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  Speaker 1: Maggie, A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane. Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel
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  Speaker 1: for the honor of rum Alley. He was throwing stones
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  Speaker 1: at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly
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  Speaker 1: about the heap and pelting at him. His infantile countenance
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  Speaker 1: was livid with fury. His small body was writhing in
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  Speaker 1: the delivery of great crimson oaths. Run, Jimmy, run, Dalgatch's,
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  Speaker 1: screamed a retreating rum Alley child. Na responded Jimmy with
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  Speaker 1: a valiant roar. There's me mix, can't make me run howls.
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  Speaker 1: The renewed wrath went up from Devil's Row, throats tattered.
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  Speaker 1: Gammons on the right made a furious assault on the
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  Speaker 1: gravel heap. On their small, convulse faces, there shone the
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  Speaker 1: grins of true assassins. As they charged. They threw stones
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  Speaker 1: and cursed in shrill chorus. The little champion of rum
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  Speaker 1: Alley stumbled precipitately down the other side. His coat had
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  Speaker 1: been torn to shreds in a scuffle, and his hat
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  Speaker 1: was gone. He had bruises on twenty parts of his
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  Speaker 1: body and blood was dripping from a cut in his head.
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  Speaker 1: His weighing features wore a look of a tiny, insane demon.
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  Speaker 1: On the ground, children from Devil's Throw closed in on
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  Speaker 1: their antagonist. He crooked his left arm defensively about his
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  Speaker 1: head and fought with cursing fury. The little boys ran
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  Speaker 1: to and fro, dodging hurling stones and swearing in barbaric
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  Speaker 1: trebles from a window of an apartment house that upreared
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  Speaker 1: its form from amid squat ignorant stables. There leaned a
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  Speaker 1: curious woman. Some laborers unloading a scowl at a dock
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  Speaker 1: at the river paused for a moment and regarded the fight.
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  Speaker 1: The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a
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  Speaker 1: railing and watched over on the island. A worm of
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  Speaker 1: yellow convicts came from the shadow of a gray, ominous
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  Speaker 1: building and crawled slowly along the river's bank. As stone
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  Speaker 1: had smashed into Jimmy's mouth, blood was bubbling over his
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  Speaker 1: chin and down upon his ragged shirt. Tears made furrows
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  Speaker 1: on his dirt stone cheeks. His thin legs had begun
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  Speaker 1: to tremble and turn weak, causing his small body to
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  Speaker 1: reel His roaring curses of the first part of the
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  Speaker 1: fight had changed to a blasphemous chatter. In the yells
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  Speaker 1: of the whirling mob of Devil's throw children, there were
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  Speaker 1: notes of joy like songs of triumph savagery. The little
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  Speaker 1: boys seemed to leer gloatingly at the blood upon the
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  Speaker 1: other child's face. Down the avenue came boastfully sauntering a
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  Speaker 1: lad of sixteen years, although the chronic sneer of an
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  Speaker 1: ideal manhood already sat upon his lips. His hat was
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  Speaker 1: tipped with an air of challenge over his eye. Between
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  Speaker 1: his teeth, a cigar stump was tilted at the angle
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  Speaker 1: of defiance. He walked with a certain swing of the
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  Speaker 1: shoulders which to pull the timid He glanced over into
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  Speaker 1: the vacant lot in which the little raving boys from
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  Speaker 1: Devil's Row seethed about. The shrieking and tearful child from
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  Speaker 1: rum our Ge. He murmured with interest a scrap g
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  Speaker 1: He strode over to the cursing circle, swinging his shoulders
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  Speaker 1: in a manner which denoted that he held victory in
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  Speaker 1: his fists. He approached at the back of one of
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  Speaker 1: the most deeply engaged of the Devil's Throw children. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell, he said, and smote the deeply engaged
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  Speaker 1: one on the back of the head. The little boy
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  Speaker 1: fell to the ground and gave a horse tremendous howl.
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  Speaker 1: He scrambled to his feet, and, perceiving evidently the size
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  Speaker 1: of his assailant, ran quickly off, shouting alarms. The entire
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  Speaker 1: Devil's Throw party followed him. They came to a stand
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  Speaker 1: a short distance away and yelled taunting oaths at the
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  Speaker 1: boy with the chronic sneer. The latter momentari paid no
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  Speaker 1: attention to them. What the hell, Jimmy, he asked of
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  Speaker 1: the small champion. Jimmy wiped his blood wet features with
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  Speaker 1: his sleeve. Well, it was dis way, Pete, seeing I
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  Speaker 1: was going to lick that Riley kid, and they all
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  Speaker 1: pitched on me. Some rum Alley children now came forward.
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  Speaker 1: The party stood for a moment, exchanging vainglorious remarks with
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  Speaker 1: Devil's row. A few stones were thrown at long distances,
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  Speaker 1: and words of challenge passed between small warriors. Then the
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  Speaker 1: rum Alley contingent turned slowly in the direction of their
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  Speaker 1: home street. They began to give each to each distorted
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  Speaker 1: versions of the fight. Causes of retreat, in particular cases
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  Speaker 1: were magnified. Flows dalt in the fight were enlarge to
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  Speaker 1: Catapulchian power, and Stone's throne were alleged to have hurtled
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  Speaker 1: with infinite accuracy. Fellow grew strong again, and the little
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  Speaker 1: boys began to swear with great spirit. Ah we blokes
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  Speaker 1: can lick the how damn, roe, said a child. Swaggering
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  Speaker 1: Little Jimmy was striving to stanch the flow of blood
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  Speaker 1: from his cut lips. Scowling, he turned upon the speaker.
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  Speaker 1: Ah where the hell wi ya when I was doing
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  Speaker 1: all the fighting, he demanded, Use kids makes me tired?
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  Speaker 1: Ah going, replied the other. Argumentedly, Jimmy replied with heavy contempt. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: youse can't fight Blue Billy, I can lick you with
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  Speaker 1: one hand. Ah gone, replied Billy again. Ah, said Jimmy threateningly, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: said the other in the same tone at each other.
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  Speaker 1: Clinched and rolled over on the cobble. Stones kicked the
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  Speaker 1: dang gaps out of him, yelled Pete, the lad with
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  Speaker 1: the chronics near in tones of delight. The small combatants
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  Speaker 1: pounded and kicked, scratched and tore. They began to weep,
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  Speaker 1: and their curses struggled in their throats with sobs. The
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  Speaker 1: other little boys clasped their hands and wriggled their legs
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  Speaker 1: in excitement. They formed a bobbing circle about the pair.
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  Speaker 1: A tiny spectator was suddenly agitated. Cheese it, Jimmy, cheese it.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes your farda, he yelled. The circle of little
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  Speaker 1: boys instantly parted. They drew away and waited in ecstatic
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  Speaker 1: all for that which was about to happen. The two
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  Speaker 1: little boys, fighting in the modes of four thousand years ago,
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  Speaker 1: did not hear the warning. Up the avenue. There plodded
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  Speaker 1: slowly a man with sullen eyes. He was carrying a
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  Speaker 1: dinner pail and smoking an applewood pipe. As he neared
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  Speaker 1: the spot where the little boys strove, he regarded them listlessly.
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  Speaker 1: But suddenly he roared an oath and advanced upon the
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  Speaker 1: rolling fighters. Here you, jim get up now while I
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  Speaker 1: bult your life out, you dann disorderly brat. He began
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  Speaker 1: to kick into the chaotic mass on the ground. The
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  Speaker 1: boy Billy felt a heavy boot stroke his head. He
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  Speaker 1: made a furious effort and disentangled himself from Jimmy. He
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  Speaker 1: tottered away, damning. Jimmy arose painfully from the ground, and,
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  Speaker 1: confronting his father, began to curse him. His parent kicked him.
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  Speaker 1: Come home now, he cried, and stopped. Ye jawing oroh
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  Speaker 1: lame the everlasting head of They departed. The man paced placidly,
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  Speaker 1: along with the apple wood emblem of serenity between his teeth.
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  Speaker 1: The boy followed a dozen feet in the rear. He
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  Speaker 1: swore luridly, for he felt that it was degradation for
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  Speaker 1: one who aimed to be some vague soldier or a
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  Speaker 1: man of blood with a sort of sublime license to
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  Speaker 1: be taken home by a father. End of chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two. Eventually they entered into a dark region where
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  Speaker 1: from a careening building a dozen gruesome doorways gave up
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  Speaker 1: loads of babies to the street and the gutter. A
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  Speaker 1: wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and
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  Speaker 1: swelled it against an hundred windows.
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  Speaker 2: Long.
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  Speaker 1: Streamers of garments fluttered from fire escapes in all unhandy places.
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  Speaker 1: There were buckets, brooms, rags, and bottles. In the street.
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  Speaker 1: Infants played or fought with other infants, or sat stupidly
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  Speaker 1: in the way of vehicles. Formidable women with uncombed hair
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  Speaker 1: and disordered dress, gossiped while leaning on railings, or screamed
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  Speaker 1: in frantic quarrels. Withered persons in curious postures of submission
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  Speaker 1: to something, sat smoking pipes in obscure corners. A thousand
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  Speaker 1: odors of cooking food came forth to the street. The
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  Speaker 1: building quivered and creaked from the weight of humanity. Stamping
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  Speaker 1: about in its bowels, A small, ragged girl dragged a
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  Speaker 1: red bawling infant along the crowded ways. He was hanging
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  Speaker 1: back baby like, bracing his wrinkle bare legs. The little
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  Speaker 1: girl cried out, Ah, Tommy, come on, there's Jimmy and fada.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be a pulling me back. She jerked the baby's
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  Speaker 1: arm impatiently. He fell on his face, roaring with a
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  Speaker 1: second dirk. She pulled him to his feet, and they
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  Speaker 1: went on. With the obstinacy of his order, he protested
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  Speaker 1: against being dragged in a chosen direction. He made heroic
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  Speaker 1: endeavors to keep on his leaves, denounce his sister, and
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  Speaker 1: consume a bit of orange peeling, which he chewed between
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  Speaker 1: the times of his infantile orations. As the sullen eyed
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  Speaker 1: man followed by the blood covered boy drew near. The
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  Speaker 1: little girl burst into reproachful cries. Ah, Jimmy, he's been
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  Speaker 1: fighting again, and swelled disdainfully. Ah what the hell mag see?
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  Speaker 1: The little girl upbraided him. He's always fighting, Jimmy, and
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  Speaker 1: you knows it's put mother out when you've come home
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  Speaker 1: half dead, ain't it light? We'll all get a pounding.
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  Speaker 1: She began to weep. The babe threw back his head
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  Speaker 1: and roared at his prospects. Ah what the hell, cried Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: shut up, I'll smack him out. See. As his sister
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  Speaker 1: continued her lamentations, he suddenly swore and struck her. The
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  Speaker 1: little girl reeled and, recovering herself, burst into tears and
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  Speaker 1: quaveringly cursed him. As she slowly retreated, her brother advanced
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  Speaker 1: stealing her cups. The father heard and turned about. Stop that,
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  Speaker 1: jim dear, leave your sister alone on the street. It's
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  Speaker 1: like I can never eat, and he sensing too a
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  Speaker 1: damn wooden head. The urchin raised his voice in defiance
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  Speaker 1: to his parent and continued his attacks. The bay bull
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  Speaker 1: tremendously protesting with great violence during his sister's hasty maneuvers,
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  Speaker 1: he was dragged by the arm. Finally, the procession plunged
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  Speaker 1: into one of the gruesome doorways. They crawled up dark
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  Speaker 1: stairways and along cold, gloomy halls. At last, the father
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  Speaker 1: pushed open a door and they entered a lighted room
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  Speaker 1: in which a large woman was rampant. She stopped in
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  Speaker 1: a career from receiving stove to a pan covered table.
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  Speaker 1: As the father and children filed in, she peered at them, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: what you been fighting? Again?
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  Speaker 3: By good?
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  Speaker 1: She threw herself upon Jimmy. The urchin tried to dart
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  Speaker 1: behind the others, and in the scuffle the babe Tommy
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  Speaker 1: was knocked down. He protested with his usual vehemence because
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  Speaker 1: they had bruised his tender shins against a table league.
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  Speaker 1: The mother's massive shoulders teaved with anger. Grasping the urchin
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  Speaker 1: by the neck and shoulders, she shook him until he rattled.
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  Speaker 1: She dragged him to an unholy sink and soaking a
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  Speaker 1: rag in watar, began to scrub his lacerated face with it.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy screamed in pain and tried to twist his shoulders
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  Speaker 1: out of the clasp of the huge arms. The babe
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  Speaker 1: sat on the floor watching the scene, his face in
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  Speaker 1: contortions like that of a woman at a tragedy. The father,
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  Speaker 1: with a newly laden pipe in his mouth, crouched on
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  Speaker 1: a backless chair near the stove. Jimmy's cries annoyed him,
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  Speaker 1: turned about and bellowed at his wife. Let the damn
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  Speaker 1: kid alone for a minute, will you marry? You're always
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  Speaker 1: pounding him When I come nights. I can't get no
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  Speaker 1: rest because you're always pounding a kid. Let up, dear,
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  Speaker 1: don't be always pounding a kid. The woman's operations on
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  Speaker 1: the urchin instantly increased in violence. At last, she tossed
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  Speaker 1: him to a corner, where he limply lay, cursing and weeping.
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  Speaker 1: The wife put her immense hands on her hips, and
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  Speaker 1: with a chief tan like stride, approached her husband. Ho
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  Speaker 1: she said, with a great grunt of contempt, and what
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  Speaker 1: in the devil are you sticking your nose for? The
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  Speaker 1: babe crawled under the table and turning, peered out cautiously.
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  Speaker 1: The ragged girl retreated, and the urchin in the corner
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  Speaker 1: drew his legs carefully beneath him. The man puffed his
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  Speaker 1: pipe calmly and put his great muttered boots on the
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  Speaker 1: back part of the stove. Go to help, He murmured tranquility.
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  Speaker 1: The woman screamed and shook her fists before her husband's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: The rough yellow of her face and neck flared suddenly crimson,
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  Speaker 1: she began to howl. He puffed impertinently at his pipe
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  Speaker 1: for a time, but finally arose and began to look
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  Speaker 1: out at the window into the darkened chaos of back yards.
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  Speaker 1: You've been drinking, mary, he said. You'd better let up
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  Speaker 1: on the bot old woman, or you'll get done. You're
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  Speaker 1: a liar. I ain't had a drop, she roared in reply.
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  Speaker 1: They had a lurid altercation in which they damned each
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  Speaker 1: other's souls with frequence. The babe was staring out from
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  Speaker 1: under the table, his small face working in his excitement.
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  Speaker 1: The ragged girl went stealthily over to the corner where
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  Speaker 1: the urchin lay A has hurted much. Jimmy, she whispered timidly.
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  Speaker 1: Not a damn bit, see, growled the little boy. Will
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  Speaker 1: I wash the blood? Nah? Will I? When I catched
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  Speaker 1: that riley kid, I'll break his face, that's right. See.
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  Speaker 1: He turned his face to the wall as if resolved
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  Speaker 1: to grianly bide his time in the quarrel between husband
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  Speaker 1: and wife. The woman was victor. The man grabbed his
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  Speaker 1: hat and rushed from the room, apparently determined upon a
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  Speaker 1: vengeful drunk. She followed to the door and thundered at
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  Speaker 1: him as he made his way down stairs. She returned
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  Speaker 1: and stirred up the room until her children were bobbing
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  Speaker 1: about like bubbles. Get out the way. She persistently bawled,
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  Speaker 1: waving feet with their disheveled shoes near the heads of
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  Speaker 1: her children. She shrouded herself, puffing and starting in a
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  Speaker 1: cloud of steam at the stove, and eventually extracted a
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  Speaker 1: frying pan full of potatoes that hissed. She flourished it.
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  Speaker 1: Come to your suppers now, she cried with sudden exasperation.
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  Speaker 1: Hurry up now, or I'll help you. The children scrambled
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  Speaker 1: hastily with prodigious clatter. They arranged themselves at table. The
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  Speaker 1: babe sat with his feet dangling high from a precarious
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  Speaker 1: infant chair and gorged his small stomach Jimmy forced with
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  Speaker 1: feverish rapidity the grease envelope pieces between his wounded lips. Maggie,
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  Speaker 1: with side glances of fear of interruption ate like a
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  Speaker 1: small pursued tigress. The mother sat blinking at them. She
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  Speaker 1: delivered reproaches, swallowed potatoes, and drunk from a yellow brown bottle.
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  Speaker 1: After a time, her mood changed, and she wept as
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  Speaker 1: she carried little Tommy into another room and laid him
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  Speaker 1: to sleep, with his fists doubled in an old quilt
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  Speaker 1: of pladed red and green grandure. Then she came and
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  Speaker 1: moaned by the stove. She rocked to and fro upon
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  Speaker 1: a chair, shedding tears and crooning miserably to the two
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  Speaker 1: children about their poor mother and near father. Damn is soul.
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  Speaker 1: The little girl plodded between the table and the chair
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  Speaker 1: with a dishpan on it. She tottered on her small
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  Speaker 1: legs beneath burdens of dishes. Jimmy sat nursing his various wounds.
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  Speaker 1: He cast furtive glances at his mother. His practiced eye
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  Speaker 1: perceived her gradually emerge from a muddled mist of sentiment,
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  Speaker 1: until her brain burned in drunken heat. He sat breathless.
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  Speaker 1: Maggie broke her plate. The mother started to her feet,
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  Speaker 1: as if propelled Good God. She howled her eyes glittered
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  Speaker 1: on her child with sudden hatred. The fervent red of
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  Speaker 1: her face turned almost to purple. The little boy ran
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  Speaker 1: to the halls, shrieking like a monk in an earthquake.
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  Speaker 1: He floundered about in darkness until he found the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: He stumbled, panic stricken, to the next floor. An old
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  Speaker 1: woman opened a door, a light behind her threw a
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  Speaker 1: flare on the urchin's quivering face. Ah, God, child, what
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  Speaker 1: is it this time? Is your father beaten? Your mother?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Are you mad?
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  Speaker 1: A bit nafara endo?
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two, Chapter three. Jimmy and the old woman listened
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  Speaker 2: long in the hall above the muffled roar of conversation,
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  Speaker 2: the dismal wailings of babies at night, the thumping of
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  Speaker 2: feet in unseen corridors and rooms, mingled with the sound
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  Speaker 2: of varied horse shoutings in the street, and the rattling
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  Speaker 2: of wheels over cobbles. They heard the screams of the
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  Speaker 2: child and the roars of the mother die away to
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  Speaker 2: a feeble moaning and a subdued bass muttering. The old
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  Speaker 2: woman was a gnarled and leathery personage who could don
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  Speaker 2: at will an expression of great virtue. She possessed a
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  Speaker 2: small music box capable of one tune, and a collection
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  Speaker 2: of God bless yous pitched in as sordid keys of Fervency.
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  Speaker 2: Each day she took a position upon the stones of
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  Speaker 2: Fifth Avenue, where she crooked her legs under her and
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  Speaker 2: crouched movable and hideous like an idol. She received daily
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  Speaker 2: a small sum and pennies. It was contributed, for the
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  Speaker 2: most part by persons who did not make their homes
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  Speaker 2: in that vicinity. Once, when a lady had dropped her
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  Speaker 2: purse on the sidewalk, the gnarled woman had grabbed it
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  Speaker 2: and smuggled it with great dexterity beneath her cloak. When
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  Speaker 2: she was arrested, she had cursed the lady into a
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  Speaker 2: partial swoon, and with her aged limbs twisted from rheumatism,
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  Speaker 2: had almost kicked the stomach out of a huge policeman,
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  Speaker 2: whose conduct upon that occasion she referred to when she
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  Speaker 2: said the police, damn'em. Ey, Jimmy, it's cursed shame. She said,
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  Speaker 2: go now like a dear and buy me a can.
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  Speaker 2: And if your mutter raises hell all night, you can
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  Speaker 2: sleep here. Jimmy took a tendered tin pail and seven
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  Speaker 2: pennies and departed. He passed into the side door of
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  Speaker 2: a saloon and went to the bar. Straining up on
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  Speaker 2: his toes, he raised the pail and pennies as highs
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  Speaker 2: as her arms would him. He saw two hands thrust
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  Speaker 2: down and take them directly. The same hands let down
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  Speaker 2: the filled pail, and he left. In front of the
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  Speaker 2: gruesome doorway, he met a lurching figure. It was his father,
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  Speaker 2: swaying about on uncertain legs. Gimme the can, see said
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  Speaker 2: the man threateningly. Ah, come off, I got this can
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  Speaker 2: for that old woman, and it'd be dirt to swipe it. See,
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  Speaker 2: cried Jimmy. The father wrenched the paler from the urchin.
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  Speaker 2: He grasped it in both hands and lifted it to
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  Speaker 2: his mouth. He glued his lips to the under edge
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  Speaker 2: and tilted his head. His hairy throat swelled until it
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  Speaker 2: seemed to grow near his chin. There was a tremendous
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  Speaker 2: gulping movement, and the beer was gone. The man caught
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  Speaker 2: his breath and laughed. He hid his son on the
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  Speaker 2: head with the empty pail. As it rolled clanging into
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  Speaker 2: the street. Jimmy began to scream and kick repeatedly at
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  Speaker 2: his father's shins. Look at the dirt. What you've done me?
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  Speaker 2: He yelled. The old woman'll be raisin the hell. He
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: retreated to the middle of the street, but the man
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: did not pursue. He staggered toward the door. Oh club, hell,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: out of you. When I catch you, he shouted, and disappeared.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: During the evening, he had been standing against the bar,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: drinking whiskies and declaring to wellcomers confidentially, my home, regular
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: livin' hell. Damn this place, regular hell? Why do I
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: come and drin whisky?
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Here?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: This way? Because home, regular livin' hell. Jimmy waited a
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: long time in the street, and then crept wearily up
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: through the building. He passed with great caution the door
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: of the gnarled woman, and finally stopped outside his home
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: and listened. He could hear his mother moving heavily about
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: among the furniture of the room. She was chanting in
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: a mournful voice, occasionally interjecting bursts of volcanic arrays at
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: the father, who Jimmy judged had sunk down on the
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: floor or in a corner. Why the blazer, don't you
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: try to keep jim from fightin' I'll break her jaw,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: She suddenly bellowed. The man mumbled with drunken indifference. Ah,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: what the hell, what's odds? What makes kick because he
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: tears his clothes? You damn fool, cried the woman in
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: supreme wrath. The husband seemed to become aroused. Good hell, you,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: thundered fiercely in reply. There was a crash against the door,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: and something broke into a clattering fragments. Jimmy partially suppressed
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: the howl and darted down the stairway below, he paused
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: and listened. He heard howls and curses, groans and shrieks,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: confusingly in chorus, as if a battle were raging. Withal
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: was the crash of splintering furniture. The eyes of the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: urchin and glared in fear that one of them would
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: discover him. Curious faces appeared in doorways, and whispered comments
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: passed to and fro all Joston's Raisin hal again. Jimmy
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: stood until the noises ceased, and the other inhabitants of
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: the tenement had all yawned and shut their doors. Then
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: he crawled upstairs with the caution of an invader of
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: a panther den. Sounds of labored breathing came through the
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: broken door panels. He pushed the door open and entered, quaking.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: A glow from the fire threw red hues over the
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: bare floor, the cracked and soiled plastering, and the overturned
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: and broken furniture, and the middle of the floor. Lay
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: his mother asleep in one corner of the room. His
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: father's limp body hung across the seat of a chair.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: The Urchin stole forward. He began to shiver in dread
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: of a weakening his parents. His mother's great chest was
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: heaving painfully. Jimmy paused and looked down at her. Her
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: face was inflamed and swollen from drinking. Her yellow brows
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: shaded eyely that had brown blue. Her tangled hair tossed
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: in waves over her forehead. Her mouth was set in
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the same lines of vindictive hatred that it had perhaps
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: borne during the fight. Her bare red arms were thrown
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: out above her head in positions of exhaustion, something mayhap
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: like those of a sated villain. The Urchin bended over
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: his mother. He was fearful lest she should open her eyes,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: and the dread within him was so strong that he
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: could not prepare to stare, but hung as if fascinated
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: over the woman's grim face. Suddenly her eyes opened. The
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: urchin found himself looking straight into that expression, which, it
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: would seem, had the power to change his blood to salt.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: He howled piercingly and fell backward. The woman floundered for
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: a moment, tossed her arms about her head as if
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: in combat, and again began to snore. Jimmy crawled back
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: in the shadows and waited. A noise in the next
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: room had followed his cry. At the discovery that his
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: mother was awake, he groveled in the gloom. The eyes
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: from out his drawn face riveted upon the intervening door.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: He heard it creak, and then the sound of a
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: small voice came to him. Jimmy, Jimmy, are you stare?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It whispered The urchin started. The thin white face of
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: his sister looked at him from the doorway of the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: other room. She crept to him across the floor. The
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: father had not moved, but lay in the same deathlike sleep.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: The mother writhed in uneasy slumber, her chest wheezing as
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: if she were in the agonies of strangulation. Out at
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the window. A florid moon was peering over dark roofs,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: and in the distance the waters of a river glimmered pallidly.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: The small frame of the ragged girl was quivering. Her
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: features were haggard from weeping, and her eyes gleamed from fear.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: She grasped the urchin's arm in her little trembling hands,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: and they huddled in a corner. The eyes of both
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: were drawn by some force to stare at the woman's face.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Before they thought she needed only to awaken all fiends
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: would come from below. They crouched until the ghost mists
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: of dawn appeared at the window, drawing close to the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: panes and looking in at the prostrate, heaving body of
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: the mother.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: End of chapter three, Chapter four, the babe Tommy died.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: He went away in a white, insignificant coffin. His small
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: VAXen had clutching a flower that the girl Maggie, had
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: stolen from an Italian. She and Jimmy lived the inexperienced
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: fibers of the boy's eyes Mohadon. At an early age
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: he became a young man of fledder. He lived some
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: ready as without laboring. During that time Hissnia, became chronic,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: studied human nature and the gutter, and found it no
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: worse than he thought he had reason to believe it.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: He never conceived a respect for the world, because he
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: had begun with no idels that it had smashed. He
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: clad his soul in armor by means of happening hilariously
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: in at a mission church, where a man composed his
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: sermons of use while they got warm at the stove,
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: he told his hearers just where he calculated they stood
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: with the Lord. Many of the sinners were impatient over
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: the pictured depths of their degradation. They were waiting for
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: soup tickets. A reader of words of wind demons might
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: have been able to see the portions of dialog passed
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: to and fro between the exeter and his hearers. You
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: are damned, said the preacher, and the reader of sounds
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: might have seen the reply go forth from the ragged people.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Where's our soup?
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Jimmy and a companion sat in the rare seat and
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: commented upon the things that didn't concern them, with all
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: the freedom of English gentlemen. When they grew thirsty and
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: went out, their minds confused the speaker with Christ momentarily,
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: Jimmy was sullen with thoughts of a hopeless altitude where
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: grew fruit. His companions said that if he should ever
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: meet God, he would ask for a million dollars and
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: a bottle of beer. Jimmy's occupation for a long time
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: was to stand on street corners and watch the world
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: go by, dreaming blood red dreams at the passing of
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: pretty women. He menaced mankind at the intersections of streets.
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: On the corners. He was in life and off life.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: The world was going on, and he was there to
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: perceive it. He maintained a belligerent attitude toward all welderss men.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: To him, fine raiment was allied to weakness, and all
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: good coats covered faint hearts. He and his order were
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: kings to a certain extent over the men of untarnished clothes,
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: because these latter dreaded, perhaps to be either killed or
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: laughed at. Above all things, he despised of the Christians
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: and Ciphers, with the chrysanthemums of aristocracy in their button holes.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: He considered himself above both of these classes. He was
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: afraid of neither the devil nor the leader of society.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: When he had a dollar in his pocket. His satisfaction
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: with existence was the greatest thing in the world, so
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: eventually he felt obliged to work. His father died, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: his mother's years were divided up into periods of thirty days.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: He became a truck driver. He was given the charge
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: of a painstaking pair of horses in a large, rattling truck.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: He invaded the turmoil and tumbled of the downtown streets,
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: and learned to breathe malick dictory defiance. At the police,
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: hees occasionally used to climb up, drag him from his perch,
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: and beat him. In the lower part of the city,
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: he daily involved himself in hideous tangles. If he and
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: his team chanced to be in the rear, he preserved
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: a demeanor of serenity, crossing his legs and bursting forth
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: into yells. When foot passengers took dangerous dives beneath the
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: noises of his champing horses, he smoked his pipe calmly,
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: for he knew that his pay was marching on. If
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: in the front and the key truck of chaos, he
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: entered terrifically into the quarrel that was raging to and
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: fro among the drivers on their high seats, and sometimes
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: roared oaths and violently got himself arrested. After a time,
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: his sneer grew so that it turned its glare upon
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: all things. He became so sharp that he believed in nothing.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: To him.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: The police were always actuated by malignant impulses. The rest
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: of the world was composed for the moist part of
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: despicable creatures were all trying to take advantage of him,
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: and with whom in defense he was obliged to quarrel
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: on all possible occasions. He himself occupied a downtrodden position
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: that had a private but distinct element of grandeur in
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: his isolation. The most complete cases of aggravated idiocy were,
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: to his mind, rampant upon the front platforms of all
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: the street cars. At first his tongues stroyed with these beings,
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: but he eventually was superior. He became immute, like an
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: African cow in him grew a majestic contempt for these
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: strings of street cars that followed him like intent bugs.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: He fell into the habit when starting on a long
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: journey of fixing his eye on high and distant object,
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: commanding his horses to begin and then going into a
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: sort of trance of observation. Multitude of drivers might howl
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: in his rear, and his passengers might lood him with oppribrium,
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: but he would not awaken an less Some blue policemen
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: turned red and began to frenziedly tear bridles and beat
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: the soft noises of the responsible horses. When he paused
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: to contemplate the attitude of the police toward himself and
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: his fellows, he believed that they were the only men
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: in the city who had no rights when driving about.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: He felt that he was held liable by the police
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: for anything that might occur in the streets, and was
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: the common prey of all energetic officials. In revenge, he
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: resolved never to move out of the way of anything
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: until formed of with circumstances or a much larger man
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: than himself forced into it. Foot passengers were mere pestering
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: flies with an insane disregard for their legs and his convenience.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: He could not conceive their maniacal desires to cross the streets.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Their madness smote him with eternal amazement. He was continually
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: storming at them from his throne. He sat aloft and
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: denounced their frantic leaps, plunges, dives, and straddles when they
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: were thrust at or parry the noises of his champing horses,
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: making them swing their heads and move their feet, disturbing
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: a solid, dreamy repose. He swore at the men as fools,
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: for he himself could perceive that providence had caused it
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: clearly to be written that he and his team had
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: the unlineable right to stand in the proper part of
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: the sun chariot, and if they so minded, obstruct its
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: mission or take a wheel off. And perhaps if the
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: guard driver had ungovernable desire to step down, put up
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: his flame colored fists and manfully dispute the right of way,
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: he would have probably been immediately opposed by a scowling
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: mortal with two sets of very hard knuckles. It is possible,
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: perhaps that this young man would have derided in the
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: next wide alley the approach of a flying ferryboat. Yet
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: he achieved a respect for a fire engine. As one
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: charged toward his truck, he would fearfully drive upon a sidewalk,
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: threatening untold people with annihilation. When an engine was striking
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: a mass of block trucks, splitting it into fragments as
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: a blow annihilator cake of ice. Jimmy's team could usually
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: be observed high and safe, with whole wheels on the sidewalk.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: The fearful coming of the engine could break up the
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: most intricate muddle of the heavy vehicles at which the
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: police had been swearing for the half of an hour.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: A fire engine was enshrined in his heart as an
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: appalling thing that he loved with a distant, dog like devotion.
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: They had been known to overturn street cars. Those leaping
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: horses striking sparks from the cobbles in the forward lunge
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: were creatures to be in the feebly admired. The clang
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: of the gong pierced his breast like a noise of
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: remembered war. When Jimmy was a little boy, he began
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: to be arrested before he reached it great age. He
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: had a fair record. He developed to a great tendency
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: to climb down from his truck and fight with other drivers.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: He had been in quite a number of miscellaneous fights
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: and in some general barum rouse that had become knowinged
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: to the police. Once he had been arrested for assaulting
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: a chinaman two women in different parts of the city
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: entirely annoying to each other, caused him considerable annoyance by
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: breaking forth simultaneously at fateful intervals into veilings about marriage
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: and support and infants. Nevertheless, he had on a certain
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: Stylit evening said wonderingly and quite reverently, de moon looks
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: like hell, don't it?
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: End of chapter four, Chapter five, the girl Maggie blossomed
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: in a mud puddle. She grew to be a most
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: rare and wonderful production of a tenement district, a pretty girl.
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: None of the dirt of rum Alley seemed to be
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: in her veins. The philosophers upstairs, downstairs, and on the
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: same floor puzzled over it. When a child playing and
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: fighting with gammons in the street dirt disguised her, attired
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: in tatters and grime, she went unseen. There came a time, however,
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: when the young men of the vicinity said, dat Johnson
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: Goyle is a pretty good looker. About this period, her
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: brother remarked to her, mag I'll tell you it is.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: See.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: You've either got to go to hell or go to work.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: Whereupon she went to work, having the feminine aversion of
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: going to hell. By chance, she got a position in
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: an establishment where they made collars and cuffs. She received
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: a stool and a machine in a room where sat
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: twenty girls of various shades of yellow discance. She perched
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: on the stool and treddled at her machine all day,
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: turning out collars, the name of whose brand could be
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: noted for its irrelevancy to anything in connection with collars.
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: At night, she returned home to her mother. Jimmy grew
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: large enough to take the vague position of head of
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: the family. As incumbent of that office, he stumbled upstairs
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: late at night, as his father had done before him.
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: He reeled about the room, swearing at his relations, or
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: went to sleep on the floor. The mother had gradually
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: arisen to that degree of fame that she could bandy
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: words with her acquaintances among the police justices. Court officials
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: called her by her first name. When she appeared they
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: pursued a course which had been theirs for months. They
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: invariably grinned and cried out, hello, Mary, you here again.
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: Her gray head wagged in many a court. She always
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: besieged a bench with voluble excuses, explanations, apologies, and prayers.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: Her flaming face and rolling eyes were a sort of
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: familiar sight on the island. She measured time by means
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: of spreeze, and was eternally swollen and disheveled. One day,
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: the young man Pete, who as a lad had smitten
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: the Devil's row urchin in the back of the head
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: and put to flight the antagonists of his friend Jimmy,
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: strutted upon the scene. He met Jimmy one day on
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: the street, promised to take him to a boxing match
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: in Williamsburg, and called for him. In the evening. Maggie
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: observed Pete. He sat on a table in the Johnson
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: home and dangled his checked legs with an enticing nonchalance.
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: His hair was curled down over his forehead in an
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: oiled bang. His rather pug nose seemed to revolt from
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: contact with a bristling mustache of short wirelike hairs. His
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: blue double breasted coat edged with black braid, buttoned close
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: to a red puff tie, and his patent leather shoes
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: looked like murder fitted weapons. His mannerism stamped him as
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: a man who had a correct sense of his personal superiority.
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: There was valor and contempt for circumstances. In the glance
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: of his eye, he waved his hands like a man
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: of the world who dismisses religion and philosophy and says fudge.
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: He had certainly seen everything, and with each curl of
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: his lip he declared that it amounted to nothing. Maggie
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: thought he must be a very elegant and graceful bartender.
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: He was telling tales to Jimmy. Maggie watched him furtively
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: with half closed eyes lit with a vague interest. Hully, gee,
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: it makes me tired, he said. Most every day some
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: farmer comes in and tries to run the shop. See,
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: but they gets trowed right out. I joked them right
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: out in the street before they knows where they is.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: See sure, said Jimmy. There was a mug come into
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: place the other day with an idea he was going
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: to own the place. Holly, gee, he was going to
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: own the place.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: He had a still on and I didn't want to
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: give him no stuff, So I says, get the hell
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: out of here and don't make no trouble. I says
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: like that, See, get the hell out of here and
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: don't make no trouble. Like that, get the hell out
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: of here, I says.
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: See.
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: Jimmy nodded understandingly over his features, played an eager desire
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: to state the amount of his valor in a similar crisis,
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: but the narrator proceeded, Well, the blokey, he says, to
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: hell with it. I ain't looking for no scrap, he says.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: See.
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: But he says, I'm spectable citizen, and I want to
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: drink and pretty damn soon too. See the hell I
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: says like that. The hell I says, see, don't make
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: no trouble. I says like that, don't make no trouble.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: See.
• 44:14
  Speaker 7: Then the mug he squared off and said he was
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: fine as silk with his dukes. See, and he wanted
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: to drink damn quick. That's what he said. See sure,
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: repeated Jimmy. Pete continued, say, I just jumped the bar,
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: and the way I plunked that bloke he was great.
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: See that's right in the jaw see hully. Gee, he
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: trode a spittoon, true to front. Windy say, I thought
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: I'd dropped dead. But the boss he comes in after,
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: and he says, Pete is done. Jest right, You've got
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: to keep order and it's all right. See, it's all right,
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: he says. That's what he said. The two held a
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: technical discussion. That bloke was a dandy, said eat in conclusion,
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: But he hadn't aught, have made no trouble. That's what
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: I says to them. Don't come in here and make
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: no trouble. I says like that, don't make no trouble.
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: See as Jimmy and his friend exchanged tales descriptive of
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: their prowess, Maggie leaned back in the shadow. Her eyes
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: dwelt wonderingly and rather wistfully upon Pete's face. The broken furniture,
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: grimy walls, in general disorder and dirt of her home
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: of a sudden appeared before her and began to take
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: a potential aspect. Pete's aristocratic person looked as if it
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: might soil. She looked keenly at him, occasionally wondering if
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: he was feeling contempt, but Pete seemed to be enveloped
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: in reminiscence. Hully Gee said he those mugs can't FaZe me.
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: They knows I can wipe up the street with any
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: tree at them. When he said, ah, what the hell,
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: his voice was burdened with disdain for the inevitable and
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: contempt for anything that fate might compel him to endure.
• 46:07
  Speaker 7: Maggie perceived that here was the bow ideal of a man.
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: Her dim thoughts were often searching for far away lands,
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: where as God says, the little hills sing together in
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: the morning under the trees of her dream gardens, there
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: had always walked the lover.
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: End of chapter five, Chapter six, Pete took note of Maggie.
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: Say Meg, I'm stuck on your shape. It's out of sight,
• 46:35
  Speaker 9: he said parenthetically, with an affable grin, as he became
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: aware that she was listening closely. He grew still more
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: eloquent in his descriptions of various happenings in his career.
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: It appeared that he was invincible in fights. Why, he said,
• 46:53
  Speaker 9: referring to a man with whom he had had a misunderstanding,
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: Dat mug scrapped like a damn dago. That's right, he
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: was dead, easy see, he taught he was a scrapper.
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: But he found out different. Holy Gee, He walked to
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: and fro in the small room, which seemed then to
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: grow even smaller and unfit to hold his dignity. The
• 47:17
  Speaker 9: attribute of a supreme warrior. That swing of the shoulders
• 47:21
  Speaker 9: that had frozen the timid when he was but a lad,
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: had increased with his growth in education at the ratio
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: of ten to one. It, combined with the sneer upon
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: his mouth, told mankind that there was nothing in space
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: which could appall him. Maggie marveled at him and surrounded
• 47:39
  Speaker 9: him with greatness. She vaguely tried to calculate the altitude
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: of the pinnacle from which he must have looked down
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: upon her. I met a chump to utter day way
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: up into city. He said, I was goin to see
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: a friend of mine. When I was across in the street,
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: a chump runned plump into me. And then he turns
• 47:59
  Speaker 9: round and says, you're insolent ruffian. He says, like dat,
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: oh G, I says, oh G, go to Helen, get
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: off to Ert. I says like dat, see go to Helen,
• 48:13
  Speaker 9: get off to Ert like that den do blokie. He
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: got wild. He says I was a contemptible scoundrel or
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: something like dat. And he says I was doomed to
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: everlessen petition and all like d G. I says, G
• 48:28
  Speaker 9: to hell, I am, I says to hell, I am
• 48:31
  Speaker 9: like dat, and then I slugged him. See with Jimmy
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: and his company. Pete departed in a sort of a
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: blaze of glory from the Johnson home. Maggie, leaning from
• 48:43
  Speaker 9: the window, watched him as he walked down the street.
• 48:47
  Speaker 9: Here was a formidable man who disdained the strength of
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: a world full of fists. Here was one who had
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: contempt for brass clothed power, one whose knuckles could defiantly
• 48:58
  Speaker 9: ring against the granite of law.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: He was a knight.
• 49:02
  Speaker 9: The two men went from under the glimmering street lamp
• 49:05
  Speaker 9: and passed into shadows. Turning, Maggie contemplated the dark, dust
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: stained walls and the scant and crude furniture of her home.
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: A clock in a splintered and battered oblong box of
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: varnished wood she suddenly regarded as an abomination. She noted
• 49:22
  Speaker 9: that it ticked raspingly. The almost vanished flowers in the
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: carpet pattern she conceived to be newly hideous. Some faint
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: attempts she had made with blue ribbon to freshen the
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: appearance of a dingy curtain she now saw to be piteous.
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: She wondered what Pete dined on. She reflected upon the
• 49:44
  Speaker 9: collar and cuff factory. It began to appear to her
• 49:47
  Speaker 9: mind as a dreary place of endless grinding. Pete's elegant
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: occupation brought him, no doubt into contact with people who
• 49:55
  Speaker 9: had money and manners. It was probable that he had
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: a large area quaintance of pretty girls. He must have
• 50:02
  Speaker 9: great sums of money to spend. To her, the earth
• 50:06
  Speaker 9: was composed of hardships and insults. She felt instant admiration
• 50:10
  Speaker 9: for a man who openly defied it. She thought that
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: if the grim angel of death should clutch his heart,
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: Pete would shrug his shoulders and say, oh, everything goes.
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: She anticipated that he would come again shortly. She spent
• 50:26
  Speaker 9: some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered
• 50:29
  Speaker 9: creton for a lambricin. She made it with infinite care
• 50:33
  Speaker 9: and hung it to the slightly careening mantle over the
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: stove in the kitchen. She studied it with painful anxiety
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: from different points in the room. She wanted it to
• 50:43
  Speaker 9: look well on Sunday night, when perhaps Jimmy's friend would come.
• 50:48
  Speaker 9: On Sunday night, However, Pete did not appear afterward, the
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: girl looked at it with a sense of humiliation. She
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: was now convinced that Pete was superior to admiration for
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: life amberkins. A few evenings later, Pete entered with fascinating
• 51:05
  Speaker 9: innovations in his apparel. As she had seen him twice
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: and he had different suits on each time, Maggie had
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: a dim impression that his wardrobe was prodigiously extensive. Say Meg,
• 51:18
  Speaker 9: he said, put on your best duds Friday night and
• 51:21
  Speaker 9: I'll take you as to the show. See. He spent
• 51:25
  Speaker 9: a few moments in flourishing his clothes, and then vanished,
• 51:28
  Speaker 9: without having glanced at the lamberkin over the eternal collars
• 51:33
  Speaker 9: and cuffs in the factory. Meggie spent the most of
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: three days in making imaginary sketches of Pete and his
• 51:40
  Speaker 9: daily environment. She imagined some half dozen women in love
• 51:44
  Speaker 9: with him, and thought he must lean dangerously toward an
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: indefinite one, whom she pictured with great charms of person,
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: but with an altogether contemptible disposition. She thought he must
• 51:57
  Speaker 9: live in a blare of pleasure. He had friends and
• 52:00
  Speaker 9: people who were afraid of him. She saw the golden
• 52:03
  Speaker 9: glitter of the place where Pete was to take her
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: an entertainment of many hues and many melodies, where she
• 52:10
  Speaker 9: was afraid she might appear small and mouse colored. Her
• 52:14
  Speaker 9: mother drank whiskey all Friday morning, with lurid face and
• 52:18
  Speaker 9: tossing hair. She cursed and destroyed furniture all Friday afternoon.
• 52:23
  Speaker 9: When Maggie came home at half past six, her mother
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: lay asleep amidst the wreck of chairs and a table.
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: Fragments of various household utensils were scattered about the floor.
• 52:35
  Speaker 9: She had vented some phase of drunken fury upon the
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: lambricin it lay in a bedraggled heap in the corner.
• 52:43
  Speaker 9: Ha she snorted, sitting up suddenly, Where to hell, ya, bin?
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: Why to hell? Don't ye come home earlier?
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: Bin?
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: Loafin' round the streets? You're gettin to be a regular devil.
• 52:56
  Speaker 9: When Pete arrived, Maggie, in a worn black dress, was
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: waiting for him in the midst of a floor strewn
• 53:03
  Speaker 9: with wreckage. The curtain at the window had been pulled
• 53:06
  Speaker 9: by a heavy hand and hung by one tack, dangling
• 53:09
  Speaker 9: to and fro in the draft through the cracks at
• 53:12
  Speaker 9: the sash, The knots of blue ribbons appeared like violated flowers.
• 53:18
  Speaker 9: The fire in the stove had gone out. The displaced
• 53:21
  Speaker 9: lids and open doors showed heaps of sullen, gray ashes.
• 53:25
  Speaker 9: The remnants of a meal, ghastly like dead flesh, lay
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: in a corner. Maggie's red mother stretched on the floor,
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: blasphemed and gave her daughter a bad name. End of
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: chapter six.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: Chapter seven. An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: headed men on an elevated stage near the center of
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: a great, green hued hall played a popular waltz. The
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: place was crowded with people grouped about little ta A
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: battalion of waiters slid among the throng, carrying trays of
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: beer glasses and making change from the inexhaustible vaults of
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: their trouser pockets. Little boys in the costumes of French
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: chefs paraded up and down the irregular aisles, vending fancy cakes.
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: There was a low rumble of conversation and a subdued
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: clinking of glasses. Clouds of tobacco smoke rolled and wavered
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: high in air about the dull gilt of the chandeliers.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: The vast crowd had an air throughout of having just
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: quitted labor. Men with calloused hands and attired in garments
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: that showed the wear of an endless trudge for a living,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: smoked their pipes contentedly, and spent five, ten or perhaps
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: fifteen cents for a beer. There was a mere sprinkling
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: of kid gloved men who smoked cigars purchased elsewhere. The
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: great body of the crowd was composed of people who
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: showed their all day. They strove with their hands. Quiet
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: Germans with maybe their wives and two or three children,
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: sat listening to the music with the expression of happy cows.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: An occasional party of sailors from a warship, their faces
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: pictures of sturdy health, spent the earlier hours of the
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: evening at the small round tables. Very infrequent tipsy men
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: swollen with the value of their opinions, engaged their companions
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: in earnest and confidential conversation in the balcony. And here
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: and there below shown the impassive faces of women. The
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: nationalities of the bowery beamed upon the stage from all directions.
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: Pete aggressively walked up a side aisle and took seats
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: with Maggie at a table beneath the balcony two beers
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: leaning back, He regarded with eyes of superiority the scene
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: before them. This attitude affected Maggie strongly. A man who
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: could regard such a sight with indifference be accustomed to
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: very great things. It was obvious that Pete had been
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: to this place many times before and was very familiar
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: with it. A knowledge of this fact made Maggie feel
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: little and new. He was extremely gracious and attentive. He
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: displayed the consideration of a cultured gentleman who knew what
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: was due. Say, what the hell bring the lady a
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: big glass? What the hell uses that pony? Don't be
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: fresh now? Said the waiter with some warmth, as he departed. Eh,
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: get off the cart, said Pete, after the other's retreating form.
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: Maggie perceived that Pete brought forth all his elegance and
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: all his knowledge of high class customs for her benefit.
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: Her heart warmed as she reflected upon his condescension. The
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: orchestra of yellow silk women and bald headed men gave
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: vent to a few bars of anticipatory music, and a
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: girl in a pink dress with short skirts galloped upon
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: the stage. She smiled upon the throng, as if in
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: acknowledgment of a warm welcome, and began to walk to
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: and fro, making profuse gesticulations and singing in brazen soprano
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: tones a song, the words of which were inaudible. When
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: she broke into the swift, rattling measures of a chorus,
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: some half tipsy men near the stage joined in the
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: rollicking refrain, and glasses were pounded rhythmically upon the tables.
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: People leaned forward to watch her and to try to
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: catch the words of the song. When she vanished, there
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: were long rollings of applause. Obedient to more anticipatory bars.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: She reappeared amidst the half suppressed cheering of the tipsy men.
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: The orchestra plunged into dance music, and the laces of
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: the dancer fluttered and flew in the glare of gas jets.
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: She divulged the fact that she was attired in some
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: half dozen skirts. It was patent that any one of
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: them would have proved adequate for the purpose for which
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: skirts are intended. An occasional man bent forward, intent upon
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: the pink stockings. Maggie wondered at the splendor of the costume,
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: and lost herself in calculations of the cost of the
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: silks and laces. The dancer's smile of stereotyped enthusiasm was
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: turned for ten minutes upon the faces of her audience.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: In the finale, she fell into some of those grotesque
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: attitudes which were at the time popular among the dancers
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: in the theater's uptown, giving to the bow Republic the
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: fantasies of the aristocratic theater going public at reduced rates,
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: say Pete, said Maggie, leaning forward. This is great, sure,
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: said Pete, with proper complaisance. A ventriloquist followed the dancer.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: He held two fantastic dolls on his knees. He made
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: them sing mournful ditties and say funny things about geography
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: and Ireland. Do those little men talk, asked Maggie, Na
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: said Pete, it's some damn fake. See two girls on
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: the bills as sisters came forth and sang a duet
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: that is heard occasionally at concerts given under church auspices.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: They supplemented it with a dance, which, of course can
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: never be seen at concerts given under church auspices. After
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: the duetist had retired, a woman of debatable age sang
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: a negro melody. The chorus necessitated some grotesque waddlings, supposed
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: to be an imitation of a plantation darkie. Under the
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: influence probably of music and the moon. The audience was
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: just enthusiastic enough over it to have her return and
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: sing a sorrowful lay whose lines told of a mother's love,
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: and a sweetheart who waited, and a young man who
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: was lost at sea under the most harrowing circumstances. From
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: the faces of a score or so in the crowd,
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: the self contained look faded. Many heads were bent forward
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: with eagerness and sympathy. As the last distressing sentiment of
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: the piece was brought forth, it was greeted by that
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: kind of applause which rings as sincere. As a final effort,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: the singer rendered some verses which described a vision of
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: Britain being annihilated by America and Ireland bursting her bonds.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: A carefully prepared crisis was reached in the last line
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: of the verse, where the singer threw out her arms
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: and cried the star spangled banner. Instantly, a great cheer
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: swelled from the throats of the assemblage of the masses.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: There was a heavy rumble of booted feet thumping the floor.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: Eyes gleamed with sudden fire, and calloused hands waved frantically
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: in the air. After a few moments rest, the orchestra
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: played crashingly, and a small fat man burst out upon
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: the stage. He began to roar a song and stamp
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: back and forth before the footlights, wildly, waving a glossy
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: silk hat and throwing leers or smiles broadcast. He made
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: his face into fantastic grimaces until he looked like a
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: pictured devil on a Japanese kite. The crowd laughed gleefully.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: His short, fat legs were never still a moment. He
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: shouted and roared and bobbed his shock of red wig
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: until the audience broke out in excited applause. Pete did
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: not pay much attention to the progress of events upon
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: the stage. He was drinking beer and watching Maggie. Her
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: cheeks were blushing with excitement and her eyes were glistening.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: She drew deep breaths of pleasure. No thoughts of the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: atmosphere of the collar and cuff factory came to her.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: When the orchestra crashed finally, they jostled their way to
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: the sidewalk with the crowd. Pete took Maggie's arm and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: pushed away for her, offering to fight with a man
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: or two. They reached Maggie's home at a late hour
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: and stood for a moment in front of the gruesome doorway. Say,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: Meg said, Pete, give us a kiss for taking it
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: to the show will Yer. Maggie laughed as if startled,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: and drew away from him. Nah, Pete, she said, that
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: wasn't in it.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: Ah, what the hell?
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: Urged Pete. The girl retreated nervously. Ah, what the hell,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: repeated he. Maggie darted into the hall and up the stairs.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: She turned and smiled at him, then disappeared. Pete walked
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: slowly down the street. He had something of an astonished
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: expression upon his features. He paused under a lamp post
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: and breathed a low breath of surprise. God, he said,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: I wonder if I've been played for a duffer. End
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: of chapter seven.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 10: Chapter eight, As thoughts of Pete came to Maggie's mind,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 10: she began to have an intense dislike for all of
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 10: her dresses.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: What the hell?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 11: Ails ye?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: What makes it be?
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 10: Always fix it and fussin good god, her mother would
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 10: frequently roar at her. She began to note with more
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 10: interest the well dressed women she met on the avenues.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 10: She envied elegance and soft palms. She craved those adornments
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 10: of person which she saw every day on the street,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 10: conceiving them to be allies of vast importance to women.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 10: Studying faces, she thought, many of the women and girls
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 10: she chanced to meet smiled with serenity, as though forever
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 10: cherished and watched over by those they loved. The air
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 10: in the collar and cough establishment strangled her. She knew
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 10: she was gradually and surely shriveling. In the hot, stuffy room,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 10: the begrimed windows rattled incessantly from the passing of elevated trains.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 10: The place was filled with a whirl of noises and odors.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 10: She wondered as she regards some of the grizzled women
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 10: in the room, mere mechanical contrivances, sewing seams and grinding out,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 10: with heads bended over their work, tales of imagined or
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 10: real girlhood happiness, past drunks, the baby at home, and
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 10: unpaid wages. She speculated how long her youth would endure.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 10: She began to see the bloom upon her cheeks as valuable.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 10: She imagined herself in an exasperating future as a scrawny
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 10: woman with an eternal grievance.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 8: Too.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 10: She thought Pete to be a very fastidious person concerning
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 10: the appearance of women. She felt she would love to
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 10: see somebody entangle their fingers in the oily beard of
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 10: the fat foreigner who owned the establishment. He was a
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 10: detestable creature. He wore white socks with low shoes. He
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 10: sat all day delivering orations in the depths of a
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 10: cushioned chair. His pocketbook deprived them of the power of retort.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: What didn't you all do?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Seem like?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 10: Pay five dollars a week?
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: Four play no pay Tom.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 10: Maggie was anxious for a friend to whom she could
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 10: talk about Pete. She would have liked to discuss his
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 10: admirable mannerisms with a reliable, mutual friend. At home, she
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 10: found her mother often drunk and always raving. It seems
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 10: that the world had treated this woman very badly, and
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 10: she took a deep revenge upon such portions of it
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 10: as came within her reach. She broke furniture as if
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 10: she were at last getting her rights. She swelled with
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 10: virtuous indignation as she carried the lighter articles of household
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 10: use one by one under the shadows of the three
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 10: gilt balls, where Hebrews chained them with chains of interest.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 10: Jimmy came when he was obliged to by circumstances of
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 10: her which he had no control. His well trained legs
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 10: brought him staggering home and put him to bed some
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 10: nights when he would rather have gone elsewhere. Swaggering Pete
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 10: loomed like a golden sun to Maggie. He took her
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 10: to a diamond museum, where rows of meek freaks astonished her.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 10: She contemplated their deformities with awe, and bought them a
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 10: sort of chosen tribe. Pete, raking his brains for amusement,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 10: discovered the Central Park Menagerie in the Museum of Arts.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 10: Sunday afternoons would sometimes find them At these places. Pete
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 10: did not appear to be particularly interested in what he saw.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 10: He stood around, looking heavy, while Maggie giggled in glee.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 10: Once at the menagerie, he went into a trance of
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 10: admiration before the spectacle of a very small monkey threatening
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 10: to thrash a cage full because one of them had
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 10: pulled out tail, and he had not wheeled about quickly
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 10: enough to discover who did it. Ever after, Pete knew
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 10: that monkey by sight and winked at him, trying to
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 10: induce him to fight with other and larger monkeys at
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 10: the museum. Maggie said, this is a sight. Oh hell,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 10: said Pete. Wait till next summer, and I'll think us
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 10: to a picnic. While the girl wandered in the vaulted rooms,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 10: Pete occupied himself in returning Stoney's stare for a stony stare,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 10: the appalling scrutiny of the watch talks of the treasures.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 10: Occasionally he would remark in loud tones, did ja's got
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 10: glass eyes? And sentences of the sort. When he tired
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 10: of this amusement, he would go to the mummies and
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 10: moralize over them. Usually he submitted with silent dignity to
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 10: all which he had to go through, but at times
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 10: he was goaded into comment, what the hell? He demanded, once,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 10: look at all these little chugs, a hundred jugs in
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 10: a row, ten rolls in a case, in about a
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 10: thousand cases. What the blazer's use is? Then, Evenings during
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 10: the week, he took her to see place in which
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 10: the brain clutching heroine was rescued from the palatial home
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 10: of her guardian, who was cruelly after her bonds by
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 10: the hero with the beautiful sentiments. The latter spent most
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 10: of his time out at soak in pale green snowstorms,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 10: busy with a nickel plated revolver, rescuing aged strangers from villains.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 10: Maggie lost herself in sympathy with the wanderers, swooning in
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 10: snowstorms beneath happy huge church windows and a choir within
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 10: singing joy to the world. To Maggie and the rest
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 10: of the audience, this was transcendental realism, joy always within,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 10: and they, like the actor, inevitably without viewing it, they
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 10: hugged themselves in ecstatic pity of their imagined or real condition.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 10: The girl thought the arrogance and granite heartedness of the
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 10: magnate of the play was very accurately drawn. She echoed
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 10: the maledictions that the occupants of the gallery showered on
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 10: this individual when his lines compelled him to expose his
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 10: extreme selfishness. Shady persons in the audience revolted from the
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 10: pictured villainy of the drama with untiring zeal. They hissed
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 10: vice and applauded virtue. Unmistakably bad men evinced an apparently
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 10: sincere admiration for virtue. The loud gallery was overwhelmingly with
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 10: the unfortunate and the oppressed. They encouraged the struggling hero
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 10: with cries and jeered the villain, hooting and calling attention
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 10: to his whiskers. When anybody died in the pale green snowstorms,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 10: the gallery mourned. They sought out the painted misery and
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 10: hugged it, as akin in the hero's erratic march from
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 10: poverty in the first act to wealth and triumph in
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 10: the final one, in which he forgives all the enemies
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 10: that he has left, He was assisted by the gallery,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 10: which applauded his generous and noble sentiments and confounded the
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 10: speeches of his opponents by making irrelevant but very sharp remarks.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 10: Those actors who were cursed with the villainy parts were
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 10: confronted at every turn by the gallery. If one of
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 10: them rendered lines containing the most subtle distinctions between right
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 10: and wrong, the gallery was immediately aware if the actor
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 10: meant wickedness, and denounced him Accordingly, the last act was
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 10: a triumph for the hero poor and of the mass,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 10: as the representative of the audience over the villain and
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 10: the rich man, his pockets stuffed with bonds and his
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 10: heart packed with tyrannical purposes. Imperturbable amid suffering, Maggie always
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 10: departed with raised spirits from the showing places of the melodrama.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 10: She rejoiced at the way in which the poor and
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 10: virtuous eventually surmounted the wealthy and wicked. The theater made
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 10: her think. She wondered if the culture and refinement she
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 10: had seen imitated, perhaps grotesquely, by the heroine on the stage,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 10: could be acquired by a girl who lived in a
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 10: tenement house and worked in a shirt factory.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 12: End of chapter eight, Chapter nine, a group of urchins
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 12: were intent upon the side door of a saloon. Expectancy
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 12: gleamed from their eyes. They were twisting their fingers in excitement.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 12: Here she comes, yelled one of them. Suddenly, a group
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 12: of urchins burst instantly asunder, and its individual fragments were
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 12: spread in a wide, respectable half circle about the point
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 12: of interest. The saloon door opened with a crash, and
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 12: the figure of a woman appeared upon the threshold. Her
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 12: gray hair fell and knotted masses about her shoulders. Her
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 12: face was crimsoned and wet with perspiration. Her eyes had
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 12: a rolling glare. Not a damn cent more of me money,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 12: will ye's ever get? Not a damn cent. I spent
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 12: me money here for three years, and now ye's tell
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 12: me ye'll sell me no more? Stuff fell widgya Johnny
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 12: mockerel disturbance, disturbance, be damned the hell widgya Johnny. The
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 12: door received a kick of exasperation from within, and the
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 12: woman lurched heavily out on the sidewalk. The gammons and
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 12: the half circle became violently agitated. They began to dance
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 12: about and hoot and yell and jeer wide dirty grins
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 12: spread over each face. The woman made a furious dash
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 12: at a particularly outrageous cluster of little boys. They laughed
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 12: delightedly and scampered off a short distance, calling out over
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 12: their shoulders to her. She stood tottering on the curbstone
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 12: and thundered at them, Yeah, Devil's kids, she howled, shaking
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 12: red fists. The little boys whooped in glee as she
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 12: started up the street. They fell in behind and marched uproariously.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 12: Occasionally she wheeled about and made charges on them. They
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 12: ran nimbly out of reach and taunted her in the
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 12: frame of a gruesome doorway. She stood for a moment,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 12: cursing them. Her hair straggled, giving her crimson features a
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 12: look of insanity. Her great fists quivered as she shook
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 12: them madly in the air. The urchins made terrific noises
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 12: until she turned and disappeared. Then they filed quietly in
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 12: the way they had come. The woman floundered about in
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 12: the lower hall of the tenement house, and finally stumbled
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 12: up the stairs. On an upper hall. A door was open,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 12: and a collection of heads peered curiously out, watching her
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 12: with a wrathful snort. The woman confronted the door, but
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 12: it was slammed hastily in her face, and the key
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 12: was turned. She stood for a few minutes, delivering a
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 12: frenzied challenge at the panels. Come out into hall, Mary Murphy,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 12: damn you, it gives wan a row. Come on, you,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 12: overgrown Terria. Come on. She began to kick the door
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 12: with her great feet. She shrilly defied the universe to
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 12: appear in due battle her cursing troubles brought heads from
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 12: all doors save the ones she threatened. Her eyes glared
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 12: in every direction. The air was full of her tossing fists.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 12: Come on, the hell dimn gangay's come on, she roared
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 12: at the spectators. An oath or two cat calls, jeers
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 12: and bits of facetious advice were given in reply. Missiles
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 12: clattered about her feet. What the hell's the matta widge,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 12: said a voice in the gathered gloom, and Jimmy came forward.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 12: He carried a tin dinner pail in his hand, and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 12: under his arm a brown truckman's apron done in a bundle.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: What the hell's wrong?
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 12: He demanded, Come out, all yours, come out. His mother
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 12: was howling, Come on, and I'll stamp for damn brains
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 12: under my feet. Shut your face and come home, you
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 12: damned old fool, roared Jimmy at her. She strided up
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 12: to him and twirled her fingers in his face. Her
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 12: eyes were darting flames of unreasoning rage, and her frame
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 12: trembled with eagerness for a fight. The hell widges, and
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 12: who the hell ayes? I ain't givin a snap of
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 12: me fingers for yous, she bawled at him. She turned
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 12: her huge back in tremendous disdain and climbed the stairs
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 12: to the next floor. Jimmy followed, cursing blackly. At the
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 12: top of the flight, he seized his mother's arm and
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 12: started to drag her toward the door.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: Of their room.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 12: Come home, damn you, he gritted between his teeth. Take
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 12: your hands off me, Take your hands off me, shrieked
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 12: his mother. She raised her arm and whirled her great
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 12: fist at her son's face. Jimmy dodged his head and
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 12: the blow struck him in the back of the neck.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 12: Damn you, he gritted again. He threw out his left
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 12: hand and writhed his fingers about her middle arm. The
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 12: mother and the son began to sway and struggle like gladiators. Whoop,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 12: said the rum Alley tenement house. The hall filled with
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 12: interested spectators. How old lady, that was a dandy tree
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 12: to one on the red ah, stop your damn Scrappin'.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 12: The door of the Johnson home opened, and Maggie looked out.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 12: Jimmy made a supreme cursing effort and hurled his mother
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 12: into the room. He quickly followed and closed the door.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 12: The rum Alley tenement swore disappointedly and retired. The mother
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 12: slowly gathered herself up from the floor. Her eyes glittered
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 12: menacingly upon her children here now, said Jimmy, We've had
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 12: enough of this. Sit down, and don't make no trouble.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 12: He grasped her arm, and, twisting it, forced her into
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 12: a creaking chair. Keep your hands off me, roared his
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 12: mother again. Damn your old hide, yelled Jimmy madly. Maggie
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 12: shrieked and ran into the other room. To her there
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 12: came the sound of a storm of crashes and curses.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 12: There was a great final thump, and Jimmy's voice cried, dear,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 12: damn ye, stay still. Maggie opened the door now and
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 12: went wearily out. Oh Jimmy, he was leaning against the
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 12: wall and swearing. Blood stood upon bruises on his knotty
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 12: forearms where they had scraped against the floor or the walls,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 12: and the scuffle. The mother lay screeching on the floor,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 12: the tears running down her furrowed face. Maggie, standing in
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 12: the middle of the room, gazed about her. The usual
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 12: upheaval of the tables and chairs had taken place. Crockery
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 12: was strown, broadcast in fragments. The stove had been disturbed
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 12: on its legs and now leaned idiotically to the side.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 12: A pail had been upset, and waters spread in all directions.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 12: The door opened and Pete appeared. He shrugged his shoulders.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 12: Oh God, he observed. He walked over to Maggie and
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 12: whispered in her ear, Oh, what the hell, mag Come on,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 12: we'll have a hell of a time. The mother in
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 12: the corner upreared her head and shook her tangled locks.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 12: Hell with him and you, she said, glowering at her
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 12: daughter in the gloom. Her eyes seemed to burn. Balfley,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 12: you've gone to the devil, mag Johnson, you nosey is
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 12: gone to the devil. You're a disgrace to your people.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 12: Damn you, and now get out and go on with
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 12: that doe faced Jude of yours. Go to hell with him,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 12: Damn you, and good riddance. Go to hell and see
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 12: how you likes it. Maggie gazed long at her mother.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 12: Go to Hell now and see how you likes it.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 12: Get out. I won't have such as using my house.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: Get out, do you hear?
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 12: Damn you get out the The girl began to tremble.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 12: At this instant, Pete came forward. Oh what the hell, Magsie, whispered,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 12: he softly in her ear. This all blows over. See
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 12: the old woman will be all right in the mornin.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 12: Come on out with me. We'll have a hell of
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 12: a time. The woman on the floor cursed. Jimmy was
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 12: intent upon his bruised forearms. The girl cast a glance
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 12: about the room, filled with a chaotic, massive debris, and
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 12: at the red writhing body of her mother. Go to
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 12: Hell and good riddance, she went.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 9: End of chapter nine, Chapter ten. Jimmy had an idea.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 9: It wasn't common courtesy for a friend to come to
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 9: one's home and ruin one's sister, but he was not
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 9: sure how much Pete knew about the rules of politeness.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 9: The following night, he returned home from work at rather
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 9: a late hour in the evening. In passing through the halls,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 9: he came upon the gnarled and leathery old woman who
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 9: possessed the music box. She was grinning in the dim
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 9: light that drifted through dust stained panes. She beckoned to
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 9: him with a smudged forefinger. Ah Jimmy, what do'yest tink?
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 9: I got on to last night? It was the funniest
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 9: ting I ever saw. She cried, coming close to him
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 9: and leering. She was trembling with eagerness to tell her tale.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 9: I was by me door last night when your sister
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 9: and her Jude Feller came in late, oh very late,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 9: and she the deer, was a crying as if her
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 9: heart would break.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 13: She was.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 9: It was the funniest ting I ever saw. And right
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 9: out here by me door, she asked him did he
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 9: love her?
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 11: Did he?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 9: And she was a crying as if her heart would break?
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 9: Poor ting and him. I could see by the way
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 9: that he set that she had been asking often. He says.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 9: Oh hell yes, he says, says he. Oh hell yes.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 9: Storm clouds swept over Jimmy's face, but he turned from
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 9: the leathery old woman and plodded on upstairs. Oh hell yes,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 9: called she after him. She laughed a laugh that was
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 9: like a prophetic croak. Oh hell yes, he says, says he,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 9: Oh hell yes. There was no one in at home.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 9: The rooms showed that attempts had been made at tidying them.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 9: Parts of the wreckage of the day before had been
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 9: repaired by an unskillful hand a chair or two, and
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 9: the table stood uncertainly upon legs. The floor had been
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 9: newly swept two the blue ribbons had been restored to
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 9: the curtains, and the lambricin with its immense sheaves of
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 9: yellow wheat and red roses of equal size, had been returned,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 9: in a worn and sorry state, to its position at
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 9: the man to Maggie's jacket and hat were gone from
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 9: the nail behind the door. Jimmy walked to the window
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 9: and began to look through the blurred glass. It occurred
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 9: to him to vaguely wonder for an instant if some
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 9: of the women of his acquaintance had brothers. Suddenly, however,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 9: he began to swear. But he was me friend, I
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 9: brought him here, That's the hell of it. He fumed
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 9: about the room, his anger gradually rising to a furious pitch.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 9: I'll kill the jay, That's what I'll do. I'll kill
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 9: the jay. He clutched his hat and sprang toward the door,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 9: but it opened, and his mother's great form blocked the passage.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 9: What the hell's the matter with ya, exclaimed she, coming
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 9: into the rooms, Jimmy gave vent to a sardonic curse,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 9: and then laughed heavily. Well, Meggie's gone to the devil,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 9: that's what see, eh, said his mother. Meggie's gone to
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 9: the devil? Are yes deaf? Roared Jimmy, impatiently, da hell,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 9: she has murmured. The mother astounded. Jimmy grunted, and then
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 9: began to stare out at the window. His mother sat
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 9: down in a chair, but a moment later sprang erect
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 9: and delivered a maddened whirl of oaths. Her son turned
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 9: to look at her as she reeled and swayed in
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 9: the middle of the room, her fierce face convulsed with passion,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 9: her blutched arms raised high in imprecation. May God curse
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 9: her forever, she shrieked. May she eat nothing but stones
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 9: and a dirt in the street. May she sleep into
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 9: gutter and never see the sun shine again? Did damn
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 9: here now, said her son, Take a drop on yourself.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 9: The mother raised lamenting eyes to the ceiling. She's the
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 9: devil's own child, Jimmy, she whispered. Ah, who would tink
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 9: such a bad girl could grow up in our family? Jimmy,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 9: me son, many the hour I've spent in talk with
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 9: that girl and told her if she ever went on
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 9: the streets, I'd see her damned. And after all her
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 9: bringin' up and what I told her and talked with her,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 9: she goes to the bad like a duck to water.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 9: The tears rolled down her furrowed face, her hands trembled.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 9: And then when Dad Sadie McAllister next door to us,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 9: was sent to the devil by dad Feller that worked
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 9: into soap factory, didn't I tell our Meg that if
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 9: she ah, that's another story, interrupted the brother. Of course
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 9: Dad Sadie was nice and all dat, But see it
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 9: ain't the same as if well Maggie was different. See
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 9: she was different. He was trying to formulate a theory
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 9: that he had always unconsciously held that all sisters, excepting
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 9: his own, could advisedly be ruined. He suddenly broke out again.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 9: I'll go tompell out of the mug. What did her
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 9: to harm? I'll kill him. He thinks he can scrap,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 9: but when he gets me a chasin him, he'll find
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 9: out where he's wrong. The damned duffer, I'll wipe up
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 9: the street with him. In a fury, he plunged out
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 9: of the doorway. As he vanished, the mother raised her
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 9: head and lifted both hands, entreating May God curse her forever.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 9: She cried in the darkness of the hallway. Jimmy discerned
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 9: a knot of women talking volubly when he strode by.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 9: They paid no attention to him. She allays was a
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 9: bold thing. She heard one of them cry in an
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 9: eager voice. There wasn't a feller come to the house,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 9: but she'd tried to mash him. My Annie says, do
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 9: shameless ting tried to catch her feller, her own feller,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 9: when we used to know his fodder. I could have
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 9: told you this two years ago, said a woman in
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 9: a key of triumph. Yes, sir, it was over two
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 9: years ago, did I says to my old man, I says, Dad, Johnson.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 9: Girl ain't straight. I says, oh, oh hell. He says,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 9: oh hell, that's all right. I says, But I know
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 9: what I knows, I says, and it'll come out later.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 9: You wait and see, I says.
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  Speaker 13: You see.
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  Speaker 9: Anybody what had eyes could see that there was something
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 9: wrong with dat girl. I didn't like her actions. On
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 9: the street, Jimmy met a friend, What the hell, asked
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 9: the latter, Jimmy explained, and I'll tump him till he
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 9: can't stand. Oh what the hell, said the friend. What's
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 9: de use? You'll get pulled in, everybody'll be onto it
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 9: and ten plunks. Gee, Jimmy was determined. He thinks he
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 9: can scrap, but he'll find out different, Gee, remonstrated the friend.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 9: What to hell? End of chapter ten, Chapter eleven. On
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 9: a corner, a glass fronted building shed a yellow glare
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 9: upon the pavements. The open mouth of a saloon called
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 9: seductively to passengers to enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 9: The interior of the place was papered in olive and
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: bronze tints of imitation leather. A shining bar of counterfeit
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 9: massiveness extended down the side of the room. Behind it,
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 9: a great mahogany appearing sideboard reached the ceiling. Upon its
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 9: shelves brested pyramids of shimmering glasses that were never disturbed.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 9: Mirrors set in the face of the sideboard multiplied them. Lemons, oranges,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 9: and paper napkins arranged with mathematical precision sat among the glasses.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 9: Many hued decanters of liquor perched at regular intervals. On
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 9: the lower shelves, a nickel plated cash register occupied a
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 9: position in the exact center of the general effect. The
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 9: elementary senses of it all seemed to be otpulence and
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 9: geometrical accuracy. Across from the bar, a smaller counter held
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 9: a collection of plates upon which swarmed frayed fragments of crackers,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 9: slices of boiled ham, disheveled bits of cheese, and pickles
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 9: swimming in vinegar. An odor of grasping, begrimed hands and
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 9: munching mouths pervaded. Pete in a white jacket was behind
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 9: the bar, bending expectantly toward a quiet stranger. A Bie
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 9: said the man. Pete drew a foam topped glassful and
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 9: set it dripping upon the bar. At this moment, the
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 9: light bamboo doors at the entrance swung open and crashed
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 9: against the siding. Jimmy and a companion entered. They swaggered
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 9: unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 9: with bleared and blinking eyes, Gin said Jimmy, Gin said
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 9: the companion. Pete slid a bottle and two glasses along
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 9: the bar. He bended his head sideways as he assiduously
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 9: polished away with a napkin at the gleaming wood. He
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 9: had a look of watchfulness upon his features. Jimmy and
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 9: his companion kept their eyes upon the bar tender and
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 9: conversed loudly in tones of contempt. He's a dandy masher,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 9: ain't he? By God? Laughed Jimmy. Oh, hell yes, said
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 9: the companion, sneering widely. He's great he is. Get on
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 9: to the mug on the bloke. That's enough to make
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 9: a feller turn handsprings in his sleep. The quiet stranger
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 9: moved himself and his glass a trifle further away and
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 9: maintained an attitude of oblivion. Gee, ain't he hot stuff?
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 9: Get on to his shape? Great god, hey, cried Jimmy
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 9: in tones of command. Pete came along slowly with a
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 9: sullen dropping of the under lip. Well, he growled, what's eaten?
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 8: Ya's?
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: Gin?
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 9: Said Jimmy, Gin, said the companion. As Pete confronted them
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 9: with the bottle and the glasses, they laughed in his face.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 9: Jimmy's companion, evidently overcome with merriment, pointed a grimy forefinger
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 9: in Pete's direction, say Jimmy demanded. He what the hell
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 9: is that behind de bar damn defos, replied Jimmy. They
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 9: laughed loudly. Pete put down a bottle with a bang
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 9: and turned a formidable face toward them. He disclosed his
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 9: teeth and his shoulders heaved restlessly. You fellers can't guy me,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 9: he said. Drink your stuff and get out, and don't
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 9: make no trouble. Instantly, the laughter faded from the faces
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 9: of the two men, and expressions of offended dignity immediately came.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 9: Who da hell has said anything to you? Cried they
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 9: in the same breath. The quiet stranger looked at the
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 9: door calculatingly. Ah, come off, said Pete to the two men.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 9: Don't pick me up for no jay. Drink your rum
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 9: and get out and don't make no trouble. Oh da
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 9: hell airily, cried Jimmy. Oh da hell airily, repeated his companion.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 9: We goes when we get ready, see, continued Jimmy, Well,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 9: said Pete in a threatening voice. Don't make no trouble.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 9: Jimmy suddenly leaned forward with his head on one side.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 9: He snarled like a wild animal. Well what if we does, see,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 9: said he dark blood flushed into Pete's face, and he
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 9: shot a lurid glance at Jimmy. Well, Den, we'll see
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 9: who's the best man. You were me, he said. The
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 9: quiet stranger moved modestly towards the door. Jimmy began to
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 9: swell with valor. Don't pick me up for no tenderfoot.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 9: When you tackles me, you tackles one of the best
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 9: men in the city. See, I'm a scrapper, I am
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 9: Ain't that right, Billy Sure, Mike responded his companion in
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 9: tones of conviction. Oh hell, said Pete, easily, go fall
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 9: on yourself. The two men again began to laugh. What
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 9: the hell is dat talking, cried the companion. Damned if
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 9: I knows, replied Jimmy with exaggerated contempt. Pete made a
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 9: furious gesture Get out o here now and don't make
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 9: no trouble. See you'se fellers are looking for a scrap
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 9: and it's damn likely you'll find one if he keeps
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 9: on shooting off your mouths. I know You's see, I
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 9: can lick better men than you's ever sign your lives.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 9: That's right. See, don't pick me up for no stuff,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 9: or you might be jolted out in the street before
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 9: you knows where you is. When I comes from behind
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 9: this bar, I Chrosy's boat in the street. See, oh, hell,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 9: cried the two men in chorus. The glare of a
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 9: panther came into Pete's eyes. That's what I said, understand.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 9: He came through a passage at the end of the
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 9: bar and swelled down upon the two men. They stepped
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 9: promptly forward and crowded close to him. They bristled like
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 9: three roosters. They moved their heads pugnaciously and kept their
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 9: shoulders braced. The nervous muscles about each mouth twitched with
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 9: a forced smile of mockery. Well what the hell you're
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 9: goin to do? Gritted Jimmy. Pete stepped warily back, waving
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 9: his hands before him to keep the men from coming
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 9: too near. Well what the hell you're goin to do?
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 9: Repeated Jimmy's ally. They kept close to him, taunting and leering.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 9: They strove to make him attempt the initial blow. Keep back, now,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 9: don't crowd me, ominously, said Pete again. They chorused in contempt.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 9: Oh he In a small tossing group, the three men
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 9: edged for positions like frigates contemplating battle. Well, why to hell,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 9: Donia try to throw us out, cried Jimmy and his ally,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 9: with copious sneers. The bravery of bulldogs sat upon the
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 9: faces of the men. Their clenched fists moved like eager weapons.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 9: The allied, too, jostled the bartender's elbows, glaring at him
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 9: with feverish eyes and forcing him toward the wall. Suddenly,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 9: Pete swore redly. The flash of action gleamed from his eyes.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 9: He threw back his arm and aimed a tremendous, lightning
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 9: like blow at Jimmy's face. His foot swung a step forward,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 9: and the weight of his body was behind his fist.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 9: Jimmy ducked his head bowery like, with the quickness of
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 9: a cat. The fierce, answering blows of him and his
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 9: ally crushed on Pete's bowed head. The quiet stranger vanished.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 9: The arms of the combatants whirled in the air like flails.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 9: The faces of the men, at first flushed to flame
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 9: colored anger, now began to fade to the pallor of
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 9: warriors in the blood and heat of a battle. Their
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 9: lips curled back and stretched tightly over the gums in
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 9: ghulike grins. Through their white gripped teeth struggled hoarse whisperings
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 9: of oaths. Their eyes glittered with murderous fire. Each head
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 9: was huddled between its owner's shoulders, and arms were swinging
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 9: with marvelous rapidity. Feet scraped to and fro with a loud,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 9: scratching sound upon the sanded floor. Blows left crimson blotches
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 9: upon pale skin. The curses of the first quarter minute
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 9: of the fight died away. The breasts of the fighters
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 9: came wheezingly from their lips, and the three chests were
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 9: straining and heaving. Pete, at intervals gave vent to low,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 9: labored hisses that sounded like a desire to kill. Jimmy's
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 9: ally gibbered at times like a wounded maniac. Jimmy was silent,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 9: fighting with the face of a sacrificial priest. The rage
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 9: of fear shone in all their eyes, and their blood
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 9: colored fists swirled. At a tottering moment, a blow from
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 9: Pete's hand struck the Ally, and he crashed to the floor.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 9: He wriggled instantly to his feet and grasping the quiet
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 9: stranger's beer glass, from the bar hurled it at Pete's head.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 9: High on the wall. It burst like a bomb, shivering
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 9: fragments flying in all directions. Then missiles came to every
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 9: man's hand. The place had heretofore appeared free of things
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 9: to throw, but suddenly glass and bottles went singing through
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 9: the air. They were thrown point blank at bobbing heads.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 9: The pyramid of shimmering glasses that had never been disturbed
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 9: changed to cascades as heavy bottles were flung into them.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 9: Mirrors splintered into nothing. The three frothing creatures on the
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 9: floor buried themselves in a frenzy for blood. Followed in
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 9: the wake of missiles and fists, some unknown prayers, perhaps
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 9: for death. The quiet stranger had sprawled very pyrotechnically out
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 9: on the sidewalk. A laugh ran up and down the
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 9: avenue for the half of a block. Dave Troda bloke
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 9: into the street. People heard the sound of breaking glass
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 9: and shuffling feet within the saloon, and came running. A
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 9: small group bending down to look under the bamboo doors,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 9: watching the fall of glass, and three pairs of violent
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 9: legs changed in a moment to a crowd. A policeman
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 9: came charging down the sidewalk and bounced through the doors
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 9: into the saloon. The crowd bended and surged in absorbing
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 9: anxiety to see Jimmy caught first sight of the oncoming
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 9: interruption on his feet. He had the same regard for
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 9: a policeman that when on his truck he had for
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 9: a fire engine. He howled and ran for the side door.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 9: The officer made a terrific advance, club in hand. One
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 9: comprehensive sweep of the long nightstick threw the Ally to
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 9: the floor and forced Pete to a corner. With his
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 9: disengaged hand, he made a furious effort at Jimmy's coat tails.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 9: Then he regained his balance and paused, well, well, you
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 9: are a pair of pictures. What in hell you've been
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 9: up to? Jimmy, with his face drenched in blood, escaped
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 9: up a side street, pursued a short distance by some
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 9: of the more law loving or excited individuals of the crowd. Later,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 9: from a corner, safely dark, he saw the policeman, the Ally,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 9: and the bartender emerge from the saloon. Pete locked the
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 9: doors and then followed up the avenue in the rear
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 9: of the crowd, encompassed policeman and his charge. On first thoughts, Jimmy,
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 9: with his heart throbbing at battle heat, started to go
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 9: desperately to the rescue of his friend, but he halted. Ah,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 9: what a hell, he demanded of himself. End of chapter eleven.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 8: Chapter twelve. In a hall of irregular shape, said Pete
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 8: and Maggie, drinking beer. A submissive orchestra dictated too by
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 8: a spectacled man with frowsy hair on the dress suit
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 8: industriously followed the buffs of his head and the waves
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 8: of his baton. A ballad singer in a dress of
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 8: flaming scarlet sang in the inevitable voice of brass. When
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 8: she vanished, Min seated at the tables near the front,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 8: applauded loudly, pounding the polished wood with their bare glasses.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 8: She returned attired and less gown, and sang again. She
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 8: received another enthusiastic encore. She reappeared in still less gown
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 8: and danced. The deafening rumble of glasses and clapping of
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 8: hands that followed her exit indicated an overwhelming desire to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 8: have her come on for the fourth time, but the
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 8: curiosity of the audience was not gratified. Maggie was pale
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 8: from her eyes had been plucked all look of self relions.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 8: She leaned with a dependent air towards her companion. She
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 8: was timid, as if fearing his anger or displeasure. She
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 8: seemed to besiege tendanness of him. Pete's air of distinguished
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 8: waller had grown upon him until it threatened stupendeous dimensions.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 8: He was indefinitely gracious to the girl. It was apparent
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 8: to her that his condescension was a marvel. He could
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 8: appear to strut even while sitting still, and he showed
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 8: that he was a lion of lordly characteristics by the
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 8: air of which he spat, with Maggie gazing at him wonderingly.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 8: He took pride in commanding the waiters, who were, however
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 8: indifferent or death Hai you get the rustle on is
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 8: what the hell ya looking at? To my beards?
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 12: Do you hear?
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 8: He leaned back and critically regarded the person of a
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 8: girl with a straw colored wig, who upon the stage
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 8: was flinging her heels in some somewhat awkward imitation of
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 8: a well known dancers. At times, maggitude Pete long confidential
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 8: tales of her former home life, dwelling upon the escapades
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 8: of the other members of the family and the difficulties
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 8: she had to combat in order to obtain a degree
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 8: of comfort. He responded in tones of philanthropy. He pressed
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 8: her arm with an air of reassuring proprietorship. They with
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 8: them jays, he said, denouncing the mother and brother. The
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 8: sound of the music, which by the efforts of the
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 8: frowsy headed leader, drifted to her ears, to the smoke
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 8: field atmosphere, made the girl dream. She thought of her
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 8: former rom alley environment and turned to regard Pete strong
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 8: protecting fists. She thought of the collar and cuff manufactory,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 8: and the eternal moan of the proprietor what in hell
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 8: do you think a five five dollars a week for play?
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 8: No pie damp? She contemplated Pete's mansib doing eyes, and
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 8: noted that wealth and prosperity were indicated by his clothes.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 8: She imagined the future tinted because of its distance from
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 8: all that she previously had experienced. As to the present,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 8: she perceived only wake reasons to be miserable. Her life
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 8: was Pete's, and she considered him worthy of the charge.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 8: She would be disturbed by no particular apprehensions. So long
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 8: as Pete adored her as he now said he did,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 8: she did not feel like a bad woman. To her knowledge,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 8: she had never seen any better. At times, men at
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 8: other tables regarded the girl furtively. Pete, aware of it,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 8: nodded at her and grinned. He felt proud, mag You're
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 8: a bloomin good looker, he remarked, studying her face through
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 8: the haze. The man made Maggie fear, but she blushed
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 8: at Pete's words as it became apparent to her that
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 8: she was the upple of his eye. Gray headed men,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 8: wonderfully pathetic in the dissipation, stared at her through the clouds.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 8: Smooth cheeked boys, some of them with faces of stone
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 8: and massive sin, not nearly so pathetic as the gray
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 8: hair tried to find the girl's eyes in the smoke wreaths.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 8: Maggie considered she was not what they sought her. She
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 8: confined her glances to Pete. On the stage, the orchestra
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 8: played negro melodies. A worsearedile drummer pounded, wagged, clattered, and
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 8: scratched on a dozen machines to make noise. Those glances
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 8: of the men shot at Maggie from under half closed
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 8: lids made her tremble. She thought them all to be
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 8: worse men than Pete. Come, let's go, she said. As
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 8: they went out, Maggie perceived two women seated at the
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 8: table with some men. They were painted, and their cheeks
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 8: had lost their roundness. As she passed them, the girl,
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 8: with a shrinking movement, drew back her skirts. End of
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 8: Chapter twelve, Chapter thirteen.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 14: Jimmy did not return home for a number of days
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 14: after the fight with Pete in the saloon. When he did,
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 14: he approached with extreme caution. He found his mother raving
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 14: Maggie had not returned home. The parent continually wondered how
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 14: her daughter could come to such a pass. She had
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 14: never considered Maggie as a pearl dropped unstained into rum
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 14: alley from heaven, but she could not conceive how it
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 14: was possible for her daughter to fall so low as
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 14: to bring disgrace upon her family. She was terrific in
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 14: denunciation of the girl's wickedness. The fact that the neighbors
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 14: talked of it maddened her. When women came in and
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 14: in the course of their conversation casually asked, where's Maggie
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 14: these days? The mother shook her fuzzy head at them
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 14: and appalled them with curses, cunning hints, and inviting confidence.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 14: She rebuffed with violence and wid Aalda bringin' up she had?
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 14: How could she moaningly? She asked of her son, wid
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 14: Aalda talkin with her. I did, and to things. I
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 14: told her to remember when a girl is bringed up
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 14: to way I've bringed up Maggie. How can she go
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 14: to the devil? Jimmy was transfixed by these questions. He
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 14: could not conceive how, under the circumstances, his mother's daughter
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 14: and his sister could have been so wicked. His mother
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 14: took a drink from a squadgy bottle that sat on
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 14: the table. She continued her lament. She had a bad heart,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 14: that girl, did, Jimmy, She was wicked to the heart,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 14: and we never noted it. Jimmy nodded, admitting the fact
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 14: we lived into same house with her, and I brought
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 14: her up, and we never knowed how bad she was.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 14: Jimmy nodded again. With a home like this and a
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 14: mutter like me, she went to de bad, cried the mother,
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 14: raising her eyes. One day, Jimmy came home, sat down
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 14: in a chair, and began to wriggle about with a
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 14: new and strange nervousness. At last he spoke, shamefacedly, well,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 14: look a here, disting queers us see we're queer, and
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 14: maybe it'd be better if I think I can look
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 14: her up. And maybe it'd be better if I fetched
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 14: her home. And the mother started from her chair and
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 14: broke forth into a storm of passionate anger. What let
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 14: her come and sleep under the same roof with her
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 14: mutter again? Oh yes, I will, won't I sure? Shame
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 14: on yas, Jimmy Johnson, for saying such a thing to
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 14: your own mutter, to your own mudd. Little did I
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 14: think when ya's was a baby playing about my feet
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 14: that you'd grow up to say such a ting to
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 14: your mutter, your own mutter, I'd never talk. Sobs choked
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 14: her and interrupted her reproaches. There ain't nothing to raise
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 14: such hell about, said Jimmy.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 9: I only says it.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 14: But I'd be better if we keep this ting dark,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 14: see it queers us see? His mother laughed a laugh
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 14: that seemed to ring through the city and be echoed
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 14: and re echoed by countless other laughs. Oh yes, I will,
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 14: won't I sure? Well, you must take me for a
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 14: damned fool, said Jimmy, indignant at his mother for mocking him.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 14: I didn't say we'd make her into a little tin angel, no, nothing,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 14: but the way it is now, she can queer us,
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 14: don't you see? I shall get tired of the life
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 14: after a while, and then she'll be want to be
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 14: coming home, won't she?
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 11: The beast.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 14: I'll let her in, den, won't I. Well, I didn't
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 14: mean none of this prodigal business anyway, explained Jimmy. It
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 14: wasn't no prodigal daughter, you damn fools, said the mother.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 14: It was prodigal son anyhow, I know, dad, said Jimmy.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 14: For a long time, they sat in silence. The mother's
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 14: eyes gloated on a scene her imagination could call before her.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 14: Her lips were set in a vindictive smile. I shall cry,
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 14: won't she, and carry on and tell how Pete or
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 14: some other fellow beats her. And she'll say, she sigh
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 14: and all dead, and she ain't happy, she ain't and
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 14: she wants to come home again. She does with grim humor.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 14: The mother imitated the possible wailing notes of the daughter's voice.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 14: Then I'll take her in, won't I debast? She'll cry
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 14: her eyes out on the stones of the street before
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 14: I'll dirty to place with her. She abused and ill
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 14: treated her own mutter, her own mutter, what loved her,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 14: And she'll never get a nutter chance. De sid hell.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 14: Jimmy thought he had a great idea of women's frailty,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 14: but he could not understand why any of his kin
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 14: should be victims. Damn her, he fervidly said. Again, he
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 14: wondered vaguely if some of the women of his acquaintance
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 14: had brothers. Nevertheless, his mind did not for an instant
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 14: confuse himself with those brothers, nor his sister with theirs.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 14: After the mother had, with great difficulty suppressed the neighbors,
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 14: she went among them and proclaimed her grief. May God
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 14: forgive that girl was her continual cry to a tent
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 14: of ears. She recited the whole length and breadth of
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 14: her woes. I bring her up to wait. A daughter
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 14: ought to be bringed up, And this is how she
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 14: served me. She went to the devil the first chance
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 14: she got, May God forgive her. When arrested for drunkenness,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 14: she used the story of her daughter's downfall, with telling
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 14: effect upon the police justices. Finally, one of them said
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 14: to her, peering down over his spectacles, Mary, the records
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 14: of this and other courts show that you are the
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 14: mother of forty two daughters who have been ruined. The
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 14: cases unparalleled in the annals of this court. And this
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 14: court thinks the mother through life shedding large tears of sorrow.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 14: Her red face was a picture of agony. Of course,
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 14: Jimmy publicly damned his sister that he might appear on
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 14: a higher social plane. But arguing with himself, stumbling about
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 14: in ways that he knew not, he once almost came
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 14: to a conclusion that his sister would have been more
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 14: firmly good had she better known why. However, he felt
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 14: that he could not hold such a view, he threw
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 14: it hastily aside.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 13: End of Chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen. In a hilarious hall,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 13: there are twenty eight tables and twenty eight women, and
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 13: a crowd of smoking men. Valient noise was made on
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 13: his stage at the end of the hall by an
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 13: orchestra composed of men who looked as if they had
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 13: just happened in sword. Waiters ran to and fro, swooping
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 13: down like hawks on the unwary in the throng, cladding
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 13: along the owls with trays covered with glasses, stumbling over
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 13: a woman's skirt, and charging two prices for everything but beer,
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 13: all with a swiftness that blurred the view of the
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 13: coconut palms and dusty monstrosities painted upon the walls of
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 13: the room. A bouncer with an immense load of business
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 13: upon his hands, plunged about in the crowd, dragging bashful
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 13: strangers to prominent cheers, ordering waiters here and there, and
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 13: quarreling furiously with men who wanted to sing with the orchestra.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 13: The usual smoke cloud was present, but so dense that
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 13: heads and arms seemed entangled in it. The rumble of
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 13: conversation was replaced by a roar, plenteous oath heaved through
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 13: the air. The room rang with the shrill voices of women,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 13: bubbling over with drinkle laughter. The chief element of music
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 13: of the orchestra was speed. The musicians played in intent fury.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 13: A woman was singing and smelling upon the stage, but
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 13: no one took notice of her. The rate at which
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 13: the piano, cornette and violence were going seemed to impart
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 13: wildness to the half drunken crowd. Bier glasses were empty
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 13: at a gulp, and conversation became a rapid chatter. The
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 13: smoke ebbed and swirled like shadowy river hurrying towards some
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 13: unseen falls. Pete and Maggie entered the hall and took
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 13: chairs at the table near the door. The woman who
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 13: was seated there made an attempt to occupy Pete's attention, and, failing,
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 13: went away. Three weeks had passed since the girl had
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 13: left home. The air of spangled like dependence had been
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 13: magnified and showed its direct effect in the particular offhandedness
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 13: and ease of Pete's ways toward her. She followed Pete's
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 13: eyes with hers, anticipating with smiles gracious.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 5: Looks from him.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 13: A woman of brilliance and audacity, accompanied by a mere boy,
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 13: came into the place and took seats near them. At once,
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 13: Peter sprang to his feet, his face beaming with glad.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 5: Surprise.
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 13: My god, there's Nelly, he cried. He went over to
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 13: the table and held out an eager hand to the woman.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 13: Why hello, Peter, my boy, and how are you, she said,
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 13: giving him her fingers. Maggie took instant note of the woman.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 13: She perceived that her black dress fitted her to perfection.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 13: Her linen collared and cuffs were spotless. Pan gloves were
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 13: stretched over her well shaped hands. A hat of prevailing
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 13: fashion perched jauntily upon her dark hair. She wore no
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 13: jewelry and was painted with no apparent paint. She looked
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 13: clear eyed through the stairs of the men. Sit down
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 13: and call your lady friend over, she said cordially to Pete.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 13: At his beckoning, Maggie came and sat between Pete.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 5: And the mere boy.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 13: I thought you were going away for good, began Pete once.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 13: When did you get back? How about them buffalo business
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 13: turn out? The woman shrugged her shoulders. Well, he didn't
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 13: have as many stamps as he tried to make out,
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 13: so I shook him all.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 13: Well, I'm glad to see he's back in the city,
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 13: said Pete with awkward gallantry. He and the woman entered
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 13: into a long conversation, exchanging reminiscences of days together. Maggie
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 13: sat still, unable to formulate an intelligent sentence upon the conversation,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 13: and painfully aware of it. She saw Pete's eyes sparkled
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 13: as he gazed upon the handsome stranger. He listened smilingly
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 13: to all she said. The woman was familiar with all
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 13: his affairs, asked him about mutual friends, and knew the
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 13: amount of his salary. She paid no attention to Maggie,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 13: looking toward her once or twice, and apparently seeing the
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 13: war beyond.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 5: The mere boy was sulky in the beginning.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 13: He had welcomed with acclamations the additions, let's all have
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 13: a drink.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 5: What do you take now?
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 3: And you miss, what's your name? Have a drink?
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 5: Mister, you know what I mean.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 13: He had shown a sprightly desire to do the talking
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 13: for the company and tell all about his family. In
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 13: a loud voice, he declaimed on various topics. He assumed
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 13: a patronizing air toward Pete. As Maggie was silent, he
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 13: paid no attention to her. He made a great show
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 13: of lavishing wealth upon the woman of brilliance and audacity.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 13: Do keep still, Freddy, you give her like an ape, dear,
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 13: said the woman to him. She turned away and devoted
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 13: her attention to Pete. Well, have many a good time together,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 13: get eh sure, Mike said Pete, enthusiastic at once, say,
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 13: whispered she leaning forward, Let's go over the billies and
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 13: have a hell of a time. Well it's this way, see,
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 13: said Pete. I got this lady from here, Oh the
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 13: help of her argue the woman Pete appeared disturbed. All right,
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 13: she said, nodding her head to him. All right for you,
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 13: what'lls it? The next time you asked me to go
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 13: any where's with you? Pete squirmed, say, he said, beseechingly,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 13: Come while me a mint, and I tell you why.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 13: The woman waved her hand. Oh that's all right. You
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 13: needn't explain. You know, you wouldn't come merely because you
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 13: wouldn't come. That's all there is of it. To Pete's
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 13: visible distress, she turned to the mere boy, bringing him
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 13: speedily from a terrific rage. He had been debating whether
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 13: it would be the part of a man to pick
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 13: a quaw with Pete, or would he be justified in
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 13: striking him savagely with his beer glass without warning, But
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 13: he recovered himself. When the woman turned to renew her smilings,
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 13: he beamed upon her with an expression that was somewhat
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 13: tipsy and inexpressibly tender. Say shake that bowery, jay requested
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 13: he in a loud whisper. Freddy, you are so droll,
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 13: she replied. Pete reached forward and touched the woman on
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 13: the arm. Come out a minute while I tell ye
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 13: why I can't go with you.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 5: Yo, do me dirt?
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 5: I never taught ye do me dirt?
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 5: Come on, will you? He spoke in tones of injury.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 13: Why I don't see why she should be interested in
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 13: your explanations, said the woman, with a coldness that seemed
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 13: to reduce Pete to a pulp. His eyes pleaded with her.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 13: Come out in a minute, Why as I tell you?
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 13: The woman nodded slightly and magging in the mere boy
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 13: excuse me. The mere boy interrupted his loving smile and
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 13: turned a shriveling glare upon Pete. His boy's countenance flushed,
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 13: and he spoke in a wine to the woman. Oh,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 13: I say, nellie, this isn't a square deal. You know
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 13: you aren't going to leave me and go off with
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 13: that duffer, are you? I should think why you, dear boy?
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 13: Of course I'm not, cried the woman affectionately. She bended
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 13: over and whispered in his ear. He smiled again, and
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 13: settled in his chair as if resolved to wait patiently.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 13: As the woman walked down between the rows of tables,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 13: Pete was at her shoulder, talking earnestly, apparently in explanation.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 13: The woman waved her hands with steady airs of indifference.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 13: The doors swung behind them, leaving Maggie and the mere
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 13: boy seated at the table.
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 5: Maggie was dazed.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 13: She could dimly perceive that something stupendous had happened. She
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 13: wondered why Pete saw fit to remonstrate with the woman,
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 13: pleading for forgiveness with his eyes, she thought she noted
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 13: an air of submission about her lenon Pete.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 5: She was astounded.
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 13: The mere boy occupied himself with cocktails and a cigar.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 13: He was tranquility silent for half an hour. Then he
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 13: bestirred himself and spoke well, he said, saying I knew.
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 5: This was the way it would be. There was another stillness.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 5: The mere boy seemed to be musing.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 3: She was pulling my leg.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 13: That's the whole amount of it, he said. Suddenly, it's
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 13: a blooming shame the way that girl does. Why I
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 13: spent over two dollars in drinks tonight and she goes
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 13: off with that plug ugly who looks as if he's
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 13: been hit in the face with a corn die. I
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 13: call it rocky treatment for a fellow like me. Here, waiter,
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 13: bring me a cocktail and make a damn strong. Maggie
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 13: made no reply. She was watching the doors. It's a
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 13: mean piece of business, complained the mere boy. He explained
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 13: to her how amazing it was that anybody should treat
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 13: him in such a manner.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 5: But I'll get squared with her.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 13: You bet she won't get far ahead of yours, truly,
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 13: you know, he added, winking. I'll tell her planning that
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 13: it was blooming mean business, and she won't come.
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 5: It'llver with me with any of her.
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 3: Now, Freddy DearS.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 13: She thinks my name is Freddy, you know, But of
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 13: course it ain't. I always tell these people some name
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 13: like that, because if they got into your right name,
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 13: they might use it sometime.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 5: I understand. Oh, they don't fool me much.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 13: Maggie was paying no attention, being intent upon the doors.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 13: The mere Boy relapsed into a period of gloom, doing
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 13: which he exterminated a number of cocktails with a determined air,
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 13: as if relying defiantly to fate. He occasionally broke forth
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 13: into sentences composed of infectives joined together in a long strength.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 13: The girl was still staring at the doors. After that time,
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 13: the mere Boy began to see Cobwells just in front
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 13: of his nose. He spurred himself into being agreeable and
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 13: insist upon her having a Charlie rousse and a glass
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 13: of beer. There's gone, he remarked, There's gone. He looked
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 13: at her through the smoke. Weal, shay, little girl, we
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 13: might as well make best of it. We ain't such
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 13: bad looking girl, you know, not that bad. Can't come
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 13: up the nail though, No, can't do it well, I
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 13: should say nothing nail, fine looking girl, fair fire any fine?
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 13: You look dawn bad alongside her, but by yourself ain't
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 13: so bad?
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 3: Have you do it anyhow?
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 5: Nail gone? Only you left?
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 13: Not bad though? Maggie stood up. I'm going home, she said.
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 13: Then the red boys started, Eh, what home? He cried,
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 13: Struck with amazement, I beg pardon did he say home?
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 5: I am going home?
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 13: She repeated, Great God, what a hell of a struck.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 5: Demanded the mere boy for himself.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 13: Stupefied and in semi Komatosa state, he conducted her on
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 13: board board an uptown car. Obstinacy paid her fare, leered
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 13: kindly at her through the rear window, and fell off
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 13: the steps. End of chapter fourteen. Chapter fifteen, a fulllorn
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 13: woman went along a lighted avenue. The street was filled
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  Speaker 13: with people desperately bound on missions, and in this crowd
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 13: darted at the elevated station stairs, and the horse cars
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 13: were throng with owners of bundles. The pace of the
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 13: forlorn woman was slow. She was apparently searching for someone.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 13: She lautered near the doors of saloons and watchmen emerge
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 13: from them. She scanned furtively the faces in the rushing
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 13: stream of pedestrians. Harrying men bent on catching some boat
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 13: of train joisted her elbows, falling to notice her, their
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 13: thoughts fixed on distant dinners. The forlorn woman had a
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 13: peculiar face. Her smile was no smile, but when in repose,
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 13: her features had a shadowy look that was like a
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 13: sardonic grin, as if someone had sketched with a cruel
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 13: forefingers indebtible lines about her mouth. Jimmy came strolling up
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 13: the avenue. The woman encountered him with a grieve air. Oh, Jimmy,
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 13: I've been looking all over for you, she began. Jimmy
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 13: made an impatient gesture and quickeness pace.
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 3: Oh don't bother him.
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  Speaker 13: A good God, he said, with a savness of a
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 13: man whose life is pestered. The woman followed him along
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 13: the sidewalking somewhat the manner of a supplin. But Jimmy,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 13: she said, ye's told me.
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  Speaker 6: Ye.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 13: Jimmy turned upon her fiercely, as if resolved to make
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 13: a last stand to comfort and peace. Say, for God's
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 13: sex had it? Don't follow me from one end of
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 13: the city till the utter.
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 5: Let I wish it?
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 13: He me in minute, rest, can't she? He makes me tired?
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 13: All's are tagging me. See, Ain't he's got no sin?
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 13: Do ye'se one people to get onto me? Go chase yourself,
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 13: for God's sakes. The woman stepped closer and laid her
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 13: fingers on his arm. But look at here, Jimmy said, Oh,
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 13: good hell. He darted into the front door of a
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 13: convenient saloon, and a moment later came out into the
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 13: shadows that surrounded the side door. On the brilliantly lighted avenue.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 13: He perceived the forlorn woman dodging about him like a scout.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 13: Jimmy laughed with an air relief and went away. When
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 13: he arrived home, he found his mother clamoring.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 5: Maggie had returned.
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 13: She stood shivering beneath the toring of her mother's wrath. Well,
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 13: I'm damned, said Jimmy, in greeting his mother, partering about
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 13: the room pouring a quivalent forefinger.
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 3: Look at here, Jimmy, look at here. It's your sister. Boy,
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 3: there's your sister.
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 2: Look at her?
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 3: Look at her, she.
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 13: Screamed in scoffling laughter. The girl stood in the middle
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 13: of the room. She asked about it, as if unable
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 13: to find a place on the floor to put her feet.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 3: Ha ha below the mother. There she stands. Ain't she pretty?
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 5: Look at her?
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 3: Ain't she sweet?
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 5: The beast?
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 3: Look at her?
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 5: Look at her?
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 13: She lurched forward and put her red and seamed hands
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 13: upon his daughter's face. She bent down and peered keenly
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 13: up into the eyes of the girl. Oh, she just
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 13: de seeming, ain't she ever?
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 2: Was?
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 5: Ain't she?
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 3: She's a mother's purty darling. Lotta ain't she? Look at her?
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 13: Jimmy, come here, for God's sake and look at her.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 13: The loud and tremendous sneering of the mother brought the
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 13: deisings of the rum Alley tenement to their doors. Women
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 13: came in the hallways, children scre hurried to and fro.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 13: What's up the Johnson's party? On the other deer nah,
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 13: young Mag's come home? The hell you say? Through the
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 13: open doors. Curious eyes stared in at Maggie. Children ventured
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 13: into the room and oogered her, as if they formed
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 13: the front row at a theater. Woman without bended toward
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 13: each other and whispered, nodding their heads with airs of
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 13: profound philosophy. A baby, overcome of curiosity concerning this object
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 13: at which all were looking, slided forward and touched her
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 13: dress cautiously, as if investigating their red hot stove. It's
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 13: mother's voice rang out like a warning triumph. She rushed
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 13: forward and grabbed her child, casting a terrible look of
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 13: indignation at the girl. Maggie's mother paced to and fro,
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 13: addressing the door for of eyespounding like a glib showman
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 13: at a museum.
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 5: Her voice rang through the building.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 13: There she stands, she cried, wheeling suddenly and pointing with
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 13: dramatic finger.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 5: There she stands.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 2: Look at her?
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 3: Ain't she a ditty?
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 13: And she was so good as to come home to
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 13: a mutter she was?
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 5: Ain't she a beauty?
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 3: Ain't she a ditty?
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 5: For God's sakes?
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 13: The jeering cries ended in another bust of sheer laughter.
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 13: The girl seemed still waken Jimmy, he drew hastily back
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 13: from her where Now you're a hell of a thing,
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 13: ain't you, he said, his lips curling, and scorn radiant
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 13: virtue sat upon his brow, and his repelling hands expressed
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 13: horror of contamination. Maggie turned and went. The crowd at
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 13: the door fell back precipitately. A baby falling down in
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 13: front of the door wretched a scream like a wounded
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 13: animal from his mother. Another woman sprang forward and picked
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 13: it up with a shiverrous air, as if rescuing a
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 13: human being from an ongoing express train. As the girl
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 13: passed down through the hall, she went before open doors,
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 13: framing more eyes, strangely microscopic, and sending broad beams of
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 13: exquisited light.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 5: Into the darkness of her path.
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 13: On the second floor, she met the gnard old woman
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 13: who possessed the music box, So she cried, is ye
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 13: back again?
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 6: I y.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 13: And it kicked He's out. Well, come on in and
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 13: stay with me to night. I ain't got no more standing.
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 13: From above, came in an e, singing babble of tongues,
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 13: over all of which rang the mother's decisive laughter.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 5: End of chapter fifteen.
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 2: In chapter sixteen, Pete did not consider that he had
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 2: ruined Maggie. If he had thought that her soul could
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 2: never smile again, he would have believed the mother and brother,
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 2: who were pyrotechnic over the affair, to be responsible for it. Besides,
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 2: in his world, souls did not insist upon being able
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 2: to smile. What the hell he felt a trifle entangled.
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 2: It distressed him. Revelations and scenes might bring upon him
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 2: the wrath of the owner of the saloon, who insisted
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 2: upon respectability of an advanced type. What the hell did
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: I want to raise such a smoke about it?
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 4: For?
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 2: Demanded he of himself. Disgusted with the attitude of the family,
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 2: he saw no necessity for any one's losing their equilibrium
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 2: merely because their sister or their daughter had stayed away
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 2: from home. Searching about in his mind for possible reasons,
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 2: for their conduct. He came upon the conclusion that Maggie's
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 2: motives were correct, but that the two others wished to
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 2: snare him. He felt pursued. The woman of brilliance and audacity,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: whom he had met in the hilarious hall, showed a
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 2: disposition to ridicule him. A little pale thing with no spirit,
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 2: she said, Did you note the expression of her eyes?
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 2: There was something in them about pumpkin pie and virtue.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 2: That is a peculiar way. The left corner of her
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 2: mouth has of twitching, isn't it, Dear, dear, my cloud
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 2: compelling Pete? What are you coming to? Pete asserted at
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 2: once that he never was very much interested in the girl.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 2: The woman interrupted him, laughing, Oh, it's not of the
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 2: slightest consequence to me, my dear young man. You needn't
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 2: draw maps for my benefit? Why should I be concerned
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 2: about it? But Pete continued with his explanation. If he
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 2: was laughed at for his tastes in women, he felt
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 2: obliged to say that they were only temporary or indifferent ones.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 2: The morning, after Maggie had departed from home, Pete stood
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 2: behind the bar. He was immaculate in white jacket and apron,
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: and his hair was plastered over his braw with infinite correctness.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 2: No customers were in the place. Pete was twisting his
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 2: napkined fist slowly in a beer glass, softly whistling to himself,
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 2: and occasionally holding the object of his attention between his
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 2: eyes and a few weak beams of sunlight that had
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 2: found their way over the thick screens and into the
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 2: shaded room. With lingering thoughts of the woman of brilliance
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: and audacity, the bartender raised his head and stared through
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 2: the varying cracks between the swaying bamboo doors. Suddenly, the
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 2: whistling pucker faded from his lips. He saw Maggie walking
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 2: slowly past. He gave a great start. Fearing for the
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 2: previously mentioned eminent respectability of the place, he threw a swift,
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 2: nervous glance about him, all at once, feeling guilty. No
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 2: one was in the room. He went hastily over to
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 2: the side door, opening it and looking out, he perceived
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 2: Maggie standing as if undecided, on the corner. She was
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 2: searching the place with her eyes. As she turned her
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 2: face toward him, Pete beckoned to her hurriedly, intent upon
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 2: returning with speed into a position behind the bar and
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 2: to the atmosphere of respectability upon which the proprietor insisted.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 2: Maggie came to him, the anxious look disappearing from her face,
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 2: and a smile wreathing her lips. Oh, Pete, she began brightly.
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 2: The bar tender made a violent gesture of impatience. Oh
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 2: my god, he cried, he vehemently. What the hell do
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 2: you want to hang round here for? Do you want
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 2: to get me into trouble? He demanded, with an air
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 2: of injury. Astonishment swept over the girl's features. Why peteyes
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: told me. Pete glanced profound irritation, his countenance reddened with
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 2: the anger of a man whose respectability is being threatened.
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 2: Say this makes me tired. See what the hell do
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 2: you want to tag her on at? M me for?
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 2: You get me into trouble with the old man and
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 2: they'll be held to pay. If he sees a woman
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 2: on here, he'll go crazy and I'll lose me job.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 2: See your brother coming here and raised hell, and the
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 2: old man had to put up for it. And now
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 2: I'm done, See I'm done. The girl's eyes stared into
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 2: his face. Pete, don't you remember? Ah, Hell, interrupted Pete,
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 2: anticipating The girl seemed to have a struggle with herself.
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 2: She was apparently bewildered and could not find speech. Finally,
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 2: she asked, in a low voice, but where can I go?
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 2: The questioned exasperated Pete beyond the powers of endurance. It
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 2: was a direct attempt to give him some responsibility and
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 2: manner that did not concern him. In his indignation, he
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 2: volunteered information. Oh go to Hell, cried he. He slammed
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 2: the door furiously and returned with an air of relief
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 2: to his respectability. Maggie went away. She wandered aimlessly for
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 2: several blocks. She stopped once and asked aloud a question
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 2: of herself. Who. A man who was passing near her
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 2: shoulder humorously took the questioning word as intended for him,
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 2: H what who? Nobody? I didn't say anything, he laughingly said,
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 2: and continued his way. Soon the girl discovered that if
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 2: she walked with such apparent aimlessness, some men looked at
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 2: her with calculating eyes. She quickened her step frightened. As
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 2: a protection, she adopted a demeanor of intentness, as if
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 2: going somewhere After a time, she left rattling avenues and
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 2: passed between rows of houses with sternness and stolidity stamped
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 2: upon their features. She hung her head, for she felt
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 2: their eyes grimly upon her. Suddenly she came upon a
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 2: stout gentleman in a silk hat and a chaste black coat,
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 2: whose indecorous row of buttons reached from his chin to
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 2: his knees. The girl had heard of the grace of God,
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 2: and she decided to approach this man. His beaming, chubby
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 2: face was a picture of benevolence and kind heartedness. His
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 2: eyes shone good will. But as the girl timidly accosted him,
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 2: he gave a convulsive movement and saved his respectability by
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 2: a vigorous side step. He did not risk it to
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 2: save a soul, for how was he to know that
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 2: there was a soul before him that needed saving. End
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 2: of Chapter sixteen. Chapter seventeen. Upon a wet evening several
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 2: months after the last chapter, two interminable rows of cars,
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 2: pulled by slipping horses jangled along a prominent side street.
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 2: A dozen calves with coat and shrouded drivers clattered to
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 2: and fro. Electric lights whirring softly shed a blurred radiance.
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 2: A flower dealer, his feet tapping impatiently his nose, and
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 2: his wares glistening with rain drops, stood behind an array
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 2: of roses and chrysanthemums. Two or three theaters emptied a
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 2: crowd upon the storm swept pavements. Men pulled their hats
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 2: over their eyebrows and raised their collars to their ears.
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 2: Women shrugged impatient shoulders in their warm cloaks and stopped
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 2: to arrange their skirts for a walk through the storm. People,
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 2: having been comparatively silent for two hours, burst into a
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 2: roar of conversation, their hearts still kindling from the glowings
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 2: of the stage. The pavements became tossing seas of a mbrellas.
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 2: Men stepped forth to hail cabs or cars, raising their
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 2: fingers in varied forms of polite request or imperative demand.
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 2: An endless procession went toward elevated stations. An atmosphere of
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 2: pleasure and prosperity seemed to hang over the throng, born
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 2: perhaps of good clothes and of having just emerged from
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 2: a place of forgetfulness. In the mingled light and gloom
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 2: of an adjacent park, A handful of wet wanderers, and
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 2: attitudes of chronic dejection was scattered among the benches. A
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 2: girl of the painted cohorts of the city went along
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 2: the street. She threw changing glances at men who passed her,
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 2: giving smiling invitations to men of rural or untaught pattern,
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 2: and usually seeming sedately unconscious of the men with the
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 2: Metropolitan seal upon their faces. Crossing glittering avenues, she went
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 2: into the throng, Emerging from the places of forgetfulness, she
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 2: hurried forward through the crowd, as if intent upon reaching
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 2: a distant home, bending forward in her handsome cloak, daintily
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 2: lifting her skirts and picking for her well shod feet
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 2: the dryer spots upon the pavements. The restless doors of saloons,
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 2: clashing to and fro, disclosed, animated rows of men before
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 2: bars and hurrying bar keepers. A concert hall gave to
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 2: the street faint sounds of swift, machine like music, as
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 2: if a group of phantom musicians were hastening. A tall
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 2: young man, smoking a cigarette with a sublime air, strolled
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 2: near the girl. He had on evening dress, a mustache,
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 2: a chrysanthemum, and a look of anui, all of which
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 2: he kept carefully under his eye. Seeing the girl walk
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 2: on as if such a young man as he was
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 2: not in existence, he looked back, transfixed with interest. He
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 2: stared glassily for a moment, but gave a slight convulsive
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 2: start when he discerned that she was neither new Parisian
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 2: nor theatrical. He wheeled about hastily and turned his stare
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 2: into the air like a sailor with a searchlight. A
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 2: stout gentleman with pompous and philanthropic whiskers went stolidly by
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 2: the broad of his back, sneering at the girl. A
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 2: belated man in business clothes and in haste to catch
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 2: a car, bounced against her shoulder. Either Mary, I beg
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 2: your pardon. Brace up, old girl. He grasped her arm
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 2: to steady her, and then was away, running down the
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 2: middle of the street. The girl walked on out of
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 2: the realm of restaurants and saloons. She passed more glittering
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 2: avenues and went into darker blocks than those who were
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 2: the crowd traveled. A young man in light overcoat and
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 2: derby hat received a glance shot keenly from the eyes
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 2: of the girl. He stopped and looked at her, thrusting
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 2: his hands in his pockets and making a mocking smile,
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 2: curled his lips. Come now, old lady, he said, you
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 2: don't mean to tell me that you sized me up
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 2: for a farmer. A laboring man marched along with bundles
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 2: under his arms. To her remarks, he replied, it's a
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 2: fine evening, ain't it. She smiled squarely into the face
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 2: of a boy who was hurrying by, with his hands
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 2: buried in his overcoat, his blonde locks bobbing on his
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 2: youthful temples, and a cheery smile of unconcern upon his lips.
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 2: He turned his head and smiled back at her, waving
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 2: his hands, and not this eve, some other eve. A
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 2: drunken man reeling in her pathway began to roar at her.
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 2: I ain't got no money, damn bow luck, ain't got
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 2: no more money. The girl went into gloomy districts near
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 2: the river, where the tall factories shut in the street,
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 2: and only occasional broad beams of light fell across the
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 2: pavements from saloons. In front of one of these places,
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 2: from whence came the sound of a violin vigorously scraped
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 2: the patter of feet on boards and the ring of
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 2: loud laughter. There stood a man with blotched features. Ah, there,
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 2: said the girl. I've got a date, said the man.
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 2: Further on in the darkness she met a ragged being
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 2: with shifting, bloodshot eyes and grimy hands. What the hell
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 2: think I'm a millionaire? She went into the blackness of
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 2: the final block. The shutters of the tall buildings were closed,
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 2: like grim lips. These structures seemed to have eyes that
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  Speaker 2: looked over her, beyond her, at other things afar off.
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 2: The lights of the avenues glittered as if from an
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  Speaker 2: impossible distance. Street car bells jingled with a sound of merriment.
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 2: When almost to the river, the girl saw a great figure.
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 2: On going forward, she perceived it to be a huge,
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  Speaker 2: fat man in torn and greasy garments. His gray hair
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  Speaker 2: straggled down over his forehead, His small, bleared eyes, a
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 2: sparkling from amidst the great rolls of red fat, swept
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 2: eagerly over the girl's upturned face. He laughed, his brown,
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  Speaker 2: disordered teeth gleaming under a gray grizzled mustache from which
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 2: beard drops dripped. His whole body gently quivered and shook,
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 2: like that of a dead jellyfish. Chuckling and leering, he
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 2: followed the girl of the Crimson legions at their feet.
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  Speaker 2: The river appeared a deathly black hue, as some hidden
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 2: factory sent up a yellow glare that lit for a moment,
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 2: the waters lapping oilily against timbers. The varied sounds of life,
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 2: made joyous by distance and seeming unapproachableness, came faintly and
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  Speaker 2: died away to a silence. End of chapter seventeen. Chapter eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: In a partitioned off section of a saloon sat a
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  Speaker 2: man with a half dozen women, gleefully laughing hovering about him.
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  Speaker 2: The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 2: affection has felt for the universe. I am good feller, girls,
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  Speaker 2: he said, convincingly, I'm damn good feller. Anybody treats me, aright?
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  Speaker 2: I always treats some rightsy. The women nodded their heads
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  Speaker 2: approvingly to be sure. They cried out in a hearty chorus,
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  Speaker 2: You're the kind of a man we like. Pete, you're
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  Speaker 2: out of sight. An't you going to buy this time? Dear?
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  Speaker 2: Anything is wants damn it, said the man, in an
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 2: abandonment of good will. His countenance shone with the true
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 2: spirit of benevolence. He was in the proper mode of missionaries.
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 2: He would have fraternized with obscure hottentots. And above all,
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 2: he was overwhelmed in tenderness for his friends, who were
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  Speaker 2: all illustrious and nittingya's wants. Damn it, repeated he, waving
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  Speaker 2: his hands with beneficent recklessness. I'm good feller girls, and
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 2: if and if anybody treats me right, I hear called
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  Speaker 2: he through an open door to a waiter, Bring girls drinks.
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  Speaker 2: Damn it? What only as I have girls antingya's wants?
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 2: Damn it. The waiter glanced in with the disgusted look
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 2: of the man who serves intox against for the man
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 2: who takes too much of them. He nodded his head
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 2: shortly at the order from each individual and went, damn it,
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 2: said the man. We're having hell of a time. I
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 2: like your girls. Damned if I ounce, you're a right sort. See,
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  Speaker 2: he spoke at length and with feeling, concerning the excellencies
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 2: of his assembled friends. Don't try to pull men's leg,
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 2: but have hell of a time. That's right, that's sweat
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  Speaker 2: to do. Now. If I sought yeas trying to work
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 2: me for drinks. Wouldn't by damn thing. But you're right,
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 2: damn it. His nose had a cheer. Feller, and I
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 2: and I stays by you till I spend a lot cent.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 2: That's right. I'm good, feller, and I knows when anybody
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  Speaker 2: traced me. Right. Between the times of the arrival and
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 2: departure of the waiter, the man discoursed to the women
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 2: on the tender regard he felt for all living things.
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 2: He laid stress upon the purity of his motives in
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 2: all dealings with men in the world, and spoke of
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 2: the fervor of his friendship for those who were amiable.
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 2: Tears welled slowly from his eyes. His voice quavered when
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 2: he spoke to them. Once, when the waiter was about
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 2: to depart with an empty tray, the man drew a
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 2: coin from his pocket and held it forth. Here, said
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 2: he quite magnificently. Here's quarter. The waiter kept his hands
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 2: on his tray. I don't want your money, he said.
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 2: The other put forth a coin with tearful insistence. Here,
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 2: damn it, he cried, take it. You're damn good fella,
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 2: and I want you to take it. Come, come now,
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 2: said the waiter, with the sullen air of a man
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 2: was forced into giving advice. But your mun in your pocket,
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 2: you're loaded, and it only makes a damn fool yourself.
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 2: As the latter passed out of the door, the man
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 2: turned pathetically to the women. You don't know. I'm damn
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 2: good fella, cried he dismally. Never you mind, pete, dear,
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 2: said a woman of brilliance and audacity, laying her hand
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 2: with great affection upon his arm. Never you mind, old boy,
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 2: We'll stay by you, dear. That's right, cried the man,
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 2: his face lighting up at the soothing tones of the
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 2: woman's voice. That's right, I'm damn good feller. And when
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 2: anyone treats me right, I treat zamurai, she sure, cried
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 2: the woman. And we're not going back on you, old man.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 2: The man turned appealing eyes to the woman of brilliance
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 2: and audacity. He felt that if he could be convicted
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 2: of a contemptible action, he would die. Shay, Now, dammit,
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 2: I always treat your square, didn't I? I always been
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 2: a good fella? Well, yes, s ain't I now sure
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 2: you have? Pete, assented the woman. She delivered an oration
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 2: to her companions. Yes, sir, that's a fact. Pete's a
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 2: square fella, he is. He never goes back on her friend.
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 2: He's the right kind. And we stay by him, don't we? Girls? Sure,
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 2: they exclaimed, looking lovingly at him. They raised their glasses
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 2: and drank his health girls, said the man, beseechingly. I
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 2: always treat you, are right, didn't I? I'm a good feller,
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 2: ain't I? Girlsh sure again, they chorused, well, said he. Finally,
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 2: let's have a nuzzer drinks. Then that's right, hailed a woman.
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 2: That's right. You're no bloomin' jay. You spend your money
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 2: like a man. That's right. Man pounded the table with
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 2: his quivering fists. Yes, sir, he cried, with deep earnestness,
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 2: as if someone disputed him. I'm damn good feller, and
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 2: when anyone treats me right, I always treat. Let's have
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 2: another drink. He began to beat the wood with his glass.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 2: Shay howled, he growling, suddenly impatient. As the waiter did
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 2: not then come, the man swelled with wrath. Shay howled
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 2: he again. The waiter appeared at the door. Bringish drinks,
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 2: said the man. The waiter disappeared with the orders that feller.
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 2: Damned fool, cried the man. Hear and sell me. I'm
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 2: gentlemen can't stand be and sew. I'm gonna lick him
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 2: when it comes. No, no, cried the woman, crowding about
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 2: and trying to subdue him. He's all right, he didn't
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 2: mean anything. Let it go. He's a good fellow. Danny
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 2: and sell me, asked the man earnestly. No, said they,
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 2: of course he didn't. He's all right. Sure he didn't
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 2: sell me, demanded the man, with deepingnxiety in his voice. No, no,
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 2: we know him. He's a good fellow. He didn't mean anything, well, John,
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 2: said the man resolutely. I'm a girl. Apologize. When the
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 2: waiter came, the man struggled to the middle of the floor.
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 2: Girls said, you have seled me. I say, damn lie,
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 2: I apologize, all right, said the waiter. The man sat down.
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 2: He felt a sleepy but strong desire to straighten things
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 2: out and have a perfect understanding with everybody. Now I
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 2: always treat your square, didn I You likes me, dounias.
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 2: Now I'm a good feller, sure, said the woman of
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 2: brilliance and audacity. You know as I'm stuck on yous.
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 2: Don't yes now sure, she repeated carelessly. Overwhelmed by a
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 2: spasm of drunken adoration, he drew two or three bills
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 2: from his pocket, and, with a trembling fingers of an
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 2: offering priest, laid them on the table before the woman
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 2: his nose damages. Can have all I got because I'm
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 2: stuck on yours. And now, Damniti, I'm stuck on yours
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 2: now by drinks. Dammit, we're having halvertime. When anyone traced
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 2: me a right, damn it. Now we're having halever time.
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 2: Shortly he went to sleep, with his swollen face fallen
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 2: forward on his chest. The women drank and laughed, not
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 2: heeding the slumbering man in the corner. Finally, he lurched
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 2: forward and fell, groaning to the floor. The women screamed
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 2: in disgust and drew back their skirts. Come on, cried one,
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 2: staring up angrily. Let's get out of here. The woman
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 2: of brilliance and audacity stayed behind, taking up the bills
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 2: and stuffing them into a deep, irregularly shaped pocket. A
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 2: guttural snore from the recumbent man caused her to turn
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 2: and look down at him. She laughed, What a damn fool,
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 2: she said, and went Smoke from the lamps settled heavily
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 2: down in a little compartment, obscuring the way out. The
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 2: smell of oil, stifling in its intensity, pervaded the air.
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 2: The wine from an overturned glass dripped softly down upon
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 2: the blotches on the man's neck. End of chapter.
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 11: Eighteen, Chapter nineteen. In a room, a woman sat at
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 11: a table, eating like a fat monk. In a picture,
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 11: A soiled, unshaven man pushed open the door and entered. Well,
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 11: said he, Mag's dead, What said the woman, her mouth
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 11: filled with bread. Mag's dead, repeated the man. The head
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 11: she is, said the woman. She continued her meal. When
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 11: she finished her coffee, she began to weep. I can
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 11: remember when her two feet was no bigger than your tomb,
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 11: and she weared worsted boots, moaned she. Well, what a dat,
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 11: said the man. I can remember when she weared worsted boots,
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 11: she cried. The neighbors began to gather in the hall,
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 11: staring in at the weeping woman, as if watching the
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 11: contortions of a dying dog. A dozen women entered and
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 11: lamented with her. Under their busy hands. The rooms took
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 11: on that appalling appearance of neatness and order with which
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 11: death is greeted. Suddenly the door opened, and a woman
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 11: in a black gown rushed in with outstretched arms. Ah,
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 11: poor Mary, she cried, and tenderly embraced the moaning one. Ah,
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 11: what terrible affliction is?
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 8: This?
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 11: Continued she, her vocabulary was derived from mission churches. Me,
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 11: poor men, how I fear for yous?
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 8: Ah?
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 11: What a terrible affection As a disobedient child. Her good
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 11: motherly face was wet with tears. She trembled in eagerness
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 11: to express her sympathy. The mourner sat with bowed head,
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 11: rocking her body heavily to and fro, and crying out
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 11: in a high strained voice that sounded like a dirge
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 11: on some forlorn pipe. I can remember when she weared
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 11: worsted boots, and her two feet was no bigger than
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 11: your tomb. And she weared worsted boots, Miss Smith, she cried,
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 11: raising her streaming eyes. Ah, your poor Mary, sobbed the
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 11: woman in black with low, coddling cries. She sank on
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 11: her knees by the mourner's chair and put her arms
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 11: about her. The other women began to groan in different keys.
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 11: Your poor misguided child is gone now, Mary, and let
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 11: us hope it's for the best. Ye've forgive her now, Mary, won't.
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 11: She's dear all her disobedience, all her tankless behavior to
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 11: her mother, and all her badness. She's gone where her
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 11: terrible sins will be judged. The woman in black raised
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 11: her face and paused. The inevitable sunlight came streaming in
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 11: at the windows and shed a ghastly cheerfulness upon the
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 11: faded hues of the room. Two or three of the
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 11: spectators were sniffling, and one was loudly weeping. The mourner
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 11: arose and staggered into the other room. In a moment,
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 11: she emerged with a pair of faded baby shoes held
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 11: in the hollow of her hand. I can remember when
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 11: she used to wear them, cried she. The women burst
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 11: anew into cries, as if they had all been stabbed.
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 11: The morner turned to the soiled and unshaven man. Jimmy boy,
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 11: go get your sister. Go get your sister, and we'll
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 11: put the boots on her feet. They won't fit her now,
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 11: you damn fool, said the man. Go get your sister, Jimmy,
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 11: shrieked the woman, confronting him fiercely. The man swore sullenly.
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 11: He went over to a corner and slowly began to
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 11: put on his coat. He took his hat and went
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 11: out with a dragging, reluctant step. The woman in black
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 11: came forward and again besought the mourner. You forgive her Mary,
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 11: You forgive your bad, bad child.
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 15: Her life was a curser, her days were black, and
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 15: you'll forgive your bad girl. She's gone where her sins
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 15: will be judged. She's gone where her sins will be judged,
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 15: cried the other women, like a choir at a funeral.
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 11: The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, said the
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 11: woman in black, raising her eyes to the sunbeams. The
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 11: Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, responded the others.
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 11: You'll forgive Mary, pleaded the woman in black. The mourner
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 11: essayed to speak, but her voice gave way. She shook
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 11: her great shoulders frantically in an agony of grief. Hot
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 11: tears seemed to scald her quivering face. Finally, her voice
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 11: came and arose like a scream of pain. Oh yes,
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 11: I'll forgive her. I'll forgive her. End of Maggie, A
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 11: Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane