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Miss Sara Sampson-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Conquistador

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Miss Sarah Sampson. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Sampson a tragedy in five acts by G. E.
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  Speaker 1: Lessing Dramatis persone. Sir William Sampson played by Anthony Miss
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Sampson, His Daughter read by R. L.
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  Speaker 2: Lipshaw.
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  Speaker 1: Melafant read by al G. Pag Marwood formerly Melafant's Mistress
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  Speaker 1: read by Avay Arabella. A child daughter of Marwood.
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  Speaker 3: Read by Miss Avarice weight Well.
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  Speaker 1: An old servant of Sir.
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  Speaker 4: William read by John steigerwolt.
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  Speaker 1: Norton, servant of Melafant read by John Fricka.
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  Speaker 5: Betty Sarah's May read by Nicole Thompson.
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Marwood's Maid read by Debora Ley. The Innkeeper read
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  Speaker 1: by David Lawrence. Servant read by mb Narrated by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 1: Act one seene one A room in an inn.
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  Speaker 6: My daughter here in this wretched inn.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt Malafont has purposely selected the most wretched one
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  Speaker 4: in the town. The wicked always seek the darkness because
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  Speaker 4: they are wicked. But what would it help them? Could
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  Speaker 4: they even hide themselves from the whole world? Conscience, after all,
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  Speaker 4: is more powerful than the accusations of a world. Ah,
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  Speaker 4: you are weeping again again, sir, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Let me weep, my honest old servant. Or does she
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  Speaker 6: not do you think deserve my tears?
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  Speaker 4: Alas she deserves them? Were they tears of blood? Well?
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  Speaker 6: Let me weep.
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  Speaker 4: The best, the loveliest, the most innocent child that ever
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  Speaker 4: lived beneath the sun must thus be led astray. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: my Sarah, my little Sarah. I have watched thee grow
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  Speaker 4: a hundred times? Have I carried thee as a child
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  Speaker 4: in these arms? Have I admired thy smiles, thy lispings,
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  Speaker 4: from every childish look beamed forth the dawn of an intelligence,
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  Speaker 4: a kindliness.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, be silent? Does not the present rend my heart?
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  Speaker 5: Enough?
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  Speaker 6: Will you make my tortures more infernal still by recalling
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  Speaker 6: past happiness? Change your tone? If you'll do me a service,
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  Speaker 6: reproach me, Make of my tenderness a crime, magnify my
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  Speaker 6: daughter's fault, fill me with abhorrence of her. If you
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  Speaker 6: can stir up anew my revenge against her cursed seducer,
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  Speaker 6: say that Sarah never was virtuous, since she so lightly
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  Speaker 6: ceased to be so, say that she never loved me,
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  Speaker 6: since she clandestinely forsook me.
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  Speaker 4: If I said that I should utter a lie, a shameless,
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  Speaker 4: wicked lie, it might come to me again on my
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  Speaker 4: death bed, and I, old wretch, would die in despair. No,
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  Speaker 4: little Sarah has loved her father, and doubtless, doubtless she
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  Speaker 4: loves him. Yet if you will only be convinced of this,
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  Speaker 4: I shall see her again in your arms this very day.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, wait well of this alone, I asked to be convinced.
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  Speaker 6: I cannot any longer live without her. She is the
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  Speaker 6: support of my age. And if she does not help
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  Speaker 6: to sweeten the sad remaining days of my life, who
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  Speaker 6: shall do it? She loves me still Her error is forgotten.
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  Speaker 6: It was the error of a tender heartened maiden, and
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  Speaker 6: a flight was the result of her remorse. Such errors
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  Speaker 6: are better than forced virtues. Yet I feel weight well,
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  Speaker 6: I feel it, even were these errors real crimes, premeditate advices,
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  Speaker 6: even then I should forgive her. I would rather be
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  Speaker 6: loved by a wicked daughter than by none at all.
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  Speaker 4: Try your tears, dear sir, I hear someone, it will
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  Speaker 4: be the landlord coming to welcome us.
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  Speaker 7: Seem too so early, gentlemen, so early you are welcome. Welcome.
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  Speaker 7: Wait well, you have doubtless been traveling all night. Is
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  Speaker 7: that the gentleman of whom you spoke to me yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is he, and I hope that in accordance
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  Speaker 4: with what we settled.
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  Speaker 7: I am entirely at your service, my lord. What is
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  Speaker 7: it to me, whether I know or not, what cause
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  Speaker 7: has brought you hither? And why you wish to live
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  Speaker 7: in seclusion in my house? Landlord takes his money and
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  Speaker 7: lets his guests do as they think best. Wait well,
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  Speaker 7: it is true has told me that you wish to
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  Speaker 7: observe the stranger a little who has been staying here
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  Speaker 7: for a few weeks with his young wife. But I
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  Speaker 7: hope that you will not cause him any annoyance. You
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  Speaker 7: would bring my house into ill repute, and certain people
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  Speaker 7: would fear to stop here. Men like us must live on.
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  Speaker 7: People of all kinds.
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  Speaker 8: Do not fear.
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  Speaker 6: Only conduct me to the room which weight Will has
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  Speaker 6: ordered for me. I come here for an honorable purpose.
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  Speaker 7: I have no wish to know your secrets, my Lord.
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  Speaker 7: Curiosity is by no means a fault of mine. I might,
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  Speaker 7: for instance, have no one long ago who the stranger
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  Speaker 7: is on whom you want to keep a watch. But
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  Speaker 7: I have no wish to know this much. However, I
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  Speaker 7: have discovered that he must have eloped with the young lady.
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  Speaker 7: The poor little wife or whatever she may be, remains
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  Speaker 7: the whole day locked up in her room, and cries
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  Speaker 7: and cries, yes, and cries. But my lord, why do
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  Speaker 7: your tears fall? The young lady must interest you deeply,
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  Speaker 7: surely you are not.
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  Speaker 4: Do not detain him any longer.
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  Speaker 7: Come, Come, one wall only will separate you from the
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  Speaker 7: lady in whom you are so much interested, And who may.
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  Speaker 4: Be you mean then, at any cost to know who?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 7: Wait, well, I have no wish to know anything.
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  Speaker 4: Make haste, then, before the whole house begins to stir.
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  Speaker 7: Will you please follow me? Then, my lord?
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  Speaker 1: Accient Scene three, Melophant's room, Melophant in dressing gown, sitting
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  Speaker 1: in an easy chair.
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  Speaker 10: Another night in which I could not have spent more
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  Speaker 10: cruelly on the rack Norton. I must make haste to
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  Speaker 10: get sight of a face or two. If I remain
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  Speaker 10: alone with my thoughts any longer, they might carry me
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  Speaker 10: too far. Hey, Norton, he is still asleep. But is
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  Speaker 10: it not cruel of me not to let the poor
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  Speaker 10: devil sleep? How happy he is? However, I do not
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  Speaker 10: wish anyone about me to be happy. Norton.
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  Speaker 1: Norton, coming, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Dress me? Oh no, sour looks. Please, when I should
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  Speaker 10: be able to sleep longer myself, I would let you
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  Speaker 10: do the same. If you wish to do your duty,
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  Speaker 10: at least have pity on me.
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  Speaker 11: Pity, sir, pity on you. I know better where pity
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  Speaker 11: is due.
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  Speaker 10: And where then let me.
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  Speaker 11: Dress you and don't ask.
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  Speaker 10: Confound it are your reproofs then to awaken together with
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  Speaker 10: my conscience. I understand you. I know on whom you
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  Speaker 10: expend your pity, but I would do justice to her
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  Speaker 10: and to myself quite right. Do not have any pity
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  Speaker 10: on me. Curse me in your heart, but curse yourself
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  Speaker 10: also myself also, Yes, because you'd serve a miserable wretch
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  Speaker 10: whom ought not to bear, and because you have made
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  Speaker 10: yourself a partaker in his crimes.
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  Speaker 11: I made myself a partaker in your crimes in what way?
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  Speaker 10: By keeping silent about them?
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  Speaker 11: Well, that is good. A word would have cost me
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  Speaker 11: my neck in the heat of your passions. And besides,
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  Speaker 11: did I not find you already so bad when I
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  Speaker 11: made your acquaintance, that all hope of amendment was vain?
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  Speaker 11: What a life I have seen you leading from the
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  Speaker 11: first moment in the lowest society of gamblers and vagrants,
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  Speaker 11: I call them what they were, without regard to their
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  Speaker 11: knightly titles and such like. In this society you've squandered
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  Speaker 11: a fortune which might have made a way for you
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  Speaker 11: to an honorable position. And your culpable intercourse with all
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  Speaker 11: sorts of women, especially with the wicked Marwood.
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  Speaker 10: Restore me, Restore me to that life. It was virtue
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  Speaker 10: compare with the present one. I spend my fortune well,
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  Speaker 10: the punishment follows, and I shall soon enough feel all
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  Speaker 10: the severity and humiliation of want I associated with vicious women.
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  Speaker 10: That may be, I was myself seduced more often than
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  Speaker 10: I seduced others, and those whom I did seduce wished it.
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  Speaker 10: But I still had no ruined virtue upon my conscience.
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  Speaker 10: I had carried off Nurse Sarah from the house of
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  Speaker 10: her beloved father and forced her to follow a scoundrel
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  Speaker 10: who was no longer free I had, who come so
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  Speaker 10: early to me?
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  Speaker 1: Seen?
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  Speaker 11: For it is Betty up already?
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  Speaker 10: Betty? How is your mistress?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: How is she?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 12: It was long after midnight before I could persuade her
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  Speaker 12: to go to bed. She slept a few moments, But God,
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  Speaker 12: what asleep that must have been. She started suddenly, sprang
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  Speaker 12: up and fell into my arms, like one pursued by
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  Speaker 12: a murderer. She trembled, and a call perspiration started on
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  Speaker 12: her pale face. I did all I could to calm her,
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  Speaker 12: but up to this morning she has only answered.
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  Speaker 8: Me with silent tears.
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  Speaker 6: At length, she sent me.
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  Speaker 12: Several times to your door to listen with you were up.
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  Speaker 12: She wishes to speak to you. You alone can comfort her.
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  Speaker 12: Oh do so, dearest sir, do so. My heart will
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  Speaker 12: break if she continues to fret like this.
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  Speaker 10: Go Betty, Tell her I shall be with her in
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  Speaker 10: a moment.
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  Speaker 12: No, she wishes to come to you herself.
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  Speaker 10: Well tell her then that I am awaiting her.
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  Speaker 1: Except Betty.
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  Speaker 11: Scene five, Oh God, the poor young lady.
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  Speaker 10: Whose feelings is his exclamation of yours mit to rouse.
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  Speaker 10: See the first tear which I have shed since my childhood,
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  Speaker 10: is running down my cheek a bad preparation for receiving
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  Speaker 10: one who sees comfort? But why does she seek it
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  Speaker 10: from me? Yet? Where else shall she seek it?
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  Speaker 1: I must collect myself drying his eyes.
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  Speaker 10: Where is the old firmness with which I could see
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  Speaker 10: a beautiful eye in tears? Where is the gift of
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  Speaker 10: the stimulation gone by which I could be and could
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  Speaker 10: say whatsoever I wished? She will come now and weep
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  Speaker 10: tears that brook no resistance. Confused and ashamed, I shall
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  Speaker 10: stand before her like a convicted criminal. I shall stand
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  Speaker 10: before her, counsel me. What shall I do? What shall
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  Speaker 10: I say?
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  Speaker 11: You shall do what she asks of you.
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  Speaker 10: I shall then perpetrate a fresh act of cruelty against her.
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  Speaker 10: She is wrong to blame me for delaying a ceremony
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  Speaker 10: which cannot be performed in this country without the greatest
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  Speaker 10: injury to us.
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  Speaker 11: Well leave it, then? Why do we delay? Why do
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  Speaker 11: you let one day after the other pass and one
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  Speaker 11: week after the other. Just give me the order and
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  Speaker 11: you will be safe on board tomorrow. Perhaps her grief
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  Speaker 11: will not follow her over the ocean. She may leave
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  Speaker 11: part of it behind, and in another land, may a.
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  Speaker 10: Hoop that I show silence? She is coming? How my
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  Speaker 10: heart throbs.
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  Speaker 1: Scene six, Melophant advancing towards her.
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  Speaker 10: You have had a restless night, dearest Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: Alas melephant, if it were nothing but a restless.
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  Speaker 1: Night, Meliphant to his servant, leave us Norton aside in going.
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  Speaker 11: I would not stay if I was paid in gold
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  Speaker 11: for every moment.
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  Speaker 1: Scene seven.
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  Speaker 10: You are faint, Dearest Sarah. You must sit down.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah sits down.
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  Speaker 2: I trouble you very early? Will you forgive me that
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  Speaker 2: with the morning I again begin my complaints.
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  Speaker 10: Dearest Sarah, you mean to say that you cannot forgive
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  Speaker 10: me because another morning has dawned and I have not
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  Speaker 10: yet put an end to your complaints.
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  Speaker 2: What is there that I would not forgive you? You
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  Speaker 2: know what I have already forgiven you. But the ninth week, Melafant,
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  Speaker 2: the ninth week begins to day, and this miserable house
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  Speaker 2: still sees me in just the same position as on
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  Speaker 2: the first day. You doubt my love, I doubt your love.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 2: I feel my misery too much, too much to wish
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  Speaker 2: to deprive myself of this last and only solace.
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  Speaker 10: How then, can you be uneasy about the delay of
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  Speaker 10: a ceremony?
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  Speaker 2: Ah melephant. Why is it that we think so differently
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  Speaker 2: about this ceremony? Yield a little to the woman's way
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  Speaker 2: of thinking? I imagine it in a more direct consent
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  Speaker 2: from Heaven in vain? Did I try again, only yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: in the long tedious evening, to adopt your ideas and
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  Speaker 2: to banish from my breast the doubt which just now,
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  Speaker 2: not for the first time, you have deemed the result
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  Speaker 2: of my distrust. I struggled with myself. I was clever
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  Speaker 2: enough to deafen my understanding, but my heart and my
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  Speaker 2: feeling quickly overthrew this toilsome structure of reason. Reproachful voices
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  Speaker 2: roused me from my sleep, and my imagination united with
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  Speaker 2: them to torment me. What pictures, what dreadful pictures hovered
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  Speaker 2: about me? I would willingly believe them to be dreams?
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  Speaker 10: What whould my sensible Sarah believe them to be anything else? Dreams,
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  Speaker 10: my dearest dreams? How unhappy is man? Did not his
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  Speaker 10: creative find tortures enough for him in the realm of reality?
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  Speaker 10: Had he also to create in him the still most
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  Speaker 10: spacious realm of imagination in order to increase them.
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  Speaker 2: Do not accuse Heaven it has left the imagination in
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  Speaker 2: our power. She is guided by our acts, and when
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  Speaker 2: these are in accordance with our duties and with virtue,
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  Speaker 2: the imagination serves only to increase our peace and happiness.
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  Speaker 2: A single act, Melafant, a single blessing bestowed upon us
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  Speaker 2: by a messenger of peace in the name of the
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  Speaker 2: Eternal One, can restore my shattered imagination. Again, Do you
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  Speaker 2: still hesitate to do a few days sooner? For love
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  Speaker 2: of me? What in any case you mean to do
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  Speaker 2: at some future time? Have pity on me, and consider that,
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  Speaker 2: although by this you may be freeing me only from
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  Speaker 2: torments of the imagination. Yet these imagined torments are torments,
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  Speaker 2: and are real torments for her who feels them. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: could I but tell you the terrors of the last night,
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  Speaker 2: half as vividly as I have felt them. Wearied with
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  Speaker 2: crying and grieving my only occupations, I sank down on
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  Speaker 2: my bed with half closed eyes, sly nature wished to
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  Speaker 2: recover itself a moment to collect new tears, but hardly asleep.
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  Speaker 2: Yet I suddenly saw myself on the steepest peak of
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  Speaker 2: a terrible rock. You went on before, and I followed
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  Speaker 2: with tottering anxious steps, strengthened now and then by a
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  Speaker 2: glance which you threw back upon me. Suddenly I heard
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  Speaker 2: behind me a gentle call which bade me stop. It
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  Speaker 2: was my father's voice. Ay, unhappy one, can I forget
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  Speaker 2: nothing which is his alas of his memory renders him
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  Speaker 2: equally cruel service if he too cannot forget me. But
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  Speaker 2: he has forgotten me comfort cruel comfort for his Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: But listen, Melafant. In turning round to this well known voice,
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  Speaker 2: my foot slipped, I reeled and was on the point
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  Speaker 2: of falling down the precipice, when just in time I
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  Speaker 2: felt myself held back by one who resembled myself. I
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  Speaker 2: was just returning her my passionate thanks when she drew
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  Speaker 2: a dagger from her bosom. I saved you, she cried,
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  Speaker 2: to ruin you. She lifted her armed hand, and I
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  Speaker 2: awoke with the blow. Awake, I still felt all the
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  Speaker 2: pain which a mortal stab must give without the pleasure
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  Speaker 2: which it brings. The hope for the end of grief
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  Speaker 2: in the end.
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  Speaker 10: Of life, Ah, dearest Sheerah, I promise you the end
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  Speaker 10: of your grief without the end of your life, which
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  Speaker 10: would certainly be the end of mine, also forget the
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  Speaker 10: terrible tissue of a meaningless dream.
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  Speaker 2: I look to you for the strength to be able
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  Speaker 2: to forget it. Be it love or seduction, happiness or
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  Speaker 2: unhappiness which threw me into your arms. I am yours
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  Speaker 2: in my heart, and will remain so forever. But I
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  Speaker 2: am not yet yours in the eyes of that judge
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  Speaker 2: who has threatened to punish the smallest transgressions of his law.
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  Speaker 10: Then may all the punishment fall upon me alone?
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  Speaker 2: What can fall upon you without touching me too? But
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  Speaker 2: do not misinterpret my urgent request. Another woman, after having
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  Speaker 2: forfeited her honor by an error like mine, might perhaps
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  Speaker 2: only seek to regain a part of it by a
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  Speaker 2: legal union. I do not think of that malafant, because
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  Speaker 2: I do not wish to know of any other honor
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  Speaker 2: in this world than that of loving you. I do
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  Speaker 2: not wish to be united to you for the world's sake,
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  Speaker 2: but for my own, and I will willingly bear the
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  Speaker 2: shame of not appearing to be so when I am
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  Speaker 2: united to you. You need not. Then if you do
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  Speaker 2: not wish acknowledge me to be your wife, you may
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  Speaker 2: call me what you will. I will not bear your name.
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  Speaker 2: You shall keep our union as secret as you think good,
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  Speaker 2: and may I always be unworthy of it if I
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  Speaker 2: ever harbor the thought of drawing any other advantage from
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  Speaker 2: it than the appeasing of my conscience.
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  Speaker 10: Stop, Sarah, or I shall die before your eyes. How
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  Speaker 10: riched I am that I have not the courage to
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  Speaker 10: make you more wretched. Still, consider that you have given
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  Speaker 10: yourself up to my guidance. Consider that it is my
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  Speaker 10: duty to look to our future, and that I must
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  Speaker 10: at present be DEAFTI your complaints if I will not
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  Speaker 10: hear you utter more grievous complaints throughout the rest of
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  Speaker 10: your life. Have you then forgotten what I have so
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  Speaker 10: often represented to you in justification of my conduct?
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  Speaker 2: I have not forgotten it. Melafant, you wish first to
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  Speaker 2: secure a certain bequest, You wish first to secure some
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  Speaker 2: temporal goods, and you let me forfeit eternal ones.
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  Speaker 10: Perhaps through it, Ah Sarah, if you are as certain
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  Speaker 10: of all temporal goods as your virtue is of the eternal.
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  Speaker 2: Ones my virtue. Do not say that word. Once it
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  Speaker 2: sounded sweet to me, but now a terrible thunder rolls
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 10: What must he who is to be virtuous never have
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  Speaker 10: committed a trespass has a single error such fatal effect
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  Speaker 10: that it can annihilate a whole course of blameless years.
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  Speaker 10: If so, no one is virtuous. Virtue is then at chimera,
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  Speaker 10: which disperses in the air when one thinks that one
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  Speaker 10: grasps it most firmly. If so, there is no wise
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  Speaker 10: being who suits our beauties to our strength. If so
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  Speaker 10: there is, I am frightened at the terrible conclusions in
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  Speaker 10: which your despondency must involve me. No, Sarah, you are
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  Speaker 10: still the virtue Sarah, that you were before your unfortunate
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  Speaker 10: acquaintance with me. If you look upon yourself with such
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  Speaker 10: cruel eyes, with what eyes must you regard.
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  Speaker 2: Me with the eyes of love? Melephant?
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  Speaker 10: I implore you, then, on my knees, I implore you,
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  Speaker 10: for the sake of this love, this generous love, which
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  Speaker 10: overlooked all my unworthiness, to calm yourself. Have patience for
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: a few days longer a.
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  Speaker 2: Few days, how long? Even a single day.
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  Speaker 10: Is cursed, bequest, cursed nonsense of a dying cousin who
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: would only leave me his fortune on the condition that
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  Speaker 10: I should give my hand to a relation who hates
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: me as much as I hate her to you, in
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: human tyrants of our freedom be imputed, all the misfortune
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  Speaker 10: or the sin into which your compulsion forces us, could
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  Speaker 10: I but dispense with this degrading inheritance. As long as
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  Speaker 10: my father's fortune suffice for my maintenance, I always scorned it,
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  Speaker 10: and did not even think it worthy of mentioning. But
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  Speaker 10: now now when I should like to possess all the
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  Speaker 10: treasures of the world, only to lay them at the
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  Speaker 10: feet of my Sarah, Now when I must contrive at
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  Speaker 10: least to let her appear in the world as befits
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  Speaker 10: her station. Now I must have.
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  Speaker 2: Recourse to it, which probably will not be successful. After all, you.
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  Speaker 10: Always forebode the worst. No, the lady whom this also concerns,
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  Speaker 10: is not disinclined to enter into a sort of agreement
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  Speaker 10: with me. The fortune is to be divided, and as
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  Speaker 10: she cannot enjoy the whole with me, she is willing
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  Speaker 10: to let me buy my liberty with half of it.
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  Speaker 10: I am every hour expecting the final intelligence, the delay
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  Speaker 10: of which alone has so prolonged our sojourn here. As
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: soon as I already we shall not remain here one
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  Speaker 10: moment longer. We will immediately cross to France, dearest Sarah,
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  Speaker 10: where you shall find new friends who already look forward
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  Speaker 10: to the pleasure of seeing and loving you. And these
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  Speaker 10: new friends shall be the witnesses of our union.
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  Speaker 2: They shall be the witnesses of our union. Cruel man,
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  Speaker 2: Our union, then, is not to be in my native land.
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  Speaker 2: I shall leave my country as a criminal. And as such,
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  Speaker 2: you think I should have the courage to trust myself
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  Speaker 2: to the ocean. The heart of him must be calmer
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  Speaker 2: or more impious than mine, who only for a moment
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  Speaker 2: can see with indifference between himself and destruction. Nothing but
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: a quavering plank. Death would roar at me in every
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: wave that struck against the vessel. Every wind would howl
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: its curses after me from my native shore, and the
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: slightest storm would seem a sentence of death pronounced upon me. No, Melafant,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: you cannot be so cruel to me. If I live
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: to see the completion of this agreement, you must not
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: grudge another day to be spent here. This must be
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the day on which you shall teach me to forget
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the tortures of all these tearful days. This must be
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: the sacred day alas which day will it be.
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  Speaker 10: But do you consider, Sarah, that our marriage here would
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: let those ceremonies which are due to it.
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  Speaker 2: A sacred act does not acquire more force through ceremonies.
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  Speaker 2: But I am astonished. You surely will not insist on
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  Speaker 2: such a trivial pretext. Oh melephant melafant. Had I not
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: made for myself an inviolable law never to doubt the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: sincerity of your love, this circumstance might but too much
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: of this already it might seem as if I had
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: been doubting it even.
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  Speaker 10: Now, the first moment of your doubt would be the
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: last moment of my life. Alas, Sarah, what have I
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  Speaker 10: done that you should remind me even of the possibility
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  Speaker 10: of it? It is true the confessions which I have
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  Speaker 10: made to you, without fear of my early excesses, cannot
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: do me honor, but they should at least awaken confidence.
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  Speaker 10: A coquettish Marwood held me in her meshes because I
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  Speaker 10: felt for her that which is so often taken for love,
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  Speaker 10: which it so rarely is. I should still bear her
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  Speaker 10: shameful fetters. Had not Heaven, which perhaps did not think
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  Speaker 10: my heart quite unworthy to burn with better flames taken
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  Speaker 10: pity on me to see you, dearest Sarah, was to
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: forget all mah woods. But how dearly have you paid
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: for taking me out of such hands? I had grown
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: too familiar with advice, and you know it too little.
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  Speaker 2: Let us think no more of it.
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  Speaker 1: Scene eight?
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  Speaker 10: What do you want?
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: While I was standing before the house, a servant gave
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: me this letter. It is directed to you, sir, to
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: me who.
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  Speaker 10: Knows my name.
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  Speaker 1: Here looking at the latter.
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  Speaker 10: Good heavens, you are startled, but without cause, Sarah, as
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  Speaker 10: I now perceive, I was mistaken in the handwriting.
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  Speaker 2: May the contents be as agreeable to you as you
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  Speaker 2: can wish.
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  Speaker 10: I suspect there will be of very little importance.
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  Speaker 2: One is less constrained when one is alone. So allow
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  Speaker 2: me to retire to my room again.
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  Speaker 10: You entertain suspicions, then about it?
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  Speaker 1: Not at all?
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  Speaker 2: Meliphant.
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  Speaker 1: Meliphant going with her to the back of the stage.
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  Speaker 10: I shall be with you in a moment, dearest Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: See nine Meliphant, still looking at the letter.
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  Speaker 11: Just heaven, woe to you? If it is only just?
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  Speaker 10: Is it possible? I see this cursed handwriting again, and
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: I am not chilled with terror? Is it she? Is
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: it not she? Why do I still doubt it is she?
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  Speaker 10: Alas friend? A letter from Malwood? What fury? What demon
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: has betrayed my abird to her? What does she still
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  Speaker 10: want from me? Go make preparations immediately that we may
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  Speaker 10: get away from here? Yet stop? Perhaps it is unnecessary.
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  Speaker 10: Perhaps the contempt of my farewell letters has only caused
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: ma Wood to reply with equal contempt. There open the letter,
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  Speaker 10: read it. I'm afraid to do so myself.
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  Speaker 13: Norton reads, If you will deign Melafont to glance at
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  Speaker 13: the name which you will find at the bottom of
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  Speaker 13: the page, it will be to me as though I
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  Speaker 13: had written you the longest of letters.
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  Speaker 10: Curse the name? Would I had never heard it? Would
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: it could be erased from the book of the living?
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  Speaker 1: Norton reads, on, the.
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  Speaker 11: Labor of finding you out has been sweetened by the
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: love which helped me in my search.
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  Speaker 10: Love, wanton creature, you profane the words which belong to
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: virtue alone.
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  Speaker 1: Norton continues, Love has done more.
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  Speaker 11: Still I tremble it has brought me to you.
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  Speaker 10: Treetor what are you reading?
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  Speaker 1: Snatches the letter from his hand and reads himself, I
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: am here.
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  Speaker 10: And it rest with you, whether you will await a
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: visit from me, or whether you anticipate mine by one
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  Speaker 10: from you. Marwood, what a thunderbolt she is here? Where
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: is she? She shall atone for this audacity with her life,
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: with her life.
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  Speaker 11: One glance from her and she will be again at
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: her feet. Take care what you do. You must not
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  Speaker 11: speak with her, or the misfortunes of your poor young
• 27:31
  Speaker 11: lady will be complete.
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  Speaker 10: Oh wretched man that I am, No I must speak
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: with her. She would go even into Sarah's room in
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: search of me, and would vent all her rage on
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: that innocent girl.
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  Speaker 11: But sir, not a word.
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: Let me see whether she has given the address.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Looking at the letter.
• 27:52
  Speaker 10: Here it is, come show me the way.
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  Speaker 1: Accient and of Act one, Act two of Miss Sarah Sampson.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Miss Sarah Sampson a tragedy in
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  Speaker 1: five acts by G. E. Lessing, Act two, Scene one,
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  Speaker 1: Marwood's room in another inn, Marwood in negligee, and Hannah.
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  Speaker 8: I hope Bellefort has delivered the letter at the right address, Hannah,
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: he has to him himself to his servant. I am
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: all impatience to see what effect it will have. Do
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: I not seem a little uneasy to you? Hannah? And
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: I am so the traitor? But gently, I must not
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: on any account give weight to anger. For Beeheran's love
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: and treaty are the only weapons which I can use
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  Speaker 8: against him if I rightly understand his weak side.
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  Speaker 9: But if he should harden himself against them.
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  Speaker 8: If he should harden himself against them, then I shall
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  Speaker 8: not be angry. I shall rave. I feel it, Hannah,
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  Speaker 8: and I would rather do so to begin with.
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  Speaker 9: Come yourself. He may come at any moment.
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  Speaker 8: I only hope he may come. I only hope he
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: has not decided to await me on his own ground.
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  Speaker 8: But do you know, Hannah, on what I chiefly found
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: my hopes of drawing away the faithless man from this
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: new object of his love on our bed. Lah.
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  Speaker 9: It is true she is a little idle to him,
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: and there could not have been a happier idea than
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: that of bringing her with you.
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: Even if his heart should be deaf to an old love,
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: the language of blood will at least be audible to him.
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: He tore the child from my arms a short time ago,
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: under the pretext of wishing to give her an education
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  Speaker 8: such as she could not have with me. It is
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: only by an artifice that I have been able to
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: get her again from the lady who had charge of her.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: He had paid more than a year in advance, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: had given strict orders the very day before his flight,
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: that they should by no means give admission to a
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: certain Marwood, who would perhaps come and give herself out
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: as the mother of the child. From this order I
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: see the distinction which he draws between us. He regards
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: Arabella as a precious portion of himself, and me as
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: an unfortunate creature of whose charms he has grown weary.
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  Speaker 8: What in gratitude, ah Hannah, Nothing more infallibly draws down
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: in gratitude than favors for which no gratitude would be
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: too great. Why have I shown him these fatal favors?
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Ought I not to have foreseen that they could not
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: always retain their value with him, that their value rested
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: on the difficulty in the way of their enjoyment. And
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: the letter must disappear with the charm of our looks,
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  Speaker 8: which the hand of time, imperceptibly, but surely effaces.
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  Speaker 9: You, madam, have not anything to fear for a long
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: time from this dangerous hand. To my mind, your beauty
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: is so far from having passed the point of its
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: brightest bloom that it is rather advancing towards it, and
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: would enchain fresh hearts for you every day, if you
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: only would give it the permission.
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  Speaker 8: Be silent, Hannah, you flatter me on an occasion which
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: makes me suspicious of any flattery. It is nonsense to
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: speak of new conquests if one has not even sufficient
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: power to retain possession of those which one has already
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: made seem too.
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  Speaker 11: Some one wishes to have the honor of speaking with you?
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  Speaker 8: Who is it?
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  Speaker 11: I suppose it.
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  Speaker 6: Is the gentleman to whom the latter was addressed, at
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: least the servant to whom I delivered.
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  Speaker 5: It is with him, melepont, quick, bring him up, accept servant, Ah, Hannah,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: he is here?
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  Speaker 8: Now? How shall I receive him? What shall I say?
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: What luke shall I put on? Is this calm enough?
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  Speaker 9: Just see anything? But colme this? Then throw a little
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: sweetness into it? So perhaps too sad would this smile
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: do perfectly? Only less constrained. He is coming.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three, Melophant entering with wild gestures. Huh, mawood, Marwood
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: running to meet him, smiling and with open arms. Ah Meleophant,
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  Speaker 1: Melophant aside.
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  Speaker 10: A murdersh what a look.
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  Speaker 8: I must embrace you, faithless, dear fugitive, share my joy
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  Speaker 8: with me? Why do you tell yourself from my caresses?
• 32:46
  Speaker 10: I expected, Marwood, that you would receive me differently?
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: Why differently with more love, perhaps with more delight? Alas
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: how unhappy I am that I cannot express all that
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: I feel? Do you not see, Malaphont? Do you not
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  Speaker 8: see that joy too has its tears? Here they fall
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: the offspring of sweetest delight. But alas vain tears, his
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: hand does not dry you.
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  Speaker 10: Ah would The time is gone when such words would
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: have charmed me. You must speak now with me in
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: another tone. I come to your last reproaches and to
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: answer them reproaches.
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  Speaker 8: What reproaches should I have for you, Malaphant? None?
• 33:31
  Speaker 10: Then you might have spared yourself the journey, I should think.
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  Speaker 8: Dearest capricious heart, why will you forcibly compel me to
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: recall a trifle which I forgave you the same moment
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: I heard of it does a passing infidelity which your gallantry,
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: but not your heart, has caused, deserve these reproaches. Come,
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: let us laugh at it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: You are mistaken. My heart is more concerned in it
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: than it ever was in all our love, upon which
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: I cannot look back now but with disgust.
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: Your heart, Malofont, is a good little fool. It lets
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: your imagination persuade it to whatever it will. Believe me,
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: I know it better than you do yourself. Were it
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: not the best, the most faithful of hearts, should I
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: take such pains to keep it?
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: To keep it?
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  Speaker 8: You never possessed it, I tell you, and I tell
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  Speaker 8: you that in reality I possess it still.
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  Speaker 10: Mah would if I knew that you still possessed one
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: single fiber of it, I would tear it out of
• 34:35
  Speaker 10: my breast here before your eyes.
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: You would see that you were tearing mine out at
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: the same time, And then then these hearts would at
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: last attain that union which they have sount so often
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: upon our.
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  Speaker 1: Lips, malephant Aside.
• 34:51
  Speaker 10: What a serpent flight will be the best thing here?
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: Just tell me briefly, our wood, why you have followed me,
• 34:59
  Speaker 10: and what used to desire of me. But tell it
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: me without this smile, without this look, in which a
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: whole hell of seduction lurks and terrifies me.
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  Speaker 8: Just listen, my dear melafant. I see your position now,
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: Your desires and your taste are at present, your tyrants
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: never mind. One must let them wear themselves out. It
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: is folly to resist them. They are most safely lulled
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: to sleep, and at last even conquered. By giving them
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: free scope, they wear themselves away. Can you accuse me,
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: my fickle friend, of ever having been jealous when more
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: powerful charms than mine estranged you from me for a time.
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: I never grudged you to change, by which I always
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: won more than a lost. You returned with new ardor
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: with new passion to my arms, in which with light
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: bonds and never with heavy fetters, I encompassed you. Have
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: I not often even been your confidante, though you had
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: nothing to confide but the favors which you stole from
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: me in order to lavish them on others. Why should
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: you believe then, then I would now begin to display
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: a capriciousness just when I am seizing, or perhaps have
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: already ceased to be justified in it. If your ardor
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: for the pretty country girl has not yet cooled down,
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: if you are still in the first fever of your
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: love for her, if you cannot yet do without the
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: enjoyment she gives you. Who hinders you from devoting yourself
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: to her as long as you think good? But must you,
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: on that account make such rash projects and purpose to
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: fly from the country with her?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Ma?
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: Would you speak in perfect keeping with your character, the
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: wickedness of which I never understood so well as I
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: do now, since in the society of a virtuous woman
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: I have learned to distinguished love from licentiousness.
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: Indeed, here new mistress is and a girl of fine
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: moral sentiments. I suppose you men surely cannot know yourselves
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: what you want. At one time you are pleased with
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: the most wanton talk and the most unchaste jests from us.
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: At another time we charm you when we talk nothing
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: but virtue and seem to have all the seven sages
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: on our lips. But the worst is that you get
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: tired of one as much as the other. We may
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: be foolish or reasonable, worldly or spiritual. Our efforts to
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: make you constant are lost. Either way, The turn will
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: come to your beautiful saint soon enough, Shall I give
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: you a little sketch. Just at present you are in
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: the most passionate paroxysm over her. I allow this too,
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: or at the most three days more to this will
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: succeed a tolerably calm love. For this I allow a week.
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: The next week you will only think occasionally of this love.
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: In the third week you will have to be reminded
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  Speaker 8: of it. And when you have got tired of being
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: thus reminded, you will so quickly see yourself reduced to
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: the most utter indifference that I can hardly allow the
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: fourth week for this final change. This would be about
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: a month altogether. And this month, Malafont, I will overlook
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: with the greatest pleasure. But you will allow that I
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: must not lose sight of you.
• 38:24
  Speaker 10: You try all the weapons in vain which you remember
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: to have viewed successfully with being by gone days. A
• 38:30
  Speaker 10: virtuous resolution secures me against both your tenderness and your wit. However,
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: I will not expose myself longer to either. I go
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: and have nothing more to tell you but that in
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: a few days you shall know that I am bound
• 38:46
  Speaker 10: in such a manner as will utterly destroy all your
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: hope of my ever returning into your sinful slavery. You
• 38:53
  Speaker 10: will have learned my justification sufficiently from the letter which
• 38:56
  Speaker 10: I sent to you before my departure.
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: It is why that you mention this letter. Tell me
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: who did you get to write it?
• 39:04
  Speaker 10: Did not I write it myself?
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: Impossible? The beginning of it in which you reckoned up
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: I do not know what sums which you say you
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: have wasted with me must have been written by an innkeeper,
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: and the theological part at the end by a Quaker.
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: I will now give you a serious reply to it.
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  Speaker 8: As to the principal point, you well know that all
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: the presents which you have made are still in existence.
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: I have never considered your checks or your jewels as
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: my property, and I have brought them all with me
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: to return them into the hands which entrusted them to me.
• 39:41
  Speaker 10: Keep them all, ma'am Wood.
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: I will not keep any of them. What right have
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: I to them? Without you yourself. Although you do not
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: love me any more, you must at least do me
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: justice and not take me for one of those venal
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: females to whom it is a matter of indifference by
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: whose booty they themselves come. Melipont you shall this moment
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: be as rich again as you perhaps might still be
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: if you had not known me, and perhaps two might not.
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: Be what demon intent upon my destruction speaks through you now,
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: voluptuous Marwood does not think so nobly?
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: Do you call that noble? I call it only just No, sir, No,
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: I do not ask that you shall account the return
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: of your gifts as anything remarkable. It costs me nothing,
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: and I should even consider the slightest expression of thanks
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: on your part as an insult which could have no
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: other meaning than this. Marwood, I thought you a base deceiver.
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: I am thankful that you have not wished to be
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: sewed towards me.
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: At least enough, madam, enough, I fly, since my unlucky
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: destiny threatens to involve me in a contest of generosity
• 40:54
  Speaker 10: in which I would be most unwilling to succumb.
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: Fly. Then, but take every I think with you that
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: could remind me of you, poor, despised, without honor and
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: without friends. I will then venture again to awaken your pity.
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: I will show you in the unfortunate Maulwood, only a
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: miserable woman who has sacrificed to you her person, her honor,
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: her virtue and her conscience. I will remind you of
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: the first day when you saw and loved me, Of
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: the first stammering, bashful confession of your love which you
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: made me at my feet, Of the first assurance of
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: my return of your love which you forced from me,
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: Of the tender looks, of the passionate embraces which followed,
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: of the eloquent silence when each with busy mind divined
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: the other's most secret feelings and read the most hidden
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: thoughts of the soul. In the languishing eye, of the
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: trembling expectation, of approaching gratification, of the intoxication of its joys,
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: of the sweet relaxation after the fullness of enjoyment in
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: which the exhausted spirit it regained strength for fresh delights.
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: I shall remind you of all this, and then embrace
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: your knees and entreat without seizing, for the only gift
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: which you cannot deny me, and which I can accept
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: without blushing, for death from your hand, cruel one.
• 42:19
  Speaker 10: I shall even give my life you ask it, ask it,
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: and you do not any longer claim my love. I
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: must leave you out, or make myself an object of
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: loathing to the whole world. I am palpable enough already
• 42:34
  Speaker 10: in that I understand here and listen to you.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Farewell, farewell, Marwood holding him back, you must leave me?
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: And what then do you wish shall become of me?
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: As I am now, I am your creature? Do then
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: what becomes a creator? He may not withdraw his hand
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: from the work until he wishes to destroy it utterly. Alas, Hannah,
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: I see now my entreaties alone are too feeble. Go
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: bring my intercessor, who will now perhaps return to me
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: more than she ever received from me?
• 43:10
  Speaker 10: Exaid Hannah, what indecessor, Malwood?
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: Ah, an intercessor of whom you would only too willingly
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: have deprived me. Nature will take a shorter route to
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: your heart with her grievances.
• 43:23
  Speaker 10: You alarm me? Surely you have not seen? For what
• 43:27
  Speaker 10: do I see? It is she Mawood?
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: How could you dare to am I not her mother? Come,
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: my bella, see here is your protector again, your friend,
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: your ah. His heart may tell him what more he
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: can be to you than a protector and a friend?
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Malephant, turning away.
• 43:49
  Speaker 10: His face, God, what shall I have to suffer? Here?
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Arabella, advancing timidly towards him.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Ah, sir, is it you are? You are Melophant? No, Madame,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: surely surely it is not. He would he not look
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: at me? If it were? Would he not hold me
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: in his arms? He used to do so? What an
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: unhappy child?
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I am?
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: How have I grieved him? This dear dear man who
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: let me call him my father?
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: You are silent, Melafonte, You crunch the innocent child a
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: single look?
• 44:29
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Why he sighs, Madame? What is the matter with him?
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Cannot we help him? Cannot I nor you? Then let
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: us sigh with him?
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: Ah?
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Now he looks at me. No, he looks away again,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: He looks up to heaven. What does he want? What
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: is he asked from heaven? Would that heaven would grant
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: him everything? Even if it refused me? Everything?
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: For it?
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: Go, my child?
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Go?
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: Fall at his feet. He want to leave us, to
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: leave us.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Forever, Arabella falling on her knees before him.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Here, I am already. You will leave us, You will
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: leave us forever. Have not we already been without you
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: for a little forever? Shall we have to lose you again?
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: You have said so often that you loved us. Does
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: one leave the people whom one loves. I cannot love you, then,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: I suppose, for I should wish never to leave you, never,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: And I will never leave you either.
• 45:31
  Speaker 8: I will help you in your entreaties, my child, and
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: you must help me too. Now, Malafont, you see me
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: too at your.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Feet, Malaphant stopping her as she throws herself at.
• 45:43
  Speaker 10: His feet, Mawood, dangerous Malwood. And you too, my dearest.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Bella, raising her up.
• 45:52
  Speaker 10: You too are the enemy of your Malaphont.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: I your enemy?
• 45:56
  Speaker 8: What is your resolve?
• 45:58
  Speaker 10: What it ought not to be? Mawoo, what it ought
• 46:01
  Speaker 10: not to be?
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Marwood embracing him.
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: I know that the honesty of your heart has always
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: overcome the obstinacy of your desires.
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: Do not importune me any longer. I am already what
• 46:14
  Speaker 10: you wish to make me, a perjurer, a seducer, a robber,
• 46:19
  Speaker 10: a murderer.
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: You will be so in imagination for a few days,
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: and after that you will see that I have prevented
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: you from becoming so in reality. You will return with us,
• 46:30
  Speaker 8: won't you?
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 46:31
  Speaker 10: Yes, do return with you? How can I?
• 46:37
  Speaker 8: Nothing is easier if you only wish it. And my
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: sharer and your Sarah may look to herself.
• 46:43
  Speaker 10: Ah, cruel Mawwood, these words reveal the very bottom of
• 46:48
  Speaker 10: your heart to me. Yet I rich, do not repent.
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: If you had seen the bottom of my heart, you
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: would have discovered that it has more true pity for
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: your Sarah than you yourself have. I say true pity,
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: for your pity is egotistic and weak. You have carried
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: this love affair much too far. We might let it
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: pass that you, as a man who, by long intercourse
• 47:14
  Speaker 8: with our sex has become master in the art of seducing,
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: used your superiority in this simulation and experience against such
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: a young maiden, and did not rest until he had
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: gained your end. You can plead the impetuosity of your
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: passion as your excuse. But Melafont, you cannot justify yourself
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: for having robbed an old father of his only child,
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: for having rendered to an honorable old man his few
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: remaining steps to the grave harder and more bitter, for
• 47:45
  Speaker 8: having broken the strongest ties of nature for the sake
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: of your desires. Repair your error, then, as far as
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: it is possible to repair it, give the old man
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: his support again, and send a credulous daughter back to
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: her home, which you need not render desolate also because
• 48:02
  Speaker 8: you have dishonored it.
• 48:04
  Speaker 10: This only was still wanting that you should call in
• 48:07
  Speaker 10: my conscience against me also. But even supposing what you say,
• 48:11
  Speaker 10: we just must I not be brazen faced if I
• 48:15
  Speaker 10: should propose it myself to the unhappy girl.
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: Well, I will confess to you that I have anticipated
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: this difficulty and considered how to spare you it. As
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: soon as I learned your address, I informed her old
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: father privately of it. He was beside himself with joy
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: and wanted to start directly. I wonder he has not
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: yet arrived.
• 48:38
  Speaker 10: What do you say?
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: Just await his arrival quietly, and do not let the
• 48:42
  Speaker 8: girl notice anything. I myself will not detain you any longer.
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: Go to her again. She might grow suspicious, But I
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: trust that I shall see you again to day.
• 48:54
  Speaker 10: Oh mawood, with what feelings did I come to you?
• 48:58
  Speaker 10: And with what must I leave you? Rkish, my dear.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Bellah, that was for you, no one for me? But
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: come back again soon.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Do except malafant Scene five Marwood drawing a deep breath.
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: Ah victory, Hannah, but a hard victory. Give me a cheer.
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: I feel quite.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Exhausted, sitting down.
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: He surrendered only just in time. If he had hesitated
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: another moment, I should have shown him quite a different marwood.
• 49:32
  Speaker 9: Ah, Madam, what a woman you are. I should like
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: to be the man who could resist you.
• 49:37
  Speaker 8: He has resisted me already too long and assuredly, assuredly.
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: I will not forgive him that he almost let me
• 49:44
  Speaker 8: go down on my knees to him.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: No, no, you must forgive him everything. He is so good,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: so good.
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: Be silent, little silly.
• 49:56
  Speaker 9: I do not know on what side you did not
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: attack him, But nothing I think touched him more than
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: the disinterestedness with which you offer to return all his
• 50:04
  Speaker 9: presence to him.
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: I believe so too. Ha ha ha.
• 50:08
  Speaker 9: Why do you laugh, madam? You really risked a great
• 50:11
  Speaker 9: deal if you were not in earnest about it. Suppose
• 50:13
  Speaker 9: he had taken you at your word.
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: Oh nonsense. One knows with whom one has to deal.
• 50:19
  Speaker 9: I quite admit that. But you, too, my pretty Bella,
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: did your part excellently, excellently.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: How so could I do it then any other way?
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: I had not seen him for such a long time.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: I hope you are not angry, madame, that I love
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: him so. I love you as much as him just
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: as much.
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: Very well, I will pardon you this time that you
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: do not love me better than him.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: This time?
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: Why are you crying? Actually, what is it about?
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Ah No, I am not crying.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Do not get angry. I will love you both so much,
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: so much that it will be impossible to love either
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: of you more.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Very well, I am so unhappy, and.
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: I'll be quiet. But what is that scene?
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Sex?
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: Why do you come back again so soon?
• 51:18
  Speaker 10: Melafont rising because I needed but a few moments to
• 51:22
  Speaker 10: recover my senses. Well, I was stunned, MoU Wood, but
• 51:27
  Speaker 10: not moved. You have had all your trouble in vain.
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: Another atmosphere than this infectious one of your room has
• 51:34
  Speaker 10: given me back my courage and my strength to withdraw
• 51:38
  Speaker 10: my foot in time from this dangerous snare? Were the
• 51:41
  Speaker 10: tricks of a mauor not sufficiently familiar to me? Unworthy
• 51:45
  Speaker 10: wretch that I am?
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: What language is that?
• 51:48
  Speaker 10: The language of truth and anger?
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: Gently, melafont Or, I too, shall speak in the same language.
• 51:56
  Speaker 10: I return early in order not to leave you one
• 51:58
  Speaker 10: moment longer. Delusion in regard to me, which must make
• 52:03
  Speaker 10: me despicable even in your eyes.
• 52:06
  Speaker 13: Oh Hannah, look at me.
• 52:08
  Speaker 10: As madly as you like. The more madly the better.
• 52:12
  Speaker 10: Was it possible that I could hesitate only for one
• 52:15
  Speaker 10: moment between a Milwood and a Sarah, and that I
• 52:18
  Speaker 10: have well nigh decided for the.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Former, Oh, Melophant.
• 52:22
  Speaker 10: Do not tremble Bella, for your sake too. I came back.
• 52:27
  Speaker 10: Give me your hand and follow me without.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Fear, Marwood stopping them.
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: Whom shall she follow? Traitor her father? Go pitiable wretch,
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: and learn first to know her mother.
• 52:40
  Speaker 10: I know her. She is a disgrace to her sex.
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: Take her away, Hannah remain here.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Bella attempting to stop her.
• 52:49
  Speaker 8: No force Melophonte or.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Accient Hannah and Arabella. Scene seven.
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: Now we are alone. Say now once more, whether you
• 52:59
  Speaker 8: are determined to sacrifice me for a foolish.
• 53:02
  Speaker 10: Girl, sacrifice you. You recall to my mind that impure
• 53:06
  Speaker 10: animals were also sacrificed to the ancient gods.
• 53:11
  Speaker 8: Express yourself without these learned allusions.
• 53:14
  Speaker 10: I tell you then that I am firmly resolved never
• 53:17
  Speaker 10: to think of you again, but with the most fearful
• 53:19
  Speaker 10: of curses. Who are you? And who is Sarah? You
• 53:24
  Speaker 10: are a voluptuous, egoistic, shameful strumpet who certainly can scarcely
• 53:29
  Speaker 10: remember any longer that she ever was innocent. I have
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: nothing to reproach myself with but that I have enjoyed
• 53:36
  Speaker 10: myself with you, that which otherwise you would perhaps have
• 53:39
  Speaker 10: let the whole world enjoy. You have sought me, not
• 53:43
  Speaker 10: I you. And if I now know who Malwood is,
• 53:47
  Speaker 10: I have paid for this knowledge dearly enough. It has
• 53:50
  Speaker 10: cost me my fortune, my honor, my happiness, and.
• 53:54
  Speaker 8: I would that it might also cost you your eternal happiness.
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: Monster is the devil worse than you when he lose
• 54:01
  Speaker 8: feeble mortals into crimes, and himself accuses them afterwards for
• 54:05
  Speaker 8: these crimes, which are his own work. What is my
• 54:08
  Speaker 8: innocence to you? What does it matter to you? When
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: and how I lost it? If I could not sacrifice
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: my virtue, I have at least staked my good name
• 54:18
  Speaker 8: for you. The former is no more valuable than the letter.
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: What do I say more valuable without it? The former
• 54:26
  Speaker 8: is a silly fancy which brings one neither happiness nor guilt.
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: The good name albone gives it some value, and can
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: exist quite well without it. What did it matter what
• 54:38
  Speaker 8: I was before I knew you? You wretch it is
• 54:41
  Speaker 8: enough that in the eyes of the world I was
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: a woman without reproach through you. Only it has learned
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: that I am not so solely through my readiness to
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: accept your heart as I didn't thought without your hand.
• 54:54
  Speaker 10: This very readiness condemns you, vile woman.
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: But do you remember to what s tricks you owed?
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: It was I not persuaded by you that you could
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: not be publicly united to me without forfetting an inheritance
• 55:08
  Speaker 8: which you wished to share with me. Only is it
• 55:11
  Speaker 8: time now to renounce it? And to renounce it not
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: for me but for another.
• 55:17
  Speaker 10: It is a real delike to me to be able
• 55:19
  Speaker 10: to tell you that this difficulty will soon be removed.
• 55:22
  Speaker 10: Continue yourself therefore, with having deprived me of my father's inheritance,
• 55:27
  Speaker 10: and let me enjoy a far smaller one with a
• 55:29
  Speaker 10: more worthy wife.
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: Hah. Now I see what it is that makes you
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: so perverse. Well, I will lose no more words be
• 55:38
  Speaker 8: it so be assured. I shall do everything to forget you.
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: And the first thing that I will do to this
• 55:45
  Speaker 8: end shall be this. You will understand me, tremble for
• 55:50
  Speaker 8: your bellah. Her life shall not carry the memory of
• 55:53
  Speaker 8: my despised love. Down to posterity. My cruelty shall do it?
• 55:59
  Speaker 8: Behold in me a new Medea, Mawwood, Or if you
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: know a more cruel mother, still behold her cruelty doubled
• 56:07
  Speaker 8: in me. Poison and dagger shall avenge me. But no
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: poison and dagger are tools too merciful for me. They
• 56:16
  Speaker 8: would kill your child and mine too soon. I will
• 56:19
  Speaker 8: not see it dead. I will see it dying. I
• 56:23
  Speaker 8: will see each feature of the face which she has
• 56:26
  Speaker 8: from you, disfigured, distorted, and obliterated by slow torture. With
• 56:32
  Speaker 8: eager hand, will I part limb from limb, vain from vain,
• 56:37
  Speaker 8: nerve from nerve, and will not cease to cut and
• 56:40
  Speaker 8: burn the very smallest of them, even when there is
• 56:43
  Speaker 8: nothing remaining but a senseless carcass. Aye, I shall at
• 56:48
  Speaker 8: least feel in it. How sweet is revenge.
• 56:52
  Speaker 10: You are raving, Mawwood.
• 56:54
  Speaker 8: You remind me that my ravings are not directed against
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: the right person. The father must go first, he must
• 57:01
  Speaker 8: already been yond the world, When through a thousand woes,
• 57:05
  Speaker 8: the spirit of his daughter follows him.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: She advances towards him with a dagger which she draws
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: from her bosom. So die, traitor, Meliphant, seizing her arm
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: and snatching the dagger from her.
• 57:19
  Speaker 10: Insane woman, What hinders me now from turning the steel
• 57:23
  Speaker 10: against you? But live, and your punishment shall be left
• 57:27
  Speaker 10: for a hand void of honor.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Marwood wringing her hands.
• 57:31
  Speaker 8: Heaven, what have I done, Meliphant?
• 57:36
  Speaker 10: Your grief shall not deceive me. I know well why
• 57:39
  Speaker 10: you are sorry, not that you wish to stab me,
• 57:42
  Speaker 10: but that you failed to do so.
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: Give me back the erring steel. Give it me back,
• 57:47
  Speaker 8: and you shall see for whom it was sharpened for
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: this breast alone, which for long has been too narrow,
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: for a heart which will rather renounce life than your love.
• 57:56
  Speaker 10: Hannah?
• 57:58
  Speaker 8: What are you doing, Meliphant?
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Scene eight?
• 58:01
  Speaker 10: Did you hear, Hannah, how madly your mistress was behaving?
• 58:05
  Speaker 10: Remember that I should hold you responsible for Arabella.
• 58:09
  Speaker 9: Madam, how agitated you are.
• 58:11
  Speaker 10: I will place the innocent child in safety immediately. Justice
• 58:15
  Speaker 10: will no doubt be able to bind the murderous hands
• 58:18
  Speaker 10: of her cruel mother.
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: Going whither, Melophont? Is it astonishing that the violence of
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: my grief deprived me of any reason? Who forces me
• 58:28
  Speaker 8: to such unnatural excess? Is it not you yourself? Where
• 58:33
  Speaker 8: can Bella be safer than with me. My lips may rave,
• 58:37
  Speaker 8: but my heart still remains the heart of a mother. Oh, Melophont,
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  Speaker 8: forgets my madness, and to excuse I think only of
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  Speaker 8: its cause.
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  Speaker 10: There is only one thing which can induce me to
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  Speaker 10: forget it, and that is that you return immediately to London.
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  Speaker 10: I will send Arabella there under another escort. You must,
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  Speaker 10: by no means have anything further to do.
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  Speaker 8: Her very well. I submit to everything, but grant me
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  Speaker 8: one single request more. Let me see you as Sarah once,
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  Speaker 8: and what for to read in her eyes my future fate.
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  Speaker 8: I will judge for myself whether she is worthy of
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  Speaker 8: such a breach of faith as you commit against me,
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  Speaker 8: and whether I may cherish the hope of receiving again
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  Speaker 8: some day at any rate a portion of your love. Vain,
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  Speaker 8: who who is so cruel as to grudge even hope
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  Speaker 8: to the unhappy? I will not show myself to her
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  Speaker 8: as Marwood, but as a relation of yours, announce me
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  Speaker 8: to her as such. You shall be present when I
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  Speaker 8: call upon her, and I promise you by all that
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  Speaker 8: is sacred, to say nothing that is in any way
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  Speaker 8: displeasing to her. Do not refuse my request for otherwise
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  Speaker 8: I might perhaps do all that is in my power
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  Speaker 8: to show myself to her in my true character.
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  Speaker 10: Marwood.
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  Speaker 1: This will quest, after a moment's reflection.
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  Speaker 10: Might be granted. But will you then be sure to
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  Speaker 10: quit this spot?
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  Speaker 8: Certainly? Yes, I promise you even more, I will spare
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  Speaker 8: you the visit from her father if that is still possible.
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  Speaker 10: There is no need of that. I hope you will
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  Speaker 10: include me too in the pardon which he grants to
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  Speaker 10: his daughter. But if he will not pardon her, I
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  Speaker 10: too shall know how to deal with him. I will
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  Speaker 10: go and announce you to my Sharah. Only keep your promise, Ma.
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  Speaker 8: Wood, accept alas Hannah, that our powers are not as
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  Speaker 8: great as our courage. Come help me to dress. I
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  Speaker 8: do not despair of my scheme if I could only
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  Speaker 8: make sure of him first come.
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  Speaker 1: And of act too, Act three of Miss Sarah Sampson.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Miss Sarah Sampson a tragedy in
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  Speaker 1: five acts by G. E. Lessing, Act three, Scene one,
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  Speaker 1: A room in the first.
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  Speaker 6: In their wait will take this letter to her. It
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  Speaker 6: is the letter of an affectionate father who complains of
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  Speaker 6: nothing but her absence. Tell her that I have sent
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  Speaker 6: you on before with it, and that I only await
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  Speaker 6: her answer to come myself and fold her again in
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  Speaker 6: my arms.
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  Speaker 4: I think you do well to prepare them for your arrival.
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  Speaker 6: In this way, I make sure of her intentions by
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 6: this means, and give her the opportunity of freeing herself
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  Speaker 6: from any shame or sorrow which repent me might cause
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  Speaker 6: her before she speaks verbally with me in a letter.
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  Speaker 6: It will cost her less embarrassment, and me perhaps fewer tears.
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  Speaker 4: But may I ask, sir, what have you resolved upon
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  Speaker 4: with regard to melafont Ah. Wait?
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  Speaker 6: Well, if I could separate him from my daughter's lover,
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  Speaker 6: I should make some very harsh resolve. But as this
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  Speaker 6: cannot be, you see, he is saved from my anger.
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  Speaker 6: I myself a most blame in this misfortune. But for me,
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  Speaker 6: Sarah never would have made the acquaintance of this dangerous man.
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  Speaker 6: I admitted him freely into my house on account of
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  Speaker 6: an obligation under which I believe myself to be to him.
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  Speaker 6: It was natural that the attention which in gratitude I
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  Speaker 6: paid him should win for him the esteem of my daughter.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 6: It was just as natural that a man of his
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  Speaker 6: disposition should suffer himself to be tempted by this esteem
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  Speaker 6: to something more. He had been clever enough to transform
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  Speaker 6: it into love before I noticed anything at all, and
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  Speaker 6: before I had time to inquire into his former life.
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  Speaker 6: The evil was done, and I should have done well
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  Speaker 6: if I had forgiven them everything immediately. I wished to
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  Speaker 6: be inexorable towards him, and did not consider that I
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  Speaker 6: could not be so towards him alone. If I had
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  Speaker 6: spared my severity, which came too late, I would have
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  Speaker 6: at least prevented their flight. But here I am now.
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  Speaker 10: Wait.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I must fetch them back myself, and consider myself
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  Speaker 6: happy if only I can make a son of a seducer,
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  Speaker 6: for who knows whether he will give up his marwoods
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  Speaker 6: and his other creatures for the sake of a girl
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  Speaker 6: who has left nothing for his desires to wish for,
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  Speaker 6: and who understands so little the bewitching arts.
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  Speaker 11: Of a coquett.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Sir, it cannot be pers that a man could
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  Speaker 4: be so wicked.
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  Speaker 6: This doubt good weight. Well does honor to your virtue.
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  Speaker 6: But why at the same time is it true that
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  Speaker 6: the limits of human wickedness extend much further? Still, Go
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  Speaker 6: now and do as I told you. Notice every look
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  Speaker 6: as she reads my letter in this short deviation from virtue,
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  Speaker 6: she cannot yet have learned the art of dissimulation to
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  Speaker 6: the masks of which only deep rooted vice can have recourse.
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  Speaker 6: You will read her whole soul in her face. Do
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  Speaker 6: not let a look escape you which might perhaps indicate
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  Speaker 6: indifference to me disregard of her father. For if you
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  Speaker 6: should unhappily discover this, and if she loves me no more,
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  Speaker 6: I hope that I shall be able to conquer myself
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  Speaker 6: and abandon her to her fate. I hope so wait well,
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  Speaker 6: alas would that there were no heart here to contradict.
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  Speaker 1: This hope excellent on different sides. Scene two, Sarah's room.
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  Speaker 10: I have done wrong, dear Sarah, to leave you in
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 10: uneasiness about the letter which came just now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dear no malafant, I have not been in the
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  Speaker 2: least uneasy about it. Could you not love me even
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  Speaker 2: though you still had secrets from me?
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  Speaker 10: You think then that it was a secret.
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  Speaker 2: But not one which concerns me, and that must suffice
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 10: You are only too good. Let me nevertheless review my
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  Speaker 10: secret to you. The letter contained a few lines for
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 10: a relative of mine who has heard of my being here.
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  Speaker 10: She passes through here on her way to London and
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 10: would like to see me. She has begged at the
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  Speaker 10: same time to be allowed the honor of paying you
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  Speaker 10: a visit.
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  Speaker 2: It will always be a pleasure to me to make
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  Speaker 2: the acquaintance of the respected members of your family. But
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: consider for yourself whether I can yet appear before one
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  Speaker 2: of them without blushing.
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  Speaker 10: Without blushing? And for what? For your love to me?
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  Speaker 10: It is true, Sarah, you could have given your love
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  Speaker 10: to a nobler or a richer man. You must be
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 10: ashamed that you are content to give your heart for
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 10: another heart only, and that in this exchange you lost
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 10: sight of your happiness.
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  Speaker 2: You must know yourself how wrongly you interpret my words.
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  Speaker 10: Pardon me, Sarah. If my interpretation is wrong, they can
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  Speaker 10: have no meaning at all.
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  Speaker 2: What is the name of your relation?
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  Speaker 10: She is er, Lady Solmes. You will have heard me
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  Speaker 10: mention the name before.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 10: May I beg you to see her?
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: Beg me you can command me to do so.
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  Speaker 10: What a word, nor Sarah, she shall not have the
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  Speaker 10: happiness of seeing you. She will regret it, but she
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  Speaker 10: must submit to it. Sarah has her reasons, which I
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  Speaker 10: respect without knowing them.
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  Speaker 2: How hasty you are, melephant. I shall expect Lady Solmes
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  Speaker 2: and do my best to show my self worthy of
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  Speaker 2: the honor of her visit.
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  Speaker 10: Are you content, Ah, Sarah? Let me confess my ambition.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 10: I should like to show you to the whole world.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 10: Were I not proud of the possession of such a being,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 10: I should reproach myself with not being able to appreciate
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 10: her value. I will go and bring her to you
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  Speaker 10: at once exit.
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  Speaker 2: I hope she will not be one of those proud
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: women who are so full of their own virtue that
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: they believe themselves above all failings. With one single look
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: of contempt, they condemn us, and an equivocal shrug of
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: the shoulders is all the pity we seem to deserve
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: in their eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three, Betty, behind the scenes, just.
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  Speaker 12: Come in here if you must speak to her.
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  Speaker 1: Yourself, Sarah, looking around, who must speak to me?
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  Speaker 2: Whom do I see? Is it possible?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: You?
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  Speaker 2: Wait? Well?
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: How happy I am to see our young lady again.
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  Speaker 2: Good God, what do you bring me? I hear already,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: I hear already, you bring me the news of my
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: father's death. He is gone, the excellent man, the best
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: of fathers, He is gone, And I I am the
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: miserable creature who has hastened his death.
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  Speaker 14: Ah, miss, tell me quick, tell me that his last
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  Speaker 14: moments were not embittered by the thought of me, That
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  Speaker 14: he had forgotten me, that he died as peacefully as
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  Speaker 14: he used to hope.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: To die in my arms, That he did not remember
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: me even in his last prayer.
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  Speaker 4: Pray, do not torment yourself with such false notions. Your
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  Speaker 4: father is still alive. He is still alive, Honest, Sir William, Is.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: He still alive? Is it true? Is he still alive?
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: May he live a long while yet? And live happily?
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  Speaker 13: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Would that God would add the half of my years
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: to his life half? How ungrateful should I be if
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: I were not willing to buy even a few moments
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  Speaker 2: for him, with all the years that may yet be mine.
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  Speaker 2: But tell me at least well that it is not
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: hard for him to live without me, that it was
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: easy to him to renounce a daughter who could so
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  Speaker 2: easily renounce her virtue, that he is angry with me
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  Speaker 2: for my flight, but not grieved, that he curses me
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  Speaker 2: but does not mourn for me.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, Sir William is still the same fond father as
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  Speaker 4: his Sarah, is still the same fond daughter that you was.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say you are a messenger of evil,
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  Speaker 2: of the most dreadful of all the evils which my
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  Speaker 2: imagination has ever pictured. To me, he is still the
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: same fond father. Then he loves me still, and he
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: must mourn for me. Then no, no, he does not
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: do so. He cannot do so. Do you not see
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  Speaker 2: how infinitely each sigh which he wasted on me would
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: magnify my crime? Would not the justice of Heaven have
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: to charge me with every tear which I forced from him?
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: As if with each one I repeated my vice and
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: mine ingratitude grow chill at the thought I caught him tears. Tears,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: and they are other tears than tears of joy, contradict me.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Weight well, at most he has felt some slight stirring
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: of the blood on my account, some transitory emotion calmed
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: by a slight effort of reason. He did not go
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: so far as to shed tears. Surely not to shed tears.
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  Speaker 1: Wait well, wait, well, wiping his eyes.
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  Speaker 4: No, miss, he did not go so far as that.
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  Speaker 2: Alas your lips say no and your eyes say yes, Take.
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  Speaker 4: This letter, miss. It is from him himself.
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  Speaker 2: From whom from my father to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, take it. You can learn more from it than
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: I am able to say. He ought to have given
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: this to another to do, not to me. I promised
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: myself pleasure from it. But you and my joy into sadness,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: give it me honest weight.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Well, but no, I will not take it before you
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: tell me what it contains.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: What can it contain? Love and forgiveness, love, forgiveness, and
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: perhaps a real regret that he used the rights of
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: a father's power against a child who should only have
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: the privileges of a father's kindness.
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  Speaker 2: Then keep your cruel letter.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: Cruel, have no fear. Full liberty has granted you over
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: your heart and hand.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: And it is just this which I fear to grieve.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: A father such as he, this I have had the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: courage to do, but to see him forced by this
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: very grief, by his love which I have forfeited, to
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: look with leniency on all the wrong into which an
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: unfortunate passion has led me this weight well I could
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  Speaker 2: not bear if his letter contained all the hard and
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: anger words which an exasperated father can utter. In such
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: a case, I should read it with a shudder. It
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: is true. But still I should be able to read it.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: I should be able to produce a shadow of defense
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: against his wrath, to make him, by this defense, if possible,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: more angry. Still. My consolation then would be this, that
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: melancholy grief could have no place with violent wrath, and
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: that the latter would transform itself finally into bitter contempt,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: and we grieve no more for one whom we despise.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: My father would have grown calm again, and I would
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  Speaker 2: not have to reproach myself with having made him unhappy forever.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: Alas, miss you will have to reproach yourself still less
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: for this. If you now accept his love again, which
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  Speaker 4: wishes only to forget everything you are mistaken.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Wait well, his yearning for me misleads him perhaps to
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: give his consent to everything. But no sooner would this
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: desire be appeased a little than he would feel ashamed
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  Speaker 2: before himself of his weakness. Sullen anger would take possession
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: of him. And he would never be able to look
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: at me without silently accusing me of all that I
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: had dared to exact from him. Yes, if it were
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: in my power to spare him his bitterest grief, when
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  Speaker 2: on my account he is laying the greatest restrain upon himself.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: If at a moment when he would grant me everything,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: I could sacrifice all to him, then it would be
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: quite a different matter. I would take the letter from
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  Speaker 2: your hands with pleasure, would admire in it the strength
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  Speaker 2: of the fatherly love, and not to abuse this love.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: I would throw myself at his feet, a repentant and
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: obedient daughter. But can I do that. I shall be
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: obliged to make use of his permission, regardless of the
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: price this permission has cost him. And then when I
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: feel most happy, it will suddenly occur to me that
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: he only outwardly appears to share my happiness, and that
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: inwardly he is sighing. In short, that he has made
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: me happy by the renunciation of his own happiness, and
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: to wish to be happy in this way? Do you
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: expect that of me? Wait?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I truly do not know what answer to give
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  Speaker 4: to that.
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  Speaker 2: There is no answer to it. So take your letter back.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: If my father must be unhappy through me, I will
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: myself remain unhappy.
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  Speaker 8: Also.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: To be quite alone in unhappiness is that for which
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  Speaker 2: I now pray heaven every hour. But to be quite
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  Speaker 2: alone in my happiness of that I will not here.
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  Speaker 1: Wait well aside, I.
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  Speaker 4: Really think I shall have to employ deception with this
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 4: good child to get her to read the letter.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: What are you saying to yourself?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: I was saying to myself that the idea I had
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: hit on to get you to read this letter all
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: the quicker was a very clumsy one. How so I
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: could not look far enough. Of course, you see more
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: deeply into things than such as I. I did not
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: wish to frighten you. The letter is perhaps only too hard.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: And when I said that it contained nothing but love
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: and forgiveness, I ought to have said that I wished
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: it might not contain anything else.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Is that true? Give it to me, then I will
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: read it. If one has been unfortunate enough to deserve
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: the anger of one's father, one should at least have
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: enough respect for it to submit to the expression of
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: it on his part. To try to frustrate it means
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: to heap contempt on insult, I shall feel his anger
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: in all its strength. You see I tremble already, But
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: I must tremble, and I will rather tremble than weep.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Opens the letter.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: Now it has opened, I sink. But what do I see?
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: She reads my only dearest daughter, Ah, you, old deceiver?
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: Is that the language of an angry father?
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: Go?
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: I shall read no more?
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 4: Ah, Miss, you will pardon an old servant? Yes, truly,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: I believe it is the first time in my life
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: that I have intentionally deceived any one. He who deceives once, Miss,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: and deceives for so good a purpose is surely no
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 4: old deceiver on that account that touches me deeply. Miss,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 4: I know well that the good intention does not always
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: excuse one. But what else could I do to return
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 4: this letter on read to such a good father that
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: certainly I cannot do? Sooner? Will I walk away as
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: far as my old legs will carry me, and never
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 4: again come into his presence?
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: What you too will leave him?
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  Speaker 4: Shall I not be obliged to do so? If you
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 4: do not read the letter, read it? Pray do not
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 4: grudge a good result to the first deceit with which
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 4: I have to reproach myself. You will forget it the sooner,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 4: and I shall the sooner be able to forgive myself.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 4: I am a common, simple man who must not question
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: the reasons why you cannot and will not read the letter.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: Whether they are true, I know not, but at any rate,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: they do not appear to me to be natural. I
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: should think thus, Miss a father, I should think is
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: after all a father and a child may err for
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: once and remain a good child in spite of it.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: If the father pardons the error, the child may behave
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 4: again in such a manner that the father may not
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: even think of it any more, For who likes to
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 4: remember what he would rather had never happened. It seems, Miss,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 4: as if you thought only of your error and believed
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 4: you atoned sufficiently in exaggerating it in your imagination and
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 4: tormenting yourself with these exaggerated ideas. But I should think
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: you are to consider how you could make up for
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: what has happened, and how will you make up for
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: it if you deprive yourself of every opportunity of doing so.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 4: Can it be hard for you to take the second
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: step when such a good father has already taken the first?
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: What daggers pierce my heart in your simple words. That
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: he has to take the first step is just what
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: I cannot bear. And besides, is it only the first
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: step which he takes, he must do all I cannot take,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: a single one to meet him. As far as I
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: have gone from him, so far must he descend to me.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: If he pardons me, he must pardon the whole crime,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: and an addition, must bear the consequences of it continually
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: before his eyes. Can one demand that from a father?
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 4: I do not know Miss whether I understand this quite right,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 4: but it seems to me you mean to say that
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: he would have to forgive you too much, and as
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 4: this could not but be very difficult to him, you
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 4: make a scruple of ex accepting his forgiveness. If you
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: mean that, tell me pray is not forgiving a great
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 4: happiness to a kind heart. I have not been so
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 4: fortunate in my life as to have felt this happiness often,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 4: but I still remember with pleasure a few instances when
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 4: I have felt it. I felt something so sweet, something
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 4: so tranquilizing, something so divine, that I could not help
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 4: thinking of the great, insurpassable blessedness of God, whose preservation
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 4: of miserable mankind is a perpetual forgiveness. I wished that
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 4: I could be forgiving continually, and was ashamed that I
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 4: had only such trifles to pardon. To forgive, real painful insults,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 4: deadly offenses, I said to myself, must be a bliss
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 4: in which the whole soul melts. And now, miss, will
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 4: you grudge your father such bliss?
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 12: Ah?
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 13: Go on?
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: Wait, well, go on?
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 4: I know well there are people who accept nothing less
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: willingly than forgiveness, and that because they have never learned
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: to grant it, they are proud, unbending people who will
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 4: on no account confess that they have done wrong. But
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 4: you do not belong to this kind, Miss, You have
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: the most loving and tender of hearts that the best
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 4: of your sex can have you confess your fault too.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 4: Where then is the difficulty? But pardon me, Miss, I
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 4: am an old chatterer and ought to have seen at
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: once that your refusal is only a praiseworthy solicitude, only
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 4: a virtuous timidity. People who can accept a great benefit
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 4: immediately without any hesitation are seldom worthy of it. Those
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 4: who deserve it most have always the greatest mistrust of themselves.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 4: Yet mistrust must not be pushed beyond limits.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: Dear old father, I believe you have persuaded me.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: If I have been so fortunate as that, it must
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 4: have been a good spirit that has helped me to plead.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: But no, Miss, my words have done no more than
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: given you the time to reflect and to recover from
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 4: the bewilderment of joy. You will read the letter, now,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 4: will you not? I'll read it at once, I will
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 4: do so.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: Wait, well, what regrets? What pain? Shall I feel?
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 4: Pain? Miss, but pleasant pain?
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: Be silent?
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: Begins reading to herself, Wait well aside?
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 4: Oh if he could see her himself, Sarah.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: After reading a few moments, Oh.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: Wait, well, what a father? He calls my flight an absence?
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: How much more culpable it becomes through this gentle.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: Word, continues reading and interrupts herself again.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: Listen, he flatters himself. I shall love him. Still he
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: flatters himself. He begs me. He begs me a father
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: begs his daughter, his culpable daughter. And what does he beg?
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 8: Then?
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: He begs me to forget his over hasty severity, and
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: not to punish him any longer with my absence over
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: hasty severity, to punish more Still, now he thanks me
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: even and thanks me that I have given him an
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: opportunity of learning the whole extent of paternal love, unhappy opportunity.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: Would that, he also said, it had shown him at
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: the same time the extent of filial disobedience. No, he
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: does not say it. He does not mention my crime
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: with one single.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: Word, continues reading.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: He will come himself and fetch his children. His children. Wait, well,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: that surpasses everything. Have I read it rightly?
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: Reads again to herself.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: I am overcome. He says that he without whom he
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: could not possess a daughter, deserves but too well to
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: be his son. Oh, that he had never had this
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: unfortunate daughter. Go wait well, leave me alone. He wants
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: an answer, and I will write it at once. Come
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: again in an hour. I thank you meanwhile for your trouble.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: You are an honest man. Few servants are the friends
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: of their masters.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 4: Do not make me blush, Miss. If all masters were
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: like Sir William, servants would be monsters if they would
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: not give their lives for them.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene four. Sarah sits down to write.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: If they had told me a year ago that I
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: should have to answer such a letter and under such circumstances. Yes,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: I have the pen in my hand, But do I
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: know yet what I shall write? What I think, what
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: I feel? And what then does one think when a
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: thousand thoughts cross each other in one moment? And what
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: does one feel when the heart is in a stupor
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: from a thousand feelings? But I'm must write, I do
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: not guide the pen for the first time, after assisting
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: me in so many a little act of politeness and friendship,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: should its help fail me at the most important office.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: She pauses and then writes a few lines.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: It shall commence so a very cold beginning. And shall
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: I then begin with his love? I must begin with
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: my crime.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: She scratches it out and writes again.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: I must be on my guard not to express myself
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: too leniently. Shame may be in its place anywhere else,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: but not in the confession of our faults. I need
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: not fear falling into exaggeration, even though I employ the
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: most dreadful terms. Ah Am, I to be interrupted now.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 10: Scene five, Dearest Sarah, I have the honor of introducing
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 10: Lady Solmes to you. She is one of the members
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 10: of my family to whom I fear myself most indebted.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 8: I must beg your pardon, madam, for taking the liberty
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 8: of convincing myself with my o eyes of the happiness
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 8: of a cousin for whom I should wish the most
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 8: perfect of women. If the first moment had not at
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 8: once convinced me that he has found her already in you.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: Your ladyship does me too much honor. Such a compliment
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: would have made me blush at any time, but now
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: I would almost take it as concealed reproach. If I
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: did not think that Lady Psalms is too much generous
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: to let her superiority in virtue and wisdom be felt
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: by an unhappy girl, I.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 8: Should be inconsolable if you attributed to me any but
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 8: the most friendly feelings towards you.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: Aside she is good.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 10: Looking, Would it be possible, madam, to remain indifferent to
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 10: such beauty such modesty? People say it is true that
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 10: one charming woman rarely does another one justice. But this
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 10: is to be taken only of those who are over
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 10: vain of their superiority, and on the other hand, of
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 10: those who are not conscious at possessing any superiority. How
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 10: far are you both removed from me?
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: To Marwood, who stands in deep thought?
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 10: Is it not true, Madam, that my love has been
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 10: anything but partial? Is it not true that though I
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 10: have said much to you in praise of my Sarah,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 10: I have not said militia much as you yourself see.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: But why so thoughtful aside to her?
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 10: You forget whom you represent?
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 8: May I say it? The admiration of your dear young
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 8: lady led me to the contemplation of her fate. It
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 8: touched me that she should not enjoy the fruits of
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 8: her love in her native land. I recollected that she
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 8: had to leave a father and a very affectionate father,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 8: as I have been told, in order to become yours,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 8: and I could not but wish for her reconciliation with him.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: Ah Madam, how much am I indebted to you for
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: this wish? It encourages me to tell you the whole
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: of my happiness. You cannot yet know, malefant, that this
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: wish was granted before Lady Solms had the kindness to
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: wish it.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 10: How do you mean, Serah Marwood?
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: Aside?
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: How am I to interpret that I have just received
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: a letter from my father? Wait well brought it to me,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: Ah Malapant, such a letter quick.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 10: Relieve me from my uncertainty? What have I to fear?
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 10: What have I to hope? Is he still a father
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 10: from whom he fled? And if he is, will Sara
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 10: be the daughter who loves me so tenderly as to
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 10: fly again? Alas had I, but done as you wish,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 10: Dear Sarah, we should now be united by a bond
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 10: which no caprice could dissolve. I feel now all the
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 10: misfortune with the discovery of our bird may bring upon me.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 10: He will come and tear you out of my arms.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 10: How I hate the contemptible being who has betrayed us.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: To him With an angry glance at Marwood.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: Dearest Malapant, How flattering to me is this uneasiness? And
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: how happy are we both in that it is unnecessary
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: read his letter.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: To my Whilst Melafant reads the letter, he.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: Will be astonished at the love of my father, of
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: my father. Ah, he is his now too.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 8: Is it possible?
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, madam, you have good cause to be surprised at
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: this change. He forgives us everything. We shall now love
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: each other before his eyes. He allows it, he commands it.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: How has this kindness gone to my very soul.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: Well, melaphant who returns the letter to her?
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: You are silent. Oh no, this tear which steals from
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: your eye says far more than your lips could say.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 5: Mar wood Aside, How have I injured my own cause,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: imprudent woman.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 4: That I was?
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, let me kiss this tear from your cheek?
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 10: Ah serah? Why was it our fate to grieve such
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 10: a godlike man? Yes, a godlike man? For what is
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 10: more godlike than to forgive? Could we only have imagined
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 10: such a happy issue possible? Yould not now owe it
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 10: to such violent means? We should owe it to our
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 10: entreaties alone? What happiness is in store for me? But
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 10: how painful also will be the conviction that I am
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 10: so unworthy of this happiness?
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Marwood Aside.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 8: And I must be present to hear this?
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: How perfectly you justify my love by such thoughts?
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: Marwood Aside?
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 8: What restraint must I put on myself?
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: You, too, madam, must read my father's letter. You seem
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: to take too great an interest in our fate to
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: be indifferent to its contents.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 5: Indifferent takes the letter.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: But madam, you still seem very thoughtful, very.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: Sad thoughtful, But not sad, maliphant Aside, heavens if she
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: should betray herself?
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: And why then, thoughtful?
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 8: I tremble for you both. Could not this unforeseen kindness
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 8: of your father be a dissimulation, an artifice?
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: A surely not, madam, assuredly not only read, and you
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: will admit it yourself. Dissimulation is always cold. It is
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: not capable of such tender words. Do not grow suspicious, Malafant,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: I beg I pledge myself that my father cannot condescend
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: to an artifice. He says nothing which he does not think.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: Falseness is a vice unknown to him.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 10: Oh of that I am thoroughly convinced. Dearest Sarah, you
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 10: must pardon Lady Sermes for this suspicion, since she does
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 10: not know the man whom it concerns.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: Sarah whilst Marwood returns the letter to her.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: What do I see? My lady? You are pale? You tremble?
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: What is the matter with you?
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: Meliphant Aside?
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 10: What anxiety I suffer? Why did I bring her here?
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 8: It is nothing but a slight dizziness which will pass
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 8: over the night ear on my journey. Must have disagreed
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 8: with me.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 10: You frighten me? Would you not like to go into
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 10: the air? You will recover sooner than in a closed room.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 8: If you think so, give me your arm.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: I will accompany your ladyship.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 8: I beg you will not trouble to do so. My
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 8: faintness will pass over immediately.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: I hope then to see you again soon, if you
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: permit me.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Melapant conducts her out, poor thing.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: She does not seem exactly the most friendly of people,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: But yet she does not appear to be either proud
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: or ill tempered. I am alone again? Can I employ
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: the few moments while I remain so better than by finishing?
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: My answer is.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: About to sit down to write scene sex?
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 12: That was indeed a very short visit.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, Betty, it was lady Solms, a relation of my Melopant.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: She was suddenly taken faint. Where is she now?
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 12: Melafant has accompanied her to the door.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: She is gone again?
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 15: Then I suppose so. But the more I look at
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 15: you you must forgive my freedom, miss, The more you
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 15: seem to me to be altered. There is something calm,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 15: something contented in your looks. Either Lady Solmes must have
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 15: been a very pleasant visitor, or the old man a
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 15: very pleasant messenger.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: The latter, Betty, the latter he came from my father.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: What a tender letter I have for you to read.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: Your kind heart has often wept with me. Now it
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: shall rejoice with me too. I shall be happy again
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: and be able to reward you for your good services.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 12: What services could I render you in nine short weeks?
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: You could not have done more for me in all
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: the rest of my life than in these nine weeks.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: They are over. But come now with me, Betty. As
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: Melafont is probably alone again, I must speak to him.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: It just occurs to me that it would be well
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: if he wrote at the same time to my father,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: to whom an expression of gratitude from him could hardly come.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: Unexpectedly come excellent scene seven the drawing room.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 6: What balm you have poured on my wounded heart with
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 6: your words. Wait well, I live again, and the prospect
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 6: of her return seems to carry me as far back
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 6: to my youth as her flight had brought me nearer
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 6: to my grave. She loves me still. What more do
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 6: I wish go back to her? Soon?
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 10: Weight well?
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 6: I am impatient for the moment when I shall fold
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 6: her again in these arms which I had stretched out
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 6: so longingly to death. How welcome would it have been
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 6: to me in the moments of my grief, and how
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 6: terrible will it be to me in my new happiness.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 6: An old man, no doubt, is to be blamed for
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 6: drawing the bond so tight again, which still unite him
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 6: to the world. The final separation becomes the more painful.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 6: But God, who shows himself so merciful to me now,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 6: will also help me to go through this. Would he,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 6: I ask, grant me a mercy in order to let
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 6: it become ray ruin in the end? Would he give
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 6: me back a daughter that I should have to murmur
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 6: when he calls me from life? No? No, he gives
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 6: her back to me that in my last hour I
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 6: may be anxious about myself alone thanks to thee eternal Father.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 6: How feeble is the gratitude of mortal lips. But soon
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  Speaker 6: soon I shall be able to thank him more worthily
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 6: in an eternity devoted to him alone.
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  Speaker 4: How it delights me, sir, to know you happy again
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  Speaker 4: before my death. Believe me, I have suffered almost as
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 4: much in your grief as you yourself, almost as much
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 4: for the grief of a father. In such a case,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 4: must be inexpressible.
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  Speaker 6: Do not regard yourself as my servant any longer my
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 6: good weight. Well, you have long deserved to enjoy a
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 6: more seemly old age. I will give it to you,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 6: and you shall not be worse off than I am.
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  Speaker 6: While I am still in this world, I will abolish
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 6: all difference between us in yonder world. You well know
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 6: it will be done. WI this once be the old
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 6: servant still on whom I never lied in vain. Go
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 6: and be sure to bring me her answer as soon
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 6: as it is ready.
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  Speaker 4: I go, sir, But such an errand is not a service.
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  Speaker 4: It is a reward which you grant me for my services. Yes,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 4: truly it is so.
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  Speaker 1: Excient on different sides of the stage. End of Act three,
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  Speaker 1: Act four of Miss Sarah Sampson. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Sarah Sampson a tragedy in five acts by G. E. Lessing,
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  Speaker 1: Act four, Scene one, Melophant's Room.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, dearest Sarah, Yes that I will do that I
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 10: must do.
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  Speaker 2: How happy you make me it is?
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  Speaker 10: I who must take the whole crime upon myself. I
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 10: alone am guilty. I alone must ask for forgiveness.
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  Speaker 2: No, Melafant, do not take from me the greater share
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: which I have in our error. It is dear to me,
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  Speaker 2: however wrong it is, for it must have convinced you
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  Speaker 2: that I love my Melafant above everything in this world.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: But is it then really true that I may henceforth
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  Speaker 2: combine this love with the love of my father? Or
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: am I in a pleasant dream? How I fear it
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: will pass and I shall awaken in my old misery.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: But no, I am not merely dreaming. I am really
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: happier than I ever dared hope to become happier than
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 2: this short life may perhaps allow. But perhaps this beam
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: of happiness appears in the distance and delusively seems to approach,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: only in order to melt away again into thick darkness,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: and to leave me suddenly in a night whose whole
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: terror has only become perceptible to me through the short illumination.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: What forebodings torment me? Are they really forebodings, Melafont, Or
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: are they common feelings which are inseparable from the expectation
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: of an undeserved happiness and the fear of losing it.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: How fast my heart beats, and how wildly it beats,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: how loud now, how quick, and now how weak, how anxious,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: how quivering. Now it hurries again, as if these were
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: its last throbbings, which it would fain beat out rapidly,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: poor heart, The.
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  Speaker 10: Tumor of your blood, which is sudden surprise, cannot fail
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  Speaker 10: to cause will abate share, and your heart will continue
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 10: its work more calmly. None of its throbs point to
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 10: aught that is in the future. And we are to
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 10: blame forgive me, dear Sarah, if we make the mechanic
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 10: pressure of our blood into a profit of evil. But
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 10: I will not leave anything undone which you yourself think
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 10: good To appease this little storm within your breast. I
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 10: will write at once, and I hope that so William
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 10: will be satisfied with the assurances of my repentance, with
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 10: the expressions of my stricken heart, and my vows of
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 10: affectionate obedience.
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  Speaker 2: Sir William ah malafant, you must begin now to accustom
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  Speaker 2: yourself to a far more tender name, my father, your
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: father malafant.
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  Speaker 10: Very well, Sarah, our kind, our dear father. I was
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  Speaker 10: very young when I last used this sweet name, very
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 10: young when I had to unlearn the equally sweet name
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 10: of mother.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: You had to unlearn it, and I I was never
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: so happy as to be able to pronounce it at all.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: My life was her death. Oh God, I was a
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: guiltless matricide. And how much was wanting? How little almost
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: nothing was wanting to my becoming a parricide too, not
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: a guiltless but a voluntary parricide. And who knows whether
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: I am not so already the years, the days, the
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: moments by which he is nearer to his end than
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: he would have been without the grief I have caused him,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: of those I have robbed him. However old and weary
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: he may be, when fate shall permit him to depart,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: my conscience will yet be unable to escape the reproach that,
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: but for me, he might have lived yet longer, A
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: sad reproach with which I doubtless should not need to
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: charge myself. If a loving mother had guided me in
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: my youth through her teaching and her example, my heart,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: would you look tenderly on me? Melafant, You are right.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: A mother would perhaps have been a tyrant for very love,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: and I should not now belong to Melaphont. Why do
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: I wish then, for that which a wiser fate denied
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: me out of kindness? Its dispensations are always best. Let
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: us only make proper use of that which it gives
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: us a father who never yet let me sigh for
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  Speaker 2: a mother, A father who will also teach you to
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: forget the parents you lost so soon. What a flattering thought.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: I fall in love with it, and forget almost that
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: in my innermost heart there is still something which refuses
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: to put faith in it? What is this rebellious something?
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 10: This something, dearest Sarah, as you have already said to yourself,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 10: is a natural, timid incapability to realize a great happiness. Ah,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 10: your heart hesitated less to believe itself unhappy than now
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 10: to its own torment. It hesitates to believe in its
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 10: own happiness. But as to one who has become dizzy
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 10: with quick movement, the external objects still appear to move
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 10: round when again he is sitting still. So the heart
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 10: which has been violently agitated cannot suddenly become calm again.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 10: There remains, often for a long time, a quivering palpitation,
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 10: which we must suffer to exhaust itself.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it, Malafant. I believe it because you say it,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: because I wish it. But do not let us detain
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: each other any longer. I will go and finish my letter,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: and you will let me read yours, will you not?
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: After I have shown you mine.
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  Speaker 10: Each word shall be submitted to your judgment, except what
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  Speaker 10: I must say in your defense. For I know you
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 10: do not think yourself so innocent as you.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: Are, accompanies Sarah to the back of the stage. Scene
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: too Melafant, after walking up and down several times in thought.
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  Speaker 10: What a riddle I am to myself? What shall I
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 10: think myself a fool or a knave? Art? What a villain?
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  Speaker 10: Thou art? I love the Angel over much of a devil,
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 10: I may be. I love her, Yes, certainly, certainly I
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  Speaker 10: love her. I feel I would sacrifice a thousand lives
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 10: for her, for her who sacrificed her virtue for me.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 10: I would do so this very moment, without hesitation. Would
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 10: I do so? And yet yet I'm afraid to say
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 10: it to myself. And yet how shall I explain it?
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 10: And yet I fear the moment which will make her
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 10: mind forever Before the world. It cannot be avoided now,
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 10: for her father is reconciled. Nor shall I be able
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 10: to put it off for long. The delay has already
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 10: drawn down painful reproaches enough upon me. But painful as
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 10: they were, they were still more supportable to me than
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 10: the melancholy thought of being fettered for life. But am
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 10: I not so? Already? Certainly, and with pleasure? Certainly, I
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 10: am already her prisoner. What is it I want? Then?
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 10: At present? I am a prisoner who is allowed to
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 10: go about on parole that is flattering? Why cannot the
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 10: matter rest there? Why must I be put in change
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 10: and thus lack even a pitiable shadow of freedom? In Chaine?
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 10: Quite so, Sarah Sampson, my beloved, What bliss lies in
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 10: these words? Sarah Sampson, my wife? The half of the
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 10: bliss is gone, and the other half will go. Monster
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 10: that I am? And with such thoughts shall I write
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 10: to her father? Yet these are not my real thoughts.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 10: They are fancies, cursed fancies which have become natural to
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 10: me through my dissolute life. I will free myself from them,
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  Speaker 10: or live no more.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three, you disturb me, Noughton, I beg your pardon, sir,
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  Speaker 1: withdrawing again.
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  Speaker 10: No, no, stay, it is just as well that you
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 10: should disturb me. What do you want?
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 11: I have heard some very good news from Betty, and
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 11: of come to wish you happiness on.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 10: The reconciliation with her father. I suppose you mean I
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  Speaker 10: thank you.
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  Speaker 11: So Heaven still means to make you happy.
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  Speaker 10: If it means to do so, you see, Noughton, I
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 10: am just towards myself. It certainly does not mean it
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 10: for my sake.
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  Speaker 11: No, no, If you feel that, then it will be
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 11: for your sake, also for.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 10: My Sharah's sake alone. If its vengeance already armed, could
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 10: spare the whole of a sinful city for the sake
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 10: of a few just men, surely it can also bear
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 10: with a sinner. When a soul in which it finds
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 10: delight is the sharer of his fate.
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  Speaker 11: You speak with earnestness and feeling, but does not joy
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 11: express itself differently from this joy?
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  Speaker 1: Norton looking sharply at him For me, it is gone
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  Speaker 1: now forever?
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  Speaker 11: May I speak candidly? You may the reproach which I
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 11: had to hear this morning, of having made myself a
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 11: participator in your crimes because I had been silent about them,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 11: may excuse me if I am less silent.
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  Speaker 10: Henceforth, only do not forget who you are.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 11: I will not forget that I am a servant, and
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 11: a servant at last, who might be something better if
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 11: he had lived for it. I am your servant, it
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 11: is true, but not so far as to wish to
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 11: be damned along with.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 10: You with me. And why do you say that now?
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 11: Because I am not a little astonished to find you
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 11: different from what I expected?
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 10: Will you not inform me what you expected?
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 11: To find you all delight?
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 10: It is only the common herd who are beside themselves
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 10: immediately when luck smiles on him for once.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 11: Perhaps because the common herds still have the feelings which
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 11: among greater people are corrupted and weakened by a thousand
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 11: unnatural notions. But there is something besides moderation to be
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 11: read in your face coldness, irresolution, disinclination.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 10: And if sir, have you forgotten who is here besides Sarah?
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 10: The presence of malwood.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 11: Could make you anxious, I dare say, but not despondent.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 11: Something else troubles you, and I shall be glad to
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 11: be mistaken in thinking you would rather that the father
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 11: were not yet reconciled the prospect of a position which
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 11: so little suits your way of thinking.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 10: Noughton Norton, either you must have been, or still must
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 10: be a dreadful villain that you can thus guess my thoughts.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 10: Since you have hit the nail upon the head, I
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 10: will not deny it. It is true, so certain as
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  Speaker 10: it is that I should love my Sarah for ever,
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  Speaker 10: so little does it please me that I must must
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 10: love her forever. But do not fear I shall conquer
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  Speaker 10: this foolish fancy, or do you think that it is
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 10: no fancy who bids me look at marriage as compulsion.
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  Speaker 10: I certainly do not wish to be freer than she
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 10: will permit me to be.
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  Speaker 11: These reflections are all very well, But Marwood will come
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  Speaker 11: to the aid of your old prejudices, and I fear, I.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 10: Fear that which will never happen. You shall see her
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 10: go back this very evening to London, And as I
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 10: have confessed my most secret folly, we will call it
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  Speaker 10: for the present. I must not conceal it from you either,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 10: that I have put Malwood into such a fright that
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 10: she will obey the slightest hint from.
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  Speaker 11: Me that sounds incredible to me.
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  Speaker 10: Look, I snatched this murderous steel from her.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: Hand, showing the dagger which she had taken from Marwood,
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  Speaker 1: when in.
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  Speaker 10: A fearful rage she was on the point of stabbing
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 10: me to the heart with it. Will you believe now
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 10: that I offered her a stout resistance at first, she
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 10: well nigh succeeded in throwing her noose around my neck again.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 10: The trait arress she has Arabella with her Arabella, I
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 10: have not yet been able to fathom by what cunning
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 10: she got that child back into her hands again. Enough,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 10: the result did not fall out as she no doubt
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 10: had expected.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 11: Allow me to rejoice at your firmness, and to consider
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 11: your reformation half ashort. Yet, as you wish me to
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 11: know all what business had she here under the name
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 11: of Lady Solmes.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 10: She wanted, of all things to see her rival. I
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 10: granted her wish, partly from kindness, partly from rashness, partly
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 10: from the desire to humiliate her by the sight of
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 10: the best of her sex. You shake your head, Naughton.
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 11: I should not have resked that risked.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 10: I did not risk anything more, after all than what
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  Speaker 10: I should have had to risk if I had refused her,
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  Speaker 10: she would have tried to obtain admittance as Marwood, and
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 10: the worst that can be expected from her incognito visit
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  Speaker 10: is not worse than that.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 11: Thank Kathern that it went off so quietly.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 10: It is not quite over yet, Naughton. A slight indisposition
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 10: came over her and compelled her to go away without
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 10: taking leave. She wants to come again, Let her do so.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 10: The wasp, which has lost its.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: Sting pointing to the dagger, can do.
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  Speaker 10: Nothing worse than buzz. But buzzing too shall cost her
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 10: dear if she grows too troublesome with it. Do I
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 10: not hear somebody coming leave me? If it should be she,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 10: it is she.
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  Speaker 1: Go except Norton, Scene four.
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  Speaker 8: No doubt you are a little pleased to see me again.
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  Speaker 10: I'm very pleased, Malwood, to see that your indisposition has
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 10: had no further consequences. You are better, I hope so.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 10: So you have not done well then to trouble to
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  Speaker 10: come here again.
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  Speaker 8: I thank you, Malafont. If you say this out of
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 8: kindness to me, and I do not take it amiss.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 8: If you have another meaning in it.
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  Speaker 10: I am pleased to see you so calm.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 8: The storm is over. Forget it. I beg you once more.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 10: Only remember your promise, Malwood, and I will forget everything
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 10: with pleasure. But if I knew that you would not
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 10: consider it an offense, I should like to.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 8: Ask ask, on, Malafont, you cannot offend me any more?
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 8: What were you going to ask?
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 10: How you liked my Sarah?
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 8: The question is natural. My answer will not seem so natural,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 8: but it is nonetheless true for that I liked her
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 8: very much.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 10: Such impartiality delights me. But would it be possible for
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 10: him who knew how to appreciate the charms of Amma
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 10: Wood to make a bad choice.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 8: You ought to have spared me this flattery, Melafont. If
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 8: it is flattery, it is not in accordance with our
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 8: intention to forget each other.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 10: You surely do not wish me to facilitate this intention
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 10: by rudeness. Do not let our separation be of an
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 10: ordinary nature. Let us break with each other as people
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 10: of reason, who yield to necessity without bitterness, without anger,
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 10: and with the preservation of a certain degree of respect,
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 10: as beherves our former intimacy.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 8: Former intimacy, I do not wish to be reminded of it,
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 8: No more of it. What must be must and it
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 8: matters little how But one more word about Arabella. You
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 8: will not let me have her, No, Mahwood, it is cruel,
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 8: since you can no longer be her father to take
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 8: her mother also from her.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 10: I can still be her father and will be so.
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  Speaker 8: Prove it. Then, Now, how permit Arabella to have the
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 8: riches which I have in keeping for you as her
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 8: father's inheritance as to her mother's inheritance. I wish I
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 8: could leave her a better one than the shame of
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 8: having been born by me.
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  Speaker 10: Do not speak, sir. I shall provide for Arabella without
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 10: embarrassing her mother's property. If she wishes to forget me,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 10: she must begin by forgetting that she possesses anything from me.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 10: I have obligations towards her, and I shall never forget that. Really,
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 10: though against her will, she has promoted my happiness. Yes, Mawood,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 10: in all seriousness, I thank you for betraying our retreat
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 10: to a father whose ignorance of it alone prevented him
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 10: from receiving us.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 8: Again, do not torture me with gratitude which I never
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 8: wished to deserve. Sir William is too good an old fool.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 8: He must think differently from what I should have thought.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 8: In his place, I should have forgiven my daughter, But
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 8: as to her seduce sir, I should have Marwood true,
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 8: you yourself are the seducer. I am silent. Shall I
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 8: be presently allowed to pay my farewell visits to missus Sampson.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 10: Erah could not be offended even if you left without seeing.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 8: Her again, Malafont, I do not like playing my part
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 8: by Halves, and I have no wish to be taken,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 8: even under an assumed name, for a woman without breeding.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 10: If you care for your own peace of mind, you
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 10: ought to avoid seeing a person again who must awaken
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 10: certain thoughts.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: In you, which Marwood, smiling disdainfully, you.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 8: Have a better opinion of yourself than of me. But
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 8: even if you believed that I should be inconsolable on
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 8: your you ought at least to believe it in silence.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 8: Miss Sampson would awaken certain thoughts in me. Certain thoughts,
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 8: oh yes, but none more certain than this that the
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 8: best girl can often love the most worthless man.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 10: Charming, Malwood, perfectly charming. Now you are as I have
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 10: long wished to see you, Although I could almost have wished,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 10: as I told you before, that we could have retained
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 10: some respect to each other. But this may perhaps come
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 10: still when once your fermenting heart is cooled down. Excuse
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 10: me for a moment, I will fetch Miss Sampson to
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 10: see you.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: Scene five Marwood looking round.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 8: Am I alone? Can I take breath again unobserved, and
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 8: that the muscles of my face relax into the natural position.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 8: I must, just for a moment be the true Margaret
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 8: again in all my features, to be able again to
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 8: bear the restraint of dissimulation. Ah, how I hate the
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 8: base dissimulation, not because I love sincerity, but because thou
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 8: art the most pitiable refuge of powerless revenge. I certainly
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 8: would not condescend to thee if a tyrant would lend
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 8: me his power, or heaven its thunderbolt. Yet if thou
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 8: only servest my end, the beginning is promising, and Melafont
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 8: seems disposed to grow more confident. If my device succeeds
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 8: and I can speak alone with his Sarah, then yes,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 8: then it is still very uncertain whether it will be
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 8: of any use to me. The truths about Melafont will
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 8: perhaps be no novelty to her. The calumnies she will
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 8: perhaps not believe, and the threats perhaps despise. But yet
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 8: she shall hear truths, calumnies and threats. It would be
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 8: bad if they did not leave any sting at all
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 8: in her mind. Silence, they are coming. I am no
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 8: longer Margaret. I am a worthless outcast who tries, by
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 8: little artful tricks to turn aside her shame. A bruised
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 8: worm which turns and fain would wound at least a
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 8: heel of him who trod upon it.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: Saint Sex.
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: I am happy, Madam, that my uneasiness on your account
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 2: has been unnecessary.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 8: I thank you. The attack was so insignificant that it
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 8: need not have made you uneasy.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 10: Lady Selmes wishes to take leave of you, dearest Sarah,
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 10: so soon, Madam.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 8: I cannot go soon enough for those who desire my
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 8: presence in London.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 10: You surely are not going to leave today.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 8: Tomorrow morning, first.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 10: Thing, tomorrow morning, first thing.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 2: I thought today Our acquaintance, Madam, commences hurriedly. I hope
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 2: to be honored with a more intimate intercourse with you
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 2: at some future time.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 8: I solicit your friendship, Miss Sampson.
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 10: I pledge myself dearest Sarah that this desire, Lady Shelmes,
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 10: is sincere, although I must tell you beforehand that you
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 10: will certainly not see each other again for a long time.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 10: Lady Sainte will very rarely be able to live where
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 10: we are Marwood.
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 2: Aside, how subtle that is to deprive me of a
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 2: very pleasant anticipation, Malafant.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 8: I shall be the greatest loser.
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 10: But in reality, Madam, do you not start before tomorrow morning?
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 8: It may be sooner aside no one comes.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 10: We do not wish to remain much longer here either.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 10: It will be well, will it not, Sarah? To follow
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 10: our answer without delay? So William cannot be displeased with
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 10: our haste?
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: Scene seven?
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 10: What is it, Betty?
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 12: Somebody wishes to speak with you immediately?
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 5: Marwood aside, hah, Now all depends on whether me immediately.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 10: I will come at once? Madam? Is it agreeable to
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 10: you to shorten your visit?
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 2: Why so, malapant, Lady soalms will be so kind is
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 2: to wait for your return?
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 8: Pardon me? I know my cousin Melafont, and prefer to
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 8: depart with him.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 15: The stranger, Sir, He wishes only to say a word
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 15: to you he says that he has not a moment
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 15: to lose.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 10: Good. Please, I will be with him directly. I expect
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 10: it will be some news at last about the agreement
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 10: which I mentioned to you.
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: Except Betty Marwood aside.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 8: A good conjecture, but still, Madam, if you order it,
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 8: then I must bid you.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 2: Oh no, Melafont, I am sure you will not grudge
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 2: me the pleasure of entertaining lady Palms during your absence.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 10: You wish it, serah, Do.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: Not stay now, dearest Melafont, but come back again soon,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: and come with a more joyful face. I will wish
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: you doubtless expect an unpleasant answer. Don't let this disturb you.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: I am more desirous to see whether, after all, you
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 2: can gracefully prefer me to an inheritance than I am
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: to know that you are in the possession of one.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 10: I obey, I shall be sure to come back in
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 10: a moment.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: Madam Marwood aside lucky so far, Except Malafant Scene eight.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 2: My good Malafant sometimes gives his polite phrases quite a
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 2: wrong accent. Do not you think so, too, Madam?
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 8: I am no doubt too much accustomed to his way
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 8: already to notice anything of that sort.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 2: Will you not take a seat, madam, if you desire.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: It aside whilst they are seating themselves.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 8: I must not let this moment slip by unused.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 2: Tell me, shall I not be the most enviable of
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 2: women with my malefant?
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 8: If Melfont knows how to appreciate his happiness, Miss Sampson
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 8: will make him the most enviable of men.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: But a but, and then a pause, madam, I am Frank,
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 2: Miss Sampson, and for this reason infinitely more to be esteemed.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 8: Frank not seldom imprudently. So my but is a proof
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 8: of it, a very imprudent.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 2: But I do not think that my lady Psalms can
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 2: wish through this evasion to make me more uneasy. It
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 2: must be a cruel mercy that only rouses suspicions of
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 2: an evil which it might disclose.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 8: Not at all, Miss Sampson, you attach far too much
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 8: importance to my But Malafont is a relation of mine.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 2: Then all the more important is the slightest charge which
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 2: you have to make against him.
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 8: But even were Malafont my brother, I must tell you
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 8: that I should unhesitatingly side with one of my own
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 8: sex against him if I perceived that he did not
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 8: act quite honestly towards her. We women ought properly to
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 8: consider every insult shown to one of us as an
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 8: insult to the whole sex, and to make it a
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 8: common affair in which even the sister and mother of
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 8: the guilty one ought not to hesitate to share. This
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 8: remark has already been my guide, now and there, and
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 8: in doubtful.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 2: Cases, and promises me.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 8: I tremble, No, Miss Sampson, if you mean to tremble,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 8: let us speak of something else, cruel woman, I am
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 8: sorry to be misunderstood. I, at least, if I place
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 8: myself in imagination in Miss Sampson's position, would regard as
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 8: a favor any more exact information which one might give
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 8: me about the man with whose fate I was about
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 8: to unite my own forever.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 2: What do you wish? Madam? Do I not know my malefant? Already?
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 2: Believe me? I know him as I do my own soul.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 2: I know that he loves me, and others has loved
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 2: others that I know?
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 12: Also?
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 2: Was he to love me before he knew anything about me?
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 2: Can I ask to be the only one who has
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 2: had charm enough to attract him. Must I not confess
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 2: it to myself that I have striven to please him?
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 2: Is he not so lovable that he must have awakened
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 2: this endeavor in many a broad And isn't it but
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 2: natural if several have been successful in their endeavor.
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 8: You defend him with just the same ardor and almost
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 8: the same words with which I have often defended him.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 8: Already it is no crime to have loved much less
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 8: still is it a crime to have been loved. But
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 8: fickleness is a crime.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 2: Not always, For often, I believe it is rendered excusable
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 2: by the objects of one's love, which seldom deserve to
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 2: be loved Forever.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 8: Miss Simpson's doctrine of morals does not seem to be
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 8: of the strictest.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 2: It is true, the one by which I judge those
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: who themselves confess that they have taken to bad ways
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 2: is not of the strictest, Nor should it be so,
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 2: For here it is not a question of fixing the
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 2: limits which virtue marks out for love, but merely of
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 2: excusing the human weakness that has not remained within those limits,
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: and of judging the consequences arising therefrom by the rules
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 2: of wisdom, if, for example, a Melafont loves amar Wood
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 2: and eventually abandons her, this abandonment is very praiseworthy in
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 2: comparison with the love itself. It would be a misfortune
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 2: if he had to love a vicious person forever, because
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 2: he had once loved her.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 8: But do you know this Marwood, whom you so confidently
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 8: call a vicious person?
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: I know her from Melofont's description Melafont.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 8: Has it never occurred to you, then, that Melafont must
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 8: be a very invalid witness in his own affairs.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 2: I see now, madam, that you wish to put me
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 2: to the test. Melefont will smile when you repeat to
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 2: him how earnestly I have defended him.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 8: I beg your pardon, Miss Sampson. Melafont must not hear
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 8: anything about this conversation. You are of too noble a
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 8: mind to wish, out of gratitude for a well meant
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 8: warning to eschange from him, a relation who speaks against
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 8: him only because she looks upon his unworthy behavior towards
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 8: more than one of the most aims of her sex,
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 8: as if she herself had suffered from it.
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 2: I do not wish to estrange any one, and would
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 2: that others wished it as little as I do.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 8: Shall I tell you the story of Marwood in a
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 8: few words.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 2: I do not know, but still yes, madam, but under
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 2: the condition that you stop as soon as Malavont returns.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 2: He might think that I had inquired about it myself,
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 2: and I should not like him to think me capable
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 2: of a curiosity so prejudicial to him.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 8: I should have asked the same caution of Miss Sampson
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 8: if she had not anticipated me. He must not even
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 8: be able to suspect that Marvarered has been our topic.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 8: And you will be so cautious as to act in
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 8: accordance with this Here now, Marwood is of good family.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 8: She was a young widow when Melafont made her acquaintance
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 8: at the house of one of her friends. They say
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 8: that she lacked neither beauty nor the grace without which
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 8: beauty would be nothing. Her good name was spotless. One
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 8: single thing was wanting money everything that she had possessed,
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 8: and she said to have had considerable wealth. She had
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 8: sacrificed for the deliverance of a husband from whom she
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 8: thought it right to withhold nothing after she had willed
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 8: to give him heart and hand.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 2: Truly a noble trait of character, which I wish could
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 2: sparkle in a better setting.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 8: In spite of her want of fortune, she was sought
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 8: by persons who wished nothing more than to make her happy.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 8: Melafont appeared among her rich and distinguished admirers. His offer
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 8: was serious, and the abundance in which he promised to
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 8: place Marwood was the least on which he relied. He
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 8: knew in their earliest intimacy that he had not to
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 8: deal with an egoist, but with a woman of refined
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 8: feelings who would have preferred to live in a hut
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 8: with one she loved than in a palace with one
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 8: for whom she did not care.
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 2: Another trait which I grudge Miss Marwood, do not flatter
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 2: her any more. Pray, Madam, or I might be lad
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 2: to pity her. At last.
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 8: Melafont was just about to unite himself with her with
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 8: due solemnity, when he received the news of the death
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 8: of a cousin who left him his entire fortune on
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 8: the condition that he should marry a distant relation. As
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 8: Marwood had refused richer unions for his sake, he would
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 8: not now yield to her in generosity he intended to
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 8: tell her nothing of this inheritance until he had forfetted
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 8: it through her. That was generously planned, was it not.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, madam, who knows better than I, that Malavont possesses
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 2: the most generous of hearts?
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 8: But what did Marwood do? She heard late one evening
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 8: through some friends of Malaphan's resolution. Melfont came in the
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 8: morning to see her, and Marwood was gone. Where too,
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 8: why he found nothing but a letter from her, in
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 8: which she told him that he must not expect ever
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 8: to see her again. She did not deny, though, that
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 8: she loved him, But for this very reason she could
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 8: not bring herself to be the cause of an act
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 8: of which he must necessarily repent. Some day she released
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 8: him from his promise and begged him, by the consummation
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 8: of the union demanded by the will, to enter without
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 8: further delay, into the possession of a fortune which an
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 8: honorable man could employ for a better purpose than the
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 8: thoughtless flattery of a woman.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: But, Madam, why do you attribute such noble sentiments to Marwood?
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 2: Lady Palms may be capable of such, I dare say,
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 2: but not Marwood, Certainly not Marwood.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 8: It is not surprising that you are prejudiced against her.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 8: Melifont was almost distracted at Margaret's resolution. He sent people
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 8: in all directions to search for her, and at last
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 8: found her.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 2: No doubt, because she wished to be found.
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 8: No bitter jests, They do not become a woman of
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 8: such gentle disposition. I say he found her and found
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 8: her inexorable. She would not sceppt his hand on any account,
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 8: and the promise to return to London was all that
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 8: he could get from her. They agreed to postpone their
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 8: marriage until his relative, tired of the long delay, should
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 8: be compelled to propose an arrangement. In the meantime, Marwood
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 8: could not well renounce the daily visits from Melipont, which,
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 8: for a long time when nothing but the respectful visits
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 8: of a suitor who has been ordered back within the
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 8: bounds of friendship. But how impossible it is for a
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 8: passionate temper not to transgress these bounds. Melaphont possesses everything
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 8: which can make a man dangerous to us. Nobody can
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 8: be more convinced of this than you yourself, Miss Sampson.
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 8: Alas you sigh, Marwood too has sighed more than once
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 8: over her weakness and sighs.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 2: Yet enough, Madam, enough, these words, I should think are
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 2: worse than the bitter jest which you were pleased to
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 2: forbid me.
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 8: Its intention was not to offend you, but only to
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 8: show you the unhappy Margaret in a light in which
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 8: you could most correctly judge her to be brief. Love
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 8: gave Malofont the rights of a husband, and Melafont did
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 8: not any longer consider it necessary to have them made
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 8: ballad by the law. How happy would Margaret be if
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 8: she Melafont and Heaven alone knew of her shame? How
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 8: happy if a pitiable daughter did not reveal to the
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 8: whole world that which she would fain be able to
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 8: hide from herself.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: What do you say a daughter?
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 8: Yes, through the intervention of Sarah Sampson, an unhappy daughter
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 8: loses all hope of ever being able to name her
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 8: parents without abhorrence terrible words.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 2: And Malafont has concealed this from me, Am, I to believe.
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 8: It, Madam, you may assuredly believe that Malafont has perhaps
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 8: concealed still more from you.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 2: Still more? What more could he have concealed from me?
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 8: This that he still loves Marwood?
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 2: You will kill me.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 8: It is incredible that a love which has lasted more
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 8: than ten years can die away so quickly. It may
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 8: certainly suffer a short eclipse, but nothing but a short
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 8: one from which it breaks forth again with renewed brightness.
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  Speaker 8: I could name to you, ay, Miss Ocliff, a Miss Dorcas,
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  Speaker 8: a Miss Moore, and several others, who, one after another
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  Speaker 8: threatened to alienate from Marwood, the man by whom they
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 8: eventually saw themselves most cruelly deceived. There is a certain
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 8: point beyond which he cannot go, and as soon as
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  Speaker 8: he gets face to face with it, he draws suddenly back.
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  Speaker 8: But suppose Miss Sampson, you were the one fortunate woman
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  Speaker 8: in whose case all circumstances declared themselves against him. Suppose
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  Speaker 8: you succeeded in compelling him to conquer the disgust of
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 8: a formal yoke which has now become innate to him.
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  Speaker 8: Do you then expect to make sure of his heart
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  Speaker 8: in this way?
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  Speaker 2: Miserable girl that I am, what must I hear?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing less than that he would then hurry back all
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  Speaker 8: the more into the arms of her, who had not
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  Speaker 8: been so jealous of his liberty. You would be called
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  Speaker 8: his wife and she would be it.
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  Speaker 2: Do not torment me longer with such dreadful pictures. Advise
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  Speaker 2: me rather, Madam, I pray you advise me what to do.
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  Speaker 2: You must know him, You must know by what means
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  Speaker 2: it may still be possible to reconcile him with a bond,
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  Speaker 2: without which even the most sincere love remains an unholy passion.
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  Speaker 8: That one can catch a bird, I well know. But
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 8: that one can render its cage more pleasant than the
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  Speaker 8: open field, I do not know. My advice therefore, would
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 8: be that one should rather not catch it, and should
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  Speaker 8: spare oneself the vexation of the profitless trouble. Content yourself,
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  Speaker 8: young lady, with the pleasure of having seen him very
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 8: near your net, and as you can foresee that he
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 8: would certainly tear it if you tempted him in. Altogether,
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  Speaker 8: spare your net, and do not tempt him in.
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  Speaker 2: I do not know whether I rightly understand your playful parable.
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  Speaker 8: If you are vexed with it, you have understood it.
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  Speaker 8: In one word, your own interest, as well as that
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  Speaker 8: of another. Wisdom, as well as justice, can and must,
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  Speaker 8: induce Miss Sampson to renounce her claims to a man
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  Speaker 8: to whom Marwood has the first and strongest claim. You
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 8: are still in such a position with regard to him
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  Speaker 8: that you can withdraw, I will not say with much honor,
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  Speaker 8: but still without public disgrace. A short disappearance with a
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  Speaker 8: lover is a stain, it is true, but still a
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  Speaker 8: stain which time effaces. In some years all will be forgotten.
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  Speaker 8: And for a rich heiress there are always men to
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 8: be found who are not so scrupulous. If Marwood were
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  Speaker 8: in such a position, and she needed no husband for
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 8: her fading charms, nor father for her helpless daughter, I
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 8: am sure she would act more generously towards Miss Sampson
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  Speaker 8: than Miss Sampson acts towards her when raising these dishonorable difficulties.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah rising angrily, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is too much? Is that the language of a relative
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  Speaker 2: of Melafants. How shamefully you are betrayed, Melafant. Now I perceive, Madam,
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  Speaker 2: why he was so unwilling to leave you alone with me?
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 2: He knows already. I dare say how much one has
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 2: to fear from your tongue, a poisoned tongue. I speak boldly,
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  Speaker 2: for your unseemly talk has continued long enough. How has
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 2: Marwood been able to enlist such a mediator, a mediator
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 2: who summons all her ingenuity to force upon me a
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 2: dazzling romance about her, and employs every art to rouse
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  Speaker 2: my suspicion against the loyalty of a man who was
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 2: a man but not a monster. Was it only for
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 2: this that I was told that Marwood boasted of a
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 2: daughter from him? Only for this that I was told
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  Speaker 2: of this and that forsaken girl, in order that you
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 2: might be enabled to hint to me, in cruel fashion,
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  Speaker 2: that I should do well if I gave place to
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  Speaker 2: a hardened strumpet.
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  Speaker 8: Not so passionate, if you please, young lady, a hardened strumpet.
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  Speaker 8: You are surely using words whose full meaning you have
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  Speaker 8: not considered.
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  Speaker 2: Does she not appear such even from Lady Solmes's description, Well, Madam,
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  Speaker 2: you are her friend, perhaps her intimate friend. I do
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  Speaker 2: not say this as a reproach, for it may well
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  Speaker 2: be that it is hardly possible in this world to
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 2: have virtuous friends.
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  Speaker 13: Only.
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  Speaker 2: Yet why should I be so humiliated for the sake
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  Speaker 2: of this friendship of yours? If I had had Marwood's experience,
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 2: I should certainly not have committed the error which places
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: me on such a humiliating level with her. But if
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 2: I had committed it, I should certainly not have continued
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  Speaker 2: in it for ten years. It is one thing to
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 2: fall into vice from ignorance, and another to grow intimate
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  Speaker 2: with it when you know it. Alas, madam, if you knew,
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  Speaker 2: what regret, what remorse, what anxiety? My error has cost me?
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  Speaker 2: My error, I say, for why shall I be so
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 2: cruel to myself any longer? And look upon it as
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 2: a crime? Heaven itself ceases to consider it such it
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 2: withdraws my punishment and gives me back my father. But
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 2: I am frightened, madam. How your features are suddenly transformed.
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 2: The glow rage speaks from the fixed eye and the
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 2: quivering movement of the mouth. Ah, if I have vexed you, Madam,
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  Speaker 2: I beg for pardon. I am a foolish, sensitive creature.
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  Speaker 2: What you have said was doubtless not meant so badly.
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  Speaker 2: Forgive my rashness. How can I pacify you? How can
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 2: I also gain a friend in you? As Marwood has done?
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  Speaker 2: Let me let me entreat you on my.
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  Speaker 1: Knees, falling down upon her knees for your friendship.
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  Speaker 2: And if I cannot have this at least for the
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 2: justice not to place me and Marwood in one and
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  Speaker 2: the same rank.
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  Speaker 1: Marwood proudly stepping back and leaving Sarah on her knees.
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  Speaker 8: This position of Sara Sampson is too charming for Marwood
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  Speaker 8: to triumphant it unrecognized in me, Miss Sampson, behold the
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 8: Marwood with whom on your knees you beg Marwood herself
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  Speaker 8: not to compare.
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  Speaker 1: You, Sarah springing up and drawing back in terror.
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  Speaker 2: You Marwood.
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  Speaker 6: Ha.
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  Speaker 2: Now I recognize her. Now I recognize the murderous deliverer
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  Speaker 2: to whose dagger a warning dream exposed me. It is
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 2: she away, unhappy Sarah, save me, malafant, save your beloved
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 2: and thou sweet voice of my beloved father?
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  Speaker 4: Call?
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  Speaker 2: Where does it call? Whither shall I hasten to it?
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  Speaker 4: Here?
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  Speaker 2: There, help Melapant, Help Betty. Now she approaches me with
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 2: murderous hand?
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: How act that?
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  Speaker 8: What does the excitable girl mean? Would that she spake
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  Speaker 8: the truth? And that I approached her with murderous hand?
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 8: I ought to have spared the dagger until now fool
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 8: that I was what delight to be able to stab
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 8: a rival at one's feet in her voluntary humiliation. What
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 8: now I am detected? Meleafont may be here this minute?
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  Speaker 8: Shall I fly from him? Shall I await him? I
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 8: will wait, but not in idleness. Perhaps the cutting of
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 8: my servant will detain him long enough. I see I
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 8: am feared. Why do I not follow her?
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  Speaker 4: Then?
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  Speaker 8: Why do I not try the last expedient which I
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 8: can use against her? Threats are pitiable weapons, but despair
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 8: despises no weapons, however pitiable. They may be. A timid
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 8: girl who flies, stupid and terror stricken from my mere name,
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 8: can easily take dreadful words for dreadful deeds. But Melophont,
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 8: Melophont will give her fresh courage and teach her to
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 8: scorn my threats. He will, perhaps he will not. Few
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 8: things would have been undertaken in this world if men
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 8: had always looked to the end. And am I not
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 8: prepared for the most fatal end. The dagger was for others.
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 8: The drug is for me, The drug for me, Long
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 8: carried by me near my heart, it here awaits its
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 8: sad service. Here where, in better times I hid the
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 8: written flatteries of my lovers poison for us. Equally sure,
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 8: if slower would it were not destined to rage in
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 8: my veins. Only would that a faithless one? Why do
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 8: I waste my time in wishing away? I must not
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 8: recover my reason, nor she hers he will dare nothing
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 8: who wishes to dare? In cold blood?
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: Of Act four, Act five of Miss Sarah Sampson. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Miss Sarah Sampson a tragedy in five
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  Speaker 1: acts by G. E. Lessing, Act five, Scene one, Sarah's room,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah reclining in an armchair, and Betty, do.
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  Speaker 12: You feel a little better?
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 2: Miss better? I wish only that Melifont would return. You
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 2: have sent for him, have you not?
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  Speaker 12: Norton and the Landlord have gone for him.
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 2: Norton is a good fellow, but he is rash. I
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 2: do not want him by any means to be rude
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  Speaker 2: to his master on my account. According to his story,
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 2: Melafont is innocent of all this. She follows him, what
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 2: can he do? She storms, she raves, She tries to
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 2: murder him. Do you see, Betty, I have exposed him
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 2: to this danger? Who else but me and the wicked
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 2: mar would at last insisted on seeing me, or she
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 2: would not return to London. Could he refuse her this
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 2: trifling request? Have not I too often been curious to
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 2: see Marwood? Melafont knows well that we are curious creatures.
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 2: And if I had not insisted myself that she should
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 2: remain with me until his return, he would have taken
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 2: her away with him. I should have seen her under
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 2: a false name, without knowing that I had seen her,
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 2: and I should perhaps have been pleased with this little
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 2: deception at some future time. In short, it is all
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  Speaker 2: my fault. Well, while I was frightened, nothing more. The
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 2: swoon was nothing, you know, Betty, I am subject to
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 2: such fits.
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  Speaker 12: But I had never seen you in so deep a
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 12: swoon before.
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 2: Do not tell me so, please. I must have caused
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 2: you a good deal of trouble, My good.
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 12: Girl, Marwood herself seemed moved by your danger. In spite
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 12: of all I could do, she would not leave the
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 12: room until you had opened your eyes a little, and
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 12: I could give you the medicine.
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  Speaker 2: After all, I must consider it fortunate that I swooned,
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 2: for who knows what more I should have had to
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 2: hear from her. She certainly can hardly have followed me
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 2: into my room without a purpose. You cannot imagine how
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 2: terrified I was. The dreadful dream I had last night
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 2: recurred to me suddenly, and I fled like an insane
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 2: woman who does not know why and whither she flies.
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 2: But Malifant does not come. Ah, what a.
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 12: Sigh, miss, What convulsions?
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  Speaker 2: God? What sensation was this?
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: What was that?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing? Betty? A pain, not one pain, a thousand burning
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 2: pains in one. But do not be uneasy. It is
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  Speaker 2: over now.
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: Scene two.
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  Speaker 11: Melafont will be here in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: That is well, Norton. But where did you find him?
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  Speaker 11: A stranger had enticed him beyond the tam gate, where
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 11: he said a gentleman waited for him to speak with
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 11: him about matters of the greatest importance. After taking him
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 11: from place to place for a long time, the swinder
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 11: slunk away from him. It will be bad for him
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  Speaker 11: if he lets himself be caught. Melafont is furious.
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 2: Did you tell him what has happened?
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  Speaker 11: All?
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  Speaker 2: But in such a way.
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  Speaker 11: I could not think about the way enough. He knows
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 11: what anxiety his imprudence has again caused you.
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  Speaker 2: Not so, Norton, I have caused it myself.
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  Speaker 11: Why may Malafont never be in the wrong. Come in, sir,
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  Speaker 11: Love has already excused you.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three, Ah Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: If this love of yours were not, then I should
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  Speaker 2: certainly be the unhappier of the two. If nothing more
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 2: vexatious has happened to you in your absence than to me,
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  Speaker 2: I am happy.
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  Speaker 10: I have not deserved to be so kindly received.
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  Speaker 2: Let my weakness be my excuse that I do not
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 2: receive you more tenderly. If only for your sake, I
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 2: would that I was well again.
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  Speaker 10: Ha Marwood, this treachery too. The scoundrel who led me
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 10: with a mysterious air from one street to another, can
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 10: assuredly have been a messenger of her earnly. See, dearest Sara,
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 10: she employed this artifice to get me away from you.
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  Speaker 10: A clumsy artifice, certainly, but just from its very clumsiness,
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 10: I was far from taking it for one. She shall
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 10: have a reward for this treachery. Quick Norton, go to
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 10: her lodging, Do not lose sight of her, and attain
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 10: her until I come.
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  Speaker 1: What for melephant, I intercede for Marwood, Go except Norton
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  Speaker 1: Scene four.
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  Speaker 2: Pray let the wearied enemy, who has ventured the last
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 2: fruitless assault, retire in peace without Marwood. I should be
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 2: ignorant of much much is the match? What you would
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 2: not have told me, Malafant, you start, well, I will
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  Speaker 2: forget it again, since you do not wish me to
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 2: know it.
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  Speaker 10: I hope that you will not believe any ill of
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  Speaker 10: me which has no better foundation than the jealousy of
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 10: an angry slanderer.
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  Speaker 2: More of this another time. But why do you not
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 2: tell me first of all about the danger in which
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 2: your precious life was placed? I, Maliphant, I should have
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 2: been the one who had sharpened the sword with which
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 2: Marwood had stabbed you.
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 10: The danger was not so great. Maud was driven by
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 10: blind passion, and I was cool, so her attack could
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 10: not but fail. I only wish that she may not
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 10: have been more successful with another attack. Upon Sarah's good
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 10: opinion of her, Meliphant, I must almost fear it. No,
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 10: dearest Sarah, do not conceal from me any longer what
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 10: you have learned from her.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if I had still had the least doubt of
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 2: your love, meant Marwood, in her anger, would have removed it.
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 2: She surely must feel that through me, she has lost
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 2: that which is of the greatest value to her, For
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 2: an uncertain loss would have let her act more cautiously.
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  Speaker 10: I shall soon learn to sit some store by her
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 10: bloodthirsty jealousy, her impetuous insolence, her treacherous cunning. But Sarah,
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 10: you wish again to evade my question and not to
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  Speaker 10: reveal to me.
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  Speaker 2: I will, And what I said was indeed a step
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 2: towards it. That Melafant loves me, then is undeniably certain,
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  Speaker 2: if only I had not discovered that his love lacked
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 2: a certain confidence which would be as flattering to me
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  Speaker 2: as his love itself. In short, dearest Melafant, why does
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 2: a sudden anxiety make it so difficult for me to speak? Well?
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 2: I suppose I shall have to tell it without seeking
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 2: for the most prudent form in which to say it.
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 2: Marwood mentioned a pledge of love, and the talkative Norton
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 2: forgive him pray told me a name, a name Melafant,
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  Speaker 2: which must rouse in you another tenderness than that which
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 2: you feel for me.
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  Speaker 10: Is it possible? Has the shameless woman confessed her own disgrace?
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  Speaker 10: A less Sarah, have pity on my confusion, since you
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 10: already know all. Why do you wish to hear it
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  Speaker 10: again from my lips? She shall never come into your sight,
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  Speaker 10: the unhappy child who has no other fault than that
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  Speaker 10: of having such a mother.
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  Speaker 2: You love her, then, in spite of all.
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  Speaker 10: Too much, Sarah, too much for me to deny it.
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  Speaker 2: Ah melephant, how I too love you for this very
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 2: love's sake. You would have offended me deeply if you
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  Speaker 2: had denied the sympathy of your blood for any scruples
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  Speaker 2: on my account. You have hurt me already in that
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 2: you have threatened me never to let her come into
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 2: my sight. No melephant, that you will never forsake Arabella
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 2: must be one of the promises which you vow to
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 2: me in presence of the Almighty. In the hands of
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 2: her mother, she is in danger of becoming unworthy of
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 2: her father. Use your authority over both, and let me
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  Speaker 2: take the place of Marwood. Do not refuse me the
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  Speaker 2: happiness of bringing up for myself a friend who owes
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 2: her life to you, a melephant of my own sex.
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  Speaker 2: Happy days when my father, when you when Arabella will
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  Speaker 2: vie in your calls on my filial respect, my confiding love,
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  Speaker 2: my watchful friendship, happy days. But alas they are still
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  Speaker 2: far distant in the future, and perhaps even the future
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  Speaker 2: knows nothing of them. Perhaps they exist only in my
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 2: own desire for happiness. Sensations, Melafont, sensations which I never
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  Speaker 2: before experienced, turned my eyes to another prospect, a dark
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 2: prospect with awful shadows. What sensations are these?
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: Puts her hand before her face?
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  Speaker 10: What sudden change from exhortation to titerra? Hasten, Betty? Bring help?
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 10: What ails you, generous Sarah, divine soul? Why does this
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 10: jealous hand moving it away hide these sweet looks from me?
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 10: Are there looks which unwillingly betray cruel pain? And yet
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 10: this hand is jealous to hide these looks from me?
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 10: Shall I not share your pain with you, unhappy man?
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 10: That I can only share it, that I may not
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 10: feel it alone? Hasten, Betty?
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 12: Whither shall I hasten.
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 10: You see and yet ask for help?
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 2: Stay? It passes over. I will not frighten you again, malafant?
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 10: What has happened to her? Betty? These are not merely
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 10: the results.
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: Of a swoon scene Five.
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 10: You are back again already, Norton. That is well. You
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 10: will be of more use.
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 11: Here Lowood is gone, and.
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 10: My curses follow her. She is gone. Whither may misfortune
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 10: and death, And were it possible, a whole hill lie
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 10: in her path, made heaven thunder, a consuming fire upon her,
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 10: made the earth burst open under her, and swallow the
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 10: greatest of female monsters.
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 11: As soon as she returned to her lodgings, she threw
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 11: herself into her carriage, together with Arabella and her maid,
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 11: and hurried away at full gallop. This sealed note was
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 11: left behind.
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: For you, Melphant.
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 10: Taking the note, it is addressed to me, Shall I
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 10: read it, Sarah.
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 2: When you are calmer, Melafant?
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 10: Karma? Can I be karma? Before I have revenge myself
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 10: on her? And before I know that you are out
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 10: of danger.
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 2: Dearest Sarah, let me not hear of revenge. Revenge is
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 2: not ours? But you open the letter? Alas, Melafant, Why
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 2: are we less prone to certain virtues with a healthy
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 2: body which feels its strength than with a sick and
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 2: wearied one. How hard our gentleness and moderation to you,
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 2: and how so unnatural to me appears the impatient heat
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 2: of passion. Keep the contents for yourself alone.
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 10: What spirit is it that seems to compel me to
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 10: disobey you. I opened it against my will, and against
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 10: my will I must.
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: Read it, Sarah, whilst Melafant reads to himself.
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 2: How cunningly man can disunite his nature and make of
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 2: his passions another being than himself, on whom he can
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 2: lay the blame for that which in cold blood he
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 2: disapproves the water, Betty, I fear another shock and shall
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 2: need it. Do you see what effect the unlucky note
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 2: has on him? Malapant? You lose your senses, Melafant, God,
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 2: he is stunned here. Betty hand him the water. He
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 2: needs it more than I.
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: Melaphant pushing Betty back back.
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 10: Unhappy girl, your medicine's a poison.
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 2: What do you say? Recover yourself? You do not recognize her?
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 10: I am Betty, take it wish rather, unhappy girl, that
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 10: you were not. She quick fly before in default of
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 10: the guilty you one, you become the guilty victim of
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 10: my rage.
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 2: What words, Malafant, dearest Malafant.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 10: The last, dearest Melafont, from these divine lips, and then
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 10: no more forever at your feet.
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: Sarah, throwing himself down, But why at your feet? Springing
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: up again, disclose it.
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 10: I disclose it to you. Yes, I will tell you
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 10: that you will hate me, That you must hate me.
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 10: You shall not hear the contents, No, not from me,
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 10: but you will hear them. You will. Why you will
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 10: stand here stock still doing nothing? Run Norton, Bring all
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 10: the doctors. Seek help, Betty. Let your help be as
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 10: effective as your error. No, stop here, I will go myself.
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 2: Whither malafant help? For what of what error do you speak?
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 10: Divine help, Sarah? Or inhuman revenge? You are lost, Dear Sarah,
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 10: I too am lost? Would the world were lost with
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 10: us seen?
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: Sex?
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 2: He is gone? I am lost? What does he mean?
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 2: Do you understand him? Norton? I am ill, very ill,
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 2: but suppose the worst that I must die? Am I
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 2: therefore lost? And why does he blame you? Poor Betty?
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 2: You wring your hands, Do not grieve. You cannot have
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 2: offended him. He will bethink himself. Had he only done
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 2: as I wished and not read the note, he could
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 2: have known that it must contain the last poisoned words
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 2: from Marwood.
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 12: What terrible suspicion. No, it cannot be I do not
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 12: believe it. Your father's old servant, Miss.
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: Let him come in norton Scene seven.
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 2: I suppose you are anxious for my answer, Dear Weight, Well,
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 2: it is ready except a few lines. But why so alarmed?
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 2: They must have told you that I am ill, and
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 2: more still dangerously ill. I conclude so from Elephant's passionate anxiety,
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 2: more than from my own feelings. Suppose Weight, well, you
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 2: should have to go with an unfinished letter from your
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 2: unhappy Sarah to her still more unhappy father. Let us
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 2: hope for the best. Will you wait until tomorrow? Perhaps
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 2: I shall find a few good moments to finish off
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 2: the letter to your satisfaction. At present I cannot do so.
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 2: This hand hangs as if dead by my benumbed side.
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 2: If the whole body dies away as easily as these limbs.
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 2: You are an old man. Wait well and cannot be
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 2: far from the last scene. Believe me, If that which
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 2: I feel is the approach of death, then the approach
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 2: of death is not so bitter. Ah, do not mind
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 2: this sigh wholly without unpleasant sensation. It cannot be. Man
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 2: could not be void of feeling. He must not be impatient.
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 2: But Betty, why are you so inconsolable?
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 12: Permit me, miss?
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 8: Permit me to leave. You go.
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 2: I well know it is not every one who can
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 2: bear to be with the dying. Wait well, shall remain
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 2: with me and you, Norton, will do me a favor
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 2: if you go and look for your master.
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 1: I long for his presence, Betty going.
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 12: Alas Norton, I took the medicine from Marwood's hands.
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: Scene eight.
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 2: Wait well, if you will do me the kindness to
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 2: remain with me, you must not let me see such
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 2: a melancholy face. You are mute, Speak, I pray, and
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 2: if I may ask it, speak of my father. Repeat
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 2: all the comforting words which you said to me a
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 2: few hours ago. Repeat them to me, and tell me
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 2: too that the eternal, heavenly Father cannot be less merciful.
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 2: I can do with that assurance. Can I not had
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 2: this befallen me before your arrival? How would I have fared?
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 2: I should have despaired weight well to leave this world
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 2: burdened with the hatred of him who belies his nature
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 2: when he is forced to hate what a thought. Tell
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 2: him that I died with the feelings of the deepest remorse, gratitude,
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 2: and love. Tell him Alas that I shall not tell
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 2: him myself how full my heart is of all the
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 2: benefits I owe to him, My life was the smallest
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 2: among them. Would that I could yield up at his
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 2: feet the ebbing portion yet remaining?
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 4: Do you really wish to see him? Miss?
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 2: At length? You speak to doubt my deepest, my last desire.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 4: Where shall I find the words which I have so
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 4: long been vainly seeking? A sudden joy is as dangerous
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 4: as a sudden terror. I fear only that the effect
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 4: of his unexpected appearance might be too violent for so
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 4: tender a heart.
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, the unexpected appearance of whom of
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 2: the wished for?
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 4: One? Compose yourself see nine, you stay too long?
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 10: Wait?
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 6: Well, I must see her?
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 2: Whose voice?
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 6: Oh my daughter, oh.
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 2: My father, Help me to rise? Weight well, help me
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 2: to rise, that I may throw myself at his feet.
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: She endeavors to rise, and falls back again into the armchair.
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 2: Is it he? Or is it an apparition sent from heaven,
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 2: like the angel who came to strengthen the strong one?
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 2: Bless me whoever thou art, whether a messenger from the
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 2: highest in my father's form or my father.
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 6: Himself, God bless thee My daughter, Keep quiet.
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: She tries again, to throw herself at his.
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 6: Feet another time, when you have regained your strength. I
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 6: shall not be displeased to see you clasp my faltering knees.
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 2: Now, my father, or never soon I shall be no more.
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 2: I shall be only too happy if I still have
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 2: a few moments to reveal my heart to you, but
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 2: not moments. Whole days another life would be necessary to
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 2: tell all that a guilty, chastened, and repentant daughter can
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 2: say to an injured, but generous and loving father my
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 2: offense and your forgiveness.
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 6: Do not reproach yourself for your weakness, nor give me
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 6: credit for that which is only my duty. When you
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 6: remind me of my pardon, you remind me also of
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 6: my hesitation in granting it. Why did I not forgive
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 6: you at once? Why did I reduce you to the
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 6: necessity of flying from me? And this very day, when
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 6: I had already forgiven you? What was it that forced
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 6: me to wait first for an answer from you? I
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 6: could already have enjoyed a whole day with you if
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 6: I had hastened at once to your arms. Some latent
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 6: spleen must still have lain in the innermost recesses of
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 6: my disappointed heart that I wished first to be assured
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 6: of the continuance of your love before I gave you
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 6: mine again. Ought a father to act so selfishly. Ought
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 6: we only to love those who love us. Chide me,
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 6: dearest Sarah, Chide me. I thought more of my own
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 6: joy in you than of you yourself. And if I
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 6: were now to lose this joy, But who then says
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 6: that I must lose it, you will live. You will
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 6: still live long. Banish all these black thoughts. Balaphant magnifies
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 6: the danger. He put the whole house in an uproar,
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 6: and hurried away himself to fetch the doctors, whom he
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 6: probably will not find in this miserable place. I saw
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 6: as paw passionate anxiety, his hopeless sorrow without being seen
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 6: by him. Now I know that he loves you sincerely.
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 6: Now I do not grudge him you any longer. I
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 6: will wait here for him and lay your hand in his.
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 6: What I would otherwise have done only by compulsion, I
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 6: now do willingly, since I see how dear you are
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 6: to him. Is it true that it was Marwood herself
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 6: who caused you this terror? I could understand this much
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 6: from your Betty's lamentations. But nothing more? But why do
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 6: I inquire into the causes of your illness? When I
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 6: ought only to be thinking how to remedy it. I
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 6: see you growing fainter every moment I see it, and
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 6: stand here helplessly.
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 5: What shall I do?
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 10: Wait?
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 6: Well, whither shall I run? What shall I give her?
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 6: My fortune, my life?
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 2: Speak, dearest father, all help would be in vain The dearest,
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 2: help purchased with your life would be of no avail.
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 10: Scene ten do I dare to set my foot again
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 10: in this room? Is she still alive?
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 2: Step nearer, melaphant.
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 10: Am I to see your face again? No, Sarah, I
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 10: return without consolation, without help, despare alone bring me back?
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 10: But whom do I see you? Sir? Unhappy father? You
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 10: have come to a dreadful scene. Why did you not
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 10: come sooner? You are too late to save your daughter?
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 10: But be comforted. You shall not have come too late
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 10: to see yourself revenged.
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 6: Do not remember in this moment, malafant, though we have
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 6: ever been at enmity, we are so no more, and
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 6: we shall never be so again. Only keep my daughter
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 6: for me, and you shall keep a wife for yourself.
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 10: Make me a god, and then repeat your prayer? I
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 10: have brought so many misfortunes to you already, Sarah, that
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 10: I do not hesitate to announce the last one. You
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 10: must die, And do you know by whose hand you die?
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 2: I do not wish to know it, that I can
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 2: suspect it as already too much.
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 10: You must know it, for who could be assured that
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 10: you did not suspect wrongly? Marwood writes, thus he reads,
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 10: when you read this letter, Melafont, your infidelity will already
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 10: be punished in its cause. I had made myself known
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 10: to her, and she had swooned with terror. Betty did
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 10: her utmost to restore her to consciousness. I saw her
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 10: taking out a soothing powder, and the happy idea occurred
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 10: to me of exchanging it for a poisonous one. I
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 10: feigned to be moved and anxious to help her, and
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 10: prepared the draft myself. I saw it given to her
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 10: and went away triumphant. Revenge and rage have made me
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 10: a murderess. But I will not be like a common
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 10: murderess who does not venture to burst of her deed.
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 10: I am on my way to Dover. You can pursue me,
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 10: and let my own handwriting bear witness against me if
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 10: I reach the harbor unpursued, I will leave Arabella behind unhurt,
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 10: till then I shall look upon her as a hostage. Marwood,
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 10: Now you know all, Sarah, Here, sir, preserve this paper.
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 10: You must bring the murderess to punishment. And for this
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 10: it is indispensable. How motionless he stands?
• 2:41:32
  Speaker 2: Give me this paper, Melephant, I will convince myself with
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 2: my own eyes.
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: He hands it to her, and she looks at it
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: for a moment.
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 2: Shall I still have sufficient strength tears it?
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 10: What are you doing? Sarah?
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 2: Marwood will not escape her fate, but neither you nor
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 2: my father shall be her accusers. I die and forgive
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 2: the hand through which God chastens me alas my father?
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 2: What glue?
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 13: Who me?
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 2: Grief has taken hold of you? I love you still, Melphant,
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 2: And if loving you is a crime, how guilty shall
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 2: I enter yonder world? Would I might hope, dearest father,
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 2: that you would receive a son in place of a daughter,
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 2: and with him you will have a daughter too. If
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 2: you will acknowledge Arabella as such, you must fetch her back, Melapant,
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 2: her mother may escape. Since my father loves me, why
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 2: should I not be allowed to deal with this love
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 2: as with a legacy. I bequeath this fatherly love to
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 2: you and Arabella. Speak now and then to her of
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 2: a friend from whose example she may learn to be
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 2: on her guard against love. A last blessing my father,
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 2: who would venture to judge the ways of the highest
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 2: console your master. Wait well, but you too stand there
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 2: in grief and despair, you who lose in me neither
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 2: a lover nor a daughter.
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 6: We ought to be giving you courage, and your dying
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 6: eyes are giving it to us no more, my earthly daughter,
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 6: half angel, already, of what a vel can the blessing
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 6: of a mourning father be to a spirit upon whom
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 6: all blessings of heaven flow? Leave me a ray of
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 6: light which raises you so far above everything human. Or
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 6: pray to God, who hears no prayer so surely as
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 6: that of a pious and departing soul. Pray to him
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 6: that this day may be the last of my life.
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 2: Also, God must let the virtue which has been tested
• 2:43:33
  Speaker 2: remain long in this world as an example. Only the
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 2: weak virtue, which would perhaps succumb to too many temptations, is
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 2: quickly raised above the dangerous confines of the earth. For
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 2: whom do these tears flow? My father? They fall like
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 2: fiery drops upon my heart. And yet yet they are
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 2: less terrible to me than mute despair. Conquer it malafont
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 2: My eyes grow dim. That sigh was the last. But
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 2: where is Betty?
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 2: I understand the ringing of her hands, poor girl. Let
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 2: no one reproach her with carelessness. It is excused by
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 2: our heart, without falsehood and without suspicion of it. The
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 2: moment is come, Melaphant, My father.
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 8: Dies, she dies.
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 10: Ah, let me kiss this cold hand once.
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 1: More, throwing himself at her feet.
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 10: No, I will not venture to touch her. The old
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 10: saying that the body of the slain bleeds at the
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 10: touch of the murderer frightens me. And who is her murderer?
• 2:44:46
  Speaker 10: Am I not he?
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: More than ma wood rises?
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 10: She is dead now, sir, She does not hear us
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 10: any more. Curse me now, venture grief in well deserved curses.
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 10: May none of the missed their mark, and may the
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 10: most terrible be fulfilled at twofold? Why do you remain silent?
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 10: She is dead, She is certainly dead. Now again, I
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 10: am nothing but Melophant. I am no more the lover
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  Speaker 10: of a tender daughter whom you would have reason to
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  Speaker 10: spare in him. What is that I do not want
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  Speaker 10: your compassionate looks. This is your daughter. I am her seducer.
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  Speaker 10: But think yourself, sir, in what way can I rouse
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  Speaker 10: your anger? This budding beauty, who was yours alone, became
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  Speaker 10: my prey for my sake. Her innocent virtue was abandoned
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  Speaker 10: for my sake. She tore herself from the arms of
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  Speaker 10: her beloved father. For my sake she had to die.
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  Speaker 10: You make me impatience with your forbearing, sir. Let me
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  Speaker 10: see that you are a father.
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  Speaker 6: I am father, maleophant, and too much of a father
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  Speaker 6: not to respect the last wish my daughter. Let me
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  Speaker 6: embrace you, my son, for whom I could not have
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  Speaker 6: paid a higher price.
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  Speaker 10: Not, sir, sir, this angel enjoined more than human nature
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  Speaker 10: is capable of, you cannot be my father.
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  Speaker 1: Behold, sir, drawing the dagger from his bosom.
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  Speaker 10: This is the dagger which Mawood drew upon me to day,
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  Speaker 10: to my misfortune, I disarmed her. Had I fallen a
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  Speaker 10: guilty victim of her jealousy, Sarah would still be living.
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  Speaker 10: You would have your daughter still, and have her without melaphant,
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  Speaker 10: it is not for me to undo what is done,
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  Speaker 10: but to punish myself, for it is still in my power.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh, he stabs himself and sinks down at Sarah's side.
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  Speaker 6: Hold him, wait well, what new blow upon my stricken head?
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  Speaker 13: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Would that my own might make the third dying heart?
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  Speaker 1: Hear Maliphant, die, I feel it.
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  Speaker 10: I have not struck faults. If now you will call
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  Speaker 10: him your son and prush my hand as such, I
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  Speaker 10: shall die at peace.
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  Speaker 1: Sir William embraces him.
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  Speaker 10: You have heard of an Arabella for whom Sarah pleaded,
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  Speaker 10: I should also plead for her. But she is my
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  Speaker 10: word child as well as mine. What strange feeling seizes me? Mercy, Oh, creator, mercy.
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  Speaker 6: If the prayers of others are now of any avl
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  Speaker 6: Wait well, let us help him to pray for this mercy.
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  Speaker 6: He dies alas he was more to pity than to blame.
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  Speaker 6: Scene eleven doctors, Sir, if they can work miracles, they
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  Speaker 6: may come in. Let me no longer remain at this
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  Speaker 6: deadly spectacle. One grave shall incline those both come and
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  Speaker 6: make immediate preparations. And then let us think of Arabella,
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  Speaker 6: be she who she may She is the legacy of
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  Speaker 6: my daughter axcient.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act five, End of Miss Sarah Sampson by G. E. Lessing,
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  Speaker 1: translated by ernest A. Bell