitherto unknown to us. The best men in the world, those who have made the greatest real successes,",
  "sample_07135.wav": "look back with serene happiness on their failures. The turning of the face of time shows all things in a wondrously illuminated and satisfying perspective. Many a man is thankful today that some petty success for which he once struggled.",
  "sample_07136.wav": "melted into thin air as his hands sought to clutch it. Failure is often the rock-bottom foundation of real success. If man in a few instances of his life can say,",
  "sample_07137.wav": "The death or destruction of the seed is the prelude to its resurrection as wheat. It is the night in the darkest hours, those preceding dawn, that plants grow best, that they most increase in size.",
  "sample_07138.wav": "May this not be one of Nature's gentle showings to man of the times when he grows best, of the darkness of failure that is evolving into the sunlight of success. Let us fear only the failure of not living the right as we see it.",
  "sample_07139.wav": "leaving the results to the guardianship of the Infinite. If we think of any supreme moment of our lives, any great success, anyone who is dear to us, and then consider how we reach that moment, that success,",
  "sample_07140.wav": "We will see how logical has been the course of our joy and success, from sorrow and failure, and that what gives us most happiness today is inextricably connected with what once caused us sorrow.",
  "sample_07141.wav": "CHAPTER 1 Mrs. Rachel Lynde is surprised Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' ear drops and traversed by a brook.",
  "sample_07142.wav": "that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place. It was reputed to be an intricate headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade. But by the time it reached Lynn's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream.",
  "sample_07143.wav": "for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynn's door without due regard for decency and decorum. It probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up.",
  "sample_07144.wav": "and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof. There are plenty of people in Avonlea and out of it who can attend closely to their neighbors' business by dint of neglecting their own.",
  "sample_07145.wav": "But Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain. She was a notable housewife. Her work was always done, and well done. She ran the sewing circle.",
  "sample_07146.wav": "helped run the Sunday school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary. Yet with all this Mrs. Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window knitting cotton-warp quilts. She had knitted sixteen of them, and",
  "sample_07147.wav": "as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in odd voices, and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.",
  "sample_07148.wav": "anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs. Rachel's all-seeing eye. She was sitting there one afternoon in early June. The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright. you",
  "sample_07149.wav": "The orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees. Thomas Lynde, a meek little man whom Avonlea people called Rachel Lynde's husband, was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn.",
  "sample_07150.wav": "Mrs. Rachel knew that he ought, because she had heard him tell Peter Morrison the evening before in William J. Blair's store over at Carmody, that he meant to sew his turnip seed the next afternoon.",
  "sample_07151.wav": "Peter had asked him, of course, for Matthew Cuthbert had never been known to volunteer information about anything in his whole life. And yet here was Matthew Cuthbert, at half-past the afternoon of a busy day, placidly driving over the hollow and up the hill.",
  "sample_07152.wav": "and his best suit of clothes, which was plain proof that he was going out of Avonlea. And he had the buggy and the sorrel mare, which betokened that he was going a considerable distance. Now where was Matthew Cuthbert going, and why was he going there?",
  "sample_07153.wav": "Had it been any other man in Avonlea, Mrs. Rachel, deftly putting this and that together, might have given a pretty good guess as to both questions. But Matthew so rarely went from home that it must be something pressing and unusual which was taking him.",
  "sample_07154.wav": "He was the shyest man alive and hated to have to go among strangers or to any place where he might have to talk. Matthew, dressed up with a white collar and driving in a buggy, was something that didn't happen often. Mrs. Rachel, ponder as she might, could make nothing of it.",
  "sample_07155.wav": "And her afternoon's enjoyment was spoiled. I'll just step over to Green Gables after tea and find out from Marilla where he's gone and why,\" the worthy woman finally concluded. He doesn't generally go to town this time of year, and he never visits.",
  "sample_07156.wav": "If he'd run out of turnip-seat he wouldn't dress up and take the buggy to go for more.",
  "sample_07157.wav": "Yet something must have happened since last night to start him off. I'm clean-puzzled, that's what, and I won't know a minute's peace of mind or conscience until I know what has taken Matthew Cuthbert out of Avonlea to-day. Accordingly, after tea Mrs. Rachel set out. She had not far to go.",
  "sample_07158.wav": "The big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynn's Hollow. To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further. Matthew Cuthberts' father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had been",
  "sample_07159.wav": "had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he found it his homestead. Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land. And there it was to this day.",
  "sample_07160.wav": "barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated. Mrs. Rachel Lynde did not call living in such a place living at all. It's just staying, that's what she said as she stepped along the deep-rutted grassy lane.",
  "sample_07161.wav": "bordered with wild rose-bushes. It's no wonder Matthew and Marilla are both a little odd, living away back here by themselves. Trees aren't much company, though dear knows if they were there'd be enough of them. I'd rather look at people\u2014to be sure.\"",
  "sample_07162.wav": "They seem contented enough, but then I suppose they're used to it. A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said. With this Mrs. Rachel stepped out of the lane into the back yard of Green Gables. Very green and neat and precise was that yard.",
  "sample_07163.wav": "set about on one side with great patriarchal willows, and the other with prim lombardies. Not a stray stick nor stone was to be seen, for Mrs. Rachel would have seen it if there had been. Privately she was of the opinion that Marilla Cuthbert swept that yard over as often as she swept her house.",
  "sample_07164.wav": "One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs. Rachel rapped smartly at the kitchen door and stepped in when bidden to do so. The kitchen at Green Gables was a cheerful apartment.",
  "sample_07165.wav": "Or would have been cheerful, if it had not been so painfully clean as to give it something of the appearance of an unused parlour. Its windows looked east and west. Through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight. But the east one.",
  "sample_07166.wav": "Once you got a glimpse of the bloom, white cherry-trees in the left orchard, and nodding slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines. Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine.",
  "sample_07167.wav": "And here she sat now, knitting, and the table behind her was laid for supper. This was Rachel, before she had fairly closed the door.",
  "sample_07168.wav": "There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting someone home with Matthew to tea. But the dishes were every-day dishes, and there was only crab-apple preserves and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company.",
  "sample_07169.wav": "Yet what of Matthew's white collar and the sorrel mare? Mrs. Rachel was getting fairly dizzy with this unusual mystery about quiet, unmisterious green gables. \"'Good evening, Rachel,' Marilla said briskly. \"'This is a real fine evening, isn't it? Won't you sit down?'",
  "sample_07170.wav": "How are all your folks?\" Something that for lack of any other name might be called friendship existed and always had existed between Marilla Cuffbert and Mrs. Rachel, in spite of, or perhaps because of, their dissimilarity. Marilla was a tall,",
  "sample_07171.wav": "Chapter 4. A Prisoner. We had gone perhaps ten miles when the ground began to rise very rapidly. We were, as I was later to learn, nearing the edge of one of Ma's long dead seas, in the bottom of which",
  "sample_07172.wav": "my encounter with the Martians had taken place. In a short time we gained the foot of the mountains and after traversing a narrow gorge came to an open valley, at the far extremity of which was a low table land upon which I had beheld",
  "sample_07173.wav": "enormous city. Toward this we galloped, entering it by what appeared to be a ruined roadway leading out from the city, but only to the edge of the table land where it ended abruptly in a flight of broad steps.",
  "sample_07174.wav": "Upon closer observation I saw as we passed them that the buildings were deserted, and while not greatly decayed had the appearance of not having been tenanted for years, possibly for ages.",
  "sample_07175.wav": "Toward the center of the city was a large plaza, and upon this, and in the buildings immediately surrounding it, were camped some nine or ten hundred creatures of the same breed as my captors.",
  "sample_07176.wav": "For such I now considered them, despite the suave manner in which I had been trapped. With the exception of their ornaments all were naked, the women varied in appearance but little from the men, except that their tusks were much larger in proportion to their height.",
  "sample_07177.wav": "In some instances curving nearly to the high set ears. Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males.",
  "sample_07178.wav": "The adult females ranged in height from 10 to 12 feet. The children were light in color, even lighter than the women, and all looked precisely alike to me, except that some were taller.",
  "sample_07179.wav": "which leads no living Martian nose wither, and from whose bosom no Martian has ever returned, or would be allowed to live did he return after once embarking upon its cold, dark waters.",
  "sample_07180.wav": "Only about one Martian in a thousand dies of sickness or disease and possibly about twenty take the voluntary pilgrimage. The other nine hundred and seventy nine die violent deaths in duels in hunting,",
  "sample_07181.wav": "in aviation and in war, but perhaps by far the greatest death loss comes during the age of childhood when vast numbers of the little Martians fall victim to the great white apes of Mars.",
  "sample_07182.wav": "The average life expectancy of a Martian after the age of maturity is about 300 years, but would be nearer the 1000 mark were it not for the various means leading to violent death.",
  "sample_07183.wav": "Owing to the waning resources of the planet, it evidently became necessary to counteract the increasing longevity which their remarkable skill in therapeutics and surgery produced.",
  "sample_07184.wav": "And so, human life has come to be considered but lightly on Mars, as is evidenced by the dangerous sports and the almost continual warfare between the various communities.",
  "sample_07185.wav": "without a weapon of destruction. As we neared the plaza and my presence was discovered, we were immediately surrounded by hundreds of the creatures who seemed anxious to pluck me from my seat behind my guard. A word from the leader of the party.",
  "sample_07186.wav": "stilled their clamor, and we proceeded at a trot across the plaza to the entrance of as magnificent an edifice as Morda Ai has rested upon. The building was low but covered an enormous area.",
  "sample_07187.wav": "It was constructed of gleaming white marble, inlaid with gold and brilliant stones which sparkled and scintillated in the sunlight. The main entrance was some hundred feet in width and projected from the building proper.",
  "sample_07188.wav": "to form a huge canopy above the entrance hall. There was no stairway, but a gentle incline to the first floor of the building opened into an enormous chamber encircled by galleries. On the floor of this chamber,",
  "sample_07189.wav": "which was dotted with highly carved wooden desks and chairs, were assembled about 40 or 50 male Martians around the steps of a rostrum. On the platform proper,",
  "sample_07190.wav": "gay-colored feathers and beautifully wrought leather trappings, ingeniously set with precious stones. From his shoulders depended a short cape of white fur lined with brilliant scarlet silk. What struck me as most remarkable was his",
  "sample_07191.wav": "about this assemblage and the hall in which they were congregated was the fact that the creatures were entirely out of proportion to the desks, chairs, and other furnishings. These beings of a size adapted to human beings such as I.",
  "sample_07192.wav": "whereas the great bulks of the Martians",
  "sample_07193.wav": "nor was there room beneath the desk for their long legs. Evidently, then, there were other denizens of Mars than the wild and grotesque creatures into whose hands I had fallen, but the evidences of extreme antiquity",
  "sample_07194.wav": "and at a sign from the leader I had been lowered to the ground. Again locking his arm in mine, we had proceeded into the audience chamber. There were few formalities observed in approaching the Martian chieftain.",
  "sample_07195.wav": "My captain merely strode up to the rostrum, the others making way for him as he advanced. The chieftain rose to his feet and uttered the name of my escort, who in turn halted and repeated the name of the ruler followed by his title.",
  "sample_07196.wav": "At the time, this ceremony and the words they uttered meant nothing to me, but later I came to know that this was the customary greeting between green Martians. Had the men been strangers, and therefore unable to exchange names,",
  "sample_07197.wav": "had their missions been peaceful. Otherwise, they would have exchanged shots or have fought out their introduction with some other of their various weapons. My captor, whose name was Tars Tarkas,",
  "sample_07198.wav": "and when he had concluded the chieftain addressed me at some length. I replied in our good old English tongue merely to convince him that neither of us could understand the other.",
  "sample_07199.wav": "but I noticed that when I smiled slightly on concluding, he did likewise. This fact, and the similar occurrence during my first talk with Taw's Tarkus, convinced me that we had at least something in common. The ability to smile",
  "sample_07200.wav": "therefore to laugh denoting a sense of humor. But I was to learn that the Martian smile is merely perfunctory, and that the Martian laugh is a thing to cause strong men to blanch in horror. The ideas",
  "sample_07201.wav": "Pope's Iliad.",
  "sample_07202.wav": "The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble. The Grey Head and the Sagamore are safe.",
  "sample_07203.wav": "Go! Uncas and the open hand are now strangers. It is enough.",
  "sample_07204.wav": "But a gentle push from his friend urged him toward the door, and admonished him of the danger that might attend the discovery of their intercourse. Slowly, and reluctantly yielding to the necessity, he quitted the place, and mangled with the throng that hovered nigh.",
  "sample_07205.wav": "The dying fires and the clearing cast a dim and uncertain light on the dusky figures that were silently stalking to and fro, and occasionally a brighter gleam than common glanced to the lodge, and exhibited the figure of Uncas.",
  "sample_07206.wav": "After the determination of the scene, Duncan wandered among the lodges, unquestioned and unnoticed, endeavoring to find some trace of her in whose behalf he incurred the risk he ran.",
  "sample_07207.wav": "he retraced his steps to the council lodge, resolved to seek and question David in order to put an end to his doubts. On reaching the building, which had proved alike the seat of judgment and the place of execution,",
  "sample_07208.wav": "Though the return of Duncan was likely to remind them of his character and the suspicious circumstances of his visit, it produced no visible sensation. So far, the terrible scene that had just occurred...",
  "sample_07209.wav": "proved favourable to his views, and he required no other prompter than his own feelings to convince him of the expediency of profiting by so unexpected an advantage. He felt seeming to hesitate.",
  "sample_07210.wav": "He walked into the lodge and took a seat with a gravity that accorded admirably with the deportment of his hosts. A hasty but searching glance suffice to tell him that, though Unka still remained where he had left him.",
  "sample_07211.wav": "David had not reappeared. No other restraint was imposed on the former than the watchful looks of a young Huron, who had placed himself at hand, though an armed warrior leaned against the post that formed one side of the narrow doorway.",
  "sample_07212.wav": "In every other respect the captive seemed at liberty. Still he was excluded from all participation in the discourse, and possessed much more of the air of some finely molded statue than a man having life and volition.",
  "sample_07213.wav": "He would greatly have preferred silence and meditation to speech, when a discovery of his real condition might prove so instantly fatal. Unfortunately, for this prudent resolution, his entertainers appeared otherwise disposed.",
  "sample_07214.wav": "He had not long occupied the seat wisely taken a little in the shade, when another of the elder warriors who spoke the French language addressed him. My Canada father does not forget his children said the chief.",
  "sample_07215.wav": "I thank him. An evil spirit lives in the wife of one of my young men. Can the cunning stranger frighten him away?\" Hayward possessed some knowledge in the mummery practiced among the Indians.",
  "sample_07216.wav": "in the cases of such supposed visitations. He saw at a glance that the circumstance might possibly be improved to further his own ends. It would therefore have been difficult just then to have uttered a proposal.",
  "sample_07217.wav": "that would have given him more satisfaction. Aware of the necessity of preserving the dignity of his imaginary character, however, he repressed his feelings and answered with suitable mystery. Spirits Differ",
  "sample_07218.wav": "The Huron was content with the assurance, and resuming his pipe, he awaited the proper moment to move. The impatient Hayward, interlaced exocrating the cold customs of the savages.",
  "sample_07219.wav": "equal to that maintained by the chief, who was, in truth, a new relative of the afflicted woman. The minutes lingered, and the delay had seemed an hour to the adventure in empiricism. The heroine laid aside his pipe.",
  "sample_07220.wav": "and drew his robe across his breast, as if about to lead the way to the lodge of the Invalid. Just then a warrior of powerful frame darkened the door, and stalking silently among the attentive group.",
  "sample_07221.wav": "he seated himself on one end of the low pile of brush, which sustained Duncan. The latter cast an impatient look at his neighbor, and felt his flesh creep with uncontrollable horror when he found himself in actual contact with Magwa.",
  "sample_07222.wav": "Several pipes that had been extinguished were lighted again.",
  "sample_07223.wav": "drew his tomahawk from his girdle, and filling the bowl on its head, began to inhale the vapors of the weed through the hollow handle.",
  "sample_07224.wav": "Ten minutes, which appeared so many ages to Duncan, might have passed in this manner. And the warriors were fairly enveloped in a cloud of white smoke before any of them spoke.",
  "sample_07225.wav": "Has my friend found the moose?\" The young men stagger under their burdens, returned Maigwa. Let Reed the Bins go on the hunting path. He will meet them. A deep and awful silence succeeded the utterance of the forbidden name.",
  "sample_07226.wav": "as though all had inhaled an impurity at the same instant. The smoke breezed above their heads a little eddies.",
  "sample_07227.wav": "leaving the place beneath clear of its fumes.",
  "sample_07228.wav": "The looks of most of the warriors were riveted on the earth.",
  "sample_07229.wav": "suffered their wild and glaring eyeballs to roll in the direction of a white-headed savage.",
  "sample_07230.wav": "Like most around him for more than a minute, his look, too, was on the ground. But trusting his eyes at length to steal a glance aside, he perceived that he was becoming an object of general attention.",
  "sample_07231.wav": "13th Lecture The Dream Archaic Remnants and Infantalism in the Dream Let us revert to our conclusion that the dream-work, under the influence of the dream-censorship,",
  "sample_07232.wav": "transforms the latent dream thoughts into some other form of expression. The latent thoughts are no other than the conscious thoughts known to us in our waking hours. The new mode of expression is incomprehensible to us because of its many-sided features.",
  "sample_07233.wav": "So we call the mode of expression of the dream work the archaic or regressive. You may conclude that as a result of the deeper study of the dream work, we gain valuable information about the rather unknown beginnings of our intellectual development. I trust this will be true.",
  "sample_07234.wav": "But this work has not, up to the present time, been undertaken. The antiquity into which the Dream Work carries a spack is of a double aspect. Firstly, the individual antiquity, childhood, and secondly, insofar as every individual in his childhood.",
  "sample_07235.wav": "that we shall be able to differentiate which part of the latent psychic proceedings has its source in the individual.",
  "sample_07236.wav": "In this connection, it appears to me, for example, that the symbolic relations which the individual has never learned",
  "sample_07237.wav": "However, this is not the only archaic characteristic of the dream. You probably all know from your own experiences the peculiar amnesia, that is, loss of memory, concerning childhood. I mean the fact that the first years to the fifth...",
  "sample_07238.wav": "that of a gap in the memory is far more frequent. I believe we have not laid enough stress on this fact. The child is able to speak well at the age of two. It soon shows that it can become adjusted to the most complicated psychic situations.",
  "sample_07239.wav": "and makes remarks which years later are retold to it, but which it has itself entirely forgotten. Besides, the memory in the early years is more facile, because it is less burdened than in later years.",
  "sample_07240.wav": "Nor is there any reason for considering the memory function as a particularly high or difficult psychic performance. In fact, the contrary is true, and you can find a good memory in persons who stand very low intellectually.",
  "sample_07241.wav": "I must point out that certain well-preserved memories, for the most part formatively experienced, stand forth in this memory void, which surrounds the first years of childhood, and do not justify this hypothesis.",
  "sample_07242.wav": "Our memory deals selectively with its later materials, with impressions which come to us in later life. It retains the important and discards the unimportant. This is not true of the retained childhood memories.",
  "sample_07243.wav": "They do not bespeak necessarily important experiences of childhood, not even such as from the viewpoint of the child need appear of importance. They are often so banal and intrinsically so meaningless that we ask ourselves and wonder why just these details?",
  "sample_07244.wav": "have escaped being forgotten. I once endeavored to approach the riddle of childhood amnesia and the interrupted memory remnants with the help of analysis and I arrived at the conclusion that in the case of the child too...",
  "sample_07245.wav": "By means of careful analysis, one is able to develop out of them everything that is forgotten.",
  "sample_07246.wav": "and insofar as the cure is to any degree successful, we are able again to bring to light the content of the childhood years, thus clouded in forgetfulness. These impressions have never really been forgotten. They have only been inaccessible, latent.",
  "sample_07247.wav": "and have belonged to the unconscious. But sometimes they bob up out of the unconscious spontaneously. And as a matter of fact, this is what happens in dreams. It is apparent that the dream life knows how to find the entrance to these latent",
  "sample_07248.wav": "Beautiful examples of this occur in literature, and I myself can present such an example. I once dreamed in a certain connection of a person who must have performed some service for me, and whom I clearly saw. He was a one-eyed man, short in stature, stout.",
  "sample_07249.wav": "His head deeply sunk into his neck. I concluded from the content that he was a physician. Luckily I was able to ask my mother, who was still living, how the physician in my birthplace, which I left when I was three years old, looked.",
  "sample_07250.wav": "And I learned from her that he had one eye, was short and stout, with his head sunk into his neck, and also learned at what forgotten mishap he had been of service to me. This control over the forgotten material of childhood years",
  "sample_07251.wav": "is then a further archaic tendency of the dream. The same information may be made use of in another of the puzzles that have presented themselves to us. You will recall how astonished people were.",
  "sample_07252.wav": "when we came to the conclusion that the stimuli, which gave rise to dreams, were extremely bad and licentious sexual desires, which have made dream censorship and dream distortion necessary. After we have interpreted such a dream for the dreamer, and he\u2014",
  "sample_07253.wav": "in the most favorable circumstances, does not attack the interpretation itself. He almost always asks the question, whence such a wish comes?",
  "sample_07254.wav": "We need not hesitate to point out this origin. These evil wish impulses have their origin in the past, often in a past which is not too far away.",
  "sample_07255.wav": "The woman whose dream is interpreted to mean that she would like to see her 17-year-old daughter dead, discovers under our guidance that she in fact at one time entertained this wish.",
  "sample_07256.wav": "which early ended in a separation.",
  "sample_07257.wav": "She beat her body with her fists in a fit of anger, in order to kill the child. How many mothers who today love their children tenderly, perhaps too tenderly, receive them unwillingly, and at the time wish that the life within them would not develop further?",
  "sample_07258.wav": "Indeed, translated, this wish into various actions, happily harmless. The later death wish against some loved one, which seems so strange, also has its origin in early phases of the relationship to that person.",
  "sample_07259.wav": "This wish was no stranger to him. While the child was still a suckling, this man who was unhappy in his choice of a wife, often thought that if the little being that meant nothing to him would die, he would again be free, and would make better use of his freedom.",
  "sample_07260.wav": "that such wishes and such dreams cannot occur.",
  "sample_07261.wav": "Chapter 19, The Glory of Gettysburg. The Battle.",
  "sample_07262.wav": "If Lee had been victorious there, he might have destroyed Philadelphia and New York. By such a brilliant stroke, he could have surrounded and captured Baltimore and Washington. This would have changed the grand result of the war.",
  "sample_07263.wav": "In point of numbers, bravery and genius, the Battle of Gettysburg was the greatest that had ever been fought up to that time. Glorious as this was,",
  "sample_07264.wav": "The greatest glory of Gettysburg lay in the experiences and utterances of one man, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States of America. It came at a terrible time in the progress of the war.",
  "sample_07265.wav": "accounted victory enough for the President to issue his Emancipation Proclamation, proved to be a drawn battle, with terrific losses on both sides. Lee was driven back from Maryland then, it is true,",
  "sample_07266.wav": "but he soon won the great battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and had made his way north into Pennsylvania. The night after the Battle of Chancellorsville",
  "sample_07267.wav": "was the darkest in the history of the Civil War. President Lincoln walked the floor the whole night long crying out in his anguish, Oh, what will the country say?",
  "sample_07268.wav": "After winning the battle of Gettysburg, which the President hoped would end the war, General Meade, instead of announcing that he had captured the Confederate Army, stated that he had, driven the invaders from our soil.",
  "sample_07269.wav": "Believing he was on God's side, he felt that the cause of right could not lose, for the Lord would save his own. The next day, July 4th, 1863, came the surrender of Vicksburg.",
  "sample_07270.wav": "the stronghold of the great West.",
  "sample_07271.wav": "Calling on General Sickles in a Washington hospital, for the general had lost a leg on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the President was asked why he believed that victory would be given the Federal Forces at Gettysburg.",
  "sample_07272.wav": "I will tell you how it was. In the pinch of your campaign up there, when everybody seemed panic stricken,",
  "sample_07273.wav": "that if he would stand by our boys at Gettysburg, I would stand by him. And he did, and I will. The President's call on General Sickles was on the Sunday after the three days battle of Gettysburg.",
  "sample_07274.wav": "before the arrival of the gunboat at Cairo, Illinois, with the glad tidings from Vicksburg, which added new luster to the patriotic joy of Independence Day. The telegraph wires",
  "sample_07275.wav": "had been so generally cut on all sides of Vicksburg that the news was sent to Cairo and telegraphed to Washington. In proof that his faith even included the Mississippi blockade, he went on, besides,",
  "sample_07276.wav": "I have been praying over Vicksburg also, and believe our Heavenly Father is going to give us victory there too, because we need it, in order to bisect the Confederacy.",
  "sample_07277.wav": "prominent in national and educational affairs, and the greatest living orator, was invited to deliver the grand oration. The president was asked, if he could, to come and make a few dedicatory remarks.",
  "sample_07278.wav": "but Mr. Everett was to be the chief speaker of the occasion. The Sunday before the 19th of November 1863, the date of the dedication, the president went with his friend Noah Brooks",
  "sample_07279.wav": "to Gardner's Gallery in Washington, where he had promised to sit for his photograph. While there he showed Mr. Brooks a proof of Everett's oration, which had been sent to him. As this printed address covered two newspaper pages,",
  "sample_07280.wav": "When Mr. Brooks asked about his speech for that occasion, Mr. Lincoln replied, I've got it written but not looked into shape yet. It's short, short, short.",
  "sample_07281.wav": "During the forenoon of the 18th, Secretary John Hay was anxious lest the President be late for the special presidential train, which was to leave at noon for Gettysburg. Don't worry, John,\" said Mr. Lincoln.",
  "sample_07282.wav": "Don't hurry, boys. There won't be anything going on till I get there.\" When the train stopped on the way to Gettysburg, a little girl on the platform held up a bouquet to Mr. Lincoln, lisping, Flowerth for the President.",
  "sample_07283.wav": "He reached out, took her up, and kissed her saying, You're a sweet little rosebud yourself. I hope your life will open into perpetual beauty and goodness.",
  "sample_07284.wav": "About noon on the 19th of November, the distinguished party arrived in a procession and took seats on the platform erected for the exercises. The President was seated in a rocking chair placed there for him.",
  "sample_07285.wav": "There were 15,000 people waiting.",
  "sample_07286.wav": "watching her while the President of the United States was fanning her tenderly. This was too much for her. She gasped, I feel better now. I want to go back to my husband.",
  "sample_07287.wav": "The fact that the president was speaking was sufficient, no matter what he said. The people would have applauded Abraham Lincoln if he had merely recited the multiplication table.",
  "sample_07288.wav": "which the President decided to attend. Taking Secretary Seward with him, he called on an old cobbler named John Burns, of whose courage in the Battle of Gettysburg Mr. Lincoln had just heard.",
  "sample_07289.wav": "Chapter 18, How Emancipation Came to Pass. When Abraham Lincoln was a small boy, he began to show the keenest sympathy for the helpless and oppressed. The only time he betrayed anger as a child",
  "sample_07290.wav": "when he saw the other boys hurting a mud turtle. In his first school composition on cruelty to animals, his step-sister remembers this sentence, An ant's life is as sweet to it",
  "sample_07291.wav": "The Queen was received at Babylon with all the transports of joy that could possibly be expressed for the safe return of so illustrious and so beautiful a personage that had run through such a long series of misfortunes.",
  "sample_07292.wav": "Babylon, at that time, seemed to be perfectly serene and quiet. As for the young prince of Hyrkania, he was slain in battle. The Babylonians, who were the victors.",
  "sample_07293.wav": "who should gain it by a fair and impartial election. They were determined that the most valuable post of honor in the world, namely...",
  "sample_07294.wav": "and the sovereign of Babylon, should be the result of merit only, and not be procured by any party factions or court intrigues. A solemn oath was voluntarily taken by all parties.",
  "sample_07295.wav": "that he who should distinguish himself by his superior valor and wisdom should unanimously be acknowledged the sovereign elect. A spacious list, or circus, was pitched upon, surrounded with commodious seats,",
  "sample_07296.wav": "erected in an amphitheatrical manner, and richly embellished some few leagues from the city. Thither the combatants or champions were to repair, completely accoutre'd. Each of them had a distinct apartment to himself behind the lists.",
  "sample_07297.wav": "where no soul could either see them or know who they were. They were to enter the lists four several times. Those who were so happy as to conquer four competitors were afterwards to engage each other in single combat.",
  "sample_07298.wav": "in order that he who should remain master of the field should be proclaimed the Happy Victor. Four days afterwards, they were to meet again, accoutre'd as before.",
  "sample_07299.wav": "and to explain all such enigmas or riddles as the magi should think proper to propose. If their queries should prove too intricate and perplexed for them to resolve, they were to have recourse to the lists again, and after that to fresh enigmas.",
  "sample_07300.wav": "before they could be entitled to the election, so that the tournaments were to be continued, till one of the candidates should be twice a victor, and shine as conspicuous, with respect to his internal qualities, as to his dexterity and address in heroic achievements.",
  "sample_07301.wav": "The Queen, in the meantime, was to be narrowly watched, and allowed only to be a spectator of both their amusements at some considerable distance, and moreover, to be covered with avail.",
  "sample_07302.wav": "Nor was she indulged so far as to speak one single word to any candidate whomsoever, in order to prevent the least jealousy or suspicion either of partiality or injustice.",
  "sample_07303.wav": "to inform her lover of all the preliminary articles above mentioned, not doubting but that he would exert both his courage and understanding for her sake, beyond any of the other competitors. Zadig accordingly set out for Babylon, and besought the goddess Venus.",
  "sample_07304.wav": "not only to fortify his courage, but to illuminate his mind with wisdom on this important occasion. The night before these martial achievements were to commence, Zadig arrived upon the banks of the Euphrates.",
  "sample_07305.wav": "He inscribed his device amongst a list of combatants, concealing, at the same time, both his person and name, as the laws of the election required, and accordingly withdrew to the apartment that was provided for him.",
  "sample_07306.wav": "according to his lot. Kadur, who has just returned to Babylon, having hunted all Egypt over to no purpose in hopes to find his friend Zadig, brought a complete set of armor into his lodge by express orders from the Queen.",
  "sample_07307.wav": "She sent him likewise, one of the finest horses in all Persia.",
  "sample_07308.wav": "which redoubled his vigor and his hopes. The next morning, the Queen being seated under a canopy of state, enriched with precious stones, and the amphitheaters being crowded with gentlemen and ladies of all ranks and conditions from Babylon,",
  "sample_07309.wav": "The competitors made their personal appearance in the circus. Each of them went up to the Grand Magus and laid down his particular device at his feet. The devices were drawn by lot. That of Zadig was the last.",
  "sample_07310.wav": "one etabod by name, immensely rich indeed, and very hearty.",
  "sample_07311.wav": "exceedingly awkward, and a man of no acquired parts. The psychophants that hovered round about him flattered him, that a man of his merit couldn't fail of being king. He imperiously replied, one of my merit must be king.",
  "sample_07312.wav": "His armor was made of pure gold, enameled with green. The housings of his saddle were green, and his lance embellished with green ribbons. Every one was sensible at first sight.",
  "sample_07313.wav": "by Idabod's manner of managing his horse, that he was not the man whom heaven had pitched upon to sway the Babylonish scepter. The first combatant that tilted with him threw him out of the saddle. The second flung him quite over the cruper.",
  "sample_07314.wav": "and laid him sprawling on the ground with his heels quivering in the air. Idabad tis true, remounted but with so ill a grace.",
  "sample_07315.wav": "The third, disdaining to use his lance, made only a feint at him, then catched hold of his right leg and whirling him round, threw him flat upon the sand. The Esquires, who were the attendants, ran to his assistance.",
  "sample_07316.wav": "and with a sneer remounted him. The fourth combatted catched hold of his left leg and unhorsed him again. He was conveyed through the hissing multitude to his lodge, where, according to the law in that case provided, he was to pass the night.",
  "sample_07317.wav": "And as he hobbled along, said he to the Esquires, What a sad misfortune is this to one of my birth and character. The other champions played their parts much better, and all came off with credit.",
  "sample_07318.wav": "Some conquered two of their antagonists, and others were so far successful as to get the better of three. None of them, however, except Prince Hottam, vanquished four. Zadig, at last.",
  "sample_07319.wav": "one after the other, with the utmost ease, and with such an air and grace as gained him universal applause. As the case stood thus, Zadig and Hotem were to close the day's entertainment in a single combat.",
  "sample_07320.wav": "The armor of the latter was of a blue color mixed with gold, and the housings of his saddle were of the same. Those of the former, white as snow. The multitude were divided in their wishes. The knight in blue was the favorite of some of the ladies.",
  "sample_07321.wav": "Oliver told them the explanation of the whole affair that evening at home, leaning back in his chair with one arm bandaged and in a sling. They had not been able to get near him at the time. The excitement in the square had been too fierce.",
  "sample_07322.wav": "But a messenger had come to his wife with the news that her husband was only slightly wounded, and was in the hands of the doctors. He was a Catholic, explained the drawn-faced Oliver. He must have come ready, for his repeater was found loaded.",
  "sample_07323.wav": "Well, there was no chance for a priest this time. Mabel nodded slowly. She had read of the man's fate on the placards. \"'He was killed\u2014trampled and strangled instantly,' said Oliver. I did what I could. You saw me.\"",
  "sample_07324.wav": "But\u2014well, I dare say it was more merciful.\" \"'But you did what you could, my dear,' said the old lady, anxiously from the corner. I called out to them, mother, but they wouldn't hear me.",
  "sample_07325.wav": "Mabel leaned forward. Oliver, I know this sounds stupid of me, but\u2014but I wish they had not killed him. Oliver smiled at her. He knew this tender trait in her. It would have been more perfect if they had not.",
  "sample_07326.wav": "She said. Then she broke off and sat back. Why did he shoot just then? She asked. Oliver turned his eyes for an instant towards his mother, but she was knitting tranquilly. Then he answered with a curious deliberateness.",
  "sample_07327.wav": "I said that Braithwaite had done more for the world by one speech than Jesus and all his saints put together. He was aware that the knitting needles stopped for a second. Then they went on again as before.",
  "sample_07328.wav": "But he must have meant to do it anyhow,\" continued Oliver. How do they know he was a Catholic? asked the girl again. There was a rosary on him, and then he just had time to call on his God. And nothing more is known.",
  "sample_07329.wav": "Nothing more. He was well dressed, though. Oliver leaned back a little wearily and closed his eyes. His arms still throbbed intolerably. But he was very happy at heart. It was true that he had been wounded by a fanatic.",
  "sample_07330.wav": "But he was not sorry to bear pain in such a cause, and it was obvious that the sympathy of England was with him. Mr. Phillips even now was busy in the next room, answering the telegrams that poured in every moment.",
  "sample_07331.wav": "Caldecott, the Prime Minister, Maxwell, Snowford, and a dozen others had wired instantly their congratulations, and from every part of England streamed in message after message. It was an immense stroke for the Communists.",
  "sample_07332.wav": "Speaking in defense of his principles, it was an incalculable gain for them, and loss for the individualists, that confessors were not all on one side after all.",
  "sample_07333.wav": "The huge electric placards over London had winged out the facts in Esperanto as Oliver stepped into the train at Twilight. Oliver Brand wounded. Catholic assailant. Indignation of the country.",
  "sample_07334.wav": "well-deserved fate of assassin. He was pleased too that he honestly had done his best to save the man. Even in that moment of sudden and acute pain, he had cried out for a fair trial, but he had been too late.",
  "sample_07335.wav": "He had seen the starting eyes roll up in the crimson face, and the horrid grin come and go as the hands had clutched and torn at his throat. Then the face had vanished and a heavy trampling began where it had disappeared. Oh!",
  "sample_07336.wav": "There was some passion and loyalty left in England. His mother got up presently and went out, still without a word, and Mabel turned to him, laying a hand on his knee. Are you too tired to talk, my dear? He opened his eyes.",
  "sample_07337.wav": "Of course not, my darling. What is it? What do you think will be the effect?\" He raised himself a little, looking out as usual through the darkening windows onto that astonishing view.",
  "sample_07338.wav": "Everywhere now lights were glowing, a sea of mellow moons just above the houses, and above the mysterious heavy blue of a summer evening. The effect, he said, it can be nothing but good. It was time that something happened.",
  "sample_07339.wav": "My dear, I feel very downcast sometimes, as you know. Well, I do not think I shall be again. I have been afraid sometimes that we were losing all our spirit, and that the old Tories were partly right when they prophesied what communism would do.",
  "sample_07340.wav": "But after this\u2026 Well, well, we have shown that we can shed our blood too. It is in the nick of time, too. Just at the crisis. I don't want to exaggerate. It is only a scratch, but it was so deliberate and\u2014",
  "sample_07341.wav": "and so dramatic the poor devil could not have chosen a worse moment people won't forget it. Mabel's eyes shone with pleasure you poor dear she said are you in pain not much besides Christ",
  "sample_07342.wav": "If only this infernal Eastern affair would end. He knew he was feverish and irritable, and made a great effort to drive it down. Oh, my dear, he went on, flushed a little.",
  "sample_07343.wav": "If they would not be such heavy fools, they don't understand, they don't understand. Yes, Oliver? They don't understand what a glorious thing it all is. Humanity, life, truth at last, and the death of folly. But haven't I told them a hundred times?",
  "sample_07344.wav": "She loved to see him like this, his confident, flushed face, the enthusiasm in his blue eyes, and the knowledge of his pain pricked her feeling with passion. She bent forward and kissed him suddenly. My dear, I am so proud of you, oh Oliver. He said nothing.",
  "sample_07345.wav": "But she could see what she loved to see, that response to her own heart. And so they sat in silence while the sky darkened yet more, and the click of the rider in the next room told them that the world was alive and that they had a share in its affairs.",
  "sample_07346.wav": "Oliver stirred presently. Did you notice anything just now, sweetheart, when I said that about Jesus Christ?\" She stopped knitting for a moment, said the girl. He nodded. You saw that too then.",
  "sample_07347.wav": "Mabel, do you think she is falling back?\" Oh, she is getting old,\" said the girl lightly. Of course she looks back a little. But you don't think it would be too awful. She shook her head. No.",
  "sample_07348.wav": "No, my dear, you're excited and tired. It's just a little sentiment. Oliver, I don't think I would say that kind of thing before her.\" But she hears it everywhere now. No, she doesn't. Remember.",
  "sample_07349.wav": "She can't get it out of her head, even after fifty years. Well, watch her, won't you? By the way\u2014 Yes? There's a little more news from the East. They say Felsenberg's running the whole thing now. The Empire is sending him everywhere.",
  "sample_07350.wav": "Tobolsk, Benares, Yakutsk\u2014everywhere, and he's been to Australia.\" Mabel set up briskly. Isn't that very hopeful? I suppose so. There's no doubt that the Sufis are winning, but for how long is another question",
  "sample_07351.wav": "An oval face, broad above and narrow below, golden hair, fair skin, white, delicate and well-formed hands with slender tapering fingers, these were considered as marking the type of beauty and of high family descent.",
  "sample_07352.wav": "They were the marks of aristocracy. To these natural advantages the people added by the usual artificial means. Among the higher classes, the fingernails were kept carefully cut and rounded.",
  "sample_07353.wav": "It was considered shameful for a man of position to have rough, unkempt nails. Crimson-colored fingernails were greatly admired.",
  "sample_07354.wav": "I sleep no more, and I shall not crimson my nails. No joy shall ever again come upon my mind.",
  "sample_07355.wav": "Ladies often dye to the eyebrows black with the juice of some sort of berry.",
  "sample_07356.wav": "that the Irish missionary monks sometimes painted or dyed their eyelids black. An entry in Cormac's Glossary plainly indicates that the blush of the cheeks was sometimes heightened by a coloring matter obtained from the elder tree.",
  "sample_07357.wav": "and the sprigs and berries of the elder were applied to the same purpose. Among Greek and Roman ladies the practice was very general of painting the cheeks, eyebrows, and other parts of the face. Both men and women wore their hair long,",
  "sample_07358.wav": "The hair was combed daily after a bath. The heroes of the Fennah of Erin, before sitting down to their dinner after a hard day's hunting, always took a bath and carefully combed their long hair. Among the higher classes in the very early times,",
  "sample_07359.wav": "Great care was bestowed upon the hair. Its regulation consisted quite an art, and it was dressed up in several ways. Very often the long hair of men, as well as of women, was elaborately curled. Kurnick's hair, as described in the story of Daderga,",
  "sample_07360.wav": "flowed down his back and was done up in",
  "sample_07361.wav": "hooks and plates and swordlets.",
  "sample_07362.wav": "The accuracy of this and other similar descriptions is fully borne out by the most unquestionable authority of all, namely the figures in the early illuminated manuscripts and on the shrines and high crosses of later ages.",
  "sample_07363.wav": "In nearly all the figures of the Book of Kells, for example, 7th or 8th century, the hair is combed and dressed with the utmost care, so beautifully adjusted indeed that it could have been done only by skilled professional hairdressers.",
  "sample_07364.wav": "and must have occupied much time. Whether in case of men or women,",
  "sample_07365.wav": "and is commonly divided the whole way as well as all over the head into slender fillets or locks, which sometimes hang down to the eyes in front. I do not find mentioned anywhere that the Irish dyed their hair, as was the custom among the Greeks and Romans.",
  "sample_07366.wav": "The men were as particular about the beard as about the hair. The fashion of wearing the beard varied.",
  "sample_07367.wav": "and gradually narrowed down to two points below. Sometimes, as shown in many ancient figures, it falls down in a single mass, while in a few it is cut straight across at the bottom, not unlike Assyrian beards. Nearly all have a mustache.",
  "sample_07368.wav": "In most cases curled up and pointed at the ends as we often see now. In many the beard is carefully divided into slender twisted filets as described above for the hair. Kings and chiefs had barbers in their service to attend to all this.",
  "sample_07369.wav": "Razors were used made of bronze as hard as steel, as we know by finding them mentioned in Irish documents as early as the 8th century, and many old bronze razors are now preserved in museums.",
  "sample_07370.wav": "From what proceeds it will be understood that combs were in general use with men as well as with women, and many specimens of combs are now found in the remains of ancient dwellings. Bathing was very usual, at least among the upper classes.",
  "sample_07371.wav": "and baths and the use of baths are constantly mentioned in the Old Tales and other writings. In every public hostel, in every monastery, and in every high-class house, there was a bath with its accompaniments. Soap was used both in bathing and washing.",
  "sample_07372.wav": "the modes of manufacturing them will be mentioned. Silk and satin, which were of course imported, were much worn among the higher classes. The furs of animals such as seals, otters, badgers, foxes, etc. were much used for capes and jackets.",
  "sample_07373.wav": "and for the etchings of various garments, so that skins of all the various kinds were valuable. They formed, too, an important item of everyday traffic, and they were also exported. The ancient Irish loved bright colors.",
  "sample_07374.wav": "In this respect they resembled many other nations of antiquity, as well indeed as of the present day, and they illustrated Ruskin's saying,",
  "sample_07375.wav": "Whenever men are noble they love bright color.",
  "sample_07376.wav": "In sky, sea, flowers",
  "sample_07377.wav": "and we know that they well understood the art of dyeing. The several articles of dress on one person were usually colored differently. Even the single outer cloak was often striped, spotted, or checkered in various colors. King Domino in the 7th century",
  "sample_07378.wav": "on one occasion sent a many-colored tunic to his foster son, Prince Congel, like Joseph's coat of many colors. A very common article of dress was a large cloak, generally without sleeves, and a long",
  "sample_07379.wav": "varying in length but commonly covering the whole person from the shoulders down. The people also wore a tight-fitting coat with sleeves.",
  "sample_07380.wav": "but it was much shorter and without a collar.",
  "sample_07381.wav": "The summer passed away, and the bleak fall came. Miles had long since accepted his position, as one set apart from the others of his kind, and had resigned himself to the evident fact that he was never to serve in the household",
  "sample_07382.wav": "The other lads were sometimes occupied by their household duties when sports were afoot, in which they would like to have taken part. Miles was always free to enter into any matter of the kind after his daily exercise had been performed at the Pels, the Butts, or the Tilting Court.",
  "sample_07383.wav": "The Lady Anne, the daughter of the house, a tall, thin, dark-eyed, dark-haired, handsome young dame of 20 or 21 years of age, hawk-nosed like her father, and silent, proud, and haughty, Miles heard the Squires say.",
  "sample_07384.wav": "Lady Alice, the Earl of Macworth's niece and ward, a great heiress in her own right, a strikingly pretty black-eyed girl of fourteen or fifteen. These compose the Earl's personal family.",
  "sample_07385.wav": "But besides them was Lord George Beaumont, his Earl's brother, and him Miles soon came to know better than any of the chief people of the castle, excepting Sir James Lee. For since Miles' great battle in the Armory, Lord George\u2014",
  "sample_07386.wav": "for the princely nobles of those days lived in state little less royal than royalty itself. Most of the knights and gentlemen miles soon came to know by sight, meeting them in Lord George's apartments in the south wing of the great house.",
  "sample_07387.wav": "and some of them, following the lead of Lord George, singled him out for friendly notice, giving him a nod or a word in passing. Every season has its pleasures for boys, and the constant change that they bring is one of the greatest delights of boyhood's days.",
  "sample_07388.wav": "All of us, as we grow older, have in our memory pictures of bygone times that are somehow more than usually vivid, the colors of some not blurring by time as others do.",
  "sample_07389.wav": "One of which, in remembering, always filled Miles' heart in after years with an indefinable pleasure was the recollection of standing with others of his fellow squires, and the",
  "sample_07390.wav": "which, when the east wind was straining, flew low overhead to pitch to the lake in the forbidden precincts of the Deer Park beyond the brow of the hill.",
  "sample_07391.wav": "shot in their southward flight by the lads, and cooked by fat good-natured mother Joan, graced the rude mess-table of the squires in the long-hall. And even the toughest and fishiest Drake, so the fruit of their skill, had a savour that, somehow or other.",
  "sample_07392.wav": "the daintiest fair lacked in after years. Then fall passed, and winter came. Bleak, cold, dreary. Not winter as we know it nowadays, with warm fires and bright lights to make the long night sweet and cheerful with comfort.",
  "sample_07393.wav": "but winter with all its grimness and sternness. In the great cold stone-walled castles of those days, the only fire, and almost the only light, were those from the huge blazing logs that roared and crackled in the great open stone fireplace.",
  "sample_07394.wav": "around which the folks gathered, sheltering their faces as best they could from the scorching heat, and cloaking their shoulders from the biting cold. For at the farther end of the room, where giant shadows swayed and bowed and danced huge and black against the high walls,",
  "sample_07395.wav": "But at the best only rude stories and jests, recited by some strolling mummer or minstrel to the listening circle, gathered round the blaze in welcoming the coarse, gross jests and coarser, grosser songs with roars of boisterous laughter.",
  "sample_07396.wav": "Yet, bleak and dreary as was the winter in those days, and cold and biting as was the frost in the cheerless windy halls and corridors of the castle, it was not without its joys to the young lads. For then, as now, boys could find pleasure even in slushy weather.",
  "sample_07397.wav": "when the sod and snow is fit for nothing but to make snowballs of. Thrice that bitter winter the moat was frozen over, and the lads, making themselves skates of marrow-bones, which they bought from the hawk-cook at a groda-pair, went skimming over the smooth surface.",
  "sample_07398.wav": "while the crows and the jackdaws looked down at them from the top of the bleak grey walls. Then at Yuletide, which was somewhat of a rude semblance to the Merry Christmas season of our day, a great feast was held in the hall.",
  "sample_07399.wav": "and all the castle folk were fed in the presence of the earl and the countess. Oxen and sheep were roasted whole. Huge suet puddings made a barley meal sweetened with honey and stuffed with plums were boiled in great cauldrons in the open courtyard.",
  "sample_07400.wav": "Whole barrels of ale and Malmsey were broached, and all the folk, gentle and simple, were bidden to the feast. Afterwards, the minstrels danced and played a rude play, and in the evening a miracle show was performed on a raised platform in the North Hall.",
  "sample_07401.wav": "For a week afterwards the castle was fed upon the remains of the good things left from that great feast, until every one grew to loath fine victuals, and longed for honest beef and mustered again. Then at last in that constant change the winter was gone.",
  "sample_07402.wav": "And even the lads who had enjoyed its passing were glad when the winds blew warm once more, and the grass showed green in sunny places, and the leader of the wildfowl blew his horn, as they who in the fall had flown to the south flew arrow-like northward again.",
  "sample_07403.wav": "when the buds swelled and the leaves burst forth once more, and crocuses and then daffodils gleamed in the green grass like sparks and flames of gold. With the spring came the outdoor sports of the season, among others that of ball.",
  "sample_07404.wav": "for boys were boys, and played at ball even in those faraway days, a game called trap ball. Even yet in some parts of England it is played just as it was in Miles Falworth's day, and enjoyed just as Miles and his friends enjoyed it.",
  "sample_07405.wav": "So now that the sun was warm and the weather pleasant, the game of trap ball was in full swing every afternoon. The playground being an open space between the wall that surrounded the castle grounds and that of the privy garden.",
  "sample_07406.wav": "Miles himself was at the trap, bare-handed and bare-armed. The wind was blowing from behind him, and, aided perhaps by it, he had already struck three of four balls nearly the whole length of the court, an unusual distance.",
  "sample_07407.wav": "and several of the lads had gone back almost as far as the wall of the privy garden to catch any ball that might chance to fly as far as that. Then once more Miles struck, throwing all his strength into the blow. The ball shot up into the air,",
  "sample_07408.wav": "and when it fell, it was to drop within the privy garden. The shouts of the young players were instantly stilled, and Gascoigne, who stood nearest miles, thrust his hands into his belt, giving a long, shrill whistle.",
  "sample_07409.wav": "There be no more play for us until we get another ball.\" The out-feelers came slowly trooping in until they had gathered in a little circle around Miles. I could not help it, said Miles, in answer to their grumbling. How knew I the ball would fly so far?",
  "sample_07410.wav": "What gets thyself shot with a bolt betwixt the ribs, Like poor Dick and Cook? Of all places about the castle, The Privy Garden was perhaps the most sacred. It was a small plot of ground, Only a few rods long and wide.",
  "sample_07411.wav": "picked up on the sand at low water a flask covered with wicker, which had been cast up by the tide. This flask, covered with mold, was corked by a tarred bung. The soldier carried the waif to the kernel of the castle,",
  "sample_07412.wav": "and the Colonel sent it to the High Admiral of England. The Admiral meant the Admiralty. With waifs, the Admiralty meant Barclfadro. Barclfadro, having uncorked and emptied the bottle,",
  "sample_07413.wav": "carried it to the Queen. The Queen immediately took the matter into consideration. Two weighty counselors were instructed and consulted, namely the Lord Chancellor,",
  "sample_07414.wav": "We must not confound this Chancellor with his namesake and contemporary William Calper, the anatomist and commentator on Bidlew, who published a treatise on muscles in England",
  "sample_07415.wav": "A surgeon is a very different thing from a lord. Lord William Calpher is celebrated for having, with reference to the affair of Talbot Yelverton, this Count Longueville, propounded this opinion.",
  "sample_07416.wav": "that in the English Constitution the restoration of a peer is more important than the restoration of a king.",
  "sample_07417.wav": "the author of a maxim, delights and opportunities to which it may be applied. Here was a case of the restoration of a pier. Search was made. Gwen Plain, by the inscription over his door.",
  "sample_07418.wav": "was soon found. Neither was Harquinone dead. A prison rots a man, but preserves him, if to keep is to preserve.",
  "sample_07419.wav": "Hard-Gwenone was still in prison at Chatham. They had only to put their hands on him. He was transferred from Chatham to London. In the meantime, information was sought in Switzerland.",
  "sample_07420.wav": "The facts were found to be correct. They obtained from the local archives at Vevi at Lausanne, the certificate of Lord Linnaeus' marriage in exile, the certificate of his child's birth, the certificate of the deceased of the father and mother,",
  "sample_07421.wav": "and with that mole-like silence recommended and practiced by Bacon, and later on made law by Blackstone, for affairs connected with the Chancellorship and the State, and in matters termed Parliamentary.",
  "sample_07422.wav": "To those who have studied pathologically the cases of Caprice called Our Goodwill and Pleasure",
  "sample_07423.wav": "whose credit require the concealment of such acts, have allowed that to be written which endanger their success? The answer is... Cynicism. Hottie indifference. Oh?",
  "sample_07424.wav": "You believe that a frontiery is confined to abandoned women?",
  "sample_07425.wav": "Often, when it would be to a man's greatest advantage to escape from the hands of the police or the records of history, he would be caught in a trap. He would be caught in a trap. He would be caught in a trap.",
  "sample_07426.wav": "Look at my arm. Observe the design. I am Lacunaire. See a temple of love and a burning heart pierced through with an arrow.",
  "sample_07427.wav": "James II. A man commits a bad action and places his mark upon it. To fill up the measure of crime by a frontiery, to denounce himself, to cling to his misdeeds, is the insolent bravado of the criminal.",
  "sample_07428.wav": "Christina sees Model Deschi, had him confessed and assassinated, and said, I am the Queen of Sweden in the palace of the King of France.",
  "sample_07429.wav": "There is the tyrant who conceals himself, like Tiberius, and the tyrant who displays himself.",
  "sample_07430.wav": "He had, we know, a gay and open countenance, differing so far from Philip. Philip was sullen, James jovial. Both were equally ferocious.",
  "sample_07431.wav": "His crimes lay light upon his conscience. He was a monster by the grace of God. Therefore he had nothing to dissimulate nor to extenuate, and his assassinations were by divine right.",
  "sample_07432.wav": "He, too, would not have minded leaving behind him those archives of Semancas, with all his misdeeds dated, classified, labeled, and put in order, each in its compartment, like poisons in the cabinet of a chemist.",
  "sample_07433.wav": "To set the Sign Manual to Crimes is right royal. Every deed done is a draft drawn on the great invisible paymaster. A bill had just come due with the ominous endorsement.",
  "sample_07434.wav": "Yusu Regis. Queen Anne, in one particular, unfeminine, seeing that she could keep a secret, demanded a confidential report of so grave a matter from the Lord Chancellor.",
  "sample_07435.wav": "one of the kinds specified as Report to the Royal Ear. Reports of this kind had been common in all monarchies. At Vienna there was a Councillor of the Ear, an Aulic Dignitary.",
  "sample_07436.wav": "It was an ancient Karlovingian office, The auricularis of the old Palatine deeds. He who whispers to the Emperor. William, Baron Calver, Chancellor of England.",
  "sample_07437.wav": "whom the Queen believed in because he was short-sighted like herself, or even more so, had committed to writing a memorandum commencing thus. Two birds were subject to Solomon, a lapwing, the HUD-bud,",
  "sample_07438.wav": "The Lord Chancellor proved the fact that the air to appearance had been carried off, mutilated, and then restored.",
  "sample_07439.wav": "the Queen's father, he even went so far as to justify him. First, there are ancient monarchial maxims. E. sinirat tu erippimus, in raturagio cadat.",
  "sample_07440.wav": "Secondly, there is a royal right of mutilation.",
  "sample_07441.wav": "Happy and fortunate were the times when that most daring knight Don Quixote of La Mancha was sent into the world.",
  "sample_07442.wav": "but also of the tales and episodes contained in it, which are, in a measure no less pleasing, ingenious and truthful than the history itself, which resuming its thread, carded, spun and wound, relates that just as the curate was going to offer a consolation to Cardoneo,",
  "sample_07443.wav": "All this was heard distinctly by the curate and those with him, and as it seemed to them to be uttered close by, as indeed it was, they got up to look for the speaker, and before they had gone twenty paces they discovered, behind a rock seated at the foot of an ash-tree,",
  "sample_07444.wav": "a youth in the dress of a peasant, whose face they were unable at the moment to see as he was leaning forward, bathing his feet in the brook that flowed past. They approached so silently that he did not perceive them being fully occupied in bathing his feet.",
  "sample_07445.wav": "crush clods or to follow the plow and the oxen as their owner's dress suggested. And so finding, they had not been noticed. The curate, who was in front, made a sign to the other two to conceal themselves behind some fragments of rock that lay there.",
  "sample_07446.wav": "which they did observing closely what the youth was about. He had on a loose double-skirted dark brown jacket bound tight to his body with a white cloth. He wore beside breeches and gaiters of brown cloth and on his head a brown montera and",
  "sample_07447.wav": "As this is not Lucinda. It is no human creature but a divine being. The youth then took off the Monterra and, shaking his head from side to side there, broke loose and spread out a mass of hair that the beams of the sun might have envied.",
  "sample_07448.wav": "By this they knew that what had seemed a peasant was a lovely woman, nay the most beautiful the eyes of two of them had ever beheld, or even Cardenaios if they had not seen a known Lucinda.",
  "sample_07449.wav": "The long auburn tresses not only covered her shoulders, but such was their length and abundance, concealed her all round beneath their masses, so that except the feet nothing of her form was visible. She now used her hands as a comb.",
  "sample_07450.wav": "And if her feet had seemed like bits of crystal in the water, her hands looked like pieces of driven snow among her locks, all which increased not only the admiration of the three beholders, but their anxiety to learn who she was. With this object they resolved to show themselves.",
  "sample_07451.wav": "her delicate feet being unable to bear the roughness of the stones. Seeing which, the three hastened toward her, and the curate addressing her first said, Stay, Signora, whoever you may be, for those whom you see here only desire to be of service to you.",
  "sample_07452.wav": "You have no need to attempt a flight so heedless, for neither can your feet bear it nor we allow it.\" Taken by surprise, and bewildered, she made no reply to these words. They, however, came towards her, and the curate, taking her hand, went on to say,",
  "sample_07453.wav": "What your dress would hide, Signora, is made known to us by your hair, a clear proof that it can be no trifling cause that has disguised your beauty in a garb so unworthy of it, and sent it into solitude like these where we have had the good fortune to find you.",
  "sample_07454.wav": "if not to relieve your distress, at least to offer you comfort. For no distress, so long as life lasts, can be so oppressive, or reach such a height, as to make the sufferer refuse to listen to comfort offered with good intention. And so, Signora,",
  "sample_07455.wav": "But on the curate, addressing some further words, stood the same effect to her. Sighing deeply, she broke silence and said, Since the solitude of these mountains has been unable to conceal me, and that escape of my disheveled tresses will not allow my tongue to deal in falsehoods,",
  "sample_07456.wav": "It would be idle for me now to make any further pretense of what, if you were to believe me, you would believe more out of courtesy than for any other reason.",
  "sample_07457.wav": "This being so, I say I thank you, sirs, for the offer you have made me, which places me under the obligation of complying with the request you have made of me, though I fear the account I shall give you of my misfortunes will excite in you as much concern as compassion.",
  "sample_07458.wav": "for you will be unable to suggest anything to remedy them or any consolation to alleviate them. However, that my honor may not be left a matter of doubt in your minds, now that you have discovered me to be a woman,",
  "sample_07459.wav": "I feel bound to tell what I would willingly keep secret if I could. All this she who was now seen to be a lovely woman, delivered without any hesitation, with so much ease and in so sweet a voice that they were not less charmed by her intelligence than by her beauty.",
  "sample_07460.wav": "And as they again repeated their offers and entreaties to her to fulfill her promise, she, without further pressing, first modestly covering her feet and gathering up her hair, seated herself on a stone with the three placed around her, and",
  "sample_07461.wav": "After an effort to restrain some tears that came to her eyes in a clear and steady voice, began her story thus.",
  "sample_07462.wav": "Lowly in origin, but so wealthy that if birth had conferred as much on them as fortune, they would have had nothing left to desire. Nor should I have had reason to fear trouble like that in which I find myself now.",
  "sample_07463.wav": "For it may be that my ill-fortune came of theirs in that having been nobly born. It is true, they are not so low that they have any reason to be ashamed of their condition.",
  "sample_07464.wav": "They are, in short, peasants.",
  "sample_07465.wav": "And as the saying is, old rusty Christians, but so rich that by their wealth and free-handed way of life they are coming by degrees to be considered gentle folks by birth. And even by position.",
  "sample_07466.wav": "and as they have no other child to make their heir and are affectionate parents, I was one of the most indulged daughters that ever parents indulged.",
  "sample_07467.wav": "all their wishes centered, and mine were in accordance with theirs, for I knew their worth, and as I was mistress of their hearts, so was I also of their possessions. Through me they engaged or dismissed their servants.",
  "sample_07468.wav": "Through my hands past the accounts and returns of what was sown and reaped, The oil mills, the wine presses, the count of the flocks and herds, The beehives, all in short that a rich farmer like my father has or can have, I had under my care.",
  "sample_07469.wav": "For experience taught me that music soothes the troubled mind and relieves weariness of spirit. Such was the life I led in my parents' house, and if I had depicted it thus minutely, it is not out of ostentation, or to let you know that I am rich, but\u2014",
  "sample_07470.wav": "and unseen as I thought by any except the servants of the house. For when I went to Mass it was so early in the morning, and I was so closely attended by my mother and the women of the household, and\u2014",
  "sample_07471.wav": "Chapter 99, The Law. We have seen how quietly.",
  "sample_07472.wav": "The fact being that every one was too much occupied in his or her own affairs to think of theirs. We will leave the banker contemplating the enormous magnitude of his debt before the bankruptcy and follow the baroness.",
  "sample_07473.wav": "who after being momentarily crushed under the weight of the blow which had struck her, had gone to seek her usual advisor, Lucienne de Bray. The Baroness had looked forward to this marriage as a means of ridding her of a guardianship which, over a girl of Eugenie's character,",
  "sample_07474.wav": "For in the tacit relations which maintain the bond of family union, the mother, to maintain her ascendancy over her daughter, must never fail to be a model of wisdom and a type of perfection.",
  "sample_07475.wav": "An expression which seemed to imply that she understood all her mother's amorous and pecuniary relationships with that intimate secretary. Moreover,",
  "sample_07476.wav": "Not only because he was a source of dissension and scandal under the paternal roof, but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavours to withdraw from the appellation of men.",
  "sample_07477.wav": "Unfortunately, in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, and so is prevented from seeing in the same light as others. And Madame d'Anglard, therefore, very much regretted that the marriage of Eug\u00e9nie had not taken place.",
  "sample_07478.wav": "not only because the match was good, and likely to ensure the happiness of her child, but because it would also set her at liberty. She ran therefore to Debray, who, after having, like the rest of Paris, witnessed the contract scene and the scandal attending it,",
  "sample_07479.wav": "had retired in haste to his club where he was chatting with some friends upon the events which served as a subject of conversation for three-fourths of that city known as the capital of the world. At the precise time when Madame d'Anglard dressed in black and concealed in a long veil,",
  "sample_07480.wav": "was ascending the stairs leading to Debray's apartments.",
  "sample_07481.wav": "Debray was occupied in repelling the insinuations of a friend, who tried to persuade him to leave.",
  "sample_07482.wav": "Still, when he recollected the independent, proud spirit of Eug\u00e9nie, he positively rejected it as utterly impossible, though the same thought again continually recurred and found a resting place in his heart. T. Play.",
  "sample_07483.wav": "and the conversation which had become interesting during the discussion of such serious affairs.",
  "sample_07484.wav": "awaited the return of Debray in the little green room, seated between two baskets of flowers, which she had that morning sent, and which it must be confessed.",
  "sample_07485.wav": "with so much care that his absence was half excused in the eyes of the poor woman. At twenty minutes of twelve, Madame d'Anglard, tired of waiting, returned home. Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grazettes in one respect. They seldom return home after twelve o'clock.",
  "sample_07486.wav": "The Baroness returned to the hotel with as much caution as Eug\u00e9nie used in leaving it. She ran lightly upstairs, and with an aching heart entered her apartment, contiguous, as we know, to that of Eug\u00e9nie. She was fearful of exciting any remark, and she was not afraid to leave.",
  "sample_07487.wav": "and believed firmly in her daughter's innocence and fidelity to the paternal roof. She listened at Eugenie's door, and hearing no sound, tried to enter, but the bolts were in place. Madame d'Anglard then concluded that the young girl had been overcome with the terrible excitement of the evening.",
  "sample_07488.wav": "and had gone to bed and to sleep. She called the maid and questioned her. Madame was all eugenie, said the maid.",
  "sample_07489.wav": "after which they desired me to leave, saying that they needed me no longer.",
  "sample_07490.wav": "Madame d'Anglard, therefore, went to bed without a shadow of suspicion, and began to muse over the recent events. In proportion as her memory became clearer, the occurrences of the evening were revealed in their true light. What she had taken for confusion was a tumult.",
  "sample_07491.wav": "who had been afflicted with a severe blow through her husband and son. Eugenie, she said to herself, is lost, and so are we. The affair, as it will be reported, will cover us with shame.",
  "sample_07492.wav": "For in a society such as ours, satire inflicts a painful and incurable wound.",
  "sample_07493.wav": "and her glance was turned towards heaven.",
  "sample_07494.wav": "And out of a fault, nay, even a vice, sometimes produces a blessing. And then her thoughts, cleaving through space like a bird in the air, rested on Cavalcanti. This Andrea was a wretch, a robber, an assassin.",
  "sample_07495.wav": "and yet his manners showed the effects of a sort of education, if not a complete one.",
  "sample_07496.wav": "supported by an honorable name. How could she extricate herself from this labyrinth? To whom would she apply to help her out of this painful situation? Debray, to whom she had run, with the first instinct of a woman towards the man she loves, and who yet betrays her.",
  "sample_07497.wav": "Debray could but give her advice. She must apply to someone more powerful than he.",
  "sample_07498.wav": "But no, on reflection the procurer was not a merciless man, and it was not the magistrate, slave to his duties, but the friend, the loyal friend, who roughly but firmly cut into the very core of the corruption.",
  "sample_07499.wav": "It was not the executioner but the surgeon who wished to withdraw the honor of Denglar from ignominious association with the disgraced young man they had presented to the world as their son-in-law. And since Villa IV, the friend of Denglar had acted in this way.",
  "sample_07500.wav": "No one could suppose that he had been previously acquainted with, or had lent himself to, any of Andrea's intrigues.",
  "sample_07501.wav": "With her white paint and her scarlet smokestack, the Inverish Heel, one of the two small steamers that during the summer months plied up and down the lock, and incidentally carried on communication between Inverish Heel and Kryanon.",
  "sample_07502.wav": "was a picturesque addition to the landscape as she approached the wooden landing stage that stood half a mile below the promontory on which the castle was built. It was the morning of Friday, the day following the funeral.",
  "sample_07503.wav": "in spite of the brilliant sunset of the previous evening. The lock lay dark and still, its surface wore an oily, treacherous look. Every detail of the inverse shield's tub-like shape was reflected and beautifully distorted in the water.",
  "sample_07504.wav": "As the few passengers who were waiting for her crossed the short gangway, a shower burst over the lock and in a few minutes had driven everyone into the little cabin, except the two or three men who constituted the officers and crew of the steamer.",
  "sample_07505.wav": "One of these was in the act of slackening the rope by which the boat had been warped alongside, when a running, gesticulating figure appeared in the distance, shouting to them to wait for him. Waited for, accordingly, he was, and in a few minutes, Gimlet,",
  "sample_07506.wav": "Rather out of breath after his run, hurried on board and with a word of apology and thanks to the obliging skipper, turned like the other passengers towards the shelter of the cabin. With his hand on the knob of the door, he hesitated.",
  "sample_07507.wav": "Through the glass top he had just caught sight of a figure that seemed familiar. He had seen that tweed before. The short girl with her back to him was wearing the dress in which he had seen her on the Wednesday night.",
  "sample_07508.wav": "searching among Lord Ashiel's papers in the library at the castle. It was Julia Romaninoff beyond a doubt, and Gimlet drew back quickly and took up his position behind the funnels on the afterdeck.",
  "sample_07509.wav": "In spite of the rain, he remained there until the boat reached Kryanon, leaning against the rail with his collar turned up and his soft felt hat pulled down over his ears, so that little of him was visible except the tip of his nose.",
  "sample_07510.wav": "His mind, always active, was busier than usual as he watched the ripples roll away in endless succession from the sides of the invarishial, which looked so strangely less white on closer inspection.",
  "sample_07511.wav": "or followed the smooth, soaring movements of the gulls that swooped and circled around her.",
  "sample_07512.wav": "As they drew near to Kryanon, he concealed himself still more carefully behind a pile of crates. And not till Miss Romaninoff had left the steamer did he emerge from his hiding place and step warily off the boat.",
  "sample_07513.wav": "The young lady was still in sight, making her way up the steep pitch of the main street, and the detective followed her discreetly, loitering before shop windows, as if fascinated by the display of Scottish homespuns.",
  "sample_07514.wav": "or samples of Royal Stuart Tartan, and taking an extraordinary interest in fishing tackle and trout flies. But, though the girl looked back more than once, the little man in the ulster who was so intent on picking his way between the puddles,",
  "sample_07515.wav": "did not apparently provide her with any food for suspicions, and she made no attempt to see who was so carefully sheltered beneath the umbrella he carried. At last they left the cobblestones of the little town and emerged upon the high road.",
  "sample_07516.wav": "which here ran across the open moorland. It was difficult now to continue the pursuit unobserved, and Gimlet became absorbed in the contemplation of an enormous Cairngorm.",
  "sample_07517.wav": "which was masquerading as an article of personal adornment in the window of the last outlying shop. From this position, not without its embarrassments, since a couple of barefooted children came instantly to the door, where they stood and stared at him unblinkingly,",
  "sample_07518.wav": "He saw the Russian advancing at a rapid pace across the moor, and look where he would, could perceive no means of keeping up with her unobserved upon the bare side of the hill. Just as he decided that the distance separating them had increased to an extens-",
  "sample_07519.wav": "which warranted his continuing the chase, he joyfully saw her slack in her pace, and at the same moment a man, who must have been sitting behind a boulder beside the road, rose to his feet out of the heather, and came forward to meet her.",
  "sample_07520.wav": "For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimlet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the Cairngorm. It is humiliating to relate that he recoiled before it when it was placed in his hand.",
  "sample_07521.wav": "nearly fled again into the road. However, he pulled himself together and held the proud proprietess, a gaunt gray-haired woman with knitting needles ever clicking in her dexterous hands.",
  "sample_07522.wav": "in conversation upon the theme of its unique beauties until the subject was exhausted to the point of collapse. Every other minute he must stroll to the door and take a look up and down the road. A friend, he explained, had promised to meet him in that place.",
  "sample_07523.wav": "And though the shopwoman plainly doubted his veracity and kept a sharp eye that he did not take to his heels with the Cairngorm, she did not go so far as to suggest his removing himself from the zone of temptation.",
  "sample_07524.wav": "At last, when for the twentieth time he put his nose round the door post, he saw that the pair had separated and were walking in opposite directions, the girl continuing on her way, while the man returned to the town.",
  "sample_07525.wav": "He was indeed not a hundred yards off. Gimlet plunged once more into the shop and fastened upon some pencils with a zeal not very convincing after his disappointing vacillation over the brooch.",
  "sample_07526.wav": "which she pressed upon him as particularly suited to his needs, and charged him four pence for. By the time he issued forth into the open air, his pockets full of packages, the stranger had passed the shop and was turning the corner of the next house.",
  "sample_07527.wav": "To him now Gimlet devoted his powers of shadowing. There was no great difficulty about it. The man walked straight before him, looking neither to the right nor to the left.",
  "sample_07528.wav": "narrow, pointed footprints that were deeply impressed in the muddy places. He had no doubt they were the same as those he had noticed on the beach on the day of his arrival at Inverish Hill.",
  "sample_07529.wav": "The stranger turned into the Kryanen Hotel, which stands on the lakefront, 50 yards from the landing place of the lock steamers. Gimlet passed the door without pausing and went down to the lock where he mingled with the boatmen and loafers who congregated by the waterside.",
  "sample_07530.wav": "He kept, however, a strict eye on the door of the hotel, and after a quarter of an hour saw the object of his attentions emerge with fishing rod and basket.",
  "sample_07531.wav": "Chapter 3 The Awakening But warming was wrong in that an awakening came What a wonderfully complex thing this simple seeming unity",
  "sample_07532.wav": "The Self, who can trace its reintegration, as morning after morning we awaken, the flux and confluence of its countless factors interweaving, rebuilding, the dim first stirrings of the soul.",
  "sample_07533.wav": "the growth and synthesis of the unconscious to the subconscious, the subconscious to dawning consciousness, until at last we recognize ourselves again. And as it happens to most of us after the night's sleep,",
  "sample_07534.wav": "So it was with Graham at the end of his vast slumber. A dim cloud of sensation taking shape, a cloudy dreariness, and he found himself vaguely somewhere recumbent, faint, but alive.",
  "sample_07535.wav": "The pilgrimage towards a personal being seemed to traverse vast gulfs, to occupy epics, gigantic dreams that were terrible realities at the time.",
  "sample_07536.wav": "left vague perplexing memories, strange creatures, strange scenery, as if from another planet. There was a distinct impression, too, of a momentous conversation, of a name.",
  "sample_07537.wav": "He could not tell what name that was subsequently to recur, of some queer, long-forgotten sensation of vein and muscle, of a feeling of vast, hopeless effort.",
  "sample_07538.wav": "the effort of a man near drowning in darkness. Then came a panorama of dazzling, unstable, confluent scenes. Graham became aware that his eyes were open.",
  "sample_07539.wav": "and regarding some unfamiliar thing. It was something white, the edge of something, a frame of wood. He moved his head slightly, following the contour of this shape.",
  "sample_07540.wav": "It went up beyond the top of his eyes. He tried to think where he might be. Did it matter, seeing he was so wretched?",
  "sample_07541.wav": "He felt the featureless misery of one who wakes towards the hour of dawn. He had an uncertain sense of whispers and footsteps hastily receding.",
  "sample_07542.wav": "The movement of his head involved a perception of extreme physical weakness. He supposed he was in bed in the hotel at the place in the valley, but he could not recall that white edge. He must have slept.",
  "sample_07543.wav": "He remembered now that he had wanted to sleep. He recalled the cliff and waterfall again, and then recollected something about talking to a passerby. How long had he slept?",
  "sample_07544.wav": "What was that sound of pattering feet? And that rise and fall, like the murmur of breakers on pebbles? He put out a languid hand to reach his watch from the chair whereon it was his habit to place it.",
  "sample_07545.wav": "and touched some smooth, hard surface like glass. This was so unexpected that it startled him extremely. Quite suddenly he rolled over, stared for a moment, and struggled into a sitting position.",
  "sample_07546.wav": "The effort was unexpectedly difficult, and it left him giddy and weak and amazed. He rubbed his eyes. The riddle of his surroundings was confusing.",
  "sample_07547.wav": "but his mind was quite clear. Evidently his sleep had benefited him. He was not in a bed at all as he understood the word, but lying naked on a very soft and yielding mattress.",
  "sample_07548.wav": "in a trough of dark glass. The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him grayly.",
  "sample_07549.wav": "About his arm, and he saw with a shock that his skin was strangely dry and yellow, was bound a curious apparatus of rubber bound so cunningly",
  "sample_07550.wav": "that it seemed to pass into his skin above and below. And this bed was placed in a case of greenish-colored glass, as it seemed to him, a bar in the white framework of which had first arrested his attention.",
  "sample_07551.wav": "In the corner of the case was a stand of glittering and delicately made apparatus. For the most part, quite strange appliances, though a maximum and minimum thermometer was recognizable.",
  "sample_07552.wav": "The slightly greenish tint of the glass-like substance which surrounded him on every hand obscured what lay behind, but he perceived it was a vast apartment of splendid appearance.",
  "sample_07553.wav": "and with a very large and simple white archway facing him. Close to the walls of the cage were articles of furniture, a table covered with a silvery cloth, silvery like the sides of a fish.",
  "sample_07554.wav": "a couple of graceful chairs, and on the table a number of dishes with substances piled on them, a bottle and two glasses. He realized that he was intensely hungry. He could see no one.",
  "sample_07555.wav": "and after a period of hesitation scrambled off the translucent mattress and tried to stand on the clean white floor of his little apartment. He had miscalculated his strength however.",
  "sample_07556.wav": "and staggered and put his hand against the glass like pain before him to steady himself. For a moment it resisted his hand, bending outward like a distended bladder. Then it broke with a slight report.",
  "sample_07557.wav": "vanished, a pricked bubble. He reeled out into the general space of the hall, greatly astonished. He caught at the table to save himself, knocking one of the glasses to the floor.",
  "sample_07558.wav": "It rang but did not break, and sat down in one of the arm-chairs. When he had a little recovered, he filled the remaining glass from the bottle and drank. A colorless liquid it was, but not water.",
  "sample_07559.wav": "with a pleasing faint aroma and taste and a quality of immediate support and stimulus. He put down the vessel and looked about him.",
  "sample_07560.wav": "The apartment lost none of its size and magnificence now that the greenish transparency that had intervened was removed. The archway he saw led to a flight of steps, going downward without the intermediation of a door.",
  "sample_07561.wav": "This book owes its origin to the fact that in the autumn of 1921, the authorities of Manchester College, Oxford, invited me to deliver the inaugural course of electorship in religion newly established under the will of the late Professor Upton.",
  "sample_07562.wav": "No conditions being attached to this appointment, it seemed a suitable opportunity to discuss, so far as possible in the language of the moment, some of the implicits which I believe to underlie human effort.",
  "sample_07563.wav": "and achievement in the domain of the spiritual life. The material gathered for this purpose has now been added to, revised, and to some extent rewritten.",
  "sample_07564.wav": "or who are offended by the resulting demonstrations of continuity between our most homely and the most lofty reactions to the universe, might take to themselves the plain words of Thomas Achempas, Thou art a man and not God, thou art flesh.",
  "sample_07565.wav": "and no angel. Since my subject is not the splendor of historic sanctity, but the normal life of the Spirit, as it may be, and is lived in the here and now,",
  "sample_07566.wav": "No attention has been given to those abnormal experiences and states of consciousness, which too often regarded as specially mystical, are now recognized by all competent students as representing the unfortunate accidents.",
  "sample_07567.wav": "rather than the abiding substance of spirituality. Readers of these pages will find nothing about trances, ecstasies, and other rare psychic phenomena, which sometimes indicate holiness, and sometimes only disease.",
  "sample_07568.wav": "For information on these matters, they must go to larger and more technical works. My aim here is the more general one, of indicating first the characteristic experiences, discoverable within all great religions.",
  "sample_07569.wav": "which justify or are fundamental to the spiritual life, and the way in which these experiences may be accommodated to the world view of the modern man, and, next, the nature of that spiritual life as it appears in human history.",
  "sample_07570.wav": "The succeeding sections of the book treat in some detail the light cast on spiritual problems by mental analysis, a process which need not necessarily be conducted from the standpoint of a degraded materialism.",
  "sample_07571.wav": "and, by recent work on the psychology of autistic thought and of suggestion. These investigations have a practical interest for every man who desires to be the captain of his soul.",
  "sample_07572.wav": "The relation in which institutional religion does or should stand to the spiritual life is also in part a matter for psychology, which is here called upon to deal with the religious aspect of the social instincts.",
  "sample_07573.wav": "and the problems surrounding symbols and cults. These chapters lead up to a discussion of the personal aspect of the spiritual life, its curve of growth, characters and activities,",
  "sample_07574.wav": "and a further section suggests some ways in which educationists might promote the up-springing of this life in the young. Finally, the last chapter attempts to place the fact of the life of the spirit in its relation to the social order.",
  "sample_07575.wav": "and to indicate some of the results which might follow upon its healthy corporate development. It is superfluous to point out that each of these subjects needs at least a volume to itself.",
  "sample_07576.wav": "warm gratitude first to the principal and authorities of Manchester College who gave me the opportunity of delivering these chapters in their original form and whose unfailing sympathy and kindness so greatly helped me.",
  "sample_07577.wav": "Psychology and the Life of the Spirit 2 Contemplation and Suggestion",
  "sample_07578.wav": "Chapter 2 Roses and Thorns By the soft green light in the woody glade, On the banks of moss where thy childhood played, By the household tree.",
  "sample_07579.wav": "Her mother had been detained at home by a multitude of half-reasons, none of which anybody fully understood, except Mr. Hale, who was perfectly aware that all his arguments in favor of a gray satin gown.",
  "sample_07580.wav": "which was midway between oldness and newness, had proved unavailing, and that, as he had not the money to equip his wife afresh from top to toe, she would not show herself, at her only sister's, only child's, wedding.",
  "sample_07581.wav": "If Mrs. Shaw had guessed at the real reason why Mrs. Hale did not accompany her husband, she would have showered down gowns upon her. But it was nearly twenty years since Mrs. Shaw had been the poor, pretty Miss Beresford.",
  "sample_07582.wav": "And she had really forgotten all grievances, except that of the unhappiness arising from disparity of age and married life, on which she could descant by the half hour. Just Maria had married the man of her heart.",
  "sample_07583.wav": "only eight years older than herself, with the sweetest temper, and that blue-black hair one so seldom sees. Mr. Hale was one of the most delightful preachers she had ever heard, and a perfect model of a parish priest.",
  "sample_07584.wav": "Perhaps it was not quite a logical deduction from all these premises, but it was still Mrs. Shaw's characteristic conclusion, as she thought over her sister's lot.",
  "sample_07585.wav": "Mrs. Hale, if she spoke truth, might have answered with a ready-made list.",
  "sample_07586.wav": "a white-chip bonnet, oh, dozens of things for the wedding, and hundreds of things for the house. Margaret only knew that her mother had not found it convenient to come.",
  "sample_07587.wav": "And she was not sorry to think that their meeting and greeting would take place at Helston Parsonage, rather than during the confusion of the last two or three days in the house on Harley Street, where she herself had had to play the part of Figaro.",
  "sample_07588.wav": "and was wanted everywhere at one in the same time. Her mind and body ached now with the recollection of all she had done and said within the last 48 hours. The farewells so hurriedly taken, amongst all the other goodbyes,",
  "sample_07589.wav": "of those she had lived with so long, oppressed her now with a sad regret for the times that were no more. It did not signify what those times had been. They were gone, never to return. Its heart felt more heavy.",
  "sample_07590.wav": "the place and the life she had longed for for years, at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.",
  "sample_07591.wav": "Who can blame her for giving way to the subdued happiness that succeeded? Not I, not you, if you speak truly. The passion that controlled her may not be popular under a strictly Puritan standard.",
  "sample_07592.wav": "universal, and irresistible, telling us that father, mother, sister, and brother are all to be forsaken for that love illimitable.",
  "sample_07593.wav": "Do not reproach the young Creole because this passion was paramount in her soul. Do not blame her for feeling pleasure amidst moments that should otherwise have been devoted to sadness.",
  "sample_07594.wav": "nor that her happiness was heightened on learning from the astonished spectators how her lover's life had been preserved, as it might seem miraculously. The aim of the assassin",
  "sample_07595.wav": "had been true enough. He must have felt sure of it before turning the muzzle towards his own temples and firing the bullet that had lodged in his brain.",
  "sample_07596.wav": "Right over the heart he had hit his intended victim, and through the heart would the leaden missile have made its way.",
  "sample_07597.wav": "The gift of her who alone could have secured it such a place turned aside the shot, causing it to ricochet. Not harmlessly, however.",
  "sample_07598.wav": "With the mental and corporeal excitement long sustained, did not fail to produce its effect, and the mind of Maurice Gerald once more returned to its delirious dreaming.",
  "sample_07599.wav": "But no longer lay his body in danger, In the chaparral surrounded by wolves, And shadowed by soaring vultures, In a hut where he was but ill attended.",
  "sample_07600.wav": "in a jail where he was scarce cared for at all. When again restored to consciousness, it was to discover that the fair vision of his dreams was no vision at all, but a lovely woman.",
  "sample_07601.wav": "The spirit of the aristocratic planter, steeped in sorrow and humiliated by misfortune, had become purged of its false pride. So it needed not this to make him willingly acquiesce in an alliance.",
  "sample_07602.wav": "which instead of a nobody gave him a nobleman for his son. Such in reality was Sir Maurice Gerald, first known as Maurice the Mustanger. In Texas,",
  "sample_07603.wav": "The title would have counted for little, nor did its owner care to carry it. But by a bit of good fortune, not always attendant on an Irish baronetcy,",
  "sample_07604.wav": "It carried along with it an endowment ample enough to clear Casa del Corvo of the mortgage held by the late Cassius Calhoun and claimed by his nearest of kin. This was not Woodley Poindexter.",
  "sample_07605.wav": "For after Calhoun's death it was discovered that the ex-captain had once been a Benedict, and there was a young scion of his stock living in New Orleans who had the legal right to say he was his son.",
  "sample_07606.wav": "It mattered not to Maurice Gerald, who now clear of every entanglement, became the husband of the fair Creole. After a visit to his native land, including the European tour, he was able to get a good",
  "sample_07607.wav": "Louise Poindexter, Lady Gerald, she must now be called, during her sojourn in the Emerald Isle saw nothing to excite her to jealousy. Only once again did this fell passion",
  "sample_07608.wav": "take possession of her spirit, and then only in the shape of a shadow soon to pass away. It was one day when her husband came home to the hacienda, bearing in his arms the body of a beautiful woman.",
  "sample_07609.wav": "not yet dead, though the blood streaming from the wound in her bared bosom showed she had not longed to live. To the question, who has done this? She was only able to answer, Diaz.",
  "sample_07610.wav": "Diaz. It was the last utterance of",
  "sample_07611.wav": "Covarrubio Delos Llanos.",
  "sample_07612.wav": "whose story she now better comprehended. She even assisted her lord in the saddling of his red bay steed, and encouraged him in the pursuit of the assassin.",
  "sample_07613.wav": "She joyed to see the latter led back at the end of a lasso, held in the hand of her husband, and refused to interfere when a band of regulators, called hastily together,",
  "sample_07614.wav": "dealt out summary chastisement by hanging him to a tree. It was not cruelty, only a crude kind of justice, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.",
  "sample_07615.wav": "And what a poor compensation it seemed to those who had taken part in extracting it! As they stood gazing upon the remains of the villain and his victim, the swarth ruffian dangling from the branch above.",
  "sample_07616.wav": "and the fair form lying underneath, the hearts of the Texans were touched as perhaps they had never been before. There was a strange thought passing through their minds.",
  "sample_07617.wav": "A sadness independent of that caused by the spectacle of a murder. It was regret at having so hastily dispatched the assassin. Beautiful even in death was Isadora. Such features as she possessed.",
  "sample_07618.wav": "at length, going with thoughts not altogether sacred. In the physical world, time is accounted the destroyer, though in the moral it is off the",
  "sample_07619.wav": "Nowhere has it affected greater changes than in Texas during the last decade, and especially",
  "sample_07620.wav": "Plantations have sprung up where late the chaparral thickly covered the earth, and cities stand where the wild steed once roamed over a pathless prairie.",
  "sample_07621.wav": "Seven days had passed since Prince Andrew found himself in the ambulance station on the field of Boror de Nau. His feverish state and the inflammation of his bowels, which were injured,",
  "sample_07622.wav": "were in the doctor's opinion sure to carry him off. But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower. He had regained consciousness that morning. The first night after they left Moscow.",
  "sample_07623.wav": "had been fairly warm and he had remained in the kalesh, but at Matishi the wounded man himself asked to be taken out and given some tea. The pain caused by his removal into the hut had made him groan aloud and again lose consciousness.",
  "sample_07624.wav": "When he had been placed on his camp bed he lay for a long time motionless with closed eyes. Then he opened them and whispered softly, And the T. His remembering such a small detail of everyday life astonished the doctor.",
  "sample_07625.wav": "He felt Prince Andrew's pulse, and to his surprise and dissatisfaction, found it had improved. He was dissatisfied because he knew by experience that, if his patient did not die now, he would do so a little later with great suffering.",
  "sample_07626.wav": "Tamakin, the red-nosed major of Prince Andrew's regiment, had joined him in Moscow and was being taken along with him, having been wounded in the leg at the Battle of Borodino. They were accompanied by a doctor.",
  "sample_07627.wav": "Prince Andrew's valet, his coachmen, and two orderlies. They gave Prince Andrew some tea. He drank it eagerly, looking with feverish eyes at the door in front of him, as if trying to understand and remember something.",
  "sample_07628.wav": "I don't want anymore. Is Tamakin here?\" He asked. Tamakin crept along the bench to him. I'm here, your excellency. How's your wound? Mine, sir.",
  "sample_07629.wav": "Prince Andrew again pondered, as if trying to remember something. Couldn't one get a book? he asked. What book? The Gospels. I haven't one. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have. I have.",
  "sample_07630.wav": "The doctor promised to procure it for him and began to ask how he was feeling. Prince Andrew answered all his questions reluctantly, but reasonably.",
  "sample_07631.wav": "and then said he wanted a bolster placed under him, as he was uncomfortable and in great pain. The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered, and making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh,",
  "sample_07632.wav": "that came from the wound began examining that dreadful place. The doctor was very much displeased about something and made a change in the dressings turning the wounded man over so that he groaned again and grew unconscious and delirious from the agony.",
  "sample_07633.wav": "He kept asking them to get him the book and put it under him. What trouble would it be to you? He said.",
  "sample_07634.wav": "He pleaded in a piteous voice. The doctor went into the passage to wash his hands. You fellows have no conscience, said he to the valet who was pouring water over his hands.",
  "sample_07635.wav": "that I wonder how he can bear it.\" \"'By the Lord Jesus Christ, I thought we had put something under him,' said the valet. The first time Prince Andrew understood where he was and what was the matter with him, and remembered being wounded and how.",
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  "sample_07637.wav": "and above all vividly remembered the moment at the ambulance station when, at the sight of the sufferings of a man he disliked, those new thoughts had come to him, which promised him happiness. And those...",
  "sample_07638.wav": "thoughts, though now vague and indefinite, again possessed his soul. He remembered that he had now a new source of happiness, and that this happiness had something to do with the gospels. That was why he had asked for a copy of them.",
  "sample_07639.wav": "The uncomfortable position in which they had put him and turned him over again confused his thoughts, and when he came to himself a third time it was in the complete stillness of the night. Everybody near him was sleeping. A cricket chirped from across the passage.",
  "sample_07640.wav": "Someone was shouting and singing in the street. Cockroaches rustled on the table, on the icons, and on the walls, and a big fly flopped at the head of the bed and around the candle beside him, the wick of which was charred and had shaped itself like a mushroom.",
  "sample_07641.wav": "His mind was not in a normal state. A healthy man usually thinks of, feels, and remembers innumerable things simultaneously, but has the power and will to select one sequence of thoughts or events on which to fix his whole attention.",
  "sample_07642.wav": "A healthy man can tear himself away from the deepest reflections to say a civil word to someone who comes in and can then return again to his own thoughts.",
  "sample_07643.wav": "All the powers of his mind were more active and clearer than ever, but they acted apart from his will. Most diverse thoughts and images occupied him simultaneously. At times, his brain suddenly began to work with a vigor, clearness, and depth",
  "sample_07644.wav": "it had never reached when he was in health, but suddenly in the midst of its work it would turn to some unexpected idea, and he had not the strength to turn it back again. Yes, a new happiness was revealed to me, of which man cannot be deprived.",
  "sample_07645.wav": "He thought as he lay in the semi-darkness of the quiet hut, gazing fixedly before him with feverish, wide-open eyes. A happiness lying beyond material forces, outside the material influences that act on man.",
  "sample_07646.wav": "Every man can understand it, but to conceive it and enjoy it was possible only for God. But how did God enjoin that law? And why was the sun... And suddenly the sequence of these thoughts broke off.",
  "sample_07647.wav": "And Prince Andrew heard, without knowing whether it was a delusion or reality, a soft whispering voice, incessantly and rhythmically repeating pity pity pity and then",
  "sample_07648.wav": "and T T once more. At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters.",
  "sample_07649.wav": "to the sound of this whispered music. He felt that he had to balance carefully, though it was difficult, so that this airy structure should not collapse. But nevertheless, it kept collapsing, and again slowly rising to the sound of",
  "sample_07650.wav": "whispered rhythmic music. It stretches, stretches, spreading out and stretching, said Prince Andrew to himself, while listening to this whispering and feeling the sensation of this drying out and the construction of this edifice of needles.",
  "sample_07651.wav": "They did not accompany each other to the doors of their chosen victims, feeling sure that together they could not approach the subject seriously. But they parted at the gate of each house, the one holding the horse while the other took the soap samples.",
  "sample_07652.wav": "and interviewed any one who seemed of a coming-on disposition. Emma Jane had disposed of three single cakes, Rebecca of three small boxes, for a difference in their ability to persuade the public was clearly defined at the start.",
  "sample_07653.wav": "though neither of them ascribed either success or defeat to anything but the imperious force of circumstances. Housewives looked at Emma Jane, and desired no soap, listened to her description of its merits, and still desired none.",
  "sample_07654.wav": "Other stars in their courses governed Rebecca's doings. The people whom she interviewed either remembered their present need of soap, or reminded themselves that they would need it in the future. The notable point in the case being...",
  "sample_07655.wav": "that Lucky Rebecca accomplished with almost no effort, results that poor little Emma Jane failed to attain by hard and conscientious labor. It's your turn, Rebecca, and I'm glad too, said Emma Jane.",
  "sample_07656.wav": "drawing up to a gateway and indicating a house that was set a considerable distance from the road. I haven't got over trembling from the last place yet. A lady had put her head out of an upstairs window and called.",
  "sample_07657.wav": "Go away, little girl. Whatever you have in your box, we don't want any. I don't know who lives here, and the blinds are all shut in front. If there's nobody at home you mustn't count it. But take the next house as yours.",
  "sample_07658.wav": "Rebecca walked up the lane and went to the side door. There was a porch there, and seated in a rocking chair, husking corn, was a good-looking young man. Or was he middle-aged? Rebecca could not make up her mind.",
  "sample_07659.wav": "At all events he had an air of the city about him\u2014well-shaven face, well-trimmed mustache, well-fitting clothes. Rebecca was a trifle shy at this unexpected encounter, but there was nothing to be done but explain her presence.",
  "sample_07660.wav": "So she asked, Is the lady of the house at home? I am the lady of the house at present, said the stranger, with a whimsical smile. What can I do for you? Have you ever heard of the, would you like, or I mean...",
  "sample_07661.wav": "\"'Do you need any soap?' queried Rebecca. \"'Do I look as if I did?' he responded unexpectedly. Rebecca dimpled. \"'I didn't mean that. \"'I have some soap to sell.'",
  "sample_07662.wav": "I mean, I would like to introduce to you a very remarkable soap, the best now on the market. It is called the\u2014 \"'Oh, I must know that soap,' said the gentleman genially. Made out of pure vegetable fats, isn't it?",
  "sample_07663.wav": "The very purest corroborated Rebecca. No acid in it? Not a trace. And yet a child could do the Monday washing with it and use no force? A babe corrected Rebecca.",
  "sample_07664.wav": "Wise child! This was great good fortune to find a customer who knew all the virtues of the article in advance. Rebecca dimpled more and more, and at her new friend's invitation sat down on a stool at his side near the edge of the porch.",
  "sample_07665.wav": "and the prices of both that and the Snow White were unfolded. Presently she forgot all about her silent partner at the gate, and was talking as if she had known this grand personage all her life.",
  "sample_07666.wav": "I'm keeping house today, but I don't live here, explain the delightful gentleman. I'm just on a visit to my aunt, who has gone to Portland. I used to be here as a boy, and I am very fond of this spot.",
  "sample_07667.wav": "I don't think anything takes the place of the farm where one lived when one was a child, observed Rebecca, nearly bursting with pride at having at last successfully used the indefinite pronoun in general conversation.",
  "sample_07668.wav": "So you consider your childhood a thing of the past, do you, young lady?\" \"'I can still remember it,' answered Rebecca gravely, though it seems a long time ago.",
  "sample_07669.wav": "I can remember mine well enough, and a particularly unpleasant one it was, said the stranger. So is mine, sighed Rebecca. What was your worst trouble? Lack of food and clothes, principally.",
  "sample_07670.wav": "\"'O'!\" exclaimed Rebecca sympathetically, \"'Mine was no shoes, and too many babies, and not enough books.' \"'But you're all right and happy now, aren't you?' she asked doubtfully, for though he looked handsome, well-fed and prosperous.",
  "sample_07671.wav": "Any child could see that his eyes were tired, and his mouth was sad when he was not speaking. I'm doing pretty well, thank you, said the man, with a delightful smile.",
  "sample_07672.wav": "How much has your aunt on hand now suggested the very modest and inexperienced agent? And how much would she need?",
  "sample_07673.wav": "\"'I'm not certain,' said Rebecca conscientiously, \"'but I'll look in the circular. It's sure to tell.' And she drew the document from her pocket. What are you going to do with the magnificent profits you get from this business?\"",
  "sample_07674.wav": "\"'We are not selling for our own benefit,' said Rebecca confidentially. \"'My friend who is holding the horse at the gate is the daughter of a very rich blacksmith, and doesn't need any money.'",
  "sample_07675.wav": "We were trying to get a premium for some friends of ours.\" Rebecca had never thought of alluding to the circumstances with her previous customers, but unexpectedly she found herself describing Mr. Simpson, Mrs. Simpson and the Simpson family.",
  "sample_07676.wav": "their poverty, their joyless life, and their abject need of a banquet lamp to brighten their existence. You needn't argue that point left the man as he stood up to get a glimpse of the rich blacksmith's daughter at the gate.",
  "sample_07677.wav": "I can see that they ought to have it if they want it, and especially if you want them to have it. I've known what it was myself to do without a banquet lamp. Now give me the circular and let's do some figuring. How much do the Simpsons lack at this moment?",
  "sample_07678.wav": "If they sell two hundred more cakes this month than next, they can have the lamp by Christmas,\" Rebecca answered, and they can get a shade by summer time, but I'm afraid I can't help very much after today, because my Aunt Miranda may not like to have me.",
  "sample_07679.wav": "I see. Well, that's alright. I'll take 300 cakes and that will give them shade and all.",
  "sample_07680.wav": "tipped over, and disappeared into a clump of lilac bushes. It was a very short distance, fortunately, and the amused capitalist picked her up, set her on her feet, and brushed her off. You should never seem surprised when you have taken a large order,\" said he.",
  "sample_07681.wav": "Why, Mr. Cropper changed his mind. Well, Miss Maxwell, how did you get along today? Asked Mr. Baxter affably when the new teacher came to the table. She was a slight, dark girl, rather plain looking.",
  "sample_07682.wav": "but with a smart, energetic way. Mr. Baxter approved of her. He liked her style, as he would have said. The summer term had just opened in the Maitland district. Esther Maxwell was a stranger.",
  "sample_07683.wav": "but she was a capable girl, and had no doubt of her own ability to get and keep the school in good working order. She smiled brightly at Mr. Baxter. Very well for a beginning. The children seemed right and teachable.",
  "sample_07684.wav": "and not hard to control.\" Mr. Baxter nodded. \"'There are no bad children in the school except the cropper boys, and they can be good enough if they like. Reckon they weren't there to-day?' \"'No.'",
  "sample_07685.wav": "Well, Miss Maxwell, I think it only fair to tell you that you may have trouble with those boys when they do come. Forewarned is forearmed, you know. Mr. Cropper was opposed to our hiring you.",
  "sample_07686.wav": "Not of course that he had any personal objection to you, but he is set against female teachers, and when a cropper is set there is nothing on earth can change him. He says female teachers can't keep order.",
  "sample_07687.wav": "They know he'll back them up in secret no matter what they do, just to prove his opinions. Cropper is sly and slippery, and it is hard to corner him.\" Are the boys big? queried Esther anxiously.",
  "sample_07688.wav": "Yes, thirteen and fourteen and big for their age. You can't whip them. That is the trouble. A man might, but they twist you around their fingers. You'll have your hands full, I'm afraid.",
  "sample_07689.wav": "But maybe they'll behave all right after all. Mr. Baxter privately had no hope that they would, but Esther hoped for the best. She could not believe that Mr. Cropper would carry his prejudices into a personal application.",
  "sample_07690.wav": "This conviction was strengthened when he overtook her walking from school the next day and drove her home. He was a big, handsome man with a very suave, polite manner. He asked, interestingly, about her school and her work.",
  "sample_07691.wav": "hoped she was getting on well, and said he had two young rascals of his own to send soon. Esther felt relieved. She thought that Mr. Baxter had exaggerated matters a little. That plum tree of Mrs. Charlie's is loaded with fruit again this year.",
  "sample_07692.wav": "remarked Mr. Baxter at the tea-table that evening. I came past it today on my way cross lots, home from the woods. There will be bushels of plums on it.",
  "sample_07693.wav": "\"'I don't suppose poor Mrs. Charlie will get one of them any more than she ever has,' said Mrs. Baxter indignantly. \"'It's a burning shame, that's what it is. I just wish she could catch the croppers once.'\"",
  "sample_07694.wav": "You haven't any proof that it is really them, Mary,\" objected her husband. And you shouldn't make reckless accusations before folks. I know very well it is them.",
  "sample_07695.wav": "And Mrs. Charlie knows it too, although she can't prove it. More's the pity. I don't say Isaac Cropper steals those plums with his own hands, but he knows who does, and the plums go into Mahitabel Cropper's preserving kettle.",
  "sample_07696.wav": "There's nothing surer.\" \"'You see, Miss Maxwell, it's this way,' explained Mr. Baxter, turning to Esther. Mrs. Charlie, Cropper's husband, was Isaac's brother.",
  "sample_07697.wav": "They never got on well together, and when Charlie died there was a tremendous fuss about the property. Isaac acted mean and scandalous clear through and public opinion has been down on him ever since.",
  "sample_07698.wav": "But Mrs. Charlie is a pretty smart woman and he didn't get the better of her in everything. There was a strip of disputed land between the two farms and she secured it. There's a big plum tree growing on it close to the line fence.",
  "sample_07699.wav": "It's the finest one in Maitland, but Mrs. Charlie never gets a plum from it.",
  "sample_07700.wav": "asked Esther. They disappear, said Mr. Baxter with a significant nod. When the plums are anything like rye, Mrs. Charlie discovers some day that there isn't one left on the tree.",
  "sample_07701.wav": "She has never been able to get a scrap of proof as to who took them, or she'd make it hot for them. But nobody in Maitland has any doubt in his own mind that Isaac Cropper knows where those plums go.",
  "sample_07702.wav": "I don't think Mr. Cropper would steal, protested Esther. Well, he doesn't consider it stealing, you know. He claims the land and says the plums are his.",
  "sample_07703.wav": "I don't doubt that he is quite clear in his own mind that they are, and he does hate Mrs. Charlie. I'd give considerable to see the old sinner fairly caught, but he is too deep.",
  "sample_07704.wav": "\"'I think Mr. Baxter is too hard on Mr. Cropper,' said Esther to herself later on. \"'He has probably some private prejudice against him.'\" But a month later she had changed her opinion.",
  "sample_07705.wav": "During that time the cropper boys had come to school. At first Esther had been inclined to like them. They were handsome lads with the same smooth way that characterized their father, and seemed bright and intelligent.",
  "sample_07706.wav": "For a few days all went well, and Esther felt decidedly relieved. But before long a subtle spirit of insubordination began to make itself felt in the school. Esther found herself powerless to cope with it.",
  "sample_07707.wav": "The croppers never openly defied her, but they did precisely as they pleased. The other pupils thought themselves at liberty to follow this example, and in a month's time poor Esther had completely lost control of her little kingdom.",
  "sample_07708.wav": "Some complaints were heard among the rate-payers, and even Mr. Baxter looked dubious. She knew that unless she could regain her authority she would be requested to hand in her resignation.",
  "sample_07709.wav": "But she was baffled by the elusive system of defiance which the Cropper boys had organized. One day she resolved to go to Mr. Cropper himself and appeal to his sense of justice, if he had any.",
  "sample_07710.wav": "It had been an especially hard day in school. When she had been absent at the noon hour all the desks in the schoolroom had been piled in a pyramid on the floor, books and slates interchanged, and various other pranks played.",
  "sample_07711.wav": "instantaneously, with the consciousness of existence, returned her recollection of the manuscript. And springing from the bed in the very moment of the maid's going away, she eagerly collected every scattered sheet which had burst from the roll on its falling to the ground, and flew back to enjoy the luxury of their perusal on her pillow.",
  "sample_07712.wav": "She now plainly saw that she must not expect a manuscript of equal length with the generality of which she had shuddered over in books, for the roll, seeming to consist entirely of small disjointed sheets, was altogether but of trifling size.",
  "sample_07713.wav": "and much less than she had supposed it to be at first. Her greedy eye glanced rapidly over a page. She started at its import. Could it be possible? Or did not her senses play her false? An inventory of linen.",
  "sample_07714.wav": "in coarse and modern characters, seemed all that was before her. If the evidence of sight must be trusted, she held a washing-bill in her hand. She seized another sheet, and saw the same articles with little variation. A third, a fourth, and a fifth presented nothing new.",
  "sample_07715.wav": "Shirts, stockings, cravats, and waistcoats faced her in each. Two others, penned by the same hand, marked an expenditure scarcely more interesting, in letters, hair powder, shoestring, and breeches ball. And the larger sheet.",
  "sample_07716.wav": "to suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained undiscovered in a room such as that, so modern, so habitable.",
  "sample_07717.wav": "for had not the cabinet appeared so exactly to agree with his description of her adventures, she should never have felt the smallest curiosity about it. This was the only comfort that occurred. Impatient to get rid of those hateful evidences of her folly, those detestable papers then scattered over the bed.",
  "sample_07718.wav": "for she could now manage them with perfect ease. In this there was surely something mysterious, and she indulged in the flattering suggestion for half a minute, till the possibility of the doors having been at first unlocked.",
  "sample_07719.wav": "and yet unequal to an absolute falsehood.",
  "sample_07720.wav": "But we have a charming morning after it,\" she added, desiring to get rid of the subject.",
  "sample_07721.wav": "and Helm let you learn by accident or argument.",
  "sample_07722.wav": "as a means of getting you out of doors and tempting you to more frequent exercise than you would otherwise take. And though the love of a hyacinth may be rather domestic, who can tell the sentiment once raised but you may in time come to love a rose.",
  "sample_07723.wav": "But I do not want any such pursuit to get me out of doors. The pleasure of walking and breathing fresh air is enough for me.",
  "sample_07724.wav": "Mama says, I am never within.",
  "sample_07725.wav": "The mere habit of learning to love is the thing, and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing. Has my sister a pleasant mode of instruction? Catherine was saved the embarrassment of attempting an answer by the entrance of the general.",
  "sample_07726.wav": "whose smiling compliments announced a happy state of mind, but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not advance her composure. The elegance of the breakfast set forced itself on Catherine's notice when they were seated at table, and lucidly it had been the General's choice.",
  "sample_07727.wav": "He was enchanted by her approbation of his taste, confessed it to be neat and simple, thought it right to encourage the manufacturer of his country, and for his part to his uncritical palate. The tea was as well-flavoured from the clay of Staffordshire,",
  "sample_07728.wav": "He trusted, however, that an opportunity might ere long occur of selecting one, though not for himself. Catherine was probably the only one of the party who did not understand him.",
  "sample_07729.wav": "Shortly after breakfast, Henry left them for Woodston, where business required and would keep him two or three days. They all attended in the hall to see him mount his horse, and immediately on re-entering the breakfast room, Catherine walked to a window in the hope of catching another glimpse of his figure.",
  "sample_07730.wav": "observed the general to Eleanor, Woodston would make but a sombre appearance today. Is it a pretty place? asked Catherine. What say you, Eleanor? Speak your opinion, for ladies can best tell the taste of ladies in regard to places as well as men.",
  "sample_07731.wav": "I think it would be acknowledged by the most impartial eye to have many recommendations. The house stands among fine meadows facing the southeast, with an excellent kitchen garden in the same aspect.",
  "sample_07732.wav": "the walls surrounding which I built and stocked myself about ten years ago for the benefit of my son. It's a family living, Miss Moreland, and the property and the place being chiefly my own. You may believe I take care that it shall not be a bad one.",
  "sample_07733.wav": "Did Henry's income depend solely on this living he would not be ill provided for? Perhaps it may seem odd that with only two younger children I should think any profession necessary for him, and certainly there are moments when we could all wish him disengaged from every tie of business.",
  "sample_07734.wav": "But though I may not exactly make converts of you young ladies, I am sure your father, Miss Moreland, would agree with me in thinking it expedient to give every young man some employment. The money is nothing, it is not an object, but employment is the thing.",
  "sample_07735.wav": "has whose profession. The imposing effect of this last argument was equal to his wishes. The silence of the lady proved it to be unanswerable. Something had been said the evening before of her being shown over the house, and he now offered himself as her conductor.",
  "sample_07736.wav": "And though Catherine had hoped to explore it, accompanied only by his daughter, it was a proposal of too much happiness in itself under any circumstances not to be gladly accepted.",
  "sample_07737.wav": "and had seen only a few of its rooms. The netting-box, just leisurely drawn forth, was closed with joyful haste, and she was ready to attend him in a moment.",
  "sample_07738.wav": "the pleasure of accompanying her into the shrubberies and garden. She curtsied her acquiescence. But perhaps it might be more agreeable to her to make those her first object.",
  "sample_07739.wav": "The weather was at present favorable, and at this time of year the uncertainty was very great of its continuing so. Which would she prefer? He was equally at her service.",
  "sample_07740.wav": "He yielded implicitly, and would fetch his hat and attend them in a moment. He left the room, and Catherine, with a disappointed, anxious face, began to speak of her unwillingness that he should be taking them out of doors against his own inclination, under a mistaken idea of pleasing her.",
  "sample_07741.wav": "CHAPTER XXVII. But we must follow Edward for a time. On his arrival at Paris, he was kindly received by King Charles, who promised to assist his views in joining the army.",
  "sample_07742.wav": "You have to choose between two generals, both great in the art of war.",
  "sample_07743.wav": "and Turin. I have no doubt that they will be opposed to each other soon. That will be the better for you, as you will learn tactics from such great players. Which would your majesty recommend me to follow, inquired Edward?",
  "sample_07744.wav": "and he will soon be opposed to this truculent and dishonest court, who have kept me here as an instrument to accomplish their own wishes, but who have never intended to keep their promises, and place me on the English throne.",
  "sample_07745.wav": "I will give you letters to Conda, and recollect that whatever general you take service under, you will follow him without pretending to calculate how far his movements may be right or wrong. That is not your affair.",
  "sample_07746.wav": "Conde is just now released from Vincennes, but depend upon it he will be in arms very soon. As soon as he was furnished with the necessary credentials from the king, Edward presented himself at the levy of the Prince of Conde.",
  "sample_07747.wav": "\"'You are here highly spoken of,' said the prince, for so young a man. \"'So you are at the affair of Worcester? We will retain you, for your services will be wanted by and by.'",
  "sample_07748.wav": "Can you procure any of your countrymen? I know but of two that I can recommend from personal knowledge, but these two officers I can venture to pledge myself for. Any more?",
  "sample_07749.wav": "Bring me the officers tomorrow at this hour, Mr. Beverly. Au revoir.",
  "sample_07750.wav": "Edward went to Chalonier and Granville, who were delighted with the intelligence which he brought them. The next day they were at the prince's levy and introduced by Edward. I am fortunate, gentlemen,",
  "sample_07751.wav": "said the prince, in securing the services of such fine young men. \"'You will oblige me by enlisting as many of your countrymen as you may consider likely to do good service. And then follow me to Guian, to which province I am now about to depart.'",
  "sample_07752.wav": "and after my absence you will receive from them every assistance and necessary supplies which may be required. A month after this interview, Konda, who had been joined by a great number of nobles,",
  "sample_07753.wav": "and had been reinforced by troops from Spain, set up the standard of revolt. Edward and his friends joined them, with about three hundred English and Scotchmen, which they had enlisted. And very soon afterwards,",
  "sample_07754.wav": "Cond\u00e9 obtained the victory at B\u00e9lenin and in April 1652 advanced to Paris. Turenne, who had taken the command of the French army, followed him.",
  "sample_07755.wav": "and a severe action was fought in the streets of the suburb of Saint-Antoine, in which neither party had the advantage.",
  "sample_07756.wav": "and, not receiving the assistance he expected from the Spaniards, he fell back to the frontiers of Champagne. Previous to his departure from Paris, Edward had received Humphrey's letter, explaining away the intendants' conduct.",
  "sample_07757.wav": "and the contents removed to heavy load from Edward's mind. But he now thought of nothing but war, and although he cherished the idea of patience heatherstone, he was resolved to follow the fortunes of the prince as long as he could.",
  "sample_07758.wav": "He wrote a letter to the Intendant, thanking him for his kind feelings and intentions toward him, and he trusted that he might one day have the pleasure of seeing him again. He did not, however, think it advisable to mention the name of his daughter.",
  "sample_07759.wav": "except in inquiring after her health, and sending his respects. It may be years before I see her again, thought Edward. And who knows what may happen.",
  "sample_07760.wav": "and Edward, with his friends, followed his fortunes, and gained his goodwill. They were rapidly promoted. Time flew on, and in the year 1654 the court of France concluded an alliance with Cromwell.",
  "sample_07761.wav": "and expelled King Charles from the French Frontiers. The war was still carried on in the Netherlands. Turenne bore down Conde, who had gained every campaign, and the court of Spain wearied with reverses.",
  "sample_07762.wav": "made overtures of peace, which was gladly accepted by the French. During these wars Cromwell had been named protector and had shortly afterward died.",
  "sample_07763.wav": "Edward, who but rarely heard from Humphrey, was now anxious to quit the army and go to the king who was in Spain. But to leave his colors while things were adverse was impossible.",
  "sample_07764.wav": "After the peace and the pardon of Conde by the French king, the armies were disbanded, and the three adventurers were free. They took their leave of the prince, who thanked them for their long and meritorious services.",
  "sample_07765.wav": "and they then hastened to King Charles, who had left Spain and come to the Low Countries. At the time of their joining the King, Richard, the son of Cromwell, who had been nominated protector, had resigned, and everything was ready for the restoration.",
  "sample_07766.wav": "On the 15th of May, 1660, the news arrived that Charles had been proclaimed king on the eighth, and a large body of gentlemen went to invite him over. The king sailed from Shevelling.",
  "sample_07767.wav": "was met at Dover by General Monk, and conducted to London, which he entered amid the acclamations of the people on the 29th of the same month. We may leave the reader to suppose that Edward",
  "sample_07768.wav": "were among the most favorite of those in his train. As the procession moved slowly along the strand, through a countless multitude, the windows of all the houses were filled with well-dressed ladies, who waved their white kerchiefs to the king.",
  "sample_07769.wav": "and his attendant suit. Chalonier, Edward, and Grenville, who rode side by side as gentlemen in waiting, were certainly the most distinguished among the king's retinue. Look, Edward!",
  "sample_07770.wav": "at those lovely girls at Yon-Windo. Do you recognize them? Indeed I do not. Are they any of our Paris beauties?",
  "sample_07771.wav": "CHAPTER XXX. Catherine's disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious. Whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort.",
  "sample_07772.wav": "her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased. She could neither sit still nor employ herself for ten minutes together, walking round the garden and orchard again and again, as if nothing but motion was voluntary.",
  "sample_07773.wav": "And it seemed as if she could even walk about the house rather than remain fixed for any time in the parlour. Her loss of spirits was a yet greater alteration. In her rambling and her idleness.",
  "sample_07774.wav": "But when a third night's rest had neither restored her cheerfulness, improved her in useful activity, nor given her a greater inclination for needlework, she could no longer refrain from the gentle reproof of.",
  "sample_07775.wav": "My dear Catherine, I am afraid you are growing quite a fine lady. I do not know when poor Richard's cravats would be done if he had no friend but you. Your head runs too much upon Bath.",
  "sample_07776.wav": "Catherine took up her work directly, saying, in a dejected voice, that her head did not run upon Bath much. And you are fretting about General Tilney. And that is very simple of you.",
  "sample_07777.wav": "for ten to one whether you ever see him again. You should never fret about trifles.\" After a short silence. I hope, my Catherine, you are not getting out of humor with home, because it is not so grand as Northanger.",
  "sample_07778.wav": "That would be turning your visit into an evil indeed. Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time. I did not quite like at breakfast.",
  "sample_07779.wav": "to hear you talk so much about the French bread at Northanger. I am sure I do not care about the bread. It is all the same to me what I eat. There is a very clever essay in one of the books upstairs upon much such a subject.",
  "sample_07780.wav": "about young girls that have been spoilt for home by great acquaintance. The Mirror, I think. I will look it out for you some day or other, because I am sure it will do you good.\" said no more, and with an endeavor to do right,",
  "sample_07781.wav": "applied to her work. But, after a few minutes, sunk again, without knowing it herself, into languor and listlessness, moving herself in her chair, from the irritation of weariness, than she moved her needle.",
  "sample_07782.wav": "hastily left the room to fetch the book in question, anxious to lose no time in attacking so dreadful a malady. It was some time before she could find what she looked for, and other family matters occurring to detain her.",
  "sample_07783.wav": "A quarter of an hour had elapsed ere she returned downstairs with the volume from which so much was hoped. Her avocations above having shut out all noise but what she created herself, were as if to",
  "sample_07784.wav": "She knew not that a visitor had arrived within the last few minutes till, on entering the room, the first object she beheld was a young man whom she had never seen before.",
  "sample_07785.wav": "With a look of much respect he immediately rose, and being introduced to her by her conscious daughter as Mr. Henry Tilney, with the embarrassment of real sensibility, he was immediately taken",
  "sample_07786.wav": "began to apologize for his appearance there, acknowledging that after what had passed he had little right to expect a welcome at Fullerton, and stating his impatience to be assured of Miss Morland's having reached her home in safety.",
  "sample_07787.wav": "as the cause of his intrusion. He did not address himself to an uncandidate judge, or a resentful heart. Far from comprehending him or his sister in their father's misconduct.",
  "sample_07788.wav": "Mrs. Morland had been always kindly disposed towards each, and instantly, pleased by his appearance, received him with the simple professions of unaffected benevolence. Seeing him for such an attention to her daughter,",
  "sample_07789.wav": "Though his heart was greatly relieved by such unlooked-for mildness, it was not just at that moment in his power to say anything to the purpose. He was falling in silence to his seat, therefore.",
  "sample_07790.wav": "But her glowing cheek and brightened eye made her mother trust that this good-natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time, and gladly therefore did she lay aside the first volume of The Mirror for a future hour.",
  "sample_07791.wav": "Desirous of Mr. Morland's assistance, as well in giving encouragement, as in finding conversation for her guest, whose embarrassment on his father's account she earnestly pitied,",
  "sample_07792.wav": "Mrs. Marland had very early dispatched one of the children to summon him, but Mr. Marland was from home. And being thus without any support, at the end of a quarter of an hour she had nothing to say.",
  "sample_07793.wav": "After a couple of minutes' unbroken silence, Henry, turning to Catherine for the first time since her mother's entrance, asked her, with sudden alacrity, if Mr. and Mrs. Allan were now at Fullerton.",
  "sample_07794.wav": "And, on developing, from amidst all her perplexity of words in reply, the meaning, which one short syllable would have given, immediately expressed his intention of paying his respects",
  "sample_07795.wav": "asked her if she would have the goodness to show him the way. \"'You may see the house from this window, sir,' was information on Sarah's side, which produced only a bow of acknowledgement from the gentleman, and a silencing nod from her mother.",
  "sample_07796.wav": "For Mrs. Marland, thinking it probable, as a secondary consideration in his wish of waiting on their worthy neighbors, that he might have some explanation to give of his father's behavior.",
  "sample_07797.wav": "which it must be more pleasant for him to communicate only to Catherine, would not on any account prevent her accompanying him. They began their walk, and Mrs. Morland was not entirely mistaken in his object in wishing",
  "sample_07798.wav": "Some explanation on his father's account he had to give, but his first purpose was to explain himself. And before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds, he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often.",
  "sample_07799.wav": "and delighted in all the excellencies of her character, and truly loved her society. I must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude, or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for him.",
  "sample_07800.wav": "had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought. It is a new circumstance in romance, I acknowledge, and dreadfully derogatory of a heroine's dignity. But if it be as new in common life...",
  "sample_07801.wav": "The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed night. Above its shadows, heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of Marius and Cosette. The day had been adorable.",
  "sample_07802.wav": "It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and cupids over the heads of the bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be placed over a door. But it had been sweet and smiling.",
  "sample_07803.wav": "The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is today. France had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off one's wife, of fleeing.",
  "sample_07804.wav": "on coming out of a church, of hiding oneself with shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of the bankrupt with the delights of the song of songs. People had not yet grasped to the full the chastity, exquisiteness,",
  "sample_07805.wav": "the most sacred of the souvenirs of life, mingled, pell-mell, with the tete-tete of the conductor of the diligence, and the maidservant of the inn. In the second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest,",
  "sample_07806.wav": "Oats to the Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galoons, varnished hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility.",
  "sample_07807.wav": "and raining down on the post chaise of the bridal pair, a hailed storm of slippers, trodden down at heel, and of worn-out shoes in memory of Churchill.",
  "sample_07808.wav": "which brought him good luck. Old shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial celebrations, but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall come to that. In 1833, a hundred years ago,",
  "sample_07809.wav": "marriage was not conducted at a full trot. Strange to say at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was a private and a social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil a domestic solemnity, that gaiety even in excess...",
  "sample_07810.wav": "provided it be honest and decent, does happiness no harm, and that in short it is a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies, whence a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the household should thenceforth",
  "sample_07811.wav": "Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the bans to publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayorality, and the church produced some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of February.",
  "sample_07812.wav": "Now, we note this detail for the pure satisfaction of being exact. It chanced.",
  "sample_07813.wav": "As the marriage was taking place under the regime of community of property, the papers had been simple.",
  "sample_07814.wav": "An accident happened to Jean Valjean. He crushed the thumb of his right hand.",
  "sample_07815.wav": "nor even to see his hurt, not even coset. Nevertheless, this had forced him to sway his hand in a linen bandage, and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing.",
  "sample_07816.wav": "and his capacity of cosette supervising guardian had supplied his place. We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent.",
  "sample_07817.wav": "to the Church of St. Paul at that epoch.",
  "sample_07818.wav": "was in process of repaving. It was barred off.",
  "sample_07819.wav": "and Jean Valjean. Marius, still separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the second.",
  "sample_07820.wav": "became entangled in a long procession of vehicles, which'd form an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard.",
  "sample_07821.wav": "Mary Andrew, pantaloon, and clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be seen nowadays.",
  "sample_07822.wav": "anyone in these vehicles as it once a spectator and a spectacle. Police sergeants maintained on the sides of the boulevard these two interminable parallel files moving in contrary directions and saw to it that nothing interfered with that double current.",
  "sample_07823.wav": "those two brooks of carriages, flowing the one downstream, the other upstream.",
  "sample_07824.wav": "and, please and with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably",
  "sample_07825.wav": "had the same privilege. In this gaiety of Paris, England cracked her whip. Lord Seymour's post chaise, harassed by a nickname from the populace, passed with great noise. In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like sheepdogs,",
  "sample_07826.wav": "Honest family coaches, loaded down with great aunts and grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in disguise. Clowns of seven years of age, columbines of six, ravishing little creatures who felt that they formed an official part of the public mirth.",
  "sample_07827.wav": "One carriage delayed suffice to paralyze the whole line, then they set out again on the march. The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding toward the Bastille and skirting the right side of the boulevard.",
  "sample_07828.wav": "Nearly at the same moment, the other file, which was proceeding toward the Madeleine, halted also. At that point of the file, there was a carriageload of maskers. These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagonloads of maskers",
  "sample_07829.wav": "are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove Tuesday or at the Midland, it would be taken in bad part and people would say, there's something behind that, probably the ministry is about to undergo a change.",
  "sample_07830.wav": "toe wigs, pink tights, dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer.",
  "sample_07831.wav": "The author is pleased to be able to present a sequel to Aunt Jane's Nieces, the book which was received with so much favor last year. Yet it is not necessary one should have read the first book to fully understand the present volume.",
  "sample_07832.wav": "the characters being taken to entirely new scenes. The various foreign localities are accurately described.",
  "sample_07833.wav": "while those who have not been so fortunate may acquire a clear conception of them.",
  "sample_07834.wav": "Lest I be accused of undue sensationalism in relating the somewhat dramatic Sicilian incident, I will assure my reader that the story does not exaggerate present conditions in various parts of the island. In fact, Il Duca and Tato",
  "sample_07835.wav": "are drawn from life, although they did not have their mountain layer so near to Tormina as I have ventured to locate it. Except that I have adapted their clever system of brigandage to the exigencies of this story, their history is truly related.",
  "sample_07836.wav": "Many who have traveled somewhat outside the beaten tracks in Sicily will frankly vouch for this statement. Italy is doing its best to suppress the mafia and to eliminate brigandage from the beautiful islands it controls, but so few of the inhabitants are Italians.",
  "sample_07837.wav": "or in sympathy with the government, that the work of reformation is necessarily slow. Americans especially must exercise caution in traveling in any part of Sicily, yet with proper care not to tempt the irresponsible natives.",
  "sample_07838.wav": "they are as safe in Sicily as they are at home. Aunt Jane's nieces are shown to be as frankly adventurous as the average clear-headed American girl, but their experiences amid the environments of an ancient and still primitive civilization are in no wise extraordinary.",
  "sample_07839.wav": "The Doyles are astonished. It was Sunday afternoon in Miss Patricia Doyle's Pretty Flat at 3708 Willing Square. In the small drawing room, Patricia, or Patsy as she preferred to be called, was looking at the",
  "sample_07840.wav": "was seated at the piano softly playing the one piece the music teacher had succeeded in drilling into her flighty head, by virtue of much patience and perseverance, in a thick cushioned Morris chair, reclining the motionless form of Uncle John,",
  "sample_07841.wav": "a chubby little man in a gray suit, whose features were temporarily eclipsed by the newspaper that was spread carefully over them. Occasionally, a gasp or snore from beneath the paper suggested that the little man was snoozing.",
  "sample_07842.wav": "as he sometimes gravelly called it, instead of listening to the music. Major Doyle sat opposite, stiffly erect, with his admiring eyes full upon Patsy. At times he drummed upon the arms of his chair in unison with the music,",
  "sample_07843.wav": "nodding his grizzled head to mark the time, as well as to emphasize his evident approbation. Patsy had played the same piece from start to finish seven times since dinner, because it was the only one she knew.",
  "sample_07844.wav": "But the major could have listened to it seven hundred times, without the flicker of an eyelash. It was not that he admired so much the piece the girl was playing as the girl who was playing the piece. His pride in Patsy was unbounded.",
  "sample_07845.wav": "That she should have succeeded at all in mastering that imposing looking instrument, making it actually play tunes, was surely a thing to wonder at. But then Patsy could do anything, if she but tried. Suddenly, Uncle John gave a dreadful snort.",
  "sample_07846.wav": "and sat bolt upright, gazing at his companions with a startled look that melted into one of benign complacency as he observed his surroundings and realized where he was. The interruption gave Patsy an opportunity to stop playing the tune.",
  "sample_07847.wav": "She swung around on the stool and looked with amusement at her newly awakened uncle. \"'You've been asleep,' she said. \"'No, indeed quite a mistake,' replied the little man seriously. \"'I've only been thinking.'\"",
  "sample_07848.wav": "And such beautiful thoughts, observed the Mayor testily, for he resented the interruption of his Sunday afternoon treat. You thought him aloud, sir, and the sound of it was a bad imitation of a bullfrog in a marsh.",
  "sample_07849.wav": "You'll have to give up eating the salad, sir.\" \"'Bah, don't I know?' asked Uncle John indignantly. \"'Well, if your knowledge is better than our hearing, I suppose you do,' retorted the major. \"'But to an ignorant individual like me-self...'",
  "sample_07850.wav": "The impression conveyed was that you snored like a man that has forgotten his manners and gone to sleep in the prisons of a lady.\" Then no one has a better right to do that, declared Patsy soothingly. And I'm sure our dear Uncle John's thoughts",
  "sample_07851.wav": "were just the most beautiful dreams in the world. Tell us of them, sir, and we'll prove the Major utterly wrong.\" Even her father smiled at the girl's diplomacy, and Uncle John, who was on the verge of unreasonable anger beamed upon her gratefully.",
  "sample_07852.wav": "I'm going to Europe,\" he said. The Major gave an involuntary start, and then turned to look at him curiously. And I'm going to take Patsy along, he continued with a mischievous grin. The Major frowned.",
  "sample_07853.wav": "You're dreaming again!\" Patsy swung her feet from side to side, for she was such a little thing that the stool raised her entirely off the floor. There was a thoughtful look on her round-freckled face and a wistful one in her great blue eyes.",
  "sample_07854.wav": "as the full meaning of Uncle John's abrupt devout became apparent. The major was still frowning, but a half-frightened expression had replaced the one of scornful raillery, for he too knew that his eccentric brother-in-law was likely to propose any preposterous thing.",
  "sample_07855.wav": "and then carry it out in spite of all opposition. But to take Patsy to Europe would be like pulling the major's eye teeth or amputating his good right arm. Worse, far worse. It would mean taking the sunshine out of her old father's sky altogether.",
  "sample_07856.wav": "and painting it a grim, despairing gray. But he resolved not to submit without a struggle. Sir, said he sternly, he always called his brother-in-law sir when he was in a sarcastic or reproachful mood, I've had an idea for some time that you were plotting mischief.",
  "sample_07857.wav": "I will ask you to explain to us, sir, the brutal suggestion you have just advanced.\" Uncle John laughed. In the days when Major Doyle had thought him a poor man and in need of a helping hand,",
  "sample_07858.wav": "The grizzled old Irishman had been as tender toward him as a woman, and studiously avoided any speech or epithet that, by chance, might injure the feelings of his dead wife's only brother. But the major's invariable courtesy to the poor unfortunate.",
  "sample_07859.wav": "was no longer in evidence when he found that John Merrick was a multimillionaire with a strongly defined habit of doing good to others and striving in obscure and unconventional ways to make everybody around him happy.",
  "sample_07860.wav": "His affection for the little man increased mightily, but his respectful attitude promptly changed, and a chance to reprove or discomfort his absurdly rich brother-in-law was one of his most satisfactory diversions. Uncle John appreciated this.",
  "sample_07861.wav": "I was burning with impatience to impart my news to him, and this fact, together with the ghostly proceedings of Poulton, worked me up to a state of nervous tension that rendered either rest or thought equally impossible. I looked out of the window at the lamp below, glaring redly through the fog.",
  "sample_07862.wav": "At this moment, Polton made a silent appearance on the stairs leading from the laboratory, giving me quite a start, and I was about to retire into the room when my ear caught the tinkle of a handsome approaching from paper buildings.",
  "sample_07863.wav": "The vehicle drew nearer, and at length stopped opposite the house, on which Poulton slid down the stairs with the agility of a harlequin. A few moments later I heard his voice ascending from the hall. I do hope, sir, you're not much hurt.",
  "sample_07864.wav": "though very disreputable to look at. \"'Just came a cropper in the mud, Jervis,' he added, as he noted my dismayed expression. \"'Dinner and a clothes brush are what I chiefly need.' Nevertheless, he looked very pale and shaken when he came into the light on the landing.\"",
  "sample_07865.wav": "and he sank into his easy chair in the limp manner of a man either very weak or very fatigued. How did it happen? I asked, when Poulton had crept away on tiptoe to make ready for dinner. Thorndyke looked round to make sure that his henchmen had departed and said,",
  "sample_07866.wav": "A queer affair, Jervis. A very odd affair indeed. I was coming up from the borough, picking my way mighty carefully across the road on account of the greasy, slippery mud, and had just reached the foot of London Bridge when I heard a heavy lorry coming down the slope a good deal too fast.",
  "sample_07867.wav": "The horses came stamping and sliding straight on to me, and before I could wriggle out of the way the hoof of one of them smashed in my hat. That was a new one that I came home in, and half stunned me. Then the near wheel struck my head, making a dirty little scalp wound, and pinned down so that I couldn't pull away my arm.",
  "sample_07868.wav": "Yes, I went into dry-dock in the O.P. room, and then old Langdale insisted on my lying down for an hour or so, in case any symptoms of concussion should appear. But I was only a trifle shaken and confused. Still, it was a queer affair. You mean the man pushing you down in that way?",
  "sample_07869.wav": "You don't think it was intentional, surely?\" I said. No, of course not, he replied, but without much conviction, as it seemed to me, and I was about to pursue the matter when Poulton reappeared and my friend abruptly changed the subject. After dinner I recounted my conversation with Walter Hornby.",
  "sample_07870.wav": "watching my colleague's face with some eagerness to see what effect this new information would produce on him. The result was, on the whole, disappointing. He was interested, keenly interested, but showed no symptoms of excitement.",
  "sample_07871.wav": "\"'So John Hornby has been plunging in mind, Zah,' he said, when I had finished. \"'He ought to know better at his age. Did you learn how long he had been in difficulties?' \"'No, but it can hardly have been quite sudden and unforeseen.' \"'I should think not,' Thorndyke agreed.",
  "sample_07872.wav": "in which case the depreciation would not have affected him in the same way. It would be interesting to know for certain. It might have a considerable bearing on the present case, might it not?\" Undoubtedly, said Thorndyke, it might bear on the case in more ways than one.",
  "sample_07873.wav": "That is well considered, said my colleague, but what is the special bearing on the case supposing it was so? On the supposition, I replied, that Mr. Hornby was in actual peculiar difficulties at the date of the robbery. It seems to be possible to construct a hypothesis.",
  "sample_07874.wav": "In fact, it is almost fantastic.\" \"'Never mind that,' said he. A sound thinker gives equal consideration to the probable and the improbable. Thus encouraged, I proceeded to set forth the theory of the crimes that had occurred to me on my way home in the fog.",
  "sample_07875.wav": "and I was gratified to observe the close attention with which Thorndyke listened, and his little nods of approval at each point that I made. When I had finished he remained silent for some time, looking thoughtfully into the fire, and evidently considering how my theory and the new facts on which it was based,",
  "sample_07876.wav": "really adds to the achievement, for the dullest mind can perceive the obvious, as, for instance, the importance of a fingerprint. You have really done a great thing, and I congratulate you, for you have emancipated yourself, at least to some extent,",
  "sample_07877.wav": "from the great fingerprint obsession which has possessed the legal mind ever since Galton published his epic-making monograph. In that work I remember he states that a fingerprint affords evidence requiring no corroboration, a most dangerous and misleading statement,",
  "sample_07878.wav": "which has been fastened upon eagerly by the police, who have naturally been delighted at obtaining a sort of magic touchstone by which they are saved the labor of investigation. But there is no such thing as a single fact that affords evidence requiring no corroboration.",
  "sample_07879.wav": "As well might one expect to make a syllogism with a single premise. I suppose they would hardly go so far as that, I said, laughing. No, he admitted, but the kind of syllogism that they do make is this. The crime was committed by the person who made this fingerprint.",
  "sample_07880.wav": "was the crime committed by the person who made this fingerprint. That is where the corroboration is required. That practically leaves the case to be investigated without reference to the fingerprint, which thus becomes of no importance. Not at all, Rejoin Thorndyke.",
  "sample_07881.wav": "The fingerprint is a most valuable clue as long as its evidential value is not exaggerated. Take our present case for instance. Without the thumbprint, the robbery might have been committed by anybody. There is no clue whatever.",
  "sample_07882.wav": "\"'Quite,' replied Thorndyke, \"'I have entertained it from the first, and the new facts that you have gathered increase its probability. You remember I said that four hypotheses were possible, that the robbery was committed either by Reuben, by Walter, by John Hornby, or by some other person. \"'Quite,' replied Thorndyke, \"'I have entertained it from the first, and the new facts that you have gathered increase its probability. You remember I said that four hypotheses were possible, that the robbery was committed either by Reuben, by Walter, by John Hornby, or by some other person. You remember I said that four hypotheses were possible, that the robbery was committed either by Reuben, by Walter, by John Hornby, or by some other person.",
  "sample_07883.wav": "Now, putting aside the some other person for consideration only if the first three hypotheses fail, we have left Reuben, Walter, and John. But if we leave the thumbprint out of the question, the probabilities evidently point to John Hornby.",
  "sample_07884.wav": "since he admittedly had access to the diamonds, whereas there is nothing to show that the others had. The thumbprint, however, transfers the suspicion to Rubin, but yet, as your theory makes evident, it does not completely clear John Hornby.",
  "sample_07885.wav": "As the case stands, the balance of probabilities may be stated thus. John Hornby undoubtedly had access to the diamonds, and therefore might have stolen them. But if the thumb mark was made after he closed the safe, and before he opened it again...",
  "sample_07886.wav": "but there is no evidence that he had access to them, and if he had not, he could not have made the thumb mark in the manner and at the time stated. But John Hornby may have had access to the previously made thumb mark of Reuben, and may possibly have obtained it, in which case he is almost certainly the thief.",
  "sample_07887.wav": "As to Walter Hornby, he may have had the means of obtaining Ruben's thumb mark, but there is no evidence that he had access either to the diamonds or to Mr. Hornby's memorandum block.",
  "sample_07888.wav": "The actual points at issue then, I said, are whether Ruben had any means of opening the safe, and whether Mr. Hornby ever did actually have the opportunity of obtaining Ruben's thumb mark and blood on his memorandum block.",
  "sample_07889.wav": "\"'Yes,' replied Thorndyke, \"'those are the points with some others, and they are likely to remain unsettled. Rubin's rooms have been searched by the police, who failed to find any skeleton or duplicate keys. But this proves nothing, as he would probably have made away with them when he heard of the thumb-mark being found.\"",
  "sample_07890.wav": "But by the end of the two weeks she grew tired of waiting, and the days were so very long that at length, not without some slight compunction, she made up her mind to go and pay a guileless visit to Miss Priscilla Gower herself.",
  "sample_07891.wav": "where he spent his time in knocking his head against the wall, until the courtiers were afraid he would kill himself. They accordingly placed stuffed mattresses over every wall, and allowed all his subjects, who desired,",
  "sample_07892.wav": "covered from head to foot in a long crepe veil, who wept and sobbed so much that the king noticed her. She told him that she did not come, like the rest, to console him, but rather to encourage his grief.",
  "sample_07893.wav": "She herself had lost the best of husbands, and here she began to weep so profusely that it was a wonder her eyes were not melted out of her head. The king began to weep in company and to talk to her of his dear wife.",
  "sample_07894.wav": "She did the same of her dear husband. In fact, they talked so much that they talked their sorrow quite away. Then, lifting up her veil, she showed lovely blue eyes and dark eyelashes.",
  "sample_07895.wav": "The king noticed her more and more. He spoke less and less of the departed queen. By and by he ceased to speak of her at all. The end was that he courted the inconsolable lady in the black veil and married her.",
  "sample_07896.wav": "By his first marriage he had one daughter called Florina or the little Flora because she was so fresh and lovely. At the time of his second marriage she was quite 15 years old. The new queen also had a daughter.",
  "sample_07897.wav": "who was being brought up by her godmother, the fairy Susio. Her name was Troutina, because her complexion was all spotted like a trout's back. Indeed, she was altogether ugly and disagreeable. And when contrasted with Florina,",
  "sample_07898.wav": "The king disputed nothing. Indeed. He never did the Queen ruled him in all things Sometime after news came that King charming would shortly arrive",
  "sample_07899.wav": "When the queen heard this news, she sent for milliners, dressmakers, jewelers, and decked Troutina from head to foot. But to Florina she allowed not a single new frock. The poor princess had to put on her old one.",
  "sample_07900.wav": "who presented to him Troutina, all blazing with jewels, yet so ugly that King Charming involuntarily turned away his eyes. But, madam, is there not another princess called Florina?",
  "sample_07901.wav": "He rose and made her a profound reverence, paying her besides so many elegant compliments that the Queen became very much displeased. King Charming took no heed.",
  "sample_07902.wav": "but conversed with Florina for three hours without stopping. Indeed, his admiration of her was so plain that the Queen and Troutina begged of the King that she might be shut up in a tower during the whole time of his visit.",
  "sample_07903.wav": "Four men in masks entered and carried her off, leaving her in a dark cell and in the utmost desolation. Meantime, King Charming eagerly awaited her reappearance, but he saw her no more.",
  "sample_07904.wav": "And by the Queen's orders, everyone about him spoke all the evil they could of poor Florina. But he refused to believe one word. No, he said, nature could not have united a base nature to such a sweet innocent face.",
  "sample_07905.wav": "Florina, shut up in her tower, lamented bitterly. Ah, would I had been sent here before I saw this amiable prince, who was so kind to me. It is to prevent my meeting him again that the Queen treats me so cruelly.",
  "sample_07906.wav": "Alas, the little beauty I have has cost me sore. The Queen, to win King Charming for her daughter, made him many presents, among the rest an order of knighthood, a golden heart.",
  "sample_07907.wav": "but pierced by one only, the motto being, She Alone. The heart was made of a single ruby, as big as an ostrich's egg.",
  "sample_07908.wav": "a finger's length, and the chain was of pearls, each weighing a pound. When the young king received this very handsome present, he was much perplexed.",
  "sample_07909.wav": "As I cannot fulfill it to Troutina, I would rather decline the favour she offers me, than become unworthy of it. Civil as this answer was, it irritated the Queen and her daughter exceedingly.",
  "sample_07910.wav": "And when, since in all his audiences, with their majesties he never saw Florina, he at last inquired where the younger princess was, the queen answered fiercely that she was shut up in prison and would remain there till Troutino was married.",
  "sample_07911.wav": "When he was alone he sent for one of his attendants, whom he trusted very much, and begged him to gain information from some court lady about the Princess Florina. This scheme succeeded so well.",
  "sample_07912.wav": "Next night, Troutina thickly veiled.",
  "sample_07913.wav": "King Charming met her, received her in his arms, and vowed to love her forever. Then he lifted her into the fairy chariot, and they sailed about in the air for some hours.",
  "sample_07914.wav": "But as he was not likely to wish to sail about forever, he at last proposed that they should descend to earth and be married. Troutina agreed with all her heart, but wished that the ceremony should be performed at her godmother's.",
  "sample_07915.wav": "\"'My child,' replied the godmother, \"'that is more easily said than done. He is too deeply in love with Florina.'\" Meantime the king was left waiting in a chamber with diamond walls, so thin and transparent",
  "sample_07916.wav": "that through them he saw Troutina and Susio conversing together. He stood like a man in a dream. What? Am I betrayed? Has this enemy to my peace carried away my dear Florina?",
  "sample_07917.wav": "How great was his despair when Susio said to him in a commanding voice, King Charming, behold the Princess Troutina, to whom you have promised your faith, marry her immediately.",
  "sample_07918.wav": "\"'Do you think me a fool?' cried the king. \"'I have promised her nothing. She is\u2014' \"'Stop! If you show me any disrespect, I will respect you as much as a fairy deserves to be respected.'\"",
  "sample_07919.wav": "if you will only give me back my princess.\" \"'Am not I she?' said Troutina. \"'It was to me you gave this ring. To me you spoke at the window.' \"'I have been wickedly deceived,' cried the king.\"",
  "sample_07920.wav": "but I will love no one except Florina. Susio employed persuasions, threats, promises, and treaties.",
  "sample_07921.wav": "or any painful job so full of pleasures, as the task of conducting a newspaper column.",
  "sample_07922.wav": "It's disheartened because nobody notices it. He soon outgrows this, and is disheartened because too many people notice it, and he imagines that all see the paltriness of it as plainly as he does.",
  "sample_07923.wav": "There is nothing so amazing to him as to find that anyone really enjoys his stuff. Poor soul, he remembers how he groaned over it at his desk. He remembers the hours he sat with lackluster eye and addled brain.",
  "sample_07924.wav": "brooding at the sluttish typewriter. He remembers the flush of shame that tingled him as he walked sadly homeward, thinking of some atrocious inanity he had sent upstairs to the composing room. It is a job that engenders a healthy humility.",
  "sample_07925.wav": "I had always wanted to have a try at writing a column. Heaven help me, I think I had an idea that I was born for the job. I may as well be candid. There was a time when I seriously thought of inserting the following ad in a Philadelphia newspaper.",
  "sample_07926.wav": "I find a memorandum of it in my scrapbook. Humorist, young and untamed, lineal descendant of Eugene Field, Frank Stockton, and Francois Rabelais, desires to run a column in a Philadelphia newspaper.",
  "sample_07927.wav": "a guaranteed circulation getter. Said humorist can also supply excellent veins of philosophy, poetry, satire, uplift, glad material, and indiscriminate musings.",
  "sample_07928.wav": "remarkable opportunity for any newspaper desiring a really unusual editorial feature, address humorist, etc. So besotted was I, I would have paid to have this printed if I had not been counseled by an older and wiser head.",
  "sample_07929.wav": "I instance this to show that the Columnist is likely to begin his job with the conception that it is to be a perpetual uproar of mirth and high spirits. This lasts about a week.",
  "sample_07930.wav": "He has to deal with the most elusive and grotesque material he knows, his own mind, and the unhappy creature everlastingly probing himself in the hope of discovering what is so rare in minds. A thought is likely to end in a ferment of bitterness.",
  "sample_07931.wav": "If you have to be endlessly speculating, watching, and making mental notes, your brain gears soon get a hot box. The original of all paragraphers.",
  "sample_07932.wav": "came very near ending as a complete cynic, though in what F.P.A. would call his last line, he managed to wriggle into a more hopeful mood. The first valuable discovery that the Columnist is likely to make is that all minds are very much the same.",
  "sample_07933.wav": "The doctors tell us that all patent medicines are built on a stock formula, a sedative, a purge, and a bitter. If you are to make steady column topers out of your readers, your daily dose must...",
  "sample_07934.wav": "as far as possible, average up to that same prescription. If you employ the purge all the time, or the sedative, or the acid, your clients will soon ask for something with another label.",
  "sample_07935.wav": "It is hard to get the Columnist to admit this, for he fears spoofing worse than the Devil, but it is eminently true. If I were the owner of a newspaper...",
  "sample_07936.wav": "The following words from Isaiah, the best of all watchwords for all who write. Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.",
  "sample_07937.wav": "The most painful privilege of the Columnist's job is the number of people who drop in to see him, usually when he is imprecating his way toward the hour of going to press. This is all a part of the great and salutary human instinct against work.",
  "sample_07938.wav": "Yet now and then he gets a glimpse into a human vexation so sincere, so honest, and so moving that he turns away from the typewriter with a sigh. He wonders how one dare approach the chronicling of this muddled panorama.",
  "sample_07939.wav": "with anything but humility and despair. Frank Harris once said of Oscar Wilde, if England insists on treating her criminals like this, she doesn't deserve to have any. Similarly,",
  "sample_07940.wav": "If the public insists on bringing its woes to its columnists, it doesn't deserve to have any columnists. Then the battered jester turns again to his machine and ticks off something like this.",
  "sample_07941.wav": "A pessimist, he says, is a man who wears both belt and suspenders. When a big jewelry firm in the city puts out a large ad, Bailey Banks and Biddle Company watches for women of superior design and perfection of movement.",
  "sample_07942.wav": "All that one needs to do to that is to write over it the caption, So do we all, and pass on to the next paragraph. The more a columnist is out,",
  "sample_07943.wav": "On the streets, making himself the reporter of the moods and oddities of men, the better his stuff will be. It seems to me that his job ought to be good training for a novelist, as it teaches him a habit of human sensitiveness.",
  "sample_07944.wav": "He becomes filled with an extraordinary curiosity about the motives and the purposes of the people he sees.",
  "sample_07945.wav": "who was standing on Chestnut Street studying a pocket notebook. His umbrella leaned against a shop window, on the sill of which he had laid a carefully rolled up newspaper. By his feet was a neat leather briefcase, plumply filled with contents not discernible.",
  "sample_07946.wav": "There he stood, a sort of unsuccessful Cyrus Curtis, very diminutive, his grey hair rather long, a-baft his neck, his yellowish straw hat, with curly brim, tilted backward, as though in perplexity.",
  "sample_07947.wav": "His timid and absorbed blue eyes pouring over his memorandum book, which was full of penciled notes. He had a slightly unkempt, brief beard and whiskers, his cheekbones pinkish, his linen a little frayed. There was something strangely pathetic about him.",
  "sample_07948.wav": "and I would have given much to have been able to speak to him. I halted at a window farther down the street and studied him, then returned to pass him again and watched him patiently. He stood quite absorbed and was still there when I went on.",
  "sample_07949.wav": "That is just one of the thousands of vivid little pictures one sees on the city streets day by day. To catch some hint of the meaning of all this, to present a few scrawled notes of the amazing interest and color of the city's life.",
  "sample_07950.wav": "This is the columnist's task as I see it. It is a task not a wit less worthy, less painful, or less baffling than that of the most conscientious novelist.",
  "sample_07951.wav": "And in its gyre had not turned wholly round Before another in a ring enclosed it, And motion joined to motion, song to song. Song that is greatly doth transcend our muses, Our sirens in those dulcet clarions, As primal splendour that which is reflected.",
  "sample_07952.wav": "When Juno to her handmaid gives command, The one without born of the one within, Like to the speaking of that vagrant one Whom love consumed as doth the sun the vapors.",
  "sample_07953.wav": "After the dance and other grand rejoicings, both of the singing and the flaming forth, Ifulgance with Ifulgance, blythe and tender, together at once with one accord had stopped, even as the eyes, that as volition moves them, must needs together shut and lift themselves.",
  "sample_07954.wav": "Out of the heart of one of the new lights there came a voice, that needle to the star made me appear in turning thitherward. And it began, The love that makes me fair draws me to speak about the other leader, by whom so well is spoken here of mine.",
  "sample_07955.wav": "Tis right where one is to bring in the other, That as they were united in their warfare Together likewise may their glory shine. The soldiery of Christ which it had cost So dear to arm again behind the standard, Moved slow and doubtful and in numbers few.",
  "sample_07956.wav": "When the Emperor who reigneth evermore Provided for the host that was in peril, Through grace alone and not that it was worthy. And as was said, he to his bride brought succor, With champions twain, at whose deed, at whose word, The straggling people were together drawn.",
  "sample_07957.wav": "Within that region where the sweet west wind rises to open the new leaves, wherewith Europe is seen to clothe herself afresh, not far off from the beating of the waves behind which in his long career the sun sometimes conceals himself from every man.",
  "sample_07958.wav": "Is situate the fortunate Calahorra, Under protection of the mighty shield In which the lion's subject is unsovereign. Therein was born the amorous paramour of Christian faith, The athlete consecrate, kind to his own and cruel to his foes.",
  "sample_07959.wav": "And when it was created was his mind replete with such a living energy that in his mother her it made prophetic. As soon as the espousals were complete, between him and the faith at Holy Fount, where they with mutual safety dowered each other.",
  "sample_07960.wav": "The woman who for him had given a scent saw in a dream the admirable fruit that issue would from him and from his heirs, and that he might become strewed as he was, a spirit from this place went forth to name him, with his possessive whose he wholly was.",
  "sample_07961.wav": "Dominic was he called, and him I speak of, even as of the husbandman whom Christ elected to his garden to assist him. Envoy and servant soothed he seemed of Christ, for the first love made manifest in him was the first counsel that was given by Christ.",
  "sample_07962.wav": "Silent and wakeful many a time was he, Discovered by his nurse upon the ground, As if he would have said, For this I came. O thou his father, Felix Verily, O thou his mother, Verily Joanna, If this interpreted means as is said.",
  "sample_07963.wav": "Not for the world which people toil for now, In following Ostiense and Tadio, But through his longing after the true manna. He in short time became so great a teacher That he began to go about the vineyard, Which fadeth soon if faithless be the dresser.",
  "sample_07964.wav": "Not through itself, but him who sits there and degenerates. Not to dispense or two or three for sex, Not any fortune of first vacancy, Non decimas que sunt pauperum Dei.",
  "sample_07965.wav": "He asked for but against the errant world permission to do battle for the seed, of which these four and twenty plants surround thee. Then with the doctrine and the will together, with office apostolical he moved like torrent which some lofty vein outpresses.",
  "sample_07966.wav": "And in among the chutes heretical his impetus with greater fury smote, wherever the resistance was the greatest. Of him were made thereafter diverse runnels whereby the garden catholic is watered, so living its plantation stand.",
  "sample_07967.wav": "In which the holy church itself defended, And in the field its civic battle won. Truly full manifest should be to thee The excellence of the other, Unto whom Thomas so courteous was before my coming.",
  "sample_07968.wav": "But still the orbit which the highest part of its circumference made is derelict, so that the mould is where was once the crust. His family, that had straight-forward moved with feet upon his footprints, are turned round so that they set the point upon the heel.",
  "sample_07969.wav": "I am as I am wont. Twill not be from Cassal nor Aquasparter, From whence come such unto the written word That one avoids it and the other narrows.",
  "sample_07970.wav": "Who always in great offices postponed considerations sinister. Here are Illuminato and Agostino, Who of the first barefooted beggars were, That with the court the friends of God became. The few of Saint Victor is among them here.",
  "sample_07971.wav": "and Peter Mangiador and Peter of Spain, who down below in volumes 12 is shining. Nathan the Seer and Metropolitan Chrysostom",
  "sample_07972.wav": "Here is Robinus, and beside me here shines the Calabrian abbot Joachim, he with the spirit of prophecy endowed. To celebrate so great a paladin have moved me the impassioned courtesy and the discreet discourses of Friar Thomas.",
  "sample_07973.wav": "Let him imagine who would well conceive what now I saw, and let him while I speak retain the image as a steadfast rock. The fifteen stars that in their diverse regions the sky enliven with a light so great.",
  "sample_07974.wav": "That in the point beginneth of the axis Round about which the primal wheel revolves, To a fashion of themselves two signs in heaven.",
  "sample_07975.wav": "the moment when she felt the frost of death, and want to have its rays within the other, and both to whirl themselves in such a manner that one should forward go, the other backward.",
  "sample_07976.wav": "And he will have some shadowing forth of that true constellation and the double dance that circled round the point in which I was. Because it is as much beyond our want as swifter than the motion of the kiana, moveth the heaven that all the rest outspeeds.",
  "sample_07977.wav": "Then broke the silence of those saints' concordant, the light in which the admirable life of God's own mendicant was told to me, and said,",
  "sample_07978.wav": "that it weighs down the balance of all sin. What air of light it has to human nature been lawful to possess was all infused by the same power that both of them created, and hence at what I said above, doth wonder.",
  "sample_07979.wav": "When I narrated that no second had the good Which in the fifth light is enclosed. Now open thine eyes to what I answer thee, And thou shalt see thy creed and my discourse fit in the truth as center in a circle. That which can die.",
  "sample_07980.wav": "And that which dieth not are nothing but the splendour Of the idea which by his love our Lord brings into being. Because that living light which from its fount effulgent flows So that it disunites not from him, nor from the love in them",
  "sample_07981.wav": "I leave you to it.\" His round face betrayed little or no vestiges of his overnight irritation. \"'Ought you to leave me to it?' smiled Sir Richmond. \"'I shall be interested to learn what happens.' \"'But if you won't stay to see.'",
  "sample_07982.wav": "\"'Now, sir, please,' said the guard respectfully but firmly, and Dr. Martin oh God in. Sir Richmond walked thoughtfully down the platform towards the exit. \"'What else could I do?' he asked aloud to nobody in particular.",
  "sample_07983.wav": "Section 2 For the better part of 40 hours, Sir Richmond had either been talking to Miss Grimont or carrying on imaginary conversations with her in her absence,",
  "sample_07984.wav": "and she repeated no remembered comments and profits of her contemporaries about herself. She either concealed or she had lost any great interest in her own personality.",
  "sample_07985.wav": "But she was interested in and curious about the people she had met in life, and her talk of them reflected a considerable amount of light upon her own upbringing and experiences. And her liking for Sir Richmond was pleasingly manifest.",
  "sample_07986.wav": "She liked his turn of thought. She watched him with a faint smile on her lips as he spoke. And she spread her opinions before him carefully in that soft voice of hers, like a shy child showing its treasures to some suddenly trusted and favored visitor.",
  "sample_07987.wav": "as a crisis in which they were called upon to do something they did not yet clearly know what. Into this topic they peered as into some deep pool, side by side, and in it they saw each other reflected.",
  "sample_07988.wav": "Its delight was particularly manifest in the cream and salad it produced for lunch. Both Miss Grimont and Miss Seifert displayed an intelligent interest in their food. After lunch they had all gone out to the stones and the wall.",
  "sample_07989.wav": "to a happy use by clambering to the top of it and sliding on their little beehives down its smooth and sloping side amidst much mirthful squealing.",
  "sample_07990.wav": "Sir Richmond and Miss Grimont had walked round the old circumvallation together, but Belinda Seifert had strayed away from them, professing an interest in flowers.",
  "sample_07991.wav": "That it would be possible to take this confused old world and reshape it set it marching towards that new world of yours of 250 million fully developed beautiful and happy people Why not?",
  "sample_07992.wav": "Nobody is doing anything with the world except muddle about. Why not give it a direction? You'd take it in your hands like clay? Obdurate clay with a sort of recalcitrant, unintelligent life of its own.",
  "sample_07993.wav": "Her imagination glowed in her eyes and warmed her voice. I believe what you say is possible if people dare. I am tired of following little motives that are like flames that go out when you get to them.",
  "sample_07994.wav": "I am tired of seeing all the world doing the same. I am tired of a world in which there is nothing great but great disasters. Here is something mankind can attempt, that we can attempt, and will. I believe that as mankind grows up",
  "sample_07995.wav": "We pride ourselves upon our freedom from the sin of presumption. Not quite that. Well, how do you put it? We are afraid, she said. It's too vast. We want bright little lives of our own.",
  "sample_07996.wav": "sensible little piggy-wiggies. We have a right to life and happiness.\" First, said Sir Richmond, as much right as a pig has to food. But whether we get life and happiness or fail to get them, we human beings",
  "sample_07997.wav": "who have imaginations want something more nowadays. Of course we want bright lives, of course we want happiness, just as we want food, just as we want sleep. But when we have eaten, when we have slept, when we have jolly things about us, it is nothing.",
  "sample_07998.wav": "We have been made an exception of, and got our rations. The big thing confronts us still.",
  "sample_07999.wav": "I do not know why it should be so, but I am compelled by something in my nature to want to serve this idea of a new age for mankind. I want it as my culminating want. I want a world in order.",
  "sample_08000.wav": "disciplined mankind going on to greater things don't you now you tell me of it she said with a smile I do but before no you've made it clear it wasn't clear before",
  "sample_08001.wav": "I've been talking of this sort of thing with my friend Dr. Martino, and I've been thinking as well as talking. That perhaps is why I'm so clear and positive.\" I don't complain that you are clear and positive. I've been coming along the same way.",
  "sample_08002.wav": "It's refreshing to meet you.\" I found it refreshing to meet Martino. A twinge of conscience about Dr. Martino turned Sir Richmond into a new channel. He's a most interesting man, he said. Rather shy in some respects.",
  "sample_08003.wav": "devoted to his work, and he's writing a book which has saturated him in these ideas. Only two nights ago he stood here and talked about it, the psychology of a new age. The world, he believes, is entering upon a new phase in its history.",
  "sample_08004.wav": "the adolescence, so to speak, of mankind. It is an idea that seizes the imagination. There is a flow of new ideas abroad, he thinks, widening realizations, unprecedented hopes and fears.",
  "sample_08005.wav": "There is a consciousness of new powers and new responsibilities. We are sharing the adolescence of our race. It is giving history a new and more intimate meaning for us.",
  "sample_08006.wav": "making them matter as formerly they didn't seem to matter. That idea of the bright little private life has to go by the board.\" \"'I suppose it has,' she said, meditatively, as though she had been thinking over some such question before.",
  "sample_08007.wav": "Incidentally,\" he smiled, \"'I want to get a lasso over the neck of that very forcible and barbaric person, your father. I am doing my best to help lay the foundation of a scientific world control of fuel production and distribution.'",
  "sample_08008.wav": "but controlling Father, as distinguished from managing him. She reviewed some private and amusing memories. He is a most intractable man. Section 3",
  "sample_08009.wav": "They had gone on to talk of her father and of the types of men who controlled international business. She had had plentiful opportunities for observation in their homes and her own.",
  "sample_08010.wav": "Gunter Lake, the big banker, she knew particularly well because it seemed she had been engaged or was engaged to marry him. All these people, she said, are pushing things about, affecting millions of lives.",
  "sample_08011.wav": "Appendix A. The Influence of Menstruation on the Position of Women. A question of historical psychology.",
  "sample_08012.wav": "in regard to which it is impossible to speak with certainty. But we here strike on a factor of such importance, such neglected importance, for the proper understanding of the sexual relations of men and women that it cannot be wholly ignored.",
  "sample_08013.wav": "Among the Negroes of Suriname, a woman must live in solitude during the time of her period. It is dangerous for any man or woman to approach her, and when she sees a person coming near, she cries out anxiously.",
  "sample_08014.wav": "I am unclean, I am unclean. Throughout the world we find traces of the custom of which this is a typical example, but we must not too hastily assume that this custom is evidence of the inferior position occupied by semi-civilized women.",
  "sample_08015.wav": "It is necessary to take a broad view not only of the beliefs of semi-civilized man regarding menstruation.",
  "sample_08016.wav": "have been credited with some design, sinister or erotic, on women.",
  "sample_08017.wav": "All these figures are reproduced by Plas and Bartels. Even in modern Europe, the same ideas prevail. In Portugal, according to Reyes, it is believed that during menstruation women are liable to be bitten by lizards.",
  "sample_08018.wav": "and to guard against this risk, they wore drawers during their period. In Germany, again, it was believed, up to the 18th century at least,",
  "sample_08019.wav": "to build up this worldwide belief regarding the origin of menstruation. This primitive theory of the origin of menstruation probably brings before us, in its earliest shape, the special and intimate bond which has ever been held to connect women",
  "sample_08020.wav": "by virtue of the menstrual process, with the natural or supernatural powers of the world. Everywhere, menstruating women are supposed to be possessed by spirits and charged with mysterious forces. It is at this point that a serious misconception",
  "sample_08021.wav": "As a matter of fact, however, the savage rarely discriminates between bad and good spirits. Every spirit may have either a beneficial or malignant influence.",
  "sample_08022.wav": "The importance of recognizing the special sense in which the word unclean is used in this connection was clearly pointed out by Robertson Smith in the case of the Semites.",
  "sample_08023.wav": "is not the ordinary word for things physically foul. It is a ritual term, and corresponds exactly to the idea of taboo. The ideas unclean and holy seem to us to stand in polar opposition to one another,",
  "sample_08024.wav": "but it was not so with the Semites. Among the later Jews, the holy books defiled the hands of the reader as contact with an impure thing did. Among Lucian Syrians,",
  "sample_08025.wav": "Wellhausen, however, dealing with the early Arabians, expressly mentions that in pre-Islamic days, clean and unclean were used solely with reference to women in and out of the menstrual state.",
  "sample_08026.wav": "At a later date, Frazer developed this aspect of the conception of taboo, and showed how it occurs among savage races generally. He pointed out that the conceptions of holiness and pollution, not having yet been differentiated,",
  "sample_08027.wav": "Women at childbirth and during menstruation are on the same level as divine kings, chiefs, and priests, and must observe the same rules of ceremonial purity. To seclude such persons from the rest of the world so that the dreaded spiritual dangers shall not spread.",
  "sample_08028.wav": "is the object of the taboo, which Fraser compares to an electrical insulator to preserve the spiritual force with which these persons are charged from suffering or inflicting, harmed by contact with the outer world.",
  "sample_08029.wav": "After describing the phenomena, especially the prohibition to touch the ground or see the sun, found among various races, Fraser concludes,",
  "sample_08030.wav": "The object of secluding women at menstruation is to neutralize the dangerous influences which are supposed to emanate from them at such times. The general effect of these rules is to keep the girl suspended, so to say, between heaven and earth.",
  "sample_08031.wav": "Whether enveloped in her hammock and slung up to the roof, as in South America, or elevated above the ground in a dark and narrow cage, as in New Zealand, she may be considered to be out of the way of doing mischief, since, being shut off both from the earth and from the sun.",
  "sample_08032.wav": "The precautions thus taken to isolate or insulate the girl are dictated by regard for her own safety as well as for the safety of others. In short, the girl is viewed as charged with a powerful force which, if not kept within bounds,",
  "sample_08033.wav": "may prove the destruction both of the girl herself, and of all with whom she comes in contact. To repress this force within the limits necessary for the safety of all concerned, is the object of the taboos in question.",
  "sample_08034.wav": "The same explanation applies to the observance of the same rules by divine kings and priests.",
  "sample_08035.wav": "and arguing that it proceeds from the custom of exogamy, or marriage outside the clan, and that this rests on certain ideas about blood which, again, are traceable to totemism, a theory which we need not here discuss.",
  "sample_08036.wav": "Durkheim is brought face to face with the group of conceptions that now concern us. He insists on the extreme ambiguity found in primitive culture concerning the notion of the Divine, and the close connection between aversion and veneration.",
  "sample_08037.wav": "and points out that it is not only at puberty and each recurrence of the menstrual epoch that women have aroused these emotions, but also at childbirth. A sentiment of religious horror, he continues.",
  "sample_08038.wav": "which can reach such a degree of intensity, which can be called forth by so many circumstances, and reappears regularly every month to last for a week at least, cannot fail to extend its influence beyond the periods to which it was originally confined.",
  "sample_08039.wav": "and to affect the whole course of life. A being who must be secluded or avoided for weeks, months, or years preserves something of the characteristics to which the isolation was due, even outside the special periods.",
  "sample_08040.wav": "And, in fact, in these communities, the separation of the sexes is not merely intermittent. It has become chronic. The two elements of the population live separately.",
  "sample_08041.wav": "They had undergone a remarkable change since our arrival at the butcher's shop. They now wandered about fat, sleek and contented, and their former veracity had completely disappeared.",
  "sample_08042.wav": "As regards ourselves, a day or two longer made no difference. Our most important article of diet, the pemmican, was practically left untouched. As for the time being, dog had completely taken its place.",
  "sample_08043.wav": "There was thus no great sign of depression to be noticed, when we came back into the tent after finishing our work, and had to while away the time. As I went in, I could describe whisting a little way off kneeling on the ground.",
  "sample_08044.wav": "and engaged in the manufacture of cutlets. The dog stood in a ring round him and looked on with interest. The northeast wind whistled and howled, the air was thick with driving snow, and whisting was not to be envied.",
  "sample_08045.wav": "to whatever age I may live. In the course of the night the wind had gone back to the north and increased to a gale. It was blowing and snowing so that, when we came out in the morning, we could not see the sledges. They were half snowed under.",
  "sample_08046.wav": "The temperature was not so very low.",
  "sample_08047.wav": "We had all taken a turn outside to look at the weather, and were sitting on our sleeping bags discussing the poor prospect. \"'It's the devil's own weather here at the Butchers,' said one. It looks to me as if it would never get any better.\"",
  "sample_08048.wav": "This is the fifth day and it's blowing worse than ever.\" We all agreed. \"'There's nothing so bad as lying weather-bound like this,' continued another. \"'It takes more out of you than going from morning to night.' Personally I was of the same opinion.\"",
  "sample_08049.wav": "One day may be pleasant enough, but two, three, four...",
  "sample_08050.wav": "No, it was awful. Shall we try it? No sooner was the proposal submitted than it was accepted unanimously and with acclamation. When I think of my four friends on the Southern Journey",
  "sample_08051.wav": "It is the memory of that morning that comes first to my mind. All the qualities that I most admire in a man were clearly shown at that juncture, courage and dauntlessness, without boasting or big words.",
  "sample_08052.wav": "Amid joking and chaff, everything was packed, and then\u2014out into the blizzard. It was practically impossible to keep one's eyes open. The fine drift-snow penetrated everywhere.",
  "sample_08053.wav": "The dogs were not much inclined to start, and it took time to get them into their harness. But at last we were ready. One more glance over the camping ground to see that nothing we ought to have with us had been forgotten.",
  "sample_08054.wav": "which we now thought would not be required, were left behind. The last thing to be done was planting a broken ski upright by the side of the depot. It was Whisting who did this, thinking, presumably, that an extra mark would do no harm.",
  "sample_08055.wav": "That it was a happy thought the future will show. And then we were off. It was a hard poll to begin with, both for men and beasts. As the high Sestruji continued towards the south.",
  "sample_08056.wav": "and made it extremely difficult to advance. Those who had sludges to drive had to be very attentive, and support them so that they did not capsize on the big waves. And we who had no sludges found great difficulty in keeping our feet.",
  "sample_08057.wav": "as we had nothing to lean against. We went on like this, slowly enough, but the main thing was that we made progress. The ground at first gave one the impression of rising, though not much. The going was extremely heavy.",
  "sample_08058.wav": "It was like dragging oneself through sand. Meanwhile, the Sestruci grew smaller and smaller, and finally they disappeared altogether, and the surface became quite flat. The going also improved by degrees.",
  "sample_08059.wav": "For what reason it is difficult to say, as the storm continued unabated, and the drift, now combined with falling snow, was thicker than ever. It was all the driver could do to see his own dogs. The surface,",
  "sample_08060.wav": "which had become perfectly level, had the appearance at times of sinking. In any case, one would have thought so from the pace of the sledges. Now and again the dogs would set off suddenly at a gallop. The wind aft, no doubt, helped the pace somewhat.",
  "sample_08061.wav": "But it alone could not account for the change. I did not like this tendency of the ground to fall away. In my opinion, we ought to have done with anything of that sort after reaching the height at which we were. A slight slope upward.",
  "sample_08062.wav": "Possibly. But down? No. That did not agree with my reckoning. So far the incline had not been so great as to cause uneasiness. But if it seriously began to go downhill, we should have to stop and camp.",
  "sample_08063.wav": "would be madness. We might risk falling into some chasm before we had time to pull up. Hansen, as usual, was driving first. Strictly speaking, I should now have been going in advance, but the uneven surface at the start\u2014",
  "sample_08064.wav": "and the rapid pace afterwards, had made it impossible to walk as fast the dogs could pull. I was therefore following by the side of Whisting Sledge, and chatting with him. Suddenly I saw Hansen's dogs shoot ahead, and I saw Hansen's dogs run away from me.",
  "sample_08065.wav": "and downhill they went at the wildest pace. Whisting after them, I shouted to Hansen to stop,",
  "sample_08066.wav": "by twisting his sledge. The others, who were following, stopped when they came up to him. We were in the middle of a fairly steep descent. What there might be below was not easy to decide, nor would we try to find out in that weather.",
  "sample_08067.wav": "We trampled down a place for the tent in the loose snow, and soon got it up. It was not a long day's march that we had done, eleven and three-quarter miles, but we had put an end to our stay at the butcher's shop, and that was a great thing.",
  "sample_08068.wav": "The boiling-point test that evening showed that we were ten thousand three hundred feet above the sea, and that we had thus gone down six hundred twenty feet from the butchers. We turned in and went to sleep. As soon as it brightened,",
  "sample_08069.wav": "one has to seize every opportunity in these regions. If one neglects to do so, it may mean a long wait, and much may be lost. We therefore all slept with one eye open.",
  "sample_08070.wav": "and we knew well that nothing could happen without our noticing it. At three in the morning the sun cut through the clouds and weaved through the tent door. To take in the situation was more than the work of a moment.",
  "sample_08071.wav": "The administration of government, in its largest sense, comprehends all the operations of the body politic, whether legislative, executive, or judiciary. But in its most usual, and perhaps in its most precise, signification,",
  "sample_08072.wav": "It is limited to executive details and falls peculiarly within the province of the executive department. The actual conduct of foreign negotiations, the preparatory plans of finance,",
  "sample_08073.wav": "the application and disbursement of the public monies in conformity to the general appropriations of the legislature, the arrangement of the Army and Navy, the direction of the operations of war,",
  "sample_08074.wav": "These and other matters of a like nature constitute what seems to be most properly understood by the administration of government. The persons therefore to whose immediate management these different matters are committed",
  "sample_08075.wav": "ought to be considered as the assistants or deputies of the Chief Magistrate, and on this account they ought to derive their offices from his appointment, at least from his nomination, and ought to be subject to his superintendents.",
  "sample_08076.wav": "This view of the subject will at once suggest to us the intimate connection between the duration of the executive magistrate in office, and the stability of the system of administration. To reverse and undo what has been done by a predecessor,",
  "sample_08077.wav": "the person substituted is warranted in supposing that the dismissal of his predecessor has proceeded from a dislike to his measures, and that the less he resembles him, the more he will recommend himself to the favor of his constituents.",
  "sample_08078.wav": "These considerations, and the influence of personal confidences and attachments, would be likely to induce every new president to promote a change of men to fill the subordinate stations.",
  "sample_08079.wav": "And these causes together could not fail to occasion a disgraceful and ruinous mutability in the administration of the government. With a positive duration of considerable extent, I connect the circumstance of re-eligibility.",
  "sample_08080.wav": "The first is necessary to give to the officer himself the inclination and the resolution to act his part well, and to the community time and leisure to observe the tendency of his measures, and thence to form an experimental estimate of their merits.",
  "sample_08081.wav": "The last is necessary to enable the people, when they see reason to approve of his conduct, to continue him in his station, in order to prolong the utility of his talents and virtues, and to secure to the government the advantage of permanency.",
  "sample_08082.wav": "in a wise system of administration. Nothing appears more plausible at first sight, nor more ill-founded upon close inspection, than a scheme which in relation to the present point has had some respectable advocates. I mean...",
  "sample_08083.wav": "that of continuing the chief magistrate in office for a certain time and then excluding him from it, either for a limited period or forever after. This exclusion, whether temporary or perpetual, would have nearly the same effects.",
  "sample_08084.wav": "when they were conscious that the advantages of the station with which it was connected must be relinquished at a determinate period, than when they were permitted to entertain a hope of obtaining",
  "sample_08085.wav": "is to make their interest coincide with their duty. Even the love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds, which would prompt a man to plan and undertake extensive and arduous enterprises for the public benefit,",
  "sample_08086.wav": "and must commit that, together with his own reputation, to hands which might be unequal or unfriendly to the task. The most to be expected from the generality of men in such a situation is the negative merit of not doing harm.",
  "sample_08087.wav": "instead of the positive merit of doing good. Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and in some instances to usurpation.",
  "sample_08088.wav": "An avaricious man who might happen to fill the office, looking forward to a time when he must at all events yield up the emoluments he enjoyed, would feel a propensity not easy to be resisted by such a man.",
  "sample_08089.wav": "to make the best use of the opportunity he enjoyed while it lasted, and might not scruple to have recourse to the most corrupt expedience to make the harvest as abundant as it was transitory. Though the same man probably with a different prospect before him,",
  "sample_08090.wav": "might content himself with the regular perquisites of his situation, and might even be unwilling to risk the consequences of an abuse of his opportunities. His avarice might be a guard upon his avarice.",
  "sample_08091.wav": "Add to this that the same man might be vain or ambitious, as well as avaricious. And if he could expect to prolong his honors by his good conduct, he might hesitate to sacrifice his appetite for them to his appetite for gain.",
  "sample_08092.wav": "But, with the prospect before him of approaching an inevitable annihilation, his avarice would be likely to get the victory over his caution, his vanity, or his ambition. An ambitious man, too.",
  "sample_08093.wav": "when he found himself seated on the summit of his country's honors, when he looked forward to the time at which he must descend from the exalted eminence for ever, and reflected that no exertion of merit on his part could save him from the unwelcome reverse.",
  "sample_08094.wav": "and sighing for a place which they were destined never more to possess. A third ill effect of the exclusion would be",
  "sample_08095.wav": "in the exercise of his office. That experience is the parent of wisdom, is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind. What more desirable or more essential than this quality in the governors of nations?",
  "sample_08096.wav": "where more desirable or more essential than in the first magistrate of a nation? Can it be wise to put this desirable and essential quality under the ban of the Constitution, and to declare that the moment it is acquired, its possessor shall be compelled",
  "sample_08097.wav": "to abandon the station in which it was acquired, and to which it is adapted. This nevertheless is the precise import of all those regulations which exclude men from serving their country.",
  "sample_08098.wav": "by the choice of their fellow citizens, after they have by a course of service fitted themselves for doing it with a greater degree of utility. A fourth ill effect of the exclusion would be the banishing men from stations in which",
  "sample_08099.wav": "in certain emergencies of the state, their presence might be of the greatest moment to the public interest or safety. There is no nation which has not, at one period or another, experienced an absolute necessity of the services of particular men.",
  "sample_08100.wav": "in particular situations. Perhaps it would not be too strong to say to the preservation of its political existence. How unwise, therefore, must be every such self-denying ordinance, as serves to prohibit the nation from making use of its own citizens.",
  "sample_08101.wav": "Catherine was completely awakened. Henry's address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.",
  "sample_08102.wav": "Most bitterly did she cry. It was not only with herself that she was sunk, but with Henry. Her folly, which now seemed even criminal, was all exposed to him, and he must despise her for ever.",
  "sample_08103.wav": "The liberty which her imagination had dared to take with the character of his father, could he ever forgive it? The absurdity of her curiosity and her fears, could they ever be forgotten?",
  "sample_08104.wav": "She hated herself more than she could express. He had, she thought he had once or twice before this fatal morning, shown something like affection for her. But now...",
  "sample_08105.wav": "In short, she made herself as miserable as possible, for about half an hour, went down when the clock struck five with a broken heart, and could scarcely give an intelligible answer to Eleanor's inquiry if she was well.",
  "sample_08106.wav": "The formidable Henry soon followed her into the room, and the only difference in his behaviour to her was that he paid her rather more attention than usual. Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he looked as if he was aware of it.",
  "sample_08107.wav": "The evening wore away with no abatement of this soothing politeness, and her spirits were gradually raised to a modest tranquillity. She did not learn either to forget or defend the past.",
  "sample_08108.wav": "But she learned to hope that it would never transpire further, and that it might not cost her Henry's entire regard. Her thoughts being still chiefly fixed on what she had, with such causeless terror felt Nothing could shortly be clearer.",
  "sample_08109.wav": "than that it had been all a voluntary, self-created delusion, each trifling circumstance receiving importance from an imagination resolved on alarm, and everything forced to bend to one purpose by a mind which...",
  "sample_08110.wav": "long before her quitting bath, and it seemed as if the whole might be traced to the influence of that sort of reading, which she had there indulged.",
  "sample_08111.wav": "Charming as were all Mrs. Radcliffe's works, and charming even as were the works of all her imitators, it was not in them, perhaps, that human nature, at least in the Midland counties of England, was to be looked for.",
  "sample_08112.wav": "and even of that, if hard-pressed, would have yielded at the northern and western extremities. But in the central part of England there was surely some security for the existence, even of a wife not beloved, in the laws of the land and the manners of the age.",
  "sample_08113.wav": "Murder was not tolerated, servants were not slaves, and neither poison nor sleeping potions to be procured, like rhubarb, from every druggist. Among the Alps and the Pyrenees, perhaps, there were no mixed characters.",
  "sample_08114.wav": "There, such as were not as spotless as an angel might have the dispositions of a fiend, but in England it was not so. Among the English, she believed, in their hearts and habits.",
  "sample_08115.wav": "Upon this conviction she would not be surprised if even in Henry and Eleanor Tilney some slight imperfection might hereafter appear.",
  "sample_08116.wav": "And upon this conviction she need not fear to acknowledge some actual specs in the character of their father, who, though cleared from the grossly injurious suspicions which she must ever blush to have entertained, she did believe.",
  "sample_08117.wav": "upon serious consideration, to be not perfectly amiable. Her mind made up on these several points, and her resolution formed, of always judging and acting in future with the greatest good sense.",
  "sample_08118.wav": "She had nothing to do but to forgive herself, and be happier than ever. And the lenient hand of time did much for her, by insensible gradiations in the course of another day. Henry's astonishing generosity.",
  "sample_08119.wav": "and nobleness of conduct, in never eluding in the slightest way to what had passed, was of the greatest assistance to her. And sooner than she could have supposed it possible in the beginning of her distress, her spirits became absolutely comfortable.",
  "sample_08120.wav": "and capable, as hitherto fore, of continual improvement by any thing he said. There were still some subjects, indeed, under which she believed they must always tremble. The dimension of a chest, or a cabinet, for instance.",
  "sample_08121.wav": "and she did not love the sight of Japan in any shape, but even she could allow that an occasional memento of past folly, however painful, might not be without use.",
  "sample_08122.wav": "The anxieties of common life began soon to succeed to the alarms of romance. Her desire of hearing from Isabella grew every day greater. She was quite impatient to know how the bath world went on and how the rooms were attended.",
  "sample_08123.wav": "and especially was she anxious to be assured of Isabella's having matched some fine netting cotton on which she had left her intent, and of her continuing on the best terms with James.",
  "sample_08124.wav": "Her only dependence for information of any kind was on Isabella. James had protested against writing to her till his return to Oxford, and Mrs. Allen had given her no hopes of a letter till she had got back to Fullerton.",
  "sample_08125.wav": "She thanked him as heartily as if he had written it himself. \"'Tis only from James, however.\" As she looked at the direction, she opened it. It was from Oxford. And to this purpose. Dear Catherine.",
  "sample_08126.wav": "Though God knows with little inclination for writing, I think it my duty to tell you that everything is at an end between Miss Thorpe and me. I left her and Beth yesterday, never to see either again.",
  "sample_08127.wav": "I shall not enter into particulars. They would only pain you more. You will soon hear enough from another quarter To know where lies the blame.",
  "sample_08128.wav": "Thank God! I am undeceived in time. But it is a heavy blow, after my father's consent had been so kindly given. But no more of this. She has made me miserable forever.",
  "sample_08129.wav": "Let me soon hear from you, dear Catherine. You are my only friend. Your love I do build upon. I wish your visit at Northanger may be over before Captain Tilney makes his engagement known.",
  "sample_08130.wav": "Or you will be uncomfortably circumcistanced. Poor Thorpe is in town. I dread the sight of him. His honest heart would feel so much. I have written to him and my father. Her duplicity hurts me more than all.",
  "sample_08131.wav": "Mr. Collins was not left long to the silent contemplation of his successful love, for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door.",
  "sample_08132.wav": "Then she entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself.",
  "sample_08133.wav": "Mr. Collins received and returned these felicitations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview. With the result of which he trusted, he had every reason to be satisfied.",
  "sample_08134.wav": "since the refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character. This information, however, startled Mrs. Bennet.",
  "sample_08135.wav": "She would have been glad to be equally satisfied that her daughter had meant to encourage him by protesting against his proposals. But she dared not to believe it.",
  "sample_08136.wav": "She added, That Lizzy shall be brought to reason.",
  "sample_08137.wav": "She is a very headstrong, foolish girl, and does not know her own interest. But I will make her know it.\" \"'Pardon me for interrupting you, madam,' cried Mr. Collins.\"",
  "sample_08138.wav": "But if she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state.",
  "sample_08139.wav": "If, therefore, she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because, if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.",
  "sample_08140.wav": "\"'Sir, you quite misunderstand me,' said Mrs. Bennet, alarmed. \"'Lizzie is only headstrong in such matters as these. In everything else she is as good natured a girl as ever lived.'\"",
  "sample_08141.wav": "her!\" Mr. Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them on her face with a calm unconcern, which was not in the least altered by her communication.",
  "sample_08142.wav": "\"'I have not the pleasure of understanding you,' said he.",
  "sample_08143.wav": "Your mother insists upon your accepting it. Is it not so, Mrs. Bennet?\" Yes, or I will never see her again! An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth.",
  "sample_08144.wav": "From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.",
  "sample_08145.wav": "\"'My dear,' replied her husband, \"'I have two small favors to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion, and secondly, that",
  "sample_08146.wav": "of my room. I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.\" Not yet, however, in spite of her disappointment in her husband, did Mrs. Bennet give up the point?",
  "sample_08147.wav": "She talked to Elizabeth again and again, coaxed and threatened her by turns. She endeavoured to secure Jane in her interest, but Jane, with all possible mildness, declined interfering.",
  "sample_08148.wav": "And Elizabeth, sometimes with real earnestness, and sometimes with playful gaiety, replied to her attacks. Although her manner varied, however, her determination never did.",
  "sample_08149.wav": "Mr. Collins, meanwhile, was meditating in solitude on what had passed. He thought too well of himself to comprehend on what motive his cousin could refuse him. And though his pride was hurt\u2014",
  "sample_08150.wav": "While the family were in this confusion, Charlotte Lucas came to spend the day with them. She was met in the vestibule by Lydia, who, flying to her, cried in a half-whisper.",
  "sample_08151.wav": "I am glad you are come, for there is such fun here. What do you think has happened this morning?\"",
  "sample_08152.wav": "who came to tell the same news. And no sooner had they entered the breakfast-room, where Mrs. Bennet was alone, than she likewise began on the subject, calling on Miss Lucas for her compassion.",
  "sample_08153.wav": "She added in a melancholy tone.",
  "sample_08154.wav": "I have no pleasure in talking to untutiful children.",
  "sample_08155.wav": "And people who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking.",
  "sample_08156.wav": "But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.\" Her daughters listened in silence to this effusion.",
  "sample_08157.wav": "would only increase the irritation. She talked on, therefore, without interruption from any of them, till they were joined by Mr. Collins.",
  "sample_08158.wav": "And on perceiving whom, she said to the girls,",
  "sample_08159.wav": "Elizabeth passed quietly out of the room. Jane and Kitty followed. But Lydia stood her ground, determined to hear all she could. And Charlotte?",
  "sample_08160.wav": "detained first by the facility of Mr. Collins, whose inquiries after herself and all her family were very minute, and then, by a little curiosity, satisfied herself with walking to the window and pretending not to hear.",
  "sample_08161.wav": "to achieve a correct appreciation of the Chinese.",
  "sample_08162.wav": "and then, one fine day, cross over the Yalu into Manchuria. It would be of exceptional advantage to the correctness of appreciation that he cross over the Yalu on the heels of a hostile and alien army.",
  "sample_08163.wav": "War is today the final arbiter in the affairs of men, and it is as yet the final test of the worthwhileness of peoples. Tested thus, the Korean fails.",
  "sample_08164.wav": "He lacks the nerve to remain when a strange army crosses his land. The few goods and chattels he may have managed to accumulate, he puts on his back, along with his doors and windows, and away he heads for his mountain fastnesses.",
  "sample_08165.wav": "Later, he may return, sans goods, chattels, doors, and windows, impelled by insatiable curiosity for a look see. But it is curiosity merely, a timid, deer-like curiosity.",
  "sample_08166.wav": "He is prepared to bound away on his long legs at the first hint of danger or trouble. Northern Korea was a desolate land when the Japanese passed through. Villages and towns were deserted.",
  "sample_08167.wav": "The fields lay untouched. There was no plowing nor sowing, no green things growing. Little or nothing was to be purchased. One carried one's own food with him.",
  "sample_08168.wav": "In many a lonely village, not an ounce nor a grain of anything could be bought. And yet there might be standing around scores of white-garmited stalwart Koreans, smoking yard-long pipes and chattering, chattering, ceaselessly chattering.",
  "sample_08169.wav": "Love, money, or force could not procure from them a horseshoe or a horseshoe nail. Upso was their invariable reply. Upso, cursed word which means have not got.",
  "sample_08170.wav": "They had tramped probably 40 miles that day, down from their hiding places just for a look-see, and 40 miles back they would cheerfully tramp, chattering all the way over what they had seen.",
  "sample_08171.wav": "And the gloom of the landscape will be filled with tall flitting ghosts, bounding like deer with great springy strides which one cannot but envy. They have splendid vigor and fine bodies, but they are accustomed to being beaten and robbed without protest or resistance.",
  "sample_08172.wav": "by every chance foreigner who enters their country. From this nerveless, forsaken Korean land, I rode down upon the sandy islands of the Yalu. For weeks, these islands had been the dread between the lines of two fighting armies.",
  "sample_08173.wav": "The air above had been rent by screaming projectiles. The echoes of the final battle had scarcely died away. The trains of Japanese wounded and Japanese dead were trailing by.",
  "sample_08174.wav": "On the Koniko Hill, a quarter of a mile away, the Russian dead were being buried in their trenches and in the shell holes made by the Japanese. And here, in the thick of it all, a man was plowing. Green things were growing.",
  "sample_08175.wav": "young onions, and the man who was weeding them paused from his labor long enough to sell me a handful. Nearby was the smoke-blackened ruin of the farmhouse, fired by the Russians when they retreated from the riverbed. Two men were removing the debris.",
  "sample_08176.wav": "Cleaning the confusion, preparatory to rebuilding. They were clad in blue, pigtails hung down their backs. I was in China! I rode to the shore, into the village of Kualian Qing.",
  "sample_08177.wav": "There were no lounging men smoking long pipes and chattering. The previous day, the Russians had been there, a bloody battle had been fought, and today the Japanese were there. But what was that to talk about? Everybody was busy.",
  "sample_08178.wav": "Men were offering eggs and chickens and fruit for sale upon the street and bread as I live Bread in small round loaves or buns. I Wrote on into the country Everywhere a toiling population was in evidence",
  "sample_08179.wav": "The houses and walls were strong and substantial. Stone and brick replaced the mud walls of the Korean dwellings. Twilight fell and deepened and still the plows went up and down the fields, the sowers following after.",
  "sample_08180.wav": "Trains of wheelbarrows, heavily loaded, squeaked by, and pecan carts drawn by from four to six cows, horses, mules, ponies, or jackasses. Cows, even with their newborn calves, tottering along on puny legs outside the traces.",
  "sample_08181.wav": "Everybody worked. Everything worked. I saw a man mending the road. I was in China. I came to the city of Antung and lodged with a merchant. He was a grain merchant.",
  "sample_08182.wav": "Corn he had, hundreds of bushels stored in great bins of stout matting, peas and beans and sacks, and in the backyard his millstones went round and round grinding out meal. Also in his backyard were buildings containing vats sunk into the ground.",
  "sample_08183.wav": "and here the tanners were at work making leather. I bought a measure of corn from my host for my horses and he overcharged me 30 cents. I was in China. Antung was jammed with Japanese troops.",
  "sample_08184.wav": "It was the thick of war, but it did not matter. The work of Antung went on just the same. The shops were wide open. The streets were lined with peddlers. One could buy anything, get anything made.",
  "sample_08185.wav": "I dined at a Chinese restaurant, cleansed myself at a public bath in a private tub with a small boy to assist in the scrubbing. I bought condensed milk, bitter, canned vegetables, bread and cake. I repeat it, cake. Good cake.",
  "sample_08186.wav": "I bought knives, forks, and spoons, granite ware dishes, and mugs. There were horseshoes and horseshoers. A worker in iron realized for me new designs of mine for my tent poles. My shoes were sent out to be repaired.",
  "sample_08187.wav": "A barber shampooed my hair. A servant returned with corned beef in tins, a bottle of port, another of cognac, and beer.",
  "sample_08188.wav": "to wash out from my throat the dust of an army. It was the land of Canaan. I was in China. The Korean is the perfect type of inefficiency, of utter worthlessness.",
  "sample_08189.wav": "The Chinese is the perfect type of industry. For sheer work, no worker in the world can compare with him. Work is the breath of his nostrils. It is his solution of existence.",
  "sample_08190.wav": "Liberty, to him, epitomizes itself in access to the means of toil. To till the soil and labor interminably with rude implements and utensils is all he asks of life, and of the powers that be.",
  "sample_08191.wav": "which was the big news of the day, and how could I not have been?",
  "sample_08192.wav": "This mystery puzzled me. Finding it impossible to form any views, I drifted from one extreme to the other. Something was out there that much was certain, and any doubting Thomas was invited to place his finger on the Scotia's wound. When I arrived in New York,",
  "sample_08193.wav": "Also discredited was the idea of a floating hull or some other enormous wreckage, and again because of this speed of movement. So only two possible solutions to the question were left, creating two very distinct groups of supporters.",
  "sample_08194.wav": "it couldn't stand up to inquiries conducted in both the new world and the old. That a private individual had such a mechanism at his disposal was less than probable. Where and when had he built it and how could he have built it in secret?",
  "sample_08195.wav": "Only some government could own such an engine of destruction, and in these disaster-filled times when men tax their ingenuity to build increasingly powerful, aggressive weapons, it was possible that, unknown to the rest of the world, some nation could have been testing such a fearsome machine.",
  "sample_08196.wav": "And the torpedo has led to this underwater battering ram, which in turn will lead to the world putting its foot down. At least I hope it will. But this hypothesis of a war machine collapsed in the face of formal denials from the various governments.",
  "sample_08197.wav": "Since the public interest was at stake and transoceanic travel was suffering",
  "sample_08198.wav": "Besides, how could the assembly of this underwater boat have escaped public notice? Keeping a secret under such circumstances would be difficult enough for an individual, and certainly impossible for a nation, whose every move is under constant surveillance by rival powers.",
  "sample_08199.wav": "So, after inquiries conducted in England, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Italy, America, and even Turkey, the hypothesis of an underwater monitor was ultimately rejected. And so the monster surfaced again.",
  "sample_08200.wav": "despite the endless witticisms heaped on it by the popular press.",
  "sample_08201.wav": "After I arrived in New York, several people did me the honor of consulting me on the phenomenon in question. In France, I had published a two-volume work in Corteau entitled, The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths. Well received in scholarly circles,",
  "sample_08202.wav": "I confined myself to a flat, no comment. But soon, pinned to the wall, I had to explain myself straight out. And in this vein, the Honorable Pierre Aronach's Professor at the Paris Museum was summoned by the New York Herald to formulate his views no matter what.",
  "sample_08203.wav": "I complied. Since I could no longer hold my tongue, I let it wag. I discussed the question in its every aspect, both political and scientific, and this is an excerpt from the well-padded article I published in the issue of April 30th.",
  "sample_08204.wav": "Therefore, I wrote, after examining these different hypotheses one by one, we are forced \u2013 every other supposition having been refuted \u2013 to accept the existence of an extremely powerful marine animal.",
  "sample_08205.wav": "The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us. No soundings have been able to reach them. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit or could inhabit those regions 12 or 15 miles beneath the surface of the water?",
  "sample_08206.wav": "What is the constitution of these animals? It's almost beyond conjecture. However, the solution to this problem submitted to me can take the form of a choice between two alternatives. Either we know every variety of creature populating our planet, or we do not.",
  "sample_08207.wav": "If we do not know every one of them, if nature still keeps ichthyological secrets from us, nothing is more admissible than to accept the existence of fish, or cetaceans of new species, or even new genera, animals with a basically cast iron constitution.",
  "sample_08208.wav": "that inhabit strata beyond the reach of our soundings, in which some development or other, an urge or a whim if you prefer, can bring to the upper level of the ocean for long intervals. If on the other hand we do know every living species,",
  "sample_08209.wav": "We must look for the animal in question among those marine creatures already catalogued, and in this event I would be inclined to accept the existence of a giant narwhal.",
  "sample_08210.wav": "Increase its dimensions fivefold or even tenfold, then give the cetacean a strength and proportion to its size while enlarging its offensive weapons, and you have the animal we're looking for. It would have the proportions determined by the officers of the Shannon.",
  "sample_08211.wav": "the instrument needed to preferate the Scotia, and the power to pierce a steamer's hull. In essence, the narwhal is armed with a sword of ivory sword or lance, as certain naturalists have expressed it. It's a king-sized tooth as hard as steel.",
  "sample_08212.wav": "which the narwhal attacks with invariable success. Others have been wrenched, not without difficulty.",
  "sample_08213.wav": "owns one of these tusks with a length of 2.25 meters and a width at its base of 48 centimeters. Alright then, imagine this weapon to be 10 times stronger and the animal 10 times more powerful.",
  "sample_08214.wav": "launch it at a speed of 20 miles per hour, multiply its mass times its velocity, and you get just the collision we need to cause the specified catastrophe. So until information becomes more abundant, I plump for a sea unicorn of colossal dimensions.",
  "sample_08215.wav": "no longer armed with a mere lance but with an actual spur, like iron-clad frigates or those warships called rams whose mass and motor power it would possess simultaneously. This inexplicable phenomenon is thus explained away.",
  "sample_08216.wav": "These last words were cowardly of me, but as far as I could I wanted to protect my professional dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans who, when they do laugh, laugh raucously.",
  "sample_08217.wav": "I had left myself a loophole, yet deep down I had accepted the existence of the monster. My article was hotly debated, causing a fine old uproar.",
  "sample_08218.wav": "Moreover, the solution it proposed allowed for free play of the imagination. The human mind enjoys impressive visions of unearthly creatures. Now then, the sea is precisely their best medium.",
  "sample_08219.wav": "Our creator casts them using a colossal mold that time has gradually made smaller. With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age?",
  "sample_08220.wav": "continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia? But I mustn't let these fantasies run away with me.",
  "sample_08221.wav": "said Craggs, pushing Billy towards them as he spoke. \"'Fick, and you might have got worse,' muttered a very old man. \"'Billy Trainer has the lucky hand.' \"'How is my lord now, Nelly?'",
  "sample_08222.wav": "asked the corporal of a woman who, with bare feet and dressed in the humblest fashion of the peasantry, appeared. He's getting weaker and weaker, sir. I believe he's sinking. I'm glad its billy has come. I'd rather see him than all the doctors in the country.",
  "sample_08223.wav": "Follow me,\" said Craggs, giving a signal to step lightly, and he led the way up a narrow stone stair with a wall on either hand.",
  "sample_08224.wav": "Traversing a long, low corridor, they reached a door at which, having waited for a second or two to listen, Craggs turned the handle and entered. The room was very large and lofty, and, seen in the dim light of a small lamp upon the hearthstone,",
  "sample_08225.wav": "the better to admit heir to the sick man. As Billy drew nigh with cautious steps, he perceived that although worn and wasted by long illness, the patient was a man still in the very prime of life.",
  "sample_08226.wav": "muttered he as he finished, and then gently displacing the bedclothes, laid his hand upon the heart. With a long drawn sigh, like that of utter weariness, the sick man moved his head round and fixed his eyes upon him.",
  "sample_08227.wav": "turning as he went to look back towards the bed and evidently going with reluctance. Is it fever? asked the sick man in a faint but unfaltering accent. It's a kind of cerebral congestion, a matter of them membranes that's over the brain.",
  "sample_08228.wav": "The accentuation of these words marked as it was by the strongest provincialism of the peasant attracted the sick man's attention and he bent upon him a look at once searching and severe. What are you? Who are you?",
  "sample_08229.wav": "cried he angrily. What I am isn't so easy to say, but who I am is clean beyond me. Are you a doctor? asked the sick man fiercely. I'm afraid I'm not.",
  "sample_08230.wav": "Billy obeyed without speaking. What do you mean by this, Craggs? said the Viscount, trembling with passion. Who have you brought me? What beggar have you picked off the highway? Or is he the traveling fool of the district?",
  "sample_08231.wav": "But the anger that supplied strength hitherto now failed to impart energy, and he sank back wasted and exhausted. The corporal bent over him and spoke something in a low whisper. But whether the words were heard or not, the sick man now lay still.",
  "sample_08232.wav": "breathing heavily. Can you do nothing for him? asked Craggs, peevishly. Nothing but anger him? To be sure I can if you let me.",
  "sample_08233.wav": "said Billy, producing a very ancient lancet case of boxwood tipped with ivory. I'll just take a dash of blood from the temporal artery to relieve the cerebrum, and then we'll put cauld on his head and keep him quiet.",
  "sample_08234.wav": "It's the same as opening a sluice in a mill dam. He's better already.\" He looks easier,\" said Craigs. Aye, and he feels it,\" continued Billy. Just notice the respiratory organs and see how easy the intercostal's is doing their work now.",
  "sample_08235.wav": "I'll have that hair off of him if he isn't cold towards evening.\" So saying, he covered the sick man with the wetted clothes, and bathed his hands in the cooling fluid.",
  "sample_08236.wav": "asked the corporal eagerly. \"'He'll do, he'll do,' said Billy. \"'He's a sanguineous temperament, and he'll bear the lancet. \"'It's just like whether an appointed, say, \"'if you have a craft that will carry canvas, \"'there's always a chance for you.'\"",
  "sample_08237.wav": "He perceived that you were not a doctor,\" said Craggs when they reached the corridor.",
  "sample_08238.wav": "But for all that, it would be going too far to say that I wasn't a doctor. Tis the same with physics and poetry. You take to it, or you don't take to it. There's chaps, eh? And far from stupid ones either.",
  "sample_08239.wav": "that couldn't compose you ten hexameters if you'd put them on a hot griddle for it. And there's others that would talk rhyme rather than raisin'. And so, with the air's metacatrix, everybody hasn't an eye for a hectic or an ear for a cough. Non-contigit.",
  "sample_08240.wav": "Hush, be still,\" muttered Craigs. Here's the young master. And as he spoke, a youth of about fifteen, well-grown and handsome, but poorly, even meanly clad, approached them. Have you seen my father?",
  "sample_08241.wav": "Relieve the gorged vessels and don't drown the grand hydraulic machine. The heart, them's my sentiments.\" Turning from the speaker with a look of angry impatience, the boy whispered some words in the corporal's ear. \"'What could I do, sir?' was the answer.\"",
  "sample_08242.wav": "It was this fellow or nothing. And better, a thousand times better, nothing, said the boy, then trust his life to the coarse ignorance of this wretched quack. And in his passion the words were uttered loud enough for Billy to overhear them.",
  "sample_08243.wav": "Don't be hasty, your honor,\" said Billy submissively, and don't be unjust. The realms of disease is like an unknown tract of country or a country that's only known a little, just around the coast, as it might be once you're beyond that.",
  "sample_08244.wav": "One man is as good a God as another.",
  "sample_08245.wav": "\"'What have you done? Have you given him anything?' broke in the boy hurriedly. \"'I took a blading from him, little short of sixteen ounces, from the Temporial,' said Billy, proudly.",
  "sample_08246.wav": "And I'll give him now a concoction of metal saffron with a pinch of saltpeter in it to cause diaphoresis. Do you mind? Meanwhile...",
  "sample_08247.wav": "just as he may have a knowledge of nature by observation. What is sickness after all, but just one of the phenomenons of all organic and inorganic matter? A regular sort of shindy in a man's inside, like a thunderstorm or hurricane outside?",
  "sample_08248.wav": "He turned to the corporal and said, Look to him, Craigs, and let him have his supper, And when he has eaten it, send him to my room. Billy bowed in acknowledgement and followed the corporal to the kitchen. That's my lord's son, I suppose.",
  "sample_08249.wav": "said he, as he seated himself, and a fine young creature too, pure and genus, with a grand frontal development. And with this reflection he addressed himself to the coarse but abundant fair which Craggs placed before him.",
  "sample_08250.wav": "and with an appetite that showed how much he relished it. \"'This is elegant living you have here, Mr. Craggs,' said Billy, as he drained his tancred of beer and placed it with a sigh on the table. \"'Many happy years of it to you.'",
  "sample_08251.wav": "Chapter 16. No one in all Raymond, including the rectangle, felt Laureen's death more keenly than Virginia. It came like a distinct personal loss to her.",
  "sample_08252.wav": "That short week while the girl had been in her home had opened Virginia's heart to a new life. She was talking it over with Rachel the day after the funeral.",
  "sample_08253.wav": "I am going to do something with my money to help those women to a better life. Virginia looked over to the end of the hall where, the day before, Loreen's body had lain. I have decided on a good plan as it seems to me.",
  "sample_08254.wav": "I have talked it over with Roland. He will devote a large part of his money also to the same plan.\" \"'How much money have you, Virginia, to give in this way?' asked Rachel. Once, she would never have asked such a personal question.\"",
  "sample_08255.wav": "Now it seemed as natural to talk frankly about money as about anything else that belonged to God. I have available for use at least $450,000. Roland has as much more.",
  "sample_08256.wav": "It is one of his bitter regrets now that his extravagant habits of life before his conversion practically threw away half that Father left him. We are both eager to make all the reparation in our power. What would Jesus do with this money?",
  "sample_08257.wav": "We want to answer that question honestly and wisely. The money I shall put into the news is I am confident in align with his probable action.",
  "sample_08258.wav": "It is as necessary that we have a Christian daily paper in Raymond, especially now that we have the saloon influence to meet, as it is to have a church or a college. So I am satisfied that the $500,000 that Mr. Norman will know how to use so well",
  "sample_08259.wav": "will be a powerful factor in Raymond to do as Jesus would. About my other plan, Rachel, I want you to work with me.",
  "sample_08260.wav": "The field where the tent now is has been in litigation for years. We mean to secure the entire tract as soon as the courts have settled the title. For some time I have been making a special study of the various forms of college settlements and residence methods.",
  "sample_08261.wav": "of Christian work and institutional church work in the heart of great city slums. I do not know that I have yet been able to tell just what is the wisest and most effective kind of work that can be done in Raymond, but I do know this much.",
  "sample_08262.wav": "My money, I mean God's, which he wants me to use, can build wholesome lodging houses, refuges for poor women, asylums for shop girls, safety for many and many a lost girl like Lorene.",
  "sample_08263.wav": "And I do not want to be simply a dispenser of this money. God help me. I do want to put myself into the problem. But you know Rachel, I have a feeling all the time that all that limitless money and limitless personal sacrifice can possibly do.",
  "sample_08264.wav": "will not really lessen very much the awful condition at the rectangle, as long as the saloon is legally established there. I think that is true of any Christian work now being carried on in any great city.",
  "sample_08265.wav": "The saloon furnishes material to be saved faster than the settlement or residence or rescue mission work can save it. Virginia suddenly rose and paced the hall. Rachel answered sadly and yet with a note of hope in her voice.",
  "sample_08266.wav": "But, Virginia, what a wonderful amount of good can be done with this money! And the saloon cannot always remain here. The time must come when the Christian forces in the city will triumph. Virginia paused near Rachel, and her pale, earnest face lighted up.",
  "sample_08267.wav": "believe that too. The number of those who have promised to do as Jesus would is increasing. If we once have, say, 500 such disciples in Raymond, the saloon is doomed.",
  "sample_08268.wav": "But now dear, I want you to look at your part in this plan for capturing and saving the rectangle. Your voice is a power. I have had many ideas lately. Here is one of them. You could organize among the girls a musical institute.",
  "sample_08269.wav": "Give them the benefit of your training. There are some splendid voices in the rough there. Did anyone ever hear such singing as that yesterday by those women? Rachel, what a beautiful opportunity.",
  "sample_08270.wav": "You shall have the best of material in the way of organs and orchestras that money can provide, and what cannot be done with music to win souls there into higher and purer and better living.",
  "sample_08271.wav": "Before Virginia had ceased speaking, Rachel's face was perfectly transformed with the thought of her life work. It flowed into her heart and mind like a flood, and the torrent of her feeling overflowed in tears that could not be restrained.",
  "sample_08272.wav": "It was what she had dreamed of doing herself. It represented to her something that she felt was in keeping with the right use of her talent. Yes, she said, as she rose and put her arm about Virginia.",
  "sample_08273.wav": "While both girls and the excitement of their enthusiasm paced the hall. Yes, I will gladly put my life into that kind of service. I do believe that Jesus would have me use my life in this way. Virginia, what miracles can we not accomplish in humanity?",
  "sample_08274.wav": "if we have such a lever as consecrated money to move things with. Add to it consecrated personal enthusiasm like yours and it certainly can accomplish great things,\" said Virginia smiling.",
  "sample_08275.wav": "Roland came back and sat down, and together the three discussed their future plans. Roland was apparently entirely free from embarrassment in Rachel's presence while Virginia was with them. Only his manner with her was almost precise, if not cold.",
  "sample_08276.wav": "The past seemed to have been entirely absorbed in his wonderful conversion. He had not forgotten it, but he seemed to be completely caught up for this present time in the purpose of his new life.",
  "sample_08277.wav": "After a while, Roland was called out and Rachel and Virginia began to talk of other things. By the way, what has become of Jasper Chase? Virginia asked the question innocently, but Rachel flushed, and Virginia added with a smile.",
  "sample_08278.wav": "I suppose he is writing another book. Is he going to put you into this one, Rachel? You know I always suspected Jasper Chase of doing that very thing in his first story. Virginia.",
  "sample_08279.wav": "Rachel spoke with the frankness that had always existed between the two friends. Jasper Chase told me the other night that he, in fact, he proposed to me, or he would, if...",
  "sample_08280.wav": "Rachel stopped and sat with her hands clasped on her lap and there were tears in her eyes. Virginia, I thought a little while ago I loved him as he said he loved me. But when he spoke my heart felt repelled and I said what I ought to say.",
  "sample_08281.wav": "Frank Hoskins' elbow wound healed quickly without any serious results, and Tom Rall, who had been under treatment at the field hospital, was able to get about the camp.",
  "sample_08282.wav": "But on the eighth day a veritable fury launched itself upon that section of the American French front in the shape of seemingly endless brigades of boshes that were hurled over the top of their own breastwork across no man's land and upon the first-line trenches of the Allies.",
  "sample_08283.wav": "For several days the American and French aviators had been reporting heavy German formations in that region, evidently with the design of a terrific assault, but the Allied commanders had not expected it so soon, and in truth they were not fully prepared for it.",
  "sample_08284.wav": "It was a surprise attack in every sense of the word, with all the terrible carnage that such a battle brings.",
  "sample_08285.wav": "and their hidden artillery to the rear of them. This was kept up for about seven hours and the duel of heavy guns shook the earth like a quake and was deafening. Then, just as dawn was breaking, the infantry onslaught.",
  "sample_08286.wav": "including food and ammunition trains.",
  "sample_08287.wav": "Everything moved like clockwork and with the greatest possible speed. And throughout it all, men on both sides were shooting, shouting, shrieking, and screaming.",
  "sample_08288.wav": "or lifeless before superior numbers.",
  "sample_08289.wav": "A stationary balloon showed where Jerry and an observation officer were doing duty on that fateful day. Jerry was operating a telephone that ran directly to division headquarters, and hardly a moment passed when he was not repeating some observation of the other man in the basket with him.",
  "sample_08290.wav": "Every detail of that tremendous battle Jerry knew. His own occasional glimpses over the side informed him of the temporary reverses his own army was suffering, while the remarks of the officer told him where the Germans were meeting their bitterest repulses.",
  "sample_08291.wav": "where they were drawing up their heaviest forces of reserves, what quick changes were being made in the general line of formation, and how far back their forces seemed to extend. Slim Goodwin",
  "sample_08292.wav": "to make sure that thus far his friend was still safe.",
  "sample_08293.wav": "The wavering, swaying target was watched from time to time, and speculations made as to how long it could remain without being punctured by a bullet.",
  "sample_08294.wav": "It was now well into the afternoon. The Germans had swept into the places vacated by the Americans and French and still the battle raged. It was now that Slim began to wait anxiously for the new development.",
  "sample_08295.wav": "The Americans and French had retreated to a general line which permitted a quick remobilization to the best advantage. There, their front line ranks held firm while the new formation was being affected behind them. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon when this was complete.",
  "sample_08296.wav": "and soon, in great measure at least, hostilities would be suspended for the night. Their work completed.",
  "sample_08297.wav": "So you can judge pretty well for yourself.\" Guess he had a pretty good bird's-eye view of the whole thing, said Joe, as they passed on to meet again before mess. Except for spasmodic outbursts here and there, the trench-dual had almost entirely subsided.",
  "sample_08298.wav": "and the heavy roar of the artillery also was punctuated with longer pauses.",
  "sample_08299.wav": "while each side took account of stock and made necessary repairs or altered their plans to meet the new situation. Our young friends were busy with wash basins, soap and water, and they were busy with the",
  "sample_08300.wav": "taking off the grime in preparation for the evening meal and wondering where Jerry was keeping himself all the while, when suddenly a very strange thing happened beyond the enemy line.",
  "sample_08301.wav": "more easily handled airplanes and used in great numbers by the Germans, shot into the air at great speed from behind the Bosch entrenchments.",
  "sample_08302.wav": "It simply indicated that those manning the American and French anti-aircraft guns",
  "sample_08303.wav": "And even this might have been considered a well-designed hoax.",
  "sample_08304.wav": "Will still going at maximum speed, and now on a straight line towards the American side without seeking a further height, the top several times wavered and a moment later almost turned over, but the pilot righted her.",
  "sample_08305.wav": "He pointed her nose downward towards the American lines. Four American planes sailed off and upward to meet the oncoming German Aramada, but from the ground it could be seen that the man in the observer's place in the top was making desperate signals.",
  "sample_08306.wav": "The American planes maneuvered in such a way as to encircle the tub.",
  "sample_08307.wav": "and the other German planes turned back towards their own lines. The top continued on its wavering cripple downward course towards allied lines.",
  "sample_08308.wav": "as the top came within 100 yards of the ground and righted herself for a landing.",
  "sample_08309.wav": "of its own momentum it rolled within a two-minute run where the lieutenant and the others had been standing. In another instant it was entirely surrounded by a crowd of curious American soldiers.",
  "sample_08310.wav": "and after descending a little by permitting some of the gas to escape, we jumped over the side of the basket and came down on our parachutes.",
  "sample_08311.wav": "The sleepers open their eyes and raise themselves on their elbows. Then the shepherd hears a warning voice which comes and goes like the wind, saying, If the horn is blown once again, the world will be upset altogether.",
  "sample_08312.wav": "Terrified by the voice and the ferocious appearance of the heroes, the shepherd retreats hurriedly, locking the door behind him.",
  "sample_08313.wav": "Shaman Ser, Shama Shadad, Ashwardhan.",
  "sample_08314.wav": "The Syro-Cabodoshan Hittites had grown once again powerful and prosperous, but no great leader like Subiluleuma arose to weld the various states into an empire.",
  "sample_08315.wav": "so as to ensure the protection of the mingled peoples from the operations of the aggressive and ambitious warlords of Assyria. One kingdom had its capital at Hamath and another at Karkomish on the Euphrates. The kingdom of Tabal flourished in Cilicia, Hilaku.",
  "sample_08316.wav": "It included several city-states like Tarsus, Tiana, and Kamanu. Farther west was the dominion of the Thracophrygian Muski. The tribes around the shores of Lake Van",
  "sample_08317.wav": "had asserted themselves and extended their sphere of influence. The state of Rurartu was of growing importance, and the Nairi tribes had spread from the southeastern shores of Lake Bon.",
  "sample_08318.wav": "The northern frontier of Assyria was continually menaced by groups of independent tail states, which would have been irresistible had they operated together against a common enemy, but were liable to be extinguished when attacked in detail.",
  "sample_08319.wav": "A number of Aramaic kingdoms had come into existence in Mesopotamia and throughout Syria.",
  "sample_08320.wav": "I'm an Oshawa Natsir Paul III.",
  "sample_08321.wav": "Groups of the Arameans had acquired a high degree of culture and become traders and artisans.",
  "sample_08322.wav": "Accustomed for generations to desert warfare, they were fearless warriors. Their armies had great mobility, being composed mostly of mounted infantry, and were not easily overpowered by the Assyrian forces of Footman.",
  "sample_08323.wav": "The former had raided North Syria and apparently penetrated as far as the Mediterranean coast. In consequence, he came into conflict with Babylonia, but he ultimately formed an alliance with that kingdom. His son, Tukwulti-Ninip,",
  "sample_08324.wav": "operated in southern Mesopotamia.",
  "sample_08325.wav": "In the north, he had to drive back, invading bands of the Muski.",
  "sample_08326.wav": "A sure indication that Assyria was once again becoming powerful in northern Mesopotamia and the regions towards Armenia. A sure not Sir Paul III",
  "sample_08327.wav": "inaugurated a veritable reign of terror in Mesopotamia and northern Syria. His methods of dealing with revolting tribes were of a most savage character. Chiefs were skinned alive, but when he sacked their cities...",
  "sample_08328.wav": "not only fighting men, but women and children were either slaughtered or burned at the stake. It is not surprising to find, therefore, that, on more than one occasion, the kings of petty states made submission to him without resistance as soon as he invaded their domains.",
  "sample_08329.wav": "In his first year, he overran the mountainous district between Lake Van and the upper sources of the Tigris. Bubu, the rebel son of the governor of Nishtun, who had been taken prisoner, was transported to Arbella, where he was skinned alive.",
  "sample_08330.wav": "Like his father, Ashur Natsir Paul fought against the Muski, whose power was declining. Then he turned southward from the borders of Asia Minor and dealt with a rebellion in northern Mesopotamia. An Araman pretender named Ahiababa",
  "sample_08331.wav": "had established himself at Suru in the region to the east of the Euphrates, enclosed by its tributaries the Chabar and the Balik. He had come from the neighboring Aramean state of Bit Adini, and was preparing, it would appear,",
  "sample_08332.wav": "to form a powerful confederacy against the Assyrians. When Ashur Natsir Paul approached Suru, a part of its population welcomed him. He entered the city, seized the pretender and many of his followers.",
  "sample_08333.wav": "these he disposed of with characteristic barbarity. Some were skinned alive, and some impaled on stakes, while others were enclosed in a pillar which the king had erected, to remind the aramans of his determination to brook no opposition.",
  "sample_08334.wav": "and when they had been flayed, their skins were nailed upon the city walls. Another revolt broke out in the Kirhi district between the upper reaches of the Tigris and the southwestern shores of Lake Van.",
  "sample_08335.wav": "It was promoted by the Nairi tribes, and even supported by some Assyrian officials. Terrible reprisals were meted out to the rebels. When the city of Kinabu was captured, no fewer than 3,000 prisoners were burned alive.",
  "sample_08336.wav": "the unfaithful governor being flayed. The city of Dom de Moussa was set on fire. Then Tello was attacked. A sure nutsier Paul's own account of the operations runs as follows.",
  "sample_08337.wav": "The city of Telo was very strong.",
  "sample_08338.wav": "They did not come down or embrace my feet. With battle and slaughter I assaulted and took the city. Three thousand warriors I slew in battle. Their booty and possessions, cattle, the sheep, I carried away.",
  "sample_08339.wav": "Many captives I burned with fire. Many of the soldiers I took alive. Of some I cut off hands and limbs. Of others the noses, ears, and arms. Of many soldiers I put out the eyes.",
  "sample_08340.wav": "I reared a column of the living and a column of heads. I hung on high their heads on trees in the vicinity of their city. Their boys and girls I burned up in flames. I devastated the city, dug it up, in fire burned it.",
  "sample_08341.wav": "He had found at last that the draughts containing dissolved pearls which the quack doctor, Leone di Spolito, prescribed for him, as if he desired to adapt his remedies rather to the riches of his patients than to his necessities,",
  "sample_08342.wav": "were useless and unavailing. And so he had come to understand that he must part from those gentle-tongued women of his, those sweet-voiced poets, his palaces and the rich hangings. Therefore he had summoned to give him absolution for his sins,",
  "sample_08343.wav": "in a man of less high place they might perhaps have been called crimes, the Dominican, Girolamo Francesco Savonarola. It was not, however, without an inward fear, against which the praises of his friends availed nothing,",
  "sample_08344.wav": "that the pleasure-seeker and usurper awaited that severe and gloomy preacher by whose words all Florence was stirred, and on whose pardon henceforth depended all his hope for another world. Indeed, Savonarola was one of those men of stone.",
  "sample_08345.wav": "coming, like the statue of the Commandante, to knock at the door of Adan Giovanni, and in the midst of feast and orgy, to announce that it is even now the moment to begin to think of heaven. He had been born at Ferrara.",
  "sample_08346.wav": "had fled from his father's house and had taken the vows in the cloister of Dominican monks at Florence. There, where he was appointed by his superiors to give lessons in philosophy, the young novice had from the first to battle against the defects of a voice that was both harsh and weak.",
  "sample_08347.wav": "a defective pronunciation, and above all, the depression of his physical powers, exhausted as they were by too severe abstinence. Savanarola from that time condemned himself to the most absolute seclusion, and disappeared in the depths of his convent.",
  "sample_08348.wav": "as if the slab of his tomb had already fallen over him. There, kneeling on the flags, praying unceasingly before a wooden crucifix, fevered by vigils and penances, he soon passed out of contemplation into ecstasy and began to feel in himself",
  "sample_08349.wav": "that inward prophetic impulse which summoned him to preach the reformation of the church. Nevertheless, the reformation of Savonarola, more reverential than Luther's, which followed about five and twenty years later, respected the thing while attacking the man.",
  "sample_08350.wav": "and had as its aim the altering of teaching that was human, not faith that was of God. He did not work like the German monk by reasoning, but by enthusiasm. With him logic always gave way before inspiration. He was not a theologian.",
  "sample_08351.wav": "but a prophet. Yet although hitherto he had bowed his head before the authority of the Church, he had already raised it against the temporal power. To him, religion and liberty appeared as two virgins equally sacred.",
  "sample_08352.wav": "The result of this was that, so long as Lorenzo lived in riches, happiness and magnificence, Savonarola had never been willing, whatever entreaties were made, to sanction by his presence a power which he considered illegitimate.",
  "sample_08353.wav": "But Lorenzo on his deathbed sent for him, and that was another matter. The austere preacher set forth at once, bareheaded and barefoot, hoping to save not only the soul of the dying man, but also the liberty of the Republic.",
  "sample_08354.wav": "Lorenzo, as we have said, was awaiting the arrival of Savonarola with an impatience mixed with uneasiness, so that when he heard the sound of his steps, his pale face took a yet more death-like tinge.",
  "sample_08355.wav": "appeared on the threshold. When he perceived him, Lorenzo de' Medici, reading in his marble brow the inflexibility of a statue, fell back on his bed, breathing a sigh so profound that one might have supposed it was his last.",
  "sample_08356.wav": "Then he advanced with a slow and solemn step towards the bed. Lorenzo watched his approach with terror. Then when he was close beside him, he cried, Oh my father, I have been a very great sinner. The mercy of God is infinite, replied the monk.",
  "sample_08357.wav": "You believe then that God will forgive my sins? cried the dying man, renewing his hope as he heard from the lips of the monk such unexpected words. Your sins and also your crimes, God will forgive them all replied Savva Nerola.",
  "sample_08358.wav": "God will forgive your vanities, your adulterous pleasures, your obscene festivals, so much for your sins.",
  "sample_08359.wav": "Francesco Frescobaldi, and more than 300 others whose names were nonetheless dear to Florence because they were less renowned. So much for your crimes. And at each of these names, which Savonaroli pronounced slowly, his eyes fixed on the dying man.",
  "sample_08360.wav": "He replied with a groan, which proved the monk's memory to be only too true. Then at last, when he had finished, Lorenzo asked in a doubtful tone, Then do you believe, my father, that God will forgive me everything, both my sins and my crimes?",
  "sample_08361.wav": "Everything, said Savva Nerola, but on three conditions. What are they, asked the dying man. The first, said Savva Nerola, is that you feel a complete faith in the power and the mercy of God.",
  "sample_08362.wav": "My father replied to Renzo eagerly, I feel this faith in the very depths of my heart. The second, said Savonarola, is that you give back the property of others which you have unjustly confiscated and kept.",
  "sample_08363.wav": "My father, shall I have time? asked the dying man. God will give it to you replied the monk.",
  "sample_08364.wav": "exclaimed Lorenzo, falling back on his bed and shaking his head. Never! The monk, without replying a single word, made a step to withdraw. My father, my father, said the dying man. Do not leave me thus. Have pity on me. Have pity on Florence, said the monk.",
  "sample_08365.wav": "But my father cried Lorenzo Florence is free Florence is happy Florence is a slave Florence is poor cried Severo, Norola poor in genius poor in money and poor in courage poor in genius because after you Lorenzo",
  "sample_08366.wav": "will come your son Puro. Pour in money because from the funds of the Republic you have kept up the magnificence of your family and the credit of your business houses. Pour in courage because you have robbed the rightful magistrates of the authority which was constitutionally theirs.",
  "sample_08367.wav": "and diverted the citizens from the double path of military and civil life, wherein before they were innervated by your luxuries they had displayed the virtues of the ancients. And therefore, when the day shall dawn which is not far distant, continued the monk.",
  "sample_08368.wav": "It is not I who desire it. It is the Lord replied Savonarola coldly impossible impossible murmured Lorenzo Very well, then die as you have lived cried the monk in the midst of your courtiers and flatterers",
  "sample_08369.wav": "Let them ruin your soul as they have ruined your body. And at these words the austere Dominican, without listening to the cries of the dying man, left the room as he had entered it, with face and step unaltered. Far above human things he seemed to soar.",
  "sample_08370.wav": "a spirit already detached from the earth. At the cry which broke from Lorenzo de' Medici when he saw him disappear,",
  "sample_08371.wav": "administration terrorism. The administration tried in another way to stop picketing.",
  "sample_08372.wav": "the agitation would certainly weaken, so thought the administration. To their great surprise, however, in the face of that reckless and extreme sentence, the longest picket line of the entire campaign formed at the White House in the late afternoon of November 10th.",
  "sample_08373.wav": "41 women picketed in protest against this wanton persecution of their leader, as well as against the delay in passing the amendment. Face to face with an embarrassing number of prisoners, the administration used its wits",
  "sample_08374.wav": "to reduce the number to a manageable size before imprisoning this group. Failing of that, they tried still another way out. They resorted to imprisonment with terrorism.",
  "sample_08375.wav": "In order to show how widely representative of the nation this group of pickets was, I give its personnel complete. First group, New York. Mrs. John Winters Brannon, Miss Belle Sheinberg,",
  "sample_08376.wav": "Mrs. Cynthia Cohen, Ms. M. Tilden Burritt.",
  "sample_08377.wav": "Massachusetts, Mrs. Agnes H. Moray Brookline, Mrs. William Bergen and Miss Camilla Whitcomb Wooster, Miss Ella Feindyson Lawrence, Miss L.J.C. Daniels Boston, New Jersey.",
  "sample_08378.wav": "Mrs. George Scott, Montclair. Pennsylvania. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis. Miss Elizabeth McShane. Miss Catherine Lincoln, Philadelphia. Third group. California. Mrs. William Kent, Kentfield.",
  "sample_08379.wav": "Oregon, Miss Alice Graham, Miss Betty Graham, Portland. Utah, Mrs. R.B.K. Mrs. T.C. Robertson, Salt Lake City. Colorado, Mrs. Eva Decker.",
  "sample_08380.wav": "Colorado Springs, Mrs. Genevieve Williams, Manitou. Fourth group, Indiana, Mrs. Charles W. Barnes, Indianapolis, Oklahoma, Mrs. Kate Stafford, Oklahoma City.",
  "sample_08381.wav": "Minnesota, Mrs. J. H. Short, Minneapolis, Iowa.",
  "sample_08382.wav": "Des Moines, Mrs. Catherine Martinet, Eagle Grove. Fifth group, New York, Miss Lucy Burns, New York City. District of Columbia, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Louisiana.",
  "sample_08383.wav": "Mrs. Alice M. Kosu, New Orleans. Maryland. Miss Mary Bartlett Dixon, Easton. Miss Julia Emery, Baltimore. Florida. Mrs. Mary I. Nolan, Jacksonville.",
  "sample_08384.wav": "as she said in court. We took this action with great consecration of spirit, with willingness to sacrifice personal liberty.",
  "sample_08385.wav": "Judge Maloney addressed the prisoners with many high-sounding words about the seriousness of obstructing the traffic in the national capital and inadvertently slipped into a discourse on Russia and the dangers of revolution.",
  "sample_08386.wav": "But their minds were too full of the political aspect of our offence to conceal it. The truth of the situation is that the court has not been given power to meet it, the judge lamented. It is very, very puzzling. I find you guilty of the offence charged.",
  "sample_08387.wav": "but will take the matter of sentence under advisement.\" And so the guilty pickets were summarily released. The administration did not relish the incarceration of 41 women for another reason than limited housing accommodations.",
  "sample_08388.wav": "41 women representing 16 states in the Union might create a considerable political dislocation. But these same 41 women were determined to force the administration to take its choice. It would allow them to continue their peaceful agitation.",
  "sample_08389.wav": "or it could stand the reaction which was bound to come from imprisoning them. And so the 41 women returned to the White House gates to resume their picketing. They stood guard several minutes before the police, taken unawares, could summon sufficient force to arrest them.",
  "sample_08390.wav": "Come back on Friday. I am not yet prepared to try the case. Logic dictated that either we had a right to stand at the gates with our banners, or we did not have that right.",
  "sample_08391.wav": "it had to stop picketing. Whether this was done legally or illegally, logically or illogically, clumsily or dextrously, was of secondary importance. Picketing must be stopped.",
  "sample_08392.wav": "Using their welcome release to continue their protest, the women again marched with their banners to the White House in an attempt to picket. Again, they were arrested. No one who saw that line will ever forget the impression it made, not only on Friends of the Suffragists,",
  "sample_08393.wav": "but on the general populace of Washington to see these women force with such magnificent defiance the hand of a wavering administration. On the following morning...",
  "sample_08394.wav": "Ms. Burns received six months. In pronouncing the lightest sentence upon Mrs. Nolan, the judge said that he did so on account of her age. He urged her, however, to pay her fine, hinting that jail might be too severe on her and might bring on death.",
  "sample_08395.wav": "At this suggestion, Tiny Mrs. Nolan pulled herself up on her toes and said with great dignity,",
  "sample_08396.wav": "I have a nephew fighting for democracy in France.",
  "sample_08397.wav": "I should be ashamed if I did not join these brave women in their fight for democracy in America. I should be proud of the honor to die in prison.",
  "sample_08398.wav": "for the liberty of American women.",
  "sample_08399.wav": "or do prison labor. Any words of mine would be inadequate to tell the story of the prisoner's reception at the Akaquan Workhouse. The following is the statement of Mrs. Nolan, dictated upon her release in the presence of Mr. Dudley Field Malone.",
  "sample_08400.wav": "Mrs. Harrington was standing behind a desk when we were brought into this office and there were five or six men also in the room.",
  "sample_08401.wav": "Chapter 21, A Soul Overboard.",
  "sample_08402.wav": "Somebody had called his name. He sat up in bed and listened. There was not a sound. He drew up the blind and looked out on a gray autumn morning, windy and rainy. He went back to bed and tried to sleep, but in vain.",
  "sample_08403.wav": "There were strange voices in the wind. They moaned and warned and wept and whimpered. He tried to think of something pleasant, of his happiness. He took his part and began to learn it. It seemed to be nothing but, Yes, my prince.",
  "sample_08404.wav": "He tried to picture himself on a stage as Horatio. He tried to picture Agnes in the part of Ophelia.",
  "sample_08405.wav": "spreading nets for Hamlet at Polonius' advice. He attempted to drive away the thought, and instead of Agnes, he saw the coquettish Miss Jacquet, who had been the last to play the part at the Municipal Theatre.",
  "sample_08406.wav": "He tried in vain to drive away these disagreeable fancies. They followed him like gnats. At last, exhausted with the strain, he fell asleep, but only to suffer the same torment in his dream. He roused himself with an effort, but soon dropped off to sleep again.",
  "sample_08407.wav": "He dressed hastily, and as he picked up his boot, a big spider ran across the floor. The sight pleased him, for he believed in the superstition that a spider is a harbinger of happiness.",
  "sample_08408.wav": "He could not tell why, but he thought of the spider and calmly opened the door. A servant handed him a letter from Philander, begging him to come to his rooms at ten. On very important business. Again, he was assailed by the indescribable feeling of fear.",
  "sample_08409.wav": "which had troubled his morning slumber. He tried to wallow wait a time until ten. It was impossible. He dressed and went to Flanders' house. The latter had risen early. His room had been put straight, and he was ready to receive his friend.",
  "sample_08410.wav": "He greeted Renhelm cordially, but with unusual gravity. Renhelm overwhelmed him with questions, but Philander refused to reply before 10 o'clock. Renhelm's anxiety grew, and he wanted to know whether there was unpleasant news.",
  "sample_08411.wav": "Andy declared that many so-called unbearable situations could be borne quite easily if only one did not exaggerate their importance. The time passed slowly, but at last it struck ten. A gentle double-rap at the door relieved the tension.",
  "sample_08412.wav": "Philander opened at once and admitted Agnes. Without a look at those present, she drew the key from the lock and locked the door from the inside. A momentary embarrassment seized her when, on turning around, she was confronted by two men instead of only one.",
  "sample_08413.wav": "but her embarrassment gave away a pleasant surprise when she recognized Wrenhelm. Throwing off her waterproof, she ran towards him.",
  "sample_08414.wav": "A long time? What do you mean? I feel as if I hadn't seen you for a lifetime. How splendid you are looking. Did you sleep well? Do you think I look better than usual? Yes, you are flushed and there are little dimples on your cheeks. Won't you say good morning to Flandre?",
  "sample_08415.wav": "The latter stood quietly listening to the conversation, but his face was deadly white, and he seemed to be absorbed in thought. How, Warren, you are looking! said Agnes, crossing the room with the graceful movements of a kitten, as Renhelm released her from his arms.",
  "sample_08416.wav": "Philander made no reply. Agnes looked at him more keenly.",
  "sample_08417.wav": "A fleeting expression of trouble passed across her face as the surface of a pond is rippled by the breeze. But she immediately regained her usual serenity, glanced at Renhelm, realized the situation, and was prepared for anything.",
  "sample_08418.wav": "May we be told what important business has brought us together here, at this early hour?\" She asked Ailey, putting her hand on Flanders' shoulder. Certainly,\" said the latter with such firm resolution that her face paled.",
  "sample_08419.wav": "as if he wanted to force his thoughts into another groove. It's my birthday and I want you to have breakfast with me. Agnes, who had seen the train rushing straight at her, felt relieved. She burst into merry laughter and embraced Philander. But as breakfast has been ordered for eleven, we'll have to wait a while.",
  "sample_08420.wav": "Won't you sit down?\" There was an ominous silence. \"'An angel is passing through the room,' said Agnes. \"'You,' said Ranhelm, respectfully and ardently, kissing her hand. It looked as if he had been thrown out of his saddle.\"",
  "sample_08421.wav": "and was making violent efforts to regain it. I saw a spider this morning, said Ranholm, that predicts happiness. Arragnem a ten shagren, said Philander. Have you never heard of that? What does that mean? asked Agnes. A Spider on the Moral. Grief and Sorrow.",
  "sample_08422.wav": "The only sound which disturbed his stillness was the sound of the rain beating in gusts against the windows.",
  "sample_08423.wav": "I hardly slept a wink. What book was that? asked Ranhelm, without betraying very much interest. Its title was Pierre Clement, and its subject the usual woman's game.",
  "sample_08424.wav": "Wasn't she later on engaged to a man whom she really loved? Yes, that was it. And during all the time she kept up her old liaison. The author wanted to show that a woman can love in two ways, a man only in one. That's true enough, isn't it? Certainly.",
  "sample_08425.wav": "But the day came when her fiance was going to compete with a picture. To cut my tale short, she gave herself to the president, and Pierre Clement was happy and could be married. And by this the author wanted to show that a woman will sacrifice everything to the man she loves?",
  "sample_08426.wav": "A man, on the other hand, that is the most infamous statement I ever heard. burst out philander. He rose, went to his writing desk, threw open the flap, and took out a black box. Here! he said, handing it to Agnes.",
  "sample_08427.wav": "What's that? laughed Agnes opening the box and taking out a six-barreled revolver. I say what a sweet thing!",
  "sample_08428.wav": "Lock it up,\" she said. This is no toy, my friends. Renhelm had watched the scene speechlessly. He understood the meaning well enough, but he was unable to say a word, and he was so much under the girl's spell that he could not even feel angry with her.",
  "sample_08429.wav": "He realized that he had been stabbed, but he had as yet not had time to feel the pain. The girl's impudence disconcerted Flander. He wanted time to recover. His moral execution had been a complete failure, and his coup d'etat had been disastrous to himself.",
  "sample_08430.wav": "Hadn't we better go now?\" asked Agnes, straightening her hat before the glass. Philander opened the door. \"'Go and be damned to you,' he said. \"'You have ruined an honest man's peace of mind.' \"'What are you talking about?' \"'Shut the door. It's none too warm here.'\"",
  "sample_08431.wav": "the rough riders at Guacimas. On the day the American troops landed on the coast of Cuba, the Cubans informed General Wheeler",
  "sample_08432.wav": "blocking the way to Santiago.",
  "sample_08433.wav": "nor even a collection of houses. It is the meeting place of two trails which join at the apex of a V, three miles from the seaport town of Cibon\u00e9 and continue merged in a single trail to Santiago.",
  "sample_08434.wav": "General Wheeler, guided by the Cubans, reconnoitered this trail on the 23rd of June, and with the position of the enemy fully explained to him, returned to Cibone, and informed General Young and Colonel Wood.",
  "sample_08435.wav": "that on the following morning he would attack the Spanish position",
  "sample_08436.wav": "and what he was to do when he found him. That night no one slept, for until two o'clock in the morning, troops were still being disembarked in the surf, and two ships of war had their searchlights turned on the landing place.",
  "sample_08437.wav": "lay the camp of the Rough Riders, and through it Cuban officers were riding their half-starved ponies, and scattering the ashes of the campfires.",
  "sample_08438.wav": "Below them was the beach and the roaring surf in which a thousand or so naked men were assisting and impeding the progress shoreward of their comrades in pontoons and shoreboats.",
  "sample_08439.wav": "which were being hurled at the beach like sleds down a watershoot. It was one of the most weird and remarkable scenes of the war, probably of any war.",
  "sample_08440.wav": "or shouting with delight as they plunged into the first bath that had offered in seven days, and those in the launches as they were pitched head first at the soil of Cuba, signalized their arrival by howls of triumph.",
  "sample_08441.wav": "On either side rose black overhanging ridges.",
  "sample_08442.wav": "of the searchlights shaming the quiet moonlight.",
  "sample_08443.wav": "The Rough Riders left camp at five in the morning. With the exception of half a dozen officers, they were dismounted and carried their blanket rolls, heavy sacks, ammunition, and carbines.",
  "sample_08444.wav": "along the trail to the west, which was on high ground, and a half mile to a mile distant from the trail, along which General Young and his regulars were marching.",
  "sample_08445.wav": "There was a valley between us and the bushes were so thick on both sides of our trail.",
  "sample_08446.wav": "to distinguish the other column. As soon as the Rough Riders had reached the top of the ridge not twenty minutes after they had left camp, which was the first opportunity that presented itself, Colonel Wood ordered Captain Capron.",
  "sample_08447.wav": "No flankers were placed for the reason that the dense undergrowth and the tangle of vines that stretched from the branches of the trees to the bushes below made it a physical impossibility.",
  "sample_08448.wav": "a Cuban officer, and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt. They rode slowly in consideration of the troopers on foot, who under a cruelly hot sun carried heavy burdens. To those who did not have to walk,",
  "sample_08449.wav": "We advanced, talking in that fashion and in high spirits, and congratulating ourselves in being shut of the transport and on breathing fine mountain air again.",
  "sample_08450.wav": "We had been riding in this pleasant fashion for an hour and a half with brief halts for rest when Wood stopped the head of the column and rode down the trail to meet Capron, who was coming back.",
  "sample_08451.wav": "There was, on one side of it, a stout barbed wire fence of five strands. By some fortunate accident, this fence had been cut just where the head of the column halted. On the left of the trail,",
  "sample_08452.wav": "It shut off fields of high grass blocked at every 50 yards with great barricades of undergrowth, and tangled trees and chaparral. On the other side of the trail.",
  "sample_08453.wav": "There was not a foot of free ground, the bushes seemed absolutely impenetrable, as indeed they were later found to be. When we halted, the man set out to the forest.",
  "sample_08454.wav": "or fanned the air with their hats. They had no knowledge of the situation such as their leaders possessed, and their only emotion was one of satisfaction at the chance the Halt gave them.",
  "sample_08455.wav": "at the ready, peering into the bushes. We must have waited there while Wood reconnoitered for over ten minutes. Then he returned and began deploying his troops out at either side of the trail.",
  "sample_08456.wav": "G-troop was ordered to beat into the bushes on the right and K and A were sent over the ridge on which we stood down into the hollow to connect with General Young's column on the opposite side of the valley.",
  "sample_08457.wav": "F&E troops were deployed in skirmish line on the other side of the wire fence. Wood had discovered the enemy a few hundred yards from where he expected to find him, and so far from being surprised, he had time.",
  "sample_08458.wav": "acting on a false alarm and that there were no Spaniards ahead of us, I guessed it was Capron's men firing at random to disclose the enemy's position. I ran after G-troop under Captain Lulun and found",
  "sample_08459.wav": "he would have been lost in the thicket. At one moment the underbrush seemed swarming with our men, and the next except that you heard the twigs breaking and heavy breathing or a crush as a vine pulled someone down.",
  "sample_08460.wav": "Through the two hours of fighting that followed, although men were falling all around us, the Spaniards on the ridge were the only ones that many of us saw. But the fire against us was not more than 80 yards away.",
  "sample_08461.wav": "The chief street of Mowbray, called Castle Street, after the ruins of the old baronial stronghold in its neighborhood, was as significant of the present civilization of this community as the haughty keep had been of its ancient dependence.",
  "sample_08462.wav": "The dimensions of Castle Street were not unworthy of the metropolis. It traversed a great portion of the town, and it was proportionately wide. Its broad pavements and its blazing gas-lights indicated its modern order and prosperity.",
  "sample_08463.wav": "while on each side of the street rose huge warehouses, not as beautiful as the palaces of Venice, but in their way not less remarkable magnificent shops. And here and there, though rarely, some ancient factory built among the fields, and the",
  "sample_08464.wav": "in the infancy of Mowbray by some mill owner not sufficiently prophetic of the future, or sufficiently confident in the energy and enterprise of his fellow citizens, to foresee that the scene of his labors",
  "sample_08465.wav": "would be the future eyesore of a flourishing posterity. Pursuing their course along Castle Street for about a quarter of a mile, Gerard and Stephen turned down a street which intersected it.",
  "sample_08466.wav": "and so on, through a variety of ways and winding lanes, till they arrived at an open portion of the town, a district where streets and squares and even rows disappeared, and where the tall chimneys and bulky barrack-looking buildings.",
  "sample_08467.wav": "that rose in all directions, clustering yet isolated, announced that they were in the principal scene of the industry of Mowbray. Crossing this open ground, they gained a suburb, but one of a very different description.",
  "sample_08468.wav": "to that in which was situ at the convent where they had parted with Sybil. This one was populous, noisy, and lighted. It was Saturday night, the streets were thronged, an infinite population kept swarming to and fro.",
  "sample_08469.wav": "by narrow archways, like the entrance of hives, so low that you were obliged to stoop for admission, while ascending to these same streets, from their dank and dismal dwellings by narrow flights of steps.",
  "sample_08470.wav": "the subteraneous nation of the cellars poured forth to enjoy the coolness of the summer night and market for the day of rest. The bright and lively shops were crowded, and groups of purchasers were gathered round the stalls.",
  "sample_08471.wav": "still offered many temptations to many who could not purchase. \"'And so it is, widow,' said a little pale man, wistfully. \"'Come, come, it's getting late, and your wife's ill. You're a good soul.'",
  "sample_08472.wav": "or the mayor of Mowbray at least.\" \"'Wages,' said the man, I wish you may get him. Those villains Shuffle and Screw have starved me with another bait ticket and a pretty vicar too.\"",
  "sample_08473.wav": "Oh, the carnal monsters, exclaimed the widow, If there day don't come the bloody-minded knaves. And for small cops, too, small cops be hanged. Am I the man to send up a bad bottom cop, widow Carrie?",
  "sample_08474.wav": "You sent up for snicks. I have known you man and boy John Hill these twenty summers, and never heard a word against you till you got into shuffle-and-screws mill. Oh, they are a bad yarn, John.",
  "sample_08475.wav": "They do us all, widow. They pretends to give the same wages as the rest, and works it out in fines. You can't come and you can't go, but there's a fine. You never paid wages, but there's a bait ticket.",
  "sample_08476.wav": "I've heard they keep their whole establishment on factory fines.\" \"'Soul alive, but those shuffle-and-screw are rotten, snicky, bad yarns,' said Mistress Carey.\"",
  "sample_08477.wav": "\"'Wheel, indeed! You look very like a soul as feeds on wheel,' continued Mrs. Carey in an undertone as her declining customer moved away. \"'Well, it gets late,' said the widow. \"'I'll be back soon. I'll be back soon. I'll be back soon. I'll be back soon.",
  "sample_08478.wav": "And if you like to take this scrag end home to your wife, Neighbor Hill, we can talk of the rest next Saturday.\" \"'And what you will, sir,' said the widow, with a stern expression to a youth, who now stopped at her stall.\"",
  "sample_08479.wav": "He was about sixteen, with a lithe figure and a handsome, faded, impudent face. His long, loose, white trousers gave him height. He had no waistcoat, but a pink silk handkerchief was twisted carelessly round his neck.",
  "sample_08480.wav": "a high-crowned, dark brown hat, which relieved his complexion and heightened the effect of his mischievous blue eye. \"'Well, you need not be so fierce, Mother Carrie,' said the youth, with an affected air of deprecation.",
  "sample_08481.wav": "\"'Don't mother me,' said the jolly widow with a kindling eye, \"'go to your own mother, who is dying in a back cellar without a winder, while you've got lodgings in a two-pair.' \"'Dying? She's only drunk,' said the youth.\"",
  "sample_08482.wav": "What makes her drink but toil, working from five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock at night, and for the like of such as you?\" \"'That's a good one,' said the youth. \"'I should like to know what my mother ever did for me, but give me treacle and laudanum when I was a babby.'",
  "sample_08483.wav": "to stop my tongue and fill my stomach, by the token of which, as my gal says, she stunted the growth of the prettiest figure in all Mowbray. And here the youth drew himself up, and thrust his hands into the side pockets of his pea-jacket.",
  "sample_08484.wav": "\"'I never,' said Mrs. Carey, \"'no, I never heard a thing like that.' \"'What, not when you cut up the jackass and sold it for veal cutlets, mother?' \"'Hold your tongue, Mr. and Perrance,' said the widow. \"'It's very well known you're no Christian, and who'll believe what you say?'",
  "sample_08485.wav": "\"'It's very well known that I'm a man what pays his way,' said the boy, \"'and don't keep a huckster stall to sell carrion by starlight, but live in a two-pair, if you please, and has a wife and family, or is good.'",
  "sample_08486.wav": "said a good, humoured voice. It came from one of two factory girls, who were passing her stall and stopped. They were gaily dressed, a light handkerchief tied under the chin, their hair scrupulously arranged, they wore coral necklaces and earrings of gold.",
  "sample_08487.wav": "She added in a lower tone. \"'Well, I have left Mr. Trafford's mill,' said the girl. \"'That's a bad job,' said Mrs. Carey, for those Traffords are kind to their people.",
  "sample_08488.wav": "\"'So it is,' said the girl, but then it was so dull. \"'I can't stand a country life, Mrs. Carey. I must have company.' \"'Well, I do love a bit of gossip myself,' said Mrs. Carey, with great frankness.",
  "sample_08489.wav": "\"'And then I'm no scholar,' said the girl, and never could take the learning, and those Trafford's had so many schools.' \"'Learning is better than house and land,' said Mrs. Carey, though I'm no scholar myself. But then, in my time, things was different.'",
  "sample_08490.wav": "But young persons\u2014' \"'Yes,' said Mick. I don't think I could get through the day if it weren't for our institute.' \"'And what's that?' asked Mrs. Carey, with a sneer. \"'The shoddy court literary and scientific, to be sure,' said Mick.",
  "sample_08491.wav": "The war message concluded was still another defense of the fight for political liberty. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know,",
  "sample_08492.wav": "We were face to face with the question, which we had considered at the convention the previous month when war was rumored, as to what position we, as an organization, should take in this situation. The atmosphere of that convention had been dramatic in the extreme.",
  "sample_08493.wav": "Most of the delegates assembled had been approached either before going to Washington or upon arriving and urged to use their influence to persuade the organization to abandon its work for the freedom of women and turn its activities into war channels.",
  "sample_08494.wav": "Although war was then only rumored, the historical attitude was already prevalent. Women were asked to furl their banners and give up their half-century struggle for democracy to forget the liberty that was most precious to their hearts.",
  "sample_08495.wav": "The President will turn this imperialistic war into a crusade for democracy. Lay aside your own fight and help us crush Germany and you will find yourselves rewarded with a vote out of the nation's gratitude, or some of the appeals made to our women by government officials high and low.",
  "sample_08496.wav": "and by the rank and file of men and women. Never in history did a band of women stand together with more sanity and greater solidarity than did these one thousand delegates representing thousands more throughout the states. As our official organ, the suffragist,",
  "sample_08497.wav": "pointed out editorially in its issue of April 21, 1917.",
  "sample_08498.wav": "We were united on no other subject. Some would offer passive resistance to the war, others would become devoted followers of a vigorous military policy. Between these, every shade of opinion was represented. Each was loyal to the ideas which she held for her country.",
  "sample_08499.wav": "had nothing to do. It was concerned only with the effort to obtain for women the opportunity to give effective expression through political power to their ideals whatever they might be.",
  "sample_08500.wav": "The thousand delegates present at the convention, though differing widely on the duty of the individual in war, were unanimous in voting that in the event of war, the National Women's Party as an organization should continue to work for political liberty for women and for that alone.",
  "sample_08501.wav": "believing, as the Convention stated in its resolutions, that in so doing the organization serves the highest interest of the country.",
  "sample_08502.wav": "They were also unanimous in the opinion that all service which individuals wished to give to war or peace should be given through groups organized for such purposes.",
  "sample_08503.wav": "for one purpose only, to secure an amendment to the United States Constitution and franchising women. We declared officially through our organ that this held as the policy of the Women's Party, whatever turn public events may take.",
  "sample_08504.wav": "and announced that no subjects would be considered by them unless the President urged them as war measures. Our task was, from that time on, to make national suffrage a war measure. We at once urged upon the Administration the wisdom of accepting this proposed reform as a war measure.",
  "sample_08505.wav": "and pointed out the difficulty of waging a war for democracy abroad while democracy was denied at home. But the government was not willing to profit by the experience of its allies in extending suffrage to women without first offering a terrible and brutal resistance.",
  "sample_08506.wav": "was most perplexing. Here were we, citizens without power and recognition, with the only weapons to which a powerless class which does not take up arms can resort. We could not and would not fight with men's weapons.",
  "sample_08507.wav": "Compare the methods women adopted to those menus in the pursuit of democracy.",
  "sample_08508.wav": "bayonets, machine guns, poison gas, deadly grenades, liquid fire, bombs, armored tanks, pistols, barbed wire entanglements, submarines, mines, every non-scientific device with which to annihilate the enemy.",
  "sample_08509.wav": "What did we do? We continued to fight, with our simple, peaceful, almost quaint device, a banner. A little more fiery, perhaps, pertinent to the latest political controversy, but still only a banner inscribed with militant truth.",
  "sample_08510.wav": "Just as our political strategy had been to oppose, at elections, the party in power, which had failed to use its power to free women, so now our military strategy was based on the military doctrine of concentrating all one's forces on the enemy's weakest point.",
  "sample_08511.wav": "and the denial of democracy at home. This was the untenable position of President Wilson and the Democratic administration from which we must force them to retreat. We could force such a retreat when we had exposed to the world this week as point.",
  "sample_08512.wav": "Just as the bluff of a democratic crusade must be called, so must the night leader of the crusade be exposed to the critical eyes of the world.",
  "sample_08513.wav": "Here was the champion of their democratic aspirations. Here was a kind of universal Moses expected to lead all the peoples out of bondage, no matter what the bondage, no matter of how long standing.",
  "sample_08514.wav": "It was an advantage to us in that it made our attack more dramatic. One supposed to be impeccable was more vulnerable. It was a disadvantage to have to overcome his universal trust and worldwide popularity.",
  "sample_08515.wav": "But this conflict of wits and brains against power only enhanced our ingenuity. On the day the English mission headed by Mr. Balfour and the French mission headed by M. Viviani visited the White House, we took these inscriptions to the picket line.",
  "sample_08516.wav": "In our capacity to embarrass Mr. Wilson and his administration, Lair only hope of success.",
  "sample_08517.wav": "We intended to know why, if democracy were so precious as to demand the nation's blood and treasure for its achievement abroad, its execution at home was so undesirable. Meanwhile\u2014",
  "sample_08518.wav": "I tell you solemnly, ladies and gentlemen, we cannot any longer postpone justice in these United States.",
  "sample_08519.wav": "And if he doesn't listen to my advice, I am going to make it as unpleasant as I can, President Wilson.",
  "sample_08520.wav": "Some rumblings of political action began to be heard. The Democratic majority had appointed a Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage whose members were overwhelmingly for federal action. The chairman, Senator Andreas Jones of New Mexico,",
  "sample_08521.wav": "There were a few stars dying out in the dark west. The atmosphere was clear and when the sun rose I knew he would turn the sable pall overhead into blueness. The hull lay very deep.",
  "sample_08522.wav": "I had at one time during the black hours struck into a mournful calculation and reckoned that the brig would float some 2 or 3 hours after sunrise.",
  "sample_08523.wav": "and a deep of rolling sapphire, I started with sudden terror to observe how close the covering board sat upon the water, and how the head of every swell ran past as high as the bulwark rail.",
  "sample_08524.wav": "Yet for a few moments I stood contemplating the scene of ruin. It was visible now to its most trifling detail. The foremast was gone smooth off at the deck. It lay over the starboard bow.",
  "sample_08525.wav": "One extraordinary stroke I quickly detected. The jolly boat had lain stowed in the long boat. It was thus we carried those boats, the little one lying snugly enough in the other. The sea that had flooded our decks",
  "sample_08526.wav": "had floated the jolly boat out of the longboat and swept it bottom up to the gangway where it lay, as though God's mercy designed it should be preserved for my use. For not long after it had been floated out, the brig struck the berg, the masts fell, and the bridge was broken.",
  "sample_08527.wav": "and there lay the longboat crushed into staves. The signal and surprising intervention filled my heart with thankfulness, though my spirit sank again at the sight of my poor drowned shipmates.",
  "sample_08528.wav": "and so made a tackle, by the help of which I turned the jolly boat over. I then with a hand spike prized her nose to the gangway, secured a bunch of rope on either side her to act as fenders or buffers,",
  "sample_08529.wav": "when she should be launched and lying alongside, ran her midway out by the tackle and, attaching a line to a ring bolt in her bow, shoved her over the side and she fell with a splash, shipping scarce a hat full of water.",
  "sample_08530.wav": "but I met with an oar that had belonged to the other boat, and this, with the mast and sail, I dropped into her, the swell lifting her up to my hand when the blue fold swung past. My next business was to victual her.",
  "sample_08531.wav": "I ran to the cabin, but the lazarette was full of water, and none of the provisions in it to be come at. I thereupon ransacked the cabin and found a whole Dutch cheese, a piece of raw pork, half a ham,",
  "sample_08532.wav": "8 or 10 biscuits, some candles, a tinderbox, several lemons, a little bag of flour and 13 bottles of beer. These things I rolled up in a cloth and placed them in the boat.",
  "sample_08533.wav": "The heavy, sluggish, sodden movement of the hull advised me to make haste. She was now barely lifting to the swell that came brimming in broad liquid blue brows to her stem.",
  "sample_08534.wav": "It seemed as though another ton of water would sink her, and if the swell fell over her bows and filled the decks, down she would go. I had a small parcel of guineas in my chest and was about to fetch this money.",
  "sample_08535.wav": "when a sort of staggering sensation in the upward slide of the hull gave me a fright, and, watching my chance, I jumped into the boat and cast the line that held her adrift. The sun was an hour above the horizon.",
  "sample_08536.wav": "heaving very slowly, though you felt the weight of the mighty ocean in every fold. And eastwards, the shoulder of the swell, catching the glorious reflection of the sun, hurled the splendor along.",
  "sample_08537.wav": "till all that quarter of the sea looked to be a mass of leaping dazzle. Upon the eastern sea-line lay a range of white clouds, compact as the chalk cliffs of Dover.",
  "sample_08538.wav": "shot with pearly luster, floated overhead very high. It was in truth a fair and pleasant morning, of an icy coldness indeed, but the air being dry, its shrewdness was indurable.",
  "sample_08539.wav": "with us, had it dawned yesterday instead of today. My companions would have been alive, and yonder sinking ruined fabric, a trim ship capable of bearing us stoutly into warm seas, and to our homes at last.",
  "sample_08540.wav": "I threw the oar over the stern of the boat to keep her near to the brig, not so much because I desired to see the last of her.",
  "sample_08541.wav": "into those prodigious leagues of ocean which lay stretched under the sky. Whilst the hull floated, she was something to hold on to, so to say, something for the eye amid the vastness of water to rest upon.",
  "sample_08542.wav": "and her main deck blew up with a loud clapper blast of noise. I could follow the line of her bulwarks, fluctuating and waving in the clear dark blue when she was some feet under.",
  "sample_08543.wav": "and what she dragged down with her. On a sudden, when the last fragment of mast had disappeared, and when the hollows of the whirlpools were flattening to the level surface of the sea, up rose a body with a sort of leap.",
  "sample_08544.wav": "It was the sailor that had leaned round on the starboard side of the forward deck. Being frozen stiff, he rose in the posture in which he had expired, that is, with his arms extended.",
  "sample_08545.wav": "so that when he jumped to the surface he came with his hands lifted up to heaven, and thus he stayed a minute, sustained by the eddies which also revolved him. The shock occasioned by this melancholy object was so great",
  "sample_08546.wav": "and such was the state of my mind that imagination might quickly have worked the apparition, had it lingered, into an instrument for the unsettling of my reason. I rose from the seat onto which I had sunk, and loosed the sail.",
  "sample_08547.wav": "hauling the sheet aft put the oar over the stern and brought the little craft's head to an easterly course. The draft of air was extremely weak and scarce furnished impulse enough to the sail to raise a bubble alongside.",
  "sample_08548.wav": "The boat was about 15 feet long.",
  "sample_08549.wav": "ere I could heave a civilized coast or a habitable island into view. At the start I had a mind to steer north-west and blow, as the wind would suffer, into the South Sea.",
  "sample_08550.wav": "Where, perchance, I might meet a whaler or a south seaman from New Holland, but my heart sank at the prospect of the leagues of water which rolled between me and the islands and the western American seaboard. Indeed,",
  "sample_08551.wav": "We had breakfast in the tavern kitchen.",
  "sample_08552.wav": "was a short, smooth-faced, voluble, overgrown boy sort of man. The mother was dumpy, coarse, and good-natured. They had a greasy, easy-tempered daughter of eighteen, with a frowsy head and a face like a full moon.",
  "sample_08553.wav": "while the heir of the household, somewhat younger, was a gaping, grinning youth of the Simple Simon order, who shoveled mashed potatoes into his mouth alternately with knife and fork, and took bites of bread large enough for a ravenous dog.",
  "sample_08554.wav": "The old grandmother with a face like parchment and one gleaming eye sat in a low rocking chair by the stove, crooning over a corn cob pipe and using the wood box for a cuspidor. She had a vinegary, slangy tongue.",
  "sample_08555.wav": "and being somewhat deaf, would break in upon the conversation with remarks sharper than they were pat. With our host a glib and rapid talker in a swaggering tone, one could not but be much amused",
  "sample_08556.wav": "as he exhibited a degree of self-appreciation that was decidedly refreshing. He had been a veteran in the war of the rebellion, he proudly assured us, and pointed with his knife to his discharge paper, which was hung up in an old-looking glass frame.",
  "sample_08557.wav": "by the side of the clock. Jemun, he invariably thus addressed us as though we were a coterie of checker players at a village grocery. Jemun, when I seen how them Johnny Rebs was a-usin' our boys in them prison pens.",
  "sample_08558.wav": "Joe, my boy, you go now and do something for your country. A crack shot like you is, Joe says I to myself, as can hit a duck on the wing every time and no mistake.",
  "sample_08559.wav": "And so I jined, and I stuck her out, Jemmin, till the thing was done. They ain't no coward bout me.",
  "sample_08560.wav": "Now, he says, hold on a minute, you didn't have shakes before the war? Says he. Not as much, I says, not knowing what the feller was driving at. But some. I was a kid then, and kids don't shake much, says I.",
  "sample_08561.wav": "Well, Jim, and sure enough, when I came to think things over and talk it up with the doctor chap, I loathe he was right. Then he let on he was a claim agent, and I let him try his hand on working up a pension for me.",
  "sample_08562.wav": "and I don't know what my show is, but I ought to have a pension and no mistake, Jemmin. They want no fellers did harder work than me in the war if I do say it myself.\" W ventured to ask what battles our host had been in.",
  "sample_08563.wav": "What I wanted was to get a bead on old Wade himself, and if I do say it myself the old man would have hunted his hole, Jemmin. When I get a sight on a duck, Jemmin, that duck's mine and no mistake.",
  "sample_08564.wav": "And if I had sighted Wade Hampton, then good-bye Wade. I told the captain what I wanted, but he said as how I was more use at taking care of the supplies. That captain had no enterprise about him.",
  "sample_08565.wav": "There was heaps of blood spilled unnecessary by us boys of fighting to save the old flag.",
  "sample_08566.wav": "I said to our landlord, by way of helping along the conversation. There was a momentary silence broken by Simple Simon, who wiped his knife on his tongue, and made a wild attack on the butter dish. Bah, he drove a mule team for government.",
  "sample_08567.wav": "with a big ammunition wagon on behind?",
  "sample_08568.wav": "This sudden revelation of the strength that the veterans claimed a glory and a pension put a damper upon his reminiscences of the war, and giving the innocent Simon a savage",
  "sample_08569.wav": "He soon contrived to turn the conversation upon his wonderful exploits in duck-shooting and fishing, industries in the pursuit of which he, with so many of his fellow farmers on the bottoms, appeared to be more eager than in tilling the soil.",
  "sample_08570.wav": "It was quite evident that the breakfast we were eating was a special spread in honor of probably the only guests the Quantum Tavern had had these many months. Canoists must not be too particular about the fare set before them, but on this occasion...",
  "sample_08571.wav": "We were able to swallow but a few mouthfuls of the repast, and our lunch basket was drawn on as soon as we were once more afloat. It is a great pity that so many farmers' wives are the wretched cooks they are.",
  "sample_08572.wav": "With an abundance of good materials already about them, and rare opportunities for readily acquiring more, tens of thousands of rural dames do manage to prepare astonishingly inedible meals.",
  "sample_08573.wav": "sour, doughy bread, potatoes which if boiled are but half cooked, and if mashed are floated with abominable butter or pasty flour gravy, salt pork either swimming in a bowl of grease or fried to a leathery chip.",
  "sample_08574.wav": "Tea and coffee extremely weak or strong enough to kill an ox, as chance may dictate, and inevitably adulterated beyond recognition.",
  "sample_08575.wav": "Eggs that are spoiled by being fried to the consistency of rubber in a pan of fat deep enough to float donuts While the biscuits are yellow and bitter with celeratus This bill of fare warranted to destroy the best of appetites",
  "sample_08576.wav": "will be recognized by too many of my readers as that to be found at the average American farmhouse. Although we all doubtless know of some magnificent exceptions which only prove the rule, we establish public cooking schools in our cities.",
  "sample_08577.wav": "and economists like Edward Atkinson and hygienists like the late D.O. Lewis assiduously explained to the metropolitan poor their processes of making a tempting meal out of nothing.",
  "sample_08578.wav": "But our most crying need in this country today is a training school for rural housewives, where they may be taught to evolve a respectable and economical spread out of the great abundance with which they are surrounded.",
  "sample_08579.wav": "It is no wonder that country boys drift to the cities, where they can obtain properly cooked food and live like rational beings. The river continues to widen as we approach the junction with the Mississippi, 39 miles below Erie.",
  "sample_08580.wav": "and to assume the characteristics of the great river into which it pours its flood. The islands increase in number and in size, some of them being over a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth.",
  "sample_08581.wav": "At first he saw nothing reprehensible in this, but in the second year of his marriage his view of that form of punishment suddenly changed. Once in summer he had sent for the village elder, Fumboguchirovo, to the village elder to ask for a marriage. The village elder was very happy to see that the village elder had agreed to marry Fumboguchirovo. The village elder was very happy to see that the village elder had agreed to marry Fumboguchirovo.",
  "sample_08582.wav": "a man who had succeeded to the post when drone died and who was accused of dishonesty and various irregularities. Nicholas went out into the porch to question him, and immediately after the elder had given a few replies the sound of cries and blows were heard.",
  "sample_08583.wav": "On returning to lunch, Nicholas went up to his wife, who sat with her head bent low over her embroidery frame, and as usual began to tell her what he had been doing that morning. Among other things he spoke of the Bogucherovo elder. Countess Mary turned red, and then pale.",
  "sample_08584.wav": "Such an insolent scoundrel, he cried, growing hot again at the mere recollection of him, if he had told me that he was drunk and did not see. But what is the matter with you, Mary?\" he suddenly asked.",
  "sample_08585.wav": "Why, whatever is the matter, my dearest? The looks of the plain Countess Mary always improved when she was in tears. She never cried from pain or vexation, but always from sorrow or pity. And when she wept, her radiant eyes acquired an irresistible charm.",
  "sample_08586.wav": "The moment Nicholas took her hand she could no longer restrain herself and began to cry. Nicholas, I saw it. He was to blame. But why do you\u2014 Nicholas. And she covered her face with her hands. Nicholas said nothing. He flushed Crimson, left her side, and paced up and down the room.",
  "sample_08587.wav": "He understood what she was weeping about, but could not in his heart at once agree with her that what he had regarded from childhood as quite an everyday event was wrong. Is it just sentimentality? Old wives' tales? Or is she right? He asked himself.",
  "sample_08588.wav": "Mary, he said softly, going up to her, It will never happen again. I give you my word. Never. He repeated in a trembling voice, like a boy asking for forgiveness.",
  "sample_08589.wav": "She took his hand and kissed it. Nicholas, when did you break your cameo? She asked to change the subject, looking at his finger on which he wore a ring with a cameo of Laukun's head. Today. It was the same affair. Oh, Mary, don't remind me of it. And again he flushed.",
  "sample_08590.wav": "I give you my word of honor at Shantakur again, and let this always be a reminder to me.\" And he pointed to the broken ring. After that, when in discussions with his village elders or stewards, the blood rushed to his face and his fists began to clench.",
  "sample_08591.wav": "Nicholas would turn the broken ring on his finger and would drop his eyes before the man who was making him angry. But he did forget himself once or twice within a twelve month, and then he would go and confess to his wife and would again promise that this should really be the very last time.",
  "sample_08592.wav": "Mary, you must despise me, he would say. I deserve it. You should go. Go away at once if you don't feel strong enough to control yourself, she would reply sadly, trying to comfort her husband. Among the gentry of the province, Nicholas was respected but not liked.",
  "sample_08593.wav": "He did not concern himself with the interests of his own class, and consequently some thought him proud and others thought him stupid. The whole summer, from spring sowing to harvest, he was busy with the work on his farm. In autumn he gave himself up to hunting with the same business-like seriousness.",
  "sample_08594.wav": "leaving home for a month or even two with his hunt. In winter he visited his other villages or spent his time reading. The books he read were chiefly historical and on these he spent a certain sum every year.",
  "sample_08595.wav": "reading, a task he first imposed upon himself as a duty, but which afterwards became a habit affording him a special kind of pleasure and a consciousness of being occupied with serious matters.",
  "sample_08596.wav": "In winter, except for business excursions, he spent most of his time at home making himself one with his family and entering into all the details of his children's relations with their mother. The harmony between him and his wife grew closer and closer.",
  "sample_08597.wav": "and he daily discovered fresh spiritual treasures in her. From the time of his marriage, Sonia had lived in his house. Before that, Nicholas had told his wife all that had passed between himself and Sonia, blaming himself and commending her.",
  "sample_08598.wav": "He had asked Princess Mary to be gentle and kind to his cousin. She thoroughly realized the wrong he had done Sonia, felt herself to blame toward her, and imagined that her wealth had influenced Nicholas's choice.",
  "sample_08599.wav": "but often felt ill will toward her which she could not overcome. Once she had a talk with her friend Natasha about Sonia and about her own injustice toward her. You know said Natasha, you have read the Gospels a great deal. There is a passage in them that just fits Sonia. What? asked Countess Mary surprised.",
  "sample_08600.wav": "To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away. You remember, she is one that hath not. Why? I don't know. Perhaps she lacks egotism. I don't know, but from her is taken away and everything has been taken away.",
  "sample_08601.wav": "She is a sterile flower, you know, like some strawberry blossoms.",
  "sample_08602.wav": "Though Countess Mary told Natasha that those words in the gospel must be understood differently, yet looking at Sonia she agreed with Natasha's explanation.",
  "sample_08603.wav": "and had grown quite reconciled to her lot as a sterile flower. She seemed to be fond not so much of individuals as of the family as a whole. Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people, but to the home.",
  "sample_08604.wav": "She waited on the old countess, petted and spoiled the children, was always ready to render the small services for which she had a gift, and all this was unconsciously accepted from her, with insufficient gratitude. The country seat at Bald Hills had been rebuilt, though not on the same scale as under the old prince.",
  "sample_08605.wav": "The buildings, begun under strange circumstances, were more than simple. The immense house on the old stone foundations was of wood, plastered only inside. It had bare-deal floors and was furnished with very simple hard sofas, armchairs, tables, and chairs.",
  "sample_08606.wav": "made by their own surf carpenters out of their own birch wood. The house was spacious and had rooms for the house surfs and apartments for visitors. Whole families of the Rostovs and Bulkanskys relations sometimes came to Bald Hills with sixteen horses and dozens of servants and stayed for months.",
  "sample_08607.wav": "At the end of January, Pierre went to Moscow and stayed in an annex of his house which had not been burned. He called on Count Rustopchin and on some acquaintances who were back in Moscow, and he intended to leave for Petersburg two days later.",
  "sample_08608.wav": "Everybody was celebrating the victory. Everything was bubbling with life in the ruined but reviving city. Everyone was pleased to see Pierre. Everyone wished to meet him. And everyone questioned him about what he had seen. Pierre felt particularly well disposed toward them all.",
  "sample_08609.wav": "but was now instinctively on his guard for fear of binding himself in any way. To all questions put to him, whether important or quite trifling, such as, where would he live? Was he going to rebuild? When was he going to Petersburg?",
  "sample_08610.wav": "And would he mind taking a parcel for someone? He replied, Yes, perhaps. Or I think so. And so on. He had heard that the Rostovs were at Kostroma, but the thought of Natasha seldom occurred to him.",
  "sample_08611.wav": "Chapter 23 It was eight o'clock when we landed. We walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn.",
  "sample_08612.wav": "The wind, which had followed in the south, now rose with great violence in the west. The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend.",
  "sample_08613.wav": "The clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves.",
  "sample_08614.wav": "that were beginning to rise. Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended. I had been calm during the day, but so soon as night obscured the shapes of objects,",
  "sample_08615.wav": "and not shrink from the conflict until my own life, or that of my adversary, was extinguished. Elizabeth observed my agitation for some time in timid and fearful silence.",
  "sample_08616.wav": "When suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired. As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind. My arms dropped. The motion of every muscle and fiber was suspended.",
  "sample_08617.wav": "I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs. The state lasted but for an instant.",
  "sample_08618.wav": "Great God, why did I not then expire? Why am I here to relate the destruction of the best hope?",
  "sample_08619.wav": "She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features, half covered by her hair. Everywhere I turn I see the same figure, her bloodless arms in relaxed form.",
  "sample_08620.wav": "flung by the murderer on its bridle-brier. Could I behold this and live? Alas, life is obstinate and clings closest, where it is most hated.",
  "sample_08621.wav": "But the horror of others appeared only as a mockery, a shadow of the feelings that oppressed me. I escaped from them.",
  "sample_08622.wav": "to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy. She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her.",
  "sample_08623.wav": "But the deadly languor and coldness of the limbs told me That what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished Their murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck",
  "sample_08624.wav": "and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber. The shutters had been thrown back, and with a sensation of horror not to be described.",
  "sample_08625.wav": "I saw at the open window a figure the most hideous and abhorred. A grin was on the face of the monster. He seemed to jeer as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.",
  "sample_08626.wav": "But he eluded me, leapt from his station and running with the swiftness of lightning plunged into the lake. The report of the pistol brought a crowd into the room.",
  "sample_08627.wav": "Nets were cast but in vain. After passing several hours, we returned, hopeless.",
  "sample_08628.wav": "After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines. I attempted to accompany them and proceed the short distance from the house.",
  "sample_08629.wav": "A film covered my eyes and my skin was parched with the heat of fever. In this state I was carried back and placed on a bed, hardly conscious of what had happened. My eyes wandered round the room.",
  "sample_08630.wav": "as if to seek something that I had lost. After an interval I rose and, as if by instinct, crawled into the room where the corpse of my beloved lay. There were women weeping around. I hung over it.",
  "sample_08631.wav": "and joined my sad tears to theirs. All this time no distinct idea presented itself to my mind.",
  "sample_08632.wav": "subjects reflecting confusedly on my misfortunes and their cause. I was bewildered in a cloud of wonder and horror. The death of William, the execution of Justine.",
  "sample_08633.wav": "the murder of Clairvaux, and lastly of my wife. Even at that moment, I knew not that my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the Fiend.",
  "sample_08634.wav": "My father, even now, might be writhing under his grasp, And Ernest might be dead at his feet. This idea made me shudder, and recalled me to action.",
  "sample_08635.wav": "There were no horses to be procured, and I must return by the lake. But the wind was unfavorable, and the rain fell in torrents.",
  "sample_08636.wav": "However, it was hardly morning, and I might reasonably hope to arrive by night.",
  "sample_08637.wav": "But nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness. No creature had ever been so miserable as I was, so frightful an event as single in the history of man.",
  "sample_08638.wav": "But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event? Mine has been a tale of horrors. I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate\u2014",
  "sample_08639.wav": "Know that one by one my friends were snatched away. I was left desolate. My own strength is exhausted.",
  "sample_08640.wav": "and I must tell in a few words what remains of my hideous narration. I arrived at Geneva. My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore.",
  "sample_08641.wav": "The young party at Roseland's had now grown so large, several additions having been made to it on Monday afternoon and evening, that a separate table was ordered to be spread for them in the nursery, where they took their meals together.",
  "sample_08642.wav": "Mrs. Brown, the housekeeper, taking the head of the table, for the double purpose of keeping them in order and seeing that their wants were well supplied. Elsie came into breakfast from a brisk walk with her papa, looking fresh and rosy and bright as the morning.",
  "sample_08643.wav": "quite different from some of the little guests, who had been up far beyond their usual hours the night before, and, having just left their beds, had come down pale and languid in looks, and in some instances showing peevish and fretful tempers.",
  "sample_08644.wav": "very trying to the patience of their attendance. Oh, Elsie! exclaimed Carrie Howard.",
  "sample_08645.wav": "We were all so sorry that you had to leave us so soon last night. We had lots of fun after you left. I think your papa might have let you stay up a little longer, but he has promised that tonight, as we are to have the Christmas tree, and ever so much will be going on, that you will be able to go back to your home and spend the rest of your time in the garden. I am so proud of you, and I am so proud of you, and I am so proud of you, and I am so",
  "sample_08646.wav": "Late hours and rich food are very bad for little folks, and I notice that Miss Elsie has grown a deal stronger and healthier-looking since her Papa came home. He takes such good care of her.\" \"'Indeed he does,' said Elsie heartily, thanking Mrs. Brown with one of her sweetest smiles.\"",
  "sample_08647.wav": "Whatever you all prefer,\" said Elsie. If you like, I will practice that duet with you the first hour after breakfast, or do anything else you wish, but the second hour I must spend with Papa, and after that I have nothing to do but entertain my company all day.",
  "sample_08648.wav": "Do you do lessons in holidays?\" asked Mary Leslie, a merry, fun-loving child about Elsie's own age, who considered lessons an intolerable bore, and had some vague idea that they must have been invented for the sole purpose of tormenting children.",
  "sample_08649.wav": "Her blue eyes opened wide with astonishment when Elsie quietly replied that her papa had kindly arranged to give her an hour every morning.",
  "sample_08650.wav": "then spending the whole day in play. Elsie did keenly enjoy that quiet hour spent in studying and reciting to her father, sitting on a low stool at his feet, or perhaps oftener on his knee, with his arm around her waist.",
  "sample_08651.wav": "loving also his little pupil with all of father's fond yearning affection, delighted in his task. When Elsie left her father, she found that the Carringtons had just arrived.",
  "sample_08652.wav": "She and Lucy had not seen each other since the week the latter had spent at Roseland's early in the summer, and both felt pleased to meet. Mrs. Carrington gave Elsie a warm embrace, remarking that she had grown, and was looking extremely well, better than she had ever seen her.",
  "sample_08653.wav": "But no one was more delighted to meet Elsie than Herbert, and she was very glad to learn that his health was gradually improving. He was not, however, at all strong, even yet, and his mother thought it best for him to lie down and rest a little after his ride.",
  "sample_08654.wav": "A variety of story books, toys, and games had been provided for their amusement. Elsie's entrance was hailed with delight, for she was a general favorite. Oh, Elsie, can't you tell us what to play? cried Mary Leslie. I'm so tired.",
  "sample_08655.wav": "and she yawned wearily. \"'Here are some dissected maps, Mary,' replied Elsie, opening a drawer. \"'Would you not like them?' \"'No, indeed, thank you. They are too much like lessons.'",
  "sample_08656.wav": "Will you play jackstones? Here are some smooth pebbles.\" \"'Yes, if you and Carrie and Lucy will play with me.' \"'Agreed,' said the others. Let's have a game.' So Elsie having first set the little ones to building block houses,",
  "sample_08657.wav": "supplied Harry Carrington, an older brother of Lucy's, with a book, and two younger boys with dissected maps to arrange, the four girls sat down in a circle on the carpet and began their game. For a few moments all went on smoothly.",
  "sample_08658.wav": "who was sobbing and wiping her eyes with the corner of her apron. \"'Anna took my blocks!' sobbed the child.\"",
  "sample_08659.wav": "You know Flora is a visitor, and we must be very polite to her.\" \"'No, I won't,' returned Anna flatly. \"'She's got enough now.' \"'No, I haven't. I can't build a house with those,' Flora said, with another sob.",
  "sample_08660.wav": "Elsie stood a moment, looking much perplexed, then, with a brightening face, exclaimed in her cheerful, pleasant way, Well, never mind, Flora dear, I will get you my doll.",
  "sample_08661.wav": "The little weeper answered eagerly, smiling through her tears. Elsie ran out of the room and was back again almost in a moment with the doll in her arms. There, dear little Flora, she said, laying it gently on the child's lap.",
  "sample_08662.wav": "Please be careful of it, for I have had it a long while, and prize it very much, because my guardian gave it to me when I was a very little girl, and he is dead now.\" I won't break it, Elsie. Indeed I won't, replied Flora confidently.",
  "sample_08663.wav": "and Elsie sat down to her game again. A few moments afterward Mr. Horace Dinsmore passed through the room. Elsie, he said, as he caught sight of his little daughter, go up to my dressing-room. There was evidently displeasure and reproof in his tone, and he was not able to speak. He was not able to speak, and he was not able to speak. He was not able to speak, and he was not able to speak. He was not able to speak, and he was not able to speak.",
  "sample_08664.wav": "Mr. Dinsmore passed out of one door while Elsie left by the other. The three little girls looked inquiringly into each other's faces. What is the matter? What has Elsie done? asked Carrie in a whisper. I don't know.",
  "sample_08665.wav": "\"'Nothing, I guess,' replied Lucy indignantly. \"'I do believe he's just the crossest man alive. When I was here last summer he was all the time scolding and punishing poor Elsie for just nothing at all.' \"'I think he must be very strict,' said Carrie.",
  "sample_08666.wav": "and that was the conclusion they all came to. In the meantime, Elsie sat down alone in her banishment and tried to think what she could have done to deserve it. It was some time before she could form any idea of its cause.",
  "sample_08667.wav": "But at length it suddenly came to her recollection that once, several months before this, her father had found her sitting on the carpet, and had bade her get up immediately and sit on a chair or stool, saying, Never let me see you sitting on the floor, Elsie.",
  "sample_08668.wav": "when there are plenty of seats at hand, I consider it a very unladylike and slovenly trick. She covered her face with her hands, and sat thus for some moments, feeling very sorry for her forgetfulness and disobedience, very penitent on account of it, and, as she was",
  "sample_08669.wav": "and then kneeling down she asked forgiveness of God. A full hour she had been there alone and the time had seemed very long when at last the door opened and her father came in. Elsie rose and came forward to meet him",
  "sample_08670.wav": "with the air of one who had offended, and knew she was in disgrace. But putting one of her little hands in his, she looked up pleadingly into his face, asking, in a slightly tremulous tone, Dear Papa, are you angry with me?",
  "sample_08671.wav": "I know no way in which a writer may more fittingly introduce his work to the public than by giving a brief account of who and what he is. By this means, some of the blame for what he has done is very properly shifted to the extenuating circumstances of his life.",
  "sample_08672.wav": "My parents migrated to Canada in 1876 and I decided to go with them. My father took up a farm near Lake Simcoe in Ontario. This was during the hard times of Canadian farming.",
  "sample_08673.wav": "and my father was just able by great diligence to pay the hired men, and in years of plenty, to raise enough grain to have seed for the next year's crop without buying any. By this process my brothers and I were inevitably driven off the land.",
  "sample_08674.wav": "that is induced by honest manual toil. I was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, of which I was head boy in 1887. From there I went to the University of Toronto, where I graduated in 1891.",
  "sample_08675.wav": "At the university I spent my entire time in the acquisition of languages, living, dead, and half-dead, and knew nothing of the outside world. In this diligent pursuit of words I spent about 16 hours of each day.",
  "sample_08676.wav": "In other words, I was what is called a distinguished graduate, and as such I took to school teaching as the only trait I could find that need neither experience nor intellect. I spent my time from 1891 to 1899 on the staff of Upper Canada College.",
  "sample_08677.wav": "An experience which has left me with a profound sympathy for the many gifted and brilliant men who are compelled to spend their lives in the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world.",
  "sample_08678.wav": "And by means of this and some temporary employment by McGill University, I survived until I took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1903. The meaning of this degree is that the recipient of instruction is examined for the last time in his life and is pronounced completely full.",
  "sample_08679.wav": "After this, no new ideas can be imparted to him. From this time and since my marriage, which had occurred at this period, I have belonged to the staff of McGill University, first as lecturer in political science and later as head of the department of economics and political science.",
  "sample_08680.wav": "I am able to regard myself as singularly fortunate. The emolument is so high as to place me distinctly above the policemen, postmen, streetcar conductors and other salaried officials of the neighborhood.",
  "sample_08681.wav": "While I am able to mix with the poorer of the businessmen of the city on terms of something like equality. In point of leisure I enjoy more in the four corners of a single year than a businessman knows in his whole life. I thus have what the businessman can never enjoy.",
  "sample_08682.wav": "ability to think and what is still better to stop thinking altogether for months at a time. I have written a number of things in connection with my college life, a book on political science and many essays, magazine articles and so on.",
  "sample_08683.wav": "A few years ago I went all around the British Empire delivering addresses on imperial organization. When I state that these lectures were followed almost immediately by the Union of South Africa, the Banana Riots in Trinidad, and the Turco-Italian War.",
  "sample_08684.wav": "nor to construct even the smallest section of the transcontinental railway. This, however, is a form of national ingratitude to which one becomes accustomed in this dominion. Apart from my college work, I have written two books, one called Literary Lapses,",
  "sample_08685.wav": "and the other nonsense novels. Each of these is published by John Lane, London and New York, and either of them can be obtained, absurd though it sounds, for the mere sum of three Schelling's and sixpence. Any reader of this preface, for example, ridiculous though it appears.",
  "sample_08686.wav": "could walk into a bookstore and buy both of these books for seven shillings. Yet these works are of so humorous a character that for many years it was found impossible to print them. The compositors fell back from their tasks suffocated with laughter and gasping for air.",
  "sample_08687.wav": "Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perform the serious labors of the economist. My own experience is exactly the other way.",
  "sample_08688.wav": "But to write something out of one's own mind worth reading for its own sake is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between.",
  "sample_08689.wav": "In regard to the present work, I must disclaim at once all intentions of trying to do anything so ridiculously easy as writing about a real place and real people. Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about 70 or 80 of them.",
  "sample_08690.wav": "You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets, and the same maple trees, and the same churches and hotels, and everywhere the sunshine of the land of hope. Similarly, the Reverend Mr. Drone is not one person, but about eight or ten.",
  "sample_08691.wav": "To make him, I clapped the gators of one ecclesiastic round the legs of another, added the sermons of a third and the character of a fourth, and so let him start on his way in the book to pick up such individual attributes as he might find for himself.",
  "sample_08692.wav": "Mullins and Bagshaw and Judge Pepperly and the rest are, it is true, personal friends of mine. But I have known them in such a variety of forms, with such alternations of tall and short, dark and fair, that individually I should have much to do to know them.",
  "sample_08693.wav": "and needs a teller. As for Mr. Smith with his 280 pounds, his horse voice, his loud check suit,",
  "sample_08694.wav": "All of this is known by everybody to be a necessary and universal adjunct to the hotel business. The inspiration of the book.",
  "sample_08695.wav": "A land of hope and sunshine where little towns spread their square streets and their trim maple trees beside placid lakes almost within echo of the primeval forest, is large enough.",
  "sample_08696.wav": "The fault lies rather with an art that is deficient than in an affection that is wanting.",
  "sample_08697.wav": "It was not until the mining boom, at the time when everybody went simply crazy over the cobalt and porcupine mines of the new silver country near the Hudson Bay,",
  "sample_08698.wav": "there were always people going in and out of the barbershop. Mullins, the manager of the exchange bank, took his morning shave from Jeff as a form of resuscitation, with enough wet towels laid on his face to stew him, and with Jeff moving about in the steam, razor in hand.",
  "sample_08699.wav": "as grave as an operating surgeon. Then as I think I said Mr. Smith came in every morning and there was a tremendous outpouring of Florida water and rums, essences and revivers and renovators regardless of expense.",
  "sample_08700.wav": "What with Jeff's white coat and Mr. Smith's flowered waistcoat and the red geranium in the window and the Florida water and the double extract of hyacinth, the little shops seem multicolored and luxurious enough for the annex of a sultan's harem. But what I mean is that...",
  "sample_08701.wav": "The people march. He became aware of someone urging a glass of clear fluid upon his attention, looked up, and discovered this was a dark young man in a yellow garment. He took the dose forthwith, and in a moment he was glowing.",
  "sample_08702.wav": "A tall man in a black robe stood by his shoulder and pointed to the half-open door into the hall. This man was shouting close to his ear, and yet what was said was indistinct because of the tremendous uproar from the great theater.",
  "sample_08703.wav": "Behind the man was a girl in a silvery gray robe, whom Graham, even in this confusion, perceived to be beautiful. Her dark eyes, full of wonder and curiosity, were fixed on him. Her lips trembled apart.",
  "sample_08704.wav": "A partially opened door gave a glimpse of the crowded hall, and admitted a vast uneven tumult, a hammering clapping and shouting that died away and began again, and rose to a thunderous pitch.",
  "sample_08705.wav": "and so continued intermittently all the time that Gram remained in the little room. He watched the lips of the man in black, and gathered that he was making some explanation. He stared stupidly for some moments at these things, and then stood up abruptly.",
  "sample_08706.wav": "He grasped the arm of this shouting person. Tell me, he cried, who am I? Who am I? The others came nearer to hear his words.",
  "sample_08707.wav": "His eyes searched their faces. They have told him nothing, cried the girl. Tell me, tell me, cried Graham. You are the master of the earth. You are owner of the world.",
  "sample_08708.wav": "He did not believe he heard a right. He resisted the persuasion. He pretended not to understand, not to hear. He lifted his voice again. I've been awake three days, a prisoner, three days.",
  "sample_08709.wav": "It is London.\" \"'Yes,' said the younger man. \"'And those who meet in the Great Hall with the White Atlas, how does it concern me?'",
  "sample_08710.wav": "counselors under the Atlas. Why should they try to drug me?\" To keep you insensible, said the man in yellow, to prevent your interference.",
  "sample_08711.wav": "\"'Because you are the Atlas, sire,' said the man in yellow. \"'The world is on your shoulders. They rule it in your name.'\" The sounds from the hall had died into a silence.",
  "sample_08712.wav": "Threaded by one monotonous voice. Now suddenly, trampling on these last words, came a deafening tumult, Aroaring and thundering, cheer, crowded on cheer, Voices hoarse and shrill, beating, overlapping, and while it lasted,",
  "sample_08713.wav": "The people in the little room could not hear each other's shout. Graham stood, his intelligence clinging helplessly to the thing he had just heard. The Council? He repeated blankly, and then snatched at a name that had struck him.",
  "sample_08714.wav": "But who is Ostrog?\" he said.",
  "sample_08715.wav": "our leader in your name. In my name.",
  "sample_08716.wav": "Why is he not here? He has deputed us. I am his brother, his half-brother, Lincoln. He wants you to show yourself to these people and then come on to him. That is why he has sent...",
  "sample_08717.wav": "He's at the wind vane offices directing the people are marching in your name shouted the younger man They have ruled crushed tyrannized at last even in my name my name master",
  "sample_08718.wav": "The young man suddenly became audible in a pause of the outer thunder",
  "sample_08719.wav": "No one expected you to wake. They were cunning. Damn tyrants! But they were taken by surprise. They did not know whether to drug you, hypnotize you, kill you. Again, the hall dominated everything. Ostrog is at the Windvane offices, ready.",
  "sample_08720.wav": "Even now, there's a rumor of fighting beginning. The man who had called himself Lincoln came close to him. Ostrog has it planned. Trust him. We have our organizations ready. We shall seize the flying stages.",
  "sample_08721.wav": "Even now he may be doing that. Then... This public theater, balled the man in yellow, it's only a contingent. We have five myriads of drilled men. We have arms, cried Lincoln. We have plans, a leader.",
  "sample_08722.wav": "masked in the... inaudible. It is now or never, the Council is rocking, they cannot trust even their drilled men. Hear the people calling to you!\" Graham's mind was like a night of moon and swift clouds.",
  "sample_08723.wav": "Now dark and hopeless, now clear and ghastly, he was master of the earth. He was a man sodden with thawing snow. Of all his fluctuating impressions, the dominant ones presented an antagonism.",
  "sample_08724.wav": "On the one hand was the White Council. Powerful, disciplined, few.",
  "sample_08725.wav": "Monstrous crowds, packed masses of indistinguishable people clamoring his name, hailing him master. The other side had imprisoned him, debated his death. These shouting thousands beyond the little doorway had rescued him.",
  "sample_08726.wav": "But why these things should be so, he could not understand. The door opened. Lincoln's voice was swept away and drowned, and a rash of people followed on the heels of the tumult. These intruders came towards him.",
  "sample_08727.wav": "Lincoln, gesticulating, the voices without explained their soundless lips. Show us the sleeper, show us the sleeper, was the burden of the uproar. Men were bawling for order! Silence!",
  "sample_08728.wav": "A waving, incessant confusion of crowded, shouting faces, men and women together, waving pale blue garments, extended hands. Many were standing, one man in rags of dark brown, a gaunt figure, stood on the seat and waved a black cloth.",
  "sample_08729.wav": "He met the wonder and expectation of the girl's eyes. What did these people expect from him? He was dimly aware that the tumult outside had changed its character, was in some way beating, marching. His own mind, too, changed.",
  "sample_08730.wav": "but a moment that was near to panic passed. He tried to make audible inquiries of",
  "sample_08731.wav": "The following day was the 3rd of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on the horizon of Paris, in the state of lightning-charged clouds.",
  "sample_08732.wav": "which she had not yet done. Up to that time she had contented herself with watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted to address him.",
  "sample_08733.wav": "So Eponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact.",
  "sample_08734.wav": "and readily recognized the one which Marius had moved.",
  "sample_08735.wav": "None of that, Lissette. She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the bar as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where the railing touched the neighbouring wall. There was a dim nook there.",
  "sample_08736.wav": "She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without breathing, a prey to her thoughts.",
  "sample_08737.wav": "an old, belated bourgeois who was making haste to escape from this",
  "sample_08738.wav": "as he skirted the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, heard a dull and threatening voice saying, I am no longer surprised that he comes here every evening.",
  "sample_08739.wav": "six men who were marching separately and at some distance from each other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a great patrol.",
  "sample_08740.wav": "The first to arrive at the garden railing halted and waited for the others.",
  "sample_08741.wav": "grasping each bar in succession and shaking them cautiously. Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, fell upon his arm.",
  "sample_08742.wav": "He felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not loudly, There's a dog.",
  "sample_08743.wav": "The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He bristled up and hideous-wise. Nothing is so formidable to behold as ferocious beasts who are uneasy. Their terrified air evokes terror.",
  "sample_08744.wav": "Brugon, and Montparnasse, had noiselessly drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with a sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands.",
  "sample_08745.wav": "which prowlers call fensions. Ah! See here! What are you about there?",
  "sample_08746.wav": "and threw herself on his neck. I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to sit on the stones nowadays?",
  "sample_08747.wav": "There's nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father. It's a long time since I've seen you. So you're out?\" The Nardier tried to disentangle himself from Eponine's arms and grumbled, That's good.",
  "sample_08748.wav": "Then Artier replied, \"'She's well, I don't know. Let me alone and be off, I tell you.' I won't go. So there now.\"",
  "sample_08749.wav": "small, bony and feeble as that of a skeleton.",
  "sample_08750.wav": "You know well that I am no fool.",
  "sample_08751.wav": "I have rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries. You will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that there is nothing in this house.\" There are lone women, said Goumer.",
  "sample_08752.wav": "who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. Eponine made a final effort. Well,\" said she, they're very poor folks.",
  "sample_08753.wav": "cried Denardier. When we've turned the house upside down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell you what there is inside and whether it's Franks or Sioux or half-farthings.\"",
  "sample_08754.wav": "And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. My good friend Mr. Montparnasse, said Eponine. I entreat you. You are a good fellow. Don't enter.",
  "sample_08755.wav": "Take care, you'll cut yourself,\" replied Montparnasse. The Nardier resumed in his decided tone, Decap, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs.",
  "sample_08756.wav": "The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. She went on. Friends, listen well. This is not what you want.",
  "sample_08757.wav": "If you lay a hand on this gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police.\" She'd do it too.",
  "sample_08758.wav": "You don't frighten me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house because it doesn't suit me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me!",
  "sample_08759.wav": "Parteen, I am not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men?",
  "sample_08760.wav": "She fastened her intent gaze upon Thonardier and said, \"'Not even you, father!' Then she continued, as she cast her bloodshot, specterlike eyes upon the ruffians in turn.",
  "sample_08761.wav": "Chapter 18 Chained in Warhoon It must have been several hours before I regained consciousness.",
  "sample_08762.wav": "and bending over me was an ancient and ugly female. As I opened my eyes she turned to one of the warriors, saying, \"'He will live, O Jed.'\" \"'Tis well,\" replied the one so addressed.",
  "sample_08763.wav": "rising and approaching my couch. He should render rare sport for the great games. And now, as my eyes fell upon him, I saw that he was no thark, for his ornaments and metal were not of that horde.",
  "sample_08764.wav": "He was a huge fellow, terribly scarred about the face and chest, and with one broken tusk and a missing ear.",
  "sample_08765.wav": "and depending from these a number of dried human hands. His reference to the great games of which I had heard so much while among the Tharks convinced me that I had but jumped from Purgatory into Gehenna.",
  "sample_08766.wav": "After a few more words with the female, during which she assured him that I was now fully fit to travel, the Jud ordered that we mount and ride after the main column.",
  "sample_08767.wav": "I was strapped securely to as wild and unmanageable a thoat as I had ever seen, and, with a mounted warrior on either side to prevent the beast from bolting.",
  "sample_08768.wav": "We rode forth at a furious pace in pursuit of the column. My wounds gave me but little pain, so wonderfully and rapidly had the applications and injections of the female exercise their therapeutic powers.",
  "sample_08769.wav": "who proved to be the jeddak of the hordes of warhoon. Like the jedd who had brought me, he was frightfully scarred, and also decorated with a breastplate of human skulls and dried dead hands.",
  "sample_08770.wav": "which seemed to mark all the greater warriors among the war-hoons, as well as to indicate their awful ferocity, which greatly transcends even that of the Tharks. To Jeddak, Barcomus, who was comparatively young.",
  "sample_08771.wav": "was the object of the fierce and jealous hatred of his old lieutenant, Doc Kova, the jed who had captured me, and I could not but note the almost studied efforts which the latter made to affront his superior.",
  "sample_08772.wav": "He entirely omitted the usual formal salutation as we entered the presence of the jeddak, and as he pushed me roughly before the ruler he exclaimed in a loud and menacing voice,",
  "sample_08773.wav": "I have brought a strange creature wearing the metal of a thark whom it is my pleasure to have battle with a wild thoat at the great games. He will die as Barcomas, your jeddak, sees fit, if at all.",
  "sample_08774.wav": "with emphasis and dignity. If at all, roared Dekhova, by the dead hands at my throat, but he shall die, bar comus, no maudlin weakness on your part shall save him.",
  "sample_08775.wav": "rather than by a water-hearted weakling from whom even old Doc Kova could tear the metal with his bare hands. Barcomas eyed the defiant and insubordinate Chieftain for an instant, his expression one of hearty.",
  "sample_08776.wav": "fearless contempt and hate, and then without drawing a weapon and without uttering a word, he hurled himself at the throat of his defamer.",
  "sample_08777.wav": "I never before had seen two green Martian warriors battle with nature's weapons, and the exhibition of animal ferocity which ensued was as fearful a thing as the most disordered imagination could picture.",
  "sample_08778.wav": "Barcomas had much the better of the battle as he was stronger, quicker, and more intelligent. It soon seemed that the encounter was done saving only the final death-thrust when Barcomas slipped in.",
  "sample_08779.wav": "breaking away from a clinch. It was the one little opening that Dachkova needed, and hurling himself at the body of his adversary,",
  "sample_08780.wav": "and with a last powerful effort ripped the young jeddak wide open the full length of his body. The great tusk",
  "sample_08781.wav": "Victor and Vanquish rolled limp and lifeless upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh.",
  "sample_08782.wav": "Barcomas was stone-dead, and only the most herculean efforts on the part of Dachova's females saved him from the fate he deserved. Three days later he walked without assistance to the body of Barcomas, which,",
  "sample_08783.wav": "by custom, had not been moved from where it fell, and placing his foot upon the neck of his erstwhile ruler, he assumed the title of Jeddak of Warhoon.",
  "sample_08784.wav": "The injuries to Dachkove had delayed the march so greatly that it was decided to give up the expedition, which was arrayed upon a small Thark community in retaliation for the destruction of the incubator until after the great games.",
  "sample_08785.wav": "They are a smaller horde than the Tharks, but much more ferocious.",
  "sample_08786.wav": "Food was brought me at intervals, but owing to the utter darkness of the place, I do not know whether I lay there days, or weeks, or months. It was the most horrible experience of all my life.",
  "sample_08787.wav": "and that my mind did not give way to the terrors of that inky blackness has been a wonder to me ever since. The place was filled with creeping, crawling things. Cold, sinuous bodies passed over me when I lay down.",
  "sample_08788.wav": "And in the darkness I occasionally caught glimpses of gleaming fiery eyes fixed in horrible intentness upon me. No sound reached me from the world above, and no word would my jailer vouchsafe when my food was brought to me.",
  "sample_08789.wav": "although I at first bombarded him with questions. Finally, all the hatred and maniacal loathing for these awful creatures who had placed me in this horrible place was centred by my tottering reason upon this single emissary.",
  "sample_08790.wav": "who represented to me the entire horde of warhoons. I had noticed that he always advanced with his dim torch to where he could place the food within my reach, and as he stooped to place it upon the floor, he was able to see",
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  "sample_08792.wav": "And no sooner were they out of the shell than they began to chirp and scratch as gaily as if the big world in which they suddenly found themselves was made for their especial benefit. It was a fine brood.",
  "sample_08793.wav": "but poor Madame Cluck had bad luck with her chicks, for they were her first and she didn't know how to manage them. Old Aunt Cocklesop told her that she didn't, and predicted that those poor deers would come to bad ends.",
  "sample_08794.wav": "Ann Cocklethop was right, as you will see, when I have told the sad history of this unfortunate family. The tragedy began with Chanty, who was the boldest little cockadoodle who ever tried to crow.",
  "sample_08795.wav": "Before he had a feather to his bit of a tail, Chanty began to fight, and soon was known as the most quarrelsome chick in the farmyard. Having pecked his brothers and sisters, he tried to do the same to his playmates.",
  "sample_08796.wav": "the ducklings, goslings and young turkeys, and was so disagreeable that all the fowls hated him. One day a pair of vantums arrived. Pretty little white birds with red crests and nice yellow feet.",
  "sample_08797.wav": "Chanty thought he could beat Mr. Bantam easily. He was so small, and invited him to fight. Mr. B declined. Then Chanty called him a coward and gave Mrs. B a peck.",
  "sample_08798.wav": "which ended in Chanty's utter defeat, for he died from his wounds. Downey and Snowball soon followed, for the two sweet little things would swing on the burdock leaves that grew over the brook.",
  "sample_08799.wav": "Sitting side by side, the plump sisters were placidly swaying up and down over the clear brown water rippling below, when Ah said to relate. The stem broke and down went Leith.",
  "sample_08800.wav": "chickens and all to a watery death. I'm the most unlucky hen ever hatched, grown",
  "sample_08801.wav": "And it did seem so, for the very next week, Speckle, the best and prettiest of the brood, went to walk with Aunt Cockle-top, grasshoppering they called it, in the great field across the road.",
  "sample_08802.wav": "What a nice time Speckle did have, to be sure, for the grasshoppers were lively and fat, and Ant was in an unusually amiable mood. Never run away from anything, but face danger and conquer it.",
  "sample_08803.wav": "like a brave chick,\" said the old Biddy, as she went clucking through the grass, with her gray turban wagging in the wind. Specklehead hopped away from a toad with a startled chirp, which caused Ant to utter that remark.",
  "sample_08804.wav": "The words had hardly left her beak when a shadow above made her look up, gave one loud croak of alarm, and then scuttled away, as fast as legs and wings could carry her. Little Speckle, remembering the advice,",
  "sample_08805.wav": "and, unconscious of the danger, stood her ground as a great hawk came circling nearer and nearer, till, with a sudden dart, he pounced on the poor chicken and bore it away, chirping dismally.",
  "sample_08806.wav": "What shall I do? It was a dreadful blow to Mrs. Cluck, and Aunt Cockle Top didn't show herself for a whole day after that story was known.",
  "sample_08807.wav": "for every fowl in the yard twitted her with the difference between her preaching and her practice.",
  "sample_08808.wav": "He was at it from morning till night and everyone was tired to death of hearing his shrill, small voice make funny attempts to produce hoarse little crows as he sat on the wall and stretched his yellow neck. He was at it from morning till night and everyone was tired to death of hearing his shrill, small voice make funny attempts to produce hoarse little crows as he sat on the wall and stretched his yellow neck.",
  "sample_08809.wav": "till his throat quite ached with the effort. Ah, if I could only fly to the highest beam in the barn, and give a splendid crow that everyone could hear, I should be perfectly happy, said the silly little fowl.",
  "sample_08810.wav": "So he tried every day to fly in crow, and at last managed to get up. Then how he did strut and rustle his feathers, while his playmate sat below and watched him.",
  "sample_08811.wav": "\"'You'll fall and get hurt,' said his sister blot. \"'Hold your tongue, you ugly little thing, and don't talk to me. I'm going to crow and can't be interrupted by any silly bit of a hen. Be quiet down there.'",
  "sample_08812.wav": "and hear if I can't do it as well as Daddy.\" The chick stopped scratching and peeping, and sat in a row to hear Struck Crow. Perching himself on the beam, he tried his best",
  "sample_08813.wav": "came of it, and all the chicks laughed. That made Strutt mad, and he resolved to crow, even if he killed himself doing it. He gave an angry cluck, slapped his wings, and tried again. Alas, alas!",
  "sample_08814.wav": "for poor strut. He leaned so far forward in his frantic effort to get a big crawl out that he toppled over and fell bump on the hard barn floor, killing himself instantly.",
  "sample_08815.wav": "For some time after this Mrs. Cluck kept her three remaining little ones close to her side, watching over them with maternal care till they were heartily tired of her anxious cluckings. Peep and Peck were always together",
  "sample_08816.wav": "being very fond of one another. Peep was a most inquisitive chicken, poking her head into every nook and corner, and never satisfied till she had seen all there was to see. Peck was a glutton.",
  "sample_08817.wav": "eating everything she could find and often making herself ill by gobbling too fast and forgetting to eat a little gravel to help digest her food Don't go out of the barn children. I'm going to lay an egg",
  "sample_08818.wav": "and can't look after you just now,\" said their mother one day. Yes, ma'am, chirped the chickens. And then as she went rustling into the hay-mo, they began to run about and enjoy themselves with all their might.",
  "sample_08819.wav": "Peep found a little hole into the meal-room and slipped in, full of joy at the sight of the bags, boxes and bins. I'll eat all I want and then I'll call Peck,\" she said.",
  "sample_08820.wav": "and having taken a taste of everything, she was about to leave, when she heard the stablemen coming, and in her fright couldn't find the hole, so flew into the meal-bin and hid herself.",
  "sample_08821.wav": "The day was still young and far below us was stretched the moving floor of the channel with a silver-gray film of night mists not yet lifted in the offing. A hummocky up-and-down line of cliffs",
  "sample_08822.wav": "with the straight sun path across it, spangled and gleaming like a mackerel's back. The relief of being once more on firm ground, and the exultation of an escape from immediate danger, removed my pain and made me forget that my leg was broken.",
  "sample_08823.wav": "and the wind, which a few minutes before threatened to blow me from that narrow ledge, seemed now but the gentlest of breezes, fresh with the breath of the kindly sea. But this was only for a moment, for the anguish came back and grew apace.",
  "sample_08824.wav": "and I felt a thinking dismally of the plight we were in. How things had been against us in these last days. First, there was losing the why not, and that was bad enough. Second,",
  "sample_08825.wav": "There was the being known by the excise for smugglers, and perhaps for murderers. Third, and last, there was the breaking of thy leg, which made escape so difficult. But most of all,",
  "sample_08826.wav": "There came before my eyes that grey face turned up against the morning sun, and I thought of all it meant for grace and would have given my own life to call back that of our worst enemy. Then Elzevir sat up, stretching himself like one waking out of a sleep.",
  "sample_08827.wav": "said, we must be gone they will not be back for some time yet and when they come we'll not think to search closely for us hereabouts but that we cannot risk and must get clear away",
  "sample_08828.wav": "This leg of thine will keep us tied for weeks, and we must find some place where we can lie hid and tend it. Now I know such a hiding hole in Purbeck, which to call Joseph's pit, and thither we must go, but it will take all the day to get there.",
  "sample_08829.wav": "And so he took me in his arms again, and started off across the fields. I need not tell of that weary journey, and indeed could not if I wished, for the pain went to my head and filled me with such a drowsy anguish.",
  "sample_08830.wav": "that I knew nothing except when some unlooked-for movement gave me a sharper twinge and made me cry out. At first, Elsevier walked briskly, but as the day wore on went slower.",
  "sample_08831.wav": "It was afternoon, for the sun was past the meridian, and very hot for the time of year, when the face of the country began to change, and instead of the short sward of the open down, sprinkled with tiny white snail shells,",
  "sample_08832.wav": "The ground was brashy with flat stones and divided up into tillage fields. It was a bleak, wide-bidden place enough, looking as if it would never pay for turning, and instead of hedges there were dreary walls built of dry stone without mortar.",
  "sample_08833.wav": "Behind one of these walls, broken down in places, but held together with straggling ivy, and buttressed here and there with a bramble-bush, Elzavir put me down at length and said, I am beat and can carry thee no farther for this present.",
  "sample_08834.wav": "though there is not now much farther to go. We have passed Purbek gates, and these walls will screen us from prying eyes, if any chance come or pass along the down. And as for the soldiers, they are not like to come this way so soon.",
  "sample_08835.wav": "And if they come, I cannot help it, for weariness and the sun's heat have made my feet like lead. A square of years ago I would have laughed at such a task, but now it is different.",
  "sample_08836.wav": "So sit thee here, and lean thy shoulder up against the wall, and thus thou canst look through this broken place, and watch both ways. Then, if thou seest aught moving, wake me up.",
  "sample_08837.wav": "I wish I had a thimble full of powder to make this whistle sound, and he took Mesquieu's silver-budded pistol again from his bosom and handled it lovingly.",
  "sample_08838.wav": "With that, he flung himself down where there was a narrow shadow close against the bottom of the wall, and in a minute I knew from his heavy breathing that he was asleep. The wind had freshened much and was blowing strong from the west.",
  "sample_08839.wav": "and now that I was under the lee of the wall.",
  "sample_08840.wav": "and gets at length into the shelter. Moreover, though I was not tired by grievous toil like Elsevier, I had passed a night without sleep and felt besides the weariness of pain to love me to slumber.",
  "sample_08841.wav": "Then I sought something to fix my thoughts, and looking on that side of the wall where the sward was, felt a counting the wall hills that were cast up in numbers thereabout. And when I had exhausted them, and reckoned up thirty little heaps of dry and powdery",
  "sample_08842.wav": "that lay at random on the green turf. I turned my eyes to the tillage field on the other side of the wall and saw the inch-high blades of corn coming up between the stones. Then I felt accounting the blades, feeling glad to have discovered a reckoning that would not be exhausted at 30.",
  "sample_08843.wav": "but would go on for millions and millions and millions, and before I had reached ten in so heroic enumeration was fast asleep. A sharp noise woke me with a start that set the pain tingling in my leg.",
  "sample_08844.wav": "and though I could see nothing, I knew that a shot had been fired very near us. I was for waking Elsevier, but he was already full awake, and put a finger on his lip to show I should not speak. Then",
  "sample_08845.wav": "Enough for him to look through the leaves without being seen. He dropped down again with a look of relief and said, Tis but a lad scaring rooks with a blunderbuss. We will not stir unless he makes this way. A minute later he said, the boy is coming straight for the wall.",
  "sample_08846.wav": "we shall have to show ourselves. And while he spoke, there was a rattle of falling stones, where the boy was partly climbing, and partly pulling down the dry wall. And so Elsevier stood up. The boy looked frightened, and made as if he would run off.",
  "sample_08847.wav": "But Elzavir passed him the time of day in a civil voice, and he stopped and gave it back. What are you doing here, son? block asked. Scaring rooks for Farmer Top was the answer.",
  "sample_08848.wav": "Have you got a charge of powder to spare?\" said Elsevier, showing his pistol. I want to get a rabbit in the gorus for supper, and have dropped my flask. Maybe you've seen a flask in walking through the furrows.\" He whispered to me to lie still.",
  "sample_08849.wav": "No time was wasted in words. Elzavir had the flask in his pocket, and the boy was biting the crown. What shot have you? said Elzavir. What? Have you dropped your shot flask too? asked the boy.",
  "sample_08850.wav": "and his voice had something of surprise in it. Nay, but my shot are over small.",
  "sample_08851.wav": "hastening to begin his work. The town is an old-fashioned one, and although the observance of the ancient church festival is no longer frowned upon, as in years past, yet it has been little regarded.",
  "sample_08852.wav": "especially in the church, of which Nathan is a member. As the saddler mounted the steps of his shop, he felt the blood so rush along his limbs, and tingle in his fingers.",
  "sample_08853.wav": "that he could not forbear standing without the door for a moment, as if to enjoy the triumph of the warmth within him over the cold morning air. The Little Stone Church",
  "sample_08854.wav": "which Nathan attends stands in the same square with his shop, and nearly opposite. It was closed, as usual on Christmas day, and a recent snow had heaped the steps and roof, and loaded the windows.",
  "sample_08855.wav": "Nathan thought that it looked uncommonly beautiful in the softening twilight of the morning. While Nathan stood musing, with his eyes fixed upon the church,",
  "sample_08856.wav": "Although a good deal stooping, with long straight and very white hair falling over his shoulders, which was the more conspicuous from the black velvet cap as it appeared that he wore.",
  "sample_08857.wav": "as to who the stranger could be, when he beheld him turn in between the posts by the path that leads to the church, tread lightly over the snow and up the steps, and knock hastily and vigorously at the church door.",
  "sample_08858.wav": "But half recovered from his wonder, he was just raising his voice to utter a remonstrance, when to his seven-fold amazement the door was opened to the knock, and the old man disappeared within.",
  "sample_08859.wav": "It was not without a creeping feeling of awe, mingled with his astonishment, that Nathan gazed upon the door through which this silent figure had vanished. But he was not easily to be daunted.",
  "sample_08860.wav": "He did not care to follow the steps of the stranger into the church, but he remembered a shed so placed against the building near the farther end that he had often, when a child, at some peril indeed, climbed upon its top.",
  "sample_08861.wav": "and looked into the church through a little window at one side of the pulpit. For this he started, but he did not fail to run across the square and leap over the church gate at the top of his speed.",
  "sample_08862.wav": "in order to gather warmth and courage for the attempt. When Nathan stoddard climbed upon the old shed and pressed his face against the glass of the little church window, he had at first only a confused impression of the glass, and the glass was not as strong as the old one. Nathan was not able to see the glass",
  "sample_08863.wav": "as he glared through the darkness into the old Kirk of Allouay. The great chandelier of the church was partly lighted, and there were besides many candles and lanterns burning in different parts of the room.",
  "sample_08864.wav": "who were dressed in breeches and ruffled shirts and hooped petticoats and towering headdresses, such as he had only seen in old pictures. They were mounted upon benches and ladders,",
  "sample_08865.wav": "and boards laid along the tops of the pews, and were apparently just completing the decoration of the church, which was already dressed with green, with little trees in the corners, and with green letters upon the walls.",
  "sample_08866.wav": "The whole party appeared full of life and cheerfulness, while the old man whom Nathan had seen enter stood near the door, looking quietly on with a little girl holding his hand.",
  "sample_08867.wav": "It was not until Nathan Stoddard had looked for some little time upon this spectacle that he began to feel that he was witness of anything more than natural. The whole party had so homelike an air.",
  "sample_08868.wav": "the more he was filled for all their appearance of youth and their simple manners with a strange sort of veneration. The sweet and cheerful faces of the young women seemed to grow awfully calm.",
  "sample_08869.wav": "beautiful as they brought their task to a close, and their foreheads with the hair brought back in the old-fashioned way to become more and more serene and high. There was a strange beauty too",
  "sample_08870.wav": "about the old man's face. He appeared to Nathan as if he felt that the group before him only waited his command to fade away in the morning light that struggled among the candles. But he could not bear to give the word.",
  "sample_08871.wav": "and so they kept playing with the festoons and stepping about the pews to please him. Nathan felt a cold thrill, partly from pleasure and partly from awe, running up his back and a strong pain across his forehead.",
  "sample_08872.wav": "until he felt that he was near swooning and liked to fall, and he clung desperately to his hold. When the fit was over he dared venture no more, but hastened to the ground.",
  "sample_08873.wav": "that led Nathan Stoddard to keep secret what he had witnessed. But it was like some deep and holy experience",
  "sample_08874.wav": "So he went back to his shop, and sat looking upon the church and watching, almost with dread, the doves that lighted upon its roof and fluttered about and beat their wings against its windows.",
  "sample_08875.wav": "The minister of Nathan's Parish was a young man by the name of Dudley, and it so happened that he had driven out before light on the morning we have spoken of to visit a sick man at some distance.",
  "sample_08876.wav": "In returning home, he had to pass along the rather unfrequented street, which runs in the rear of his church and close to it. As he was driving rapidly along, his ear caught what seemed the peel of an organ.",
  "sample_08877.wav": "He stopped his horse to listen.",
  "sample_08878.wav": "and drove round into the square to the shop of Nathan Stoddard. There is music today in our church, Nathan, he cried to the young saddler. What can it mean? But Nathan answered not a word. He caught the horse by the head",
  "sample_08879.wav": "and fastened him to a post before the door. Then, stepping to the side of the sleigh, he said to Mr. Dudley, Come with me, sir. Mr. Dudley looked upon the pale face and trembling lips of his parishioner.",
  "sample_08880.wav": "followed in silence. Nathan sprang upon the shed at the side of the church and scrambled up to the little window. Mr. Dudley followed and with Nathan's help gained the same precarious foothold. Look in, sir.",
  "sample_08881.wav": "The azure fields of heaven were symboled right in a large round set with flowers of light. The flowers diluce and the round sparks of dew that hung upon their azure leaves did show like twinkling stars that sparkle in the evening blue.",
  "sample_08882.wav": "Giles Fletcher. No more remarkable man ever lived than my friend, the young Ellison. He was remarkable in the entire and continuous profusion of good gifts ever lavished upon him by fortune.",
  "sample_08883.wav": "From his cradle to his grave, a gale of the blandest prosperity bore him along. Nor do I use the word prosperity in its mere worldly or external sense. I mean it as synonymous with happiness.",
  "sample_08884.wav": "The person of whom I speak seemed born for the purpose of foreshadowing the wild doctrines of Tigre, Price, Priestley, and Condorcet, of exemplifying by individual instance",
  "sample_08885.wav": "what has been deemed the mere chimera of the perfectionists. In the brief existence of Ellison, I fancy that I have seen refuted the dogma that in man's physical and spiritual nature lies some hidden principle.",
  "sample_08886.wav": "the antagonist of bliss. An intimate and anxious examination of his career has taught me to understand that, in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind.",
  "sample_08887.wav": "that, as a species, we have in our possession the as-yet unwrought elements of content, and that even now, in the present blindness and darkness of all idea on the great question of the social condition.",
  "sample_08888.wav": "It is not impossible that man, the individual, under certain unusual and highly fortuitous conditions may be happy. With opinions such as these was my young friend fully imbued.",
  "sample_08889.wav": "and thus is it especially worthy of observation that the uninterrupted enjoyment which distinguished his life was in great part the result of preconcert. It is, indeed, evident.",
  "sample_08890.wav": "experience, Mr. Ellison would have found himself precipitated by the very extraordinary successes of his life into the common vortex of unhappiness which yawns for those of preeminent endowments.",
  "sample_08891.wav": "But it is by no means my present object to pen an essay on happiness. The ideas of my friend may be summed up in a few words. He admitted, but for unvarying loss.",
  "sample_08892.wav": "or rather elementary principles of bliss. That which he considered chief was strange to say, the simple and purely physical one of free exercise in the open air. The health, he said.",
  "sample_08893.wav": "Attainable by other means than this is scarcely worth the name.\" He pointed to the tillers of the earth, the only people who, as a class, are proverbially more happy than others.",
  "sample_08894.wav": "and then he instanced the high ecstasies of the fox hunter. His second principle was the love of woman.",
  "sample_08895.wav": "His fourth was an object of unceasing pursuit, and he held that, other things being equal, the extent of happiness was proportioned to the spirituality of this object.",
  "sample_08896.wav": "I have said that Ellison was remarkable in the continuous perfusion of good gifts lavished upon him by fortune. In personal grace and beauty he exceeded all men.",
  "sample_08897.wav": "His intellect was of that order to which the attainment of knowledge is less a labor than a necessity and an intuition. His family was one of the most illustrious of the empire. His bride was the loveliest and most devoted of women.",
  "sample_08898.wav": "His possessions had been always ample, but upon the attainment of his one and twentieth year it was discovered that one of those extraordinary freaks of fate had been played in his behalf which startled the whole social world amid which they occur.",
  "sample_08899.wav": "and seldom fell radically to alter the entire moral constitution of those who are their objects. It appears that about 100 years prior to Mr. Ellison's attainment of his majority, there had died, in a remote province,",
  "sample_08900.wav": "Elyson. This gentleman had amassed a princely fortune and, having no very immediate connections, conceived the whim of suffering his wealth to accumulate for a century after his decease.",
  "sample_08901.wav": "Minutely and sagaciously directing the various modes of investment, he bequeathed the aggregate amount to the nearest of blood, bearing the name Ellison, who should be alive at the end of a hundred years.",
  "sample_08902.wav": "Many futile attempts had been made to set aside the singular bequest. Their ex-post facto character rendered them abortive.",
  "sample_08903.wav": "and a decree finally obtained forbidding all similar accumulations. This act did not prevent young Ellison upon his 21st birthday.",
  "sample_08904.wav": "from entering into possession as the heir of his ancestor, Sebright, of a fortune of...",
  "sample_08905.wav": "There were, of course, many speculations as to the mode of its disposal. The gigantic magnitude and the immediately available nature of the sum dazzled and bewildered all who thought upon the topic.",
  "sample_08906.wav": "The possessor of any appreciable amount of money might have been imagined to perform any one of a thousand things. With riches merely surpassing those of any citizen,",
  "sample_08907.wav": "It would have been easy to suppose him engaging to supreme excess in the fashionable extravagances of his time, or busying himself with political intrigue, or aiming at ministerial power, or purchasing increase of nobility.",
  "sample_08908.wav": "devising gorgeous architectural piles, or collecting large specimens of virtue, or playing the munificent patron of letters and art, or endowing and bestowing his name upon extensive institutions of charity.",
  "sample_08909.wav": "But for the inconceivable wealth in the actual possession of the young heir, these objects and all ordinary objects are felt to be inadequate. Recourse was hat to figures.",
  "sample_08910.wav": "figures but suffice to confound. It was seen that even at 3% the annual income of the inheritance amounted to no less than 13 millions and five hundred thousand dollars.",
  "sample_08911.wav": "The day after the cutters left, Antonia came over to see us. Grandmother noticed that she seemed troubled and distracted. You've got something on your mind, Antonia, she said anxiously.",
  "sample_08912.wav": "She hesitated, and then told us how strangely Mr. Cutter had behaved before he went away.",
  "sample_08913.wav": "as he had just put a new Yale lock on the front door. Cutter had been so insistent in regard to these details that now she felt uncomfortable about staying there alone.",
  "sample_08914.wav": "or the way he looked at her. I feel as if he's up to some of his tricks again.",
  "sample_08915.wav": "Grandmother was apprehensive at once. I don't think it's right for you to stay there, feeling that way. I suppose it wouldn't be right for you to leave the place alone either.",
  "sample_08916.wav": "Maybe Jim would be willing to go over there and sleep, and you could come here nights. I'd feel safer, knowing you were under my own roof. I guess Jim could take care of the silver and old usury notes as well as you could.",
  "sample_08917.wav": "Antonia turned to me eagerly. Oh, would you, Jim?",
  "sample_08918.wav": "The third night I spent at the Cutters I awoke suddenly with the impression that I had heard a door open and shut. Everything was still however, and I must have gone to sleep again immediately.",
  "sample_08919.wav": "I was only half awake, but I decided that he might take the cutter's silver, whoever he was.",
  "sample_08920.wav": "I held my breath and lay absolutely still. A hand closed softly on my shoulder, and at the same moment I felt something hairy and clone-scented brushing my face.",
  "sample_08921.wav": "The man became insane. He stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other, hissing and chuckling and letting out a flood of abuse. So this is what she's up to when I'm away, is it? Where is she, you nasty whelp?",
  "sample_08922.wav": "Where is she? Under the bed? Are you hussy? I know your tricks. Wait till I get at you. I'll fix this rat you've got in here. He's caught all right.\" So long as Cutter had me by the throat there was no chance for me at all.",
  "sample_08923.wav": "When I got home I climbed in at the kitchen window. I was covered with blood from my nose and lip, but I was too sick to do anything about it. I found a shawl and an overcoat on the hat rack, laid down on the parlor sofa and in spite of my hurts went to sleep.",
  "sample_08924.wav": "Her cry of fright awakened me. Truly I was a battered object. As she helped me to my room I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. My lip was cut and stood out like a snout. My nose looked like a big blue plum.",
  "sample_08925.wav": "and one eye was swollen shut and hideously discoloured. Grandmother said, We must have a doctor at once, but I implored her, as I had never begged for anything before not to send for him. I could stand anything, I told her.",
  "sample_08926.wav": "She seemed to understand, though I was too faint and miserable to go into explanations. When she took a look at the",
  "sample_08927.wav": "She spent the whole morning bathing and poulticing me and robbing me with arnica. I heard Antonia sobbing outside my door, but I asked grandmother to send her away. I felt that I never wanted to see her again.",
  "sample_08928.wav": "She had let me in for all this disgustingness. Grandmother kept saying how thankful we ought to be that I had been there instead of Antonia. But I lay with my disfigured face to the wall and felt no particular gratitude.",
  "sample_08929.wav": "If this story once got abroad, I would never hear the last of it. I could well imagine what the old men down at the drugstore would do with such a theme.",
  "sample_08930.wav": "and had left again on the 6 o'clock train for Denver that morning. The agent said his face was striped with court plaster and he carried his left hand in a sling. He looked so used up that the agent asked him what had happened to him since 10 o'clock the night before.",
  "sample_08931.wav": "My own garments have been treated so badly that I never saw them again. Grandmother burned them in the cutter's kitchen range. While Antonia was packing her trunk and putting her room in order to leave it, the front doorbell rang violently.",
  "sample_08932.wav": "There stood Mrs. Cutter, locked out, for she had no key to the new lock, her head trembling with rage. I advised her to control herself or she would have a stroke, grandmother said afterwards.",
  "sample_08933.wav": "Antonia was frightened and was going home to stay for a while, she told Mrs. Cutter. It would be useless to interrogate the girl, for she knew nothing of what had happened. Then Mrs. Cutter told her story.",
  "sample_08934.wav": "She and her husband had started home from Omaha together the morning before. They had to stop over several hours and way more junction to catch the Black Hawk train.",
  "sample_08935.wav": "When he returned he told her that he would have to stay overnight there.",
  "sample_08936.wav": "She saw him slip a twenty dollar bill into her handbag with her ticket. That bill, she said, should have aroused her suspicions at once, but did not. The trains are never called at Little Junction towns. Everybody knows when they come in.",
  "sample_08937.wav": "Mr. Cutter showed his wife's ticket to the conductor and settled her in her seat before the train moved off.",
  "sample_08938.wav": "and that Cutter must have planned it so. The conductor told her the Blackhawk train was due at Waymoor 12 minutes after the Kansas City train left. She saw at once that her husband had played this trick in order to get back to Blackhawk without her.",
  "sample_08939.wav": "She had no choice but to go on to Kansas City and take the first fast train for home. Cutter could have got home a day earlier than his wife by any one of a dozen simpler devices. He could have left her in the Omaha Hotel.",
  "sample_08940.wav": "But apparently it was part of his fun to outrage her feelings as much as possible. \"'Mr. Cutter will pay for this, Mrs. Burton. He will pay,' Mrs. Cutter avowed, nodding her horse-like head and rolling her eyes.",
  "sample_08941.wav": "The confession of Odette Ryder. He could only gaze in stupefied silence. \"'You,' he said, wonderingly. The girl was pale, and her eyes never left his face. She nodded. \"'Yes, it is I,' she said in a low voice.",
  "sample_08942.wav": "You!\" he said again, and walked towards her. He held out his hand, and she gave him the wallet without a word. \"'Sit down,' he said kindly. He thought she was going to faint. I hope I didn't hurt you. I hadn't the slightest idea\u2014'",
  "sample_08943.wav": "She shook her head. Oh, I'm not hurt, she said wearily.",
  "sample_08944.wav": "She drew a chair to the table and dropped her face upon her hands, and he stood by, embarrassed, almost terrified by this unexpected development. So you were the visitor on the bicycle, he said at last. I didn't suspect.",
  "sample_08945.wav": "It struck him at that moment that it was not an offence for Odette Ryder to go up to her mother's house on a bicycle, or even to take away a wallet which was probably hers. If there was any crime at all\u2014",
  "sample_08946.wav": "She looked up at his words. I? On the bicycle? She asked. No. It was not I. Not you? She shook her head. I was in the grounds.",
  "sample_08947.wav": "I saw you using your lamp, and I was quite close to you when you picked up the wallet,\" she said listlessly. But I was not on the bicycle.\" \"'Who was it?' he asked. She shook her head. \"'May I have that, please?'",
  "sample_08948.wav": "She held out her hand, and he hesitated. After all, he had no right or title to this curious purse. He compromised by putting it on the table, and she did not attempt to take it. Oh, Dad, he said gently, and walked round to her.",
  "sample_08949.wav": "laying his hand on her shoulder. Why don't you tell me?\" \"'Tell you what?' she asked without looking up. \"'Tell me all there is to be told,' he said. I could help you. I want to help you.' She looked up at him.",
  "sample_08950.wav": "He was tongue-tied for a second. \"'Because I love you,' he said, and his voice shook. It did not seem to him that he was talking. The words came of their own volition. He had no more intention of telling her he loved her. Indeed he loved her, and he loved her with all his heart.",
  "sample_08951.wav": "He had no more idea that he did love her than Whiteside would have had, yet he knew he spoke the truth and that a power greater than he had framed the words and put them on his lips. The effect on the girl seemed extraordinary to him.",
  "sample_08952.wav": "She did not shrink back. She did not look surprised. She showed no astonishment whatever.",
  "sample_08953.wav": "Oh, that calm?",
  "sample_08954.wav": "was the second shock of the evening. It was as though she had known it all along. He was on his knees by her side, and his arm was about her shoulders, even before his brain had willed the act. My girl, my girl,\" he said gently, won't you please tell me?",
  "sample_08955.wav": "Her head was still bent, and her voice was so low as to be almost inaudible. \"'Tell you what?' she asked. \"'What you know of this business,' he said. \"'Don't you realize how every new development brings you more and more under suspicion?'",
  "sample_08956.wav": "What business do you mean?\" He hesitated. The murder of Thornton Lyne? I know nothing of that. She made no response to that tender arm of his, but sat rigid. Something in her attitude chilled him.",
  "sample_08957.wav": "and he dropped her hand and rose. When she looked up she saw that his face was white and set. He walked to the door and unlocked it. I'm not going to ask you anymore, he said quietly. You know best why you came to me tonight.",
  "sample_08958.wav": "She got up to her feet unsteadily and swayed toward him. In a second he was by her side, his arms about her. She made no resistance, but rather he felt a yielding toward him which she had missed before. Her pale face was upturned to his, and he stooped and kissed her.",
  "sample_08959.wav": "Odette, Odette he whispered, don't you realize that I love you and would give my life to save you from unhappiness? Won't you tell me everything, please?\" No, no, no, she murmured with a little catch in her voice. Please don't ask me.",
  "sample_08960.wav": "I'm afraid, oh, I'm afraid!\" He crushed her in his arms, his cheek against hers, his lips tingling with the caress of her hair. But there's nothing to be afraid of. Nothing, he said eagerly. If you were as guilty as hell, I would save you.",
  "sample_08961.wav": "If you were shielding somebody, I would shield them, because I love you, Odette.\" No, no, she cried and pushed him back, both her little hands pressing against his chest. Don't ask me, don't ask me, ask me. Tarling swung round.",
  "sample_08962.wav": "There was a man standing in the doorway in the act of closing the door behind him. Milbur, he said between his teeth. Milbur smiled the other mockingly. I'm sorry to interrupt this beautiful scene.",
  "sample_08963.wav": "But the occasion is a desperate one, and I cannot afford to stand on ceremony, Mr. Tarling.\" Tarling put the girl from him and looked at the smirking manager. One comprehensive glance the detective gave him.",
  "sample_08964.wav": "noted the cycling clips and the splashes of mud on his trousers, and understood. \"'So you were the cyclist, eh?' he said. \"'That's right,' said Milbur. \"'It is an exercise to which I am very partial.' \"'What do you want?' asked Tarling, alert and watchful.",
  "sample_08965.wav": "I want you to carry out your promise, Mr. Tarling,\" said Milbur smoothly. Tarling stared at him. My promise? He said. What promise? To protect not only the evildoer,",
  "sample_08966.wav": "Tarling started. \"'Do you mean to say,' he said hoarsely, \"'do you mean to accuse?' \"'I accuse nobody,' said Millbur, with a wide sweep of his hands. \"'I merely suggest that both Miss Ryder and myself are in very serious trouble.'\"",
  "sample_08967.wav": "and that you have it in your power to get us safely out of this country to one where extradition laws cannot follow.\" Tarling took one step towards him, and Milbur shrank back. Do you accuse Miss Ryder of complicity in this murder? he demanded. Milbur smiled.",
  "sample_08968.wav": "but it was an uneasy smile. I make no accusation, he said.",
  "sample_08969.wav": "He shrugged his shoulders. \"'You will understand better when you read the contents of that wallet, which I was endeavouring to remove to a place of safety.' Tarling picked up the wallet from the table and looked at it. \"'I shall see the contents of this wallet to-morrow,' he said.",
  "sample_08970.wav": "locks will present very little difficulty.",
  "sample_08971.wav": "\"'There's no sense in wasting our time here,' said Solomon Owl to his small cousin, Simon Screecher. \"'It's a fine night. The mice will all be out sooner or later. Let's go over and sit in that old oak on the edge of the meadow.'",
  "sample_08972.wav": "Simon's creature was more than willing, and they had no sooner settled themselves among the bare branches of the oak, when Simon started to amuse himself by giving his well-known quavering whistle. Solomon's owls stopped him quickly.",
  "sample_08973.wav": "Don't do that,\" he said sharply. Do you want to scare the mice? Simon Screecher cut his whistle off right in the middle of it. I forgot, he murmured, but I don't believe my whistling would do any harm.",
  "sample_08974.wav": "I don't think there are many mice left on Farmer Green's place. It's my opinion that they've moved away\u2014most of them. Or maybe old rough-legged the hawk has caught more than his share.",
  "sample_08975.wav": "Solomon Owl made no reply. He was a person of few words. If anybody asked his opinion, he was ready to give it, but he seldom gave any unsought advice.",
  "sample_08976.wav": "I've about made up my mind,\" said Simon's creature, that I'd moved to some other neighborhood. If I knew where there was good mousing, I'd move to-morrow. While he was speaking, Solomon Owl started ever so slightly.",
  "sample_08977.wav": "You might as well send them a telegram saying that you'll be on hand to meet them at eight p.m. Simon's creature was silenced for the time being, and it wasn't long before Solomon Owl gave another start. There's that squeak again, he whispered.",
  "sample_08978.wav": "I believe it is getting nearer, too.\" Now Master Metamouse had a tunnel that led right beneath the tree where the two cousins were sitting.",
  "sample_08979.wav": "And he had strolled that way after scurrying under the snow, when he heard Solomon Owl laughing in the woods earlier in the evening. It was he that Solomon heard. It was he that stuck his head out of a hole in the snow, and peeped up at the star-sprinkled sky.",
  "sample_08980.wav": "He must have hurried over here from the woods. He must be very hungry. As Solomon Owl returned to the old oak, his cousin Simon Screecher laughed somewhat unpleasantly. Missed him, didn't you? he inquired. Yes.",
  "sample_08981.wav": "Why didn't you grab him out of the snow?\" Simon asked. What are your claws for? What's your beak for? I couldn't dig him out, Solomon Owl replied. The snow is three feet deep.",
  "sample_08982.wav": "and it has seven different crusts, one under another.\" This is a hard winter, said Simon Screecher. I wish I'd gone south last fall. I wonder how the mousing is down there.",
  "sample_08983.wav": "Eating a Tree As Simon Screecher remarked to his cousin, Solomon Owl, it was a hard winter. The snow was deep, the days were cold, and the nights were colder. And worst of all, food became scarce.",
  "sample_08984.wav": "It seemed as if there wasn't anything to eat anywhere except at the farm buildings, which Farmer Green had stuffed full of hay and grain during the summer and autumn. Many of the forest folks stole down from Blue Mountain after nightfall.",
  "sample_08985.wav": "and visited the farmyard in the hope of getting a bite of something or other. Even Master Metamouse began to find it harder and harder to get enough seeds under the snow to satisfy his hunger.",
  "sample_08986.wav": "He had stored away a stock of food, but it hadn't been big enough, and that was a great mistake. Master Metamouse promised himself that he would not repeat it another time.",
  "sample_08987.wav": "Unfortunately, all the promises in the world wouldn't give him a square meal when he needed one.",
  "sample_08988.wav": "\"'This is my first winter,' Master Metamouse explained. \"'I'm running short of food, and I wish you'd tell me what to do in such a case.' \"'That's easy,' his cousin answered. \"'Get more.'\"",
  "sample_08989.wav": "And then he hurried away, for he had important business to attend to. Poor Master Metamouse ran after him. It was hard to follow his cousin through the winding galleries beneath the snow.",
  "sample_08990.wav": "Several times Master Meta Mouse took the wrong turn and had to retrace his steps, but at last he found his busy cousin again. You advised me to get more food said Master Meta Mouse, but you didn't tell me where to get it.",
  "sample_08991.wav": "\"'In the orchard,' his cousin cried, and then he hurried away again. \"'I wish he'd wait a minute,' Master Metamouse grumbled as he tore after his cousin once more.",
  "sample_08992.wav": "I don't feel like running. I haven't had a hearty meal for days.\" The cousin seemed surprised when Master Metamouse overtook him. What? the busy gentleman exclaimed. Have you been to the orchard and back so soon? No.",
  "sample_08993.wav": "Having said those three words, he dashed off again, even faster than before. Trees? Master Metamouse echoed. I can't eat trees.",
  "sample_08994.wav": "There must be something that my cousin forgot to explain, so I suppose I'll have to run after him again and ask him what he meant. The fourth time that Master Metamouse found his cousin, he took no chances.",
  "sample_08995.wav": "He caught his cousin by his tail and held on firmly. \"'You're not going to get away from me till I've found out what I want to know,' he declared. \"'How can I eat a tree?' Master Metamouse demanded. \"'You can't!'",
  "sample_08996.wav": "His cousin replied, struggling desperately to free himself, for he was too busy to stop long. Then explain what you mean! Master Metamouse cried. Eat the bark! his cousin answered.",
  "sample_08997.wav": "Then, and not till then, did Master Metta-Mouse let him go. Master Metta-Mouse chased his cousin no more, but hurried away to Farmer Green's orchard, where he gnawed a ring.",
  "sample_08998.wav": "But Farmer Green didn't agree with him. When he happened to go into the orchard one day later and saw tree after tree ruined, he was very, very much displeased.",
  "sample_08999.wav": "I ought to have put wire netting around those young trees,' he told the hired man. This is what comes of a hard winter.",
  "sample_09000.wav": "A Cold Dip In one way Peter Mink was like Master Metamouse. He enjoyed swimming, and he spent a great deal of his time along the streams that threaded their way through Pleasant Valley. Sometimes Peter dawdled on the banks of Swift River.",
  "sample_09001.wav": "The ferns drenched his stirrups as he brushed through them, and each dripping treetop broke the sunlight and let it drop intent-like beams through the shimmering under-mist. A bird flashed here and there through the green gloom.",
  "sample_09002.wav": "But there was no sound in the air but the footfalls of his horse, and the easy creaking of leather under him, the drip of dew overhead and the running of water below. Now and then he could see the same slender footprints in the rich loam.",
  "sample_09003.wav": "and he saw them in the sand where the first tiny brook tinkled across the path from a gloomy ravine. There the little creature had taken a flying leap across it, and beyond he could see the prince no more. He little guessed that while he halted to let his horse drink.",
  "sample_09004.wav": "He turned back up the creek and passed so close to where she had slipped aside into the bushes that she came near shrieking. But his eyes were fixed on a pool of the creek above, and to her wonder he strolled straight into the water with his boots on.",
  "sample_09005.wav": "pushing the net in front of him. He was a raider, sure, she thought now, and he was looking for a moonshine still. And the wild little thing in the bushes smiled cunningly. There was no still up that creek.",
  "sample_09006.wav": "And as he had left his horse below and his gun she waited for him to come back, which he did by and by, dripping and soaked to his knees. Then she saw him untie the queer gun on his saddle, pull it out of the case and\u2014",
  "sample_09007.wav": "Her eyes got big with wonder. Take it to pieces and make it into a long limber rod. In a moment he had cast a minnow into the pool and waded out into the water up to his hips. She had never seen so queer a fishing pole, so queer a fisherman.",
  "sample_09008.wav": "How could he get a fish out with that little switch, she thought contemptuously? By and by something hummed queerly. The man gave a slight jerk, and a shining fish flopped two feet into the air. It was surely very queer.",
  "sample_09009.wav": "but stood still, winding something with one hand, and again the fish would flash into the air, and then that humming would start again while the fisherman would stand quiet and waiting for a while, and then he would begin to wind again. And her wonder.",
  "sample_09010.wav": "drowning him, stepping backward at the same time. And a moment later the fish slid easily out of the edge of the water, gasping along the edge of a low sand bank, and the fisherman reaching down with one hand caught him in the gills. Then",
  "sample_09011.wav": "He looked up and smiled, and she had seen no smile like that before. Had you, little girl? One bare toe went burrowing suddenly into the sand, one finger went to her red mouth, and that was all.",
  "sample_09012.wav": "And he smiled again. Cat got your tongue? Her eyes fell at the ancient banter, but she lifted them straightway and stared again. You live around here? She stared on.",
  "sample_09013.wav": "Where? No answer. What's your name, little girl? And still she stared. She looked at me, and she said, What's your name, little girl? And still she stared. And still she said, What's your name, little girl? And still she stared.",
  "sample_09014.wav": "The steady eyes leaped angrily, but there was still no answer, and he bent to take the fish off his hook, put on a fresh minnow, turned his back, and tossed it into the pool. He looked up again.",
  "sample_09015.wav": "His line rang suddenly. Jack! she cried. You got a bat! He pulled, missed the strike, and wound in. The minnow was all right, so he tossed it back again. That isn't your name, he said.",
  "sample_09016.wav": "he said, shaking his head affirmatively. A long cry came down the ravine.",
  "sample_09017.wav": "and the fisherman wondered if he had heard her write, June. The little girl gave a shrill answering cry, but she did not move. \"'Fire now,' she said. \"'Who's that, your mammy?' \"'No taint.'",
  "sample_09018.wav": "It's my step, Mammy. I'm a-gonna catch hell now.\" Her innocent eyes turned sullen and her baby-mouth tightened. Good Lord! said the Fisherman, startled, and then he stopped. The words were as innocent on her lips as a benediction.",
  "sample_09019.wav": "Have you got a father?\" Like a flash her whole face changed.",
  "sample_09020.wav": "drawled a voice from the bushes, and it had a tone that made the fisherman whorl suddenly. A giant mountaineer stood on the bank above him, with a Winchester in the hollow of his arm. How are you?",
  "sample_09021.wav": "The giant's heavy eyes lifted quickly, but he spoke to the girl. You go on home.",
  "sample_09022.wav": "The girl shrank to the bushes, but she cried sharply back. Don't you hurt him now, Dad. He ain't even got a pistol. He ain't no\u2014 SHIT UP!",
  "sample_09023.wav": "The little creature vanished, and the mountaineer turned to the fisherman, who had just put on a fresh minnow and tossed it into the river. \"'Pretty well, Fanky,' he said shortly. \"'How are you?' \"'Fine,' was the nonchalant answer.",
  "sample_09024.wav": "For a moment there was silence, and a puzzled frown gathered on the mountaineer's face. That's a bright little girl of yours.",
  "sample_09025.wav": "No, not in these mountains. Why?\" The fisherman looked around and was almost startled by the fierce gaze of his questioner. Stop that, please,\" he said with a humorous smile. You make me nervous.",
  "sample_09026.wav": "The Mountaineer's bushy brows came together across the bridge of his nose, and his voice rumbled like distant thunder. \"'What's your name, stranger? And what's your business over here?' \"'Dear me, there you go. You can see I'm fishin'.'",
  "sample_09027.wav": "But why does everybody in these mountains want to know my name?\" \"'You heared me.'\" \"'Yes.'\" The fisherman turned again and saw the giant's rugged face, stern and pale with open anger, now.",
  "sample_09028.wav": "He had not moved hand or foot, and he said nothing, but his mouth was set hard and his bewildered blue eyes had a glint in them that the Mountaineer did not at the moment see. He was leaning with one arm on the muzzle of his Winchester. His face had suddenly become suave and shrewd and now he laughed again.",
  "sample_09029.wav": "I might have a gun myself sometimes. Did you think you could scare me?\" The Mountaineer stared in genuine surprise. \"'Twasn't no joke,\" he said shortly.",
  "sample_09030.wav": "I reckon you don't know who I be. I don't care who you are.\" Again the Mountaineer stared. \"'No use getting mad, young feller,' he said coolly. \"'I mistaken ye for somebody else, and I ask your pardon.'",
  "sample_09031.wav": "The Yosemite, or grizzly bear tribe, fancying themselves secure in their deep mountain stronghold, were the most troublesome and defiant of all. And it was while the Mariposa Battalion, under command of Major Savage,",
  "sample_09032.wav": "was trying to capture this warlike tribe and conduct them to the Fresno reservation that their deep mountain home, the Yosemite Valley, was discovered.",
  "sample_09033.wav": "instructing them to tell the Indians that if they would come in and make treaty with the commissioners, they would be furnished with food and clothing and be protected. But if they did not come in, he would make war upon them and kill them all.",
  "sample_09034.wav": "informed him of the wishes of the commissioners. But the old chief was very suspicious of Savage and feared that he was taking this method of getting the tribe into his power for the purpose of revenge in his personal wrong.",
  "sample_09035.wav": "Taniya inquired what was the object of taking all the Indians to the San Joaquin Plain. my People",
  "sample_09036.wav": "My young men have sometimes taken horses and mules from the whites.",
  "sample_09037.wav": "My young men believed that the gold diggers were our enemies.",
  "sample_09038.wav": "and we shall be glad to live in peace with them. We will stay here and be friends. My people do not want to go to the plains. Some of the tribes who have gone there are very bad. We cannot live with them. Here we can defend ourselves.",
  "sample_09039.wav": "To that Major Savage firmly said, Your people must go to the commissioners. If they do not, your young men will again steal horses and kill and plunder the whites.",
  "sample_09040.wav": "It was your people who robbed my stores, burned my houses, and murdered my men. If they do not make a treaty, your whole tribe will be destroyed. Not one of them will be left alive.\" To this the old chief replied,",
  "sample_09041.wav": "It is useless to talk to you about who destroyed your property and killed your people. I am old and you can kill me if you will. But it is useless to lie to you who know more than all the Indians.",
  "sample_09042.wav": "Therefore I will not lie to you, but if you will let me return to my people I will bring them in.\" He was allowed to go. The next day he came back.",
  "sample_09043.wav": "and said his people were on the way to our camp to go with the men sent by the great father, who was so good and rich. Another day passed, but no Indians from the deep valley appeared.",
  "sample_09044.wav": "After waiting still another day the expedition started for the valley. When Tanaya was questioned as to the route and distance, he said that the snow was so deep that the horses could not go through it.",
  "sample_09045.wav": "Savage told Tanaya that he was not telling the truth, for Indians could not cross the mountains in the deep snow, and that he knew they must still be in his village or hiding somewhere near it.",
  "sample_09046.wav": "to see your people who will not come. They will come if I find them.\" You will not find any of my people there, said Tanaya. I do not know where they are. My tribe is small.",
  "sample_09047.wav": "Many of the people of my tribe have come from other tribes, and if they go to the plains and are seen, they will be killed by the friends of those with whom they have quarreled. I was told that I was growing old, and it was well that I should go.",
  "sample_09048.wav": "But that young and strong men can find plenty in the mountains. Therefore, why should they go to the hot plains to be penned up like horses and cattle? My heart has been sore since that talk.",
  "sample_09049.wav": "but I am now willing to go, for it is best for my people.\" Pushing ahead, taking turns and breaking away through the snow, they arrived in sight of the great valley early in the afternoon.",
  "sample_09050.wav": "and guided by one of Taniya's Indians, descended by the same route as that followed by the Mariposa Trail, and the weary party went into camp on the riverbank opposite El Capitan. After supper, seated around a big fire,",
  "sample_09051.wav": "Pohono, the bridal veil, being the principal one. The expedition remained only one day and two nights in the valley, hurrying out on the approach of a storm and reached the South Fork headquarters.",
  "sample_09052.wav": "on the evening of the third day after starting out.",
  "sample_09053.wav": "Most of it had been explored in a general way, and some of its principal features had been named. But the Indians had fled up the Taniya Canyon Trail, and none of them were seen, except an old woman unable to follow the fugitives.",
  "sample_09054.wav": "A second expedition was made in the same year under command of Major Bowling. When the valley was entered no Indians were seen, but the many wigwams with smoldering fires.",
  "sample_09055.wav": "showed that they had been hurriedly abandoned that very day. Later, five young Indians who had been left to watch the movements of the expedition were captured at the foot of the three brothers after a lively chase.",
  "sample_09056.wav": "That same day the old chief was captured on the cliff in the east side of Indian Canyon by some of bowling scouts As Taniya walked towards the camp his eye fell upon the dead body of his favorite son Captain bowling",
  "sample_09057.wav": "through the interpreter, expressed his regret at the occurrence, but not a word did Taniya utter in reply. Later.",
  "sample_09058.wav": "but was caught as he was about to swim across the river.",
  "sample_09059.wav": "And when brought into the presence of Captain Bowling, he said in great emotion, Kill me, Sir Captain, yes, kill me as you killed my son, as you would kill my people if they were to come to you.",
  "sample_09060.wav": "But wait a little, and when I am dead I will call my people to come, and they shall hear me in their sleep, and come to avenge the death of their chief and his son. Yes, Sir America, my spirit will make trouble for you and your people.",
  "sample_09061.wav": "Her willingness to break our friendship at the first opportunity gave me little room to think of anything else. That she should risk her reputation to run after that man was inexplicable, but it was just like a woman.",
  "sample_09062.wav": "If she could get along without me, I could get along without her. I'm the easiest-going person in the world, but when it comes to allowing the girl you are practically engaged to, to make a fool of herself over another man, I won't stand for it.",
  "sample_09063.wav": "and she didn't know, but I made up my mind that she would have to give me an awfully good reason for her sudden interest in Frank Woods before I would forgive her. These thoughts held my attention all the way out.",
  "sample_09064.wav": "Now and again I would be recalled from my gloom by some question from the coroner. He was trying to solve the problem of who murdered Jim.",
  "sample_09065.wav": "As we neared the bridge I noticed again how scant the vegetation was on both sides of the road. Anyone wishing to murder Jim would have been able to see him coming.",
  "sample_09066.wav": "could be seen the thirteenth hole of the country club golf-links. When we reached the crest of the hill, leading down to the bridge, our eyes at once caught sight of a tall maple tree on the right-hand side of the road, and about two hundred yards from it.",
  "sample_09067.wav": "As he saw it the coroner gave a grunt of satisfaction, There's our tree. We stopped the car and scrambled through the thorny bushes that lined the road. The ground was hard clay with only burdock and weeds growing on it.",
  "sample_09068.wav": "There was nothing that would lead us to believe that anyone had been there before. When we reached the tree the coroner examined the ground around it carefully. When he rose he seemed disappointed. What did you expect to find here? I asked.",
  "sample_09069.wav": "I didn't know what we might find. If the man who fired those shots used this tree, I thought we might find an empty cartridge or two. There ought to be at least some broken twigs or something to show that he was up there, but I find nothing at all.",
  "sample_09070.wav": "Still, the fact that the tree is where it is makes the theory plausible.\" He shook his head. No, now that I've seen how far we are from the road, I don't think it does.",
  "sample_09071.wav": "Those bullet holes in the back of the car were fired from above and behind the machine. They slanted down, but not sideways.",
  "sample_09072.wav": "But if the murderer used this tree, two hundred yards from the road, he would have started firing before the car came opposite.",
  "sample_09073.wav": "I'm sorry for when I saw this tree. I thought we'd struck the right track.\" There's one thing I can't make out, I stated, and that is the strange cry of my sister in her delirium. Look out, Jim, it's going to hit us, she called out.",
  "sample_09074.wav": "and I would be willing to swear it had something to do with the murder.\" The coroner thought a moment, then turned to me. What else did she say? Nothing that seemed to refer to the accident. All the rest was apparently delirium.",
  "sample_09075.wav": "She begged forgiveness for some fancied wrong, and repeated that a certain man was not guilty of dishonesty. But her first weird cry had to do with the murder, I'm sure.",
  "sample_09076.wav": "Everything points to an airplane. It was done a hundred, yes, a thousand times in the war. While I was over there with my hospital unit, we used to get a lot of cases of motorcycle dispatch riders who had been picked off by German aviators.",
  "sample_09077.wav": "and is the head of an airplane firm, but I don't think he has an airplane here. He could get one easy enough. The clever devil! Look over there! He has the broad sweep of the golf course as a perfect landing ground.",
  "sample_09078.wav": "helpless before approaching death. I could imagine Helen's agony as she saw that dim black shape.",
  "sample_09079.wav": "Look out, Jim, it's going to hit us.\" Yes, but how are we going to prove it?\" I asked. That's up to us now. An airplane has such speed that it was easy for Woods to fashion an ingenious alibi.",
  "sample_09080.wav": "to account for every minute of his time on the night of the murder, but there must be some holes in it. There always is in a manufactured alibi. I want you to go over to the country club and check up Mr. Wood's schedule of that night.",
  "sample_09081.wav": "while I examined the golf links to see if he landed there. We jumped into my car and drove rapidly to the club. I went into the house by the back way to avoid meeting people and asked for Jackson.",
  "sample_09082.wav": "Jackson, what time did Mr. Woods get out here on the evening Mr. Felderston was killed?",
  "sample_09083.wav": "Did you see him at the time?",
  "sample_09084.wav": "When was the first time you did see him, Jackson? I guess it was at dinnertime, sir.",
  "sample_09085.wav": "You sure he was here all through dinner, I asked. Yes, sir, he must have been, cause he ordered dinner. What time was he through dinner, do you know?\" The darkie scratched his head. I reckon it was...",
  "sample_09086.wav": "I asked. The boy was trembling. He rolled frightened eyes toward Jackson, who was glaring at him. Finally he broke into a wail.",
  "sample_09087.wav": "motioning the angry Jackson away. He\u2014he sat down at the table, but he ain't it none, the boy stuttered. What do you mean, George?\"",
  "sample_09088.wav": "I'll bring him some soup, but he got up powerful sudden like he had a call to the telephone and he ain't come back. Are you sure of that, George? Yes, sir.\"",
  "sample_09089.wav": "I asked him did he want dinner after he come back but he say he ain't hungry. What time was it when he came back? I asked.",
  "sample_09090.wav": "I gave the boy a dollar and he went away happy. Jackson had a sheepish look on his face. Then Mr. Woods wasn't here all through dinner, Jackson. Dread that boy!",
  "sample_09091.wav": "another form of desert. It was Weymouth which he had just entered. Weymouth then was not the respectable and fine Weymouth of today. Ancient Weymouth did not present like the present one.",
  "sample_09092.wav": "For the same reason they had not yet designed on the slope of the green hill toward the east, fashioned flat on the soil by cutting away the turf and leaving the bare chalk to the view, the white horse, an acre long, and the white horse, an acre long, and the white",
  "sample_09093.wav": "George III, having lost in his old age the intellect he had never possessed in his youth, was not responsible for the calamities of his reign. He was an innocent. Why not erect statues to him?",
  "sample_09094.wav": "even good women in their houses. A peltmel of sheds thrown from her devil's bag would give an idea of that irregular Weymouth. The good women in the sheds included the music hall remains as a specimen of those buildings.",
  "sample_09095.wav": "A confusion of wooden dens carved and eaten by worms, which carve in another fashion, shapeless overhanging buildings, some with pillars, leaning one against the other for support against the sea wind.",
  "sample_09096.wav": "and leaving between them awkward spaces of narrow and winding channels, lanes and passages, often flooded.",
  "sample_09097.wav": "The deserted child carrying the foundling passed through the first street, then the second, then the third.",
  "sample_09098.wav": "But all were closed and dark. At intervals he knocked at the doors. No one answered. Nothing makes the heart so like a stone as being warm between sheets. The noise and the shaking had at length awakened the infant.",
  "sample_09099.wav": "He knew this because he felt her suck his cheek. She did not cry, believing him her mother. He was about to turn and wander long perhaps in the intersections of the scammer's lanes.",
  "sample_09100.wav": "Then more cultivated plots than dwellings, more thorn hedges than houses. But fortunately he struck into a passage which exists to this day near Trinity Schools. This passage led him to a water brink.",
  "sample_09101.wav": "with Malcolm Regis, and under the arches of which the backwater joins the harbor. Weymouth, a hamlet, was then the suburb of Malcolm Regis, a city and port. Now Malcolm Regis is a parish of Weymouth.",
  "sample_09102.wav": "The village had absorbed the city. It was the bridge which did the work. Bridges are strange vehicles of suction which inhale the population and sometimes swell one river bank at the expense of its opposite neighbor.",
  "sample_09103.wav": "The boy went to the bridge, which at that period was a covered timber structure. He crossed it.",
  "sample_09104.wav": "The bridge opened on a rather fine street called St. Thomas's Street. He entered it. Here and there were high carved gables and shop fronts. He set to knocking at the doors again.",
  "sample_09105.wav": "He had no strength left to call or shout. At Malcolm Regis, as at Weymouth, no one was stirring. The doors were all carefully double-locked. The windows were covered by their shutters, as the eyes by their lids.",
  "sample_09106.wav": "All its lethargies mingle their nightmares, its slumbers are a crowd, and from its human bodies lying prone there arises a vapor of dreams. Sleep has gloomy associates beyond this life.",
  "sample_09107.wav": "The decomposed thoughts of the sleepers float above them in a mist which is both of death and of life, and combine with the possible, which has also perhaps the power of thought as it floats in space.",
  "sample_09108.wav": "Hence arise entanglements. Dreams, those clouds, interpose their folds and their transparencies over that star, the mind.",
  "sample_09109.wav": "into impalpability. Mysterious diffused existences amalgamate themselves with life on that border of death which sleep is. Those larvae and souls mingle in the air.",
  "sample_09110.wav": "Even he who sleeps not feels a medium press upon him full of sinister life. The sounding chimera in which he suspects a reality impedes him. The Waking Man",
  "sample_09111.wav": "Wending his way amidst the sleep, phantoms of others unconsciously push his back, passing shadows, has, or imagines that he has, a vague fear of adverse contact with the invisible.",
  "sample_09112.wav": "and feels at every moment the obscure pressure of a hostile encounter which immediately dissolves. There is something of the effect of a forest in the nocturnal diffusion of dreams. This is what is called being afraid without reason.",
  "sample_09113.wav": "What a man feels, a child feels still more. The uneasiness of nocturnal fear, increased by the spectral houses, increased the weight of the sad burden under which he was struggling.",
  "sample_09114.wav": "which he took for the ocean. He no longer knew in what direction the sea lay. He retraced his steps, struck to the left by Maiden Street, and returned as far as St. Alban's Row.",
  "sample_09115.wav": "There, by chance, and without selection, he knocked violently at any house that he happened to pass. His blows, on which he was expending his last energies, were jerky and without aim, now ceasing altogether for a time.",
  "sample_09116.wav": "One voice answered, That of time. Three o'clock told slowly behind him from the old belfry of St. Nicholas. Then all sank into silence again.",
  "sample_09117.wav": "there were just over a somewhat severe outbreak of the plague in London, and that the fear of receiving sick vagabonds caused a diminution of hospitality everywhere. People would not even open their windows for fear of inhaling the poison.",
  "sample_09118.wav": "The child felt the coldness of men more terribly than the coldest of night.",
  "sample_09119.wav": "The pitiless desert he had understood, the unrelenting town was too much to bear. The hour, the strokes of which he had just counted, had been another blow.",
  "sample_09120.wav": "Nothing is so freezing in certain situations as the voice of the hour. It is a declaration of indifference. It is eternity saying, What does it matter to me? He stopped.",
  "sample_09121.wav": "The Little Peasant. There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one whom they called The Little Peasant. She had not even so much as a cow, and still less money to buy one.",
  "sample_09122.wav": "And yet he and his wife did so wish to have one. One day he said to her, Listen, I have a good idea. There is our gossip, the carpenter. He shall make us a wooden calf, and paint it brown, so that it looks like any other, and in time.",
  "sample_09123.wav": "it will certainly get big and be a cow. The woman also liked the idea, and their gossip the carpenter cut and planned the calf, and painted it as it ought to be, and made it with its head hanging down, as if it were eating. Next morning, when the cows were being driveled out,",
  "sample_09124.wav": "The little peasant called the cowherd in and said, \"'Look, I have a little calf there, but it is still small and has to be carried.' The cowherd said, \"'All right,' and took it in his arms and carried it to the pasture, and set it among the grass.",
  "sample_09125.wav": "The little calf always remained standing like one which was eating, and the cowherd said, It will soon run by itself. Just look how it eats already. At night, when he was going to drive the herd home again, he said to the calf,",
  "sample_09126.wav": "If you can stand there and eat your fill, you can also go on your four legs. I don't care to drag you home again in my arms.",
  "sample_09127.wav": "And when the cowherd drove the cows through the village and the calf was missing, he inquired where it was. The cowherd answered, \"'It is still standing out there eating. It would not stop and come with us.' But the little peasant said,",
  "sample_09128.wav": "Oh, but I must have my beast back again.\" Then they went back to the meadow together, but someone had stolen the calf, and it was gone. The cowherd said, it must have run away. The peasant, however, said, don't tell me that.",
  "sample_09129.wav": "and led the cowherd before the mayor, who for his carelessness condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf which had run away. And now the little peasant and his wife had the cow for which they had so long wished, and they were heartily glad.",
  "sample_09130.wav": "but they had no food for it and could give it nothing to eat, so it soon had to be killed. They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds. On the way, he passed by a mill.",
  "sample_09131.wav": "And there sat a raven with broken wings, and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin. But as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could go no farther and turn back to the mill and beg for shelter.",
  "sample_09132.wav": "The miller's wife was alone in the house and said to the peasant, Lay yourself on the straw there, and gave him a slice of bread and cheese. The peasant ate it and lay down with his skin beside him, and the woman thought, He is tired and has gone to sleep.",
  "sample_09133.wav": "In the meantime came the parson. The miller's wife received him well and said, My husband is out, so we will have a feast. The peasant listened, and when he heard them talk about feasting he was vexed that he had been forced to make shift with a slice of bread and cheese.",
  "sample_09134.wav": "Then the women served up four different things\u2014roast meat, salad, cakes, and wine. Just as they were about to sit down and eat there was a knocking outside. The women said, Oh heavens! It is my husband! They quickly hid the roast meat inside the tiled stove.",
  "sample_09135.wav": "the wine under the pillow, the salad on the bed, the cakes under it, and the parson in the closet on the porch. Then she opened the door for her husband and said, Thank heaven you are back again.",
  "sample_09136.wav": "There is such a storm it looks as if the world were coming to an end.\" The miller saw the peasant lying on the straw and asked, \"'What is that fellow doing there?' \"'Ah,' said the wife, the poor knave came in the storm and rain and begged for shelter.\"",
  "sample_09137.wav": "The man said, I have no objection, but be quick, get me something to eat. The woman said, But I have nothing but bread and cheese. I am contented with anything, replied the husband. So far as I am concerned, bread and cheese will do. The woman looked at the peasant inside.",
  "sample_09138.wav": "Come, and eat some more with me.\" The peasant did not require to be invited twice, but got up and ate. After this the miller saw the skin in which the raven was, lying on the ground, and asked, What have you there? The peasant answered, I have a soothsayer inside it.",
  "sample_09139.wav": "\"'Can you foretell anything to me?' said the miller. \"'Why not?' answered the peasant. \"'But he only says four things, and the fifth he keeps to himself.' The miller was curious and said, \"'I don't know what you're talking about. \"'I don't know what you're talking about. \"'I don't know what you're talking about. \"'I don't know what you're talking about.",
  "sample_09140.wav": "and went tither and found the roast meat.",
  "sample_09141.wav": "Thirdly, he says, that there is some salad on the bed. That would be a fine thing, cried the miller, and went there and found the salad.",
  "sample_09142.wav": "Fourthly, he says that there are some cakes under the bed. \"'That would be a fine thing,' cried the Miller, and looked there and found the cakes. And now the two sat down to the table together, but the Miller's wife was frightened to death and went to bed and took all the keys with her.",
  "sample_09143.wav": "The miller would have liked much to know the fifth, but the little peasant said, First we will quickly eat the four things, for the fifth is something bad. So they ate, and after that they bargained how much the miller was to give for the fifth",
  "sample_09144.wav": "until they agreed on three hundred tailors. Then the peasant once more pinched the raven's head till he croaked loudly. The miller asked, What did he say? The peasant replied, He says that the devil is hiding outside there in the closet on the porch. The miller said,",
  "sample_09145.wav": "The devil must go out, and open the house door. Then the woman was forced to give up the keys, and the peasant unlocked the closet. The parson ran out as fast as he could, and the miller said, It was true, I saw the black rascal with my own eyes.",
  "sample_09146.wav": "The peasant, however, made off the next morning by daybreak with the three hundred tailors. At home the small peasant gradually launched out. He built a beautiful house and the peasant said, The small peasant has certainly been to the place where golden snow falls.",
  "sample_09147.wav": "and people carry the gold home in shovels. Then the small peasant was brought before the mayor, and bidden to say from whence his wealth came. He answered, I sold my cow's skin in the town for three hundred tailors. When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit.",
  "sample_09148.wav": "and ram home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage. The mayor, however, said, But my servant must go first.",
  "sample_09149.wav": "And when the others came, he did not give them so much, and said, What can I do with all these skins? Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus outwitted them, wanted to take a vengeance on him, and accused him of this treachery before the Mayor.",
  "sample_09150.wav": "The innocent little peasant was unanimously sentenced to death, and was to be rolled into the water in a barrel pierced full of holes. He was led forth, and a priest was brought, who was to say a mass for his soul.",
  "sample_09151.wav": "crisis in my mental history one stage onward. For some years after this time I wrote very little and nothing regularly for publication, and great were the advantages which I derived from the intermission.",
  "sample_09152.wav": "It was of no common importance to me at this period to be able to digest and mature my thoughts for my own mind only, without any immediate call for giving them out in print. Had I gone on writing...",
  "sample_09153.wav": "might truly be called an object in life, to be a reformer of the world. My conception of my own happiness was entirely identified with this object. The personal sympathies I wished for were those of fellow laborers",
  "sample_09154.wav": "in this enterprise. I endeavored to pick up as many flowers as I could by the way.",
  "sample_09155.wav": "but as a serious and permanent personal satisfaction to rest upon, my whole reliance was placed on this, and I was accustomed to felicitate myself on the certainty of a happy life, which I enjoyed.",
  "sample_09156.wav": "through placing my happiness in something durable and distant, in which some progress might be always making, while it could never be exhausted by complete attainment. This did very well for several years, during which the general",
  "sample_09157.wav": "As from a dream, it was in the autumn of 1826 I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to, unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement. One of those moods",
  "sample_09158.wav": "In this frame of mind, it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself. Suppose that all your objects in life were realized, that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to,",
  "sample_09159.wav": "The whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means?",
  "sample_09160.wav": "I awoke to a renewed consciousness of the woeful fact. I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Barely anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.",
  "sample_09161.wav": "For some months the clouds seemed to grow thicker and thicker, the lines and collarages dejection. I was not then acquainted with them exactly described my case. A grief without a pang. Void.",
  "sample_09162.wav": "In vain I sought relief from my favorite books, those memorials of past nobleness and greatness from which I had always hitherto drawn strength and animation. I read them now without feeling.",
  "sample_09163.wav": "Or with the accustomed feeling, minus all its charm, and I became persuaded that my love of mankind, and of excellence for its own sake, had worn itself out.",
  "sample_09164.wav": "I sought no comfort by speaking to others of what I felt. If I had loved anyone sufficiently to make confiding my griefs a necessity, I should not have been in the condition I was.",
  "sample_09165.wav": "I felt too that mine was not an interesting or in any way respectable distress. There was nothing in it to attract sympathy. Advice is the most important thing. Advice is the most important thing. Advice is the most important thing.",
  "sample_09166.wav": "and I saw no use in giving him the pain of thinking that his plans had failed when the failure was probably irremediable and at all events beyond the power of his will.",
  "sample_09167.wav": "his remedies. Of other friends I had at the time, none to whom I had any hope of making my condition intelligible. It was, however, abundantly intelligible to myself.",
  "sample_09168.wav": "And the more I dwelt upon it, the more hopeless it appeared. My course of study",
  "sample_09169.wav": "whether of a good or of a bad kind, with the results of association, that we love one thing and hate another. Take pleasure in one sort of action or contemplation",
  "sample_09170.wav": "with all things beneficial to the great whole.",
  "sample_09171.wav": "all things hurtful to it. This doctrine appeared inexpungible, but it now seemed to me on retrospect that my teachers had occupied themselves",
  "sample_09172.wav": "salutary associations. They seem to have trusted altogether to the old familiar instruments, praise and blame, reward and punishment. Now, I will read the words of the Bible.",
  "sample_09173.wav": "I did not doubt that by these means, begun early and applied unremittingly, intense associations of pain and pleasure, especially of pain, might be created.",
  "sample_09174.wav": "and might produce desires and aversions capable of lasting undiminished to the end of life. But there must always be something artificial and casual in associations thus produced.",
  "sample_09175.wav": "What I had always before received was incredulity, that the habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings, as indeed it has when no other mental habit is cultivated.",
  "sample_09176.wav": "and the analyzing spirit remains without its natural complements and correctives. The very excellence of analysis, I argued, is that it tends to weaken and undermine whatever is the result of prejudice.",
  "sample_09177.wav": "that it enables us mentally to separate ideas which have only casually clung together, and no associations whatever could ultimately resist this dissolving force.",
  "sample_09178.wav": "Were it not that we owe to analysis our clearest knowledge of the permanent sequences in nature, the real connections between things not dependent on our will and feelings, natural laws, by virtue of which in many cases,",
  "sample_09179.wav": "One thing is inseparable from another, in fact. Which laws, in proportion as they are clearly perceived and imaginatively realized, cause our ideas of things which are always joined together in nature?",
  "sample_09180.wav": "To cohere more and more closely in our thoughts, analytic habits may thus even strengthen the associations between causes and effects, means and ends, but tend altogether to weaken those which are",
  "sample_09181.wav": "the principal character in the story. If you, presuming you are of the sex that does such things, if you had gone into the drapery emporium, which is really only magnificent for shop,",
  "sample_09182.wav": "a perfectly fictitious co by the by, of Putney on the 14th of August 1895, had turned to the right hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blueprints depend,",
  "sample_09183.wav": "You might have been served by the central figure of this story that is now beginning. He would have come forward, bowing and swaying.",
  "sample_09184.wav": "what he might have the pleasure of showing you. Under certain circumstances, as for instance, hats, baby linen, gloves, silks, lace or curtains,",
  "sample_09185.wav": "and making a kind of circular sweep, invited you to step this way. And so, led you behind his can.",
  "sample_09186.wav": "Huckaback, Blankets, Dimity, Cretone, Linen, Calico are cases in point.",
  "sample_09187.wav": "Under which happier circumstances you might, if of an observing turn of mind and not too much of a housewife to be inhuman, have given the central figure of this story less cursory attention.",
  "sample_09188.wav": "Now, if you had noticed anything about him, it would have been chievly to notice how little he was noticeable. Here were the black morning coat, the black tie, and the speckled gray nether parts descending into shadow and mystery below the counter of his craft.",
  "sample_09189.wav": "hair of a kind of dirty fairness, grayish eyes, and a skimpy, immature mustache under his peaked, indeterminate nose. His features were all small, but none ill-shaped. A rosette of pins decorated the lapel of his coat.",
  "sample_09190.wav": "We could show you something better, of course. No trouble, madam, I assure you. Such were the simple counters of his intercourse. So I say...",
  "sample_09191.wav": "He would have danced about behind the counter, have neatly refolded the goods he had shown you, have put on one side those you selected, extracted a little book with a carbon leaf and a tin foil sheet from a fixture,",
  "sample_09192.wav": "made you out a little bill in that weak flourishing hand peculiar to drapers.",
  "sample_09193.wav": "Sign! Then a puffy little shopwalker would have come into view.",
  "sample_09194.wav": "have scribbled still more flourishing. J.M. all over the document have asked you if there was nothing more, have stood by you supposing that you were paying cash until the central figure of this story reappeared with the change.",
  "sample_09195.wav": "One glance more at him, and the puffy little shop-walker would have been bowing you out, with fountains of civilities at work all about you.",
  "sample_09196.wav": "But real literature, as distinguished from anecdote, does not concern itself with superficial appearances alone. Literature is revelation. Modern literature is indecorous revelation.",
  "sample_09197.wav": "It is the duty of the earnest author to tell you what you would not have seen, even at the cost of some blushes. And the thing that you would not have seen about this young man, and the thing of the greatest moment to this story...",
  "sample_09198.wav": "The thing that must be told if the book is to be written was, let us face it bravely, the remarkable condition of this young man's legs. Let us approach the business with dispassionate explicitness.",
  "sample_09199.wav": "Let us assume something of the scientific spirit, the hard, almost professional tone of the conscientious realist. Let us treat this young man's legs as a mere diagram and indicate the points of interest where the unemotional...",
  "sample_09200.wav": "And so, to our revelation, on the internal aspect of the right ankle of this young man, you would have observed, ladies and gentlemen, a contusion and an abrasion. On the internal aspect of the left ankle, a contusion also.",
  "sample_09201.wav": "on its external aspect a large yellowish bruise. On his left chin there were two bruises, one a leaden yellow graduating here and there into purple and another, obviously of a more recent date, of a blotchy red.",
  "sample_09202.wav": "tumid and threatening. Proceeding up the left leg in a spiral manner, an unnatural hardness and reddish would have been discovered on the upper aspect of the calf.",
  "sample_09203.wav": "and above the knee and on the inner side an extraordinary expanse of bruised surface, a kind of closely stippled shading of contused points.",
  "sample_09204.wav": "The right leg would be found to be bruised in a marvelous manner all about and under the knee, and particularly on the interior aspect of the knee. So far, we may proceed with our details.",
  "sample_09205.wav": "Fired by these discoveries, an investigator might perhaps have presumed his inquiries further, to bruises on the shoulders, elbows, and even the finger joints of the central figure of our story.",
  "sample_09206.wav": "He had indeed been bumped and battered at an extraordinary number of points, but enough of realistic description is as good as a feast.",
  "sample_09207.wav": "Even in literature, one must know where to draw the line. Now, the reader may be inclined to wonder how a respectable young shopman",
  "sample_09208.wav": "One might fancy that he had been sitting with his nether extremities in some complicated machinery. A threshing machine, say, or one of those haymaking furies. But Sherlock Holmes...",
  "sample_09209.wav": "would have fancied nothing of the kind.",
  "sample_09210.wav": "considered in the light of the distribution of the other abrasions and contusions, pointed unmistakably to the violent impact of the mounting beginner upon the bicycle saddle, and that the ruinous state of the right knee was equally eloquent,",
  "sample_09211.wav": "Above this couple there was Anne, Queen of England. An ordinary woman was Queen Anne. She was gay, kindly, august, to a certain extent. No quality of her is attained to virtue, none to vice.",
  "sample_09212.wav": "Her stoutness was bloated, her fun heavy, her good-nature stupid, she was stubborn and weak. As a wife she was faithless and faithful, having favorites to whom she gave up her heart, and a husband for whom she kept her bed.",
  "sample_09213.wav": "As a Christian she was a heretic and a bigot. She had one beauty.",
  "sample_09214.wav": "The rest of her person was indifferently formed. She was a clumsy coquette and a chaste one. Her skin was white and fine. She displayed a great deal of it. It was she who introduced the fashion of necklaces, of large pearls clasped round the throat.",
  "sample_09215.wav": "She had a narrow forehead, sensual lips, fleshy cheeks, large eyes, short sight. Her short sight extended to her mind. Beyond a burst of merriment now and then, almost as ponderous as her anger, she was",
  "sample_09216.wav": "She lived in a sort of taciturn grumble and a grumbling silence. Words escaped from her which had to be guessed at. She was a mixture of a good woman and a mischievous devil. She liked surprises, which is extremely womanlike. Anne was a pattern.",
  "sample_09217.wav": "She had fits of rage. She was violent, a brawler. Nobody more awkward than Anne in directing affairs of state. She allowed events to fall about as they might chance. Her whole policy was cracked.",
  "sample_09218.wav": "She excelled in bringing about great catastrophes from little causes. When a whim of authority took hold of her,",
  "sample_09219.wav": "She did not explain her thought. She exuded it. There was something of the Sphinx in this goose. She rather liked fun, teasing, and practical jokes. Could she have made Apollo a hunchback, it would have delighted her. But she would have left him a god.",
  "sample_09220.wav": "Good-natured, her ideal was to allow none to despair, and to worry all. She had often a rough word in her mouth.",
  "sample_09221.wav": "with which she reddened her lips, and having coloured her mouth, would laugh. She was greedily fond of the flat zeal and gingerbread cakes. She was proud of being fat. More of a Puritan than anything else, she would, nevertheless.",
  "sample_09222.wav": "have liked to devote herself to stage plays. She had an absurd academy of music, copied after that of France. In 1700 a Frenchman named Forte-Aroche wanted to build a royal circus at Paris at a cost of 400,000 francs.",
  "sample_09223.wav": "The assembly of twelve persons, were it only to eat oysters and drink porter, was a felony. Under her reign, otherwise relatively mild, pressing for the fleet was carried on with extreme violence, a gloomy evidence that the Englishman is a subject rather than a citizen.",
  "sample_09224.wav": "For centuries England suffered under that process of tyranny which gave the lie to all the old charters of freedom, and out of which France especially gathered a cause of triumph and indignation. What in some degrees diminishes the triumph is that while sailors were pressed in England",
  "sample_09225.wav": "Soldiers were pressed in France. In every great town of France any able-bodied man, going through the streets on his business, was liable to be shoved by the crimps into a house called the Oven.",
  "sample_09226.wav": "Those fit for service were picked out.",
  "sample_09227.wav": "In 1695 there were thirty of these ovens in Paris. The laws against Ireland, emanating from Queen Anne, were atrocious. Anne was born in 1664, two years before the Great Fire of London, on which the astrologers There were some left.",
  "sample_09228.wav": "predicted that, being the elder sister of Fire, she would be Queen. And so she was, thanks to astrology and the revolution of 1688. She had the humiliation of having only Gilbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, for godfather. To be godchild of the Pope was no longer possible in England.",
  "sample_09229.wav": "A mere primate is but a poor sort of godfather. Anne had to put up with one, however. It was her own fault. Why was she a Protestant? Denmark had paid for her virginity\u2014Virginitas Emte, as the old charters expressed it.",
  "sample_09230.wav": "There was never a bon mort, but in French. Anne paid a deal of attention to her coins, especially to copper coins, which are the low and popular ones. She wanted to cut a great figure on them. Six farthings were struck during her reign.",
  "sample_09231.wav": "On the back of the first three she had merely a throne struck. On the back of the fourth she ordered a triumphal chariot, and on the back of the sixth a goddess holding a sword in one hand and an olive branch in the other, with the scroll of a thousand",
  "sample_09232.wav": "Why? France excludes them. There is a reason at once. Perhaps there is no other. With English historians Elizabeth embodies grandeur and good nature, as they will, be it so. But there is nothing delicate in the reigns of these women. The lines are heavy.",
  "sample_09233.wav": "3. One idiotic habit of the people is to attribute to the king what they do themselves. They fight. Who is the glory? The kings. They pay. Who is the generosity? The kings. Then the people love him for being so rich.",
  "sample_09234.wav": "The equestrian statue, reserved for kings alone, is an excellent figure of royalty. The horse is the people. Only that the horse becomes transfigured by degrees. It begins in an ass, it ends in a lion.",
  "sample_09235.wav": "Then it throws its rider, and you have 1642 in England and 1789 in France, and sometimes it devours him, and you have in England 1649 and in France 1793. That the lion should relapse into the donkey is astonishing, but it is so.",
  "sample_09236.wav": "counted a hundred and fifty in her fleet. The English had three armies, five thousand men in Catalonia, ten thousand in Portugal, fifty thousand in Flanders.",
  "sample_09237.wav": "to monarchial and diplomatic Europe, a sort of prostitute the English people had always had in keeping. Parliament, having voted a patriotic loan of thirty-four million francs of annuities, there had been a crush at the Exchequer to subscribe it.",
  "sample_09238.wav": "and that he would be but too happy if England would only tolerate the King of France fishing for cod at Cape Breton. England was about to impose upon him the shame of demolishing himself the fortifications of Dunkirk. Meanwhile she had taken Gibraltar and was taking Barcelona.",
  "sample_09239.wav": "What great things accomplished! How is it possible to refuse an admiration for taking the trouble of living at the period?",
  "sample_09240.wav": "bears to him the vague resemblance of a reflection. Like him, she plays at a great reign. She has her monuments, her arts, her victories, her captains, her men of letters, her privy to pension celebrities, her gallery of chef d'oeuvre.",
  "sample_09241.wav": "in latitude 47 degrees",
  "sample_09242.wav": "and longitude 17 degrees.",
  "sample_09243.wav": "In the aftermath of this storm we were thrown back to the east, away went any hope of escaping to the landing places of New York or the St. Lawrence.",
  "sample_09244.wav": "Poor Ned went into seclusion like Captain Nemo. Consul and I no longer left each other. As I said, the Nautilus veered to the east. To be more accurate, I should have said to the northeast.",
  "sample_09245.wav": "Sometimes beneath them, the ship wandered for days amid these mists so feared by navigators. These are caused chiefly by melting ice, which keeps the air extremely damp.",
  "sample_09246.wav": "How many ships have perished in these waterways as they tried to get directions from the hazy lights on the coast? How many casualties have been caused by these opaque mists? How many collisions have occurred with these reefs?",
  "sample_09247.wav": "where the breaking surf is covered by the noise of the wind. How many vessels have rammed each other?",
  "sample_09248.wav": "So the floor of this sea had the appearance of a battlefield, where every ship defeated.",
  "sample_09249.wav": "others newer and reflecting our beacon light on their ironwork and copper undersides. Among these vessels, how many went down with all hands, with their crews and hosts of immigrants?",
  "sample_09250.wav": "at these trouble-spots so prominent in the statistics Cape Race, St. Paul Island, the Strait of Belle Isle, the St. Lawrence Estuary",
  "sample_09251.wav": "And in only a few years, how many victims have been furnished to the obituary notices, by the Royal Mail, Inman, and Montreal lines, by vessels named the Solway, the ISIS, the",
  "sample_09252.wav": "The Hungarian, the Canadian, the Anglo-Saxon, the Humboldt.",
  "sample_09253.wav": "all run aground, by the Arctic and the Linesis, sunken collisions, by the President, the Pacific, and the City of Glasgow.",
  "sample_09254.wav": "of their gloomy rubble, the Nautilus navigated.",
  "sample_09255.wav": "By May 15th, we were off the southern tip of the Great Banks of Newfoundland. These banks are the result of marine sedimentation, an extensive accumulation of organic waste",
  "sample_09256.wav": "brought either from the equator by the Gulf Stream's current, or from the North Pole by the countercurrent of cold water that skirts the American coast. Here, too, erratically drifting chunks collect from the ice breakup.",
  "sample_09257.wav": "Here, a huge boneyard forms from fish, mollusks, and",
  "sample_09258.wav": "dying over it by the billions. The sea is of no great depth at the Great Banks, a few hundred fathoms at best. But to the south there is a deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep,",
  "sample_09259.wav": "Suddenly occurring depression. A 3,000 meter pit. Here the Gulf Stream widens.",
  "sample_09260.wav": "a one meter lumpfish, blackish, on top.",
  "sample_09261.wav": "and rare among its brethren, in that it practices monogamy, a good-sized eel-pout, a type of emerald moray, whose flavor is excellent, wolfish, with big eyes, and a",
  "sample_09262.wav": "Viva Paris Blenny's, whose eggs hatch inside their bodies like those of snakes. Bloated goby-o.",
  "sample_09263.wav": "measuring two decimeters. Grenadiers with long tails and gleaming with a silvery glow. Speedy fish venturing far from their high Arctic seas. Our nets also hauled in a bold",
  "sample_09264.wav": "daring, vigorous and muscular fish armed with prickles on its head and stings on its fins. A real scorpion measuring two to three meters. The ruthless enemy.",
  "sample_09265.wav": "blennies, and salmon. It was the bowhead of the northerly seas, a fish with red fins, and a brown body covered with nodules.",
  "sample_09266.wav": "The Nautilus' fisherman had some trouble getting a grip on this animal, which, thanks to the formation of its gill covers,",
  "sample_09267.wav": "can protect its respiratory organs from any parching contact with air and can live out of water for a good while. And I'll mention, for the record, some little banded blennies.",
  "sample_09268.wav": "that follow ships into the northernmost seas, sharp-snouted carp exclusive to the North Atlantic, scorpion fish, and lastly,",
  "sample_09269.wav": "chiefly the cod species, which I detected in their waters of choice over these inexhaustible grand banks. Because Newfoundland is simply an underwater peak,",
  "sample_09270.wav": "You could call these cod mountain fish. While the Nautilus was clearing a path through their tight ranks,",
  "sample_09271.wav": "of this venerable and ancient city gradually slipping from our grasp, trembling on the lips of narrative old age, and day by day dropping piecemeal into the tomb. In a little while, thought I, and those revered Dutch burgers,",
  "sample_09272.wav": "who serve as the tottering monuments of good old times, will be gathered to their fathers. Their children, engrossed by the empty pleasures or insignificant transactions of the present age, will neglect to treasure up the recollections of the past.",
  "sample_09273.wav": "and posterity will search in vain for memorials of the days of the patriarchs. The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion, and even the names and achievements of Walter von Twiller",
  "sample_09274.wav": "Strange as it may seem, though such multitudes of excellent work have been written about this country, there are none extant which give any full and satisfactory account of the early history of New York.",
  "sample_09275.wav": "or of its three first Dutch governors. I have, however, gained much valuable and curious matter from an elaborate manuscript written by the late King of the Netherlands, and I am very pleased to have been able to",
  "sample_09276.wav": "excepting a few errors in orthography, which was found in the archives of the Stuyvesant family. Many legends, letters, and other documents have I likewise gleaned in my researches among the family chess and lumber garrets of our respectable",
  "sample_09277.wav": "by that admirable and praiseworthy institution, the New York Historical Society, to which I here publicly return my sincere acknowledgments. In the conduct of this inestimable work, I have adopted no individual model,",
  "sample_09278.wav": "and the strictest adherence to truth throughout my history. I have enriched it after the Manor of Solace with various characters of ancient worthies, drawn at full length and faithfully colored.",
  "sample_09279.wav": "sweetened it with the graces of sentiment like Tacitus, and infused into the whole the dignity, the grandeur, and magnificence of Livy. I am aware that I shall incur the censure of numerous very learned and judicious critics for",
  "sample_09280.wav": "of the historian and entice him to turn aside and refresh himself from his wayfaring. But I trust it will be found that I have always resumed my staff and addressed myself to my weary journey with renovated spirits.",
  "sample_09281.wav": "Yet the loose and unconnected matter in which many of the facts herein recorded have come to hand, rendered such an attempt extremely difficult. This difficulty was likewise increased by one of the grand objects contemplated in my work,",
  "sample_09282.wav": "But the chief merit on which I value myself and found my hopes for future regard is that faithful veracity with which I have compiled this invaluable little work.",
  "sample_09283.wav": "carefully winnowing away the shaft of hypothesis, and discarding the tears of fable, which are too apt to spring up and choke the seeds of truth and wholesome knowledge. I've been anxious to captivate the superficial throng.",
  "sample_09284.wav": "the infant years of our city, to introduce a thousand pleasing fictions. But I have scrupulously discarded many a pithy tale and marvelous adventure, whereby the drowsy ear of summer indolence might be enthralled.",
  "sample_09285.wav": "jealousy maintaining that fidelity, gravity, and dignity which should ever distinguish the historian. For a writer of this class, observes an elegant critic, must sustain the character of a wise man writing for the instruction of posterity.",
  "sample_09286.wav": "to decay, who gathers together their scattered fragments as they rot, and who piously at leith collects their ashes into the mausoleum of his work, and rears a triumphant monument.",
  "sample_09287.wav": "to transmit their renown to all succeeding ages. What has been the fate of many fair cities of antiquity, whose nameless ruins encumber the plains of Europe and Asia, and awaken the fruitless inquiry of the traveller?",
  "sample_09288.wav": "they have perished from remembrance for want of a historian. The philanthropists may weep over their desolation. The poet may wander among their moldering arches and broken columns.",
  "sample_09289.wav": "and indulge the visionary flights of his fancy. But alas, alas, the modern historian, whose pen, like my own, is doomed to confine itself to dull matter of fact",
  "sample_09290.wav": "reunite the thread of generations. The same sad misfortune which has happened to so many ancient cities will happen again and from the same sad cause to nine-tenths of those which now flourish on the face of the globe.",
  "sample_09291.wav": "Chapter 8. Duko van der Stal had taken a large vault-like studio with a chilly north light up three flights of stairs in the Via del Babuino. Here he painted, modeled, and studied.",
  "sample_09292.wav": "in the little shops along the Tiber or in the Mercato dei Fiori. That was his passion, to hunt through Rome for a panel of an old triptych or a fragment of ancient sculpture.",
  "sample_09293.wav": "In this way his studio had not remained the large, chilly vault-like workroom bearing witness to zealous and serious study, but had become a refuge for dim-colored remnants of antiquity.",
  "sample_09294.wav": "and ancient art, a museum for his dreaming spirit. Already as a child, as a boy, he had felt that passion for antiquity developing. He learned how to rummage through the stocks of old Jewish dealers.",
  "sample_09295.wav": "He spent all his pocket money on it and later, without reserve, the little that he was able to earn. For sometimes, very seldom, he would finish something and sell it.",
  "sample_09296.wav": "When he had the money to keep himself going, and his personal needs were very small, he felt rich and was content in his studio, or would wander perfectly content through the streets of Rome.",
  "sample_09297.wav": "And his favorite headgear was a faded hat, battered out of shape by the rain.",
  "sample_09298.wav": "He would wander for hours through the ruins and see, in a dazzling vision of phantom columns, ethereal temples and translucent marble palaces, looming up in a shimmering sunlight twilight, and the tourists going by with their beideckers.",
  "sample_09299.wav": "Who, past this long, lean young man, seated carelessly on the foundations of the temple of Saturn, would never have believed in his architectural allusions of harmonious ascending lines, crowned by an array of statues and noble",
  "sample_09300.wav": "and godlike attitudes high in the blue sky. But he saw them before him. He raised the shafts of the pillars. He fluted the severe Doric columns. He bent and curved the cushioned ionic capitals.",
  "sample_09301.wav": "Chapter 5. Through Solway Sands, through Taurus Moss, Blindfold he knew the paths to cross. By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best bloodhounds.",
  "sample_09302.wav": "In Esk or Liddell, Fords were none, but he would ride them one by one. A like to him was time or tide, December snow or July's pride. A like to him was tide or time, moonless midnight or matting prime.",
  "sample_09303.wav": "Walter Scott. All the members of the Wharton family laid their heads on their pillows that night, with a foreboding of some interruption to their ordinary quiet. Uneasiness kept the sisters from enjoying their usual repose.",
  "sample_09304.wav": "and they rose from their beds on the following morning unrefreshed and almost without having closed their eyes. On taking an eager and hasty survey of the valley from the windows of their room nothing however but its usual serenity was to be seen.",
  "sample_09305.wav": "compose the season for enjoyment in the open air. They have their storms, but they are distinct and not of long continuance, leaving a clear atmosphere and a cloudless sky.",
  "sample_09306.wav": "The sisters descended to the parlor with a returning confidence in their brother's security and their own happiness. The family were early in assembling around the breakfast table, and Miss Peyton with",
  "sample_09307.wav": "had pleasantly insisted that the absence of her nephew should in no manner interfere with the regular hours she had established. Consequently, the party were already seated when the captain made his appearance.",
  "sample_09308.wav": "though the untasted coffee sufficiently proved that by none of his relatives was his absence disregarded. I think I did much better, he cried, taking a chair between his sisters and receiving their offered salutes.",
  "sample_09309.wav": "turning to his younger and evidently favorite sister and tapping her cheek. Did you see banners in the clouds and mistake Miss Peyton's Aeolian harp for rebellious music? Nay, Henry rejoined the maid.",
  "sample_09310.wav": "looking at him affectionately. Much as I love my own country, the approach of her troops just now would give me great pain. The brother made no reply, but returning the fondness expressed in her eye by a look of fraternal tenderness,",
  "sample_09311.wav": "he gently pressed her hand in silence, when Caesar, who had participated largely in the anxiety of the family, and who had risen with the dawn and kept a vigilant watch on the surrounding objects, as he stood gazing from one of the windows,",
  "sample_09312.wav": "Run. Masahari, run!",
  "sample_09313.wav": "Run, repeated the British officer, gathering himself up in military pride. No, Mr. Caesar, running is not my trade. He walked deliberately to the window.",
  "sample_09314.wav": "where the family were already collected in the greatest consternation.",
  "sample_09315.wav": "His house was surrounded by a dozen sentinels. Two or three of the dragoons now dismounted and disappeared. In a few minutes, however, they returned to the yard, followed by Katie, from whose house",
  "sample_09316.wav": "violent gesticulations, it was evident that matters of no trifling concern were on the carpet. A short communication with the loquacious housekeeper followed the arrival of the main of the troop and the advance party remounting.",
  "sample_09317.wav": "but they were all haughtily rejected by the young man as unworthy of his character. It was too late to retreat to the woods in the rear of the cottage, for he would unavoidably be seen, and followed by a troop of horse, as inevitably taken.",
  "sample_09318.wav": "At length, his sisters, with trembling hands, replaced his original disguise, the instruments of which had been carefully kept at hand by Caesar in expectation of some sudden emergency.",
  "sample_09319.wav": "This arrangement was hastily and imperfectly completed as the dragoons entered the lawn and orchard of the locusts, riding with the rapidity of the wind, and in their turn the wardens were surrounded.",
  "sample_09320.wav": "Nothing remained now but to meet the impending examination with as much indifference as the family could assume. The leader of the horse dismounted, and followed by a couple of his men, he approached the outer door of the building.",
  "sample_09321.wav": "which was slowly and reluctantly open for his admission by Caesar. The heavy tread of the trooper as he followed the black to the door of the parlor rang in the ears of the females as it approached nearer and nearer.",
  "sample_09322.wav": "and drove the blood from their faces to their hearts, with a chill that nearly annihilated feeling. A man whose colossal stature manifested the possession of vast strength entered the room, and removing his cap,",
  "sample_09323.wav": "his appearance did not indicate as belonging to his nature. His dark hair hung around his brow in perfusion, though stained with powder which was worn at that day, and his face was nearly hid in the whiskers by which it was disfigured.",
  "sample_09324.wav": "Still, the expression of his eye, though piercing, was not bad, and his voice, though deep and powerful, was far from unpleasant. Thomas ventured to throw a timid glance at his figure as he entered.",
  "sample_09325.wav": "and saw at once the man from whose scrutiny Harvey Birch had warned them there was so much to be apprehended. \"'You have no cause for alarm, ladies,' said the officer, pausing a moment, and contemplating the pale faces around him.",
  "sample_09326.wav": "My business will be confined to a few questions, which, if freely answered, will instantly remove us from your dwelling.\" And what may they be, sir? stammered Mr. Wharton.",
  "sample_09327.wav": "rising from his chair and waiting anxiously for the reply. \"'Has there been a strange gentleman staying with you during the storm?' continued the Dugun, speaking with interest, and in some degree sharing in the evident anxiety of the father.",
  "sample_09328.wav": "and has not yet departed. This gentleman,\" repeated the other, turning to Captain Wharton and contemplating his figure for a moment,",
  "sample_09329.wav": "He approached the youth with an air of comet gravity and with a low bow, continued, \"'I am sorry for the severe cold you have in your head, sir.'\" \"'I?' exclaimed the captain in surprise.\"",
  "sample_09330.wav": "I have no cold in my head.\" I fancied it then, from seeing you had covered such handsome black locks with that ugly old wig. It was my mistake. You will please to pardon it.",
  "sample_09331.wav": "Ponds and Bee Sound, Build Wigwams and Settle the Fuegians, Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel, Glaciers, Return to the Ship, Second Visit in the Ship to the Settlement, Equality of Condition amongst the Natives.",
  "sample_09332.wav": "Having now finished with Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, I will describe our first arrival in Tierra del Fuego. A little afternoon we doubled Cape San Diego and entered the famous Strait of La Mer.",
  "sample_09333.wav": "We kept close to the Fuegian shore, but the outline of the rugged, inhospitable statin land was visible amidst the clouds. In the afternoon, we anchored in the Bay of Good Success. While entering, we were saluted in a manner becoming the inhabitants of this savage land.",
  "sample_09334.wav": "A group of Fuegians, partly concealed by the entangled forest, were perched on a wild point overhanging the sea, and as we passed by they sprang up, and waving their tattered cloaks, sent forth a loud and sonorous shout. The savages followed the ship.",
  "sample_09335.wav": "and just before dark we saw their fire and again heard their wild cry. The harbor consists of a fine piece of water half surrounded by low rounded mountains of clay slate which are covered to the water's edge by one dense gloomy forest.",
  "sample_09336.wav": "A single glance at the landscape was sufficient to show me how widely different it was from anything I had ever beheld. At night it blew a gale of wind, and heavy squalls from the mountains swept past us.",
  "sample_09337.wav": "and we as well as others may call this good success bay. In the morning the captain sent a party to communicate with the Fuegians. When we came within hail,",
  "sample_09338.wav": "and began to shout most vehemently, wishing to direct us where to land. When we were on shore the party looked rather alarmed, but continued talking and making gestures with great rapidity. It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld.",
  "sample_09339.wav": "I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilized man. It is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal.",
  "sample_09340.wav": "The chief spokesman was old, and appeared to be the head of the family. The three others were powerful young men, about six feet high. The women and children had been sent away. These Fuegians are a very different race from the stunted, miserable wretches farther westward.",
  "sample_09341.wav": "and they seem closely allied to the famous Patagonians of the Strait of Magellan. Their only garment consists of a mantle made of guanoco skin with the wool outside. This they wear just thrown over their shoulders, leaving their persons as often exposed as covered.",
  "sample_09342.wav": "His face was crossed by two broad transverse bars, one painted bright red, reached from ear to ear, and included the upper lip. The other, white like chalk, extended above and parallel to the first, so that even his eyelids were thus coloured.",
  "sample_09343.wav": "The other two men were ornamented by streaks of black powder made of charcoal. The party altogether closely resembled the devils which come on the stage in plays like Defreischutz. Their very attitudes were abject.",
  "sample_09344.wav": "and the expression of their countenances distrustful, surprised, and startled. After we had presented them with some scarlet cloth, which they immediately tied round their necks, they became good friends. This was shown by the old man patting our breasts.",
  "sample_09345.wav": "as people do when feeding chickens. I walked with the old man, and this demonstration of friendship was repeated several times. It was concluded by three hard slaps which were given me on the breast and back at the same time. He then bared his bosom for me to return the compliment, which being done, I had to give him.",
  "sample_09346.wav": "he seemed highly pleased. The language of these people, according to our notions, scarcely deserves to be called articulate. Captain Cook has compared it to a man clearing his throat, but certainly no European ever so many horse, guttural and clicking sounds.",
  "sample_09347.wav": "They are excellent mimics. As often as we coughed or yawned or made any odd motion, they immediately imitated us. Some of our party began to squint and look awry, but one of the young Fuegines, whose face was painted black, accepting a white band across his eyes.",
  "sample_09348.wav": "succeeded in making far more hideous grimaces. They could repeat with perfect correctness each word in any sentence we address them, and they remembered such words for some time. Yet we Europeans all know how difficult it is to distinguish apart the sounds in a foreign language.",
  "sample_09349.wav": "Which of us, for instance, could follow an American Indian through a sentence of more than three words? All savages appear to possess, to an uncommon degree, this power of mimicry. I was told, almost in the same words, of the same ludicrous habit among the Khafres.",
  "sample_09350.wav": "The Australians, likewise, have long been notorious for being able to imitate and describe the gait of any man so that he may be recognized. How can this faculty be explained? Is it a consequence of the more practiced habits of perception and keener senses common to all men in a savage state?",
  "sample_09351.wav": "as compared with those long civilized. When a song was struck up by our party I thought the Fuegians would have fallen down with astonishment. With equal surprise they viewed our dancing but one of the young men when asked had no objection to a little waltzing.",
  "sample_09352.wav": "Little accustomed to Europeans as they appeared to be, yet they knew and dreaded our firearms. Nothing would tempt them to take a gun in their hands. They begged for knives, calling them by the Spanish word.",
  "sample_09353.wav": "They explained also what they wanted, by acting as if they had a piece of blubber in their mouths and then pretending to cut instead of tear it. I have not as yet noticed the Fuegians whom we had on board.",
  "sample_09354.wav": "During the former voyage of the Adventure and Beagle in 1826 to 1830, Captain Fitzroy seized on a party of natives as hostages for the loss of a boat which had been stolen to the great jeopardy of a party employed on the survey.",
  "sample_09355.wav": "and some of these natives, as well as a child whom he bought for a pearl button, he took with him to England, determining to educate them and instruct them in religion at his own expense. To settle these natives in their own country,",
  "sample_09356.wav": "was one chief inducement to Captain Fitzroy to undertake our present voyage. And before the Admiralty had resolved to send out this expedition, Captain Fitzroy had generously chartered a vessel and would himself have taken them back. The natives were accompanied by a missionary.",
  "sample_09357.wav": "are Matthews, of whom and of the natives Captain Fitzroy has published a full and excellent account. Two men, one of whom died in England of the smallpox, a boy and a little girl, were originally taken, and we had now on board.",
  "sample_09358.wav": "York Minster, Jemmy Button, whose name expresses his purchase money, and Fuegia Basket. York Minster was a full-grown, short, thick, powerful man. His disposition was reserved, taciturn, morose, and",
  "sample_09359.wav": "and, when excited, violently passionate. His affections were very strong towards a few friends on board, his intellect good. Jemmy Button was a universal favourite, but likewise passionate. The expression of his face at once showed his nice disposition.",
  "sample_09360.wav": "He was merry and often laughed, and was remarkably sympathetic with any one in pain. When the water was rough I was often a little seasick, and he used to come to me and say in a plaintive voice, Poor, poor fellow! But the notion after his aquatic life...",
  "sample_09361.wav": "He surveyed the house from the sidewalk, watching, with a sort of speculative satisfaction, a man's shadow that passed constantly to and fro across the drawn blinds of one of the lower windows.",
  "sample_09362.wav": "The rest of the house was in darkness. \"'Yes,' said Jimmy Dale, nodding his head. \"'I rather thought so. The servants will have retired hours ago. It's safe enough.'",
  "sample_09363.wav": "I want to see Mr. Thomas H. Carling, cashier of the Hudson Mercantile National Bank. It's very important,\" said Jimmy Dale earnestly. I am Mr. Carling,\" replied the other. What is it?",
  "sample_09364.wav": "Jimmy Dale leaned forward. \"'From headquarters. With a report,' he said, in a low tone. \"'Ah!' exclaimed the bank official sharply. \"'Well, it's about time. I've been waiting up for it.'",
  "sample_09365.wav": "Though I expected you would telephone rather than this. Come in.\" \"'Thank you,' said Jimmy Dale courteously, and stepped into the hall. The other closed the front door. The servants are in bed, of course.",
  "sample_09366.wav": "He explained, as he led the way toward the lighted room. This way, please.\" Behind the other, across the hall, Jimmy Dale followed, and close at Carling's heels entered the room, which was fitted up.",
  "sample_09367.wav": "quite evidently, regardless of cost, as a combination library and study. Carling, in a somewhat pompous fashion, walked straight ahead toward the carved mahogany flat-top desk and, as he reached it,",
  "sample_09368.wav": "waved his hand. \"'Take a chair,' he said, over his shoulder, and then, turning in the act of dropping into his own chair, grasped suddenly at the edge of the desk, instead, he took a look at the",
  "sample_09369.wav": "and, with a low, startled cry, stared across the room. Jimmy Dale was leaning back against the door that was closed now behind him, and on Jimmy Dale's face was a black silk mask.",
  "sample_09370.wav": "For an instant neither man spoke nor moved. Then Carling, spare-built, dapper in evening clothes, edged back from the desk and laughed a little uncertainly.",
  "sample_09371.wav": "As he smiled. In private. You've a strange method of securing privacy, haven't you? A bit melodramatic, isn't it?",
  "sample_09372.wav": "Jimmy Dale smiled indulgently. \"'My mask is only for effect,' he said. \"'My name is ... Smith.' \"'Yes,' said Carling. \"'I'm very stupid. Thank you.'",
  "sample_09373.wav": "He had reached the other side of the room now, and with a quick, sudden movement, churched his hand to the dial of the safe that stood against the wall. But Jimmy Dale was quicker, without shifting his position, his automatic, whipped from his pocket.",
  "sample_09374.wav": "held a disconcerting bead on Carling's forehead. \"'Please don't do that,' said Jimmy Dale softly. \"'It's rather a good make, that's safe. \"'I dare say it would take me half an hour to open it.'",
  "sample_09375.wav": "His voice was rising gradually. \"'Well, sir, let me tell you that.' \"'Mr. Carling,' said Jimmy Dale, in a low, even tone, \"'unless you moderate your voice someone in the house might hear you. I am quite well aware of that.'",
  "sample_09376.wav": "extracted the key from the door-lock, held it up for the other to see, then dropped it into his pocket, and his voice, cold before,",
  "sample_09377.wav": "Jimmy Dale moved over and stood in front of Carling on the other side of the desk, and stared silently at the immaculate, fashionably groomed figure before him. Under the prolonged gaze, Carling's composure and his",
  "sample_09378.wav": "in a measure at least, seemed to forsake him. He began to drum nervously with his fingers on the desk, and shift uneasily in his chair. And then, from first one pocket, and then the other.",
  "sample_09379.wav": "said Jimmy Dale slowly. I haven't counted it. Your bank was robbed this evening at closing time, I understand.\" Yes! Jimmy's voice was excited now.",
  "sample_09380.wav": "But you, how do you mean that you are returning the money to the bank?\" \"'Exactly,' said Jimmy Dale. The money was once more to Pompous Bank official.",
  "sample_09381.wav": "He leaned back and surveyed Jimmy Dale critically with his little black eyes. Ah, quite so, he observed. That accounts for the mask. But I am still a little in the dark. Under the circumstances.",
  "sample_09382.wav": "It is quite impossible that you should have stolen the money yourself, and---- I didn't, said Jimmy Dale. I found it hidden in the home of one of your employees.",
  "sample_09383.wav": "In Moynes home, up in Harlem.",
  "sample_09384.wav": "You're wiser than you know, my man. That's what we suspected.",
  "sample_09385.wav": "I'll telephone headquarters to make the arrest at once. Just a minute, interposed Jimmy Dale Gravely. I want you to listen to a little story first. A story?",
  "sample_09386.wav": "\"'What has a store got to do with this?' snapped Carling. \"'The man has got a home,' said Jimmy Dale softly. \"'A home and a wife and a little baby girl.'",
  "sample_09387.wav": "You want to plead for him?\" Carling flung out gruffly. Well, he should have thought of all that before. It's quite useless for you to bring it up. The man has had his chance already.",
  "sample_09388.wav": "said Carling icely. \"'You refuse? Absolutely?' Jimmy Dale's voice had a lingering wistful note in it. \"'I refuse,' said Carling bluntly. \"'I won't have anything to do with it.'\"",
  "sample_09389.wav": "Your bank was robbed tonight of one hundred thousand dollars. There are ten thousand here. The other ninety thousand are in your safe. You lie!\" Ashen to the lips. The ring had risen in his chair.",
  "sample_09390.wav": "You lie!\" he cried. Do you hear? You lie! I tell you! You lie!\" Jimmy Dale's lips parted ominously. \"'Sit down!' he gritted between his teeth. The white in Carling's face had turned to gray.",
  "sample_09391.wav": "That series of terrific events by which our quiet city and university in the northeastern quarter of Germany were convulsed during the year 1816 has in itself and considered merely as a blind movement of human tiger passion.",
  "sample_09392.wav": "ranging unchained among men, something too memorable to be forgotten or left without its own separate record. But the moral lesson impressed by these events is yet more memorable.",
  "sample_09393.wav": "and deserves the deep attention of coming generations in their struggle after human improvement, not merely in its own limited field of interest directly awakened, but in all analogous fields of interest.",
  "sample_09394.wav": "As, in fact, already, and more than once, in connection with these very events, this lesson has obtained the effectual attention of Christian kings and princes assembled in Congress.",
  "sample_09395.wav": "I knew familiarly all the parties who were concerned in it, either as sufferers or as agents. I was present from first to last, and watched the whole course of the mysterious storm which fell upon our devoted city.",
  "sample_09396.wav": "in a strength like that of a West Indian hurricane, and which did seriously threaten at one time to depopulate our university through the dark suspicions which settled upon its members, and the natural reaction of generous indignation in repelling them.",
  "sample_09397.wav": "by sacrificing, whenever circumstances allowed them, their houses and beautiful gardens, in exchange for days uncursed by panic, and nights unpolluted by blood. Nothing I can take upon myself to assert.",
  "sample_09398.wav": "in every one of which these precautionary aids had failed to yield the slightest assistance. The horror, the perfect frenzy of fear, which seized upon the town after that experience, baffles all attempt at description.",
  "sample_09399.wav": "The astounded police, after an examination the most searching, pursued from day to day.",
  "sample_09400.wav": "had finally pronounced that no attempt apparently had been made to benefit by any of the signals preconcerted, that no footstep apparently had moved in that direction. Then, and after that result,",
  "sample_09401.wav": "and the general feeling as it was described to me by a grave citizen whom I met in a morning walk. For the overmastering sense of a public calamity broke down every barrier of reserve, and all men talked freely to all men in the streets.",
  "sample_09402.wav": "as they would have done during the rockings of an earthquake, was even among the boldest, like that which sometimes takes possession of the mind in dreams, when one feels oneself sleeping alone, utterly divided from all call or hearing of friends,",
  "sample_09403.wav": "Doors open that should be shut, or unlocked that should be triply secured, the very walls gone, Barriers swallowed up by unknown abysses, nothing around one but frail curtains and a world of ill-admittable night.",
  "sample_09404.wav": "whisperings at a distance, correspondence going on between darkness and darkness, like one deep calling to another, and the dreamer's own heart, the center from which the whole network of this unimaginable chaos radiates.",
  "sample_09405.wav": "and in which the heart beats in conscious sympathy with an entire city, through all its regions of high and low, young and old, strong and weak. Such agencies avail to raise and transfigure the natures of men.",
  "sample_09406.wav": "In that respect, therefore, I had an advantage, being upon the spot through the whole course of the affair, for giving a faithful narrative. As I had still more eminently from the sort of central station which I occupied,",
  "sample_09407.wav": "with respect to all the movements of the case. I may add that I had another advantage, not possessed or not in the same degree by any other inhabitant of the town. I was personally acquainted with every family of the slightest account belonging to the resident population.",
  "sample_09408.wav": "a nobleman connected with the diplomacy of Russia, from which I quote an extract. I wish in short to recommend to your attentions, and in terms stronger than I know how to devise,",
  "sample_09409.wav": "a young man on whose behalf the Tsar himself is privately known to have expressed the very strongest interest. He was at the Battle of Waterloo as an aide-de-camp to a Dutch general officer and is decorated with distinctions won upon that awful day.",
  "sample_09410.wav": "However, though serving in that instance under English orders, and although an Englishman of rank, he does not belong to the English military service. He has served, young as he is,",
  "sample_09411.wav": "which may account for his somewhat Moorish complexion, though, after all, that is not of a deeper tinge than I have seen among many an Englishman. He is himself one of the noblest-looking of God's creatures.",
  "sample_09412.wav": "Mr. Winnem's succession to the vast family estates is inevitable and probably near at hand. Meanwhile, he is anxious for some assistance in his studies. Intellectually...",
  "sample_09413.wav": "as I am sure you will not be slow to discover. But his long military service, and the unparalleled turmoil of our European history since 1805, have interfered, as you may suppose, with the cultivation of his mind.",
  "sample_09414.wav": "For he entered the cavalry service of a German power when a mere boy, and shifted about from service to service, as the hurricane of war blew from this point or from that.",
  "sample_09415.wav": "And, ten years hence, you will look back with pride upon having contributed your part to the formation of one whom all here at St. Petersburg, not soldiers only, but we diplomats, look upon as certain to prove a great man.",
  "sample_09416.wav": "He was to keep a table and an establishment of servants at his own cost was to have an apartment of some dozen or so of rooms The unrestricted use of the library with some other public privileges willingly conceded by the magistracy of the town",
  "sample_09417.wav": "that all was closed before the end of September. And when once that consummation was attained, I that previously had breathed no syllable of what was stirring, now gave loose to the interesting tidings, and suffered them to spread through the whole compass of the town.",
  "sample_09418.wav": "It will be easily imagined that such a story, already romantic enough in its first outline, would lose nothing in the telling. An Englishman, to begin with, which name of itself, and at all times, is a passport into German favor,",
  "sample_09419.wav": "Next, an Englishman of rank.",
  "sample_09420.wav": "Then a soldier covered with brilliant distinctions and in the most brilliant arm of the service. Young moreover and yet a veteran by his experience. Fresh from the most awful battle of this planet since the day of Pharsalia.",
  "sample_09421.wav": "many of the cars are moderately priced affairs. The Tonneau well filled with children of miscellaneous ages and enlivened by a family dog or two, for this is the way that the average American household spends its modern Sabbath holiday.",
  "sample_09422.wav": "for a road originally marked by the moccasin feet of Indians and widened gradually by the toilsome journeyings of rough colonial carts and coaches.",
  "sample_09423.wav": "It is difficult to say which feature of the steadily moving travel would most forcibly strike the original Puritan settlers of the town. The fact that even the common man, the poor man, could own such a vehicle of speed and ease, or the fact that America...",
  "sample_09424.wav": "such a short time ago wilderness, could produce, not as the finest flower of its tree of evolution, but certainly as its most exotic, the plutocrat who lives in a palace with 50 servants to do his bidding.",
  "sample_09425.wav": "the fine lady whose sole exercise of her mental and physical functions consists in allowing her maid to dress her. Yes, New England has changed amazingly in the revolutions of three centuries.",
  "sample_09426.wav": "And here, under the shadow of this square, plain building, Hingham's Old Ship Church, while we pause to watch the Sunday pageant of 1920, we can most easily call back the Sabbath rites and the ideals which created those rites.",
  "sample_09427.wav": "This wooden meeting house with a truncated pyramidal roof and belfry to serve as a lookout station has just been built. A stage ahead architecturally of the log meeting house with clay-filled chinks, thatched roof, oiled papered windows,",
  "sample_09428.wav": "earth and floor, and a stage behind the charming steeple style made popular by Sir Christopher Wren, and now multiplied in countless graceful examples all over New England.",
  "sample_09429.wav": "The old ship is entirely unconscious of the distinction which is awaiting it, the distinction of being the oldest house for public worship in the United States which still stands on its original site in which is still used for its original purpose.",
  "sample_09430.wav": "In the year 1681, it is merely the new meeting house of the little hamlet of Hingham. The people are very proud of their new building. The timbers have been hewn with a broad axe out of solid white pine.",
  "sample_09431.wav": "The marks are still visible, particularly in those rafters of the roof open to the attic. The belfry is precisely in the center of the four-sided pitched roof. To be sure, this necessitates ringing the bell from one of the pews.",
  "sample_09432.wav": "but a little later the bell ringer will stand above, and through a pane of glass let into the ceiling he will be able to see when the minister enters the pulpit. The original backless benches were replaced by box pews with narrow seats like shelves.",
  "sample_09433.wav": "No paint, no decorations, no colored windows, no organ, or anything which could even remotely suggest the color, the beauty, the formalism of the Churches of England.",
  "sample_09434.wav": "Since in 1635, the general court decreed that no dwelling",
  "sample_09435.wav": "of any new plantation, thus eliminating the excuse of too great distance. Everyone is expected, nay, commanded, to come to church. In fact, after the tolling of the last bell, the houses may all be searched.",
  "sample_09436.wav": "Each ten families is under an inspector, if there is any question of delinquents hiding in them. And so, in twos and threes, often the man trudging ahead with his gun, and the woman carrying her baby while the smaller children cling to her skirts,",
  "sample_09437.wav": "Sometimes man and woman and a child or two on horseback, no matter how wild the storm, how swollen the streams, how deep the whirling snow, they all come to church.",
  "sample_09438.wav": "The congregation either waits for the minister and his wife outside the door, or stands until he has entered the pulpit. Once inside, they are seated with the most meticulous exactness, according to rank, age, sex, and wealth.",
  "sample_09439.wav": "the slaves and Indians are in the rear, to seek oneself in the wrong pew as an offense punishable by a fine. Here is the church and here are the people as the old rhyme has it, what then of the services?",
  "sample_09440.wav": "That they are interminable we know the tithing man or clerk may turn the brass bound hourglass by the side of the pulpit two and three times during the sermon and once or twice during the prayer interminable",
  "sample_09441.wav": "The old ship was not heated until 1822. The only relief from the chill and stiffness comes during the prayer when the congregation stands. Kneeling, of course, would savor too strongly of idolatry and the Church of Rome.",
  "sample_09442.wav": "They stand too while the Psalms and hymns are lined out and as they sing them very uncertainly and very incorrectly. This performance alone sometimes takes an hour as there is no organ nor notes.",
  "sample_09443.wav": "and only a few copies of the Bay Psalm Book, of which, by the way, a copy now would be worth many times its weight in gold. After the morning service there is a noon intermission in which the half-frozen congregation stirs around.",
  "sample_09444.wav": "One sometimes wonders how the little things had any impulse to laugh in such an abysmal atmosphere, but apparently the Puritan boys and girls were entirely normal and even wholesomely mischievous, as proved by the constantly required services of the tithing man.",
  "sample_09445.wav": "These external trappings of the service sound depressing enough, but if the message received within these chilly walls is cheering, maybe we can forget or ignore the physical discomforts. But is the message cheering? Hell, damnation, eternal tortures,",
  "sample_09446.wav": "painful theological hair splitings, harrowing self examinations, and humiliating public confessions. This is what they gather on the narrow wooden benches to listen to hour after hour, searching their souls for sin with an almost frenzied eagerness.",
  "sample_09447.wav": "appealing to the emotions quite as vividly, although through a different channel, as the most elaborate ceremonial. When the soul is wrought to a certain pitch, each hardship is merely an added opportunity to prove its faith.",
  "sample_09448.wav": "from the mother church and the mother country and fortify them in their struggle in a new land. It was religious zeal which furnished this mode of power. Different implements and differently directed force are needed to extract the diamond from the earth.",
  "sample_09449.wav": "Having done its work, having founded soundly and peopled strongly an exceptional region, the New England conscience had no further necessity for being. Those whom it now tortures with its hot pincers of doubt and self-reproach",
  "sample_09450.wav": "are sacrificed to a cause long since won. The Puritans themselves grew away from many of their excessive severities, but as they gained bodily strength from their conflict with the elements, so they gained a certain moral stamina",
  "sample_09451.wav": "Chapter 18 grave questions",
  "sample_09452.wav": "And Barbacayne and his two companions watched with scrupulous attention the brilliant rays which the celebrated mountains shed so curiously over the horizon. What was this radiant glory?",
  "sample_09453.wav": "Some 12 miles others 30 miles rod",
  "sample_09454.wav": "and seemed to cover, particularly toward the east, the northeast, and the north, the half of the southern hemisphere. One of these jets extended as far as the circle of Neander, situated on the 40th meridian.",
  "sample_09455.wav": "Another, by a slight curve, furrowed the sea of nectar, breaking against a",
  "sample_09456.wav": "with a luminous network. What was the origin of these sparkling rays, which shone on the planes as well as on the reliefs at whatever height they may be? All started from a common center, the crater.",
  "sample_09457.wav": "They sprang from him. Herschel attributed their brilliancy to currents of lava congealed by the cold, an opinion, however, which has not been generally adopted.",
  "sample_09458.wav": "because the regularity of these luminous lines and the violence necessary to carry volcanic matter to such distances is inexplicable.",
  "sample_09459.wav": "By Jove replied Michelle Ardenne.",
  "sample_09460.wav": "\"'Indeed,' said Barbican. \"'Indeed,' continued Michelle. \"'It is enough to say.'\"",
  "sample_09461.wav": "Well,\" replied Barbicanes, smiling, and what hand would be powerful enough to throw a ball to give such a shock as that? The hand is not necessary, answered Nicole, not at all confounded.",
  "sample_09462.wav": "the shock which produced that rent.",
  "sample_09463.wav": "A contraction, something like a lunar stomach ache? said Michelle Ardan. Besides added Barbacayne, this opinion is that of an English savant.",
  "sample_09464.wav": "That NASMITHE was no fool replied Michelle",
  "sample_09465.wav": "Their projectile, saturated with luminous gleams in the double irradiation of sun and moon, must have appeared like an incandescent globe.",
  "sample_09466.wav": "to intense heat. Nature was thus preparing them to become selenites. Become selenites. That idea brought up once more the question of the habitability of the moon. After what they had seen, could the travelers solve it?",
  "sample_09467.wav": "Would they decide for or against it? Michelle Ardan persuaded his two friends to form an opinion and asked them directly If they thought that men and animals were represented in the lunar world",
  "sample_09468.wav": "I think that we can answer,\" said Barbacayne, but according to my idea the question ought not to be put in that form. I ask it to be put differently. But it your own way, replied Michelle.",
  "sample_09469.wav": "Here it is continued Barbican the problem is a double one and requires a double solution Is the moon habitable has the moon ever been? Inhabitable good",
  "sample_09470.wav": "replied Nicole. First, let us see whether the moon is habitable. To tell the truth, I know nothing about it, answered Michelle. And I answer in the negative, continued Barbara Kane.",
  "sample_09471.wav": "In her actual state, with her surrounding atmosphere certainly very much reduced, her seas for the most part dried up, her insufficient supply of water restricted, vegetation, sudden alternations of cold and heat.",
  "sample_09472.wav": "Her days and nights of 354 hours? The moon does not seem habitable to me, nor does she seem propitious to animal development, nor sufficient for the wants of existence as we understand it.",
  "sample_09473.wav": "Agreed, replied Nicole, but is not the moon habitable for creatures differently organized from ourselves?",
  "sample_09474.wav": "seemed to us to move on the moon's surface.",
  "sample_09475.wav": "And what have we seen? Everywhere and always the geological works of nature, never the work of man. If then there exist representatives of the animal kingdom on the moon,",
  "sample_09476.wav": "They must have fled to those unfathomable cavities which the eye cannot reach, which I cannot admit, for they must have left traces of their passage on those plains which the atmosphere must cover, however slightly raised it may be.",
  "sample_09477.wav": "These traces are nowhere visible. There remains but one hypothesis, that of a living race to which motion, which is life, is foreign. One might as well say living creatures which do not live, replied Michelle.",
  "sample_09478.wav": "The scientific commission assembled in the projectile of the gun club, after having founded their argument on facts recently observed, decide unanimously upon the question of the habitability of the moon. No, the moon.",
  "sample_09479.wav": "said Nicole, let us attack the second question, an indispensable compliment of the first. I ask the Honorable Commission, if the moon is not habitable, has she ever been inhabited? Citizen Barbacayne?",
  "sample_09480.wav": "My friends,\" replied Barbican, I did not undertake this journey in order to form an opinion on the past habitability of our satellite, but I will add that our personal observations only confirm me in this opinion.",
  "sample_09481.wav": "Steventon is a small rural village upon the chalk hills of North Hauntz, situated in a winding valley about seven miles from Basingstoke. The southwestern railway crosses it by a short embankment.",
  "sample_09482.wav": "and as it curves around, presents a good view of it on the left hand to those who are travelling down the line, about three miles before entering the tunnel under Popham Beacon. It may be known to some sportsmen as lying in one of the best portions of the Vine Hunt.",
  "sample_09483.wav": "It is certainly not a picturesque country. It presents no grand or extensive views, but the features are small rather than plain. The surface continually swells and sinks, but the hills are not bold nor the valleys deep.",
  "sample_09484.wav": "And though it is sufficiently well clothed with woods and hedgerows, yet the poverty of the soil in most places prevents the timber from attaining a large size. Still, it has its beauties. The lanes wind along in a natural curve.",
  "sample_09485.wav": "continually fringed with the regular borders of native turf and lead to pleasant nooks and corners. One who knew and loved it well very happily expressed its quiet charms when he wrote, True taste is not fastidious.",
  "sample_09486.wav": "nor rejects, because they may not come within the rule of composition pure and picturesque, unnumbered simple scenes which fill the leaves of Nature's sketchbook. Off this somewhat tame country, Steventon from the fall of the ground and the abundance of its timber,",
  "sample_09487.wav": "is certainly one of the prettiest spots.",
  "sample_09488.wav": "compared with the broad river, the rich valley, and the noble hills which she had been accustomed to behold at her native home near Henley-upon-Thames. The house itself stood in a shallow valley surrounded by sloping meadows, well sprinkled with elm trees at the end of a small village of cottages.",
  "sample_09489.wav": "each well provided with a garden, scattered about prettily on either side of the road. It was sufficiently commodious to hold pupils in addition to a growing family, and was in those times considered to be above the average of parsonages.",
  "sample_09490.wav": "No cornice marked the junction of wall and ceiling, while the beams which supported the upper floors projected into the rooms below in all their naked simplicity, covered only by a coat of paint or whitewash.",
  "sample_09491.wav": "And about 45 years ago, it was pulled down for the purpose of erecting a new house in a far better situation on the opposite side of the valley.",
  "sample_09492.wav": "On the south side the ground rose gently, and was occupied by one of those old-fashioned gardens in which vegetables and flowers are combined, flanked and protected down the east by one of the thatched mud walls common in that country, and overshadowed by fine alms.",
  "sample_09493.wav": "Along the upper or southern side of this garden ran a terrace of the finest turf.",
  "sample_09494.wav": "But the chief beauty of Steventon consisted in its hedgerows. A hedgerow in that country does not mean a thin formal line of quickset, but an irregular border of copse wood and timber, often wide enough to contain within it a winding footpath or a rough cart track.",
  "sample_09495.wav": "and, now and then, the unwelcome adder. Two such hedgerows radiated, as it were, from the parsonage garden. One, a continuation of the turf terrace, proceeded westward, forming the southern boundary of the home meadows.",
  "sample_09496.wav": "and was formed into a rustic shrubbery with occasional seats entitled the woodwalk. The other ran straight up the hill under the name of the church walk because it led to the parish church.",
  "sample_09497.wav": "who have for more than a century rented it, together with the chief farm and the parish, the church itself. I speak of it as it then was, before the improvements made by the present rector.",
  "sample_09498.wav": "might have appeared mean and uninteresting to an ordinary observer, but the Adopt-in-Church architecture would have known that it must have stood there some seven centuries and would have found beauty in the very narrow early English windows.",
  "sample_09499.wav": "While its solitary position, far from the home of the village and within sight of no habitation except a glimpse of the grey manor-house through its circling screen of sycamores, hasn't it something solemn and appropriate to the last resting place of the silent dead?",
  "sample_09500.wav": "Sweet violets, both purple and white, grow in abundance beneath its south wall. One may imagine for how many centuries the ancestors of those little flowers have occupied that undisturbed, sunny nook.",
  "sample_09501.wav": "thick-coming fancies rose in her mind, and gradually assumed the forms in which they came forth to the world.",
  "sample_09502.wav": "The family wasn't broken by death and seldom visited by sorrow. Their situation had some peculiar advantages beyond those of ordinary rectuaries. Steventon was a family living. Mr. Knight, the patron, was also a proprietor of nearly the whole parish.",
  "sample_09503.wav": "They shared with the principal tenant the command of an excellent manner, and enjoyed, in this reflected way, some of the consideration usually awarded to landed proprietors.",
  "sample_09504.wav": "They had enough to afford a good education to their sons and daughters, to mix in the best society of the neighborhood, and to exercise a liberal hospitality to their own relations and friends. A carriage and a pair of horses were kept.",
  "sample_09505.wav": "This might imply a higher style of living in our days than it did in theirs. There were then no assessed taxes. The carriage once bought entailed little further expense. And the horses probably, like Mr. Bennet's, were often employed on farm work.",
  "sample_09506.wav": "Moreover, it should be remembered that a pair of horses in those days were almost necessary if ladies were to move about at all.",
  "sample_09507.wav": "When one looks at the few specimens still remaining of coach building in the last century, it strikes one that the chief object of the builders must have been to combine the greatest possible weight with the least possible amount of accommodation.",
  "sample_09508.wav": "The family lived in close intimacy with two cousins Edward and Jane Cooper the children of mrs. Austin's eldest sister and Dr. Cooper the vicar of sunning near Reading the Coopers lived for some years at Bath",
  "sample_09509.wav": "I believe that Cassandra and Jane sometimes visited them there, and that Jane thus acquired the intimate knowledge of the topography and customs of Bath, which enabled her to write Northanger Abbey long before she recited there herself.",
  "sample_09510.wav": "After the death of their own parents, the two young Coopers paid long visits at Steventon. Edward Cooper did not live undistinguished.",
  "sample_09511.wav": "A certain king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise. The fame of her beauty was so great.",
  "sample_09512.wav": "that strangers from neighboring countries came in crowds to enjoy the sight, and looked on her with amazement, paying her that homage which is due only to Venus herself. In fact, Venus found her altars deserted.",
  "sample_09513.wav": "while men turned their devotion to this young virgin. As she passed along, the people sang her praises, and strewed her way with chaplets and flowers. This perversion of homage due only to the immortal powers to the exaltation of immortal",
  "sample_09514.wav": "gave great offence to the real Venus. Shaking her ambrosial locks with indignation, she exclaimed, Am I then to be eclipsed in my honours by a mortal girl? In vain then did that royal shepherd, whose judgment was approved by Jove himself,",
  "sample_09515.wav": "Give me the palm of beauty over my lustrous rivals, Pallas and Juno. But she shall not so quietly usurp my honors. I will give her cause to repent of so unlawful a beauty.",
  "sample_09516.wav": "mischievous enough in his own nature, and rouses and provokes him yet more by her complaints. She points out psyche to him and says, My dear son, punish that contumacious beauty. Give thy mother a revenge as sweet as her injuries are great.",
  "sample_09517.wav": "infuse into the bosom of that haughty girl a passion for some low, mean, unworthy being, so that she may reap a mortification as great as her present exultation and triumph. Cupid prepared to obey the command of his mother.",
  "sample_09518.wav": "There are two fountains in Venus' garden, one of sweet waters, the other of bitter. Cupid filled two amber vases, one from each fountain, and suspended them from the top of his quiver, He sent to the chamber of Psyche, whom he found asleep.",
  "sample_09519.wav": "He shed a few drops from the bitter fountain over her lips, though the sight of her almost moved him to pity, then touched her side with the point of his arrow. At the touch she awoke, and opened up eyes upon Cupid, himself invisible.",
  "sample_09520.wav": "which so startled him that in his confusion he wounded himself with his own arrow. Heedless of his wound, his whole thought now was to repair the mischief he had done, and he poured the balmy drops of joy over all her silken ringlets.",
  "sample_09521.wav": "Psyche henceforth, frowned upon by Venus, Derived no benefit from all her charms. True all eyes were cast eagerly upon her, And every mouth spoke her praises.",
  "sample_09522.wav": "Her two older sisters of moderate charms had now long been married to two royal princes, but Psyche in her lonely apartment deplored her solitude, sick of that beauty which, while it procured abundance of flattery, had failed to awaken love.",
  "sample_09523.wav": "The Virgin is destined for the bride of no mortal lover. Her future husband awaits her on the top of the mountain. He is a monster whom neither gods nor men can resist.",
  "sample_09524.wav": "This dreadful decree of the oracle filled all the people with dismay, and her parents abandoned themselves to grief. But Psyche said, Why, my dear parents, do you now lament me?",
  "sample_09525.wav": "You should rather have grieved when the people showered upon me undeserved honors, and with one voice called me a Venus. I now perceive that I am a victim to that name. I submit. Lead me to that rock to which my unhappy fate has destined me.",
  "sample_09526.wav": "Accordingly, all things being prepared, the royal maid took her place in the procession, which more resembled a funeral than a nuptial pomp, and with her parents, amid the lamentations of the people, ascended the mountain.",
  "sample_09527.wav": "on the summit of which they left her alone, and with sorrowful hearts returned home. While Psyche stood on the ridge of the mountain, panting with fear and with eyes full of tears, the gentle Zephyr raised her from the earth.",
  "sample_09528.wav": "and bore her with an easy motion into a flowery dale. By degrees her mind became composed, and she laid herself down on the grassy bank to sleep. When she awoke,",
  "sample_09529.wav": "She entered it, and in the midst discovered a fountain, sending forth clear and crystal waters, and fast by a magnificent palace whose august front impressed the spectator that it was not the work of mortal hands.",
  "sample_09530.wav": "drawn by admiration and wonder, she approached the building and ventured to enter. Every object she met filled her with pleasure and amazement. Golden pillars supported the vaulted roof, and the walls were covered with a layer of gold. The walls were covered with a layer of gold, and the walls were covered with a layer of gold.",
  "sample_09531.wav": "and the walls were enriched with carvings and paintings representing beasts of the chase and rural scenes, adapted to delight the eye of the beholder. Proceeding onward, she perceived that besides the apartments of state,",
  "sample_09532.wav": "There were others filled with all manner of treasures, and beautiful and precious productions of nature and art. While her eyes were thus occupied, a voice addressed her, though she saw no one uttering these words. Sovereign Lady,",
  "sample_09533.wav": "Retire, therefore, to your chamber, and repose on your bed of down, and when you see fit repair to the bath. Supper awaits you in the adjoining alcove when it pleases you to take your seat there. Becky gave ear to the admonitions of her vocal attendants.",
  "sample_09534.wav": "and after repose and the refreshment of the bath, seated herself when the alcove, where a table immediately presented itself without any visible aid from waiters or servants, and covered with the greatest delicacies of food and the most nocturious wines.",
  "sample_09535.wav": "Her ears, too, were feasted with music from invisible performers, of whom one sang, another played on the lute, and all closed in the wonderful harmony of a full chorus. She had not yet seen her destined husband.",
  "sample_09536.wav": "But his accents were full of love, and inspired a like passion in her. She often begged him to stay and let her behold him, but he would not consent. On the contrary, he charged her to make no attempt to see him.",
  "sample_09537.wav": "For it was his pleasure, for the best of reasons, to keep concealed. \"'Why should you wish to behold me?' he said. \"'Have you any doubt of my love? \"'Have you any wish ungratified? \"'If you saw me, perhaps you would fear me, perhaps adore me.'\"",
  "sample_09538.wav": "But all I ask of you is to love me. I would rather you would love me as an equal than adore me as a god.\" This reasoning somewhat quieted Psyche for a time, and while the novelty lasted she felt quite happy.",
  "sample_09539.wav": "But at length the thought of her parents left an ignorance of her fate.",
  "sample_09540.wav": "prayed on her mind, and made her begin to feel her palace as but a splendid prison. When her husband came one night, she told him her distress, and at last drew from him an unwilling consent that her sister should be brought to see her.",
  "sample_09541.wav": "Chapter 16, A Girl and a Bit of Lowest Oft Immediately after breakfast the next morning, Billy was summoned to the telephone. Oh, good morning, Uncle William, she called in answer to the masculine voice that replied to her, hello.",
  "sample_09542.wav": "Billy, are you very busy this morning? No indeed, not if you want me. Well, I do my dear. Uncle Williams voice was troubled. I want you to go with me if you can to see a Mrs. Gregory. She's got a teapot I want.",
  "sample_09543.wav": "It's a genuine Lowestoft, Harlow says. Will you go? Of course I will. What time? Eleven if you can, at Park Street. She's at the West End.",
  "sample_09544.wav": "Harlow says others will have to know of it, of course. You see, she's just made up her mind to sell it, and asked him to find a customer. I wouldn't trouble you, but he says they're peculiar, the daughter especially, and may need some careful handling. That's why I wanted you.",
  "sample_09545.wav": "though I wanted you to see the teapot too.",
  "sample_09546.wav": "that she was one day to be mistress of the strata and all it contained was still anything but common to her. I'd love to see it and I'll come gladly, but I'm afraid I won't be much help, Uncle William,\" she worried. I'll take the risk of that.",
  "sample_09547.wav": "Why, how funny! Well I'll come. At eleven, you say, at Park Street? Yes, and thank you, my dear. I tried to get Kate to go too, but she wouldn't. By the way, I'm going to bring you home to luncheon. Kate leaves this afternoon, you know.",
  "sample_09548.wav": "And it's been so snowy she hasn't thought best to try to get over to the house. Maybe Aunt Hannah would come too for luncheon, would she? I'm afraid not, returned Billy with a rueful laugh. She's got three shawls on this morning.",
  "sample_09549.wav": "I'll tell her, though, and I'll see you at eleven,\" finished Billy, as she hung up the receiver. Promptly, at the appointed time, Billy met Uncle William at Park Street, and together they set out for the West End Street, named on the paper in his pocket.",
  "sample_09550.wav": "But when the shabby house on the narrow little street was reached the man looked about him with a troubled frown. I Declare Billy. I'm not sure but we'd better turn back. He fretted. I didn't mean to take you to such a place as this Billy shivered a little",
  "sample_09551.wav": "Nonsense, Uncle William. Of course you won't turn back.",
  "sample_09552.wav": "She finished, just above her breath. Mrs. Gregory was found to be living in two back rooms at the top of four flights of stairs, up which William Henshaw toiled with increasing weariness and dismay, punctuating each flight with a despairing",
  "sample_09553.wav": "Billy, really, I think we should turn back.\" But Billy would not turn back, and at last they found themselves in the presence of a white-haired sweet-faced woman who said yes, she was Mrs. Gregory, yes she was. Even as she uttered the words,",
  "sample_09554.wav": "However, she looked fearfully over her shoulders, as if expecting to hear from the hall behind them a voice denying her assertion. Mrs. Gregory was a cripple. Her slender little body was poised on two once costly crutches.",
  "sample_09555.wav": "Both the worn places on the crutches and the skill with which the little woman swung herself about the room testified that the crippled condition was not a new one. Billy's eyes were brimming with pity and dismay.",
  "sample_09556.wav": "Mechanically, she had taken the chair toward which Mrs. Gregory had motioned her. She had tried not to seem to look about her, but there was not one detail of the bare little room from its faded rug to the patched but spotless tablecloth that was not stamped on her brain.",
  "sample_09557.wav": "Mrs. Gregory had seated herself now and William Henshaw had cleared his throat nervously.",
  "sample_09558.wav": "We, er, I came from Harlow, Mrs. Gregory. He gave me to understand that you had a teapot that, er... With his eyes on the cracked white crockery pitcher on the table, William Henshaw came to a helpless pause.",
  "sample_09559.wav": "A curious expression, or rather series of expressions, crossed Mrs. Gregory's face. Terror, joy, dismay, and relief seemed one after the other to fight for supremacy. Relief in the end conquered.",
  "sample_09560.wav": "Though even yet there was a second hurriedly apprehensive glance toward the door before she spoke. The Loa stopped. Yes, I'm so glad. That is, of course, I must be glad. I'll get it. Her voice broke as she pulled herself from her chair.",
  "sample_09561.wav": "There was only despairing sorrow on her face now. The man rose at once.",
  "sample_09562.wav": "What a beauty! Mrs. Gregory had thrown open the door of a small cupboard near the collector's chair, disclosing on one of the shelves a beautifully shaped teapot, creamy in tint and exquisitely decorated in a rose design.",
  "sample_09563.wav": "Near it set a tray-like plate of the same wear and decoration. \"'If you'll lift it down, please yourself,' motioned Mrs. Gregory. \"'I don't like to with these,' she explained, tapping the crutches at her side.",
  "sample_09564.wav": "With fingers that were almost reverent in their appreciation, the collector reached for the teapot. His eyes sparkled. Billy, look, what a beauty! And it's a lowest off, too, the real thing, the genuine true soft paste.",
  "sample_09565.wav": "And there's the tray, did you notice?\" he exalted, turning back to the shelf. You don't see that every day. They get separated most generally, you know. These pieces have been in our family for generations, said Mrs. Gregory with an accent of pride.",
  "sample_09566.wav": "You'll find them quite perfect, I think.\" \"'Perfect? I should say they were,' cried the man.\" \"'They are then valuable?' Mrs. Gregory's voice shook. \"'Indeed they are, but you must know that.'",
  "sample_09567.wav": "I have been told so, yet to me their chief value, of course, lies in their association. My mother and my grandmother own that teapot, sir.\" Again her voice broke. And Henshaw cleared his throat.",
  "sample_09568.wav": "But madam, if you do not wish to sell\u2014' he stopped abruptly. His longing eyes had gone back to the enticing bit of China. Mrs. Gregory gave a low cry. But I do\u2014that is, I must.",
  "sample_09569.wav": "that it will bring in money, and we need money.\" She threw a quick glance toward the hall door, though she did not pause in her remarks. I can't do much at work that pays. I sew,\" she nodded toward the machine by the window.",
  "sample_09570.wav": "But with only one foot to make it go, you see the other is...",
  "sample_09571.wav": "in their expressive language have named it the lion's den, probably because the captives possess teeth which frequently gnaw the bars and sometimes the keepers also. It is a prison within a prison.",
  "sample_09572.wav": "The walls are double the thickness of the rest. The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose Herculean proportions and cold, pitiless expression",
  "sample_09573.wav": "prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence. The courtyard of this quarter is enclosed by enormous walls, over which the sun glances obliquely.",
  "sample_09574.wav": "when it deigns to penetrate into this gulf of moral and physical deformity. On this paved yard are to be seen pacing to and fro from morning till night, pale, careworn and haggard, like so many shadows.",
  "sample_09575.wav": "the men whom justice holds beneath the steel she is sharpening. There, crouched against the side of the wall, which attracts and retains the most heat, they may be seen sometimes talking to one another, but more frequently alone.",
  "sample_09576.wav": "watching the door, which sometimes opens to call forth one from the gloomy assemblage, or to throw in another outcast from society. The court of Saint Bernard has its own particular apartment.",
  "sample_09577.wav": "It is a wretched, damp, nay, even horrible spot, more especially when we consider the agonizing conferences which have taken place between those iron bars. And yet, frightful though this spot may be,",
  "sample_09578.wav": "It is looked upon as a kind of paradise by the men whose days are numbered. It is so rare for them to leave the lion's den for any other place than the barrier St. Jacques or the galleys.",
  "sample_09579.wav": "soon recovered its gloss in the parts which were still perfect, for the wearer tried his best to make it assume the appearance of a new coat. He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color Thanks for watching!",
  "sample_09580.wav": "We're watching the operations of the prisoner's toilette with considerable interest.\" \"'See, the prince is pluming himself,' said one of the thieves. \"'He's a fine-looking fellow,' said another.\"",
  "sample_09581.wav": "His coat looks almost new and his boots shine like a nigger's face. It's pleasant to have such well-dressed comrades But didn't those Gerdams behave shameful? Must have been jealous to tear such clothes",
  "sample_09582.wav": "He looks like a big bug,\" said another, dresses in fine style, and then, to be here so young, oh what larks! Meanwhile the object of this hideous admiration approached the wicket.",
  "sample_09583.wav": "against which one of the keepers was leaning. Come, sir, he said. Lend me twenty francs. You will soon be paid. You run no risk with me. Remember, I have relations who possess more millions.",
  "sample_09584.wav": "Come, I beseech you, lend me twenty francs, so that I may buy a dressing-gown. It is intolerable always to be in a coat and boots. And what a coat, sir, for a prince of the calvicante.",
  "sample_09585.wav": "You are a man void of compassion. I'll have you turned out.\" This made the keeper turn around, and he burst into a loud laugh. The prisoners then approached and formed a circle.",
  "sample_09586.wav": "The latter, sure of quelling the tempest when the waves became too violent, allowed them to rise to a certain pitch that he might be revenged on the important Andrea, and besides it would afford him some recreation during the long day.",
  "sample_09587.wav": "The thieves had already approached Andrea, some screaming.",
  "sample_09588.wav": "another kind of recreation, in which a handkerchief is filled with sand, pebbles,",
  "sample_09589.wav": "rolled his tongue around his cheeks and smacked his lips in a manner equivalent to a hundred words among the bandits when forced to be silent. It was a Masonic sign. Caderosa had taught him.",
  "sample_09590.wav": "He was immediately recognized as one of them. The handkerchief was thrown down and the iron-heeled shoe replaced on the foot of the wretch to whom it belonged. Some voices were heard to say that the gentleman was right.",
  "sample_09591.wav": "that he intended to be civil in his way, and that they would set the example of liberty of conscience. And the mob retired. The keeper was so stupefied at this scene that he took Andrea by the hands",
  "sample_09592.wav": "said the same voice. You see, someone pays me a visit. Ah, my dear sir, you will see whether a Cavalcanti is to be treated like a common person.",
  "sample_09593.wav": "proves me to be under the protection of some powerful person. This sudden fortune, the facility with which I have overcome all obstacles, an unexpected family, and an illustrious name awarded to me,",
  "sample_09594.wav": "Gold showered down upon me and the most splendid alliances about to be entered into an Unhappy lapse of fortune and the absence of my protector have cast me down Certainly, but not forever",
  "sample_09595.wav": "The hand which has retreated for a while will be again stretched forth to save me at the very moment when I shall think myself sinking into the abyss. Why should I risk an imprudent step? It might alienate my protector.",
  "sample_09596.wav": "upon the iron bars, the bolted doors, and the shadow which moved behind the other grating.",
  "sample_09597.wav": "said Andrea, deeply affected. Good morning, Benedetto.",
  "sample_09598.wav": "with his deep hollow voice. You, you, said the young man, looking fearfully around him. Do you not recognize me, unhappy child? Silence!",
  "sample_09599.wav": "You wish to speak with me alone, do you not?",
  "sample_09600.wav": "Oh yes, that as well.",
  "sample_09601.wav": "with two beds in it, one laid on the floor. It is ten o'clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one-dip candle by which Bartle is pretending to read.",
  "sample_09602.wav": "the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sickbed. His heavy black hair hangs over his forehead, and there is no active impulse in him which inclines him to push it off, that he may be more awake to what is around him.",
  "sample_09603.wav": "He has one arm over the back of the chair and he seems to be looking down at his clasped hands. He is roused by a knock at the door.",
  "sample_09604.wav": "said Bartlemassey, rising hastily and unfastening the door. It was Mr. Irwin. Adam rose from his chair with instinctive respect, as Mr. Irwin approached him and took his hand. I am late, Adam.",
  "sample_09605.wav": "Let us all sit down.\" Adam took his chair again mechanically, and Bartle, for whom there was no chair remaining, sat on the bed in the background. Have you seen her, sir?",
  "sample_09606.wav": "Yes, Adam. I and the chaplain have both been with her this evening. Did you ask her, sir, did you say anything about me? Yes, said Mr. Irwin with some hesitation.",
  "sample_09607.wav": "It is not only you. Some fatal influence seems to have shut up her heart against her fellow creatures. She has scarcely said anything more than no, either to me or the Chaplain. Three or four days ago, before you were mentioned to her,",
  "sample_09608.wav": "When I asked her if there was any one of her family whom she would like to see, to whom she could open her mind, she said with a violent shudder, Tell them not to come near me. I won't see any of them.",
  "sample_09609.wav": "if they now urge you strongly to go and see her tomorrow morning, even without her consent.",
  "sample_09610.wav": "that the interview might affect her favorably. But I grieve to say I have scarcely any hope of that. She didn't seem agitated when I mentioned your name. She only said no in the same cold, obstinate way as usual.",
  "sample_09611.wav": "And if the meeting had no good effect on her, it would be pure, useless suffering to you. Severe suffering, I fear. She is very much changed. Adam started up from his chair.",
  "sample_09612.wav": "and seized his hat which lay on the table. But he stood still then, and looked at Mr. Irwin, as if he had a question to ask, which it was yet difficult to utter. Bono Massey rose quietly, turned the key in the door,",
  "sample_09613.wav": "and put it in his pocket. Is he come back? said Adam at last. No, he is not, said Mr. Irwin quietly. Lay down your hat, Adam, unless you like to walk out with me for a little fresh air.",
  "sample_09614.wav": "I fear you have not been out again today. You needn't deceive me, sir, said Adam, looking hard at Mr. Irwin and speaking in a tone of angry suspicion. You needn't be afraid of me. I only want justice.",
  "sample_09615.wav": "I want him to feel what she feels. It's his work. She was a child, as it had gone to anybody's heart to look at it. I don't care what she's done. It was him brought her to it. And he shall know it. He shall feel it.",
  "sample_09616.wav": "to sin and misery. I'm not deceiving you, Adam, said Mr. Irwin. Arthur Donnathorn is not come back, was not come back when I left. I have left a letter for him. He will know.",
  "sample_09617.wav": "He will know. He will suffer, long and bitterly. He has a heart and a conscience. I can't be entirely deceived in his character. I am convinced.",
  "sample_09618.wav": "He may be weak, but he is not callous, not coldly selfish. I am persuaded.",
  "sample_09619.wav": "all his life. Why do you crave vengeance in this way? No amount of torture that you could inflict on him could benefit her. No, oh God, no! Adam groaned out, sinking on the chair again.",
  "sample_09620.wav": "But then that's the deepest curse of all. That's what makes the blackness of it. It can never be undone. My poor Hedy. She could never be my sweet Hedy again. The prettiest thing God had made.",
  "sample_09621.wav": "smiling up at me. I thought she loved me, and was good. Adam's voice had been gradually sinking into a hoarse undertone, as if he were only talking to himself. But now he said abruptly, looking at Mr. Irwin.",
  "sample_09622.wav": "But she isn't as guilty as they say. You don't think she is, sir? She can't have done it.\" That, perhaps, can never be known with certainty, Adam. Mr. Irwin answered gently.",
  "sample_09623.wav": "In these cases we sometimes form our judgment on what seems to us strong evidence, and yet, for want of knowing some smaller fact, our judgment is wrong. But suppose the worst. You have no right to say.",
  "sample_09624.wav": "that the guilt of her crime lies with him, and that he ought to bear the punishment. It is not for us men to apportion the shares of moral guilt and retribution. We find it impossible to avoid mistakes",
  "sample_09625.wav": "even in determining who has committed a single criminal act. And the problem...",
  "sample_09626.wav": "You have a mind that can understand this fully, Adam, when you are calm. Don't suppose I can't enter into the anguish that drives you into this state of revengeful hatred. But...",
  "sample_09627.wav": "For it is passion, and you deceive yourself in calling it justice. It might be with you precisely as it has been with Arthur. Nay, worse, your passion might lead you, yourself, into a horrible crime.",
  "sample_09628.wav": "No, not worse, said Adam bitterly. I don't believe it's worse. I'd sooner do it. I'd sooner do a wickedness as I could suffer, for by myself than it brought her to do wickedness.",
  "sample_09629.wav": "and then stand by and see him punish her while they let me alone, and all for a bit of pleasure, as if he'd had a man's heart in him. He'd have cut his hand off sooner than he had taken it. What if he didn't foresee what's happened?",
  "sample_09630.wav": "He foresaw enough. He had no right to expect anything but harm and shame to her.",
  "sample_09631.wav": "Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, some in their wealth, some in their body's force, some in their garments, though newfangled ill.",
  "sample_09632.wav": "some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse. And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure, wherein it finds a joy above the rest. But these particulars are not my measure.",
  "sample_09633.wav": "All these I better in one general best. Thy love is better than high birth to me, Richer than wealth, prouder than garments cost.",
  "sample_09634.wav": "Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.",
  "sample_09635.wav": "Happy to have thy love, happy to die.",
  "sample_09636.wav": "Thy looks with me thy heart in other place. For there can live no hatred in thine eye. Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.",
  "sample_09637.wav": "In many's looks the false heart's history is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange. But heaven in thy creation did decree that in thy face sweet love should ever dwell.",
  "sample_09638.wav": "whate'er thy thoughts or thy hearts workings be.",
  "sample_09639.wav": "How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow, If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show?",
  "sample_09640.wav": "and will do none, that do not do the thing they most do show, who, moving others, are themselves as stone.",
  "sample_09641.wav": "They rightly do inherit Heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expanse. They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence.",
  "sample_09642.wav": "The summer's flower is to the summer's sweet, though to itself it only live and die. But if that flower with base infection meet, the basest weed",
  "sample_09643.wav": "outbraves his dignity. For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds. Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.",
  "sample_09644.wav": "Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name.",
  "sample_09645.wav": "That tongue that tells the story of thy days, making lascivious comments on thy sport, cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise. Naming thy name blesses an ill report.",
  "sample_09646.wav": "O, what a mansion have those vices got, Which for their habitation chose out thee! Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot, And all things turns to fair that eyes can see.",
  "sample_09647.wav": "Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege.",
  "sample_09648.wav": "Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport. Both grace and faults are loved of more and less.",
  "sample_09649.wav": "What old December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed was summer's time, The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,",
  "sample_09650.wav": "Like widowed wombs after their Lord's decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me but hope of orphans and unfothered fruit. For summer and his pleasures wait on thee.",
  "sample_09651.wav": "And thou away the very birds are mute, Or if they sing, tis with so dull a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the winters near.",
  "sample_09652.wav": "From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud Pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.",
  "sample_09653.wav": "Yet, nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell of different flowers in odor and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew.",
  "sample_09654.wav": "Nor did I wonder at the lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose. They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.",
  "sample_09655.wav": "Yet seemed it winter still, and you away, As with your shadow I with these did play.",
  "sample_09656.wav": "The forward violet thus did I chide. Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal Thy sweet that smells, if not from my love's breath?",
  "sample_09657.wav": "The purple pride which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells, In my love's veins thou hast too grossly died.",
  "sample_09658.wav": "The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair. A third, nor red nor white, had stolen of both, And to his robbery had annexed thy breath.",
  "sample_09659.wav": "But for his theft, in pride of all his growth, a vengeful canker ate him up to death.",
  "sample_09660.wav": "Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long to speak of that which gives thee all thy might? Spen'st thou thy fury on some worthless song?",
  "sample_09661.wav": "The Slow Little Mud Turtle When the 20 little mud turtles broke their eggshells one hot summer day and poked their way up through the warm sand in which they had been buried, they looked almost as much alike as so many raindrops.",
  "sample_09662.wav": "The mother turtle, who was sunning herself on the bank nearby, said to her friends, Why, there are my children. Did you ever see a finer family? I believe I will go over and speak to them.",
  "sample_09663.wav": "and then sat down until it should stop aching. Wait for me, he called out to his brothers and sisters. I'm coming in a minute. The other little turtles waited, but when his toe was comfortable again and he started toward them, he met a very interesting snail.",
  "sample_09664.wav": "and talked a while with him. Come on, said the biggest little turtle, don't let's wait any longer, he can catch up. So they sprawled along until they came to a place where they could sit in a row on an old log. And they climbed onto it and sat just close enough together.",
  "sample_09665.wav": "and not at all too close. Then the slow little turtle came hurrying over the sand with a rather cross look in his eyes and putting his feet down a little harder than he needed to, quite as though he were out of patience about something. Why didn't you turtles wait for me?",
  "sample_09666.wav": "You certainly are, for I saw you scrambling out of the sand a little while ago, and you came from the very place where I laid my eggs, and covered them during the first really warm nights this year. I was telling your father only yesterday that it was about time for you to hatch.",
  "sample_09667.wav": "The sun has been so hot lately that I was sure you would do well. The mother turtle stretched her head this way and that until there was hardly a wrinkle left in her neck skin. She was so eager to see them all.",
  "sample_09668.wav": "Why are you not up here with your brothers and sisters?\" she asked suddenly of the slow little turtle, who was trying to make a place for himself on the log. They didn't wait for me, he said. I was coming right along, but they wouldn't wait. I think they are just as meat\u2014",
  "sample_09669.wav": "The mother turtle raised one of her forefeet until all five of its toes with their strong claws were pointing at him. She also raised her head as far as her upper shell would let her. So you are the one, she said.",
  "sample_09670.wav": "I thought you were when I heard you trying to make the others wait. It is too bad.",
  "sample_09671.wav": "Yet down in his little turtle heart he thought, now they are going to catch it. He was sure his mother was going to scold the other turtle children for leaving him. He wanted to see what they would do, so he looked out of his right eye at the ten brothers and sisters on that side.",
  "sample_09672.wav": "The first year I had only a few children, the next year I had more, and so it is gone. Every year a few more children than the year before. Until now I never know quite how many I do have, but there is always one slow little turtle.",
  "sample_09673.wav": "who lags behind and wants the others to wait for him. That makes him miss his share of good things, and then he is quite certain to be cross and think it is somebody else's fault. The slow little turtle felt the ten brothers and sisters on his right side looking at him out of their left eyes.",
  "sample_09674.wav": "and the nine brothers and sisters on his left side looking at him out of their right eyes. He drew in his head and his tail and his legs until all they could see was his rounded upper shell, his shell side walls, and the yellow edge of his flat lower shell.",
  "sample_09675.wav": "I did hope, said the Mother Turtle, that I might have one family without such a child in it. I cannot help loving even a slow child who is cross, if he is hatched from one of my eggs, yet it makes me sad, very, very sad.",
  "sample_09676.wav": "And you,\" she added, turning to his brothers and sisters, \"'must be patient with him. We shall not have him with us long.'\"",
  "sample_09677.wav": "I remember so well my first slow child, and how he\u2014she began to cry, and since she could not easily get her forefeet to her eyes, she sprawled to the pond and swam off with only her head and a little of her upper shell showing above the water.",
  "sample_09678.wav": "The slow little turtle was really frightened by what his mother had said, and for a few days he tried to keep up with the others. Nothing happened to him and so he grew careless and made people wait for him just because he was not quite ready to go with them.",
  "sample_09679.wav": "or because he wanted to do this, or look at that, or talk to some other person. He was a very trying little turtle, yet his mother loved him and did not like it when the rest called him a land tortoise. It is all right, you know, to be a land tortoise when your father and mother are land tortoises.",
  "sample_09680.wav": "and these cousins of the turtles look so much like them that some people cannot tell them apart. That is because they forget that the tortoises live on land, have higher back shells, and move very, very slowly. Turtles live more in the water.",
  "sample_09681.wav": "and can move quickly if they will. This is why other turtles sometimes make fun of a slow brother by calling him a land tortoise. One beautiful, sunshiny afternoon, when most of the twenty little turtles were sitting on a floating log by the edge of the pond,",
  "sample_09682.wav": "Their mother was with some of her friends on another log nearby. She looked often at her children and thought how handsome their rounded up back shells were in the sunshine with the little red and yellow markings showing on the black.",
  "sample_09683.wav": "She could see their strong little pointed tails too, and their webbed feet with a stout claw on each toe. She was so proud that she could not help talking about them.",
  "sample_09684.wav": "Yes, said a fine old fellow who was floating near her, a row of their mothers. He was a turtle whom she had never liked very well, but now she began to think that he was rather agreeable after all.",
  "sample_09685.wav": "She was just noticing how beautifully the skin wrinkled on his neck when she heard a splash and saw two terrible great two-legged animals wading into the pond from the shore. Boys! she cried. Boys! and she sprawled off the end of her log",
  "sample_09686.wav": "and slid into the water. All her friends following her. The biggest little turtle saw these great animals coming toward him. He sprawled off the end of his log and slid into the water, and all his brothers and sisters followed him, except the slow little turtle.",
  "sample_09687.wav": "Then one of these great animals stooped over and picked him up, and held him bottom side uppermost and wrapped on that side, which was flat, and on the other side, which was rounded, and stared at him with two great eyes.",
  "sample_09688.wav": "Next, the other great animal took him and turned him over and wrapped on his shells and stared at him.",
  "sample_09689.wav": "He was thinking over and over, something has happened, something has happened, and he knew that back in the pond his mother would be trying to find him and could not. The boys carried him to the edge of the meadow and put him down on the grass.",
  "sample_09690.wav": "He lay perfectly still for a long, long time. And when he thought they had forgotten about him, he tried to run away. Then they laughed and picked him up again, and one of them took something sharp and shiny and cut marks into his upper shell.",
  "sample_09691.wav": "So far I have been dealing with our general outfit and shall now pass to the special equipment of the shore party. The hut we took out was built on my property on Bundefjord so that I was able to watch the work as it progressed.",
  "sample_09692.wav": "It was built by the brothers Hans and Jorgen Stuberud, and was throughout a splendid piece of work, which did honor to both the brothers. The materials prove excellent in every way. The hut was twenty-six feet long by thirteen feet wide,",
  "sample_09693.wav": "Its height from the floor to the ridge of the roof was about 12 feet. It was built as an ordinary Norwegian house with pointed gable and had two rooms. One of these was 19 and a half feet long and was to serve as our dormitory dining room and sitting room.",
  "sample_09694.wav": "The other room was six and a half feet long and was to be Lindstrom's kitchen. From the kitchen a double trapdoor led to the loft where we intended to keep a quantity of provisions and outfit. The walls consisted of three inch planks.",
  "sample_09695.wav": "For insulation we used cellulose pulp. The floor and the ceiling between the rooms and the loft were double.",
  "sample_09696.wav": "The doors were extraordinarily thick and strong and fitted into oblique grooves so that they closed very tightly. There were two windows, a triple one in the end wall of the main room and a double one in the kitchen.",
  "sample_09697.wav": "For the covering of the roof we took out roofing paper and for the floor linoleum. In the main room there were two air pipes.",
  "sample_09698.wav": "There were bunks for ten men in two stages, six on one wall and four on the other. The furniture of the room consisted of a table, a stool for each man, and a lux lamp.",
  "sample_09699.wav": "The hut was tarred several times, and every part was carefully marked so that it could easily be set up. To fasten it to the ground and prevent the Antarctic storms from blowing it away, I had strong eye bolts screwed into each end of the roof ridge,",
  "sample_09700.wav": "and the four corners of the roof. We carried six strong eye bolts, a meter long, to be rammed into the barrier. Between these bolts and those on the hut, steel wires were to be stretched, which could be drawn quite tight. We also had two spare cables.",
  "sample_09701.wav": "which could be stretched over the roof if the gales were too severe. The two ventilating pipes and the chimney were secured outside with strong stays. As will be seen, every precaution was taken to make the hut warm and comfortable.",
  "sample_09702.wav": "and to hold it down on the ground. We also took on board a quantity of loose timber, boards, and planks. Besides the hut, we took with us fifteen tenths for sixteen men each. Ten of these were old but good.",
  "sample_09703.wav": "They were served out to us from the naval stores. The other five were new and we bought them from the army depots. It was our intention to use the tents as temporary houses. They were easily and quickly set up and were strong and warm.",
  "sample_09704.wav": "On the voyage to the south, Rhone sewed new floors of good strong canvas to the five new tents. All cases of provisions that were intended for winter quarters were marked and stowed separately in the hold.",
  "sample_09705.wav": "We had ten sledges made by a firm of sporting outfitters in Christiana. They were built like the old Nansen sledges, but rather broader and were 12 feet long. The runners were of the best American hickory shod with steel.",
  "sample_09706.wav": "The other parts were of good, tough Norwegian ash. To each sledge belonged a pair of spare runners, which could easily be fitted underneath by means of clamps, and as easily removed when not required.",
  "sample_09707.wav": "The steel shoeing of the runners was well coated with red lead, and the spare runners with tar. These sledges were extremely strongly built, and could stand all kinds of work on every sort of surface. At that time,",
  "sample_09708.wav": "I did not know the conditions on the barrier as I afterwards came to know them. Of course, these sledges were very heavy. We took 20 pairs of ski, all of the finest hickory. They were 8 feet long and proportionately narrow.",
  "sample_09709.wav": "I chose them of this length with a view to being able to cross the numerous cracks in the glaciers. The greater the surface over which the weight could be distributed, the better prospect we should have of slipping over the snow bridges.",
  "sample_09710.wav": "We had 40 ski poles with ebonite points. The ski bindings were a combination of the Huttfeld and the Hoyer-Elefson bindings. We also had quantities of loose straps.",
  "sample_09711.wav": "We had six three-man tents all made in the Navy workshops. The workmanship could not have been better. They were the strongest and most practical tents that have ever been used. They were made of the closest canvas with the floor in one piece.",
  "sample_09712.wav": "One man was sufficient to set up the tent in the stiffest breeze. I have come to the conclusion that the fewer poles a tent has, the easier it is to set up, which seems quite natural. These tents have only one pole.",
  "sample_09713.wav": "how often one reads in narratives of polar travel that it took such and such a time, often hours, to set up the tent, and then, when at last it was up, one lay expecting it to be blown down at any moment.",
  "sample_09714.wav": "There was no question of this with our tents. They were up in a twinkling and stood against all kinds of wind. We could lie securely in our sleeping bags and let it blow. The arrangement of the door was on the usual sack principle.",
  "sample_09715.wav": "which came from the estate of Paulsgaard in Jutland, and the material did all it promised. These cases were one foot square and fifteen and a half inches high.",
  "sample_09716.wav": "They had only a little round opening on the top, closed with an aluminum lid, which fitted exactly like the lid of a milk can. Large lids weakened the cases, and I had therefore chosen this form. We did not have to throw off the lashing of the case to get the lid off.",
  "sample_09717.wav": "And this is a very great advantage. We could always get at it. A case with a large lid covered by the lashing gives constant trouble. The whole lashing has to be undone for every little thing one wants out of the case. This is not always convenient.",
  "sample_09718.wav": "If one is tired and slack, it may sometimes happen that one will put off till tomorrow what ought to be done today, especially when it is bitterly cold.",
  "sample_09719.wav": "the handier one's sledging outfit, the sooner one gets into the tent and to rest, and that is no small consideration on a long journey. Our outfit of clothing was abundant and more complete, I suppose, than that of any former polar expedition.",
  "sample_09720.wav": "We may divide it into two classes, the outfit for specially low temperatures and that for more moderate temperatures. It must be remembered that no one had yet wintered on the barrier, so we had to be prepared for anything.",
  "sample_09721.wav": "Chapter 6 How Saint Monica lived in the days of her widowhood and how she put all her trust in God Patricia's had not much in the way of worldly goods to leave to his wife",
  "sample_09722.wav": "She needed little, it is true, for herself, but there was Augustine. Would it be possible for her, even if she practiced the strictest economy, to keep him at Carthage, where he was doing so well?",
  "sample_09723.wav": "Romanianus divined her anxiety and hastened to set it at rest. He had a house in Carthage, he said. It should be Augustine's as long as he required it.",
  "sample_09724.wav": "This would settle the question of lodging. For the rest, continued Romanianus. As an old friend of Patricius, he had the right to befriend his son, and Monica must grant him the privilege of being a friend of his son.",
  "sample_09725.wav": "of acting a father's part to Augustine until he was fairly launched in life. He had a child of his own.",
  "sample_09726.wav": "If Monica would befriend his boy, they would be quits. The gratitude of both mother and son towards this generous friend and benefactor lasted throughout their lives.",
  "sample_09727.wav": "You it was, Romanianus, wrote Augustine in his confessions, who, when I was a poor young student in Carthage, opened to me your house, your purse, and still more your heart.",
  "sample_09728.wav": "You it was who when I had the sorrow to lose my father, comforted me by your friendship, helped me with your advice, and assisted me with your fortune.",
  "sample_09729.wav": "Monica mourned her husband's death with true devotion, but hers was not a selfish sorrow. She had love and sympathy for all who needed them.",
  "sample_09730.wav": "and forgot her own grief in solacing that of others. There were certain good works which the Church gave to Christian widows to perform. The hospitals, for instance, were entirely in their hands.",
  "sample_09731.wav": "They were small as yet, built according to the needs of the moment from the funds of the faithful, and held but few patients. These devoted women succeeded each other at intervals,",
  "sample_09732.wav": "in their task of washing and attending to the sick, watching by their beds and cleaning their rooms. Their ministrations did not even cease there. With reverent care they prepared the dead for burial.",
  "sample_09733.wav": "thinking the while of the preparation of Christ's body for the tomb, and of him who said, Inasmuch as ye do it to the least of my brethren, ye do it unto me.",
  "sample_09734.wav": "It was a happy moment for Monika, when her turn came to serve the sick. She would kiss their sores for very pity as she washed and dressed them, and their faces grew bright at her coming.",
  "sample_09735.wav": "They called her Mother. It seemed such a natural name to give her, for she was a mother to them all, and gave them a mother's love. To some of the poor creatures, friendless slaves as they often were,",
  "sample_09736.wav": "who had known little sympathy or tenderness in their hard lives. It was a revelation of Christianity, which taught them more than hours of preaching could have done. But there was other work besides that at the hospital.",
  "sample_09737.wav": "There were the poor to be helped, the hungry to be fed, the naked to be clothed. She would gather the orphan children at her knee to teach them the truths of their faith. When they were very poor",
  "sample_09738.wav": "she would keep them in her own house, feed them at her own table, and clothe them with her own hands. If I am a mother to these motherless ones, she would say to herself, He will have mercy and give me back my boy.",
  "sample_09739.wav": "If I teach them to know and love him as a father, he will watch over my son. It was a custom of the time on the feasts of saints and martyrs to make a pilgrimage to their tombs.",
  "sample_09740.wav": "with a little basket of food and wine. This was laid on the grave, after which the faithful would partake of what they had brought, while they thought and spoke of the noble lives of God's servants who had gone before.",
  "sample_09741.wav": "The custom was abolished not long after, on account of the abuses which had arisen. But Monica observed it to the end. She scarcely tasted of her offering herself.",
  "sample_09742.wav": "but gave it all away to the poor. Often indeed she went cold and hungry that they might be clothed and fed. Her love of prayer too could now find full scope.",
  "sample_09743.wav": "Every morning found her in her place in church for the holy sacrifice. Every evening she was there again silent absorbed in God. The place where she knelt was often wet with her tears.",
  "sample_09744.wav": "The time passed by unheeded. Patricius, her husband, was safe in God's hands. But Augustine, her eldest-born, her darling, In what dark paths was he wandering?",
  "sample_09745.wav": "And yet in her heart of hearts there was a deep conviction that no sad news of his life at Carthage could shake. His was not the nature to find contentment in the things of earth.",
  "sample_09746.wav": "He was born to something higher. His noble heart, his strong intelligence, would bring him back to God. And yet, and yet...",
  "sample_09747.wav": "Her heart sank as she thought of graces wasted, of conscience trampled underfoot, of light rejected. No, there was no hope anywhere but with God. In Him she would trust, and in Him alone.",
  "sample_09748.wav": "He was infinite in mercy and strong to save. He had promised that he would never fail those who put their trust in him. At his feet and at his feet alone",
  "sample_09749.wav": "Monica poured out her tears and her sorrow. With others she was serene and hopeful as of old, even joyous, always ready to help and comfort. It was said of her after her death,",
  "sample_09750.wav": "that no one had such a gift of helping others as she. She never preached at people. Most people have an insurmountable dislike to being preached at. But every word she said had a strange power of drawing souls to God.",
  "sample_09751.wav": "As we approached the inn at Amherst, the clockmaker grew uneasy. \"'It's pretty well on in the evening, I guess,' said he, \"'and Morham Pugwash is as uncertain in her temper as a morning in April.'",
  "sample_09752.wav": "It's all sunshine or all clouds with her, and if she's in one of her tantrums, she'll stretch out her neck and hiss like a goose with a flock of goslings.",
  "sample_09753.wav": "The old minister had an orchard of most particular good fruit, for he was a great hand at Budden, Grafton, and what not. And the orchard? It was on the south side of the house, stretched right up to the road. Well\u2014",
  "sample_09754.wav": "There were some trees hung over the fence. I never see'd such bearers. The apples hung in ropes, for all the world like strings of onions, and the fruit was beautiful. Nobody touch'd the minister's apples.",
  "sample_09755.wav": "So I said to him one day, Minister, said I, how on earth do you manage to keep your fruit that's so exposed, when no one else can't do it know-how? Why, says he, they're dreadfully pretty fruit, ain't they?\"",
  "sample_09756.wav": "That R outward row I grafted myself with the choicest kind I could find, and I succeeded. They are beautiful, but so eternal sour no human soul can eat them. Well,",
  "sample_09757.wav": "The boys think the old minister's grafton has all succeeded about as well as that row.",
  "sample_09758.wav": "If Pugwash had a watery mouth when he married, I guess it's pretty puckery by this time. However, if she goes to act ugly...",
  "sample_09759.wav": "I'll give her a dose of soft solder that will take the frond out of her frontis piece and make her dowel plate as smooth as a lick of copal varnish. It's a pity she's such a kickin' devil, too, for she has good points. Good eye, good foot.",
  "sample_09760.wav": "Neat, fine chest, a clean set of limbs, and carries a good, but here we are. Now you'll see what soft solder will do. When we entered the house, the Traveler's Room was all in darkness.",
  "sample_09761.wav": "and on opening the opposite door into the sitting-room we found the female part of the family extinguishing the fire for the night. Mrs. Pugwash had a broom in her hand and was in the act, the last act of female housewifery, of sweeping the hearth.",
  "sample_09762.wav": "The strong flickering light of the fire, as it fell upon her tall, fine figure and beautiful face, revealed a creature worthy of the clockmaker's comments. Good evening, Marm,\" said Mr. Slick. How do you do?",
  "sample_09763.wav": "And how's Mr. Pugwash?\" \"'He,' said she. \"'Why, he's been a-bed this hour.' You don't expect to disturb him this time of night, I hope?\" \"'Oh, no,' said Mr. Slick. Certainly not.\"",
  "sample_09764.wav": "and I am sorry to have disturbed you, but we got detained longer than we expected. I am sorry that---- So am I,\" said she. But if Mr. Pugwash will keep an in when he has no occasion to, his family can't expect no rest.",
  "sample_09765.wav": "Here the clockmaker, seeing the storm gathering, stooped down suddenly and, staring intently, held out his hand and exclaimed, Well, if that ain't a beautiful child. Come here, my little man.",
  "sample_09766.wav": "and shake hands along with me. Well, I declare, if that our little fella ain't the finest child I ever What? Not a bed yet? Ah, you rogue!",
  "sample_09767.wav": "Well, I wish my old mother could see that child. It is such a treat.\" \"'In our country,' said he, turning to me, \"'the children are all as pale as chalk or as yellow as an orange. Lord!'",
  "sample_09768.wav": "That our little fellow would be a show in our country. Come to me, my man.\" Here the soft-soldier began to operate. Mrs. Pugwash said, in a milder tone than we had yet heard, Go, my dear, to the gentleman.",
  "sample_09769.wav": "Go, dear.\" Mr. Slick kissed him, asked him if he would go to the States along with him, told him all the little girls would fall in love with him, for they didn't see such a beautiful face once in a month of Sundays. Black eyes, let me see.",
  "sample_09770.wav": "\"'She ought to be proud of you,' he continued. \"'Well, if I live to return here, I must paint your face, and have it put on my clocks, and all our folks will buy the clocks for the sake of the face. Did you ever see?' said he.",
  "sample_09771.wav": "again addressing me, such a likeness between one human and another, as between this beautiful little boy and his mother.\" \"'I am sure you have had no supper,' said Mrs. Pugwash to me. \"'You must be hungry and weary, too.'",
  "sample_09772.wav": "I will get you a cup of tea.\" I am sorry to give you so much trouble,\" said I. Not the least trouble in the world, she replied. On the contrary, a pleasure. We were then shown into the next room.",
  "sample_09773.wav": "where the fire was now blazing up. But Mistress Slick protested he could not proceed without the little boy, and lingered behind to ascertain his age, and concluded by asking the child if he had any aunts that looked like Mama.",
  "sample_09774.wav": "As the door closed, Mr. Slick said, It's a pity she don't go well in gear. The difficulty with those critters is to get them to start. Arder that there's no trouble with them, if you don't check them too short. If you do, they'll stop again.",
  "sample_09775.wav": "Run back and kick like mad, and then old Nick himself wouldn't start him. Pugwash, I guess, don't understand the nature of the Critter. She'll never go kind in harness for him.\" When I see a chow, said the clockmaker.",
  "sample_09776.wav": "I always feel safe with these woman folk, for I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child.\" \"'You seem,' said I, \"'to understand the female heart so well. I make no doubt you are a general favorite among the fair sex.\"",
  "sample_09777.wav": "Any man,\" he replied, \"'that understands horses has a pretty considerable fair knowledge of women, for they are just alike in temper, and require the very identical same treatment. Encourage the timid ones?'",
  "sample_09778.wav": "And I tell you there ain't one in a thousand that knows a grain about either on him. You hear folks say, oh, such a man is an ugly grain, Critter. He'll break his wife's heart, just as if a woman's heart was as brittle as a pipe stock.",
  "sample_09779.wav": "The female heart, as far as my experience goes, is just like a new India rubber shoe. You may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long.",
  "sample_09780.wav": "Their hearts are made of stout leather. I tell you.",
  "sample_09781.wav": "in 1665. Written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before.",
  "sample_09782.wav": "It was about the beginning of September 1664 that I, among the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland.",
  "sample_09783.wav": "It was brought, some said, from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet. Others said it was brought from Candia, others from Cyprus.",
  "sample_09784.wav": "spread rumors and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I have lived to see practiced since.",
  "sample_09785.wav": "and from them was handed about by word of mouth only, so that things did not spread instantly over the whole nation as they do now. But it seems that the government had a true account of it",
  "sample_09786.wav": "and several councils were held about ways to prevent its coming over. But all was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumor died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in.",
  "sample_09787.wav": "and that we hoped was not true, till the latter end of November, or the beginning of December 1664, when two men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Longacre.",
  "sample_09788.wav": "or rather at the upper end of Drury Lane.",
  "sample_09789.wav": "endeavored to conceal it as much as possible, but as it had gotten some vent in the discourse of the neighborhood, the Secretaries of State got knowledge of it, and concerning themselves to inquire about it in order to be certain of the truth.",
  "sample_09790.wav": "Two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house and make inspection. This they did. Finding evident tokens of the sickness upon both the bodies that were dead.",
  "sample_09791.wav": "and it was printed in the weekly bill of mortality in the usual manner. Thus, Plague 2. Parishes infected 1.",
  "sample_09792.wav": "But after that, I think it was about the 12th of February, another died in another house, but in the same parish and in the same manor. This turned the people's eyes pretty much towards that end of the town.",
  "sample_09793.wav": "It began to be suspected that the plague was among the people at that end of the town, and that many had died of it, though they had taken care to keep it as much from the knowledge of the public as possible.",
  "sample_09794.wav": "This possessed the heads of the people very much, and few cared to go through Drury Lane, or the other streets suspected, unless they had extraordinary business that obliged them to it.",
  "sample_09795.wav": "The usual number of burials in a week in the parishes of St. Giles in the fields and St. Andrews, Holborn, were from 12 to 17 or 19 each, few more or less.",
  "sample_09796.wav": "it was observed that the ordinary burials increased in number considerably. For example, from December 27th to January 3rd,",
  "sample_09797.wav": "The like increase of the bills was observed in the parishes of St. Bride, adjoining on one side of Holburn Parish and in the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, adjoining on the other side of Holburn.",
  "sample_09798.wav": "St. Bride's, 0, St. James, 8.",
  "sample_09799.wav": "St. Bride's 6, St. James 9.",
  "sample_09800.wav": "St. James, 7.",
  "sample_09801.wav": "St. Bride's 8.",
  "sample_09802.wav": "St. James, 6. Besides this, it was observed, with great uneasiness by the people, that the weekly bills in general increased very much during these weeks, although it was at a time of the year when",
  "sample_09803.wav": "in one week since the preceding visitation of 1656. However, all this went off again, and the weather proving cold, and the frost, which began in December,",
  "sample_09804.wav": "still continuing very severe, even till near the end of February, attended with sharp, though moderate winds, the bills decreased again, and the city grew healthy, and everybody began to look upon the danger as good as over.",
  "sample_09805.wav": "From the beginning of April, especially, they stood at 25 each week. Till the week from the 18th to the 25th.",
  "sample_09806.wav": "There was none of the plague, and but four of the spotted fever. But the following week it returned again, and the distemper was spread into two or three other parishes.",
  "sample_09807.wav": "not knowing that he was already infected. This was the beginning of May, yet the weather was temperate, variable and cool enough, and people had still some hopes. That which encouraged them was that the city was healthy.",
  "sample_09808.wav": "There died but three, of which not one within the whole city, or liberties, and St. Andrews buried but fifteen, which was very low.",
  "sample_09809.wav": "But still, as there was but one of the plague, people began to be easy. The whole bill also was very low. For the week before, the bill was but 347.",
  "sample_09810.wav": "So that now all our extenuations abated, and it was no more to be concealed. Nay, it quickly appeared that the infection had spread itself beyond all hopes of abatement, in the parish of St. Giles.",
  "sample_09811.wav": "Mrs. Savering sat up waiting for her lord until long past midnight, but her vigil was in vain. LaPierre, after closing up his inn for the night, dropped in, according to his promise, to see if any news of the absentee had arrived.",
  "sample_09812.wav": "Nothing further could be done in the way of searching for the latter personage until daylight. It was getting on pretty well towards morning when Mrs. Savarin sought her couch, and when she got there her slumber was broken and disturbed. She knew not what to think.",
  "sample_09813.wav": "but she was haunted by a dread that she would never again see her husband alive. Next morning, soon after daylight, the whole neighborhood was astir, and the country round was carefully searched for any trace of the missing man.",
  "sample_09814.wav": "Squire Harrington went down to town and made inquiries at the bank, where he ascertained that the story told by Severine to old Jonathan Perry",
  "sample_09815.wav": "was substantially correct. This effectually disposed of any possible theory as to Jonathan and his wife having mistaken someone else for Severine. Squire Harrington likewise learned all about the man's doings on the previous afternoon.",
  "sample_09816.wav": "and was able to fix the time at which he had started for home. He had ridden from the door of the peacock at about a quarter to eight.",
  "sample_09817.wav": "Perry professed to have seen and conversed with him. There was no longer any room for doubt. That interview and conversation had actually taken place at eight o'clock on the previous evening, and Severine had ridden northward from the gate within five minutes afterwards. He could not have proceeded more than a hundred.",
  "sample_09818.wav": "or at the very outside, 200 yards further, or he must inevitably have been encountered by Lapierre.",
  "sample_09819.wav": "but the horse, which had disappeared in this unaccountable manner. It seemed improbable that two living substances of such bulk should pass out of being and leave no trace behind them. They must literally have melted into thin air. No, they hadn't. At least the black mare hadn't.",
  "sample_09820.wav": "which she was discovered by several members of the searching party a little before noon. When found, she was quietly cropping the damp herbage at the edge of the cranberry swamp at the rear of Squire Harrington's farm. She was wholly uninjured, and had evidently spent the night there.",
  "sample_09821.wav": "The bit had been removed from her mouth, but the bridle hung intact around her neck. The saddle, however, like its owner, had disappeared from her back. Then the man began a systematic search in the interior of the swamp. They soon came upon the saddle, which had apparently been deliberately unbuckled.",
  "sample_09822.wav": "and deposited on a dry patch of the ground near the edge of the morass. A little farther in the interior they came upon a man's coat made of dark brown stuff.",
  "sample_09823.wav": "as belonging to Savarin. It was wet and was smirked with mud, and in fact was lying half in and half out of a little puddle of water when it was found. Then the searchers made sure of finding the body. But in this they were disappointed.",
  "sample_09824.wav": "but found nothing further to remord their search. The ground was too soft and marshy to retain any traces of footsteps, and the mare and saddle furnished the only evidence that the object of their quest had been in the neighborhood of the swamp, and of course this evidence was of the most vague and inconclusive character.",
  "sample_09825.wav": "Then the party proceeded in a body to the missing man's house. Here another surprise awaited them. The coat was at once recognized by Mrs. Savarin as belonging to her husband, but it was not the coat worn by him at the time of his disappearance. Of this there was no doubt whatever.",
  "sample_09826.wav": "In fact, he had not worn it for more than a week previously. His wife distinctly remembered having folded and laid it away in the top of a large trunk on the Saturday of the week before last, since which time she had never set eyes on it. Here was a deepening of the mystery.",
  "sample_09827.wav": "The search was kept up without intermission for several days, nearly all of the farmers in the Vincenny taking part of it, even to the neglect of the harvest work which demanded their attention. Squire Harrington was especially active and left no stone unturned to unravel the mystery.",
  "sample_09828.wav": "La Pierre gave up all his time to the search and left the Royal Oak to the care of its landlady. The local constabulary bestirred themselves as they had never done before.",
  "sample_09829.wav": "where a man's body might possibly lie concealed, every tract of bush and woodland, every barn and outbuilding, every hollow and ditch, every field and fence corner was explored with careful minuteness. Even the wells of the district were peered into.",
  "sample_09830.wav": "from off the face of the earth. Dr. Scott, the local coroner, held himself in readiness to summon a coroner's jury at the shortest notice. When all these measures proved unavailing, a public meeting of the inhabitants was convened and funds were subscribed to still further prosecute the search.",
  "sample_09831.wav": "Dead or alive or which should throw any light upon his fate handbills proclaiming this reward and describing the man's personal appearance were exhibited in every bar room and other conspicuous place Throughout Westchester and the adjacent townships",
  "sample_09832.wav": "Advertisements setting forth the main facts were inserted in the principal newspapers of Toronto, Hamilton, and London.",
  "sample_09833.wav": "A stitch in time saves embarrassing exposure.",
  "sample_09834.wav": "Wonderful. Parents are yet to be heard from who don't think theirs is a wonder. A nocturnal animal to which everyone in a sleeping car is eager to give a wide birth. Bachelor from Latin Bacchus, a stick unattached.",
  "sample_09835.wav": "Hence an unattached man, which any lady may stick, stick to, or get stuck on. Backbiter. A mosquito. Balance. Something wanted by bookkeepers and often lost by toppers.",
  "sample_09836.wav": "may be found in a cash book or the Tangaroo Gate. Bandit, an outlaw. C. Alderman. Barber, a brilliant conversationalist who occasionally shaves and cuts hair.",
  "sample_09837.wav": "Bars. Things found in harbors, hotels, fences, prisons, courts, and music.",
  "sample_09838.wav": "developed in department stores on Mondays. Symptoms loud talk pushing and shoving a combination prize fight and football scrimmage. Old spelling bark gain. Baseball.",
  "sample_09839.wav": "A game in which the young man who bravely strikes out for himself receives no praise for it. Bat. Senior partner of Bat Ball & Co. and never found without the rest of the firm as it takes several high balls to make one short bat. Beach.",
  "sample_09840.wav": "strip of sand skirted by water covered with lady killers in summer lifesavers in winter",
  "sample_09841.wav": "and so might marry again when he would.",
  "sample_09842.wav": "and to assist and support me as long as I lived, and that if he died before me he would leave sufficient to his mother to take care of me still, in the name of a sister, and he was in some respects careful of me, when he heard of me.",
  "sample_09843.wav": "as you shall hear in its time. I came away for England in the month of August, after I had been eight years in that country, and now a new scene of misfortunes attended me, which perhaps few women have gone through the life of.",
  "sample_09844.wav": "We had an indifferent good voyage till we came just upon the coast of England and where we arrived in two and thirty days But were then ruffled with two or three storms",
  "sample_09845.wav": "got some refreshment on shore, and put to sea again, though we met with very bad weather again in which the ship sprung her main mast, as they called it, for I knew not what they meant. But we got at last into Milford Haven, in Wales.",
  "sample_09846.wav": "where though it was remote from our port,",
  "sample_09847.wav": "the Isle of Britain, I resolved to venture it no more upon the waters, which had been so terrible to me, so getting my clothes and money on shore, with my bills of loading and other papers, I resolved to come for London.",
  "sample_09848.wav": "The port, whither she was bound, was to Bristol, where my brother's chief correspondent lived. I got to London in about three weeks, where I heard a little while after that the ship was arrived in Bristol.",
  "sample_09849.wav": "the breaking of her main-mast, she had great damage on board, and that a great part of her cargo was spoiled. I had now a new scene of life upon my hands, and a dreadful appearance it had. I was come away with a kind of final farewell.",
  "sample_09850.wav": "What I brought with me was indeed considerable, had it come safe, and by the help of it I might have married again tolerably well, but as it was I was reduced to between two or three hundred pounds in the hole, and this without any hope of recruit.",
  "sample_09851.wav": "I was entirely without friends, nay, even so much as without acquaintance.",
  "sample_09852.wav": "that set me up formally for a fortune, she was dead, and her husband also, as I was informed, upon sending a person unknown to inquire. The looking after my cargo of goods soon after obliged me to take a journey to Bristol, and",
  "sample_09853.wav": "I took the diversion of going to the bath, for as I was still far from being old, so my humour, which was always gay, continued so to an extreme, and being now, as it were, a woman of fortune, though I was a woman without a fortune,",
  "sample_09854.wav": "as had been my case before. The bath is a place of gallantry enough, expensive, and full of snares. I went thither indeed.",
  "sample_09855.wav": "But I must do myself justice, as to protest I knew nothing amiss. I meant nothing but in an honest way, nor had I any thoughts about me at first that looked the way which afterwards I suffered them to be guided.",
  "sample_09856.wav": "as it is called there, and contracted some unhappy acquaintances, which rather prompted the follies I fell afterwards into, than fortified me against them. I lived pleasantly enough, kept good company, that is to say gay fine company, and was not",
  "sample_09857.wav": "But had the discouragement to find this way of living sunk me exceedingly, and that, as I had no settled income, so spending upon the main stock was but a certain kind of bleeding to death, and this gave me many sad reflections in the interval of my other thoughts.",
  "sample_09858.wav": "However, I shook them off.",
  "sample_09859.wav": "But I was in the wrong place for it. I was not now at Red Drift, where, if I had set myself tolerably up, some honest sea-captain or other might have talked with me upon the honourable terms of matrimony. But I was at the bath.",
  "sample_09860.wav": "where men find a mistress sometimes, but very rarely look for a wife, and consequently all the particular acquaintances a woman can expect to make there must have some tendency that way. I had spent the first season well enough.",
  "sample_09861.wav": "For though I had contracted some acquaintance with the gentleman who came to the bath for his diversion,",
  "sample_09862.wav": "as it might be called. I resisted some casual offers of gallantry, and had managed that way well enough. I was not wicked enough to come into the crime for the mere vice of it, and I had no extraordinary offers made me that tempted me with the main thing which I wanted.",
  "sample_09863.wav": "I contracted an acquaintance with a woman in whose house I lodged, who though she did not keep an ill-house, as we call it, yet had none of the best principles in herself. I had on all occasions behaved myself so well that I could not have been more concerned about the health of my children, and I was so concerned that I was not able to make friends",
  "sample_09864.wav": "as not to get the least slur upon my reputation, on any account whatever. And all the men that I had conversed with were of so good reputation that I had not given the least reflection by conversing with them.",
  "sample_09865.wav": "for wicked correspondence, if they had any of them offered it. Yet there was one gentleman, as above, who always singled me out for the diversion of my company, as he called it, which, as he was pleased to say, was very agreeable to him.",
  "sample_09866.wav": "There was no more in it. I had many melancholy hours at the bath after the company was gone.",
  "sample_09867.wav": "and for recruits of money, yet I chose to come back to Bath for my residence, because being on good terms with the woman in whose house I lodged in the summer, I found that during the winter I lived rather cheaper there than in the house.",
  "sample_09868.wav": "Here, I say, I passed the winter as heavily as I had passed the autumn cheerfully.",
  "sample_09869.wav": "of what lay hardest upon my mind, and particularly the narrowness of my circumstances, and the loss of my fortune by the damage of my goods at sea. I told her also that I had a mother and a brother in Virginia, in good circumstances,",
  "sample_09870.wav": "and as I had really written back to my mother in particular to represent my condition, and the great loss I had received,",
  "sample_09871.wav": "CHAPTER TWELVE THE STRANGE BARGON Ronecky drew his gun and waited. Good, said the man of the sneer. Go ahead. It was down in the cellar that we found the first tracks.",
  "sample_09872.wav": "That dropped him into the coal-bin. Did he get coal-dust on his shoes? Right, and he didn't have sense enough to wipe it off. An amateur, a rank amateur! I told you, said the man of the sneer, with satisfaction.",
  "sample_09873.wav": "You followed his trail. Up the stairs to the kitchen and down the hall and up to Harry's room. We already knew he'd gone there. But he left that room again and came down the hall. Yes?\"",
  "sample_09874.wav": "And where did it lead? Right to this room. He stepped from among the smooth silks.",
  "sample_09875.wav": "The time had almost come for one desperate attempt to escape, and he was ready to shoot to kill. A moment of pause had come\u2014a pause which, in the imagination of Ronnike, had been a",
  "sample_09876.wav": "That's a likely story. I can show you the tracks.",
  "sample_09877.wav": "You fool! They simply grew dim when they got to this door. I've been here for some time. Go back and tell them to hunt some more. Go up to the attic and search there. That's the place an amateur would most likely hide.\"",
  "sample_09878.wav": "The man growled some retort and left, closing the door heavily behind him, while Ronnike Dune breathed freely again for the first time. Now, said the man of the sneer, tell me the whole of it, Ruth. Ronnike said his teeth.",
  "sample_09879.wav": "Had the clever devil guessed at the truth so easily? Had he sent his follower away merely to avoid having it known that a man had taken shelter in the room of the girl he loved? Go on, the leader was repeating, let me hear the whole truth.",
  "sample_09880.wav": "I\u2014I\u2014stammered the girl, and she could say no more. The man of the sneer laughed unpleasantly. Let me help you. It was somebody you met somewhere.",
  "sample_09881.wav": "You smiled so much, in fact, that he followed you and found that you had come here. The only way he could get in was by stealth. Is that right?\"",
  "sample_09882.wav": "So he came in exactly that way, like a robber, but really only to keep at rest with his lady love. A pretty story, a true romance.",
  "sample_09883.wav": "my dear girl.\" John, began Ruth Tolliver, her voice shaking, Tush! he broke in as smoothly as ever. Let me tell the story for you, and spare you your blushes.",
  "sample_09884.wav": "Although you were glad to see him, you warned him that it was dangerous to play with fire. Fire being me. Do I gather the drift of the story fairly well? Finally, you have him worked up to the right pitch.",
  "sample_09885.wav": "You show him that it is possible.",
  "sample_09886.wav": "Yes, said the girl, unevenly. That is\u2014 Ah! murmured the man of the sneer. You seem rather relieved that I have guessed he left the house. In that case\u2014",
  "sample_09887.wav": "Now he pushed it open and stepped out. He was only barely in time, for the man of the sneer was turning quickly in his direction since there was only one hiding-place in the room.",
  "sample_09888.wav": "He was brought up with a shock by the sight of Ronnike's big colt, held at the hip, and covering him with absolute certainty. Ruth Tolliver did not cry out, but every muscle in her face and body seemed to contract.",
  "sample_09889.wav": "as if she were preparing herself for the explosion. \"'You don't have to put up your hands,' said Ronnocky Doon, wondering at the familiarity of the face of the man of the sneer. He had brooded on it so often in the past few days that it was like the face of an old acquaintance.\"",
  "sample_09890.wav": "He knew every line in that sharp profile. Thank you.",
  "sample_09891.wav": "I congratulate you on your good taste. A regular Apollo, my dear Ruth!\" He turned back to Ronnaki Dune. \"'And I suppose you have overheard our entire conversation?' \"'The whole lot of it,' said Ronnaki.",
  "sample_09892.wav": "though I wasn't playing my hand at eavesdropping. I couldn't help hearing you, partner.\" The man of the sneer looked him over leisurely. \"'Western,' he said at last. Decidedly, Western. Are you staying long in the East, my friend?\"",
  "sample_09893.wav": "\"'I don't know,' said Ronnike Dune, smiling faintly at the coolness of the other. \"'What do you think about it?' \"'Meaning that I'm liable to put an end to your stay?' \"'Maybe. Tush-tush.' Tush-tush.'",
  "sample_09894.wav": "I suppose Ruth has filled your head with a lot of rot about what a terrible fellow I am. But I don't use poison, and I don't kill with mysterious X-rays. I am, as you see, a very quiet and ordinary sort.",
  "sample_09895.wav": "Ronnaki Doon smiled again. \"'You just obliged me, partner,' he replied in his own soft voice. \"'Just stay away from the walls of the room. Don't even sit down. Stand right where you are.'",
  "sample_09896.wav": "You'd murder me if I took another step?\" asked the man of the sneer, and a contemptuous and sardonic expression flitted across his face for the first time. I'd sure blow you full of lead,\" said Ronnike fervently.",
  "sample_09897.wav": "I'd kill you like a snake, stranger, which I mostly think you are. So step light and step quick when I talk.\" \"'Certainly,' said the other, bowing, \"'I am entirely at your service.'\" He turned a little to Ruth.",
  "sample_09898.wav": "I see that you have a most determined cavalier. I suppose he'll instantly abduct you and sweep you away from beneath my eyes.\" She made a vague gesture of denial. Go ahead, said the leader. By the way,",
  "sample_09899.wav": "My name is John Mark. I'm Dune. Some call me Roniky Dune. I'm glad to know you, Roniky Dune. I imagine that name fits you. Now tell me the story of why you came to this house. Of course it wasn't to see a girl.",
  "sample_09900.wav": "You're wrong. It was. Ah! In spite of himself the face of John Mark wrinkled with pain and suspicious rage. I came to see a girl, and her name, I figure, is Carolyn Smith.",
  "sample_09901.wav": "The children are justified when they peep so curiously and timidly at a company of unknown faces. Each individual atom of everlasting time is capable of comprising a world of joy.",
  "sample_09902.wav": "and at the same time of opening up a fathomless abyss of pain and suffering.",
  "sample_09903.wav": "I understand now the old fairy-tale about the man whom the sorcerer allowed to live a great many years and a few moments, for I know by my own experience the terrible omnipotence of the fantasy.",
  "sample_09904.wav": "Since the last letter from your sister, it is three days now, I have undergone the sufferings of an entire life, from the bright sunlight of glowing youth to the pale moonlight of seditious old age.",
  "sample_09905.wav": "Every little detail she wrote about your sickness, taken with what I had already gleaned from the doctor and had observed myself, confirmed my suspicion that it was far more dangerous than you thought.",
  "sample_09906.wav": "Indeed, no longer dangerous, but decided, past hope. Lost in this thought, and my strength entirely exhausted on account of the impossibility of hurrying to your side.",
  "sample_09907.wav": "My state of mind was really very disconsolate. Now, for the first time, I understood what it really was, being newborn by the joyful news that you are well again.",
  "sample_09908.wav": "I did not think of it as about to happen in the future or even in the present. Everything was already past. For a long time you had been wrapped in the bosom of the cold earth.",
  "sample_09909.wav": "Flowers had started to grow on the beloved grave, and my tears had already begun to flow more gently. Mute and alone I stood, and saw nothing but the features I had loved, and the sweet glances of the expressive eyes.",
  "sample_09910.wav": "Now and then the pale face smiled and seemed asleep, just as it had looked the last time I saw it. Then of a sudden the different memories all became confused.",
  "sample_09911.wav": "With unbelievable rapidity the outlines changed, reassumed their first form, and transformed themselves again and again until the wild vision vanished.",
  "sample_09912.wav": "Only your holy eyes remained in the empty space and hung there motionless, even as the friendly stars shine eternally over our poverty.",
  "sample_09913.wav": "Now a piercing pain from dark suns burned me with an insupportable glare. Now a beautiful radiance hovered about, as if to entice me. Then I seemed to feel a fresh breath of morning air fan me.",
  "sample_09914.wav": "I held my head up and cried aloud.",
  "sample_09915.wav": "Why should you torment yourself? In a few minutes you can be with her.",
  "sample_09916.wav": "I was already hastening to you when suddenly a new thought held me back, and I said to my spirit,",
  "sample_09917.wav": "Unworthy man, you cannot even endure the trifling dissonances of this ordinary life, and yet you regard yourself as ready for and worthy of a higher life. Go away and do and suffer as your calling is.",
  "sample_09918.wav": "and then present yourself again when your orders have been executed.",
  "sample_09919.wav": "Is it not to you also remarkable how everything on this earth moves toward the center? How orderly everything is? How insignificant and trivial? So it has always seemed to me.",
  "sample_09920.wav": "And for that reason I suspect, if I am not mistaken, I have already imparted my suspicion to you that the next life will be larger, and in the good as well as in the bad, stronger, wilder, bolder, and more tremendous.",
  "sample_09921.wav": "as when a person suddenly finds himself alone in the midst of immeasurable mountains of ice. Everything about me and in me was cold and strange, and even my tears froze.",
  "sample_09922.wav": "Wonderful worlds appeared and vanished before me in my uneasy dream. I was sick and suffered great pain, and I loved my sickness and welcomed the suffering.",
  "sample_09923.wav": "I hated everything earthly and was glad to see it all punished and destroyed. I felt so alone and so strangely.",
  "sample_09924.wav": "And as a delicate spirit often grows melancholy in the very lap of happiness over its own joy, and at the very acme of its existence becomes conscious of the futility of it all.",
  "sample_09925.wav": "So did I regard my suffering with mysterious pleasure. I regarded it as the symbol of life in general. I believed that I was seeing and feeling the everlasting discord",
  "sample_09926.wav": "In the lovely forms of refined culture seem dead and trivial to me, in comparison with this monstrous world of infinite strength and of unending struggle and warfare.",
  "sample_09927.wav": "even into the most hidden depths of existence. On account of this remarkable feeling, sickness acquired the character of a peculiar world complete in itself.",
  "sample_09928.wav": "I felt that its mysterious life was richer and deeper than the vulgar health of the dreaming sleep-walkers all around me. And with the sickness, which was not at all unpleasant, I was able to sleep.",
  "sample_09929.wav": "This feeling also clung to me and completely separated me from other men. Just as I was sundered from the earth by the thought of your nature and my love had been too sacred.",
  "sample_09930.wav": "It seemed to me that all was right so, and that your unavoidable death was nothing more than a gentle awakening after a light sleep. I too thought that I was awake when I saw your picture.",
  "sample_09931.wav": "My loyalty towards the afflicted man, whose friendly advances I had seen good reason to return, was in no sense shaken. His undeserved misfortunes, his manly appeal to me at the spring,",
  "sample_09932.wav": "Still, while Crystal's entreaties and Crystal's influence had failed to shake me, Glutie's strange language and Glutie's incomprehensible conduct had troubled my mind. I felt vaguely uneasy, irritated by my own depression of spirits.",
  "sample_09933.wav": "If I had been a philosopher, I should have recognized the symptoms of a very common attack, of a very widely spread moral malady. The meanest of all human infirmities is also the most universal, and the name of it is self-esteem.",
  "sample_09934.wav": "It is perhaps only right to add that my patience had been tried by the progress of domestic events, which affected Lady Lena and myself, viewed as victims. I was spending with my stepmother at Lord Upperford's house later in the day.",
  "sample_09935.wav": "or made an opportunity of talking together confidentially in a corner, and once or twice I caught them looking at Lady Lena and at me. Even Lord Uppercliff, perhaps not yet taken into their confidence, had not yet been taken into their confidence.",
  "sample_09936.wav": "noticed the proceedings of the two ladies, and seemed to be at a loss to understand them. When Mrs. Roy Lake and I were together again on our way home, I was prepared to hear the praise of Lady Lena, followed by a delicate examination into the state of my heart.",
  "sample_09937.wav": "Neither of these anticipations was realized. Once more my clever stepmother had puzzled me. Mrs. Roylake talked as affluently as ever, exhausting one commonplace subject after another.",
  "sample_09938.wav": "without the slightest allusion to my lord's daughter, to my matrimonial prospects, or to my visits at the mill. I was secretly annoyed, feeling that my stepmother's singular indifference to domestic interests of paramount importance",
  "sample_09939.wav": "Returning to the house I tried to occupy myself with my collection of insects, sadly neglected of late. Useless. My own moths failed to interest me. I went back to the garden, passing the open window of one of the lower rooms which looked out on the terrace.",
  "sample_09940.wav": "I saw Mrs. Roylake reading a book in sad coloured binding. She was yawning over it fearfully when she discovered that I was looking at her. Equal to any emergency, this remarkable woman instantly handed to me a second and similar volume.",
  "sample_09941.wav": "I looked at the book. I opened the book. I recovered my presence of mine and handed it back. If a female humbug was on one side of the window, a male humbug was on the other.",
  "sample_09942.wav": "Which way did I turn my steps? Men will wonder what possessed me. Women will think it a proceeding that did me credit. I took the familiar road which led to the gloomy wood in the guilty river. The longing in me to see Crystal again was more than I could resist.",
  "sample_09943.wav": "not because I was in love with her, only because I had left her in distress. Beyond the spring and within a short distance of the river I saw a lady advancing toward me on the path which led from the mill. Brisk, smiling, tripping along like a young girl,",
  "sample_09944.wav": "Behold the mock Republican, known in our neighborhood as Lady Rachel. She held out both hands to me, but for her petticoats I should have thought I had met with a jolly young man.",
  "sample_09945.wav": "patronising piety on the way to afternoon church. I must positively make a sketch of the cottage by the mill. I mean, of course, the picturesque side of it. That fine girl of Toller's was standing at the door. She is really handsomer than ever. Are you going to see her, you wicked man?",
  "sample_09946.wav": "When we had left each other, I thought of the absent captain in the Navy, who was Lady Rachel's husband. He was a perfect stranger, but I put myself in his place and felt that I, too, should have gone to sea.",
  "sample_09947.wav": "Old Toller was alone in his kitchen, evidently annoyed and angry. We are all at sixes and sevens, Mr. Gerard. I've had another row with that deaf devil, my new name for him, and I think it's rather clever.",
  "sample_09948.wav": "You swear, sir, that he won't go at the end of his week's notice?",
  "sample_09949.wav": "and shoot the man and shoot himself.",
  "sample_09950.wav": "I'll be even with him. You mock my words. I'll be even with him.\" That old toller, the most exasperating of men, judged by a quick temper, had irritated my friend into speaking rashly was plain enough. Nevertheless I felt some anxiety.",
  "sample_09951.wav": "About Crystal after looking around the kitchen again. I asked where she was Sitting forlorn in a bedroom crying her father told me I went out for a walk by the river And I sat down and being Sunday. I fell asleep when I woke and got home again. Just now that",
  "sample_09952.wav": "That was how I found her. I don't like to hear my girl crying. She's as good as gold and better. No sir, our deaf devil is not to blame for this. He has given Christy no reason to complain of him. She says so herself and she never told a lie yet.",
  "sample_09953.wav": "But Mr. Taller, I objected, something must have happened to distress her. Has she not told you what it is? Not she, obstinate about it. Leaves me to guess. It's clear to my mind, Mr. Girard, that somebody has guarded her in my absence.",
  "sample_09954.wav": "You will ask me who the person is",
  "sample_09955.wav": "But you mean to try?\" Yes, I mean to try. He answered me with little of the energy which generally distinguished him. Perhaps he was fatigued, or perhaps he had something else to think of. I offered a suggestion. When we ought\u2014",
  "sample_09956.wav": "in want of help, I said, we sometimes find it nearer than we had ventured to expect, at our own doors.\" The ancient miller rose at that hint like a fish at a fly. \"'Ludy!' he cried. \"'Find him at once, Mr. Taller.'\"",
  "sample_09957.wav": "I've got burdens on my mind, he explained, or I should have thought of it too.\" Having done justice to his own abilities, he bustled out. In less than a minute he was back again in a state of breathless triumph. Glutiestine the person, you announced, and...",
  "sample_09958.wav": "I beckoned to Gludy, waiting modestly at the door to come in and tell me what he had discovered. I saw her outside, sir, wrapping at the door here with her parasol. That was the servant's report. Her parasol?",
  "sample_09959.wav": "Miss Crystal looked like a person surprised at seeing a stranger\u2014what I should call a free and easy stranger. She walked in, sir, as if the place belonged to her. I am not suspicious by nature, as I hope and believe.",
  "sample_09960.wav": "The hat I had seen on the head of that hateful woman was now sufficiently described\u2014for a man. Sly old Taller, leaving Gludy unnoticed, and keeping his eye on me, saw the signs of conviction my face, and said with his customary audacity.",
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  "sample_09962.wav": "and he played so sweetly when they passed the rocks of the sirens that the dreadful monsters sang their most alluring strains in vain.",
  "sample_09963.wav": "whom he loved dearly, and who returned his love. But at their marriage the omens were not favourable. Hymen, the marriage god, came to it with a gloomy countenance, and the wedding torches smoked.",
  "sample_09964.wav": "I would not give forth a cheerful flame.",
  "sample_09965.wav": "was to be but short-lived, for as the new-made bride wandered through the woods with the other nymphs, a poisonous serpent stung her heel, and no remedy availed to save her. Orpheus was thrown into the sea.",
  "sample_09966.wav": "into the most passionate grief at his wife's death. He could not believe that he had lost her forever, but prayed day and night without ceasing to the gods above to restore her to him. When they would not listen,",
  "sample_09967.wav": "he resolved to make one last effort to win her back. He would go down to the lower world and seek her among the dead, and try whether any prayer or persuasion could move Pluto to restore his beloved. Near Tanaram",
  "sample_09968.wav": "In Lyconia was a cave among dark and gloomy rocks, through which led one of the entrances to the lower world. This was the road by which Hercules descended when he went to carry off Cerberus.",
  "sample_09969.wav": "the three-headed dog that guards the threshold of Pluto. Undaunted by the terrors of the place, Orpheus passed through this gate, and down a dark and dismal road to the Kingdom of the Dead.",
  "sample_09970.wav": "Here he came in safety through the crowd of ghosts and phantoms, and stood at last before the throne of Pluto and Proserpina. Then he touched the cords of his lyre and chanted these words.",
  "sample_09971.wav": "Great lords of the world below the earth, To which all we mortals must one day come, Grant me to tell a simple tale.",
  "sample_09972.wav": "the lifeless ghosts came flocking. And as they heard they wept, Tantalus forgot his hunger and thirst.",
  "sample_09973.wav": "sat on his stone to listen. Never yet had such sweet strains been heard in the world of gloom. Then, for the first time, tears moistened the cheeks of the furies, and even the king and queen of the dead were moved to pity.",
  "sample_09974.wav": "and she came, yet halting from her recent wound. Take her, says Pluto, and lead her back to the light.",
  "sample_09975.wav": "Nor must you once turn round to look upon her.",
  "sample_09976.wav": "Else the boom we grant you will be but vain. A steep path led upward from the realm of darkness, and the way was hard to find through the gloom. Then silence orpheus led on, till the goal was close at hand.",
  "sample_09977.wav": "and the welcoming light of the upper air began to penetrate the darkness. Then a sudden fear struck his heart.",
  "sample_09978.wav": "He turned to gaze on his beloved. Dimly he saw her, but for the last time, for a power she could not resist drew her back. Orpheus stretched out his arms and tried to seize her, but he only clasped the empty air.",
  "sample_09979.wav": "He sat on the further bank, without food or drink.",
  "sample_09980.wav": "Then at last he knew that the gods below were pitiless and full of sorrow. He returned to the upper earth for three years",
  "sample_09981.wav": "finding his only consolation in the music of his lyre, for he shunned all men and women.",
  "sample_09982.wav": "One day he sat down to rest on a grassy hill in the sunshine, and played and sang to beguile his sorrow. As he played, the coolness of shady branches seemed all about him, and looking up he found himself in the midst of a wood.",
  "sample_09983.wav": "Oak, poplar, lime, beech, laurel, ash, pine, plain, and maple, and many another tree, had gathered together here, drawn from their distant forest homes by the sounds of Orpheus's lyre.",
  "sample_09984.wav": "Yes, and the beasts and the birds of the field came too, and Orpheus sat in their midst, and sang and played the tunes of sorrow. Suddenly a great noise was heard of laughter and shouting and merry-making.",
  "sample_09985.wav": "For this was one of the feasts of Bacchus, and the women were celebrating his rites, wandering over the mountains with dance and revel. When they saw Orpheus, they set up a shout of derision. See? They cried.",
  "sample_09986.wav": "the wretched singer who mocks at women and will have no bride but the dead, come, let us kill him, and show that no man shall despise us unpunished.\" With these words they began to throw wands and stones at him.",
  "sample_09987.wav": "fell harmlessly to the ground. Then the women raised a wild shout and made such a clamor with trumpets and cymbals that the soft tones of the harp were drowned by the noise. Now at last the shots took effect.",
  "sample_09988.wav": "And in their fury the women fell upon him, Dealing blow on blow, Orpheus fell lifeless to the ground. But he was not to die unwept, The little birds of the forest mourned for him, Even the stony rocks wept.",
  "sample_09989.wav": "The trees shed their leaves with grief, and the dryads and niads tore their hair and put on the garb of sorrow. Only the pitiless revelers knew no remorse. They seized the singer's head.",
  "sample_09990.wav": "and threw it with his lyre into the river Hebrus. There it floated downstream, and, strange to tell, the cords gave forth a lament, and the lifeless tongue uttered words.",
  "sample_09991.wav": "When a mysterious crime has been perpetrated, or a great catastrophe has happened, and the identity of the victims has not been established, a great day invariably follows at the morgue.",
  "sample_09992.wav": "The attendants are so accustomed to the horrors of the place that the most sickly sight fails to impress them, and even under the most distressing circumstances they hasten gaily to and fro",
  "sample_09993.wav": "exchanging jests well calculated to make an ordinary mortal's flesh creep. As a rule, they are far less interested in the corpses laid out for public view on the marble slabs in the principal hall.",
  "sample_09994.wav": "As the vehicle conveying Lecoq reached the key,",
  "sample_09995.wav": "The newspapers had reported the tragedy at the widow Choupan's drinking-den, of course, more or less correctly, and everybody wished to see the victims.",
  "sample_09996.wav": "I prefer to alight here rather than in front of the morgue,\" he said, springing to the ground. Then producing first his watch and next his purse, he added,",
  "sample_09997.wav": "We have been an hour and forty minutes, my good fellow. Consequently, I owe you\u2014 Nothing at all, replied the driver decidedly. But no, not a sue.",
  "sample_09998.wav": "I am too worried already to think that I took the money these hussies offered me. It would only have served me right if the liquor I bought with it had given me the gripes. Don't be uneasy about the score, and if you need a trap, use mine for nothing.",
  "sample_09999.wav": "till you have caught the jades.\" As Lecoq's purse was low, he did not insist. \"'You will at least take my name and address,' continued the driver. Certainly.\"",
  "sample_10000.wav": "The magistrate will want your evidence, and a summons will be sent you. All right, then address it to Papillon, Eugene, driver.",
  "sample_10001.wav": "I lodge at his place because I have some small interest in the business, you see.\" The young detective was hastening away when Papillon called him back. When you leave the morgue you will want to go somewhere else, he said.",
  "sample_10002.wav": "You told me that you had another appointment, and that you were already late.' Yes, I ought to be at the Palais du Justice, but it is only a few steps from here. No matter.",
  "sample_10003.wav": "I will wait for you at the corner of the bridge. It's useless to say no. I've made up my mind. And I'm a Brayton. You know.",
  "sample_10004.wav": "Accordingly, the cock made a gesture of ascent, and then hurried toward the morgue. If there was a crowd on the roadway outside, it was because the gloomy building itself was crammed full of people. Indeed, the sightseers",
  "sample_10005.wav": "most of whom could see nothing at all, were packed as closely as sardines.",
  "sample_10006.wav": "that Lecoq managed to effect an entrance. As usual, he found among the mob a large number of girls and women, for, strange to say, it",
  "sample_10007.wav": "to the disgusting sights and horrible emotions that repay a visit to the morgue. The shop and work girls who reside in the neighborhood readily go out of their way to catch a glimpse of the corpses.",
  "sample_10008.wav": "which crime, accident, and suicide bring to this horrible place. A few",
  "sample_10009.wav": "may come no further than the door, but the others enter, and after a long stare, return and recount their impressions to their less courageous companions. If there should be no corpse exhibited,",
  "sample_10010.wav": "If all the marble slabs are unoccupied, strange as it may seem, the visitors turn hastily away with an expression of disappointment or discontent. There was no fear of their doing so, however.",
  "sample_10011.wav": "for the mysterious murderer whose identity Lecoque was trying to establish had furnished three victims for their delectation",
  "sample_10012.wav": "And yet a damp chill came from beyond the iron railings, while from the crowd itself rose an infectious vapor impregnated with a stench of the chloride of lime used as a disinfectant.",
  "sample_10013.wav": "As a continuous accompaniment to the exclamations, sighs, and whispered comments of the bystanders, came the murmur of the water trickling from a spigot at the head of each slab, a tiny stream that flowed forth.",
  "sample_10014.wav": "only to fall in fine spray upon the marble. Through the small arched windows a gray light stole in on the exposed bodies, bringing each muscle into bold relief.",
  "sample_10015.wav": "revealing the ghastly tints of the lifeless flesh, and imparting a sinister aspect to the tattered clothing hung around the room to aid in the identification of the corpses. This clothing, after a certain time, is sold.",
  "sample_10016.wav": "For nothing is wasted at the morgue. However Lecoq was too occupied with his own thoughts to remark the horrors of the scene. He scarcely bestowed a glance on the three victims.",
  "sample_10017.wav": "whom he could not perceive? Has G\u00e9ve Rol, intentionally or unintentionally, failed to fulfill his promise?",
  "sample_10018.wav": "Unable to explain the cause of his comrade's absence, the cock addressed himself to the head-keeper. It would seem that no one has recognized the victims, he remarked. No one, and yet...",
  "sample_10019.wav": "Ever since opening, we have had an immense crowd. If I were master here on days like this, I would charge an admission fee of two sous",
  "sample_10020.wav": "It would bring in around some more than enough to cover the expenses. The keeper's reply seemed to offer an inducement to conversation, but the cock did not seize it.",
  "sample_10021.wav": "No sooner had Charles taken into his hands the reins of government, than he showed an impatience to assemble the great Council of the Nation, and he would gladly, for the sake of dispatch, have called together the same Parliament which had sitten under his father, the great Council of the Nation.",
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  "sample_10024.wav": "He lightly mentioned the occasion which he had for supply. He employed no intrigue to influence the suffrages of the members. He would not even allow the officers of the Crown, who had seats in the House, to enter the House.",
  "sample_10025.wav": "and that great anticipations were likewise made on the revenues of the crown. They were not ignorant that Charles was loaded with a large debt contracted by his father, who had borrowed money both from his own subjects and from foreign princes.",
  "sample_10026.wav": "They had learned by experience that the public revenue could with difficulty maintain the dignity of the Crown, even under the ordinary charges of government.",
  "sample_10027.wav": "They were sensible that the present war was very lately the result of their own importunate applications and entreaties, and that they had solemnly engaged to support their sovereign in the management of it.",
  "sample_10028.wav": "They were acquainted with the difficulty of military enterprises directed against the whole House of Austria, against the King of Spain possessed of the greatest riches and most extensive dominions of any prince in Europe,",
  "sample_10029.wav": "against the Emperor Ferdinand, hitherto the most fortunate monarch of his age, who had subdued and astonished Germany by the rapidity of his victories. Deep impressions they saw must be made by the English sword",
  "sample_10030.wav": "and a vigorous offensive war be waged against these mighty potentates ere they would resign a principality which they had now fully subdued, at which they held insecure possession by its being surrounded with all their other territories.",
  "sample_10031.wav": "To answer, therefore, all these great and important ends, to satisfy their young king in the first request which he made them, to prove their sense of the many royal virtues, particularly economy, with which Charles was endued.",
  "sample_10032.wav": "The House of Commons, conducted by the wisest and ablest senators that had ever flourished in England, thought proper to confer on the King a supply of two subsidies.",
  "sample_10033.wav": "which the present conjuncture could suggest to them. It is not to be doubted but spleen and ill-will against the Duke of Buckingham had an influence with many. So vast and rapid a fortune, so little merited.",
  "sample_10034.wav": "could not fail to excite public envy, and however men's hatred might have been suspended for a moment while the Duke's conduct seemed to gratify their passions and their prejudices, it was impossible for him long to preserve the affections of the people.",
  "sample_10035.wav": "His influence over the modesty of Charles exceeded even that which he had acquired over the weakness of James, nor was any public measure conducted but by his counsel and direction.",
  "sample_10036.wav": "His vehement temper prompted him to raise suddenly to the highest elevation his flatterers and dependants, and upon the least occasion of displeasure he threw them down with equal impetuosity and violence. Implacable in his hatred,",
  "sample_10037.wav": "Fickle in his friendships, all men were either regarded as his enemies, or dreaded soon to become such. The whole power of the kingdom was grasped by his insatiable hand, while he both engrossed the entire confidence of his master.",
  "sample_10038.wav": "and held invested in his single person the most considerable offices of the Crown. However the ill humor of the Commons might have been increased by these considerations, we are not to suppose them the sole motives.",
  "sample_10039.wav": "The last parliament of James, amidst all their joy and festivity, had given him a supply very disproportionate to his demand and to the occasion, and as every House of Commons which was elected during forty years",
  "sample_10040.wav": "succeeded to all the passions and principles of their predecessors. We ought rather to account for this obstinacy from the general situation of the kingdom during that whole period than from any circumstances which attended this particular conjuncture."
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