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Speaker 1: Chapter thirty one of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Caskell.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, Chapter thirty
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Speaker 1: one a passive coquette. It is not to be supposed
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Speaker 1: that such an encounter as mister Preston had just had
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Speaker 1: with Roger Hamley sweetened the regards in which the two
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Speaker 1: young men henceforward held each other. They had barely spoken
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Speaker 1: to one another before, and but seldom met, for the
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Speaker 1: land agent's employment had hitherto Lain at Ashcombe, some sixteen
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Speaker 1: or seventeen miles from Hamley. He was older than Roger
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Speaker 1: by several years, but during the time he had been
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Speaker 1: in the county, Osborne and Roger had been at school
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Speaker 1: and at college. Mister Preston was prepared to dislike the
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Speaker 1: Hamleys for many unreasonable reasons. Cynthia and Molly had both
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Speaker 1: spoken of the brothers with familiar regard, implying considerable intimacy.
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Speaker 1: Their flowers had been preferred to his on the occasion
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Speaker 1: of the ball, most people spoke of them, and mister
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Speaker 1: Preston had an animal's instinctive jealousy and combativeness against all
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Speaker 1: popular young men. Their position, poor as the Hamleys might be,
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Speaker 1: was far higher than his own in the county, and
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Speaker 1: moreover he was agent to the great Whak lord, whose
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Speaker 1: political interests were diametrically opposed to those of the old
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Speaker 1: Tory squire. Not that Lord Cumnor troubled himself much about
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Speaker 1: his political interests. His family had obtained property and title
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Speaker 1: from the Whigs of the time of the Hanoverian succession,
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Speaker 1: and so traditionally he was a Whig and had belonged
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Speaker 1: in his youth to Whig clubs, where he had lost
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Speaker 1: considerable sums of money to Whig gamblers. All this was
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Speaker 1: satisfactory and consistent enough, And if Lord Hollingford had not
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Speaker 1: been returned for the county on the weak interest as
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Speaker 1: his father had been before him until he had succeeded
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Speaker 1: to the title, it is quite probable that Lord Cumnor
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Speaker 1: would have considered the British Constitution in danger and the
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Speaker 1: patriots of his ancestors ungratefully ignored. But excepting at elections,
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Speaker 1: he had no notion of making Whigan Tory a party cry.
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Speaker 1: He had lived too much in London and was of
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Speaker 1: too sociable a nature to exclude any man who jumped
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Speaker 1: with his humor from the hospitality he was always ready
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Speaker 1: to offer be the agreeable acquaintance, weak Tory or Radical.
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Speaker 1: But in the county of which he was Lord Lieutenant,
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Speaker 1: the old party distinction was still a shibboleth by which
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Speaker 1: men were tested as to their fitness for social intercourse,
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Speaker 1: as well as on the hustings. If by any chance
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Speaker 1: a Whig found himself at a Tory dinner table, or
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Speaker 1: vice versa, the food was hard of digestion, the wine
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Speaker 1: and vianns were criticized rather than enjoyed. A marriage between
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Speaker 1: young people of the separate parties was almost as unheard
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Speaker 1: of and prohibited an alliance as that of Romeo and Juliet's.
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Speaker 1: And of course mister Preston was not a man in
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Speaker 1: whose breast such prejudices would die away. They were in
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Speaker 1: excitement to him, for one thing, and called out all
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Speaker 1: his talent for intrigue on behalf of the party to
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Speaker 1: which he was allied. Moreover, he considered it as loyalty
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Speaker 1: to his employer.
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Speaker 2: Too scatter his enemies by.
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Speaker 1: Any means in his power. He had always hated and
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Speaker 1: despised Tories in general, and after that interview on the
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Speaker 1: Marshy Common in front of Silas's cottage. He hated the
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Speaker 1: Hamleys and Roger, especially with a very choice and particular
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Speaker 1: hatred that prig as hereafter he always designated Roger.
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Speaker 2: He shall pay for it.
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Speaker 1: Yet, he said to himself, by way of consolation, after
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Speaker 1: the father and son had left him, what allowed it
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Speaker 1: is watching the receding figures.
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Speaker 2: The old chap has twice as much spunk as.
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Speaker 1: The squire tugged at his bridle reins.
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Speaker 2: The old mare could make her way better without being led,
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Speaker 2: My fine fellow, but I see through your dodge. You
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Speaker 2: are afraid of your old father turning back and getting
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Speaker 2: into another rage position. Indeed, a beggarly squire, a man
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Speaker 2: who did turn off his men just before winter to
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Speaker 2: rot or starve. For all he cared, it's just like
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Speaker 2: a brutal old Tory.
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Speaker 1: And under the cover of sympathy with the dismissed laborers,
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Speaker 1: mister Preston indulged his own private peak very pleasantly. Mister
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Speaker 1: Preston had many causes for rejoicing. He might have forgotten
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Speaker 1: this discomfiture as he chose to feel it in the
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Speaker 1: remembrance of an increase of income and in the popularity
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Speaker 1: he enjoyed in his new abode, All Hollingford came forward
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Speaker 1: to do the Earl's new agent honor. Mister Sheepshanks had
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Speaker 1: been a crabbed, crusty old bachelor, frequenting in parlors on
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Speaker 1: market days, not unwilling to give dinners to three or
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Speaker 1: four chosen friends and familiars, with whom in return he
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Speaker 1: dined from time to time, and with whom also he
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Speaker 1: kept up an amicable rivalry in the matter of wines.
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Speaker 3: But he did not appreciate female society, as.
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Speaker 1: Miss Browning elegantly worded his unwillingness to accept the invitations
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Speaker 1: of the Hollingford ladies. He was even unrefined enough to
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Speaker 1: speak of these invitations to his intimate friends, aforesaid as.
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Speaker 4: Those old women's worrying.
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Speaker 1: But of course they never heard of this little quarter
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Speaker 1: of sheet notes without any envelopes. That invention was unknown
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Speaker 1: in those days, but sealed in the corners when folded
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Speaker 1: up instead of gummed, as they are fastened at present.
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Speaker 1: Occasionally passed between mister Sheepshanks and the Miss Brownings, missus
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Speaker 1: goodenough or others from the first aforementioned ladies, The form
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Speaker 1: ran as follows.
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Speaker 3: Miss Browning and her sister, Miss Phoebe Browning, present their
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Speaker 3: respectful compliments to mister Sheepshanks, and beg to inform him
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Speaker 3: that a few friends have kindly consented to favor them
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Speaker 3: with their company at tea on Thursday next. Miss Browning
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Speaker 3: and Miss Phoebe will take it very kindly if mister
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Speaker 3: Sheepshanks will join their little circle now for Missus Goodenough.
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Speaker 5: Missus Goodenough's respects to mister Sheepshanks, and to hopes he
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Speaker 5: is in good health. She would be very glad if
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Speaker 5: he would favor her with his company to tea on Monday.
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Speaker 5: My daughter in coomber Maire has sent me a couple
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Speaker 5: of guinea fowls, and missus Goodenough hawps mister Sheepshanks will
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Speaker 5: stay and take a bit of supper.
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Speaker 1: No need for the dates of the days of the month.
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Speaker 1: The good ladies would have thought that the world was
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Speaker 1: coming to an end if the invitation had been sent
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Speaker 1: out a week before the party therein named. But not
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Speaker 1: even guinea fowl for supper could tempt mister Sheepshanks. He
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Speaker 1: remembered the made wines he had tasted in former days
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Speaker 1: at Hollingford parties, and shuddered bread and cheese with a
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Speaker 1: glass of bitter beer or a little brandy in water,
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Speaker 1: partaken of in his old clothes, which had worn into
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Speaker 1: shapes of loose comfort, and smelt strongly of tobacco. He
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Speaker 1: liked better than roast guinea fowl and birch wine, even
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Speaker 1: without throwing into the balance the stiff, uneasy coat, and
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Speaker 1: the tight neckcloth and tighter shoes. So the ex agent
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Speaker 1: had been seldom, if ever see at the Hollingford tea parties,
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Speaker 1: he might have had his form of refusal stereotyped. It
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Speaker 1: was so invariably the same.
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Speaker 4: Mister Sheepshanks duty to Miss Browning and her sister.
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Speaker 1: To missus goodenough, or to others, as the case might be.
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Speaker 4: Business of importance prevents him from availing himself of their
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Speaker 4: polite invitation, for which he begs to return his best thanks.
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Speaker 1: But now that mister Preston had succeeded and come to
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Speaker 1: live in Hollingford, things were changed. He accepted every civility
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Speaker 1: right and left, and one golden opinions. Accordingly, parties were
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Speaker 1: made in his honor, just as if he had been
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Speaker 1: a bride. Miss Phoebe Browning said, and to all of.
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Speaker 4: Them he went, what's the man after air?
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Speaker 1: Said mister Sheepshanks to himself, when he heard of his
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Speaker 1: successor's affability, and sociability, and amiability, and a variety of
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Speaker 1: other agreeable illities from the friends whom the old steward
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Speaker 1: still retained at Hollingford.
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Speaker 4: Preston's not a man, and to put himself out for nothing.
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Speaker 4: He's deep. He'll be after something solider than popularity.
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Speaker 1: The sagacious old bachelor was right. Mister Preston was after
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Speaker 1: something more than mere popularity. He went wherever he had
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Speaker 1: a chance of meeting Cynthia Kirkpatrick. It might be that
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Speaker 1: Molly's spirits were more depressed at this time than they
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Speaker 1: were in general, or that Cynthia was exultant, unawares to
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Speaker 1: herself in the amount of attention and admiration she was
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Speaker 1: receiving from Roger by day from mister Preston in the evening.
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Speaker 1: But the two girls seemed to have parted company in cheerfulness.
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Speaker 1: Molly was always gentle, but very grave and silent. Cynthia,
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Speaker 1: on the contrary, was merry, full of pretty mockeries, and
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Speaker 1: hardly ever silent when first she came to Hollingford. One
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Speaker 1: of her great charms had been that she was such
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Speaker 1: a gracious listener. Now her excitement, by whatever caused made
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Speaker 1: her too restless to hold her tongue. Yet what she
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Speaker 1: said was too pretty, too witty, not to be a
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Speaker 1: winning and sparkling interruption, eagerly welcomed by those who were
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Speaker 1: under her sway. Mister Gibson was the only one who
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Speaker 1: observed this change and reasoned upon it.
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Speaker 6: She's an immntal fever of some.
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Speaker 1: Kind, thought he to himself.
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Speaker 6: She's very fascinating, but I don't quite understand her.
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Speaker 1: If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend,
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Speaker 1: she might have thought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome
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Speaker 1: when brought into everyday life. It was not the sunshiny
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Speaker 1: rest of a placid lake. It was rather the glitter
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Speaker 1: of the pieces of her broken mirror, which confuses and bewilders.
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Speaker 1: Cynthia would not talk quietly about anything. Now subjects of
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Speaker 1: thought or conversation seemed to have lost their relative value.
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Speaker 1: There were exceptions to this mood of hers, when she
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Speaker 1: sank into deep fits of silence that would have been
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Speaker 1: gloomy had it not been for the never varying sweetness
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Speaker 1: of her temper. If there was a little kindness to
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Speaker 1: be done to either mister Gibson or Molly, Cynthia was
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Speaker 1: just as ready as ever to do it. Nor did
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Speaker 1: she refuse to do anything her mother wished. However, fidgety
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Speaker 1: might be the humor that prompted the wish, But in
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Speaker 1: this latter case, Cynthia's eyes were not quickened by her heart.
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Speaker 1: Molly was dejected. She knew not why Cynthia had drifted
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Speaker 1: a little apart. That was not it. Her stepmother had
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Speaker 1: whimsical moods, and if Cynthia displeased her, she would oppress
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Speaker 1: Molly with small kindnesses and pseudo affection, or else. Everything
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Speaker 1: was wrong. The world was out of joint, and Molly
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Speaker 1: had failed in her mission to set it right, and
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Speaker 1: was to be blamed accordingly. But Molly was of too
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Speaker 1: steady a disposition to be much moved by the changeableness
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Speaker 1: of an unreasonable person. She might be annoyed or irritated,
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Speaker 1: but she was not depressed. That was not it. The
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Speaker 1: real cause was certainly this. As long as Roger was
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Speaker 1: drawn to Cynthia and sought her of his own accord.
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Speaker 1: It had been a sore pain and bewilderment to Molly's heart,
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Speaker 1: but it was a straightforward attraction, and one which Molly acknowledged,
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Speaker 1: in her humility and great power of loving, to be
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Speaker 1: the most natural thing in the world. She would look
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Speaker 1: at Cynthia's beauty and grace and feel as if no
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Speaker 1: one could resist it. And when she witnessed all the
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Speaker 1: small signs of honest devotion which Roger was at no
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Speaker 1: pains to conceal, she thought with a sigh that surely
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Speaker 1: no girl could help relinquishing her heart to such tender,
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Speaker 1: strong keeping as Roger's character ensured. She would have been
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Speaker 1: willing to cut off her right hand if need were
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Speaker 1: to forward his attachment to Cynthia, and the self sacrifice
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Speaker 1: would have added a strange zest to a happy crisis.
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Speaker 1: She was indignant at what she considered to be Missus
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Speaker 1: Gibson's obtuseness to so much goodness and worth, and when
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Speaker 1: she called Roger a country lout or any other depreciative epithet,
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Speaker 1: Molly would pinch herself in order to keep silent. But
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Speaker 1: after all, those were peaceful days compared to the present,
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Speaker 1: when she, seeing the wrong side of the tapestry after
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Speaker 1: the want of those who dwell in the same house
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Speaker 1: with a plotter, became aware that Missus Gibson had totally
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Speaker 1: changed her behavior to Roger from some cause unknown to Molly.
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Speaker 1: But he was always exactly the same, steady as old time,
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Speaker 1: as Missus Gibson called him with her usual originality, a rock.
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Speaker 3: Of strength, under whose very shadow there is.
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Speaker 1: Rest, as Missus Hamley had once spoken of him. So
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Speaker 1: the cause of Missus Gibson's altered manner lay not in him.
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Speaker 1: Yet now he was sure of a welcome let him
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Speaker 1: come at any hour he would. He was playfully reproved
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Speaker 1: for having taken Missus Gibson's words too literally, and for
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Speaker 1: never coming before lunch. But he said he considered her
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Speaker 1: reasons for such words to be valid and should respect them,
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Speaker 1: and this was done out of his simplicity and from
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Speaker 1: no tinge of malice. Then, in their family conversations at home,
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Speaker 1: Missus Gibson was constantly making projects for throwing Roger and
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Speaker 1: Cynthia together, with so evident a betrayal of her wish
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Speaker 1: to bring about an engagement that Molly chafed at the
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Speaker 1: net spread so evidently, and at Roger's blindness, in coming
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Speaker 1: so willingly to be entrapped, she forgot his previous willingness,
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Speaker 1: his former evidences of manly fondness for the beautiful Cynthia.
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Speaker 1: She saw only plots of which he was the victim
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Speaker 1: and Cynthia the conscious, if passive bait. She felt as
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Speaker 1: if she could not have acted as Cynthia did, no,
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Speaker 1: not even to gain Roger's love. Cynthia heard and saw
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Speaker 1: as much of the domestic background as she did, and
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Speaker 1: yet she submitted to the role assigned to her. To
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Speaker 1: be sure, this role would have been played by her unconsciously.
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Speaker 1: The things prescribed were what she would naturally have done.
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Speaker 1: But because they were prescribed by implication only, it is
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Speaker 1: true Molly would have resisted, have gone out, for instance,
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Speaker 1: when she was expected to stay at home, or have
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Speaker 1: lingered in the garden when a long country walk was
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Speaker 1: planned at last, for she could not help loving Cynthia come,
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Speaker 1: what would. She determined to believe that Cynthia was entirely
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Speaker 1: unaware of it all. But it was with an effort
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Speaker 1: that she brought herself to believe it. It may be
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Speaker 1: all very pleasant to sport with Amarillus in the shade,
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Speaker 1: or with the tangles of Nera's hair. But young men
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Speaker 1: at the outset of their independent life have many other
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Speaker 1: cares in this prosaic England to occupy their time and
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Speaker 1: their thoughts. Roger was a fellow of Trinity, to be sure,
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Speaker 1: and from the outside it certainly appeared as if his position,
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Speaker 1: as long as he chose to keep unmarried, was a
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Speaker 1: very easy one. His was not a nature, however, to
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Speaker 1: sink down into inglorious ease, even had his fellowship income
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Speaker 1: been at his disposal. He looked forward to an active life,
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Speaker 1: in what direction he had not yet determined. He knew
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Speaker 1: what were his talents and his tastes, and did not
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Speaker 1: wish the former to lie buried, nor the latter, which
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Speaker 1: he regarded as gifts fitting him for some particular work,
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Speaker 1: to be disregarded or thwarted. He rather liked awaiting an object,
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Speaker 1: secure in his own energy, to force his way to
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Speaker 1: it when once he saw it clearly. He reserved enough
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Speaker 1: of money for his own personal needs, which were small,
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Speaker 1: and for the ready furtherance of any project he might
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Speaker 1: see fit to undertake. The rest of his income was
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Speaker 1: Osborne's given and accepted in the spirit which made the
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Speaker 1: bond between these two brothers so rarely perfect. It was
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Speaker 1: only the thought of Cynthia that threw Roger off his balance.
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Speaker 1: A strong man in everything else about her, he was
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Speaker 1: as a child. He knew that he could not marry
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Speaker 1: and retain his fellowship. His intention was to hold himself
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Speaker 1: loose from any employment or profession until he had found
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Speaker 1: one to his mind. So there was no immediate prospect,
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Speaker 1: no prospect for many years indeed, that he would be
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Speaker 1: able to marry. Yet he went on seeking Cynthia's sweet company,
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Speaker 1: listening to the music of her voice, basking in her sunshine,
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Speaker 1: and feeding his passion in every possible way, just like
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Speaker 1: an unreasoning child. He knew that it was folly, and
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Speaker 1: yet he did it. And it was perhaps this that
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Speaker 1: made him so sympathetic with Osborne. Roger racked his brains
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Speaker 1: about Osborne's affairs much more frequently than Osborne troubled himself. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: he had become so ailing and languid of late that
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Speaker 1: even the Squire made only very faint objections to his
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Speaker 1: desire for frequent change of scene. Though formerly he used
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Speaker 1: to grumble so much at the necessary expenditure it involved.
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Speaker 7: After all, it doesn't cost.
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Speaker 1: Much, the Squire said to Roger one day.
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Speaker 7: Choose how he does it. He does it cheaply. He
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Speaker 7: used to come and ask me for twenty, where now
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Speaker 7: he does it for five. But he and I have
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Speaker 7: lost each other's language. That's what we have. And my dictionary.
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Speaker 1: Only he called it.
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Speaker 7: Dictionary, has all got wrong because of those confounded deaths,
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Speaker 7: which you will never explain to me or talk about.
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Speaker 7: He always holds me off at arm's length when I
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Speaker 7: begin upon it. He does. Roger me is old Dad.
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Speaker 7: That was his primest favorite of all when he was
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Speaker 7: a little bit of a.
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Speaker 1: Chap The square dwelt so much upon Osborne's reserved behavior
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Speaker 1: to himself that brooding over this one subject perpetually he
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Speaker 1: became more morose and gloomy than ever in his manner
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Speaker 1: to Osborne, resenting the want of confidence and affection that
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Speaker 1: he thus repelled, so much so that Roger, who desired
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Speaker 1: to avoid being, made the receptacle of his father's complaints
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Speaker 1: against Osmarz And Roger's passive listening was the sedative his
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Speaker 1: father always sought, had often to have recourse to the
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Speaker 1: discussion of the drainage works as a counter irritant. The
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Speaker 1: squire had felt mister Preston's speech about the dismissal of
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Speaker 1: his work people very keenly. It fell in with the
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Speaker 1: reproaches of his own conscience, though, as he would repeat
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Speaker 1: to Roger over and over again.
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Speaker 7: I couldn't help it. How could I? I was drained
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Speaker 7: dry of ready money. I wish the land was as
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Speaker 7: drained and dry as I am.
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Speaker 1: Said he with a touch of humor that came out
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Speaker 1: before he was aware, and at which he smiled sadly enough.
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Speaker 7: What was I to do? I ask you, Roger. I
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Speaker 7: know I was in a rage. I've had a deal
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Speaker 7: to make me so, and maybe I didn't think as
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Speaker 7: much about consequences as I should have done, and I
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Speaker 7: gave orders for him to be sent off. I couldn't
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Speaker 7: have done otherwise if I had had thought, or a
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Speaker 7: twelve month in cool blood consequences. I hate consequences. They've
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Speaker 7: always been against me, they have. I'm so tied up
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Speaker 7: I can't cut down a stick more. And that's a
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Speaker 7: consequence of having the property so deucedly well settled. I
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Speaker 7: wish I'd never had any ancestors, I laugh, lad. It
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Speaker 7: does me good to see thee laugh a bit after
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Speaker 7: our spawn's long face, which always grows longer at sight
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Speaker 7: of me.
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Speaker 1: Look here, father, said Roger, Suddenly i'll.
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Speaker 6: Money somehow about the money for the works you trust
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Speaker 6: to me. Give me two months to turn myself in,
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Speaker 6: and you shall have some money at any rate to
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Speaker 6: begin with.
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Speaker 1: The squire looked at him, and his face brightened as
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Speaker 1: a child does at the promise of a pleasure made
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Speaker 1: to him by someone on whom he can rely. He
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Speaker 1: became a little graver, however, as he said, but how will.
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Speaker 7: You get it? It's hard enough work.
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Speaker 6: Never mind, I'll get it a hundred or so at first.
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Speaker 6: I don't yet know how. But remember, father, I'm a
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Speaker 6: senior wrangler and a very promising young writer. As that
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Speaker 6: review called me. Oh, you don't know what a fine
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Speaker 6: fellow you've got for a son. You should have read
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Speaker 6: that review to know all of my wonderful merits.
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Speaker 7: I did, Roger. I heard Gibson speaking of it, and
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Speaker 7: I made him get it for me. I should have
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Speaker 7: understurbed it better if they could have called the animals
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Speaker 7: by their English names and not put so much of
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Speaker 7: their French jingle into it.
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Speaker 6: But it was an answer to an article by a
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Speaker 6: French writer.
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Speaker 1: Pleaded Roger. I didn't let him alone, said the squire earnestly.
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Speaker 7: We had to beat her, and we did it it Waterloo.
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Speaker 7: But I did not demean myself by answering any of
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Speaker 7: their lives. If I was you, but I got through
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Speaker 7: the review for all their Latin and French. I did.
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Speaker 7: And if you doubt me, you'd just look at the
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Speaker 7: end of the great Letger turn it upside down and
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Speaker 7: you'll find I've copied out all the fine words they
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Speaker 7: said of you, careful observer, strong, nervous English, rising philosopher. Oh,
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Speaker 7: I can nearly say it's all off my heart for
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Speaker 7: many a time when I'm frabbed by bad debts or
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Speaker 7: Osborne's bills, or moidered with the Count's I turned the
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Speaker 7: letter wrong way up and smoke a pipe over it
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Speaker 7: while I read those pieces out of the review which
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Speaker 7: speak about you lad end
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Speaker 1: Of chapter thirty one