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02 - The Last Of The Mohicans - James Cooper · Thrilling Adventures - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter two quote Sola Sola woe ha ho sola unquote
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  Speaker 1: by Shakespeare. While one of the lovely beings we have
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  Speaker 1: so curiously presented to the reader was thus lost in thought,
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  Speaker 1: the other quickly recovered from the alarm which had induced
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  Speaker 1: the exclamation, and, laughing at her own weakness, she inquired
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  Speaker 1: of the youth who rode by her side? Are such
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  Speaker 1: specters frequent in the woods, heyward? Or is this sight
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  Speaker 1: and especial entertainment ordered on our behalf? If the latter,
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  Speaker 1: gratitude must close our mouths. But if the former, both
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  Speaker 1: Cora and I shall have need to draw largely on
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  Speaker 1: that stock of hereditary courage which we boast even before
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  Speaker 1: we were made to encounter the redoubtable montcalmb Yon Indian
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  Speaker 1: is a runner of the army, and after the fashion
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  Speaker 1: of his people, he may be accounted a hero. Returned
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  Speaker 1: the officer he has volunteered to guide us to the
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  Speaker 1: lake by a path but little known. Sooner than if
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  Speaker 1: we followed the tardy movements of the column, and by
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  Speaker 1: a consequence more agreeably I like him not, said the lady,
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  Speaker 1: shuddering partly, and assumed yet more in real terror. You
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  Speaker 1: know him Duncan, or would you not trust yourself so
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  Speaker 1: freely to his keeping? Say rather, Alice, that I would
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  Speaker 1: not trust you I do know him, or he would
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  Speaker 1: not have my confidence. And least of all, at this moment,
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  Speaker 1: he is said to be a Canadian too. And yet
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  Speaker 1: he served with our friends, the Mohawks, who, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: are one of the six Allied nations. He was brought
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  Speaker 1: among us, as I have heard, by some strange accident
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  Speaker 1: in which your father was interested, and in which the
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  Speaker 1: savage was rigidly dealt by. But I forget the idle tale.
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  Speaker 1: It is enough he is now our friend. If he
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  Speaker 1: has been my father's enemy, I like him still less
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed the know really anxious girl, Will you not speak
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  Speaker 1: to him, Major Heyward, that I may hear his tones?
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  Speaker 1: Foolish though it may be, you have often heard me
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  Speaker 1: avow my faith in the tones of the human voice.
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  Speaker 1: It would be in vain, and answered, most probably by
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  Speaker 1: an ejaculation. Though he may understand it, he affects, like
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  Speaker 1: most of his people, to be ignorant of the English.
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  Speaker 1: And least of all will he condescend to speak it
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  Speaker 1: now that the war demands the utmost exercise of his dignity,
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  Speaker 1: but he stops the private path by which we are
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  Speaker 1: to journey is doubtless at hand. The conjecture of Major
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  Speaker 1: Heyward was true when they reached the spot where the
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  Speaker 1: Indians stood, Pointing into the thicket that fringed the military road,
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  Speaker 1: A narrow and blind path which might, with some little
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  Speaker 1: inconvenience receive one person at a time, became visible. Here
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  Speaker 1: then lies our way, said the young man in a
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  Speaker 1: low voice. Manifest no distrust, or you may invite the
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  Speaker 1: danger you appear to apprehend. Cora, what think you asked
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  Speaker 1: the reluctant fair one. If we journey with the troops,
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  Speaker 1: though we may find their presence irksome, shall we not
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  Speaker 1: feel better assurance of our safety, being little accustomed to
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  Speaker 1: the practices of the savages? Alice, you mistake the place
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  Speaker 1: of real danger, said Heyward. If enemies have reached the
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  Speaker 1: portage at all, a thing by no means probable. As
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  Speaker 1: our scalps are abroad, they will surely be found skirting
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  Speaker 1: the column where scalps abound most the route of the
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  Speaker 1: detachment is known, while ours, having been determined within the hour,
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  Speaker 1: must still be secret. Should we distrust the man because
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  Speaker 1: his men are not our manners, and that his skin
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  Speaker 1: is dark. Coldly asked Cora Alice hesitated no longer, but
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  Speaker 1: giving her Narragansett a smart cut of the whip, she
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  Speaker 1: was the first to dash aside the slight branches of
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  Speaker 1: the bushes, and to follow the runner along the dark
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  Speaker 1: and tangled pathway. Footnote. In the state of Rhode Island,
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  Speaker 1: there is a bay called Narraganset, so named after a
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  Speaker 1: powerful tribe of Indians which formerly dwelt on its banks.
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  Speaker 1: Accident or one of those unaccountable freaks which nature sometimes plays.
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  Speaker 1: In the animal world gave rise to a breed of
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  Speaker 1: horses which were once well known in America and distinguished
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  Speaker 1: by their habit of pacing. Horses of this race were
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  Speaker 1: and are still in much request as saddle horses on
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  Speaker 1: account of their hardiness and the ease of their movements,
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  Speaker 1: as they were also sure of foot. The Narraganset were
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  Speaker 1: greatly sought for by females who were obliged to travel
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  Speaker 1: over the roots and holes in the new countries and
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  Speaker 1: a footnote. The young man regarded the last speaker in
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  Speaker 1: open admiration and even permitted her fare, though certainly not
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  Speaker 1: more beautiful companion to proceed unattended, while he said uselessly
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  Speaker 1: opened the way himself for the passage of her, who
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  Speaker 1: has been called Cora. It would seem that the domestics
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  Speaker 1: had been previously instructed, for instead of penetrating the thicket,
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  Speaker 1: they followed the route of the column, a mesure which
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  Speaker 1: Heyward stated had been dictated by the sagacity of their guide,
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  Speaker 1: in order to diminish the marks of their trail. If
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  Speaker 1: haply the Canadian savages should be lurking so far in
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  Speaker 1: advance of their army. For many minutes, the intricacy of
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  Speaker 1: the route admitted of no further dialog, after which they
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  Speaker 1: emerged from the broad border of underbrush which grew along
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  Speaker 1: the line of the highway and entered under the high
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  Speaker 1: but dark arches of the forest. Here their progress was
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  Speaker 1: less interrupted, and the instant the guide perceived that the
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  Speaker 1: females could command their steeds. He moved on at a
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  Speaker 1: pace between a trot and a walk, and at a
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  Speaker 1: rate which kept the surefooted and peculiar animals. They rode
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  Speaker 1: at a fast yet easy amble. The youth had turned
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  Speaker 1: to speak to the dark eyed Cora, when the distant
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  Speaker 1: sound of horses hoofs clattering over the roots of the
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  Speaker 1: broken way in its rear caused him to check his charger,
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  Speaker 1: and as his companions drew their reins at the same instant,
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  Speaker 1: the whole party came to a halt in order to
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  Speaker 1: obtain an explanation of the unlooked for interruption. In a
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  Speaker 1: few moments, a colt was seen gliding like a fallow
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  Speaker 1: deer among the straight trunks of the pines, and in
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  Speaker 1: another instant, the person of the ungainly man described in
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  Speaker 1: the preceding chapter came into view with as much rapidity
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  Speaker 1: as he could excite his meager beasts to endure without
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  Speaker 1: coming to an open rupture. Until now his personage had
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  Speaker 1: escaped the observation of the travelers. If he possessed the
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  Speaker 1: power to arrest any wondering eye when exhibiting the glories
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  Speaker 1: of his altitude on foot, his equestrian graces were still
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  Speaker 1: more likely to attract attention, notwithstanding a constant application of
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  Speaker 1: his one armed heel to the flanks of the mare.
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  Speaker 1: The most confirmed gait that he could establish was a
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  Speaker 1: Canterbury gallop with the hind legs, in which those more
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  Speaker 1: forward assisted for doubtful moments, and generally content to maintain
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  Speaker 1: eloping trot. Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one
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  Speaker 1: of these paces to the other created an optical illusion
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  Speaker 1: which might thus magnify the powers of the beast. For
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  Speaker 1: it is certain that Heyward, who possessed a true eye
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  Speaker 1: for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his
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  Speaker 1: utmost ingenuity to decide by what sort of movement his
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  Speaker 1: pursuer worked his sinuous way on his footsteps. With such
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  Speaker 1: persevering hardihood, the industry and the movements of the rider
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  Speaker 1: were not less remarkable than those of the ridden. At
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  Speaker 1: each change in the evolutions of the latter, the former
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  Speaker 1: raised his tall person in the stirrups, producing in this
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  Speaker 1: matter by the undoe elongation of his legs such sudden
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  Speaker 1: growths and diminishings of the stature as baffled every conjecture
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  Speaker 1: that might be made as to his dimensions. If to
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  Speaker 1: this be added the fact, in consequence of the exparte
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  Speaker 1: application of the spur, one side of the mare appeared
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  Speaker 1: to journey faster than the other, and that the aggrieved
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  Speaker 1: flank was resolutely indicated by unremitted flourishes of a bushy tail.
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  Speaker 1: We finished the picture of both horse and man. The
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  Speaker 1: frown which had gathered around the handsome, open and manly
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  Speaker 1: brow of Hayward gradually relaxed, and his lips curled into
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  Speaker 1: a slight smile as he regarded the stranger. Alice made
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  Speaker 1: no very powerful effort to control her merriment, and even
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  Speaker 1: the dark, thoughtful eye of Cora lighted with the humor
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  Speaker 1: that it would seem the habit rather than nature of
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  Speaker 1: its mistress repressed. Seek you any here, demanded Heyward, when
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  Speaker 1: the other had arrived sufficiently nigh to abate his speed.
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  Speaker 1: I trust you are no messenger of evil tidings. Even so,
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  Speaker 1: replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular castor
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  Speaker 1: to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods,
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  Speaker 1: and leaving his hearers in doubt to which of the
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  Speaker 1: young man's questions he responded, When, however, he had cooled
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  Speaker 1: his face and recovered his breath, he continued, I hear
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  Speaker 1: you are writing to William Henry, as I am journing
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  Speaker 1: thither word myself, I concluded good company would seem consistent
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  Speaker 1: to the wishes of both parties. You appear to possess
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  Speaker 1: the privilege of a casting vote, returned, Heyward, we are three,
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  Speaker 1: while you have consulted no one but yourself. Even so,
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  Speaker 1: the first point to be obtained is to know one's
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  Speaker 1: own mind. Once sure of that, and were women and concerned,
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  Speaker 1: it is not easy. The next is to act up
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  Speaker 1: to the decision. I have endeavored to do both, and
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  Speaker 1: here I am. If you make the journey to the lake,
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  Speaker 1: you have mistaken your route, said Heyward, haughtily. The highway
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  Speaker 1: thither is least a half a mile behind you. Even so,
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  Speaker 1: replied the stranger, nothing daunted by his cold reception. I
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  Speaker 1: have tarried at Edward a week, and I should be
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  Speaker 1: dumb not to have inquired the road I was to journey.
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  Speaker 1: And if dumb, there would be an end to my calling.
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  Speaker 1: After simpering in a small way, like one whose modesty
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  Speaker 1: prohibited a more open expression of his admiration of a
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  Speaker 1: witticism that was perfectly unintelligible to his hearers, he continued,
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  Speaker 1: is it not prudent for any one of my profession
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  Speaker 1: to be too familiar with those he has to instruct?
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  Speaker 1: For which reason I follow not the line of the army,
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  Speaker 1: Besides which I conclude that a gentleman of your character
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  Speaker 1: is the best judgment in matters of wayfaring. I have
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  Speaker 1: therefore decided to join company in order that the ride
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  Speaker 1: may be made agreeable and partake of social communion. A
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  Speaker 1: most arbitrary, if not a hasty decision, exclaimed Heyward, undecided
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  Speaker 1: whether to give vent to his growing anger or to
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  Speaker 1: laugh in the other's face. But you speak of instruction
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  Speaker 1: and of a profession. Are you an adjunct to the
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  Speaker 1: provincial corps as a master of the noble science of
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  Speaker 1: defense and offense? Or perhaps you're the one who draws
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  Speaker 1: lines and angles under the pretense of expounding the mathematics.
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  Speaker 1: The stranger regarded his interrogreator for a moment in wonder,
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  Speaker 1: and then, losing every mark of self satisfaction, in an
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  Speaker 1: expression of solemn humility, he answered, of offense, I hope
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  Speaker 1: there is none to either party. Of defense, I make none,
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  Speaker 1: by God's good mercy, having committed no palpable sin since
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  Speaker 1: last entreating his pardoning Great, I understand not your allusions
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  Speaker 1: about lines and angles, and I leave expounding to those
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  Speaker 1: who have been called and set apart for that holy office.
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  Speaker 1: I lay claim through no higher gift than a small
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  Speaker 1: insight into the glorious art of petitioning and thanksgiving as
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  Speaker 1: practice in Psalmoity. This man is most manifestly a disciple
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  Speaker 1: of Apollo, cried the amused Alice. And I take him
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  Speaker 1: under my own especial protection. Nay, throw aside that frown heyward,
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  Speaker 1: and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to
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  Speaker 1: journey in our trade. Besides, she added in a low
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  Speaker 1: and hurried voice, casting a glance at the distant Cora,
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  Speaker 1: who slowly followed the footsteps of their silent but sullen guide.
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  Speaker 1: It may be a friend added to her strength in
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  Speaker 1: the time of need, think you, Alice, I would trust
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  Speaker 1: those I loved by this secret path. Did I imagine
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  Speaker 1: such need could happen? Nay, nay, I think not of
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  Speaker 1: it now. But this strange man amuses me. And if
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  Speaker 1: he hath music in his soul, let us not courlyously
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  Speaker 1: reject his company. She pointed persuasively along the path with
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  Speaker 1: her riding whip, while her eyes met in a look
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  Speaker 1: which the young men lingered a moment to prolong. Then,
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  Speaker 1: yielding to her gentle influence, he clapped his spurs to
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  Speaker 1: his charger, and in a few bounds was again at
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  Speaker 1: the side of Cora. I am glad to encounter thee friend,
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  Speaker 1: continued the maiden, waving her hand to the stranger to proceed,
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  Speaker 1: as she urged her nar against to renew its amble.
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  Speaker 1: Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not
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  Speaker 1: entirely worthless in a duet myself. And we may enliven
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  Speaker 1: our wayfaring by indulging in our favorite pursuit. It might
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  Speaker 1: be of signal advantage to one ignorant as I, to
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  Speaker 1: hear the opinions and experience of a master of the art.
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  Speaker 1: It is refreshing both to the spirits and the body
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  Speaker 1: to indulge in psalmody in befitting seasons, returned the master
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  Speaker 1: of song, unhesitatingly, complying with her intimation to follow. And
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  Speaker 1: nothing would relieve the mind more than such a consoling communion.
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  Speaker 1: But four parts are altogether necessary for the perfection of melody.
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  Speaker 1: You have all the manifestations of a soft and rich trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I can buy a special aid carry a full tenor
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  Speaker 1: to the highest letter, but we lack counter and base Yon.
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  Speaker 1: Officer of the king, who hesitated to admit me to
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  Speaker 1: his company, might fill the letter. If one may judge
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  Speaker 1: from the intonations of his voice in common dialog, judge
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  Speaker 1: not too rashly from hasty and deceptive appearances, said the lady, smiling.
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  Speaker 1: Though Major Heyward can assume such deep notes on occasion,
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  Speaker 1: believe me his natural tones are better fitted to a
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  Speaker 1: mellow tenor than the base you heard. Is he then
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  Speaker 1: much practiced in the art of psalmody, demanded her simple companion, Alice,
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  Speaker 1: felt disposed to laugh, though she succeeded in suppressing her merriment.
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  Speaker 1: She answered, I apprehend that he is rather addicted to
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  Speaker 1: profane song. The chances of a soldier's life are but
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  Speaker 1: little fitted to the encouragement of more sober inclinations. Man's
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  Speaker 1: voice was given to him, like his other talents, to
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  Speaker 1: be used and not to be abused. None can say
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  Speaker 1: they have ever known me to neglect my gifts. I
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  Speaker 1: am thankful that, through my boyhood may be said to
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  Speaker 1: have been set apart, like the youth of the Royal David,
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  Speaker 1: for the purposes of music. No syllable of rude verse
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  Speaker 1: has ever profaned my lips. You have then limited your
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  Speaker 1: efforts to sacred song, even so as the psalms of
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  Speaker 1: David exceed all other language. So does the psalmody that
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  Speaker 1: has been fitted to them by the divines and sages
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  Speaker 1: of the land surpass all vain poetry. Happily, I may
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  Speaker 1: say that I utter nothing but the thoughts and wishes
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  Speaker 1: of the King of Israel himself. For though the times
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  Speaker 1: may call for some slight changes, yet does this version
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  Speaker 1: which we use in the colonies of New England so
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  Speaker 1: much exceed all other versions, that, by its richness, its exactness,
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  Speaker 1: and its spiritual simplicity, it approacheth as near as may be,
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  Speaker 1: the great work of the inspired writer. I never abide
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  Speaker 1: in any place, sleeping or waking without an example of
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  Speaker 1: this gifted work. Tis the sixth and twentieth edition promulgated
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  Speaker 1: at Boston, Agno Domini, seventeen forty four, and is entitled
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  Speaker 1: The Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs of the Old and
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  Speaker 1: New Testaments, Faithfully translated into English meter for the use,
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  Speaker 1: edification and comfort of the Saints in public and private,
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  Speaker 1: especially in New England. During his euloquium on the rare
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  Speaker 1: production of his native poets, the Stranger had drawn the
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  Speaker 1: book from him his pocket and fitting a pair of
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  Speaker 1: iron rimmed spectacles to his nose, opened the volume with
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  Speaker 1: a care and veneration suited to its sacred purposes. Then,
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  Speaker 1: without circumlocution or apology, first pronounced the word standish, and
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  Speaker 1: placing the unknown engine already described to his mouth, from
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  Speaker 1: which he drew a high, shrill sound that was followed
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  Speaker 1: by an octave below from his own voice. He commenced
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  Speaker 1: singing the following words in full, sweet and melodious tones
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  Speaker 1: that set the music, the poetry, and even the uneasy
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  Speaker 1: motion of his ill trained beast at defiance.
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  Speaker 2: How good it is o c and how it pleaseth
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  Speaker 2: well together Ian in unity for brethren, So to dwell.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the choice ointment from the head to the
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  Speaker 2: beard did go down aaron's head, that downward went his
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  Speaker 2: garment skirts. Unto the delivery of these skillful rhymes was
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  Speaker 2: accompanied on the part of the stranger by a regular
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  Speaker 2: rise and fall of his right hand, which terminated at
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  Speaker 2: the descent, by suffering the fingers to dwell a moment
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  Speaker 2: on the leaves of the little volume, and on assent
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  Speaker 2: by a flourish of the member, As none but the
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  Speaker 2: initiated might ever hope to imitate, it would seem long
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  Speaker 2: practice had rendered this manual accompaniment necessary, for it did
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  Speaker 2: not cease until the proposition which the poet had selected
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  Speaker 2: for the close of his verse had been duly delivered,
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  Speaker 2: like a word of two syllables. Such an innovation on
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  Speaker 2: the silence and the retirement of the forest could not
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  Speaker 2: fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at
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  Speaker 2: so short a distance. In advance.
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  Speaker 1: The Indian muttered a few words in broken English to Heyward,
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  Speaker 1: who in his turn spoke to the stranger, at once
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  Speaker 1: interrupting and for the time closing his musical efforts. Though
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  Speaker 1: we are not in danger, common prudence would teach us
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  Speaker 1: to journey through this wilderness and as quiet a manner
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  Speaker 1: as possible. You will then pardon me, Alice, should I
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  Speaker 1: diminish your enjoyments by requesting this gentleman to postpone him
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  Speaker 1: chance until a safer opportunity, you will diminish them. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: returned the arch girl, For never did I hear a
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  Speaker 1: more unworthy conjunction of execution and language than that to
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  Speaker 1: which I have been listening. And I was far gone
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  Speaker 1: in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an
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  Speaker 1: unfitness between sound and sense, When you broke the charm
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  Speaker 1: of my musing by that bass of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Duncan I know not what you call my bass, said Heyward,
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  Speaker 3: piqued at her remark, But I know that your safety,
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  Speaker 3: in that of Cora, is far dearer to me than
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  Speaker 3: could be any orchestra of Handel's music. He paused and
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  Speaker 3: turned his head quickly toward a thicket, and then bent
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  Speaker 3: his eyes suspiciously on their guide, who continued his steady
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  Speaker 3: face in undisturbed gravity. The young man smiled to himself,
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  Speaker 3: for he believed he had mistaken some shining berry of
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  Speaker 3: the woods for the glistening eyeballs of a prowling savage.
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  Speaker 3: As he rode forward, continuing the conversation which had been
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  Speaker 3: interrupted by the passing thought, Major Heyward was mistaken only
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  Speaker 3: in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his
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  Speaker 3: active watchfulness. The cavalcade had not long passed before the
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  Speaker 3: branches of the bushes that formed the thicket were cautiously
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  Speaker 3: moved asunder, and a human visage as fiercely wild as
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  Speaker 3: savage art and unbridled passions could make it peered out
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  Speaker 3: on the retiring footsteps of the travelers. A gleam of
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  Speaker 3: exultation shot across the darkly painted lineaments of the inhabitant
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  Speaker 3: of the forest as he traced the route of his
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  Speaker 3: intended victims, who rode unconsciously onward. The light and graceful
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  Speaker 3: forms of the females waving among the trees in the
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  Speaker 3: curvatures of their path, followed at each bend by the
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  Speaker 3: manly figure of Hayward, until finally the shapeless person of
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  Speaker 3: the Singing Master was concealed behind the numberless trunks of
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  Speaker 3: trees that rose in dark lines in the intermediate space.
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  Speaker 3: End of Chapter two