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035 - Chapter 13 · Pirate

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Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen of the Pirate by Sir Walter Scott. This
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Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Dion
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Speaker 1: Jin's Salt Lake City, Utah. Parental love, my friend has
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Speaker 1: power over wisdom, and is the charm which, like the
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Speaker 1: falconer's lure, can bring from heaven the highest soaring spirits.
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Speaker 1: So when Famed prosper doffed his magic robe, it was
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Speaker 1: Miranda plucked it from his shoulders. Old play, our wandering
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Speaker 1: narrative must now return to mordaunt Mertown. We left him
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Speaker 1: in the perilous condition of one who has received a
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Speaker 1: severe wound, and we now find him in the condition
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Speaker 1: of a convalescent pale, indeed and feeble from the loss
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Speaker 1: of much blood and the effects of a fee which
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Speaker 1: had followed the injury. But so far fortunate that the weapon,
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Speaker 1: having glanced on the ribs, had only occasioned a great
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Speaker 1: effusion of blood without touching any vital part, and was
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Speaker 1: now well nigh healed. So efficacious were the vulnerary plants
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Speaker 1: and selves with which it had been treated by the
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Speaker 1: Sage Norna of fitful head. The matron and her patient
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Speaker 1: now sat together in a dwelling in a remote island
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Speaker 1: he had been transported during his illness, and ere he
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Speaker 1: had perfect consciousness, first to her singular habitation near Fitful Head,
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Speaker 1: and thence to her present abode by one of the
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Speaker 1: fishing boats on the station of Burgwestra. For such was
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Speaker 1: the command possessed by Norna over the superstitious character of
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Speaker 1: her countrymen, that she never failed to find faithful agents
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Speaker 1: to execute her commands, whatever these happened to be. And
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Speaker 1: as her orders were generally given under injunctions of the
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Speaker 1: strictest secrecy, men reciprocally wondered at occurrences which had in
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Speaker 1: fact been produced by their own agency and that of
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Speaker 1: their neighbors, and in which had they communicated freely with
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Speaker 1: each other, no shadow of the marvelous would have remained.
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Speaker 1: Mordaunt was now seated by the fire in an apartment
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Speaker 1: indifferently well furnished, having a book in his hand, which
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Speaker 1: he looked upon from time to time with signs of
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Speaker 1: unwe and impatience, feelings which at length so far overcame
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Speaker 1: him that flinging the volume on the table, he fixed
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Speaker 1: his eyes on the fire and assumed the attitude of
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Speaker 1: one who is engaged in unpleasant meditation. Norna, who sat
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Speaker 1: opposite to him and appeared busy in the composition of
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Speaker 1: some drug or unguent anxiously left her seat and approaching
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Speaker 1: Mordaunt felt his pulse, making at the same time the
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Speaker 1: most affectionate enquiries whether he felt any sudden pain and
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Speaker 1: where it was seated. The manner in which Mordaunt replied
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Speaker 1: to these earnest enquiries, though worded as to express gratitude
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Speaker 1: for her kindness, while he disclaimed any feeling of indisposition,
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Speaker 1: did not seem to give satisfaction to the pythoness ungrateful boy,
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Speaker 1: she said, for whom I have done so much, you
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Speaker 1: whom I have rescued by my power and skill from
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Speaker 1: the very gates of death? Are you already so weary
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Speaker 1: of me that you cannot refrain from showing how desirous
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Speaker 1: you are to spend at a day distance from me,
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Speaker 1: the very first intelligent days of the life which I
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Speaker 1: have restored you. You do me in justice, my kind
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Speaker 1: preserver replied Mordaunt. I am not tired of your society,
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Speaker 1: but I have duties which recall me to ordinary life. Duties,
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Speaker 1: repeated Norna, And what duties can or ought to interfere
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Speaker 1: with the gratitude which you owe to me duties. Your
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Speaker 1: thoughts are on the use of your gun, or on
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Speaker 1: clambering among the rocks in quest of seafowl. For these
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Speaker 1: exercises your strength does not yet fit you. And yet
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Speaker 1: these are the duties to which you are so anxious
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Speaker 1: to return. Not so, my good and kind mistress, said Mordaunt.
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Speaker 1: To name one duty out of many which makes me
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Speaker 1: seek to leave you now that my strength permits, Let
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Speaker 1: me mention that of a son to his father, To
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Speaker 1: your father, said Norna, with a laugh that had something
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Speaker 1: in it almost frantic. Oh you know not how we can,
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Speaker 1: in these islands at once cancel such duties. And for
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Speaker 1: your father, she added, proceeding more calmly, what has he
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Speaker 1: done for you to deserve the regard and duty you
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Speaker 1: speak of? Is he not the same who, as you
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Speaker 1: have long since told me, left you for so many years,
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Speaker 1: poorly nourished among strangers, without inquiring whether you were alive
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Speaker 1: or dead, and only sending from time to time supplies
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Speaker 1: in such fashion as men relieve the leprous wretch to
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Speaker 1: whom they fling alms from a distance, and in these
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Speaker 1: later years, when he had made you the companion of
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Speaker 1: his misery. He has been by starts your pedagogue, by
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Speaker 1: starts your tormentor. But never, Mordaunt, never your father. Something
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Speaker 1: of truth there is in what you say, replied Mordaunt.
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Speaker 1: My father is not fond, but he is and has
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Speaker 1: ever been, effectively kind. Men have not their affections in
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Speaker 1: their power, and it is a child's duty to be
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Speaker 1: grateful for the benefits which he receives, even when coldly bestowed.
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Speaker 1: My father has conferred instruction on me, and I am
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Speaker 1: convinced he loves me. He is unfortunate, and even if
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Speaker 1: he loved me, not and he does not love you,
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Speaker 1: said Norna hastily. He never loved anything or anyone save himself.
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Speaker 1: He is unfortunate, But well are his misfortunes deserved? Oh, Mordaunt,
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Speaker 1: you have one parent, only one parent, who loves you
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Speaker 1: as the drops of the heart blood. I know I
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Speaker 1: have but one parent, replied Mordaunt. My mother has been
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Speaker 1: long dead. But your words contradict each other. They do not,
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Speaker 1: They do not, said Norna, in a paroxysm of the
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Speaker 1: deepest feeling. You have but one parent, your unhappy mother
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Speaker 1: is not dead. I would to God that she were,
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Speaker 1: But she is not dead. Thine mother is the only
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Speaker 1: parent that loves THEE. And I, I, Mordaunt, throwing herself
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Speaker 1: on his neck, am that most unhappy yet most happy mother.
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Speaker 1: She closed him in a strict and convulsive embrace, and tears,
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Speaker 1: the first, perhaps which she had shed for many years,
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Speaker 1: burst in torrents as she sobbed on his neck. Astonished
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Speaker 1: at what he heard, felt, and saw, moved by the
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Speaker 1: excess of her agitation, yet disposed to ascribe this burst
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Speaker 1: of passion to insanity, Mordaunt vainly endeavored to tranquilize the
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Speaker 1: mind of this extraordinary person. Ungrateful boy, she said, who
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Speaker 1: but a mother would have watched over thee as I
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Speaker 1: have watched from the instant. I saw thy father when
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Speaker 1: he little thought by whom he was observed a space
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Speaker 1: Now many years back, I knew him well and under
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Speaker 1: his charge. I saw you then a stripling, while nature,
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Speaker 1: speaking loud in my bosom, assured me, thou wert blood
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Speaker 1: of my blood and bone of my bone. Think how
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Speaker 1: often you have wondered to see me when least expected,
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Speaker 1: in your places of pastime and resort. Think how often
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Speaker 1: my eye has watched you on the giddy precipices and
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Speaker 1: muttered those charms which subdue the evil demons who show
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Speaker 1: themselves to the climber on the giddiest point of his path,
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Speaker 1: and force him to quit his hold. Did I not
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Speaker 1: hang around thy neck in pledge of thy safety that
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Speaker 1: chain of gold which an elfin king gave to the
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Speaker 1: founder of our race? Would I have given that dear
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Speaker 1: gift to any but the son of my bosom, Mordaunt.
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Speaker 1: My power has done that for thee that a mere
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Speaker 1: mortal mother would dread to think of. I have conjured
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Speaker 1: the mermaid at midnight that thy bark might be prosperous
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Speaker 1: on the hoff. I have hushed the winds, and navies
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Speaker 1: have flapped their empty sails against the mast inactivity, that
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Speaker 1: you might safely indulge your sport upon the crags. Mordaunt,
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Speaker 1: perceiving that she was growing yet wilder in her talk,
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Speaker 1: endeavored to frame an answer which should be at once indulgent, soothing,
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Speaker 1: and calculated to allay the rising warmth of her imagination.
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Speaker 1: Dear Norna, he said, I have indeed many reasons to
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Speaker 1: call you mother, who have bestowed so many benefits upon me,
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Speaker 1: and from me you shall ever receive the affection and
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Speaker 1: duty of a child. But the chain you mentioned it
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Speaker 1: has vanished from my neck. I have not seen it
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Speaker 1: since the Ruffians stabbed me. Alas, and can you think
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Speaker 1: of it at this moment, said Norna in a sorrowful accent.
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Speaker 1: But be it so, and no it was. I took
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Speaker 1: it from thy neck and tied it around the neck
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Speaker 1: of her who is dearest to you, in token that
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Speaker 1: the union betwixt you, which has been the only earthly
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Speaker 1: wish which I have had the power to form, shall
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Speaker 1: yet even yet be accomplished. I, although hell should open
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Speaker 1: to forbid the bands. Alas, said Mordaunt, with a sigh,
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Speaker 1: You remember not the difference betwixt our situation. Her father
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Speaker 1: is wealthy and of ancient birth, not more wealthy than
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Speaker 1: will be the heir of Norna, of fitful head, answered
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Speaker 1: the Pythoness. Not of better or more ancient blood than
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Speaker 1: that which flows in thy veins, derived from thy mother,
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Speaker 1: the descendant of the same jarls and sea kings, from
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Speaker 1: whom Madness boaths his origin. Or dost thou think like
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Speaker 1: the patant and fanatic strangers who have come amongst us
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Speaker 1: that thy blood is dishonored because my union with thy
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Speaker 1: father did not receive the sanction of a priest. Know
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Speaker 1: that we were wedded after the ancient manner of the Norse.
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Speaker 1: Our hands were clasped within the circle of Odin, with
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Speaker 1: such deep vows of eternal fidelity as even the laws
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Speaker 1: of these usurping Scots would have sanctioned, as equivalent to
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Speaker 1: a blessing before the altar to the offspring of such
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Speaker 1: a union. Magnus has not to object. It was weak,
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Speaker 1: it was criminal on my part, but it conveyed no
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Speaker 1: infamy to the birth of my son. The composed and
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Speaker 1: collected manner in which Norna argued these points began to
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Speaker 1: impose upon Mordaunt an incipient belief in the truth of
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Speaker 1: what she said. And indeed she added so many circumstances
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Speaker 1: satisfactorily and rationally connected with each other, as seemed to
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Speaker 1: confute the notion that her story was altogether the delusion
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Speaker 1: of that insanity which sometimes showed itself in her speech
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Speaker 1: and actions. A thousand confused ideas rushed upon him when
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Speaker 1: he supposed it possible that the unhappy person before him
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Speaker 1: might actually have a right to claim from him the
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Speaker 1: respect and affection due to a parent from a son.
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Speaker 1: He could only surmount them by turning his mind to
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Speaker 1: a different and scarce less interesting topic, resolving within himself
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Speaker 1: to take time for farther inquiry and mature consideration. Ere
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Speaker 1: he either rejected or admitted the claim which Norna preferred
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Speaker 1: upon his affection and duty his benefactress, at least she
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Speaker 1: undoubtedly was, and he could not err in paying her
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Speaker 1: as such their respect and attention due from a son
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Speaker 1: to a mother, And so far therefore he might gratify
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Speaker 1: Norna without otherwise standing committed. And do you then really
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Speaker 1: think my mother, since you bid me term, you said, Mordaunt,
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Speaker 1: that the proud Magnus Troil may, by any inducement be
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Speaker 1: prevailed upon to relinquish the angry feelings which he has
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Speaker 1: of late adopted towards me, and to permit my addresses
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Speaker 1: to his daughter Brenda. Brenda, repeated Norna, who talks of Brenda?
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Speaker 1: It was of Minna that I spoke to you. But
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Speaker 1: it was of Brenda that I thought, replied Mordaunt, of
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Speaker 1: her that I now think, and of her alone that
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Speaker 1: I will ever think impossible, my son, replied Norna. You
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Speaker 1: cannot be so dull of heart, so poor of spirit,
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Speaker 1: as to prefer the idle mirth and housewife's simplicity of
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Speaker 1: the younger sister to the deep feeling and high mind
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Speaker 1: of the noble spirited Minna. Who would stoop to gather
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Speaker 1: the violet that might have the rose for stretching out
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Speaker 1: his hand. Some think the lowliest flowers are the sweetest,
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Speaker 1: replied Mordaunt, And in that faith will I live and die?
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Speaker 1: You dare not tell me so, answered Norna fiercely, Then,
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Speaker 1: instantly changing her tone and taking his hand in the
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Speaker 1: most affectionate manner, she proceeded, You must not. You will
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Speaker 1: not tell me so, my dear son. You will not
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Speaker 1: break a mother's heart in the very first hour in
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Speaker 1: which she has embraced her child. Nay, do not answer,
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Speaker 1: but hear me, you must wed Minna. I have bound
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Speaker 1: around her neck a fatal amulet on which the happiness
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Speaker 1: of both depends. The labors of my life have for
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Speaker 1: years had this direction. Thus it must be, and not otherwise.
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Speaker 1: Manna must be the bride of my son. But is
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Speaker 1: not Brenda equally near, equally dear to you, replied Mordaunt,
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Speaker 1: as near in blood, said Norna. But not so dear, No,
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Speaker 1: not half so dear in affection. Minna's mild, yet high
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Speaker 1: and contemplative spirit renders her a companion meet for one
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Speaker 1: whose ways, like mine, are beyond the ordinary paths of
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Speaker 1: this world. Brenda is a thing of common and ordinary life,
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Speaker 1: an idle laugher and scoffer, who would level art with
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Speaker 1: ignorance and reduce power to weakness by disbelieving and turning
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Speaker 1: into ridicule whatever is beyond the grasp of her own
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Speaker 1: shallow intellect. She is, indeed, answered Mordaunt, neither superstitious nor enthusiastic,
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Speaker 1: and I love her the better for it. Remember also,
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Speaker 1: my mother, that she returns my affection, and that if
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Speaker 1: she loves anyone loves the stranger Cleveland, she dares not.
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Speaker 1: She dares not, answered Norna, nor dares he pursue her farther.
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Speaker 1: I told him, when first he came to Burgwestra, that
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Speaker 1: I destined her for you. And to that rash annunciation,
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Speaker 1: said Mordaunt, I owe this man's persevering enmity my wound,
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Speaker 1: and well nigh the loss of my life. See my mother,
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Speaker 1: to what point your intrigues have already conducted us? And,
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Speaker 1: in Heaven's name, prosecute them no farther. It seemed as
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Speaker 1: if this reproach struck Norna with the force at once
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Speaker 1: and vivacity of lightning, for she struck her forehead with
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Speaker 1: her hand and seemed about to drop from her seat. Mordaunt,
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Speaker 1: greatly shocked, hastened to catch her in his arms, and,
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Speaker 1: though scarce knowing what to say, attempted to utter some
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Speaker 1: incoherent expressions. Spare me, Heaven, spare me where the first
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Speaker 1: words which she muttered, do not let my crime be
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Speaker 1: avenged by his means? Yes, young man, she said, after
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Speaker 1: a pause, you have dared to tell me what I
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Speaker 1: dared not tell myself. You have pressed that upon me, which,
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Speaker 1: if it be truth, I cannot believe and yet continue
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Speaker 1: to live. Mordaunt, in vain endeavored to interrupt her with
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Speaker 1: protestations of his ignorance, how he had offended or grieved her,
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Speaker 1: and of his extreme regret that he had unintentionally done either.
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Speaker 1: She proceeded, while her voice trembled wildly with vehemence. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you have touched on that dark suspicion which poisons the
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Speaker 1: consciousness of my power, so boon, which was given me
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Speaker 1: in exchange for innocence and for peace of mind. Your
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Speaker 1: voice joins that of the demon, which, even while the
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Speaker 1: elements confess me, their mistress whispers to me, Norna, this
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Speaker 1: is but delusion. Your power rests but in the idle
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Speaker 1: belief of the ignorant, supported by a thousand petty artifices
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Speaker 1: of your own. This is what Brenda says. This is
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Speaker 1: what you would say, and false, scandalously false as it is.
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Speaker 1: There are rebellious thoughts in this wild brain of mind,
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Speaker 1: touching her forehead with her finger as she spoke that,
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Speaker 1: like an insurrection in an invaded country, arise to take
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Speaker 1: part against their distressed sovereign. Spare me, my son, she continued,
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Speaker 1: in a voice of supplication. Spare me. The sovereignty of
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Speaker 1: which your words would deprive me is no enviable exaltation.
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Speaker 1: Few would covet to rule over gibbering ghosts and howling
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Speaker 1: winds and raging currents. My throne is a cloud, my
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Speaker 1: scepter a meteor. My realm is only peopled with fantasies.
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Speaker 1: But I must either cease to be or continue to
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Speaker 1: be the mightiest as well as the most miserable of beings.
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Speaker 1: Do not speak thus mournfully, my dear and unhappy benefactress,
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Speaker 1: said Mordaunt, much affected. I will think of your power
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Speaker 1: whatever you would have me believe, but for your own
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Speaker 1: sake view the matter. Otherwise, turn your thoughts from such
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Speaker 1: agitating and mystical studies, from such wild subjects of contemplation,
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Speaker 1: into another and a better channel. Life will again have charms,
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Speaker 1: and religion will have comforts for you. She listened to
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Speaker 1: him with some composure, as if she weighed his counsel
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Speaker 1: and desired to be guided by it. But as he ended,
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Speaker 1: she shook her head and exclaimed, it cannot be. I
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Speaker 1: must remain the dreaded, the mystical, the rhymekenner, the controller
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Speaker 1: of the elements, or I must be no more. I
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Speaker 1: have no alternative, no middle station. My post must be
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Speaker 1: high on yon lofty headland, where never stood human foot
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Speaker 1: save mine, Or I must sleep at the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the unfathomable ocean, its white billows booming over my senseless corpse.
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Speaker 1: The parricide shall never also be denounced as the impostor
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Speaker 1: the parricide, echoed Mordaunt, stepping back in horror. Yes, my son,
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Speaker 1: answered Norna, with a stern composure, even more frightful than
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Speaker 1: her former impetuosity. Within these fatal walls, my father met
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Speaker 1: his death by my means. In yonder chamber was he
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Speaker 1: found a livid and lifeless corpse. Beware of filial disobedience,
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Speaker 1: for such are its fruits. So saying, she arose and
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Speaker 1: left the apartment, where Mordaunt remained alone, to meditate at
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Speaker 1: leisure upon the extraordinary communication which he had received. He
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Speaker 1: himself had been taught by his father a disbelief in
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Speaker 1: the ordinary superstitions of Zeteland, and he now saw that Norna,
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Speaker 1: however ingenious in duping others, could not altogether impose on herself.
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Speaker 1: This was a strong circumstance in favor of her sanity
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Speaker 1: of intellect. But on the other hand, her imputing to
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Speaker 1: herself the guilt of parricide seemed so wild and improbable,
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Speaker 1: as in Mordaunt's opinion to throw much doubt upon her
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Speaker 1: other assertions. He had leisure enough to make up his
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Speaker 1: mind on these particulars, For no one approached the solitary
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Speaker 1: dwelling of which Norna her dwarf, and he himself were
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Speaker 1: the sole inhabitants. The Hoy island in which it stood
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Speaker 1: is rude, bold and lofty, consisting entirely of three hills,
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Speaker 1: or rather one huge mountain, divided into three summits, with
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Speaker 1: the chasms, rents and valleys which descend from its summit
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Speaker 1: to the sea, while its crest, rising to great height
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Speaker 1: and shivered into rocks which seem almost inaccessible, intercepts the
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Speaker 1: mists as they drive from the Atlantic, and often obscured
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Speaker 1: from the human eye, forms the dark and unmolested retreat
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Speaker 1: of hawks, eagles, and other birds of prey. The soil
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Speaker 1: of the island is wet, mossy, cold and unproductive, presenting
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Speaker 1: a sterile and desolate appearance, excepting where the sides of
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Speaker 1: small rivulets or mountain ravines are fringed with dwarf bushes
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Speaker 1: of birch, hazel, and wild current, some of them so
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Speaker 1: tall as to be denominated trees. In that bleak and
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Speaker 1: bare country, but the view of the sea beach, which
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Speaker 1: was Mordaunt's favorite walk when his convalescent state began to
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Speaker 1: permit him to take exercise, had charms which compensated the
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Speaker 1: wild appearance of the interior. A broad and beautiful sound
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Speaker 1: or straight divides this lonely and mountainous island from Pomona,
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Speaker 1: and in the center of that sound lies like the
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Speaker 1: tablet composed of Emerald, the beautiful and verdant little island
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Speaker 1: of Gramsey. On the distant mainland is seen the town
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Speaker 1: or village of Stromness, the excellence of whose haven is
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Speaker 1: generally evinced by a considerable number of shipping in the
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Speaker 1: roadstead and from the bay, growing narrower and lessening as
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Speaker 1: it recedes, runs inland into Pomona, where its tide fills
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Speaker 1: the fine sheet of water called the Lock of Stennis.
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Speaker 1: On this beach, Mordaunt was wont to wander for hours
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Speaker 1: with an eye not insensible to the beauties of the view.
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Speaker 1: Though his thoughts were agitated with the most embarrassing meditations
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Speaker 1: on his own situation, He was resolved to leave the
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Speaker 1: island as soon as the establishment of his health should
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Speaker 1: permit him to travel. Yet, gratitude to Norna, of whom
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Speaker 1: he was at least the adopted, if not the real Sun,
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Speaker 1: would not allow him to depart without her permission, Even
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Speaker 1: if he could obtain means of conveyance of which he
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Speaker 1: saw little possibility. It was only by importunity that he
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Speaker 1: exhorted from his hostess a promise that, if he would
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Speaker 1: consent to regulate his motions according to her directions, she
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Speaker 1: would herself convey him to the capital of the Orkney Islands,
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Speaker 1: when the approaching Fair of Saint Olah should take place there.
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Speaker 1: End of Chapter thirteen.