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The Invisible Man Chapters 8-10 · The H. G. Wells Library

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  Speaker 1: reading by Alex Foster w w W dot Alex Foster
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  Speaker 1: dot me dot UK. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight in transit. The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief
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  Speaker 1: and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district,
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  Speaker 1: while lying out on the spacious open downs without a
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  Speaker 1: soul within a couple of miles of him, as he
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  Speaker 1: thought and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound
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  Speaker 1: of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself.
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  Speaker 1: And looking beheld nothing, yet the voice was indisputable. It
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  Speaker 1: continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguished
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  Speaker 1: the swearing of a cultivated man. It grew to a
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  Speaker 1: client max, diminished again, and died away in the distance, going,
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  Speaker 1: as it seemed to him, in the direction of Adadeen.
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  Speaker 1: It lifted to a spasmodic sneeze and ended. Gibbons had
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  Speaker 1: heard nothing of the morning's occurrences, but the phenomenon was
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  Speaker 1: so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquility vanished. He
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  Speaker 1: got up hastily and hurried down the steepness of the
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  Speaker 1: hill towards the village as fast as he could go.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine. Mister Thomas Marvel. You must picture mister Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose
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  Speaker 1: of cylindrical protrusion, a licorice ample, fluctuating mouth, and a
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  Speaker 1: beard of bristling eccentricity. His figure inclined to en bomboins.
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  Speaker 1: His short limbs accentuated this inclination. He wore a furry
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  Speaker 1: silk hat, and the frequent substitution of twined and shoelaces
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  Speaker 1: for buttons apparent at critical points of his costume. Marked
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  Speaker 1: a man is essentially bachelor. Mister Thomas Marvel was sitting
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  Speaker 1: with his feet in a ditch by the roadside over
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  Speaker 1: the down towards Anderdean, about a mile and a half
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  Speaker 1: out of iping. His feet, save for socks of irregular
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  Speaker 1: open work, were bare. His big toes were broad and pricked,
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  Speaker 1: like the ears of a watchful dog. In a leisurely manner.
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  Speaker 1: He did everything in a leisurely manner. He was contemplating
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  Speaker 1: trying on a pair of boots. They were the soundest
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  Speaker 1: boots he had come across for a long time, but
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  Speaker 1: too large for him, whereas the ones he had were
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  Speaker 1: in dry weather, a very comfortable fit, but too thin
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  Speaker 1: sold for damp. Mister Thomas Marvel hated roomy shoes, but
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  Speaker 1: then he hated damp. He had never properly thought out
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  Speaker 1: which he hated most, And it was a pleasant day,
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  Speaker 1: and there was nothing better to do. So he put
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  Speaker 1: the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf
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  Speaker 1: and looked at them, and seeing them there among the
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  Speaker 1: grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that
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  Speaker 1: both pairs were exceedingly ugly. To see, he was not
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  Speaker 1: at all startled by a voice behind him. They're boots, anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: said the voice. They are charity boots, said mister Thomas Marvel,
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  Speaker 1: with his head on one side, regarding them distastefully. And
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  Speaker 1: which is the ugliest pair in this whole blessed universe.
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  Speaker 1: I'm darned if I know, hum, said the voice. I've
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  Speaker 1: worn worse. In fact, I've worn none, but none so
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  Speaker 1: audacious ugly. If you'll allow the expression I've been catching
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  Speaker 1: boots in particular for days because I was sick of them.
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  Speaker 1: They're sound enough, of course, but a gentleman on tramp
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  Speaker 1: sees such a thundering lot of his boots. And if
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  Speaker 1: you'll believe me, I've raised in nothing in the whole
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  Speaker 1: blessed country that I try as I would, but them
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  Speaker 1: look at them. And a good country for boots too,
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  Speaker 1: in a general way. But it's just my promiscuous luck.
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  Speaker 1: I get my boots in this country ten years or more,
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  Speaker 1: and they treat you like this. It's a beast of
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  Speaker 1: a country, said the voice. And pigs for people, ain't it,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Thomas Marvel, Lord, But them boots, it beats it.
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  Speaker 1: He turned his head over to his shoulder at the
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  Speaker 1: right to look at the boots of his interlocutor with
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  Speaker 1: a view to comparisons, and lo where the boots of
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  Speaker 1: his interlocutor should have been were neither legs nor boots.
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  Speaker 1: He was irradiated by the dawn of a great amazement.
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  Speaker 1: Where are ye, said mister Thomas Marvel over his shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: and coming on all fours, he saw a stretch of
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  Speaker 1: empty downs, with the wind swaying, and remote green pointed
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  Speaker 1: furze bushes. Am I drunk? Said mister Marvel. Have I
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  Speaker 1: had visions? Was I talking to myself? What the Don't
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  Speaker 1: be alarmed, said a voice. None of your ventral aquizing me,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Thomas Marvel, rising sharply to his feet. Where
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  Speaker 1: are ye alarmed? Indeed, don't be alarmed, repeated the voice.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be alarmed in a minute, you silly fool, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Thomas Marvel. Where are ye? Let me get my
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  Speaker 1: mark on you. Are ye buried? Said mister Thomas Marvel.
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  Speaker 1: After an interval, there was no answer. Mister Thomas Marvel
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  Speaker 1: stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off. Peeweat,
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  Speaker 1: said a peewitt. Very remote peewit. Indeed, said mister Thomas Marvel.
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  Speaker 1: This ain't no time for foolery. The down was desolate,
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  Speaker 1: east and west, north and south. The road, with its
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  Speaker 1: shallow ditches and white bordering stakes, ran smooth and empty
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  Speaker 1: north and south. And save for that peewit, the blue
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  Speaker 1: sky was empty too. So help me, said mister Thomas Marvell,
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  Speaker 1: shuffling his coat on to his shoulders. Again, it's the drink,
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  Speaker 1: I might have known. It's not the drink, said the voice.
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  Speaker 1: You keep your nerves steady, oh, said mister Marvel, and
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  Speaker 1: his face grew white amidst its patches. It's the drink,
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  Speaker 1: his lips repeated noiselessly. He remained staring about him, rotating
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  Speaker 1: slowly backwards. We could have swore I heard a voice,
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  Speaker 1: he whispered. Of course you did. It's there again, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Marvell, closing his eyes and clasping his hand on
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  Speaker 1: his brow with a tragic gesture. He was suddenly taken
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  Speaker 1: by the collar and shaken violently, and left more dazed
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  Speaker 1: than ever. Don't be of said the voice. I'm off
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  Speaker 1: my bloom in chump, said mister Marvel. It's no good.
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  Speaker 1: It's fretting about them blasted boots. I'm off my blessed
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  Speaker 1: bloom in chump or its spirits. Neither one thing nor
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  Speaker 1: the other, said the voice. Listen, chump, said mister Marvel.
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  Speaker 1: One minute, said the voice, penetratingly tremulous with self control, Well,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Thomas Marvel, with a strange feeling of having
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  Speaker 1: been dug in the chest by a finger. You think
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  Speaker 1: I'm just imagination, just imagination, What else can you be?
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  Speaker 1: Said mister Thomas Marvel, rubbing the back of his neck
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  Speaker 1: very well, said the voice, in a tone of relief.
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  Speaker 1: Then I'm going to throw flints at you until you
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  Speaker 1: think differently. But what are you? The voice made no answer.
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  Speaker 1: Whiz came a flint, apparently out of the air, and
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  Speaker 1: missed mister Marvel's shoulder by a hair's breadth. Mister Marvel, turning,
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  Speaker 1: saw a flint jerk up into the air, trace a
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  Speaker 1: complicated hang for a moment, then fling at his feet
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  Speaker 1: with almost invisible rapidity. He was too amazed to dodge
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  Speaker 1: Whiz as it came and ricocheted from a bare toe
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  Speaker 1: into the ditch. Mister Thomas Marvell jumped a foot and
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  Speaker 1: howled aloud. Then he started to run, tripped over an
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  Speaker 1: unseen obstacle, and came head over heels into a sitting position. Now,
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  Speaker 1: said the voice, as a third stone curved upward and
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  Speaker 1: hung in the air above the tramp, am I imagination.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Marvel, by way of reply, struggled to his feet
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  Speaker 1: and was immediately rolled over again. He lay quiet for
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  Speaker 1: a moment. If you struggle any more, said the voice,
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  Speaker 1: I shall throw the flint at your head. It's a
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  Speaker 1: fair ado, said mister Thomas Marvel, sitting up, taking his
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  Speaker 1: wounded toe in hand and fixing his eye on the
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  Speaker 1: third missile. I don't understand it. Stones flinging themselves, stones talking,
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  Speaker 1: put yourself down, rot away. I'm done. The third flint fell.
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  Speaker 1: It's very simple, said the voice. I'm an invisible man.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us something I don't know, said mister Marvel, gasping
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  Speaker 1: with pain. Where you've hit? How you I? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm beat, That's all, said the voice. I'm invisible. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I want you to understand. Any one could see that.
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  Speaker 1: There's no need for you to be so confounded impatient. Mister, Now,
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  Speaker 1: then give us a notion. How are you hid? I'm invisible.
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  Speaker 1: That's the great point. And what I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand is this. But whereabouts, interrupted mister Marvel, Here six
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  Speaker 1: yards in front of you. Oh come, I ain't blind.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be telling me next you're just thin air. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not one of your ignorant tramps. Yes, I am thin air.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking through me? What ain't any stuff? Do you?
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  Speaker 1: Vox it? Oh? Why is it? Jabber? Is that it?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a human being, solid, needing food and drink,
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  Speaker 1: needing covering too, But I'm invisible. You see invisible? Simple idea? Invisible?
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  Speaker 1: What reel like? Yes? Real? Let's have a hand of you,
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  Speaker 1: said Marvel. If you are real, won't be so darn
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  Speaker 1: out of the way like then? Lord, he said, how
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  Speaker 1: you made me jump? Griping me like that? He felt
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  Speaker 1: the hand that had closed round his wrist with his
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  Speaker 1: disengaged fingers, and his fingers went timorously up the arm,
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  Speaker 1: patted a muscular chest, and explored a bearded face. Marvel's
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  Speaker 1: face was astonishment. I'm dashed, he said, if this don't
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  Speaker 1: be cock fighting, most remarkable, And there I can see
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  Speaker 1: a rabbit clean through. You are a mile away. Not
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  Speaker 1: a bit of you visible, except he scrutinized the apparently
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  Speaker 1: empty space. Keenly, you haven't been eating bread and cheese,
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  Speaker 1: he asked, holding the invisible arm. You're quite right, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not quite assimilated into the system, ah, said mister Marvel.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of ghostly though, of course, all this isn't half
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  Speaker 1: wonderful as you think. It's quite wonderful enough for my
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  Speaker 1: modest ones, said mister Thomas Marvel. Oh do you manage it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh the deuce? Is it done? It's too long a story.
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  Speaker 1: And besides, I tell you the old business fairly beats me,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Marvel. What I want to say at present
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  Speaker 1: is this, I need help. I have come to that.
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  Speaker 1: I came upon you suddenly. I was wandering, mad with rage, naked, impotent,
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  Speaker 1: I could have murdered, and I saw you, Lord, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Marvel. I came up behind you, hesitated, went on.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Marvell's expression was eloquent. Then stopped here, I said,
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  Speaker 1: is an outcast like myself? This is the man for me.
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  Speaker 1: So I turned back and came to you. You and Lord,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Marvel. But I'm all in a tizzy. I
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  Speaker 1: ask how is it? And what you may be require
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  Speaker 1: in the way of help? Invisible, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: help me get clothes and shelter, and then with other things.
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  Speaker 1: I've left them long enough. If you won't, well, but
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  Speaker 1: you will. Must look here, said mister Marvel. I'm too flabbergasted.
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  Speaker 1: Don't knock me about any more and leave me go.
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  Speaker 1: I must steady a bit, and you've pretty near broken
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  Speaker 1: my toe. It's also unreasonable. Empty down's empty sky, nothing
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  Speaker 1: visible for miles except the bosom of nature. And then
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  Speaker 1: comes a voice, a voice out of heaven and stones
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  Speaker 1: and a fist. Lord, pull yourself together, said the voice,
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  Speaker 1: for you have to do the job I have chosen
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  Speaker 1: for you. Mister Marvel blew out his cheeks and his
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  Speaker 1: eyes were round. I've chosen you, said the voice. You
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  Speaker 1: are the only man, except some of those fools down there,
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  Speaker 1: who knows there is such a thing as an invisible man.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be my helper, help me, and I
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  Speaker 1: will do great things for you. An invisible man is
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  Speaker 1: a man of power. He stopped for a moment to
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  Speaker 1: sneeze violently. But if you betray me, he said, if
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  Speaker 1: you failed to do as I direct you, He paused
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  Speaker 1: and tapped mister Marvell's shoulder smartly. Mister Marvell gave a
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  Speaker 1: yelp of terror at the touch. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: betray you, said mister Marvell, edging away from the direction
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  Speaker 1: of the fingers. Don't you go a think in that
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  Speaker 1: wherever you do. All I want to do is help you.
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  Speaker 1: Just tell me what I got to do the ward.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you want done, that I'm most willing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, mister Marvel's visit to Iping after the first
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  Speaker 1: gusty panic had spent itself. Iping became argumentative. Skepticism suddenly
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  Speaker 1: reared its head, rather nervous, skepticism not at all assured
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  Speaker 1: of its back, but skepticism none the less. It is
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  Speaker 1: so much easier not to believe in an invisible man.
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  Speaker 1: And those who had actually seen him dissolve into air
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  Speaker 1: or felt the strength of his arm could be counted
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  Speaker 1: on the fingers of two hands. And of those witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: mister Wadgers was presently missing, having retired impregnably behind the
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  Speaker 1: bolts and bars of his own house, and Jaffers was
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  Speaker 1: lying stunned in the parlor of the coach and horses.
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  Speaker 1: Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect
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  Speaker 1: upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations. Iping
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  Speaker 1: was gay with bunting, and everybody was in gala dress.
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  Speaker 1: Whit Monday had been looked forward to for a month
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  Speaker 1: or more. By the afternoon, even those who believed in
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  Speaker 1: the unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in
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  Speaker 1: a tentative fashion, and on the supposition that he had
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  Speaker 1: gone quite away, And with the skeptics, he was already addressed.
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  Speaker 1: But people, skeptics and believers alike were remarkably sociable. All
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  Speaker 1: that day. Hayesman's meadow was gay, with a tent in
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  Speaker 1: which Missus Bunting and other ladies were preparing tea while
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  Speaker 1: without The Sunday school children ran races and played games
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  Speaker 1: under the noisy guidance of the cue and the Missus
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  Speaker 1: Cuss and Sackbut no doubt there was a slight uneasiness
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  Speaker 1: in the air, but people, for the most part had
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  Speaker 1: the sense to conceal whatever imaginative qualms they experienced. On
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  Speaker 1: the village Green, an inclined string down which, clinging the
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  Speaker 1: while to a pulley swung handle, one could be hurled
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  Speaker 1: violently against a sack at the other end, came in
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  Speaker 1: for considerable favor among the adolescent, as also did the
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  Speaker 1: swings and the coconut shies. There was also promenading, and
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  Speaker 1: the steam organ attached to a small roundabout filled the
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  Speaker 1: air with a plungent flavor of oil and with equally
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  Speaker 1: pungent music. Members of the club who had attended church
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  Speaker 1: in the morning were splendid in badges of pink and green,
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  Speaker 1: and some of the gayer mind it had adorned their
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  Speaker 1: bowler hats with brilliant colored flowers of ribbon. Old Fletcher,
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  Speaker 1: whose conceptions of holiday making were severe, was visible through
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  Speaker 1: the jasmine about his window or through the open door,
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  Speaker 1: whichever way you chose to look, poised delicately on a plank,
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  Speaker 1: supported on two chairs, and whitewashing the ceiling of his
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  Speaker 1: front room. About four o'clock a stranger entered the village
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  Speaker 1: from the direction of the downs. He was a short,
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  Speaker 1: stout person in an extraordinarily shabby top hat, and he
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  Speaker 1: appeared to be very much out of breath. His cheeks
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  Speaker 1: were alternately limp and tightly puffed. His marttled face was apprehensive,
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  Speaker 1: and he moved with a sort of reluctant alacrity. He
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  Speaker 1: turned the corner of the church and directed his way
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  Speaker 1: to the coach and horses, among others. Old Fletcher remembered
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  Speaker 1: seeing him, and indeed the old gentleman was so struck
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  Speaker 1: by his peculiar agitation that he inadvertently allowed a quantity
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  Speaker 1: of whitewash to run down the brush into the sleeve
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  Speaker 1: of his coat whilst regarding him. This stranger, to the
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  Speaker 1: perceptions of the proprietor of the Cocoanut shy, appeared to
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  Speaker 1: be talking to himself, and mister Huckster remarked the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped at the foot of the coach and horse's steps, and,
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  Speaker 1: according to mister Huckster, appeared to undergo a severe internal
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  Speaker 1: struggle before he could induce himself to enter the house. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: he marked rush up the steps, and was seen by
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  Speaker 1: mister Huxter to turn to the left and open the
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  Speaker 1: door of the parlor. Mister Huckster heard voices from within
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  Speaker 1: the room and from the bar, apprising the man of
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  Speaker 1: his error. That room's private said hall, and the stranger
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  Speaker 1: shut the door clumsily and went into the bar. In
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  Speaker 1: the course of a few minutes, he reappeared, wiping his
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  Speaker 1: lips with the back of his hand, with an air
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  Speaker 1: of quiet satisfaction that somehow impressed mister Huckster, as he assumed,
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  Speaker 1: he stood looking about him for some moments, and then
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  Speaker 1: mister Huckster saw him walk in an oddly furtive manner
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  Speaker 1: towards the gates of the yard, upon which the parlor
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  Speaker 1: window opened. The stranger, after some hesitation, leant against one
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  Speaker 1: of the gate posts, produced a short clay pipe, and
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  Speaker 1: prepared to fill it. His fingers trembled While doing so,
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  Speaker 1: he lit it clumsily and folded his arms began to
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  Speaker 1: smoke in a languid attitude, an attitude which his occasional
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  Speaker 1: glances up the yard altogether belied. All this, mister Huxter
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  Speaker 1: saw over the canisters of the tobacco window, and the
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  Speaker 1: singularity of the man's behavior prompted him to maintain his observation. Presently,
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  Speaker 1: the stranger stood up abruptly and put his pipe in
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  Speaker 1: his pocket. Then he vanished into the yard forthwith mister Huckster,
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  Speaker 1: conceiving he was witness of some petty larceny, leaped around
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  Speaker 1: his counter and ran out into the road to intercept
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  Speaker 1: the thief. As he did so, mister Marvel reappeared, his
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  Speaker 1: hat askew, a big bundle in a blue tablecloth in
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  Speaker 1: one hand, and three books tied together, as it proved afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: with the vicar's braces in the other. Directly he saw Huckster.
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  Speaker 1: He gave a short of gasp, and, turning sharply to
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  Speaker 1: the left, began to run. Stop thief, cried Huckster, and
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  Speaker 1: set off after him. Mister Huckster's sensations were vivid but brief.
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  Speaker 1: He saw the man just before him, and spurting briskly
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  Speaker 1: for the church corner and the hill road, he saw
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  Speaker 1: the village flags and festivities beyond, and a face or
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  Speaker 1: so turned towards him. He bawled stop again. He had
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  Speaker 1: hardly gone ten strides before his shin was caught in
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  Speaker 1: some mysterious fashion, and he was no longer running, but
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  Speaker 1: flying with inconceivable rapidity through the air. He saw the
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  Speaker 1: ground suddenly close to his face. The world seemed to
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  Speaker 1: splash into a million whirling specks of light, and subsequent
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  Speaker 1: proceedings interested him no more. End of Chapter ten, recorded
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  Speaker 1: in Nottingham, England, on the IDEs of March by Alex
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  Speaker 1: Foster www dot Alex Foster dot me dot uk.