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  Speaker 1: Chapter four, Bielby a Holiday. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Rita Boutros Bielby a Holiday by H. G. Wells.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter four, The Unobtrusive Parting Part two sub chapter seven.
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  Speaker 1: We'll call the principal witness, said Missus Bowles, at last,
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  Speaker 1: warming to the business. Dick, Dick, dick. The Professor got
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  Speaker 1: up and strolled round behind the caravan. Then he returned.
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  Speaker 1: No boy there he heard, said Missus Bowles, in a
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  Speaker 1: large whisper and making round wonder eyes. She says, said Douglas,
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  Speaker 1: that the chances are he's got into the secret passages.
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  Speaker 1: The Professor strolled out to the road and looked up it,
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  Speaker 1: and then down upon the roofs of Winthorpe Sutbury. No,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he's mizzled. He's only gone away for a bit,
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  Speaker 1: said Missus Goach. He does sometimes after lunch he'll come
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  Speaker 1: back to wash up. He's probably taking a snooze among
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  Speaker 1: the yewe bushes before facing the labors of washing up,
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  Speaker 1: said Missus Bowles. He can't have mizzled. You see in there.
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  Speaker 1: He can't, by any chance have taken his luggage. She
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  Speaker 1: got up and clambered, with a little difficulty because of
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  Speaker 1: its piled up position, into the caravan. It's all right,
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  Speaker 1: she called out of the door. His little parsival is
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  Speaker 1: still here. Her head disappeared again. I don't think he'd
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  Speaker 1: go away like this, said Madeleine. After all, what is
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  Speaker 1: there for him to go to, even if he is
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  Speaker 1: Lady Laxton's missing boy. I don't believe he heard a
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  Speaker 1: word of it, said missus Geach. Missus Bowles reappeared with
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  Speaker 1: a curious looking brown paper parcel in her hand. She
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  Speaker 1: descended carefully. She sat down by the fire and held
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  Speaker 1: the parcel on her knees. She regarded it and her
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  Speaker 1: companions waggishly and lit a fresh cigarette. Our link with dick,
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  Speaker 1: she said. With the cigarette in her mouth, she felt
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  Speaker 1: the parcel. She poised the parcel, She looked at it
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  Speaker 1: more and more waggishly. I wonder, she said. Her expression
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  Speaker 1: became so waggish that her husband knew she was committed
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  Speaker 1: to behavior of the utmost ungentlemanliness. He had long ceased
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  Speaker 1: to attempt restraint in these moods. She put her head
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  Speaker 1: on one side and tore open the corner of the parcel,
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  Speaker 1: just a little way a tin can, she said, in
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  Speaker 1: a stage whisper. She enlarged the opening blades of grass,
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  Speaker 1: she said. The professor tried to regard it humorously. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you have ceased to be decent, you can still
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  Speaker 1: be frank. I think, now, my dear, you might just
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  Speaker 1: straightforwardly undo the parcel. She did. Twelve unsympathetic eyes surveyed
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  Speaker 1: the evidences of Bielby's utter poverty. He's coming, cried Madeleine. Suddenly.
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  Speaker 1: Judy repacked hastily. But it was a false alarm. I
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  Speaker 1: said he'd mizzled, said the professor, and without washing up,
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  Speaker 1: wailed Madeleine. I couldn't have thought it of him. Sub
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight. But Bilby had not mizzled. Although he was
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  Speaker 1: conspicuously not in evidence. About the camp, there was neither
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  Speaker 1: sight nor sound of him. For all the time they
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  Speaker 1: sat about the vestiges of their meal, they talked of him,
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  Speaker 1: and of topics arising out of him, and whether the
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  Speaker 1: captain should telegraph to Lady Laxton boy practically found. I'd
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  Speaker 1: rather just find him, said the captain, and anyhow, until
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  Speaker 1: we get hold of him, we don't know it's her
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  Speaker 1: particular boy. Then they talked of washing up and how
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  Speaker 1: detestable it was, And suddenly the two husbands, seeing their advantage,
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  Speaker 1: renewed their proposals that the caravanners should put up at
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  Speaker 1: the golf Links Hotel and have baths and the comforts
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  Speaker 1: of civilization for a night or so, and anyhow, walk
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  Speaker 1: thither for tea, And as William had now returned, he
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  Speaker 1: was sitting on the turf afar off, smoking a nasty
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  Speaker 1: looking short clay pipe. They rose up and departed, but
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  Speaker 1: Captain Douglas and Miss Phillips, for some reason, did not
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  Speaker 1: go off exactly with the other, but strayed apart, straying
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  Speaker 1: away more and more into a kind of solitude. First
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  Speaker 1: the four married people and then the two lovers disappeared
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  Speaker 1: over the crest of the downs sub Chapter nine. For
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  Speaker 1: a time, except for its distant sentinel, the caravan seemed
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  Speaker 1: absolutely deserted. And then a clump of bramble against the
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  Speaker 1: wall of the old chalk pit became agitated, and a small, rueful,
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  Speaker 1: disillusioned white smeared little Bilby crept back into the visible
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  Speaker 1: universe again. His heart was very heavy. The time had
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  Speaker 1: come to go, and he did not want to go.
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  Speaker 1: He had loved the caravan, he had adored Madeleine. He
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  Speaker 1: would go, but he would go beautifully touchingly. He would
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  Speaker 1: wash up before he went. He would make everything tidy.
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  Speaker 1: He would leave behind him a sense of irri reparable loss.
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  Speaker 1: With a mournful precision, he set about this undertaking. If
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  Speaker 1: Mergleson could have seen, Mergleson would have been amazed. He
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  Speaker 1: made everything look wonderfully tidy. Then, in the place where
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  Speaker 1: she had sat, lying on her rug, he found her
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  Speaker 1: favorite book, a small volume of Swinburne's poems, very beautifully bound.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Douglas had given it to her. Bilby handled it
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  Speaker 1: with a kind of reverence. So luxurious it was, so
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  Speaker 1: unlike the books in Bilby's world, so altogether of her quality.
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  Speaker 1: Strange forces prompted him for a time. He hesitated. Then
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  Speaker 1: decision came with a rush. He selected a page, drew
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  Speaker 1: the stump of a pencil from his pocket, wetted it,
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  Speaker 1: very wet and breathing hard, began to write that traditional message,
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  Speaker 1: farewell remember Art Bilby. To this he made an original
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  Speaker 1: edition I washed up before I went. Then he remembered
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  Speaker 1: that so far as this caravan went, he was not
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  Speaker 1: Art Bilby at all. He renewed the wetness of his
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  Speaker 1: pencil and drew black lines athwart the name of art
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  Speaker 1: Bilby until it was quite unreadable. Then across this again,
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  Speaker 1: and pressing still deeper, so that the subsequent pages re
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  Speaker 1: echoed it, He wrote these singular words ed rightful, earl schantz.
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  Speaker 1: Then he was ashamed and largely obliterated this by still
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  Speaker 1: more forcible strokes. Finally, above it, plainly and nakedly, he
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  Speaker 1: wrote Dick maltravers. He put down the book with a
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  Speaker 1: sigh and stood up. Everything was beautifully in order, but
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  Speaker 1: could he not do something? Yet? There came to him
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  Speaker 1: the idea of wreathing the entire camping place with boughs
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  Speaker 1: of yewe. It would look lovely and significant. He set
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  Speaker 1: to work. At first he toiled zealously, but you is
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  Speaker 1: tough to get, and soon his hands were painful. He
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  Speaker 1: cast about for some easier way, and saw beneath the
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  Speaker 1: hind wheels of the caravan great green boughs, one particularly
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  Speaker 1: a splendid long branch. It seemed to him that it
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  Speaker 1: would be possible to withdraw this branch from the great
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  Speaker 1: heap of sticks and stones that stayed up the hind
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  Speaker 1: wheels of the caravan. It seemed to him that that
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  Speaker 1: was so. He was mistaken, but that was his idea.
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  Speaker 1: He set to work to do it. It was rather
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  Speaker 1: more difficult to manage than he had supposed. There were
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  Speaker 1: unexpected ramifications, wider resistances. Indeed, the thing seemed rooted. Bielby
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  Speaker 1: was a resolute youngster. At bottom. He warmed to his task.
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  Speaker 1: He tugged harder and harder. Sub Chapter ten. How various
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  Speaker 1: is the quality of humanity about Bilby? There was ever
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  Speaker 1: an imaginative touch. He was capable of romance, of gallantries
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  Speaker 1: of devotion. William was of a grosser clay, slave of
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  Speaker 1: his appetites. A materialist, such men as William drive one
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  Speaker 1: to believe in born inferiors, in the existence of a
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  Speaker 1: lower sort, in the natural inequality of men. While Bilby
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  Speaker 1: was busy at his little gentle task of reparation, a
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  Speaker 1: task foolish perhaps, and not too ably conceived, but at
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  Speaker 1: any rate morally gracious, William had no thought in the
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  Speaker 1: world but the satisfaction of those appetites that the consensus
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  Speaker 1: of all mankind has definitely relegated to the lower category,
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  Speaker 1: and which Heaven has relegated to the lower regions of
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  Speaker 1: our frame. He came now slinking towards the vestiges of
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  Speaker 1: the caravaner's picnic, and no one skilled in the interpretation
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  Speaker 1: of the human physiognomy could have failed to read the
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  Speaker 1: significance of the tongue tip that drifted over his thin,
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  Speaker 1: oblique lips. He came so softly towards the encampment that
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  Speaker 1: Bilby did not note him. Partly William thought of remnants
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  Speaker 1: of food, but chiefly he was intent to drain the bottles.
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  Speaker 1: Bilby had stuck them all neatly in a row. A
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  Speaker 1: little way up the hill. There was a cider bottle
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  Speaker 1: with some heel taps of cider. William drank that. Then
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  Speaker 1: there was nearly half a bottle of Hawk, and William
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  Speaker 1: drank that. Then there were the drainings of the Burgundy
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  Speaker 1: and Apollinaris. It was all drank to William. And after
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  Speaker 1: he had drained each bottle, William winked at the watching angels,
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  Speaker 1: and licked his lips and patted the lower centers of
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  Speaker 1: his being with a shameless bass approval. Then fired by alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: robbed of his last vestiges of self control, his thoughts
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  Speaker 1: turned to the delicious chocolates that were stored in a
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  Speaker 1: daintily beribboned box in the little drawers beneath the sleeping
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  Speaker 1: bunk of Miss Phillips. There was a new brightness in
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  Speaker 1: his eye, a spot of pink in either cheek. With
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  Speaker 1: an expression of the lowest cunning, he reconnoitered Bilby. Bilby
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  Speaker 1: was busy about something at the back end of the caravan,
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  Speaker 1: tugging at something with swift, stealthy movements of an entirely
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  Speaker 1: graceless sort. William got up into the front of the caravan,
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  Speaker 1: just for a moment. He hesitated before going in. He
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  Speaker 1: craned his neck to look round the side at the
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  Speaker 1: the unconscious Bielby wrinkled the vast nose into an unpleasant grimace,
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  Speaker 1: and then a crouching figure of appetite. He crept inside.
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  Speaker 1: Here they were. He laid his hand in the drawer, halted,
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  Speaker 1: listening what was that? Suddenly the caravan swayed. He stumbled
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  Speaker 1: and fear crept into his craven soul. The caravan lurched.
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  Speaker 1: It was moving its hind wheels, came to the ground
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  Speaker 1: with a crash. He took a step doorward and was
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  Speaker 1: pitched sideways and thrown upon his knees. Then he was
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  Speaker 1: hurled against the dresser and hit by a falling plate.
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  Speaker 1: A cup fell and smashed, and the caravan seemed to
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  Speaker 1: leap and bound through the little window. He had a
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  Speaker 1: glimpse of yew bushes hurrying upward. The caravan was going
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  Speaker 1: down hill. Lummy, said William, clutching at the bunk to
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  Speaker 1: hold himself upright. Caren't be that drink, said William. A
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  Speaker 1: spread and aghast, he attempted the door. Crickey, here hold
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  Speaker 1: in my shin? How tis that brasted bull of a boy?
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  Speaker 1: Said William sub Chapter eleven. The caravan party soon came
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  Speaker 1: to its decision they would stay the night in the hotel,
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  Speaker 1: and so as soon as they had had some tea,
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  Speaker 1: they decided to go back and make William bring the
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  Speaker 1: caravan and all the ladies things round to the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: With characteristic eagerness, Professor Bowles led the way, and so
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  Speaker 1: it was Professor Bowles who first saw the release of
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  Speaker 1: the caravan. He barked one short, sharp bark. Who he cried,
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  Speaker 1: and very quickly what's the boy doing? Then? Quite a
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  Speaker 1: different style of noise with the mouth open, wah whoop.
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  Speaker 1: Then he set off, running very fast down towards the caravan,
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  Speaker 1: waving his arms and shouting as he ran, yaps, you idiot, yaps.
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  Speaker 1: The others were less promptly active down the slope. They
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  Speaker 1: saw Bilby, a little struggling active Bilby, tugging away at
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  Speaker 1: a U branch until the caravan swayed with his efforts.
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  Speaker 1: And then then there was a movement as though the
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  Speaker 1: thing tossed its head and reared, and a smash as
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  Speaker 1: the heap of stuff that stayed up its hind wheels collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: It plunged like a horse with a dog at its heels.
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  Speaker 1: It lurched sideways, and then with an air of quiet deliberation,
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  Speaker 1: started down the grass slope to the road and Winthorpe
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  Speaker 1: Sutbury Professor Boles sped in pursuit like the wind, and
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  Speaker 1: Missus Bowles, after a gasping moment, set off after her
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  Speaker 1: Lord her face ran resolute. Mister Gege followed at a
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  Speaker 1: more dignified pace, making the only really sound suggestion that
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  Speaker 1: was offered on the occasion, Hugh stop it cried mister
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  Speaker 1: Gege for all the world, like his great prototype at
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  Speaker 1: the Balkan Conference, and then like a large languid pair
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  Speaker 1: of scissors, he began to run. Missus Gege, after some
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  Speaker 1: indefinite moments, decided to see the humor of it all,
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  Speaker 1: and followed after her lord in a fluttering rush, emitting
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  Speaker 1: careful little musical giggles as she ran, giggles that she
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  Speaker 1: had learnt long ago from a beloved Schoolfellow Captain Douglas
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  Speaker 1: and Miss Phillips were some way behind the others, and
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  Speaker 1: the situation had already developed considerably before they grasped what
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  Speaker 1: was happening. Then, obeying the instincts of a soldier, the
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  Speaker 1: Captain came charging to support the others, and Miss Madeleine Phillips,
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  Speaker 1: after some waste gestures, realized that nobody was looking at her,
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  Speaker 1: and sat down quietly on the turf until this paralyzing
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  Speaker 1: state of affairs should cease. The caravan remained the center
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  Speaker 1: of interest. Without either indecent haste or any complete pause,
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  Speaker 1: it pursued its way down the road towards the tranquil
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  Speaker 1: village below, except for the rumbling of its wheels, and
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  Speaker 1: on occasional concussion, it made very little sound. Once or
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  Speaker 1: twice there was a faint sound of breaking crockery from
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  Speaker 1: its interior, and once the phantom of an angry yell.
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  Speaker 1: But that was all. There was an effect of discovered
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  Speaker 1: personality about the thing. This vehicle, which had hitherto been
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  Speaker 1: content to play a background part a yellow patch amidst
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  Speaker 1: the scenery, was now revealing an individuality. It was purposeful
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  Speaker 1: and touched with a suggestion of playfulness, at once kindly
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  Speaker 1: and human. It had its thoughtful instance, its phases of
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  Speaker 1: quick decision. Yet never once did it altogether lose a
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  Speaker 1: certain mellow dignity. There was nothing servile about it. Never
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  Speaker 1: for a moment, for example, did it betray its blind
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  Speaker 1: obedience to gravitation. It was rather as if it and
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  Speaker 1: gravitation were going hand in hand. It came out into
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  Speaker 1: the road, but it into the bank, swept round, meditated
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  Speaker 1: for a full second, and then shafts foremost headed down hill,
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  Speaker 1: going quietly faster and faster, and swaying from bank to bank.
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  Speaker 1: The shafts went before it like arms held out. It
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  Speaker 1: had a quality as if it were a favorite elephant
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  Speaker 1: running to a beloved master from whom it had been
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  Speaker 1: over long separated, or a slightly intoxicated and altogether happy
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  Speaker 1: yellow guinea pig making for some coveted food at a
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  Speaker 1: considerable distance. Followed Professor Bowles, a miracle of compact energy,
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  Speaker 1: running so fast that he seemed only to touch the
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  Speaker 1: ground at very rare intervals, and then dispersedly in their order,
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  Speaker 1: and according to their natures the others. There was fortunately
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  Speaker 1: very little on the road. There was a perambulator containing twins,
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  Speaker 1: whose little girl guardian was so fortunate as to be
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  Speaker 1: high up on the bank gathering blackberries. A ditcher ditching,
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  Speaker 1: a hawker lost in thought, his cart drawn by a
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  Speaker 1: poor little black screw of a pony, and loaded with
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  Speaker 1: the cheap, flawed crockery that is so popular among the poor.
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  Speaker 1: A dog asleep in the middle of the village street.
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  Speaker 1: Amidst this choice of objects, the caravan displayed a whimsical humanity.
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  Speaker 1: It reduced the children in the perambulator to tears, but
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  Speaker 1: passed it might have reduced them to a sort of
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  Speaker 1: red currant jelly. It lurched heavily towards the ditcher and
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  Speaker 1: spared him. It chased the hawker up the bank. It
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  Speaker 1: whipped off a wheel from the cartiff crockery, which, after
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  Speaker 1: an interval of astonishment, fell like a vast objurgation. And
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  Speaker 1: then it directed its course, with a grim intentness, toward
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  Speaker 1: the dog. It just missed the dog. He woke up,
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  Speaker 1: not a moment too soon. He fled with a yelp
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  Speaker 1: of dismay. And then the caravan careered on a dozen yards,
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  Speaker 1: further lost energy, and the only really undignified thing in
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  Speaker 1: its whole career stood on its head in a wide
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  Speaker 1: wet ditch. It did this with just the slightest lapse
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  Speaker 1: into emphasis. There it was as if it gave a grunt,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps there was the faintest suggestion of William in
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  Speaker 1: that grunt. And then it became quite still. For a
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  Speaker 1: time the caravan seemed finished and done. Its steps hung
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  Speaker 1: from its upper end like the tongue of a tired dog.
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  Speaker 1: Except for a few minute noises as though it was
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  Speaker 1: scratching itself inside, it was as inanimate as death itself.
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  Speaker 1: But up the hill road the twins were weeping. The
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  Speaker 1: hawker and the ditcher were saying raucous things. The hawker's
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  Speaker 1: pony had backed into the ditch and was taking ill
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  Speaker 1: advised steps for which it was afterwards to be sorry
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  Speaker 1: amidst his stock in trade and Professor Bulls, Missus Bulls,
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  Speaker 1: mister Gege, Captain Douglas, and Missus Gege were running running.
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  Speaker 1: One heard the various patter of their feet, and then
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  Speaker 1: came signs of life at the upward door of the caravan.
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  Speaker 1: A hand, an arm, an active investigating leg seeking a hold,
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  Speaker 1: a large nose, a small intent, vicious eye. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: William William maddened. Professor Bowles had reached the caravan with
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  Speaker 1: a startling agility. He clambered up by the wheels and
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  Speaker 1: step and confronted the unfortunate driver. It was an occasion
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  Speaker 1: for mutual sympathy rather than anger. But the Professor was hasty,
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  Speaker 1: efficient and unsympathetic with the lower classes, and Williams was
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  Speaker 1: an ill regulated temperament. You consummate ass began Professor Bowles.
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  Speaker 1: When William heard Professor Bowles say this incontinently, he smote
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  Speaker 1: him in the face. And when Professor Bowles was smitten
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  Speaker 1: in the face, he grappled instantly and very bravely and
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  Speaker 1: resolutely with William. For a moment they struggled fearfully. They
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be endowed instantontaneously with innumerable legs, and then
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  Speaker 1: suddenly they fell through the door of the caravan into
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  Speaker 1: the interior. Their limbs seemed to whirl for a wonderful instant,
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  Speaker 1: and then there were summoned up. The smash was tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: You would not have thought there was nearly so much
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  Speaker 1: in the caravan still left to get broken. A healing
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  Speaker 1: silence at length smothered noises of still inadequate adjustment within
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  Speaker 1: the village population in a state of scared delight, appeared
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  Speaker 1: at a score of points and converged upon the catastrophe.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds of renewed dissension between William and the professor inside
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  Speaker 1: the rearing yellow bulk promised further interests and added an
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  Speaker 1: element of mystery to this manifest disaster sub Chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 1: As Bielby, still grasping his great branch of you, watched
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  Speaker 1: these events, a sense of human futility invaded his youthful mind.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time, he realized the gulf between intention
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  Speaker 1: and result. He had meant so well, he perceived it
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  Speaker 1: would be impossible to explain the thought of even attempting
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  Speaker 1: to explain things to Professor Boles was repellent to him.
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  Speaker 1: He looked about him with round, despairful eyes. He selected
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  Speaker 1: a direction which seemed to promise the maximum of concealment
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  Speaker 1: with the minimum of conversational possibility. And in that direction,
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  Speaker 1: and without needless delay, he set off, eager to turn
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  Speaker 1: over an entirely fresh page in his destiny as soon
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  Speaker 1: as possible, to get away the idea possessed all his being.
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  Speaker 1: From the crest of the downs, a sweet voice floated
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  Speaker 1: after his retreating form and never overtook him. Dick sub
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen. Then presently, Miss Phillips arose to her feet,
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  Speaker 1: gathered her skirts in her hand, and, with her delicious
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  Speaker 1: chin raised and an expression of countenance that was almost
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  Speaker 1: business like, descended towards the gathering audience below. She wore wide,
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  Speaker 1: flowing skirts and came down the hill in Artemisian's strides.
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  Speaker 1: It was high time that somebody looked at her. End
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter four, Part two