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Hard Times Part 1 - Charles Dickens · Charles Dickens Works Collection

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  Speaker 1: Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Section one, Chapters one through three,
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  Speaker 1: Book The First Sewing, Chapter one. The one thing needful.
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  Speaker 1: Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and
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  Speaker 1: girls nothing but facts. Facts alone un wanted in life.
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  Speaker 1: Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can
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  Speaker 1: only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: else will ever be of service to them. This is
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  Speaker 1: the principle upon which I bring up my own children,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the principle upon which I bring up
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  Speaker 1: these children. Stick to facts, sir. The scene was a plain, bare,
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  Speaker 1: monotonous vault of a school room, and the speaker's square
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  Speaker 1: forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a
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  Speaker 1: line on the schoolmaster's sleeve. The emphasis was helped by
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  Speaker 1: the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his
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  Speaker 1: eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious celeridge
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  Speaker 1: in two dark caves overshadowed by the wall. The emphasis
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  Speaker 1: was helped by the speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin,
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  Speaker 1: and hard set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice,
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  Speaker 1: which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. The emphasis was helped
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  Speaker 1: by the speaker's hair which bristled on the skirts of
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  Speaker 1: his bald head, a plantation of furs to keep the
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  Speaker 1: wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs like
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  Speaker 1: the crust of a plum pie, as if the head
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  Speaker 1: had scarcely warehouse room for the hard facts stored inside.
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  Speaker 1: The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders, nay,
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  Speaker 1: his very neckcloth trained to take him by the throat
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  Speaker 1: with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact. As it was,
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  Speaker 1: all helped the emphasis in this life we want nothing
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  Speaker 1: but facts, sir, nothing but facts. The speaker and the schoolmaster,
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  Speaker 1: and the third grown person present all backed a little
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  Speaker 1: and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels,
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  Speaker 1: then and there arranged in ready to have imperial gallons
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  Speaker 1: of facts poured into them until they were full to
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  Speaker 1: the brim. Chapter two, Murdering the Innocence. Thomas Gradgrind Sir,
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  Speaker 1: a man of realities, a man of facts and calculations,
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  Speaker 1: a man who proceeds upon the principle that two and
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  Speaker 1: two are four and nothing over, and who is not
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  Speaker 1: to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind Sir,
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  Speaker 1: peremptorily Thomas Thomas Gradgrind, with a rule and a pair
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  Speaker 1: of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pockets, sir,
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  Speaker 1: ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature
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  Speaker 1: and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is
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  Speaker 1: a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.
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  Speaker 1: You might hope to get some other nonsensical belief into
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  Speaker 1: the head of George Gradgrind, or Augustus Gradgrind, or John Gradgrind,
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  Speaker 1: or Joseph Gradgrind, all supposititious non existent persons, But into
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  Speaker 1: the head of Thomas Gradgrind, no, sir, in such terms.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private
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  Speaker 1: circle of acquaintance or to the public in general, in
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  Speaker 1: such terms, no doubt substituting the words boys and girls
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  Speaker 1: for sir. Thomas Gradgrind. Now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the
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  Speaker 1: little pictures before him, who were to be filled so
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  Speaker 1: full of facts. Indeed, as he easily sparkled at them
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  Speaker 1: from the celarridge before mentioned, he seemed a kind of
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  Speaker 1: cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts and prepared to
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  Speaker 1: blow them clean out of the regions of childhood. At
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  Speaker 1: one discharge, he seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too charged with
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  Speaker 1: a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that
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  Speaker 1: were to be stormed away. Girl Number twenty, said mister Gradgrind, squarely,
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  Speaker 1: pointing his square forefinger. I don't know that girl. Who
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  Speaker 1: is that girl? Cissy Jupe, Sir, explained Number twenty, blushing,
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  Speaker 1: standing up and curtseying. Cissy is not a name, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Gradgrind. Don't call yourself cissy, call yourself Cecilia. It's
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  Speaker 1: father as calls me cissy, Sir returned the young girl
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  Speaker 1: in a trembling voice and with another courtesy. Then he
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  Speaker 1: has no business to do it, said mister Gradgrind. Tell
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  Speaker 1: him he mustn't, Cecilia Jupe. Let me see what is
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  Speaker 1: your father? He belongs to the horse riding, if you please, sir,
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  Speaker 1: mister Gradgrind frowned and waved off the objtionable calling with
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  Speaker 1: his hand. We don't want to know anything about that.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: You mustn't tell us about that. Here. Your father breaks horses,
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  Speaker 1: don't he, if you please, sir. When they can get
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  Speaker 1: any to break, they do break horses in the ring.
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  Speaker 1: You mustn't tell us about the ring here very well,
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  Speaker 1: then describe your father as a horse breaker. He doctor's
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  Speaker 1: sick horses. I dare say, oh, yes, sir, very well.
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  Speaker 1: Then he is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier, and a
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  Speaker 1: horse breaker. Give me a definition of a horse, Cissy
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  Speaker 1: Jupe thrown into greatest alarm by this demand, Girl number
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  Speaker 1: twenty unable to define a horse, said mister gradgrind for
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  Speaker 1: the general hoof of all the little pitchers, Girl number
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  Speaker 1: twenty possessed of no facts in reference to one of
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  Speaker 1: the commonest of animals, some boy's definition of a horse,
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  Speaker 1: Bitzer yours. The square finger moving here and there, lighted
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  Speaker 1: suddenly on Bitzer, perhaps because he chanced to sit in
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  Speaker 1: the same ray of sunlight, which, darting in at one
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  Speaker 1: of the bare windows of the intensely whitewashed room, irradiated Sissy.
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  Speaker 1: For the boys and girls sat on the face of
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  Speaker 1: the inclined plane in two compact bodies, divided up the
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  Speaker 1: center by a narrow interval, and Sissy, being at the
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  Speaker 1: corner of a row on the sunny side, came in
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  Speaker 1: for the beginning of a sunbeam of which Bitzer, being
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  Speaker 1: at the corner of a row on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: a few rows in advance, caught on the end. But
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  Speaker 1: whereas the girl was so dark eyed and dark haired
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  Speaker 1: that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous
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  Speaker 1: color from the sun when it shone upon her, the
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  Speaker 1: boy was so light eyed and light haired that the
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  Speaker 1: self same rays appeared to draw out of him what
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  Speaker 1: little color he ever possessed. His cold eye would hardly
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  Speaker 1: have been eyes but for the short ends of lashes, which,
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  Speaker 1: by bringing them into immediate contrast with something paler than themselves,
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  Speaker 1: expressed their form. His short cropped hair might have been
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  Speaker 1: a mere continuation of the sandy freckles on his forehead
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  Speaker 1: and face. His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the
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  Speaker 1: natural tinge that he looked as though if he were cut,
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  Speaker 1: he would bleed white bitser, said Thomas gradgrind your definition
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  Speaker 1: of a horse quadruped griminivorus forty teeth, namely twenty four grinders,
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  Speaker 1: four eye teeth, and twelve incisive shed's coat and spring
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  Speaker 1: in marshy country. Shed's hoofs two hoofs, hard but requiring
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  Speaker 1: to be shod with iron age known by marks and
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  Speaker 1: mouth thus and much more. Bitzer, now, girl number twenty,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Gradgrind, you know what a horse's She curtsied again,
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  Speaker 1: and would have blushed deeper, if she could have blushed
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  Speaker 1: deeper than she had blushed all this time. Bitzer, after
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  Speaker 1: rapidly blinking at Thomas Gradgrind with both eyes at once,
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  Speaker 1: and so catching the light upon his quivering ends of
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  Speaker 1: lashes that they looked like the antennae of busy insects,
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  Speaker 1: put his knuckles to his freckled forehead and sat down again.
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  Speaker 1: The third gentleman now stepped forth. A mighty man at
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  Speaker 1: cutting and drying. He was a government officer in his way,
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  Speaker 1: and in most other peoples too, A professed pugilist, always
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  Speaker 1: in training, always with a system to force down the
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  Speaker 1: general throat, like a bolus, always to be heard of
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  Speaker 1: at the bar of his little public office, ready to
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  Speaker 1: fight all England to continue in phistic phraseology. He had
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  Speaker 1: a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer. He
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  Speaker 1: would go in and damage any subject whatever with his right,
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  Speaker 1: follow with his left stop exchange, counter bore his opponent.
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  Speaker 1: He always fought all England to the ropes and fall
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  Speaker 1: upon him neatly. He was certain to knock the wind
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  Speaker 1: out of common sense and render that unlucky adversary deaf
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  Speaker 1: to the call of time. And he had it in
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  Speaker 1: charge from high authority to bring about the great public
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  Speaker 1: office males, when commissioners should reign upon earth. Very well,
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  Speaker 1: said this gentleman, briskly, smiling and folding his arms. That's
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  Speaker 1: a horse. Now, let me ask you, boys and girls,
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  Speaker 1: would you paper a room with representations of horses? After
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  Speaker 1: a pause, one half of the children cried out in chorus, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: upon which the other half, seeing in the gentleman's face
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  Speaker 1: that yes was wrong, cried out in chorus, No, sir,
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  Speaker 1: as the custom is in these examinations, of course, No,
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  Speaker 1: why wouldn't you a pause? One corpulent, slow boy, with
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  Speaker 1: a wheezy manner of breathing ventured the answer, because he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't paper a room at all, but would paint it.
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  Speaker 1: You must paper it, said the gentleman rather warmly. You
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  Speaker 1: must paper it, said Thomas Gradgrind. Whether you like it
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  Speaker 1: or not. Don't tell us you wouldn't paper it. What
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  Speaker 1: do you mean, boy, I'll explain to you, then, said
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  Speaker 1: the gentleman, after another and dismal pause. Why wouldn't you
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  Speaker 1: paper a room with representations of horses? Do you ever
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  Speaker 1: see horses walking on down the sides of rooms in reality?
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  Speaker 1: In fact?
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir from one half? No, sir from the other.
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  Speaker 1: Of course no, said the gentleman, with an indignant look
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  Speaker 1: at the wrong half. Why then, you are not to
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  Speaker 1: see anywhere what you don't see in fact, you are
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  Speaker 1: not to have anywhere what you don't have in fact.
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  Speaker 1: What is called taste is only another name for fact.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas gradgrind nodded his approbation. This is a new principle,
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  Speaker 1: a discovery, a great discovery, said the gentleman. Now I'll
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  Speaker 1: try you again. Suppose you were going to carpet room,
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  Speaker 1: would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers
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  Speaker 1: upon it? There being a general conviction by this time
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  Speaker 1: that no, sir was always the right answer to this gentleman,
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  Speaker 1: the chorus of no was very strong. Only a few
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  Speaker 1: feeble stragglers said yes. Among them, Sissy Jupe girl number twenty,
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  Speaker 1: said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Sissy blushed and stood up. So you would carpet your
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  Speaker 1: room or your husband's room, if you were a grown
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  Speaker 1: woman and had a husband with representations of flowers, would you,
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  Speaker 1: said the gentleman, Why would you? If you please, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I am very fond of flowers, returned the girl. And
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  Speaker 1: is that why you would put tables and chairs upon
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  Speaker 1: them and have people walking over them with heavy boots.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't hurt them, sir, They wouldn't crush and wither,
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  Speaker 1: if you please, sir, they would be pictures of what
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  Speaker 1: was very pretty and pleasant. And I would fancy aye. Aye,
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  Speaker 1: But you mustn't fancy, cried the gentleman, quite elated by
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  Speaker 1: coming so happily to his point. That's it. You are
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  Speaker 1: never to fancy. You are not Cecilia Jube. Thomas Gradgrind
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  Speaker 1: solemnly repeated to do anything of that kind. Fact fact,
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  Speaker 1: said the gentleman, And fact fact, repeated Thomas Gradgrind. You
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  Speaker 1: are to be in all things regulated and governed, said
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  Speaker 1: the gentleman. By fact. We hope to have before long
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  Speaker 1: a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who
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  Speaker 1: will force the people to be a people of fact
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  Speaker 1: and of nothing but fact. You must discard the word
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  Speaker 1: fancy altogether. You have nothing to do with it. You
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  Speaker 1: are not to have in any object of use or
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  Speaker 1: ornament what would be a contradiction. In fact, you don't
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  Speaker 1: walk upon flowers. In fact, you cannot be allowed to
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  Speaker 1: walk upon flowers in carpets. You don't find that foreign
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  Speaker 1: birds and butterflies come down and perch upon your crockery.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot be permitted to paint foreign birds and butterflies
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  Speaker 1: upon your crockery. You never meet with quadrupeds going up
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  Speaker 1: and down walls. You must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls.
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  Speaker 1: You must use, said the gentleman, for all these purposes,
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  Speaker 1: combinations and modifications in primary colors of mathematical figures, which
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  Speaker 1: are susceptible of proof and demonstration. This is the new discovery.
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  Speaker 1: This is fact, This is taste. The girl cursed and
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  Speaker 1: sat down. She was very young, and she looked as
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  Speaker 1: if she were frightened by the matter of fact prospect
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  Speaker 1: the world afforded. Now if mister mc chocumchild said, the
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  Speaker 1: gentleman will proceed to give his first lesson here, mister gradgrind,
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  Speaker 1: I shall be happy at your request to observe his
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  Speaker 1: motive procedure, mister gradgrind was much obliged, mister mcchokumchild, We
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  Speaker 1: only wait for you, So, mister mcchokum child began in
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  Speaker 1: his best manner. He and some one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: other schoolmasters had lately been turned at the same time
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  Speaker 1: in the same factory on the same principles. Like so
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  Speaker 1: many pianoforte legs, he had been put through an immense
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  Speaker 1: variety of paces and had answered volumes of head breaking questions. Orthography, etymology,
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  Speaker 1: syntax and prosity, biography, astronomy, geography and general cosmography. The
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  Speaker 1: sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land surveying and leveling, vocal
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  Speaker 1: music and drawing from models were all at the ends
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  Speaker 1: of his ten chilled fingers. He had worked his stony
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  Speaker 1: way into Her Majesty's most Honorable Privy Council's schedule B
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  Speaker 1: and had taken the bloom off the higher branches of
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  Speaker 1: mathematics and physical science French, German, Latin and Greek. He
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  Speaker 1: knew all about the watersheds of all the world, whatever
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  Speaker 1: they are, and all the histories of all the peoples,
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  Speaker 1: and all the names of all the rivers, and mountains,
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  Speaker 1: and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries,
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  Speaker 1: and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and
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  Speaker 1: thirty points of the compass. Ah rather overdone, mister mc
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  Speaker 1: chokum child. If he had only learnt a little less,
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  Speaker 1: how infinitely better he might have taught much more. He
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  Speaker 1: went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana
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  Speaker 1: in the forty thieves, looking into all the vessels ranged
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  Speaker 1: before him, one after another, to see what they contained.
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  Speaker 1: Say good, mister chocum child, when from thy boiling store
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt fill each jar brim full, by and by
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  Speaker 1: dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the
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  Speaker 1: robber fancy lurking within, or sometimes only maime and distort him.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, A Loophole. Mister Gradgrind walked homeward from the
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  Speaker 1: school in a state of considerable satisfaction. It was his school,
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  Speaker 1: and he intended it to be a model. He intended
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  Speaker 1: every child in it to be a model, just as
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  Speaker 1: the young Gradgrinds were all models. There were five young Gradgrinds,
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  Speaker 1: and they were models, every one. They had been lectured
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  Speaker 1: at from their tenderest years course, like little hares. Almost
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  Speaker 1: as soon as they could run alone, they had been
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  Speaker 1: made to run to the lecture room. The first object
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  Speaker 1: with which they had an association, or of which they
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  Speaker 1: had a remembrance, was a large blackboard with a dry
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  Speaker 1: ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it. Not that they knew,
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  Speaker 1: by name or nature anything about an ogre fact. Forbid,
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  Speaker 1: I only use the word to express a monster in
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  Speaker 1: a lecturing castle with Heaven knows how many heads manipulated
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  Speaker 1: into one, taking childhood captive, and dragging it into gloomy
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  Speaker 1: statistical dens by the hair. No little gradgrind had ever
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  Speaker 1: seen a face in the moon. It was up in
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  Speaker 1: the moon before it could speak distinctly. No little gradgrind
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  Speaker 1: had ever learnt the silly jingle Twinkle Twinkle, little star,
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  Speaker 1: How I wonder what you are? No little gradgrind had
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  Speaker 1: ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having
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  Speaker 1: at fire years dissected the Great Bear like a professor Owen,
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  Speaker 1: and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine driver. No
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  Speaker 1: little gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field
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  Speaker 1: with that famous cow with the crumpled horn, who tossed
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  Speaker 1: the dog who worried, the cat who killed the rat
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  Speaker 1: who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous
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  Speaker 1: cow who swallowed tom thumb. It had never heard of
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  Speaker 1: these celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow
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  Speaker 1: as a griminivorous, ruminating quadruped with several stomachs. To his
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact home, which was called stone Lodge, mister
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  Speaker 1: Gradgrind directed his steps. He had virtually retired from the
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  Speaker 1: wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was
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  Speaker 1: now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an
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  Speaker 1: arithmetical figure in Parliament. Stone Lodge was situated on a
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  Speaker 1: moor within a mile or two of a great town
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  Speaker 1: called Coketown in the present Faithful guidebook, a very regular
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  Speaker 1: feature on the face of the country, Stone Lodge was
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  Speaker 1: not the least disguise toned down or shaded off that
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  Speaker 1: uncompromising fact in the landscape. A great square house with
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  Speaker 1: a heavy portico, darkening the principal windows as its master's
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  Speaker 1: heavy brows overshadowed his eyes. A calculated, cast, up, balanced
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  Speaker 1: and proved house. Six windows on this side of the door,
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  Speaker 1: six on that side. A total of twelve in this wing,
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  Speaker 1: a total of twelve in the other wing, four and
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  Speaker 1: twenty carried over to the back wings. A lawn and
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  Speaker 1: garden and an infant avenue, all ruled straight like a
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  Speaker 1: botanical account book. Gas and ventilation, drainage and water service,
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  Speaker 1: all of the primest quality iron clamps and girders, fire
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  Speaker 1: proof from top to bottom, mechanical lifts for the housemaids,
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  Speaker 1: with all their brushes and brooms, Everything that the heart
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  Speaker 1: could desire. Everything, well, I suppose, so the little gradgrinds
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  Speaker 1: had cabinets in various departments of science too. They had
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  Speaker 1: a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and
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  Speaker 1: a little mineral logical cabinet, And the specimens were all
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  Speaker 1: arranged and labeled, and the bits of stone and ore
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  Speaker 1: looked as though they might have been broken from the
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  Speaker 1: parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names. And,
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  Speaker 1: to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had
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  Speaker 1: never found his way into their nursery, if the greedy
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  Speaker 1: little gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it,
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  Speaker 1: for good, gracious goodness sake that the greedy little Gradgrinds
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  Speaker 1: grasped it. Their father walked in on a hopeful and
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  Speaker 1: satisfied frame of mind. He was an affectionate father after
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  Speaker 1: his manner, but he would probably have described himself, if
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  Speaker 1: he had been put like sissy jew upon a definition,
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  Speaker 1: as an eminently practical father. He had a particular pride
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  Speaker 1: in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have
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  Speaker 1: a special application to him. Whatsoever the public meeting held
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  Speaker 1: in Coketown, and whatsoever the subject of such meeting, some
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  Speaker 1: coketown er was sure to seize the occasion of alluding
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  Speaker 1: to his eminently practical friend, gradgrind This always pleased the
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  Speaker 1: eminently practical friend. He knew it to be his due,
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  Speaker 1: But his due was acceptable. He had reached the neutral
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  Speaker 1: ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: town nor country, and yet was either spoiled when his
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: ears were invaded by the sound of music. The clashing
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and banging band attached to the horse riding establishment, which
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: was in full bray. A flag floating from the summit
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: of the temple proclaimed to mankind that it was Sleary's
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: horse riding which claimed their suffrages. Sleary, himself, a stout
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: modern statue with a money box at its elbow in
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Miss Josephine Sleary, as some very long and very narrow
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: strips of printed bill announced, was then inaugurating the entertainments
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: with her graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower Act. Among the other
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: pleasing but always strictly moral wonders which must be seen
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to be believed. Signor Jupe was that afternoon to elucidate
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the diverting accomplishments of his highly trained performing dog, Merryless.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: He was also to exhibit his astounding feet of throwing
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: seventy five hundredweight in rapid succession back handed over his head,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid air,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a feat never before attempted in this or any other country,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and which, having elixited such rapturous plaudits from enthusiastic throngs,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: it cannot be withdrawn. The same Signor Jupe was to
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: enliven the varied performances at frequent intervals with his chase
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Shakespearean quips and retorts. Lastly, he was to wind them
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: up by appearing in his favorite character of mister William
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Button of Tooley Street in the highly novel and laughable
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Hippocomedieta of the Tailor's Journey to Brentford. Thomas Gradgrind took
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: no heed of these trivialities, of course, but passed on
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: as a prattical man ought to pass on, either brushing
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the noisy insects from his thoughts or consigning them to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the house of correction. But the turning of the road
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: took him by the back of the booth, and at
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the back of the booth a number of children were
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: congregated in a number of stealthy attitudes, striving to peep
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: in at the hidden glories of this place. This brought
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: him to a stop. Now think of these vagamas, said
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he attracting the young rabble from a model school. A
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: space of stunted grass and dry rubbish being between him
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and the young rabble, he took his eye glass out
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of his waistcoat to look for any child he knew
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: by name, and might order off phenomenon almost incredible, though
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: distinctly seen. What did he then behold but his own
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: metallurgical Louisa, and his own mathematical Thomas, abasing himself on
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the ground to catch but a hoof of the graceful
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Equestrian Tyrolean flower. Act dumb with amazement, mister Gradgrind crossed
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to the spot where his family was thus disgraced, laid
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: his hand upon each erring child, and said Louisa Thomas.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Both rose red and disconcerted. But Louisa looked at her
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: father with more boldness than Thomas did. Indeed, Thomas did
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: not look at him, but gave himself up to be
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: taken home like a machine. In the name of wonder,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: idleness and folly, said mister Gradgrind, leading each away by
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a hand. What do you do here? Wanted to see
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: what it was like, returned Louisa shortly. What it was like? Yes, father.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: There was an air of jaded, sullenness in them both,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and particularly in the girl, yet struggling through the dissatisfaction
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: of her face. There was a light with nothing to
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: deafel flashes which had something painful in them, analogous to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the changes on a blind face groping its way. She
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: was a child now of fifteen or sixteen, but at
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: no distant day would seem to become a woman all
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: at once, her father thought so as he looked at her.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: She was pretty, would have been self willed, he thought,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: in his eminently practical way, But for her bringing up Thomas.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Though I have the fact before me, I find it
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: difficult to believe that you, with your education and resources,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: should have brought your sister to a scene like this,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I brought him, father, said Louisa quickly. I asked him
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to come. I'm sorry to hear it. I am very
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: sorry to hear it. It makes Thomas no better, and
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: it makes you worse, Louisa. She looked at her father again,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: but no tear fell down her cheek. You, Thomas, and
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you to whom the circle of the sciences is open, Thomas,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and you, who may be said to be replete with facts, Thomas,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and you who have been trained to mathematical exactness, Thomas,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and you here, cried mister gradgrind in this degraded position.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I am amazed. I was tired, father, I've been tired
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a long time, said Louisa, tired of what, asked the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: astonished father. I don't know of what? Of everything? I think?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Say not another word returned mister gradgrind, you are childish.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I will hear no more. He did not speak again
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: until they had walked some half a mile in silence,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: when he gravely broke out with what would your best
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: friends say, Louisa? Do you attach no value to their
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: good opinion? What would mister Bounderby say? At the mention
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of this name? His daughter stole a look at him,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: remarkable for its intense and searching character. He saw nothing
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of it, for before he looked at her, she had
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: again cast down her eyes. What he repeated, presently would
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: mister Bounderby say? All the way to Stone Lodge? As,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: with grave indignation he led the two delinquents home. He repeated,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: at intervals, what would mister Bounderby say, as if mister
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Bounderby had been Missus Grundy end of Section.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: One, chapter four, mister Bounderby not being Missus Grundy, who
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: was mister Bounderby? Why mister Bounderby was as near to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: being mister Gradgrind's bosom friend as a man perfectly devoid
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: of sentiment can approach that spiritual relationship towards another man
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: perfectly devoid of sentiment. So near was mister Bounderby, or,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: if the reader should prefer it, so far off. He
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: was a rich man, banker, merchant, manufacture, and what not.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: A big loud man with a stare and a metallic laugh,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: A man made out of a coarse material which seemed
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: to have been stretched to make so much of him.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon and
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: a self made man, a man who was always proclaiming,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: through that brassy speaking trumpet voice of his his old
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: bully of humility. A year or two younger than his
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: eminently practical friend, mister Bounderby looked older. His seven or
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: eight and forty might have had this seven or eight
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: added to it again without prizing anybody. He had not
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: and that what was left all standing up in disorder,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: was in that condition from being constantly blown about by
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: his windy boastfulness. In the formal drawing room of stone Lodge,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: standing on the hearth rug, warming himself before the fire,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: mister Bounderby delivered some observations to Missus Gradgrind on the
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: circumstance of its being his birthday. He stood before the fire,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: partly because it was a cool spring afternoon, though the
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: sun shone, partly because the shade of stone Lodge was
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: always haunted by the ghost of damp Mortar. Partly because
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: he thus took up a commanding position from which to
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: subdue Missus Gradgrind. I hadn't a shoe on my foot.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: As to a stalking, I didn't know such a thing
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: by name. I passed the day in a ditch and
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: night in a pig sty. That's the way I spent
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: my tense birthday. Not that a ditch was new to me,
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: for I was born in a ditch, missus Gradgrind, a little, thin, white,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: pink eyed bundle of shawls, of surpassing feebleness, mental and bodily,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: who was always taking physic without any effect, and who,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: whenever she showed a symptom of coming to life, was
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: invariably stunned by some weighty piece of fact tumbling on her.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Missus Gradgrind hoped it was a dry ditch. No, when
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: is a salp a foot of water in it, said
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: mister Bounderby, enough to give a baby cold. Missus Gradgrind
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: considered cold. I was born with inflammation of the lungs
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: and of everything else. I believe that was capable of inflammation,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: returned mister Bounderby. For years, Madam, I was one of
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the most miserable little wretches ever seen. I was so sickly,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: and I was always moaning and groaning. I was so
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: ragged and dirty that you wouldn't have touched me with
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: a pair of tongs. Missus Gradgrind faintly looked at the
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: tongs as the most appropriate thing her imbecility could think
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: of doing. How I fought through it, I don't know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: said Bounderby. I was determined I suppose I have been
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: a determined character in later life, and I suppose I
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: was then here. I am missus Gradgrind, anyhow, and nobody
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: to thank for being here but myself. Missus Gradgrind meekly
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: and weakly hoped that his mother, my mother bolted, ma'am,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: said Bounderby. Missus Gradgrind, stunned as usual, collapsed and gave
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: it up. My mother left me to my grandmother, said Bounderby.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: And according to the best of my remembrance, my grandmother
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: was the wickedest and worst old woman that ever lived.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: If I got a little pair of shoes by any chance,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: she would take them off and sell them for drink.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Why I've known that grandmother of mine lie in her
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: bed and drink her fourteen glasses of liquor before breakfast.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Missus Gradgrind, weakly smiling and giving no other sign of vitality,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: looked as she always did, like an indifferently executed transparency
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: of a small female figure without enough light behind it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: She kept a chandler's shop, pursued Bounderby, and kept me
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: in an egg box that was the colt of my infancy,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: an old egg box. As soon as I was big
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: enough to run away. Of course I ran away. Then
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I became a young vagabond, and instead of one old
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: ages knocked me about and starved me. They were right,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: they had no business to do anything else. I was
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: a nuisance, an encumbrance, and a pest. I know that
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: very well. His pride in having, at any time of
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: his life achieved such a great social distinction as to
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: be a nuisance an encumbrance in a pest was only
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: to be satisfied by three sonorous repetitions of the boast.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: I was to pull through it, I suppose, Missus Gradgrind,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: whether I was to do it or not, ma'am, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: did it. I pulled through it, though nobody threw me
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: out A rope vagabond, errand boy, vagabond, laborer, porter, clerk,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: chief manager, small partner. Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. Those are
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the antecedents and the culmination. Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: his letters from the outsides of shops Missus Gradgrind, and
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: was first able to tell the time upon a dial
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: plate from studying the steeple clock of Saint Giles Church, London,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: under the direction of a drunken crew who was a
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: convicted thief and an incorrigible vagrant. Tell Josiah Bounderby of
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Coketown of your district schools, and your model schools, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: your training schools, and your whole kettle of fish schools.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: And Josiah Bounderby of Coketown tells you plainly, all right,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: all correct. He hadn't such advantages, but let us have
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: hard headed, solid fisted people. The education that made him
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: won't do for everybody. He knows well such and such
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: his education was, however, and you may force him to
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: swallow boiling fat, but you shall never force him to
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: suppress the facts of his life being heated. When he
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: arrived at this climax, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown stopped. He
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: stopped just as his eminently practical friend, still accompanied by
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: the two young culprits, entered the room. His eminently practical friend,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: on seeing him, stopped also and gave lou Louisa a
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: reproachful look that plainly said, behold your Bounderby, Well blustered,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: mister bounderby. What's the matter? What is young Thomas in
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: the dumps about? He spoke of young Thomas, but he
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: looked at Louisa. We were peeping at the circus, muttered
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Louisa haughtily, without lifting up her eyes. And father caught us,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: and Missus Gradgrind, said her husband, in a lofty manner.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: I should as soon have expected to find my children
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: reading poetry. Dear me, whimpered Missus Gradgrind. How can you,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Louisa and Thomas? I wonder at you. I declare you're
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: enough to make one regret ever, having had a family
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: at all, I have a great mind to say I
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: wish I hadn't then what would you have done? I
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: should like to know. Mister Gradgrind did not seem favorably
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: impressed by these cogent remarks. He frowned impatiently, as if
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: with my head in its present throbbing state, you couldn't
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: go and look at the shells and minerals and things
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: provided for you instead of circuses, said Missus Gradgrind. You
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: know as well as I do. No young people have
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: about circuses. What can you possibly want to know of circuses?
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Then I am sure you have enough to do if
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: that's what you want. With my head in its present state,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I couldn't remember the mere names of half the facts
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: you have got to attend to. That's the reason, pouted Louisa.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Don't tell me the reason, because it can't be nothing
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: of the sort, said Missus gradgrind. Go and be something
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: illogical directly. Missus gradgrind was not a scientific character, and
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: usually dismissed her children to their studies with this general
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: injunction to choose their pursuit in truth. Missus gradgrind Rine's
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: stock of facts in general was woefully defective, but mister Gradgrind,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: in raising her to her high matrimonial position, had been
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: influenced by two reasons. Firstly, she was most satisfactory as
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: a question of figures, and secondly, she had no nonsense
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: about her. By nonsense, he meant fancy, and truly it
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: is probable she was as free from any alloy of
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: that nature as any human being not arrived at the
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: perfection of an absolute idiot. Ever, was the simple circumstance
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: of being left alone with her husband and mister Bounderby
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: between herself and any other fact. So she once more
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: died away, and nobody minded her. Bounderby said mister grand Grind,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: drawing a chair to the fireside. You are always so
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: interested in my young people, particularly in Louisa, that I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: make no apology for saying to you, I am very
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: much vexed by this discovery. I have systematically devoted myself,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: as you know, to the education of the reason of
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: my family. The reason is, as you know, the only
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: faculty to which the education should be addressed. And yet Bounderby,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of today, though
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: in itself a trifling one, as if something had crept
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: into Thomas's in Louise's minds which is or rather which
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: is not. I do not know that I can express
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: myself better than by saying which has never been intended
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: to be developed, and in which their reason has no part.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: There certainly is no reason in looking with interest at
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: a parcel of vagabonds, returned Bounderby. When I was a
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: vagabond myself, nobody looked with any interest at me. I
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: know that then comes the question, said the mminently practical father,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: with his eyes on the fire. In what has this
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: vulgar curiosity its rise? I'll tell you in what? In
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: idle imagination, I hope not, said the eminently practical I confess, however,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: that the misgiving has crossed me on my way home.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: In idle imagination, Gradgrind repeated bounderby a very bad thing
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: for anybody, but a cursed bad thing for a girl
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: like Louisa. I should ask missus Gradgrind's pardon for strong expressions,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: but that she knows very well. I am not a
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: refined character. Whoever expects refinement and me will be disappointed.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: I hadn't a refined bringing up. Whether said Gradgrind, pondering
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: with his hands in his pockets and his cavernous eyes
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: on the fire, Whether any instructor or servant can have
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: suggested anything, whether Louisa or Thomas can have been reading anything,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Whether in spite of all precautions, any idle story book
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: can have got into the house. Because in minds that
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: have been practically formed by rule and line from the
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: cradle upwards, this is so curious, so incomprehensible, stop a
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: bit cried Bounderby, who all this time had been standing
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: as before on the hearth, bursting at the very furniture
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: of the room with explosive humility. You have one of
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: those stroller's children in the school, Cecilia jupe by name,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: said mister Gradgrind, was something of a stricken Look at
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: his friend. Now stop a bit, cried Bounderby again. How
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: did she come there?
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: The fact is I saw the girl myself for the
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: first time, only just now. She specially applied here at
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: the house to be admitted as not regularly belonging to
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: our town. And yes, you are right, Bounderby, you are
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: right now stop a bit, cried Bounderby once more. Louisa
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: saw her when she came. Louisa certainly did see her,
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: for she mentioned the application to me. But Louisa saw her.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I have no doubt in missus Gradgrind's presence. Pray, missus Gradgrind,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: said bounder By. What passed? Oh my poor health, returned
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Missus Gradgrind. The girl wanted to come to the school,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: and mister Gradgrind wanted girls to come to the school,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: And Louisa and Thomas both said that the girl wanted
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: to come, and that mister Gradgrind wanted girls to come,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: And how was it possible to contradict them when such
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: was the fact. Now I tell you what Gradgrind, said
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: mister Bounderby. Turn this girl to the right about, and
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: there's an end of it. I am much of your opinion.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Do it at once, said Bounderby. Has always been my
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: motto from a child. When I thought I would run
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: away from my egg box and my grandmother, I did
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: it at once. Do you the same? Do this at once?
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Are you walking? Asked his friend. I have the father's address.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Perhaps he would not mind walking to town with me.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Not the least in the world, said mister Bounderby, as
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: long as you'd do it at once. So mister Bounderby
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: threw on his hat. He always threw it on, as
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: expressing a man who had been far too busily employed
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: in making himself to acquire any fashion of wearing his hat,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: and with his hands in his pockets, sauntered out into
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: the hall. I never wear gloves, it was his custom
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: to say. I didn't climb up the ladder in them.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Shouldn't be so high up if I had. Being left
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: to saunter in the hall, a minute or two while
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: mister gradgrind went upstairs for the address. He opened the
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: door of the children's study and looked into that serene,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: floor clothed department, which not was standing, its bookcases and
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: its cabinets, and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: to hair cutting. Louisa languidly leaned upon the window, looking
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: out without looking at anything, while young Thomas stood sniffing
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: revengefully at the fire. Adam Smith and Malthus, two younger gradgrinds,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: were out at lecture and custody, and little Jane, after
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: manufacturing a good deal of moist pipe clay on her
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: face with slate pencil and tears, had fallen asleep over
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: vulgar fractions. It's all right now, Louisa, it's all right,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: young Thomas, said mister Bounderby. You won't do so anymore.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I'll answer for its being all over with father. Well, Louisa,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: that's worth a kiss, isn't it. You can take one,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: mister Bounderby, returned Louisa, when she had coldly paused and
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: slowly walked across the room. And ungraciously raised her cheek
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: towards him, with her face turned away. Always my pet,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: ain't you, Louisa, said mister Bounderby. Good Bye, Louisa. He
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: went his way, but she stood on the same spot,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: rubbing the cheek he had kissed with her handkerchief until
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: it was burning red. She was doing this five minutes afterwards.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: What are you about, lou Her brother sulkily remonstrated, you'll
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: rub a hole in your face. You may cut the
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: peace out with your penknife if you like Tom, I
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: wouldn't cry. Chapter five. The keynote Coketown, to which Messrs
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked was a triumph of fact.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: It had no greater taint of fancy in it than
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: missus Gradgrind herself. Let us strike the keynote Coketown before
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: pursuing our tune. It was a town of red brick,
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: or of brick that would have been read if the
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: smoke and ashes had allowed it. But as matters stood,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: it was a town of unnatural red and black, like
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: the painted face of a savage. It was a town
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: of smoke trailed themselves forever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: It had a black canal in it, and a river
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: that ran purple with ill smelling dye, and vast piles
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: of building full of windows, where there was a rattling
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: and a trembling all day long, and where the piston
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: of the steam engine worked monotonously up and down, like
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: It contained several large streets, all very like one another,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: by people equally like one another, who all went in
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: and out at the same hours, with the same sound,
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: to whom every day was the same as yesterday and
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: tomorrow and every year, the counterpart of the last and
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: the next. These attributes of Coketown were, in the main
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: inseparable from the work by which it was sustained. Against
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: them were to be set off comforts of life which
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: found their way all over the world, and elegancies of
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: life which made We will not ask how much of
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: place mentioned. The rest of its features were voluntary, and
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: they were these. You saw nothing in Coketown, but what
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: was severely workful. If the members of a religious persuasion
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: built a chapel there, as the members of eighteen religious
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: persuasions had done, they made it a pious warehouse of
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: red brick, with sometimes, but this is only in highly
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: ornamental examples a bell and a bird cage on the
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: top of it. Solitary exception was the new Church, a
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs. All the
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: characters of black and white. The jail might have been
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: the infirmary, The infirmary might have been the jail, the
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: town hall might have been either or both, or anything else.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: For anything that appeared to the contrary in the graces
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: of their construction, fact fact fact everywhere in the material
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: aspect of the town, fact, fact, fact everywhere in the immaterial.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: The Machokumchild School was all fact, and the School of
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Design was all fact, and the relations between master and
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: man were all fact and everything was fact between the
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: lying in hospital and the cemetery, and what you couldn't
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: state in figures are show to be purchasable in the
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest was not,
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: and never should be. World without end amen. A town
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: so sacred to fact, and so triumphant in its assertion,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: of course, got on. Well why no, not quite well, no,
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: dear me. No, Coketown did not come out of its
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: own furnaces in all respects, like gold that had stood
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: the fire first. The perplexing mystery of the place was
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: who belonged to the eighteen denominations, Because whoever did, the
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: laboring people did not. It was very strange to walk
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: through the streets on a Sunday morning and note how
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: few of them. The barbarous jangling of bells that was
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: driving the sick and nervous mad called away from their
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: own quarter, from their own close rooms, from the corners
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: of their own streets, where they lounged listlessly, gazing at
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: all the church and chapel, going as at a with
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: which they had no manner of concern. Nor was it
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: merely the stranger who noticed this, Because there was a
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: petitioning for acts of Parliament that should make these people
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: religious by main force. Then came the teetotal society, who
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: complained that these same people would get drunk, and showed
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: in tabular statements that they did get drunk, and proved
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: at tea parties that no inducement human or divine, except
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: a medal, would induce them to forego their custom of
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: getting drunk. Then came the chemist and druggist, with other
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: tabular statements, showing that when they didn't get drunk, they
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: took opium. Then came the experienced chaplain of the jail,
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: and showing that the same people would resort to low
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: haunts hidden from the public eye, where they heard low
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: singing and saw load dancing, and mayhap joined in it,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: And where a b aged twenty four next birthday and
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: committed for eighteen months solitary, had himself said not that
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: he had ever shown himself particularly worthy of belief. His
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: ruin began as he was perfectly sure and confident that
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: otherwise he would have been a tip top moral specimen.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Then came mister Gradgrind and mister bounderby, the two gentlemen
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical,
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: who could, on occasion furnish more tabular statements derived from
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: their own personal experience and illustrated by cases they had
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: known and seen from which it clearly appeared. In short,
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: it was the only clear thing in the case that
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: these same people were a bad lot altogether. Gentlemen, that
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: do what you would for them, they were never thankful
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: for it, gentlemen, that they were restless, gentlemen, that they
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: never knew what they wanted, That they lived upon the
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: best and bought fresh butter and insisted on mocha coffee,
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short, it was the
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: moral of the old nursery fable. There was an old woman,
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: vittles and drink. Vittles and drink were the whole of
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: her diet. And yet this old woman would never be
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: quiet is it possible, I wonder that there was any
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: analogy between the case of the Coketown population and the
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: case of the little gradgrinds. Surely none of us, in
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: our sober senses and acquainted with figures, are to be
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: told at this time of day that one of the
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: foremost elements in the existence of the Coketown working people
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: had been for scores of years deliberately set at naught.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: That there was any fancy in them demanding to be
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: brought into hell the existence instead of struggling on in
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: convulsions that exactly in the ratio as they worked long, monotonously,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: the craving grew within them for some physical relief, some relaxation,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: encouraging good humor and good spirits, and giving them a
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: vent some recognized holiday, though it were but for an
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: honest dance to a stirring band of music, some occasional
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: light pie, in which even m chokumchild had no finger,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: which craving must and would be satisfied art or must
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: and would inevitably go wrong until the laws of creation
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: were repealed. This man lives at POD's end, and I
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: don't quite know POD's end, said mister Gradgrind, which is
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: at Bounderby. Mister Bounderby knew it was somewhere downtown, but
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: knew no more respecting it, and so they stopped for
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: a moment, looking about. Almost as they did so, there
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: came running around the corner of the street at a
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: mister Gradgrind recognized. Hello, said he stop, where are you going? Stop?
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Girl number twenty stopped then a palpitating and made him
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: a curtsy. Why are you tearing about the streets, said
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: mister Gradgrind in this improper manner? I was, I was
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: run after sir. The girl panted, and I wanted to
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: get away, run after, repeated mister Gradgrind. Who would run
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: after you? The question was unexpectedly and suddenly answered for
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: her by the colorless boy Bitzer, who came round the
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: corner with such blind speed and so little anticipating a
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: stoppage on the pavement, that he brought himself up against
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: mister Gradgrind's waistcoat and rebounded into the road. What do
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: you mean, boy, said mister Gradgrind, What are you doing?
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: How dare you dash against every in this manner? Bitzer
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: picked up his cap, which the concussion had knocked off,
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: and backing and knuckling his forehead, pleaded that it was
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: an accident. Was this boy running after you, Jupe, asked
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: mister Gradgrind, Yes, sir, said the girl reluctantly. No, I wasn't, sir,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: cried Bitzer, not till she run away from me. But
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: the horse riders never mind what they say, sir. They're
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: famous for it. You know, the horse riders are famous
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: for never mind in what they say addressing sissy. It
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: is well known in the town, as please, sir, as
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: the multiplication table isn't known to the horse riders. Bitzer
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: tried mister Bounderby with this. He frightens me, so said
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: the girl with his cruel faces. Ah, cried Bitzer. Oh
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: ain't you one of the wrist Ain't you a horse rider?
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: I never looked at her, Sir. I asked her if
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: she would know how to define a horse tomorrow and
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: offer to tell her again. Has she run away and
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: I ran after her? Sir, that you might know how
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: to answer when she was asked. You wouldn't have thought
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: of saying such mischief if you hadn't been a horse rider.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: Her calling seems to be pretty well known among em
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: observed mister Bounderby. You'd have had the whole school peeping
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: in a row in a week, truly, I think, so,
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: returned his friend. Mit, sir, turn you about and take
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: yourself home. Jupe, stay here a moment. Let me hear
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: of your running in this manner any more, boy, and
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: you will hear of me through the master of the school.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: You understand what I mean. Go along. The boy stopped
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy,
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: turned about and retreated. Now, girl, said mister gradgrind, take
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: this gentleman and me to your father's. We are going there.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: What have you got in that bottle you're carrying, gin,
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: said mister Bounderby. Dear, no, sir, it's the nine oils
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: the what, cried mister Bounderby. The nine oils, sir, to
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: rab father with. Then said mister Bounderby with a short
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: loud laugh. What in the devil do you rub your
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: father with nine oils? For it's what our people always use, sir,
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: when they get any hurts in the ring, replied the girl,
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: looking over her shoulder to assure herself that her pursuer
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: was gone. They bruised themselves very bad. Sometimes serves em right,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: said mister Bounderby, for being idle. She glanced up at
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: his face with mingled astonishment and dread by George, said
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: mister Bounderby. When I was four or five years younger
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: oils twenty oils, forty oils would have rubbed off. I
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: didn't get em by posture making, but by being banged about.
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: There was no rope dancing for me. I'd danced on
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: the bare ground and was l rooped with the rope.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Mister Gradgrind, though hard enough, was by no means so
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: rough a man as mister Bounderby. His character was not
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: unkind all things considered, it might have been a very
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: kind one. Indeed, if he had only made some round
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it years ago, he said,
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: in what he meant for a reassuring tone, as they
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: turned down a narrow road, And this is POD's end,
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: is it, jupe? This it is, sir, And if you
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: wouldn't mind, sir, this is the house. She stopped at
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: twilight at the door of a mean little public house
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: with dim red lights in it, as haggard and as shabby,
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: as if for want of custom. It had itself taken
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: to drinking, and had gone the way all drunkards go,
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: and was very near the end of it. It's only
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: crossing the bar, sir, and up the stairs, if you
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: wouldn't mind, and waiting there for a moment till I
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: get a candle. If you should hear a dog, sir,
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: it's only merrylegs, and he only barks merry legs and
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: non oils. Eh, said mister bounderby entering last with his
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: metallic laugh. Pretty well this for a self made man.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: End of Section two.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: Chapter six, Sleary's Horsemanship. The name of the public house
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: was the Pegasus Arms. The Pegasus Legs might have been
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: more to the purpose. But underneath the winged horse upon
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: the sideboard, the Pegasus Arms was inscribed in Roman letters.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Beneath that inscription again in a flowing scroll, the painter
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: had touched off the lines good malt makes good beer.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Walk in and they'll draw it here. Good wine makes
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: good brandy. Give us a call and you'll find it
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: handy framed and glazed upon the wall behind the dingy
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: little bar was another Pegasus, a theatrical one with real
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: gauze led in for his wings, golden stars stuck on
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: all over him, and his ethereal harness made of red silk.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: As it had grown too dusky without to see the sign,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: and as it had not grown light enough within to
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: see the picture, mister Gradgrind and mister Bounderby received no
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: offense from these idealities. They followed the girl up some
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: steep corner stairs without meeting any one, and stopped in
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: the dark while she went on for a candle. They
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: expected every moment to hear merrylegs give tongue, but the
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: highly trained performing dog had not barked when the girl
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: and the candle appeared together. Father is not in our room, suh,
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: she said, with a face of great surprise. If you
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: wouldn't mind walking in, I'll find him directly. They walked in,
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: and Cissy, having set two chairs for them, sped away
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: with a light quick step. It was a mean, shabbily
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: furnished room with a bed in it. The white night
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: cap embellished with two peacock's feathers and a pigtail bolt
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: upright in which signor Jupe had that very afternoon enlivened
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: the varied performances with his chased Shakespearean quips and retorts
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: hung upon a nail. But no other portion of his
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: wardrobe or other token of himself or his pursuits was
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: to be seen anywhere. As to Merrylegs, that respectable ancestor
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: of the highly trained animal who went aboard the ark
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: might have been accidentally shut out of it for any
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: sign of a dog that was manifest to eye or
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: ear in the Pegasu's arms. They heard the doors of
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: rooms above opening and shutting as Cissy went from one
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: to another in quest of her father, and presently they
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: heard voices expressing surprise. She came bounding down again in
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: a great hurry, opened a battered and mangy old hair trunk,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: found it empty, and looked round with her hands clasped
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: and her face full of terror. Father must have gone
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: down to the booth, sir. I don't know why he
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: should go there, but he must be there. I'll bring
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: him in a minute. She was gone directly without her bonnet,
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: with her long, dark childish hair streaming behind her. What
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: does she mean? Said mister gradgrind back in a minute,
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: it's more than a mile off. Before mister Bounderby could reply,
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: a young man appeared at the door, and introducing himself
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: with the words by your leaves, gentlemen, walked in with
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: his hands in his pockets. His face close, shaven, thin
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: and sallow, was shaded by a great quantity of dark hair,
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: brushed into a roll all round his head and parted
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: up the center. His legs were very robust, but shorter
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: than legs of good proportion should have been. His chest
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: and back were as much too broad as his legs
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: were too short. He was dressed in a new market
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: coat and tight fitting trousers, wore a shawl round his neck,
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: smelt of lamp oil, straw, orange peel, horses, provender, and sawdust,
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: and looked a most remarkable sort of centaur compounded of
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: the stable and the playhouse, where the one began and
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: the other ended. Nobody could have told with any precision.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: as mister E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsmen of the
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: North American Prairies, in which popular performance a diminutive boy
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: with an old face who now accompanied him assisted as
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: his infant son, being carried upside down over his father's
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: shoulder by one foot and held by the crown of
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: his head, heels up in the palm of his father's hand.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: According to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: may be observed to fondle their offspring. Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: bismuth and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: pleasing a cupid as to constitute the chief delight of
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: the maternal part of the spectators. But in private, where
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: gruff voice, he became of the turf turfy by your leaves, gentlemen,
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: said mister E. W. B. Childers, glancing round the room.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: It was you. I believe that we're wishing to see Jupe,
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: it was said mister Gradgrind. His daughter is going to
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: fetch him, but I can't wait. Therefore, if you please,
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: I will leave a message for him with you. You see,
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: my friend, mister Bounderby put in, we are the kind
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: of people who know the value of time, and you
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: are the kind of people who don't know the value
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: of time. I have not, retorted mister Childers, after surveying
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: him from head to foot, the honor of knowing you.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: But if you mean that you can make more money
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: of your time than I can of mine, I should
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: judge from your appearance that you're about right. An why
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: you've mighty even keep it too, I should think, said
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: Cupid Kidderminster. Stir that, said mister Childers. Master Kidderminster was
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: Cupid's mortal name. What was he come here cheekin us for? Then,
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. If you
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: want a cheek us, pay your okre at the doors
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: and take it out, Kidderminster, said mister Childers, raising his voice,
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: stow that, sir to mister Gradgrind, I was addressing myself
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: to you. You may or you may not be aware,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: for perhaps you've not been much in the audience that
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Jupe has missed his tip very often lately. Has What
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: does he missed, asked mister Gradgrind, glancing at the potent
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: bounderby for assistance. Missus tip offered it the godless four
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: times last night and never done him once, said Master Kidderminster.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: Missus tip at the banners too, and was loose in
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: his ponging, didn't do what he ought to do, will
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: shorten his leaps and bad in his tom. Mister Childers interpreted, Oh,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: said mister Gradgrind, that is tip? Is it in a
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: general way? Asked missing his tip? Mister E. W. B.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Childers answered nine oils, merrylegs, missing tips, God as banners
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: and ponging. Eh ejaculated Bounderby with his laugh of laughs.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Queer sort of company too, for a man has raised himself,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: lower yourself, then, retorted cupid. Oh lord, if you've raised
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: yourself so ill is all that comes to let yourself
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: down a bit? This is a very obtrusive, lad, said
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: mister Gradgrind, turning and knitting his brows on him. We'd
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: have had a young gentleman to meet you if we'd
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: known you were coming, retorted Master Kidderminster. Nothing abashed, sir,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: pity you don't have a bespake being so particular. You're
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: on the tight yef ain't you? What does this unmannerly
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: boy mean, asked mister Gradgrind, eyeing him in a sort
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: of desperation. By tight deaf there, Get out, Get out,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: said mister Childers, thrusting his young friend from the room.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: Rather in the prairie manner, tight jef or slack jeff.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: He don't much signify. It's only tight rope and slack rope.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: You are going to give me a message for jupe? Yes,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: I was then continued mister Childers quickly. My opinion is
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: he will never receive it. Do you know much of him?
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: I never saw the man in my life. I doubt
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: if you ever will see him now. He's pretty plain
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: to me. He's off. Do you mean that he has
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: deserted his daughter? I I mean, said mister Childers, with
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: a nod, that he is cut. He was goose last night.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: It was goose, the night before last, it was goose
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: to day. He's lately got in the way of always
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: being goosed. An he can't stand it. Why has he
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: been so very much goosed? Asked mister gradgrind, forcing the
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: word out of himself with great solemnity and reluctance. His
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: joints are turning stiff. An he's gettin used up, said Childers,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: has his points is a cackler still, but he can't
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: get a living out of him a cackler. Bounderby repeated,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: here we go again, a speaker. If a gentleman likes
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: it better, said mister E. W. B. Childers, superciliously throwing
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: the interpretation over his shoulder and accompanying it with a
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: shake of his long hair, which all shook at once.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: Now it's a remarkable fact, sir, that it cut that
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: man deeper to never his daughter knew of his being goose,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: and to go through with it? Good, interrupted mister Bounderby.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: This is good gradgrind. A man so fond of his
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: daughter that he runs away from her, this is devilish
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: good ha ha. Now I'll tell you what, young man,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: I haven't always occupied my present station in life. I
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: know what these things are. You may be astonished to
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: hear it. But my mother ran away from me. E. W. B.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Schilders replied pointedly that he was not at all astonished
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: to hear it. Very well, said Bounderby. I was born
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Do I excuse her for it? No? Have I ever
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: excused her for it?
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: Not?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: I what do I call her for it? I call
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: her probably the very worst woman that ever lived in
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: the world. Except my drunken grandmother. There's no family pride
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: about me. There's no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. I
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: call a spade a spade, and I call the mother
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: of Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, without any fear or any favor,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: what I should call her if she had been the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: mother of Dick Jones of Wapping. So with this man,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: he's a runaway rogue and a vagabond. That's what he
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: is in English. It's all the same to me what
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: he is or what he is not, whether in English
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: or whether in French. Retorted mister e W. B. Childers,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: facing about, I'm telling your friend, what's the fact. If
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: you don't like to hear it, you can avail yourself
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: of the open air. You give it mouth enough, you do,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: but give it mouth in your own building, at least,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: remonstrated e W. B. With stern irony. Don't give it
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: mouth from this building to your called upon. You have
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: got some building of your own, I dare say now.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Perhaps so, replied mister bounderby rattling his money and laughing.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Then give it mouth from your own building, will you,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: if you please, said Childers, Because this isn't a strong building,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: and too much of you m bring it down. Eyeing
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: mister bounderby from head to foot again, he turned from
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: him as from a man finally disposed of, to mister Gradgrind.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Jupe Senty's daughter out on an errand not an hour ago,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: and then was seen to slip out himself, with his
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: hat over his eyes and a bundle tied up in
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: an handkerchief under his arm. She'll never believe it of him,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: but he's cut away and left her pray, said mister Gradgrind.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Why will she never believe it of him? Because those
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: two were one, because they were never asunder, Because up
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: to this time he seemed to doubt upon her, said Shoulders,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: taking a step or two to look into the empty trunk.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: Both mister Childers and Master Kidderminster walked in a curious manner,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: with their legs wider apart than the general run of men,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: and with a very knowing assumption of being stiff in
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: the knees. This walk was common to all the male
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: members of Sleary's company, and was understood to express that
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: they were always on horseback. Poor Cissy, he had better
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: have apprenticed her, said Childers, giving his hair another shake
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: as he looked up from the empty box. Now he
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: leaves it without anything to take too. It is creditable
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: to you who have never been apprenticed to express that opinion,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: returned mister Gradgrind approvingly. I never apprenticed. I was apprenticed
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: when I was seven year old. Oh indeed, said mister Gradgrind,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: rather resentfully, as having been defrauded of his good opinion.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: I was not aware of its being the custom to
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: apprentice young persons to idleness. Mister Bounderby put in with
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: a loud laugh. No by the Lord Harry, nor I
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: if father always had it in his head, resumed Childers,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: feigning unconsciousness of mister Bounderby's existence, for she was to
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: be taught the deuce and all education. How he got
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: into his head, I can't say. I can only say
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: it never got out. He's been picking up a bit
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: of reading for her, here, a bit of writing for her, there,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: a bit of ciphering for her somewhere else least seven years.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Mister E. W. B. Childers took one of his hands
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: out of his pockets, stroked his face and chin, and
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: looked with a good deal of doubt and a little
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: hope at mister Gradgrind. From the first he had sought
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: to conciliate that gentleman for the sake of the deserted
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: girl when Sissy got into the school. Here, he pursued,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: if father was as pleased as punch, I couldn't altogether
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: make out war myself, as we were not stationary ear being,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: but commers and goers anywhere. I suppose, however, he had
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: this move in mind. He was always half cracked, and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: then considered her provided for if you should happen to
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: have looked in to night for the purpose of telling
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: him that you were going to do her any little service,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: said mister Childers, stroking his face again and repeating his look,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: it will be very fortunate and well timed. Very fortunate
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: and well timed. On the contrary, returned mister Gradgrind. I
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: came to tell him that her connections made her not
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: an object for the school, and that she must not
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: attend any more. Still, if her father really has left
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: her without any connivance on her part, bounderby, let me
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: have a word with you upon this. Mister Childers politely
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: betook himself with his equestrian walk to the landing outside
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: the door, and there stood stroking his face and softly whistling.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: While thus engaged, he overheard such phrases in mister Bounderby's
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: voice as no I say, no I advise you, not
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: I say by no means, while from mister Gradgrind he heard,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: in his much lower tone the words but even as
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: example to Louisa, of what this pursuit, which has been
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: the subject of a vulgar curiosity, leads to an end's
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: in think of it? Bound Toby from that point of view. Meanwhile,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: the various members of Sleary's company gradually gathered together from
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: the upper regions where they were quartered, and from standing
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: about talking in low voices to one another and to
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: mister Childers, gradually insinuated themselves and him into the room.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: There were two or three handsome young women among them,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: with their two or three husbands, and their two or
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: three mothers, and their eight or nine little children, who
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: did the fairy business when required. The father of one
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: of the families was in the habit of balancing the
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: father of another of the families on the top of
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: a great pole. The father of a third family often
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: made a pyramid of both those fathers, with Master Kidderminster
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: for the apex and himself for the base. All the
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: fathers could dance upon rolling casks, stand upon bottles, catch
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: knives and balls, twirl hand basins, ride upon anything, jump
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: over everything, and stick at nothing. All the mothers could
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: and did dance upon the slack wire and the tight rope,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: and perform rapid acts on barebacked steeds. None of them
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: were at all particular in respect of showing their legs,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: and one of them, alone, in a Greek chariot, drove
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: six in hand into every town they came to. They
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: all assumed to be mighty rakish, and knowing they were
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, And the combined
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: literature of the whole company would have produced but a
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: poor letter on any subject. Yet there was a remarkable
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: gentleness and childishness about these people, especially in aptitude for
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: any kind of sharp practice, and an untiring readiness to
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: help and pity one another, deserving often of as much
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: respect and always of as much generous construction as the
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: every day virtues of any class of people in the world.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: Last of all appeared mister Sleary, a stout man, as
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: already mentioned, with one fixed eye and one loose eye.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: A voice, if it can be called so, like the
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: efforts of a broken old pair of bellows, a flabby surface,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: and a muddled head, which was never sober and never
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: drunk er, said mister Sleary, who was troubled with asthma,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: and whose breath came far too thick and heavy for
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: the letter s. You're fervent. This is a bad piece
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: of business. This is you've heard of my clown and
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: his dog being supposed to have morse, He addressed mister Gradgrind,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: who answered yes, well, Squire, He returned, taking off his
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: hat and rubbing the lining with his pocket handkerchief, which
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: he kept inside for the purpose. Is it your intensin
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: to do anything for the poor girl? Squire? I shall
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: have something to propose to her when she comes back,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: said mister Gradgrind, glad to hear it's, squire, not that
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: I want to get rid of the child any more
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: than I want to stand in her way. I'm willing
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: to take a prentice, though it her age is late.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: My voice is a little husky, Squire, and not easy
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: heard by them, as don't know me. But if you'd
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: been chilled and heeded, heated and chilled, chilled and heated
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: in the ring when you was young as often as
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: I have been, your voice wouldn't have lasted out, Squire,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: no more than mine, I daresay not, said mister Gradgrind.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: What's'll it be, Squire? While you wait? Tell it be fairy?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: Give it a nameh Guia, said mister Sleary, with hospitable ease.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: Nothing for me, I thank you, said mister Gradgrind. Doubt
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: thy nothing, Squire, What did yer friend they? If ye
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: haven't taking a feed, ye'd have a glass of bitteth.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: Here is daughter Josephine, a pretty fair haired girl of eighteen,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: who had been tied on a horse at two years old,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: and had made a will at twelve, which she always
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: carried about her expressive of her dying desire to be
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: drawn to the grave by the two piebald ponies. Cried father, hush,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: she's come back. Then came Sissy Jupe, running into the
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: room as she had run out of it. And when
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: she saw them all assembled, and saw their looks, and
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: saw no father there, she broke into a most deplorable
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: cry and took refuge on the bosom of the most
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: accomplished tight rope lady herself in the family way, who
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: knelt down on the floor to nurse her and to
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: weep over her. It's an internal fame upon my thal,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: it is, said, sleary, oh, my dear father, my good
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: kind father, where are you gone? You are going to
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: try to gi me some good? I know you are
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: gone away for my sake, I'm sure. And how miserable
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: and helpless you will be without me, poor poor father,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: until you come back. It was so pathetic to hear
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: her saying many things of this kind, with her face
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: turned upward and her arms stretched out, as if she
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: were trying to stop his departing shadow and embrace it,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: that no one spoke a word until mister bounderby growing impatient,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: took the case in hand. Now, good people, all said he,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: this is wanton waste of time. Let the girl understand
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: the fact. Let it take it from me if you like,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: who have been run away from myself? Here? What's your name?
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: Your father has absconded, deserted you, and you mustn't expect
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: to see him again as long as you live. They
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: cared so little for plain fact these people and were
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: in that advanced state of degeneracy on the subject that
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: instead of being impressed by the speaker's strong common sense,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: they took it in extraordinary dudgeon. The men muttered shame,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: and the women, Brute and Sleary, in some haste communicated
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: the following hint a part to mister bounderby I'll tell
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: you what to speak plain to you. More opinion is
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: that you had better cut a thought and drop it.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: They are a very good natured people of my people,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: but they're accustomed to being quick with their movements. And
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: if you don't act upon my vice, I'm damned if
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: I don't believe they'll PYTHI out of the window. Mister
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: Bounderby being restrained by this mild suggestion, mister Gradgrind found
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: an opening for his eminently practical exposition of the subject.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: It is of no moment, said he, whether this person
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: is to be expected back at any time, or the contrary.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: He has gone away, and there is no present expectation
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: of his return that I believe has agreed on all hands.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: That agreed Squire Thick to that from Sleary. Well, then,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: I who came here to inform the father of the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: poor girl, Jupe, that she could not be received in
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: the school any more, in consequence of there being practical
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: objections into which I need not enter to the reception
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: there of the children of persons so employed and prepared
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: in these altered circumstances to make a proposal, I am
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: willing to take charge of you, Jupe, and to educate
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: you and provide for you. The only condition over and
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: above your good behavior I make is that you decide
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: now at once whether to accompany me or remain here.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Also that if you accompany me now, it is understood
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: that you communicate no more with any of your friends
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: who are here present. These observations comprise the whole of
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: the case. At the same time, said Sleary, I must
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: put in my word, Squire, so that both sides of
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: the banner may be equally seen. If you like Cecilia
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: to be prenticed, you know the nature of the work,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: and you know your companions. Emma Gordon, in whose lap
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: you're a line at present, would be a mother to you,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: and Josephine would be a sister to you. I don't
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: pretend to be the angel breed myself, and I don't
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: say but what when you missed your tip, you'd find
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: me cut up up and swear an oath or two
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: at you. But what I say, Squire, is that good
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: tempered are bad tempered. I never did a hoarse and injury,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: yet no more than swearing at him went, And that
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: I don't expect I shall begin otherwise at my time
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: of life with a rider. I never was much of
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: a cackler, Squire, but I have fed my say. The
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: latter part of the spear each was addressed to mister Gradgrind,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: who received it with a grave inclination of his head,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: and then remarked, the only observation I will make to you, Jupe,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: in the way of influencing your decision, is that it
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: is highly desirable to have a sound practical education, and
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: that even your father himself, from what I understand, appears
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: on your behalf, to have known and felt that much.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: The last words had a visible effect upon her. She
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: stopped in her wild crying a little, detached herself from
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: Emma Gordon, and turned her face full upon her patron.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: The whole company perceived the force of the change, and
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: drew a long breath together that plainly said she will
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: go be sure you know your own mind, Jupe, mister
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: Gradgrind cautioned her. I say no more, be sure you
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: know your own mind. When father comes back, cried the girl,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: bursting into tears again. After a minute's silence, How will
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: he ever find me? If I go away? You may
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: be quite at ease, said mister Gradgrind, calmly. He worked
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: out the whole matter like a sum. You may be
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: quite at ease, jupe, on that score, inside which a
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: case your father I apprehend must find out mister Fleary,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: that's my name, squire, not a famed of it. Now
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: in all over England and all with pat it way
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: must find out mister Sleary, who would then let him
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: know where you went. I should have no power of
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: keeping you against his wish, and he would have no
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: difficulty at any time in finding mister Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: I'm well known, well non assented, mister Sleary, rolling his
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: loose eye, you're one of the thought squire that keep
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: the preatheth sight of money out of the houth. But
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: never mind that at present. There was another silence, and
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: then she exclaimed, sobbing with her hands before her face. Oh,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: give me my clothes, Give me my clothes, and let
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: me go away before I break my heart. The women
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: sadly bestirred themselves to get the clothes together. It was
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: soon done, for they were not many, and to pack
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: them in a basket which had often traveled with them.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: Cissy sat all the time upon the ground, still sobbing
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: and covering her eyes. Mister Gradgrind and his friend Bounderby
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: stood near the door, ready to take her away. Mister
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: Sleer he stood in the middle of the room, with
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: the male members of the company around him, exactly as
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: he would have stood in the center of the ring
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: during his daughter Josephine's performance. He wanted nothing but his whip.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: The basket packed in silence. They brought her bonnet to
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: her and smoothed her disordered hair and put it on.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: Then they pressed about her and bent over her in
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: very natural attitudes, kissing and embracing her, and brought the
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: children to take leave of her. And were a tender hearted, simple,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: foolish set of women altogether. Now, Jupe, said mister Gradgrind,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: if you are quite determined, come, But she had to
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: take her farewell of the male part of the company.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: Yet and every one of them had to unfold his arms,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: for they all assumed the professional attitude when they found
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: themselves near Sleary, and give her a parting kiss. Master
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: Kiderminster accepted, in whose young nature there was an original
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: flavor of the misanthrope, who was also known to have
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: harbored matrimonial views, and who moodily withdrew. Mister Sleary was
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: reserved until the last. Opening his arms wide, he took
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: her by both hands, and would have sprung up and
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: down after the riding master manner of congratulating young ladies
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: on their dismounting from a rapid act, But there was
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: no rebound in Cissy, and she only stood before him,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: crying goodbye. My diou said, Sleary, you'll make your fortune.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: I up, and none of our poor folk they'll ever
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: trouble you. I'll pound it all with your father hadn't
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: taken his dog with him. If an illkin weenieth to
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: have the dog out o the bilf, But on dekenthoth
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: he wouldn't have performed without his master, though it hath
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: broadth if long with that. He regarded her attentively with
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: his fixed eye, surveyed his company with his loose one,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: kissed her, shook his head, and handed her to mister
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: gradgrind as to a horse. Darethieth, squire, he said, sweeping
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: her with a professional glance, as if she were being
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: adjusted in her seat. And they'll do you j justath.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: Goodbye Ththilia, good bye Cecilia, goodbye sissy, God bless you, dear,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: in a variety of voices from all over the room.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: But the riding master had observed the bottle of the
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: nine oils in her bosom, and he now interposed with
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: leave the bottle, my dear. It's large to carry. It
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: will be of no use to you. Now give it
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: to me. No, no, she said, in another burst of tears.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: Oh no, pray, Let me keep it for father till
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: he comes back. He'll want it when he comes back.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: He never thought of going away when he sent me
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: for it. I must keep it for him, if you please,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: so be it, my dear. You see how it is, Squire, farewell, Cethelia.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: My last word to you is this, stick to the
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: terms of your engagement, be obedient to the squire, and
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: forget us. But if when you're grown up and married
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: and well off, you come upon any horse riding. Ever,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: don't be hard upon it, don't be croth with it.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: Give it a bespeak if you can, and think how
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: you might do worse. People must be amuth, Squire. Somehow
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: continued Sleary, rendered more purcy than ever by so much talking.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: They can't be all with or working. Nor yet they
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: can't be all with or learning. Make the best of us,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: not the worst. I've got my living out o the
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: horse riding all my life, I know, but I consider
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: that I lay down the philosophy of the subject when
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: I say to you, Squire, he might the best of us,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: not the worst. The Sleary philosophy was propounded as they
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: went downstairs, and the fixed eye of philosophy and its
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: rolling eye too soon lost the three figures and the
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: basket in the darkness of the street. End of Section three.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 5: Chapter seven, Missus Sparsit. Mister Bounderby, being a bachelor, an
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 5: elderly lady presided over his establishment in consideration of a
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: certain annual stipend. Missus Sparsit was this lady's name, and
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 5: she was a prominent figure in attendance on mister Bounderby's
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: car as it rolled along in triumph with the bully
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 5: of humility inside. For Missus Sparsit had not only seen
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 5: different days, but was highly connected. She had a great
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 5: aunt living in these very times, called ladies Scadger's mister Sparsit, deceased,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 5: of whom she was the relict, had been by the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 5: mother's side. What Missus Sparsit still called a paula. Strangers
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 5: of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: to know what a powler was, and even to appear
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 5: uncertain whether it might be a business, or a political party,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 5: or a profession of fate. The better class of minds, however,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: did not need to be informed that the Powlers were
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 5: an ancient stock who could trace themselves so exceedingly far
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 5: back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 5: which they had rather frequently done as respected horse flesh,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 5: blind hooky, Hebrew monetary transactions and the insolvent debtor's court.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 5: The late mister Sparsit, being by the mother's side, a
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 5: powler married this lady, being by the father's side, a
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 5: Scadger's lady Scadgers, an immensely fat old woman with an
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 5: inordinate appetite for butcher's meat, and a mysterious leg, which
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 5: had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 5: contrived the marriage at a period when Sparsit was just
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 5: of age and chiefly noticeable for a slender body, weakly
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 5: supported on two long, slim props, and surmounted by no
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: head worth mentioning. He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: but owed it all before he came into it, and
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 5: spent it twice over immediately afterwards. Thus, when he died
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 5: at twenty four, the scene of his deceased Calais and
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 5: the cause brandy, he did not leave his widow, from
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: whom he had been separated soon after the honeymoon. In
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 5: affluent circumstances that bereaved lady fifteen years older than he,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 5: fell presently at deadly feud with her only relative, Lady Scadgers,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 5: and partly to spite her ladyship, and partly to maintain herself,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 5: went out at a salary. And here she was, now
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 5: in her elderly days, with the Coriolanean style of nose
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 5: and the dense black eyebrows which had captivated Sparsit, making
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 5: mister Bounderby's tea as he took his breakfast. If Bounderby
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 5: had been a conqueror, and Missus Sparsit a captive princess
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 5: whom he took about as a feature in his state processions.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: He could not have made a greater flourish with her
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: habitually did. Just as it belonged to his boastfulness to
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: depreciate his own extraction, so it belonged to it to
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: exalt Missus Sparsit's in the measure that he would not
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 5: allow his own youth to have been attended by a
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 5: single favorable circumstance.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 6: He brightened Missus.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 5: Sparsit's juvenile career with every possible advantage, and showered wagon
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 5: loads of early roses all over that lady's path. And yet, sir,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 5: he would say, how does it turn out? After all?
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 5: Why here she is at a hundred a year. I
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 5: give her a hundred, which she is pleased to term
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 5: handsome keeping the house of Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. Nay,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 5: he made this foil of his so very widely known
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: that third parties took it up and handled it on
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 5: some occasions with considerable briskness. It was one of the
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 5: most exasperating attributes of Bounderby that he not only sang
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: his own praises, but stimulated other men to sing them.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: There was a moral infection of clap trap in him.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: Strangers modest enough elsewhere started up at dinners in Cooke
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 5: Town and boasted in quite a rampant way of Bounderby.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 5: They made him out to be the Royal Arms, the Union,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: Jack Magna Carda, John Bull, Habeas corpus, the Bill of rights,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: an Englishman's houses as castle, church and State, and God
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 5: save the Queen, all put together, and as often, and
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 5: it was very often, as an orator of this kind
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 5: brought into his peroration. Princes and lords may flourish or
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: may fade. A breath can make them as a breath
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 5: has made. It was for certain more or less understood
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 5: among the company that he had heard of Missus Sparsit.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 5: Mister Bounderby said, Missus Sparsit. You are unusually slow, sir,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 5: with your breakfast this morning. Why ma'am, he returned, I
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 5: am thinking about Tom Gradgrind's whim. Tom Gradgrind for a
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 5: bluff independent manner of speaking, as if somebody were always
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 5: endeavoring to bribe him with immense sums, to say Thomas,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: and he wouldn't Tom grandgrinds whim, ma'am of bringing up
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 5: the tumbling girl. The girl is now waiting to know,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 5: said missus Sparsit, whether she is to go straight to
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 5: the school or up to the lodge. She must wait, ma'am,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 5: answered Bounderby, till I know myself. We shall have Tom
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: grand griding down here presently. I suppose if he should
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 5: wish her to remain here a day or two longer.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: Of course she can, ma'am. Of course she can, if
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 5: you wish it. Mister Bounderby, I told him I should
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 5: give her a shake down here last night, in order
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: that he might sleep on it before he decided to
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 5: let her have any.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 6: Association with Louisa.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 5: Indeed, mister Bounderby, very thoughtful of you, missus Sparsit's coriolanian
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 5: nose underwent a slight expansion of the nostrils, and her
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 5: black eyebrows contracted as she took a sip of tea.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 5: It's tolerably clear to me, said Bounderby, that the little
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 5: puss can get small good out of such companionship. Are
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 5: you speaking of young miss Gradgrind, mister Bounderby, Yes, ma'am,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 5: I'm speaking of Louiso, your observation being limited to little Puss,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 5: said missus Sparsit. And there be two little girls in question,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 5: I did not know which might be indicated by that expression,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 5: Louisa repeated, mister Bounderby, Louisa, Louisa, you are quite another
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 5: father to Louisa. Sir Missus Sparsit took a little more tea,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 5: and as she bent her again, contracted eyebrows over his
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 5: steaming cup, rather looked as if her classical countenance were
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: invoking the infernal gods. If you had said I was
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 5: another father to Tom, Young Tom, I mean not my
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 5: friend Tom Gradgrind, you might have been nearer the mark.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: I am going to take young Tom into my office,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 5: going to have him under my wingmap. Indeed rather young,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: for that is he not, sir missus sparsit. Sir, in
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 5: addressing mister Bounderby, was a word of ceremony, rather extracting
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 5: consideration for herself in the use than honoring him. I'm
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 5: not going to take him at once. He is to
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 5: finish his educational cramming before then, said bounderby By. The
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 5: Lord Harry Hill have enough of it, Urston, last he'd
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: open his eyes. That boy would if he knew how
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 5: empty of learning my young Maul was at his time
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: of life, which, by the bye he probably did know,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: for he'd heard of it often enough. But it's extraordinary
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 5: the difficulty I have, on scores of such subjects in
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 5: speaking to anyone on equal terms. Here, for example, I've
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 5: been speaking to you this morning about tumblers. Why what
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: do you know about tumblers at the time when to
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 5: have been a tumbler in the mud of the streets
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 5: would have been a godsend to me, a prize in
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 5: the lottery to me. You were at the Italian opera.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 5: You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma'am, in
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 5: white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendor, when I
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: hadn't a penny to buy a link.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 6: To light you.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 5: I certainly, sir, returned, Missus sparsit with a dignity, serenely mournful.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 5: Was familiar with the Italian opera at a very early age. Ye, God, ma'am,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 5: so was, I said Pounderby, with the wrong side of
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 5: it a hard bed the pavement of its arcade used
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 5: to make I assure you, like you, ma'am, accustomed from
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 5: infancy to lie on down feathers, have no idea how
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 5: hard a paving stone is without trying it. No, no,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: it's of no use my talking to you about tumblers.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 5: I should speak of foreign dancers, and the West end
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: of London, and Mayfair, and lords and ladies and honorables,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 5: I trust.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 6: Sir rejoined.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: Missus sparsit with decent resignation. It is not necessary that
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 5: you should do anything of that kind. I hope I
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 5: have learned how to accommodate myself to the changes of life.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 5: If I have acquired an interest in hearing of your
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: instructive experiences, and can scarcely hear enough of them, I
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 5: claim no merit for that, since I believe it is
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 5: a general sentiment. Well, ma'am, said her patron. Perhaps some
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 5: people may be pleased to say that they do like
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: to hear in his own unpolished way, what Josiah Bounderby
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 5: of Coketown has gone through. But you must confess that
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 5: you were born in the lap of luxury yourself. Come, ma'am,
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 5: you know you were born in the lap of luxury.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 5: I do not, sir, returned. Missus sparsit with a shake
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 5: of her head. Deny it, mister Bounderby was obliged to
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 5: get up from table and stand with his back to
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 5: the fire, looking at her. She was such an enhancement
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 5: of his position. And you were in crack society, devilish
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: high society, he said, warming his legs. It is true, sir, returned,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 5: missus sparsit with an affectation of humility, the very opposite
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 5: of his. And therefore in no danger of jostling it.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 5: You are in the tip top fashion and all the
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 5: rest of it, said mister Bounderby. Yes, sir returned missus
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 5: sparsit with a kind of social widowhood upon her. It
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 5: is unquestionably true. Mister Bounderby, bending himself at the knees,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 5: literally embraced his legs in his great satisfaction and laughed aloud.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: Mister and miss Gragrind being then announced. He received the
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 5: former with a shake of the hand, and the latter
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 5: with the kiss. Can Jupe be sent here, Bounderby, asked
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 5: mister Gragrind. Certainly, so Jupe was sent there. On coming in,
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: she curtseyed to mister Bounderby, and to his friend Tom Gragrind,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 5: and also to Louisa, But in her confusion unluckily omitted
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 5: missus Sparsit. Observing this, the blustress Bounderby had the following
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 5: remarks to make.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 6: Now, I tell you what my girl.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 5: The name of that lady by the teapot is, missus Sparsit.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 5: That lady acts as mistress of this house, and she
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 5: is a highly connected lady. Consequently, if ever you come
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 5: again into any room in this house, you will make
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 5: a short stay in it if you don't behave towards
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 5: that lady in your most respectful manner. Now, I don't
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 5: care a button what you do to me, because I
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 5: don't affect to be anybody so far from having high connections,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 5: I have no connections at all, and I come of
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 5: the scum of the earth. But towards that lady, I
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 5: do care what you do, and you shall do what
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: is deferential and respectful, or you shall not come here,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: I hope. Bounderby said mister Gradgrind in a conciliatory voice,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: that this was merely an oversight, my friend Tom Gradgrind suggests,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 5: missus Sparsit. Said Bounderby that this was merely an oversight
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 5: very likely. However, as you are aware, ma'am, I don't
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 5: allow of even oversights towards you.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 6: You are very good.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 5: Indeed, sir returned Missus sparsit, shaking her head with her
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 5: state humility. It is not worth speaking of Cissy, who
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 5: all this time had been faintly excusing herself with tears
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 5: in her eyes, was now waved over by the master
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 5: of the house to mister Gradgrind. She stood looking intently
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 5: at him, and Louisa stood coldly by with her eyes
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 5: upon the ground while he proceeded.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 6: Thus, Duupe, I.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 5: Have made up my mind to take you into my house,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 5: and when you are not in attendance at the school,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 5: to employ you about Missus Gradgrind, who is rather an invalid,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 5: I have explained to Miss Louisa there, this is, Miss Louisa,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 5: the miserable but natural end of your late career, and
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 5: you are to expressly understand that the whole of that
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 5: subject matter is past, as not to be referred to
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: any more from this time you begin your history. You
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 5: are at present ignorant. I know, yes, sir, very, she
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 5: answered curtseying, I shall have the satisfaction of causing you
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 5: to be strictly educated, and you will be a living
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 5: proof to all who come into communication with you, of
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 5: the advantages of the training you will receive, you will
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 5: be reclaimed informed. You have been in the habit now
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 5: of reading to your father and those those people I
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 5: found you among, I dare say, said mister Gradgrind, beckoning
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 5: her nearer to him before he said so, and dropping
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 5: his voice only to father and Maryleggs, Sir, At least
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: I mean to father, when Meryleggs was always there. Never
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 5: mind Merrylegs, Choupe, said mister Gradgrind, with a passing frown.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 5: I don't ask about him. I understand you to have
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 5: been in the habit of reading to your father. Oh, yes, sir,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 5: the thousands of times they were the happiest. Oh of
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 5: all the happy times we had together, sir. It was
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 5: only now, when her sorrow broke out, that Louisa looked
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 5: at her.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 6: And what, asked mister Gradgrind, in a.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 5: Still lower voice, did you read to your father, joupe,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 5: about the fairies, sir, and the dwarf and the hunchback
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 5: and the genies? She sobbed out, And about hush, said
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 5: mister Gradgrind.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 6: That is enough.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 5: Never breathe a word of such destructive nonsense any more.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 6: Bounderby.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: This is a case for rigid training, and I shall
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 5: observe it with interest. Well returned, mister Bounderby, I have
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 5: given you my opinion already, and I shouldn't do as
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 5: you do, but very well, very well, since you are
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 5: bent upon it.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 6: Very well.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 5: So mister Gradgrind and his daughter took Cecilia Jupe off
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 5: with them to stone Lodge, and on the way Louisa
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 5: never spoke one word good or bad, and mister Bounderby
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 5: went about his daily pursuits, and missus sparsit got behind
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 5: her eyebrows and meditated in the gloom of that retreat.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 6: All the evening.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: End of check chapter eight, never wonder, let us strike
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 5: the keynote again before pursuing the tune. When she was
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 5: half a dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: begin a conversation with her brother one day by saying, Tom,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 5: I wonder, upon which mister Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 5: stepped forth into the light and said, Louisa.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 6: Never wonder.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 5: Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 5: of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: Of the sentiments and affections.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 5: Never wonder by means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division,
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 5: settle everything somehow and never wonder. Bring to me the chocumchild,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 5: young yonder baby, just able to walk, and I will
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 5: engage that it shall never wonder. Now, besides very many
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 5: babies just able to walk, there happened to be in
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: Coketown a considerable population of babies who had been walking
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 5: against time towards the infinite world twenty thirty, forty fifty
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 5: years and more. These portentous infants being alarming creatures to
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 5: stalk about in any human society, the eighteen denominations incessantly
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 5: scratched one another's faces and pulled one another's hair by
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 5: way of agreeing on the steps to be taken for
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 5: their improvement, which they never did, a surprising circumstance when
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 5: the happy adaptation of the means to the end is considered. Still,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 5: although they differed in every other particular conceivable and inconceivable,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 5: especially inconceivable, they were pretty well united on the point
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 5: that these unlucky infants were never too wonder. Body number
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 5: one said they must take everything on trust. Body number
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 5: two said they must take everything on political economy. Body
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 5: number three wrote lead in little books for them, showing
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 5: how the good grown up baby invariably got to the
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 5: savings bank, and the bad grown up baby invariably got transported.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 5: Body number four under dreary pretil as of being droll
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 5: when it was very melancholy, indeed made the shallowest pretenses
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 5: of concealing pitfalls of knowledge into which it was the
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 5: duty of these babies to be smuggled and inveigled. But
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 5: all the bodies agreed that they were never to wonder.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 5: There was a library in Coketown, to which general access
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 5: was easy. Mister Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 5: the people read in this librarya a point where on
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 5: little rivers of tabular statements periodically flowed into the howling
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 5: ocean of tabular statements which no diver ever got to
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 5: any depth in, and came upsane. It was a disheartening circumstance,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 5: but a melancholy fact that even these readers persisted in wondering.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 5: They wondered about human nature, human passions, human hopes and fears,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 5: the struggles, triumphs and defeats, the cares and joys and sorrows,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 5: the lives and deaths of common men and women. They sometimes,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: after fifteen hours work, sat down to read mere fables
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 5: about men and women more or less like themselves, and
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 5: about children more or less like their own.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 6: They took defoe to.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 5: Their bosoms instead of euclid, and seemed to be, on
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 5: the whole more comforted by Goldsmith than by Cocker. Mister
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 5: Gradgrind was forever working in print and in out of
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 5: print at this eccentric salmony, never could make out how
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 5: it yielded this unaccountable product. I am sick of my life, Lou.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 5: I hate it altogether, and I hate everybody except you,
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 5: said the unnatural young Thomas Gradgrind in the hair cutting
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 5: chamber at twilight. You don't hate Sissy, Tom. I hate
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 5: to be obliged to call her jupe, and she hates me,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 5: said Tom moodily. No she does not, Tom. I'm sure
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 5: she must, said Tom. She must just hate and detest
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 5: the whole set out of us. They'll bother her head off,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 5: I think before they have done with her. Already she's
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 5: getting as pale as wax and as heavy as as
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 5: I am. Young Thomas express these sentiments sitting astride of
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 5: a chair before the fire, with his arms on the
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 5: back and his sulky face on his arms. His sister
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 5: sat in the darker corner by the fireside, now looking
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 5: at him, now looking at.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 6: The bright sparks as they dropped upon the hearth.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 5: As to me, said Tom, tumbling his hair all manner
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 5: of ways with his sulky hands. I am a donkey,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 5: That's what I am. I am as obstinate as one.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 5: I am more stupid than one. I get as much
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 5: pleasure as one, and I should like to kick like one,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 5: not me, I hope, Tom, No, Lou, I wouldn't hurt you.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 5: I made an exception of you at first. I don't
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 5: know what this jolly old jaundice jail. Tom had paused
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 5: to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 5: parental roof, and seemed to relieve his mind for a
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 5: moment by the strong alliteration of this one would be
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 5: without you. Indeed, Tom, do you do you really and
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 5: truly say so?
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 5: Of course I do. What's the use of talking about it?
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 5: Returned Tom, chafing his on his coat sleeve, as if
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 5: to mortify his flesh and have it in unison with
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 5: his spirit. Because, Tom, said his sister, after silently watching
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 5: the sparks a while. As I get older and and
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: nearer growing up, I often sit wondering here and think
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 5: how unfortunate it is for me that I can't reconcile
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 5: you to home better than I am able to do.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know what other girls know. I I can't
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 5: play to you or sing to you. I I can't
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 5: talk to you so as to lighten your mind. For
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 5: I never see any amusing sights or read any amusing
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 5: books that it would be a pleasure or a relief
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 5: to you to talk about when you are tired. Well,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 5: no more do I. I'm as bad as you in
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 5: that respect. And I'm a mule too, which you're not.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 5: If Father was determined to make me either a prig
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 5: or a mule, and I'm not a prig, why it
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 5: stands to reason I must be a mule, And so
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 5: I am, said Tom desperately. It's a great pity, said Louisa,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 5: after another pause and speaking thoughtfully out.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 6: Of her dark corner.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 5: It's a great pity, Tom, It's very unfortunate for both
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 5: of us.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, you said Tom.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 5: You you're a girl, lou and a girl comes out
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 5: of it better than a boy does. I don't miss
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 5: anything in you. You're the only pleasure I have. You
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 5: can brighten even this place, and you can always lead
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 5: me as you like. You are a dear brother, Tom.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 5: And well you think I can do such things, I
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 5: I don't so much mind knowing better, though I do
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 5: know better, Tom, and I'm very sorry for it. She
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 5: came and kissed him, and went back into her corner again.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 5: I wish I could collect all the facts we hear
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 5: so much about, said Tom, spitefully, setting his teeth, and
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 5: all the figures and all the people who found them out.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 5: And I wish I could put a thousand barrels of
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 5: gunpowder under them and blow them all up together. However,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 5: when I go to live with old Bounderby, I'll have
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 5: my revenge. You're revenge, Tom. I mean, I'll enjoy myself
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 5: a little and go about and see something and hear something.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 5: I'll recompense myself for the way in which I've been
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 5: brought up, But won't disappoint yourself beforehand. Tom, mister Bounderby
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 5: thinks his father thinks, and is a great deal rougher
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 5: and not half so kind, Oh, said Tom, laughing, I
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 5: don't mind that, I shall very well know how to
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 5: manage and smooth Old Bounderby. Their shadows were defined upon
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 5: the wall, but those of the high presses in the
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 5: room were all blended together on the wall and on
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 5: the ceiling, as if the brother and sister were overhung
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 5: by a dark cavern or a fanciful imagination. If such
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 5: treason could have been there, might have made it out
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 5: to be the shadow of their subject, and of its
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 5: lowering association with their future. What is your great mode
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 5: of smoothing and managing, Tom? Is it a secret, oh
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 5: said Tom. If it is a secret, it's not far off.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 5: It's it's you. You are his little pet. You are
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 5: his favorite. He'll do anything for you. When he says
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 5: to me what I don't like, I shall say to him,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 5: my sister Luke will be heard and disappointed, mister Bounderby.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 5: She always used to tell me that she was sure
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 5: you would be easier with me than this. That'll bring
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 5: him about.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 6: Or nothing will.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 5: After waiting for some answering remark and getting none, Tom
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 5: wearily relapsed into the present time and twined himself, yawning
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 5: round and about the rails of his chair. And rumpled
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 5: his head more and more, until he suddenly looked up
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 5: and asked, have you gone to sleep, Lou? No, Tom,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 5: I am looking at the fire. You seem to find
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 5: more to look at in it than I ever could find,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 5: said Tom. Another of the advantages I suppose of being
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 5: a girl, Tom inquired his sister, slowly and in a
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 5: curious tone, as if she were reading what she asked
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 5: in the fire, and was not quite plainly written. There
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 5: do you look forward with any satisfaction to this change
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 5: to mister Bounderby's why? There's one thing to be said
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 5: of it, returned Tom, pushing his chair from him and
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 5: standing up.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 6: It will be getting away.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 5: From home, There is one thing to be said of it,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 5: Louisa repeated, in her former curious tone.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 6: It will be getting away from home.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 5: Yes not, but what I shall be very unwilling both
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 5: to leave you, Lou and to leave you here.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 6: But I must go, you know, whether.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 7: I like it or not.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 5: And I had better go where I can take with
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 5: me some advantage of your influence than where I should
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 5: lose it altogether. Don't you see? Yes, Tom? The answer
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 5: was so long in coming, though there was no indecision
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 5: in it that Tom went and leaned on the back
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 5: of her chair to contemplate the fire which so engrossed
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 5: her from her point of view, and see what he
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 5: could make of it, except that it is a fire,
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 5: said Tom. It looks to me as stupid and blank
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 5: as everything else looks.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 6: What do you see in it? Not a circus?
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 5: I don't see anything in it, Tom, particularly, But since
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 5: I have been looking at it, I have been wondering
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 5: about you and me grown up? Why wondering again, said Tom,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 5: I have such unmanageable thoughts, returned his sister, that they
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 5: will wonder. Then I beg of you, Louisa, said missus gradgrind,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 5: who had opened the door without being heard to do
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 5: nothing of that description. For goodness sake, you in consider
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 5: a girl or or I shall never hear the last
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 5: of it from your father and and Thomas. It is
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 5: really shameful, with my poor head continually wearing me out
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 5: that a boy brought up as you have been, and
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 5: whose education has cost what yours has should be found
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 5: encouraging his sister to wonder when he knows his father
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 5: has expressly said that she is not to do it.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 5: Louisa denied Tom's participation in the offense, but her mother
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 5: stopped her with the conclusive answer, Louisa, don't tell me
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 5: in my state of health, for unless you had been encouraged,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 5: it as morally and physically impossible that you could.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 6: Have done it.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 7: I was encouraged by nothing, mother, But by looking at
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 7: at the red sparks dropping out of the fire and
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 7: whitening and dying, it made me think, after all, how
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 7: short my life would be, and how little I could.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 6: Hope to do in it.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 5: Nonsense, said missus gradgrind rendered almost energetic nonsense. Don't stand
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 5: there and tell me such stuff, Luisa, to my face,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 5: when you know very well that if it was ever
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 5: to reach your father's ears, I should never hear the
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 5: last of it. After all the trouble that has been
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 5: taken with you, after the lectures you have attended, and
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 5: the experiments you have seen, After I have heard you myself,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 5: when the whole of my right side has been benumbed
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 5: going on with your master about combustion and calcination and califrification,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 5: and I may say, every kind of ation that could
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 5: drive a poor invalid distracted to hear you talking in
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 5: this absurd way about sparks and ashes. I wish, whimpered
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 5: Missus Gradgrind, taking a chair and discharging her strongest point
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 5: before the coming under these mere shadows of facts. Yes,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 5: I really do wish that I had never had a family,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 5: and then you would have known what it was to
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 5: do without me.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 4: And Chapter eight, Chapter nine Cissy's Progress. Cissy Jupe had
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 4: not an easy time of it between mister m chocumchild
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 4: and Missus Gradgrind, and was not without strong impulses in
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 4: the first months of her probation to run away. It
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 4: hailed facts all day long, so very hard, and life
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 4: in general was open to her as such a closely
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 4: ruled ciphering book that assuredly she would have run away
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 4: but for only one restraint it is lamentable to think of.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 4: But this restraint was the result of no arithmetical process,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 4: was self imposed, in defiance of all calculation, and went
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 4: dead against any table of probabilities that any actuary would
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 4: have drawn up from the premises. The girl believed that
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 4: her father had not deserted her. She lived in the
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 4: hope that he would come back, and in the faith
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 4: that he would be made the happier by her remaining
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 4: where she was the wretched ignorance with which Jupe clung to.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 4: This consolation, rejecting the superior comfort of knowing on a
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 4: sound a rhythmetical basis that her father was an unnatural vagabond,
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 4: filled mister gradgrind with pity. Yet what was to be done?
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 4: M Chocumchild reported that she had a very dense head
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 4: for figures, that once possessed with a general idea of
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 4: the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 4: exact measurements, that she was extremely slow in the acquisition
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 4: of dates unless some pitiful incident happened to be concerned.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 4: Therewith that she would burst into tears on being required
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: by the mental process immediately to name the cost of
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 4: two hundred and forty seven Muslim caps at fourteen pence.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 4: Aypenny that she was as low down in the school
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: as low could be, that after eight weeks of induction
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 4: into the elements of political economy, she had only yesterday
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 4: been set right by a prattler three feet high. For
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 4: returning to the question what is the first principle of
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 4: this science? The absurd answer to do unto others as
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 4: I would that they should do unto me. Mister Gradgrind observed,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 4: shaking his head, that all this was very bad, that
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 4: it showed the necessity of infinite grinding at the mill
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 4: of knowledge as per Sistem schedule, blue book, report and
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 4: tabular statements A to Z, and that Jupe must be
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 4: kept to it. So Jupe was kept to it and
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 4: became low spirited, but no wiser. It would be a
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 4: fine thing to be you, miss Louisa, she said one night,
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 4: when Louisa had endeavored to make her perplexities for next
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 4: day something clearer to her. Do you think so I
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 4: should know so much, Miss Louisa, All that is difficult
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 4: to me now would be so easy. Then you might
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 4: not be better for it, Sissy, Cissy submitted, after a
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 4: little hesitation, I should not be the worst, Miss Louisa,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 4: to which Louisa answered, oh, I don't know that. There
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 4: had been so little communication between these two, both because
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 4: life at Stone Lodge went monotonously round like a piece
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 4: of machinery, which discouraged human interference, and because of the
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 4: prohibition relative to Sissy's past career that they were still
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 4: almost strangers. Sissy, with her dark eyes wonderingly directed to
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 4: Louisa's face was uncertain whether to say more or to
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 4: remain silent. You are more useful to my mother and
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 4: more pleasant with me than I can never be, Louisa resumed.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 4: You are pleasanter to yourself than I am to myself.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 4: But if you please, miss Louisa, Sissy pleaded, I am
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 4: oh so stupid. Louisa, with a brighter laugh than usual,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 4: told her she would be wiser by and by. Oh
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 4: you don't know, said Cissy, half crying, What a stupid girl.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 4: I am? All through school yea hours, I make mistakes.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 4: Mister and missus m chocum child call me up over
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 4: and over again regularly to make mistakes. I can't help them.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 4: They seem to come natural to me. Mister and missus
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 4: m chocum child never make any mistakes himself, I suppose, Sissy.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 4: Oh no, she eagerly returned, They know everything. Well, tell
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 4: me some of your mistakes. I am almost ashamed, said
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 4: Sissy with reluctance. But today, for instance, mister m chokumchild
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 4: was explaining to us about natural prosperity national I think
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 4: it must have been observed, Louisa, Yeah, yes it was,
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 4: But isn't it the same, She timidly asked, you had
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 4: better say national as he said, so returned Louisa with
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 4: her dry reserve national prosperity. And he said, now this
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 4: schoolroom is a nation, and in this nation there are
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 4: fifty millions of money. Isn't this a prosperous nation, girl
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 4: number twenty? Isn't this a prosperous nation? And ain't you
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 4: in a thriving stone? Eight? What did you say, asked Louisa.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 4: Miss Louisa, I said I didn't know. I thought I
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 4: couldn't know whether it was a prosperous nation or not,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 4: and whether I was in a thriving state or not
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 4: unless I knew who had got the money and whether
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 4: any of it was mine. But that had nothing to
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 4: do with it. It was not in the figures at all,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 4: said Sissy, wiping her eyes. That was a great mistake
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 4: of yours, observed Louisa. Yes, Miss Louise, I know it was.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 4: Now then mister m jocumchild said he would try me again,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 4: and he said, this schoolroom is an immense town, and
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 4: in it there are a million of inhabitants, and only
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 4: five and twenty are starved to death in the streets
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 4: in the course of a year. What is your remark
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 4: on that proportion? And my remark was, for I couldn't
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 4: think of a better one. That I thought it must
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 4: be just as hard upon those who were starved, whether
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 4: the others were a million or a million million. And
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 4: that was wrong too, of course it is. Then mister
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 4: m Chokumchild said he would try me once more, and
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 4: he said, oh, here are the stutterings statistic, said Louisa. Yes,
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 4: Miss Louisa, they always remind me of stutterings. And that's
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 4: another of my mistakes. Of accidents upon the sea, and
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 4: I find mister m Chokumchild said that in a given
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 4: time a hundred thousand persons went to sea on long voyages,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 4: and only five hundred of them were drowned or burnt
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 4: to death. What is the percentage? And I said, Miss
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 4: here says he fairly sobbed as confessing with extreme contrition
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 4: to her greatest error. I said, it was nothing, nothing, Cissy, nothing,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 4: miss to the relations and friends of the people who
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 4: were killed, I shall never learn, said Cissy. And the
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 4: worst of it is that although my poor father wished
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 4: me to so much to learn, and although I'm anxious
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 4: to learn because he wished me to. I'm afraid I
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 4: don't like it. Louisa stood looking at the pretty modest
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 4: head as it drooped abashed before her, until it was
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 4: raised again to glance at her face. Then she asked,
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 4: did your father know so much himself that he wished
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 4: you to be well taught to? Cissy? Cissy hesitated before replying,
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 4: and so plainly showed her sense that they were entering
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 4: on forbidden ground that Louisa added, no one hears us,
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 4: and if anyone did, I'm sure no harm could be
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 4: found in such an innocent question. No, miss Louisa, answered
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 4: Cissy upon this encouragement, shaking her head. Father knows very little. Indeed,
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 4: it's as much as he can do to write, and
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 4: it's more than people in general can do to read
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 4: his writing. Though it is plain to me and your mother,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 4: father says, she was quite a scholar. She died when
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 4: I was born. She was Sissy made the terrible communication nervously.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 4: She was a dancer. Did your father love her? Louisa
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 4: asked these questions with a strong, wild, wandering interest, peculiar
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 4: to her, an interest gone astray like a banished creature,
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 4: and hiding in solitary places. Oh, yes, as dearly as
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 4: he loves me. Father loved me first for her sake.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 4: He carried me about with him when I was quite
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 4: a baby. We have never been asunder from that time.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 4: Yet he leaves you now, Sissy, only for my good.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 4: Nobody understands him as I do. Nobody knows him as
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 4: I do. When he left me for my good, he
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 4: never would have left me for his own. I know
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 4: he was almost broken hearted with the trial. He will
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 4: not be happy for a single minute till he comes back.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 4: Tell me more about him, said Louisa. I will never
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 4: ask you again. Where did you live? We traveled about
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 4: the country and had no fixed place to live in
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 4: Father's a sissy whispered the awful word a clown to
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 4: make the people laugh, said Louisa, with a nod of intelligence. Yes,
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 4: but they wouldn't laugh sometimes, and then Father cried. Lately,
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 4: they very often wouldn't laugh, and he used to come
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 4: home despairing. Father's not like most those who didn't know
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 4: him as as well as I do, and didn't love
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 4: him as dearly as I do. My believe he was
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 4: not quite right. Sometimes they played tricks upon him they
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 4: never knew how he felt them, and shrunk up when
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 4: he was alone with me. He was far far timid
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 4: than they thought, and you were his comfort through everything.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 4: She nodded, with the tears rolling down her face. I
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 4: hope so, and father said I was. It was because
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 4: he grew so scared and trembling, and because he felt
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 4: himself to be a poor, weak, ignorant, helpless man. Those
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 4: used to be his words, that he wanted me so
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 4: much to know a great deal and be different from him.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 4: I used to read him to cheer his courage, and
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 4: he was very fond of that. They were wrong books.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 4: I'm never to speak of them here, but we didn't
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 4: know there was any harm in them, and he liked them,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 4: said Louisa, with her searching gaze on Sissy all the time,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 4: Oh very much. They kept him many times from what
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 4: did him real harm. And often and often of a
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 4: night he used to forget all his troubles, and wondering
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 4: whether the Sultan would let the lady go on with
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 4: the story or would have her head cut off before
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 4: it was finished. And your father was always kind to
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 4: the last, asked Louisa, contravening the great principle and wondering
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 4: very much always always, returned Sissy, clasping her hands. Kinder
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 4: than I can tell. He was angry only one night,
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 4: and that was not to me, but Mary Legg's Mary Legs.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 4: She whispered. The awful fact is his performing dog. Why
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 4: was he angry with the dog? Louisa demanded Father, soon
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 4: after they came home from performing, told Merrylegs to jump
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 4: up on the backs of the two chairs and stand
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 4: across them, which is one of his tricks. He looked
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 4: at Father and didn't do it at once. Everything of
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 4: father's had gone wrong that night, and he hadn't pleased
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 4: the public at all. He cried out that the very
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 4: dog knew he was failing and had no compassion on him.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 4: Then he beat the dog, and I was frightened, and said, father, Father, pray,
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 4: don't hurt the creature who is so fond of you.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 4: Oh Heaven forgive you.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 6: Father.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 4: Stop And he stopped, and the dog was bloody, and
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 4: Father lay down crying on the floor with the dog
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 4: in his arms, and the dog licked his face. Luisa
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 4: saw that she was sobbing, and going to her, kissed her,
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 4: took her hand and sat down beside her finish by
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 4: telling me how your father left you, Sissy, Now that
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 4: I have asked you so much, tell me the end. Blame,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 4: if there is any blame, is mine, not yours, my
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 4: dear miss Louisa, said Cissy, covering her eyes and sobbing it.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 4: I came home from school that afternoon and found poor
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 4: father just come home too, from the booth, and he
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 4: sat rocking himself over the fire as if he was
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 4: in pain. And I said, have you hurt yourself, father,
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 4: as he did sometimes, like they all did, And he
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 4: said a little, my darling. And when I came to
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 4: stoop down and look up at his face, I saw
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 4: he was crying. The more I spoke to him, the
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 4: more he hid his face, And at first he shook
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 4: all over and said, nothing but my darling and my love. Here.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 4: Tom came lounging in and stared at the two with
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 4: a coolness, not particularly savoring of interest in anything but himself,
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 4: and not much of that at present. I'm asking, Sissy,
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 4: if you questions, Tom observed his sister. You have no
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 4: occasion to go away, but don't interrupt us for a moment. Tom, dear,
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 4: oh very well, returned Tom. Only father has brought Old
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 4: Bounderby home, and I want you to come into the
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 4: drawing room, because if you come, there's a good chance
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 4: of Old Bounderby's asking me to dinner. And if you don't,
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 4: there's none. I'll come directly. I'll wait for you, said Tom,
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 4: to make sure. Cissy resumed in a lower voice. At last,
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 4: poor Father said that he had given no satisfaction again,
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 4: and never did give any satisfaction now, and that he
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 4: was a shame and a disgrace, and I should have
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 4: done better without him. All along I said all the
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 4: affectionate things to him that came into my heart, and
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 4: presently he was quiet, and I sat down by him
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 4: and told him all about the school and everything that
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 4: had been said and done there. When I had no
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 4: more left to tell, he put his arms round my
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 4: neck and kissed me a great many times. Then he
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 4: asked me to fetch some of the stuff he had
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 4: used for the little hurt he had had, and to
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 4: get it at the best place, which was at the
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 4: other end of the town from there. And then after
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 4: kissing me again, he let me go. When I had
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 4: gone downstairs, I turned back that I might be a
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 4: little bit more company to him yet, and looked in
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 4: at the door and said, Father, dear, shall I take
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 4: merry legs. Father shook his head and said, no, Sissy,
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 4: note take nothing that's known to be mine, my darling.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 4: And I left him sitting by the fire. Then the
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 4: thought must have come upon him, poor poor father, of
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 4: going away to try something for my sake. For when
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 4: I came back he was gone. I say, look sharp
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 4: for old bound to be lou. Tom remonstrated, there's nothing
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 4: more to tell miss Louisa. I kept the nine oils
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 4: ready for him, and I know he will come back.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 4: Every letter that I see in mister Gradgrind's hands takes
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 4: my breath away and blinds my eyes, for I think
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 4: it comes from Father or from mister Sleary About Father.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 4: Mister Sleery promised to write as soon as as ever
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 4: Father should be heard of, and I trust him to
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 4: keep his word. Do look sharp for old bound to
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 4: be lou said Tom with an impatient whistle. He'll be
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 4: off if you don't look sharp after this, whenever, Sissy
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 4: dropped a curtsey to mister Gradgrind in the presence of
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 4: his family, and said, in a faltering way, I beg
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 4: your pardon sir for being troublesome, but have you had
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 4: any letter yet about me? Louisa would suspend the occupation
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 4: of the moment, whatever it was, and look for a
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 4: reply as earnestly as Cissy did, And when mister Gradgrind
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 4: regularly answered, no, Jupe, nothing of the sort, the trembling
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 4: of Cissy's lip would be repeated in Louis's face, and
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 4: her eyes would follow Cissy with compassion to the door.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 4: Mister Gradgrind usually improved these occasions by remarking when she
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 4: was gone that if Jupe had been properly trained from
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 4: an early age, she would have demonstrated to herself, on
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 4: sound principles the baselessness of these fantastic hopes. Yet it
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 4: did seem, though not to him, for he saw nothing
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 4: of it, as if fantastic hope could take as strong
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 4: a hold as fact. This observation must be limited exclusively
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 4: to his daughter. As to Tom, he becoming that not
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 4: unprecedented triumph of calculation, which is usually at work on
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 4: number one. As to missus Gradgrind, if she said anything
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 4: on the subject, she would come a little way out
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 4: of her wrappers, like a feminine dormouse and say, good,
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 4: gracious bless me, how my poor head is vexed and
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 4: worried by that girl joops so perseveringly, asking over and
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 4: over again about her tiresome letters upon my word and honor.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 4: I seem to be fated and destined and ordained to
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 4: live in the midst of things that I'm never to
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 4: hear the last of It really is a most extraordinary circumstance.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 4: It appears as if I never was to hear the
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 4: last of anything. At about this point, mister Gradgrind's eye
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 4: would fall upon her, and under the influence of that
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 4: wintry piece of she would become torpid again. Chapter ten,
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 4: Stephen Blackpool, I entertain a weak idea that the English
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 4: people are as hard work as any people upon whom
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 4: the sun shines. I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy as
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  Speaker 4: a reason why I would give them a little more
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 4: play in the hardest working part of Coketown, in the
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 4: innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where nature was as
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 4: strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in,
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 4: at the heart of that labyrinth of narrow courts upon
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 4: courts and close streets upon streets, which had come into
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 4: existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 4: one man's purpose, and the whole and unnatural family shouldering,
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 4: trampling and pressing one another to death. In that last
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 4: close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys,
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 4: for want of air to make a draft, were built
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 4: in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 4: though every house put out a sign of the kind
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 4: of people who might be expected to be born in it.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 4: Among the multitude of Coketown, generically called the hands, a
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 4: race who would have found more favor with some people
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 4: if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands,
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 4: or like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 4: and stomachs. Lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 4: Stephen looked older, but he had had a hard life.
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 4: It is said that every life has its roses and thorns.
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 4: There seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 4: in Stephan's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 4: his roses, and he had become possessed of that same
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 4: somebody else's thorns. In addition, to his own. He had
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 4: known to use his words a peck of trouble. He
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 4: was usually called Old Stephan, in a kind of rough
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 4: homage to the fact. A rather stooping man, with a
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 4: knitted brow, a pondering expression of face, and a hard
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 4: looking head sufficiently capacious on which his iron gray hair
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 4: lay long and thin. Old Stephan might have passed for
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 4: a particularly intelligent man in his condition, Yet he was not.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 4: He took no place among those remarkable hands who, piecing
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 4: together their broken intervals of leisure through many years, had
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 4: mastered difficult sciences and acquired a knowledge of most unlikely things.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 4: He held no station among the hands who could make
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 4: speeches and carry on debates. Thousands of his comb peers
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 4: could talk much better than he at any time. He
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 4: was a good power loom weaver, and a man of
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 4: perfect integrity. What more he was, or what else he
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 4: had in him? If anything, let him show for himself.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 4: The lights in the great factories, which looked when they
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 4: were illuminated like fairy palaces, or the travelers by express
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 4: trains said so, were all extinguished, and the bells had
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 4: rung for knocking off for the night, and had ceased
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 4: again and the hands men and women, boy and girl
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 4: were clattering home. Old Stephen was standing in the street
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 4: with the odd sensation upon him which the stoppage of
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 4: the machinery always produced, the sensation of its having worked
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 4: and stopped in his own head. Yet I don't see Rachel, still,
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 4: said he. It was a wet night, and many groups
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  Speaker 4: of young women passed him with their shawls drawn over
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 4: their bare heads and held close under their chins to
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 4: keep the rain out. He knew Rachel well, for a
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 4: glance at any one of those groups was sufficient to
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 4: show him that she was not there. At last, there
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 4: was no more to come, And then he turned away, saying,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 4: in a tone of disappointment, why then I have missed her?
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 4: But he had not gone the length of three streets
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 4: when he saw another of the shawled figures in advance
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 4: of him, at which he looked so keenly that perhaps
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 4: its mere shadow indistinctly reflected on the wet pavement. If
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 4: he could have seen it without the figure itself move
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 4: along from lamp to lamp, brightening and fading as it went,
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 4: would have been enough to tell him who was there.
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 4: Making his pace at once much quicker and much softer.
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 4: He darted on until he was very near this figure,
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 4: then fell into his former walk and called Rachel. She turned,
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 4: being then in the brightness of a lamp, and raising
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 4: her hood a little, showed a quiet oval face, dark
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 4: and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes,
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 4: and further set off by the perfect order of her
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 4: shining black hair. It was not a face in its
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 4: first bloom. She was a woman five and thirty years
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 4: of age. Ah lad tis thou. When she had said this,
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 4: with a smile which would have been quite expressed, though
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 4: nothing of her had been seen but her pleasant eyes.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 4: She replaced her hood again, and they went on together.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 4: I thought, thou wast behind me, Rachel. No early tonight,
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 4: last times, I'm a little early, Stephan, times a little late.
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  Speaker 4: I'm never to be counted on going home nor going
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 4: t'other way neither, it seems to me. Rachel, No, Stephan.
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 4: He looked at her with some disappointment in his face,
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 4: but with a respectful and patient conviction that she must
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 4: be right, and whatever she did, the expression was not
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 4: lost upon her. She laid her hand lightly on his
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 4: arm a moment, as if to thank him for it.
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 4: We are such true friend's lad and such old friends,
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 4: and get to be such old folk. Now, No, Rachel,
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 4: thou art as young as ever thou wast one of
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 4: us would be puzzled how to get old, Stephan without
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 4: t'other getting so too, both being alive, she answered, laughing.
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 4: But anyways, we're such old friends that to hide a
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 4: word of honest truth fro one another would be a
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 4: sin and a pity. Tis better not to walk too
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 4: much farther times. Yes, twould be hard, indeed, if twas
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 4: not to be at all, she said, with a cheerfulness.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 4: She sought to communicate to him. Tis hard, anyways, Rachel,
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 4: try to think not and it will seem better. I've
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 4: tried a long time and tain't got better. But thou'st
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 4: right to make folk talk, even of thee. Thou hast
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 4: been that to me, Rachel, through so many years. Thou
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 4: hast done me so much good, and heartened of me
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 4: in that cheering way. That thy word is law to
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 4: me alas, and a bright good law, better than some
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 4: real ones. Oh, never fret about them, stiff, she answered quickly,
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 4: and not without an anxious glance at his face. Let
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 4: the laws be, yes, he said, with a slow nod
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 4: or two. Let him be, Let everything be. Let all
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 4: sorts alone tis a muddle, And that's all, always a muddle,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 4: said Rachel, with another gentle touch upon his arm, as
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 4: if to recall him out of the thoughtfulness in which
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 4: he was biting the long ends of his loose neckerchief
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 4: as he walked along. The touch had its instantaneous effect.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 4: He let them fall, Turning a smiling face upon her,
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 4: he said, as he broke into a good humored laugh. Aye, Rachel, less,
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 4: all is a muddle. That's where I stick. I come
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 4: to the muddle many times and again, and I never
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 4: get beyond it. They had walked some distance and were
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 4: near their own homes. The woman's was the first reach.
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 4: It was in one of the many small streets for
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 4: which the favorite undertaker, who turned a handsome sum out
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 4: of the poor, ghastly pomp of the neighborhood, kept a
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 4: black ladder in order that those who had done their
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 4: daily groping up and down the narrow streets might slide
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 4: out of this working world by the windows. She stopped
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 4: at the corner, and, putting her hand in his, wished
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 4: him good night. Good night, dear lass good night. She went,
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 4: with her neat figure and her sober womanly step down
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 4: the dark street, and he stood looking after until she
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 4: turned into one of the small houses. There was not
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 4: a flutter of her coarse shawl, perhaps, but had its
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 4: interest in this man's eyes, not a tone of her voice,
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 4: but had its echo in his innermost heart. When she
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 4: was lost to his view, he pursued his homeward, w
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 4: glancing up sometimes to the sky where the clouds were
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 4: sailing fast and wildly. But they were broken now, and
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 4: the rain had ceased, and the moon shone, looking down
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 4: the high chimneys of Coketown, on the deep furnaces below,
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 4: and casting titanic shadows of the steam engines at rest
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 4: upon the walls where they were lodged. The man seemed
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 4: to have brightened with the night as he went on
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 4: his home in such another street as the first, saving
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 4: that it was narrower was over a little shop. How
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 4: it came to pass that any people found it worth
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 4: their while to sell or buy the wretched toys mixed
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 4: up in its window with cheap newspapers. In port there
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 4: was a leg to be raffled for tomorrow night. Matters
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 4: not Here he took his end of candle from a shelf,
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 4: lighted it at another end of candle on the counter,
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 4: without disturbing the mistress of the shop, who was asleep
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 4: in her little room, and went upstairs into his lodging.
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 4: It was a room, not unacquainted with the Black Ladder,
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 4: under various tenants, but as neat at present as such
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 4: a room could be. A few books and writings were
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 4: on an old bureau in a corner. The furniture was
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 4: decent and sufficient, and though the atmosphere was tainted, the
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 4: room was clean. Going to the hearth, he set the
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 4: candle down upon the round three legged table. Standing there,
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 4: he stumbled against something. As he recoiled, looking down at it,
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 4: it raised itself up into the form of a woman
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 4: in sitting attitude. Heavens, mercy woman, he cried, falling farther
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 4: off from the figure. Hast thou come back again? Such
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 4: a woman, a disabled, drunken creature, barely able to reserve
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 4: her sitting possible by steadying herself with one begrimed hand
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 4: on the floor, while the other was so purposeless as
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 4: trying to push away her tangled hair from her face
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 4: that it only blinded her the more with the dirt
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 4: upon it, a creature so foul to look at in
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 4: her tatters, stains and splashes, but so much fouler than that,
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 4: in her moral infamy, that it was a shameful thing
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 4: even to see her. After an impatient oath or two
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 4: and some stupid clawing at herself with a hand not
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 4: necessary to her support, she got her hair away from
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 4: her eyes sufficiently to obtain a sight of him. Then
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 4: she sat swaying her body to and fro and making
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 4: gestures with her unnerved arm, which seemed intended as the
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 4: accompaniment to a fit of laughter, though her face was
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 4: stolid and drowsy. If lash, what you're there, some hoarse
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 4: sounds meant for this came mockingly out of her at last,
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 4: and her head dropped forward on her breast. Back again.
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 4: She screeched, after some minutes, as if he had that moment,
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 4: said it yes and back again, back again, ever and
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 4: ever so oft and back yes, back why not? Roused
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 4: by the unmeaning voice with which she cried it out,
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 4: she scrambled out and stood, supporting herself with her shoulders
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 4: against the wall, dangling in one hand by the string
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 4: of a dunghill fragment of a bonnet, and trying to
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 4: look scornfully at him. I'll sell thee off again. I'll
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 4: sell thee off again. I'll sell the off a score
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 4: of time. She cried, with something between a furious menace
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 4: and an effort at defiant dance. Come off from the bed.
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 4: He was sitting on the side of it, with his
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 4: face hidden in his hands. Come away from it tis
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 4: mine and I have her right to it. As she
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 4: staggered to it, he avoided her with a shudder and
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 4: passed till his face was hidden to the opposite end
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 4: of the room. She threw herself upon the bed heavily,
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 4: and soon was snoring hard. He sunk into a chair
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 4: and moved but once all that night it was to
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 4: throw a covering over her, as if his hands were
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 4: not enough to hide her even in the darkness. End
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 4: of section five.
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 2: Chapter eleven, No Way Out the Fairy Palaces burst into
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 2: illumination before pale morning showed the monstrous serpents of smoke
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 2: trailing themselves over Coketown, a clattering of clogs upon the pavement,
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 2: a rapid ringing of bells, and all the melancholy mad elephants,
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 2: polished and oiled up for the day's monotony, were at
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 2: their heavy exercise. Again Stephen bent over his loom, quiet, watchful,
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 2: and steady, a special contrast, as every man was in
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 2: the forest of looms where Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing,
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 2: tearing piece of mechanism at which he labored. Never fear, good,
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 2: people of an anxious turn of mind, that art will
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 2: consign nature to oblivion. Set anywhere side by side the
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 2: work of God and the work of man, and the former,
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 2: even though it be a troop of hands, a very
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 2: small account will gain in dignity from the comparison. So
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 2: many hundred hands in this mill, so many hundred horse
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 2: steam power. It is known to the force of a
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 2: single pound weight what the engine will do. But not
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 2: all the calculators of the national debt can tell me
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 2: the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred,
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 2: for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice,
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 2: or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 2: of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 2: faces and the regulated actions, there is no mystery in it.
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 2: There is an unfathomable mystery and the meanest of them forever.
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 2: Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic from material objects,
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 2: and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means.
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 2: The day grew strong and showed itself outside, even against
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 2: the flaming lights. Within. The lights were turned out, and
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 2: the work went on. The rain fell, and the smoke serpents,
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 2: submissive to the curse of all that tribe, trailed themselves
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 2: upon the earth in the waist yard outside, the steam
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 2: from the escape pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron,
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 2: the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere were shrouded
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 2: in a veil of mist and rain. The work went
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 2: on until the noon bell rang, more, clattering upon the pavements,
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 2: the looms and wheels and hands all out of gear
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 2: for an hour. Stephen came out of the hot mill
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 2: into the damp wind and cold wet streets. Haggard and worn.
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 2: He turned from his own class in his own quarter,
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 2: taking nothing but a little bread as he walked along
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 2: towards the hill on which his principal employer lived in
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 2: a red house with black outside shutters, green inside blinds,
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 2: a black street door up, two white steps, bounderby in
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 2: letters very like himself, upon a brazen plate and a
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 2: round brazen door handle underneath it, like a brazen full stop.
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 2: Mister Bounderby was at his lunch, so Stephen had expected.
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 2: Would his servants say that one of the hands begged
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 2: leave to speak to him? Message in return requiring name
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 2: of such hand, Stephen Blackpool. There was nothing troublesome against
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 2: Stephen Blackpool. Yes, he might come in, Stephen Blackpool in
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 2: the parlor mister Bounderby, whom he just knew by sight,
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 2: at lunch on chop and sherry. Missus Sparsit netting at
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 2: the fireside in a side saddle attitude, with one foot
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 2: in a cotton stirrup. It was a part at once
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 2: of missus Sparsit's dignity and service, not to lunch. She
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 2: supervised the meal officially, but implied that in her own
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 2: stately person she considered lunch a weakness. Now, Stephen said,
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 2: mister Bounderby, what's the matter with you? Stephen made a bow,
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 2: not a servile one. These hands will never do that,
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 2: Lord bless you, sir. You'll never catch them at that
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 2: if they have been with you twenty years. And as
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 2: a complimentary toilet for missus Sparsit tucked his neckerchief ends
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 2: into his waistcoat. Now you know, said mister Bounderby, taking
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 2: some sherry. We've never had any difficulty with you, and
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 2: you've never been one of the unreasonable ones. You don't
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 2: expect to be set up in a coach and six
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 2: and to be fed on turtle soup and venison with
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 2: a gold spoon, as a good many of them do.
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 2: Mister Bounderby always represented this to be the sole immediate
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 2: and direct object of any hand who was not entirely satisfied.
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 2: And therefore I know already that you have not come
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 2: here to make a complaint. Now you know, I am
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 2: certain of that beforehand. No, sir, sure I have no
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 2: comfort now to the kind Mister Bounderby seemed agreeably surprised,
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 2: notwithstanding his previous strong conviction. Very well, he returned, you're
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 2: a steady hand, and I was not mistaken. Now let
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 2: me hear what it's all about. As it's not that,
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 2: let me hear what it is. What have you got
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 2: to say out with it? Lad Stephen happened to glance
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 2: towards missus Sparsit. I can go, mister Bounderby, if you
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 2: wish it said that self sacrificing lady, making a feint
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 2: of taking her foot out of the stirrup, Mister bounderby
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 2: stayed her by holding a mouthful of chop in suspension
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 2: before swallowing it and putting out his left hand. Then
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 2: withdrawing his hand and swallowing his mouthful of chop, he
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 2: said to Stephen, now you know this good lady is
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 2: a born lady, a high lady. You are not to suppose,
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 2: because she keeps my house for me, that she hasn't
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 2: been very high up the tree, ah, up at the
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 2: top of the tree. Now, if you've got anything to
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 2: say that can't be said before a bonn lady, this
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 2: lady will leave the room. If what you have got
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 2: to say can be said before a bonn lady, this
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 2: lady will stay where she is. Sir, I hope I
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 2: never had naught to say, not fittin for a born
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 2: lady to year seein I were born. My sin was
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 2: the reply, accompanied with a slight flush. Very well, said
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 2: mister bounderby pushing away his plate and leaning back fire
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 2: away I have come, Stephen began, raising his eyes from
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 2: the floor. After a moment's consideration, to ask you your advice.
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 2: I need it or much. I were married on Easter Monday,
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 2: nineteen years sin long injury. She were a young lass,
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 2: prettier now with good accounts of her son. Well. She
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 2: went bad soon. No longer me gor knows I were
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 2: not non kind husband to her. I have heard all
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 2: this before, said mister Bounderby. She tuck to drinking, left
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 2: off working, sold the furniture upon the clothes, and played
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 2: old gooseberry. I were patient, weir. The more fool you,
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 2: I think, said mister Bounderby, in confidence to his wine glass.
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 2: Our very patient weir. I tried to wean her front
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 2: or and oar again. I tried this, I tried that,
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 2: I tried the other. I have gone home many as
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 2: the time, and found all vanished as I had in
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 2: the world, and her without a sense left to bless her,
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 2: sound lying on bare ground. I had done it, not once,
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 2: not twice, twenty time. Every line in his face deepened
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 2: as he said it, and put in its affecting evidence
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 2: of the suffering he had undergone, from bad to worse,
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 2: from worse to worsen. She left me, She disgraced hersel
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 2: every ways bitter and bad. She come back. She come back,
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 2: she come back. What could I do to hinder her?
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 2: I awoke the streets nights long ere ever i'd go home.
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 2: I had gone to the brig minded to fling my
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 2: sail nor and have no more. Aunt. I a bore
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 2: that much that I were old when I were young.
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 2: Missus sparsit easily, ambling along with her netting needles, raised
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 2: the Coriolanian eyebrows, and shook her head as much as
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 2: to say the great, no trouble, as well as the small,
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 2: Please to turn your humble eye in my direction. I
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 2: have paid her to keep away from me. These five
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 2: year I have paid her. I ha gotten decent futuls
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 2: about me again. I had lived hard and sad, but
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 2: not a ashamed and fearful of the minutes of my life.
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 2: Last night I went home. There she lay upon my heartstone.
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 2: There she is in the strength of his misfortune and
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 2: the energy of his distress. He fired for the moment
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 2: like a proud man. In another moment, he stood as
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 2: he had stood all the time, his usual stoop upon him,
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 2: his pondering face addressed to mister Bounderby, with a curious
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 2: expression on it, half shrewd, half perplexed, as if his
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 2: mind were set upon unraveling something very difficult. His hat
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 2: held tight in his left hand, which rested on his hip,
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 2: his right arm with a rugged propriety and force of action,
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 2: very earnestly emphasizing what he said, not least so when
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 2: it always paused a little bent, but not withdrawn as
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 2: he paused. I was acquainted with all this, you know,
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 2: said mister Bounderby, except the last clause long ago. It's
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 2: a bad job, that's what it is. You had better
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 2: have been satisfied as you were and not have got married. However,
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 2: it is too late to say that. Was it an
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 2: unequal marriage? Sir? In point of years? Asked missus sparsit.
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 2: You hear what this lady asks? Was it an unequal marriage?
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 2: In point of years? This unlucky job of yours, said
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 2: mister Bounderby, Not even so I were one in twenty
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 2: mysel she were twenty nine. But indeed, sir, said missus
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 2: sparsit to her chief with great placidity, I inferred from
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 2: its being so miserable a marriage, that it was probably
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 2: an unequal one in point of years. Mister Bounderby looked
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 2: very hard at the good lady in a sidelong way
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 2: that had an odd sheepishness about it. He fortified himself
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 2: with a little more sherry. Well, why don't you go on?
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 2: He then asked, turning rather irritably on Stephen Blackpool. I
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 2: come to ask you, sir, how I am to be
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 2: riddy to this woman. Stephen infused a yet deeper gravity
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 2: into the mixed expression of his attentive face. Missus sparsit
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 2: uttered a gentle ejaculation, as having received a moral shock.
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, said bounderby up to lean his
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 2: back against the chimney piece. What are you talking about?
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 2: You took it for better or for worse? I must
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 2: be written on her. I cannot bart no more. I
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 2: lived under it so long for that I hadn't the
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 2: pity and comforting words of the best, last living or dead.
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 2: Happily before her, I should have gone battering mad. He
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 2: wishes to be free to marry the female of whom
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 2: he speaks, I fear, sir, observed Missus sparsit in an undertone,
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 2: and much dejected by the immorality of the people I do.
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 2: The lady says, what's right I do? I were a
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 2: common to it. I have ready the papers the great
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 2: folk far for all I wishes them no hurt. Are
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 2: not bonded together for better for worse. So fast, but
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 2: that they can be set free for their misfortunate marriages,
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 2: and marry o'er again when they dunnot agree, for that
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 2: their tempers is ill sorted. They has rooms of one
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 2: kind an another in their houses above a bit, and
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 2: they can live asunders. We folk are only one room,
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 2: an we can't. When that won't do, they got another cash,
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 2: and they can say this for you or not for me,
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 2: and they can go their separate ways. We can't. Spite
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 2: of all that they can be set free for smaller
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 2: wrongs than mine. So I won't be ridden of this woman.
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 2: And I want to know how no how returned mister Bounderby.
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 2: If I do her any hurts, sir, there's a lad
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 2: to punish me, of course there is. If I flee
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 2: from her, there's a law to punish me, of course
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 2: there is. If I'm married to them, dear last, there's
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 2: a law to punish me. Of course there is if
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 2: I was to live withr and not marry her, saying
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 2: such a thing could be, which it never could or
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 2: would in her so good. There's a lad to punish
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 2: me and every innocent child belonging to me. Of course
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 2: there is now God's name, said Stephen Blackpool. Show me
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 2: the load to help me. There's a sanctity in this
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 2: relation of life, said mister Bounderby. And and they must
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 2: be kept up. No, no, do not say that, sir.
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 2: That way, not that way tis kept down that way.
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 2: I'm a weaver. I weren't a factory when a child,
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 2: but a You got nine to see we and earn
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 2: to hear we. I read in the papers every size
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 2: is every sessions, and you read too. I know it
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 2: with dismay. How the supposed unpossibility o ever gettin unchained
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 2: from one another at any price, on any terms, brings
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 2: blood upon this land, and brings many common married folks
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 2: to battle, murder and sudden death. Let us have this
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 2: right understood. Mine's a grievous case, and I won't if
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 2: you will be so good to know the law that
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 2: helps me. I tell you what, said mister Bounderby, putting
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 2: his hands in his pockets. There is such a law. Stephen,
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 2: subsiding into his quiet manner and never wandering in his attention,
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 2: gave a nod, But it's not for you at all.
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 2: It costs money. It costs a mint of money. How
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 2: much might that be? Stephen calmly asked, why you'd have
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 2: to go to a doctor's commons with a suit, and
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 2: you'd have to go to a court of common law
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 2: with a suit, and you'd have to go to the
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 2: House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 2: get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again.
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 2: And it would cost you if it was a case
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 2: of very plain sailing. I suppose from a thousand to
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 2: fifteen hundred pound, said mister Bounderby, perhaps twice the money.
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 2: There's no other law, certainly not, Why then, sir, said Stephen,
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 2: turning white and motioning with that right hand of his
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 2: as if he gave everything to the four winds. Tis
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 2: a muddle, Tis just a muddle altogether, And the sooner
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 2: I'm dead, the bitter missus sparsit again, dejected by the
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 2: impiety of the people. Pooh, pooh, don't you talk nonsense,
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 2: my good fellow, said mister Bounderby, about things you don't understand.
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 2: And don't you call the institutions of your country a muddle,
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 2: or you'll get yourself into a real muddel one of
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 2: these fine mornings. The institutions of your country are not
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 2: your piece work, and the only thing you have got
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 2: to do is to mind your piece work. You didn't
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 2: take your wife for fast and for loose, but for
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 2: better and for worse. If she has turned out worse,
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 2: why all we've got to say is you might have
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 2: turned out better. Tis a muddle, said Stephen, shaking his
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 2: head as he moved to the door. Tis all a muddle.
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 2: Now tell you what, mister Bounderby resumed as a valedictory address,
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 2: with what I shall call your unhallowed opinions. You have
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 2: been quite shocking to this lady, who, as I have
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 2: already told you, as a born lady, and who, as
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 2: I have not already told you, has had her own
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 2: marriage misfortunes to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds.
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 2: Tens of thousands of pounds, he repeated it with great relish.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 2: Now you have always been a steady hand hitherto. But
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 2: my opinion is, and so I tell you plainly, that
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 2: you are turning into the wrong road. You have been
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 2: listening to some mischievous stranger or other. They are always about,
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 2: and the best thing you can do is to come
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 2: out of that. Now you know here his countenance expressed
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 2: marvelous acuteness. I can see as far into a grindstone
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 2: as another man, farther than a good many, perhaps because
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 2: I had my nose well kept to it when I
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 2: was young. I see traces of the turtle, soup and
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 2: venison and gold spoon in this. Yes, I do, cried
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 2: mister bounderby shaking his head with obstinate cunning. By the
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 2: Lord Harry, I do. With a very different shake of
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 2: his head and deep sigh, Stephen said, thank you, sir,
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 2: I wish you good day. So he left mister bounderby
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 2: swelling at his own portrait on the wall as if
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 2: he were going to explode himself into it. And Missus sparsit,
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 2: still ambling on with her foot in her stirrup, looking
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 2: quite cast down. By the popular vices. Chapter thirteen, the
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 2: old woman Old Stephen descended the two white steps, shutting
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 2: the black door with the brazen door plait by the
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 2: aid of the brazen full stop, to which he gave
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 2: a parting polish with the sleeve of his coat, observing
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 2: that his hot hand clouded it. He crossed the street
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 2: with his eyes bent upon the ground, and thus was
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 2: walking sorrowfully away when he felt a touch upon his arm.
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 2: It was not the touch he needed most at such
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 2: a moment, the touch that could calm the wild waters
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 2: of his soul, as the uplifted hand of the sublimest
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 2: love and patience could bait the raging of the sea.
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 2: Yet it was a woman's hand too. It was an
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 2: old woman, tall and shapely, still, though withered by time,
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 2: on whom his eyes fell when he stopped and turned.
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 2: She was very cleanly and plainly dressed, had country mud
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 2: upon her shoes, and was newly come from a journey.
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 2: The flutter of her manner in the unwonted noise of
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 2: the streets, the spare shawl carried unfolded on her arm,
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 2: the heavy umbrella and little basket, the loose, long fingered
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 2: gloves to which her hands were unused, all bespoke an
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 2: old woman from the country, in her plain holiday clothes,
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 2: come into Coketown on an expedition of rare occurrence. Remarking
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 2: this at a glance with the quick observation of his class,
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 2: Stephen Blackpool bent his attentive face his face, which, like
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 2: the faces of many of his order, by dint of
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 2: long working with eyes and hands in the midst of
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 2: a prodigious noise, had acquired the concentrated look with which
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 2: we are familiar in the countenances of the deaf. The
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 2: better to hear what she asked him, praise, said the
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 2: old woman. Didn't I see you come out of that
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 2: gentleman's house, pointing back to mister Bounderby's I believe it
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 2: was you, unless I have had the bad luck to
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 2: mistake the person in following. Yes, Missus, returned Stephen, it
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 2: were me, Have you you'll excuse an old woman's curiosity? Have
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 2: you seen the gentleman? Yes, missus, And how did he look? Sir?
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 2: Was he portly? Bold, outspoken and haughty? As she straightened
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 2: her own figure and held up her head in adapting
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 2: her action to her words, the idea crossed Stephen that
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 2: he had seen this old woman before and had not
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 2: quite liked her. Oh, yes, he returned, observing her more attentively.
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 2: Here were all that and healthy, said the old woman
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 2: as the fresh wind. Yes, returned Stephen. He were eating
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 2: and drinkin as large and as loud as a homobe.
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you, said the old woman with infinite contempt. Thank you.
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 2: He certainly never had seen this old woman before, yet
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 2: there was a vague remembrance in his mind, as if
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 2: he had more than once dreamed of some old woman
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 2: like her. She walked along at his side, and gently
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 2: accommodating himself to her humor, He said, Coketown was a
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 2: busy place, was it not, to which she answered, aye, sure,
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 2: dreadful busy. Then he said she came from the country
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 2: he saw, to which she answered in the affirmative, by
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 2: parliamentary this morning. I came forty mile by parliamentary this morning,
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 2: and I'm going back the same forty mile this afternoon.
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 2: I walked nine mile to the station this morning, and
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 2: if I find nobody on the road to give me
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 2: a lift, I shall walk the nine mile back to night.
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 2: That's pretty well, sir, at my age, said the chatty
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 2: old woman, her eye brightening with exultation. Deed, tis don't
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 2: do it too often, missus. No, no, once a year,
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 2: she answered, shaking her head. I spend my savings so
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 2: once every year I come regular to tramp about the
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 2: streets and see the gentleman, only to see him, returned Stephen.
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 2: That's enough for me, she replied, with great earnestness and
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 2: interest of manner. I ask no more. I've been standing
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 2: about on this side of the way to see that gentleman,
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 2: turning her head back towards mister Bounderby's again come out.
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 2: But he's late this year, and I've not seen him.
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 2: You came out instead. Now, if I am obliged to
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 2: go back without a glimpse of him, I only want
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 2: a glimpse. Well, i've seen you, and you have seen him,
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 2: and I must make that do. Saying this, she looked
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 2: at Stephen as if to fix his features in her mind,
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 2: and her eye was not so bright as it had
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 2: been with a large allowance for difference of tastes, and
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 2: with all submission to the patricians of Coketown. This seemed
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 2: so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 2: trouble about that it perplexed him. But they were passing
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 2: the church now, and as his eye caught the clock,
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 2: he quickened his pace. He was going to work, the
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 2: old woman said, quickening hers too quite easily. Yes, time
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 2: was nearly out. On his telling her where he worked,
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 2: the old woman became a more singular old woman than before.
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 2: Aren't you happy? She asked him, why there's almost no
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 2: body but has their troubles? Missus, he answered evasively, because
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 2: the old woman appeared to take it for granted that
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 2: he would be very happy indeed, and he had not
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 2: the heart to disappoint her. He knew that there was
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 2: trouble enough in the world. And if the old woman
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 2: had lived so long and could count upon his having
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 2: so little, why so much the better for her, and
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 2: none the worse for him. Aye, Aye, you have your
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 2: troubles at home, you mean, she said times just now,
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 2: And then he answered slightly, but working under such a gentleman,
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 2: they don't follow you to the factory. No, no, they
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 2: didn't follow him there, said Stephen. All correct, there, everything
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 2: accordant there. He did not go so far as to say,
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 2: for her pleasure that there was a sort of divine
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 2: right there. But I have heard claims almost as magnificent
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 2: of late years. They were now in the back by
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 2: road near the place, and the hands were crowding in,
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 2: the bell was ringing, and the serpent was a serpent
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 2: of many coils, and the elephant was getting ready. The
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 2: strange old woman was delighted with the very bell. It
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 2: was the beautifulest bell she had ever heard, she said,
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 2: and sounded grand. She asked him, when he stopped good
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 2: naturedly to shake hands with her before going in. How
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 2: long he had worked there? A dozen year? He told her,
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 2: I must kiss the hand, said she that has worked
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 2: in this fine factory for a dozen years, And she
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 2: lifted it, though he would have prevented her and put
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 2: it to her lips. What harmony, besides her age and
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 2: her simplicity surrounded her, he did not know. But even
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 2: in this fantastic action, there was a something neither out
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 2: of time nor place, a something which it seemed as
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 2: if nobody else could have made as serious or done
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 2: with such a natural and touching air. He had been
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 2: at his loom full half an hour thinking about this
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 2: old woman. When having occasion to move round the loom
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 2: for its adjustment, he glanced through a window which was
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 2: in his corner, and saw her still looking up at
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 2: the pile of building, lost in admiration, heedless of the
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 2: smoke and mud and wet, and of her too long journey.
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 2: She was gazing at it as if the heavy thrum
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 2: that issued from its many stories were proud music to her.
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 2: She was gone by and by, and the day went
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 2: after her, and the lights sprung up again, and the
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 2: express whirled in full sight of the fairy palace over
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 2: the arches near little Felt, amid the jarring of the machinery,
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 2: and scarcely heard above its crash and rattle. Long before then,
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 2: his thoughts had gone back to the dreary room above
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 2: the little shop, and to the shameful figure heavy on
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 2: the bed, but heavier on his heart. Machinery slackened, throbbing
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 2: feebly like a fainting pulse, stopped the bell again. The
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 2: glare of light and heat dispelled the factories looming heavy
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 2: in the black wet night, their tall chimneys rising up
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 2: into the air like competing towers of Babel. He had
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 2: spoken to Rachel lonely last night, it was true, and
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 2: had walked with her a little way. But he had
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 2: his new misfortune on him, in which no one else
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 2: could give him a moment's relief. And for the sake
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 2: of it, and because he knew himself to want that
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 2: softening of his anger, which no voice but hers could effect,
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 2: he felt he might so far disregard what she had
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 2: said as to wait for her again. He waited, but
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 2: she had eluded him. She was gone. On no other
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 2: night in the year could he so ill have spared
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 2: her patient face. Oh, better to have no home in
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 2: which to lay his head than to have a home,
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 2: and dread to go to it. Through such a cause.
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 2: He ate and drank, for he was exhausted, but he
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 2: little knew or cared what, And he wandered about in
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 2: the chill rain, thinking and thinking, and brooding and brooding.
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 2: No word of a new marriage had ever passed between them,
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 2: but Rachel had taken great pity on him years ago,
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 2: and to her alone he had opened his closed heart
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 2: all this time on the subject of his miseries, and
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 2: he knew very well that if he were free to
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 2: ask her, she would take him. He thought of the
• 2:42:43
  Speaker 2: home he might at that moment have been seeking with
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 2: pleasure and pride, of the different man he might have
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 2: been that night, of the lightness, then in his now
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 2: heavy laden breast, of the then restored honor, self respect,
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 2: and tranquility, all torn to pieces. He thought of the
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 2: waste of the best part of his life, of the
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 2: change it made in his character, for the worst every
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 2: day of the dreadful nature of his existence, Bound hand
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 2: and foot to a dead woman, and tormented by a
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 2: demon in her shape. He thought of Rachel, how young
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 2: when they were first brought together in these circumstances, How
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 2: mature now, how soon to grow old? He thought of
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 2: the number of girls and women she had seen, Mary,
• 2:43:22
  Speaker 2: how many homes with children in them she had seen
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 2: grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 2: own lone quiet path for him, And how he had
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 2: sometimes seen a shade of melancholy on her blessed face
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 2: that smote him with remorse and despair. He set the
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 2: picture of her up beside the infamous image of last night,
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 2: and thought, could it be that the whole earthly course
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 2: of one so gentle, good and self denying was subjectate
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 2: to such a wretch as that? Filled with these thoughts,
• 2:43:52
  Speaker 2: so filled that he had an unwholesome sense of growing larger,
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 2: of being placed in some new and diseased relation towards
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 2: the objects among which passed, of seeing the iris round
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 2: every misty light turn red. He went home for shelter.
• 2:44:08
  Speaker 2: End of Section.
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 4: Six, Chapter thirteen.
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 6: Rachel.
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 4: A candle faintly burned in the window to which the
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 4: black ladder had often been raised, for the sliding away
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 4: of all that was most precious in this world to
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 4: a striving wife and a brood of hungry babies. And
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 4: Stephen added to his other thoughts the stern reflection that
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 4: of all the casualties of his existence upon earth, not
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 4: one was dealt out with so unequal a hand as death.
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 4: The inequality of birth was nothing to it. For say
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 4: that the child of a king and the child of
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 4: a weaver were born tonight in the same moment, What
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 4: was that disparity to the death of any human creature
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 4: who was serviceable to or below by another. While this
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 4: abandoned woman lived on From the outside of his house,
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 4: he gloomily passed to the inside with suspended breath, and
• 2:45:12
  Speaker 4: with a slow footstep he went up to his door,
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 4: opened it, and so into the room. Quiet and peace
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 4: were there. Rachel was there, sitting by the bed. She
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 4: turned her head, and the light of her face shone
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 4: in upon the midnight of his mind. She sat by
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 4: the bed, watching and tending his wife. That is to say,
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 4: he saw that someone lay there, and he knew too
• 2:45:39
  Speaker 4: well it must be she. But Rachel's hands had put
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 4: a curtain up so that she was screened from his eyes.
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 4: Her disgraceful garments were removed, and some of Rachel's were
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 4: in the room. Everything was in its place and order,
• 2:45:55
  Speaker 4: as he had always kept it. The little fire was
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 4: newly trimmed, and the hearth was freshly swept. It appeared
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 4: to him that he saw all this in Rachel's face
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 4: and looked at nothing besides while looking at it, it
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 4: was shut out from his view by the softened tears
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 4: that filled his eyes. But not before he had seen
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 4: how earnestly she looked at him, and how her own
• 2:46:21
  Speaker 4: eyes were filled too. She turned again towards the bed, and,
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 4: satisfying herself that all was quiet there, spoke in a low, calm,
• 2:46:31
  Speaker 4: cheerful voice, I'm glad you have come at last, Stephen.
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 4: You are very late. I have been walken up and down.
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 6: I thought so.
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 4: But tis too bad a night for that. The rainfalls
• 2:46:46
  Speaker 4: very heavy, and the wind has risen. The wind, true,
• 2:46:51
  Speaker 4: it was blowing hard. Hark to the thunder and the
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 4: chimney and the surgeon noise. To have been out in
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 4: such a wind, not to have known it was blown.
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 4: I have been here once before to day Stephan. Landlady
• 2:47:06
  Speaker 4: came round for me at dinner time. There was someone
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 4: here that needed look into, she said. Indeed she was right,
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 4: all wandering and lost. Stephan wounded too and bruised. He
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 4: slowly moved to a chair and sat down, drooping his
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 4: head before her. I came to do what little I could.
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 6: Stephan.
• 2:47:29
  Speaker 4: First, for that she worked with me when we were
• 2:47:32
  Speaker 4: girls both, and for that you courted her and married
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 4: her when I was her friend. He laid his furrowed
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 4: forehead on his hand with a low groan. And next,
• 2:47:44
  Speaker 4: for that I know your heart, and am right sure
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 4: and certain that tis far too merciful to let her
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 4: die or even so much as suffer for want of aid.
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 4: Thou knowest who said, let him who is without sin
• 2:47:58
  Speaker 4: amongst you the first stone at her. There have been
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 4: plenty to do that. Thou art not a man to
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 4: cast the last stone Stephan, when she is brought so low, Oh, Rachel, Rachel,
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 4: thou hast been a cruel sufferer. Heaven reward thee. She said,
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 4: in compassionate accents. I am thy poor friend with all
• 2:48:22
  Speaker 4: my heart and mine. The wounds of which she had
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 4: spoken seemed to be about the neck, of the self
• 2:48:29
  Speaker 4: made outcast. She dressed them now still without showing her
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 4: she steeped a piece of linen in a basin, into
• 2:48:37
  Speaker 4: which she poured some liquid from a bottle, and laid
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 4: it with a gentle hand upon the sore. The three
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 4: legged table had been drawn close to the bedside, and
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 4: on it there were two bottles. This was one. It
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 4: was not so far off, but that Stephen, following her
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 4: hands with his eyes, could read what was printed on
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 4: it in large letters. He turned of a deadly hue,
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 4: and a sudden horror seemed to fall upon him. I
• 2:49:07
  Speaker 4: will stay here, Stephan, said Rachel, quietly, resuming her seat,
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 4: till the bells go three. Tis to be done again
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 4: at three, and then she may be left till morning.
• 2:49:20
  Speaker 4: But thy rest again Tomorrow's work, my dear, I slept
• 2:49:25
  Speaker 4: sound last night. I can wake many nights when I
• 2:49:29
  Speaker 4: am put to it. Tis thou who art in need
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 4: of rest, so white and tired, try to sleep in
• 2:49:36
  Speaker 4: the chair there while I watch. Thou hadst no sleep
• 2:49:39
  Speaker 4: last night. I can well believe tomorrow's work is far
• 2:49:43
  Speaker 4: harder for thee than for me. He heard the thundering
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 4: and surging out of doors, and it seemed to him
• 2:49:51
  Speaker 4: as if his late angry mood were going about trying
• 2:49:54
  Speaker 4: to get at him. She had cast it out, she
• 2:49:57
  Speaker 4: would keep it out. He trusted to her to defend
• 2:50:00
  Speaker 4: him from himself. She don't know me, Stefan. She just
• 2:50:06
  Speaker 4: drowsily mutters and stares. I've spoken to her at time
• 2:50:11
  Speaker 4: and again, but she don't notice tis well. So when
• 2:50:16
  Speaker 4: she comes to her right mind once more, I shall
• 2:50:19
  Speaker 4: have done what I can, and she never the wiser.
• 2:50:23
  Speaker 4: How long Rachel is looked for that she'll be so,
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 4: doctor said she would happily come to her mind tomorrow.
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 4: His eyes again fell on the bottle, and a tremble
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 4: passed over him, causing him to shiver in every limb.
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 4: She thought he was chilled with the wet. No, he said,
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 4: it was not that he'd had a fright, A fright, aye, aye,
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 4: coming in when I were walking, when I were thinking.
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 4: When it seized him again, and he stood up, holding
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 4: by the mantelshelf as he pressed his dank, cold haired
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 4: with a hand that shook as if it were palsied. Stephen.
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 4: She was coming to him, but he stretched out his
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 4: arm to stop her. No, don't, please, don't let me
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 4: see THEE sitting by the bed. Let me see THEE
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 4: are so good and so forgiven. Let me see THEE
• 2:51:18
  Speaker 4: as I see THEE when I come in. I can
• 2:51:22
  Speaker 4: never see THEE better than so, never, never, never. He
• 2:51:28
  Speaker 4: had a violent fit of trembling, and then sunk into
• 2:51:31
  Speaker 4: his chair. After a time he controlled himself, and resting
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 4: with an elbow on one knee and his head upon
• 2:51:38
  Speaker 4: that hand, he could look toward Rachel's seen across the
• 2:51:42
  Speaker 4: dim candle with his moistened eyes. She looked as if
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 4: she had a glory shining round her head. He could
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 4: have believed she had. He did believe it, as the
• 2:51:53
  Speaker 4: noise without shook the window, rattled at the door below,
• 2:51:57
  Speaker 4: and went about the house clamoring and lament. When she
• 2:52:01
  Speaker 4: gets better, Stephan, tis to be hoped she'll leave THEE
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 4: to thyself again and do THEE no more hurt. Anyways,
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 4: We will hope so now and now I shall keep silence,
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 4: for I want THEE to sleep. He closed his eyes,
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 4: more to please her than to rest his weary head.
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 4: But by slow degrees, as he listened to the great
• 2:52:27
  Speaker 4: noise of the wind, he ceased to hear it, or
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 4: it changed into the working of his loom, or even
• 2:52:34
  Speaker 4: into the voices of the day. His own included saying
• 2:52:38
  Speaker 4: what had been really said. Even this imperfect consciousness faded
• 2:52:43
  Speaker 4: away at last, and he dreamed, a long, troubled dream.
• 2:52:48
  Speaker 4: He thought that he and someone on whom his heart
• 2:52:51
  Speaker 4: had long been set, But she was not Rachel. That
• 2:52:55
  Speaker 4: surprised him, even in the midst of his imaginary happiness.
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 4: Good in the church being married, while the ceremony was performing,
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 4: and while he recognized among the witnesses some whom he
• 2:53:08
  Speaker 4: knew to be living and many of whom he knew
• 2:53:11
  Speaker 4: to be dead, darkness came on, succeeded by the shining
• 2:53:15
  Speaker 4: of a tremendous light. It broke from one line in
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 4: the table of commandments at the altar and illuminated the
• 2:53:24
  Speaker 4: building with the words. They were sounded through the church too,
• 2:53:28
  Speaker 4: as if they were voices in the fiery letters. Upon this,
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 4: the whole appearance before him and around him changed, and
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 4: nothing was left as it had been but himself and
• 2:53:39
  Speaker 4: the clergyman. They stood in the daylight before a crowd
• 2:53:43
  Speaker 4: so vast that if all the people in the world
• 2:53:46
  Speaker 4: could have been brought together into one space, they could
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 4: not have looked, he thought more numerous, and they all
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 4: abhorred him. And there was not one pitying or friendly
• 2:53:57
  Speaker 4: eye among the millions that were fastened on his face.
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 4: He stood on a raised stage under his own loom,
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 4: and looking up the shape the loom took, and hearing
• 2:54:09
  Speaker 4: the burial service distinctly read, he knew that he was
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 4: there to suffer death. In an instant, what he stood
• 2:54:17
  Speaker 4: on fell below him, and he was gone. Out of
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 4: what mystery. He came back to his usual life, to
• 2:54:26
  Speaker 4: places that he knew he was unable to consider. But
• 2:54:30
  Speaker 4: he was back in those places by some means, and
• 2:54:33
  Speaker 4: with this condemnation upon him, that he was never in
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 4: this world or the next, through all the unimaginable ages
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 4: of eternity, to look on Rachel's face or hear her voice,
• 2:54:46
  Speaker 4: wandering to and fro unceasingly without hope, and in search
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 4: of he knew not what he only knew that he
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 4: was doomed to seek it. He was the subject of
• 2:54:56
  Speaker 4: a nameless, horrible dread, a mortal fear of one particular shape,
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 4: which everything took, whatsoever he looked at, grew into that form.
• 2:55:07
  Speaker 4: Sooner or later the object of his miserable existence was
• 2:55:12
  Speaker 4: to prevent its recognition by anyone among the various people
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 4: he encountered hopeless labor if he led them out of
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 4: rooms where it was, if he shut up drawers and
• 2:55:25
  Speaker 4: closets where it stood, if he drew the curious from
• 2:55:29
  Speaker 4: places where he knew it would be secreted, and got
• 2:55:33
  Speaker 4: them out into the streets. The very chimneys of the
• 2:55:36
  Speaker 4: mills assumed that shape and round them was the printed word.
• 2:55:42
  Speaker 4: The wind was blowing again, the rain was beating on
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 4: the housetops, and the larger spaces through which he had
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 4: strayed contracted to the four walls of his room. Saving
• 2:55:55
  Speaker 4: that the fire had died out, it was as his
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 4: eyes had closed upon it. Rachel seemed to have fallen
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 4: into a doze in the chair by the bed. She sat,
• 2:56:05
  Speaker 4: wrapped in her shawl, perfectly still. The table stood in
• 2:56:09
  Speaker 4: the same place, close by the bedside, and on it,
• 2:56:13
  Speaker 4: in its real proportions and appearance, was a shape so
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 4: often repeated. He thought he saw the curtain move. He
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 4: looked again, and he was sure it moved. He saw
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 4: a hand come forth and grope about a little. Then
• 2:56:29
  Speaker 4: the curtain moved more perceptibly and the woman in the
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 4: bed put it back and sat up with her woeful eyes,
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 4: so haggard and wild, so heavy and large. She looked
• 2:56:41
  Speaker 4: all round the room and past the corner where he
• 2:56:44
  Speaker 4: slept in his chair. Her eyes returned to that corner,
• 2:56:48
  Speaker 4: and she put her hand over them as a shade
• 2:56:52
  Speaker 4: while she looked into it again. They went all round
• 2:56:55
  Speaker 4: the room, scarcely heeding Rachel if at all, and returned
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 4: to that corner. He thought, as she once more shaded them,
• 2:57:02
  Speaker 4: not so much looking at him as looking for him,
• 2:57:06
  Speaker 4: with a brutish instinct, that he was there, that no
• 2:57:10
  Speaker 4: single trace was left in those debauched features, or in
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 4: the mind that went along with them, of the woman
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 4: he had married eighteen years before, but that he had
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 4: seen her come to this by inches. He never could
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 4: have believed her to be the same. All this time,
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 4: as if a spell were on him, he was motionless
• 2:57:32
  Speaker 4: and powerless, except to watch her, stupidly dozing or communing
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 4: with her incapable self, but nothing. She sat for a
• 2:57:43
  Speaker 4: little while with her hands at her ears and her
• 2:57:45
  Speaker 4: head resting on them. Presently, she resumed her staring round
• 2:57:50
  Speaker 4: the room, and now for the first time, her eyes
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 4: stopped at the table with the bottles on it straightway.
• 2:57:58
  Speaker 4: She turned her eyes to his corner with the defiance
• 2:58:02
  Speaker 4: of last night, and moving very cautiously and softly, stretched
• 2:58:08
  Speaker 4: out her greedy hand. She drew a mug into the
• 2:58:11
  Speaker 4: bed and sat for a while considering which of the
• 2:58:15
  Speaker 4: two bottles she should choose. Finally, she laid her insensate
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 4: grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 4: in it, and before his eyes, pulled out the cork
• 2:58:28
  Speaker 4: with her teeth. Dream or reality. He had no voice,
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 4: nor had he the power to stir. If this be
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 4: real and her allotted time be not yet come, Wake Rachel, Wake.
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 4: She thought of that too. She looked at Rachel and
• 2:58:43
  Speaker 4: very slowly, very cautiously, poured out the contents. The draft
• 2:58:50
  Speaker 4: was at her lips a moment and she would be
• 2:58:53
  Speaker 4: past all help. Let the whole world waken come about
• 2:58:57
  Speaker 4: her with its utmost power, And that moment, Rachel stirred
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 4: and started up with a suppressed cry. The creature struggled,
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 4: struck her, seized her by the hair, but Rachel had
• 2:59:09
  Speaker 4: the cup. Stephan broke out of his chair. Rachel, am
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 4: I waking or dreaming? This dreadful night. Tis all well, Stephan,
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 4: I have been asleep myself. Tis near three? Hush, I
• 2:59:22
  Speaker 4: hear the bells. The wind had brought the sounds of
• 2:59:26
  Speaker 4: the church clock to the window. They listened, and it
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  Speaker 4: struck three. Stephan looked at her, saw how pale she was,
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 4: noted the disorder of her hair, and the red marks
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 4: of fingers on her forehead. He felt assured that his
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 4: senses of sight and hearing had been awake. She held
• 2:59:46
  Speaker 4: the cup in her hand even now. I thought it
• 2:59:50
  Speaker 4: must be near three, she said, calmly, pouring from the
• 2:59:53
  Speaker 4: cup into the basin and steeping the linen as before.
• 2:59:58
  Speaker 4: I am thankful, I said, aid, tis done now when
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  Speaker 4: I have put this on there. And now she's quiet again.
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  Speaker 4: The few drops in the basin, I'll pour a way
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  Speaker 4: for tis bad stuff to leave about, though ever so
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 4: little of it. As she spoke, she drained the basin
• 3:00:18
  Speaker 4: into the ashes of the fire and broke the bottle
• 3:00:21
  Speaker 4: on the hearth. She had nothing to do then but
• 3:00:25
  Speaker 4: to cover herself with her shawl before going out into
• 3:00:28
  Speaker 4: the wind and rain. Thou let me walk with thee
• 3:00:33
  Speaker 4: at this hour, Rachael, No, Stephan, tis but a minute
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 4: and I am home. Thou art no fearful, he said
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 4: in a low voice, as they went out at the door,
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 4: to leave me alone with her. As she looked at him,
• 3:00:49
  Speaker 4: saying Stephen, he went down on his knee before her
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  Speaker 4: on the poor, mean stairs and put an end of
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  Speaker 4: her shawl to his lips. Thou art an angel, bless THEE,
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 4: bless THEE. I am as I have told THEE, Stepan,
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  Speaker 4: thy poor friend. Angels are not like me. Between them
• 3:01:15
  Speaker 4: and a working woman full of faults, there is a
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  Speaker 4: deep gulf set. My little sister is among them, but
• 3:01:23
  Speaker 4: she's changed. She raised her eyes for a moment as
• 3:01:27
  Speaker 4: she said the words, and then they fell again in
• 3:01:30
  Speaker 4: all their gentleness and mildness on his face. Thou changest
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  Speaker 4: me from bad to good. Thou makest me humbly wishful
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  Speaker 4: to be more like THEE, and fearful to lose THEE.
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  Speaker 4: When this life is our and a muddle cleared away,
• 3:01:49
  Speaker 4: Thou art an angel. It maybe thou hast saved my
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 4: soul alive. She looked at him on his knee at
• 3:01:56
  Speaker 4: her feet, with her shawl still in his hand. The
• 3:02:00
  Speaker 4: reproof on her lips died away when she saw the
• 3:02:03
  Speaker 4: working of his face. I come home desperate. I come
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 4: home well out of hope and mad with thinking that
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  Speaker 4: when I said a word or complaint, I was reckoned
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 4: a unreasonable hand. I told THEE I had had a fright.
• 3:02:21
  Speaker 4: It was the poison bottle on the table. I never
• 3:02:25
  Speaker 4: heard a living creature but happening so suddenly upon I throwed.
• 3:02:31
  Speaker 4: How can I say what I might have done to
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 4: myself or her or both. She put her two hands
• 3:02:38
  Speaker 4: on his mouth with a face of terror, to stop
• 3:02:41
  Speaker 4: him from saying more. He caught them in his unoccupied hand,
• 3:02:45
  Speaker 4: and holding them and still clasping the border of her shawl,
• 3:02:48
  Speaker 4: said hurriedly, but I see thee Rachel setting by the bed.
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  Speaker 4: And I had seen thee oh this night in my
• 3:02:57
  Speaker 4: troublous sleep, and I had known these still to be there. Evermore,
• 3:03:02
  Speaker 4: I will see thee there. I nevermore will see her
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  Speaker 4: or think of her, but thou shalt be beside her.
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 4: I nevermore will see or think anything that angers me.
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  Speaker 4: But thou art so much better than me, shalt be
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  Speaker 4: by the side, aunt. And so I will try to
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  Speaker 4: look to the time, And so I will try to
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  Speaker 4: trust in the time when thou and me at last
• 3:03:29
  Speaker 4: shall walk together for a while beyond the deep gulf,
• 3:03:33
  Speaker 4: in the country where thy little sister is. He kissed
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 4: the border of her shawl again and let her go.
• 3:03:41
  Speaker 4: She bade him good night in a broken voice, and
• 3:03:45
  Speaker 4: went out into the street. The wind blew from the
• 3:03:48
  Speaker 4: quarter where the day would soon appear, and still blew strongly,
• 3:03:53
  Speaker 4: and had cleared the sky before it, and the rain
• 3:03:56
  Speaker 4: had split itself or traveled elsewhere, and the stars were bright.
• 3:04:01
  Speaker 4: He stood bareheaded in the road, watching her quick disappearance,
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 4: as the shining stars were to the heavy candle in
• 3:04:09
  Speaker 4: the window. So was Rachel, in the rugged fancy of
• 3:04:13
  Speaker 4: this man, to the common experiences of his life. Chapter fourteen.
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 4: The great manufacturer. Time went on in Coketown like its
• 3:04:30
  Speaker 4: own machinery. So much material wrought up, so much fuel, consumed,
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 4: so many powers, worn out, so much money made, but
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 4: less inexorable than iron, steel and brass. It brought its
• 3:04:45
  Speaker 4: varying seasons even into that wilderness of smoke and brick,
• 3:04:50
  Speaker 4: and made the only stand that was ever made in
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 4: the place. Against its direful uniformity. Luisa is weak, humming,
• 3:05:00
  Speaker 4: said mister gradgrind almost woman. Time, with his innumerable horsepower,
• 3:05:09
  Speaker 4: worked away, not minding what anybody said, and presently turned
• 3:05:13
  Speaker 4: out young Thomas a foot taller than when his father
• 3:05:16
  Speaker 4: had last taken particular notice of him. Thomas is becoming,
• 3:05:22
  Speaker 4: said mister Gradgrind, almost a young man. Time passed Thomas
• 3:05:28
  Speaker 4: on in the mill while his father was thinking about it,
• 3:05:31
  Speaker 4: and there he stood in a long tailed coat and
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 4: a stiff shirt collar. Really, said mister Gradgrind, the period
• 3:05:41
  Speaker 4: has arrived when Thomas ought to go to Bounderby. Time,
• 3:05:47
  Speaker 4: sticking to him, passed him on into Bounderby's bank, made
• 3:05:51
  Speaker 4: him an inmate of Bounderby's house, necessitated the purchase of
• 3:05:56
  Speaker 4: his first razor, and exercised him dill diligently in his
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 4: calculations relative to number one. The same great manufacturer, always
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 4: with an immense variety of work on hand, in every
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 4: stage of development, passed Cissy onward in his mill and
• 3:06:17
  Speaker 4: worked her up into a very pretty article. Indeed, I
• 3:06:22
  Speaker 4: fear Jobe, said mister grand Grind, that your continuance at
• 3:06:27
  Speaker 4: the school any longer would be useless. I'm afraid it would, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Sissy answered, with a courtesy, I cannot disguise from you, Jube,
• 3:06:39
  Speaker 4: said mister Gradgrind, knitting his brow, that the result of
• 3:06:44
  Speaker 4: your probation there has disappointed me, has greatly disappointed me.
• 3:06:51
  Speaker 4: You have not acquired, under mister and missus machocum child,
• 3:06:55
  Speaker 4: anything like that amount of exact knowledge which I look for.
• 3:07:01
  Speaker 4: You are extremely deficient in your facts. Your acquaintance with
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 4: figures is limited. You are altogether backward and below the mark.
• 3:07:12
  Speaker 4: I am sorry, sir, she returned, but I know it
• 3:07:16
  Speaker 4: is quite true. Yet I have tried hard, sir, Yes,
• 3:07:21
  Speaker 4: said mister Gradgrind. Yes, I believe you have tried hard.
• 3:07:24
  Speaker 4: I have observed you, and I can find no fault
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 4: in that respect. Thank you, sir. I have thought, sometimes, Sissy,
• 3:07:33
  Speaker 4: very timid here, that perhaps I tried to learn too much,
• 3:07:38
  Speaker 4: and that if I'd asked to be allowed to try
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 4: a little less, I might have no jupe. No, said
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 4: mister Gradgrind, shaking his head in his profoundest, most eminently
• 3:07:50
  Speaker 4: practical way. No, the course you pursued, you pursued according
• 3:07:57
  Speaker 4: to the system. The system, and there is no more
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 4: to be said about it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: You only suppose that the circumstances of your early life
• 3:08:08
  Speaker 4: were too unfavorable to the development of your reasoning powers,
• 3:08:14
  Speaker 4: and that we began too late. Still, as I have
• 3:08:17
  Speaker 4: said already, I am disappointed. I wish I could have
• 3:08:22
  Speaker 4: made a better acknowledgment, sir, of your kindness to a poor,
• 3:08:26
  Speaker 4: forlorn girl who had no claim upon you, and of
• 3:08:30
  Speaker 4: your protection of her. Don't shed tears, said mister Gradgrind.
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 4: Don't shed tears. I don't complain of you. You are
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 4: an affectionate, earnest, good young woman, and and we must
• 3:08:46
  Speaker 4: make that Do think you serve very much? Said Sissy,
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 4: with a grateful courtesy. You are useful to missus Gradgrind,
• 3:08:56
  Speaker 4: and in a generally pervading way. You were serviceable in
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 4: the family also, so I understand from Miss Luisa, and
• 3:09:05
  Speaker 4: indeed so I have observed myself. I therefore hope, said
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 4: mister Gradgrind, that you can make yourself happy in those relations.
• 3:09:16
  Speaker 4: I should have nothing to wish, sir. If I understand you,
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 4: said mister Gradgrind, you still refer to your father. I
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 4: have heard from Miss Louisa that you still preserve that bottle. Well.
• 3:09:33
  Speaker 4: If your training in the service of arriving at exact
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 4: results had been more successful, you would have been wiser
• 3:09:43
  Speaker 4: on these points. I will say no more. He really
• 3:09:48
  Speaker 4: likes to see too well to have contempt for her. Otherwise,
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 4: he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation
• 3:09:57
  Speaker 4: that he must have fallen upon them conclusion. Somehow or other.
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 4: He'd become possessed by an idea that there was something
• 3:10:06
  Speaker 4: in this girl which could hardly be set forth in
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 4: a tabular form. Her capacity or definition might be easily
• 3:10:15
  Speaker 4: stated at a very low figure, her mathematical knowledge at nothing.
• 3:10:21
  Speaker 4: Yet he was not sure that if he had been required,
• 3:10:24
  Speaker 4: for example, to take her off into columns in a
• 3:10:28
  Speaker 4: parliamentary return, he would have quite known how to divide her.
• 3:10:33
  Speaker 4: In some stages of his manufacture of the human fabric,
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 4: the processes of time are very rapid, young Thomas and
• 3:10:43
  Speaker 4: Sissy being both at such a stage of their working up,
• 3:10:48
  Speaker 4: these changes were affected in a year or two. While
• 3:10:51
  Speaker 4: mister Gradgrind himself seemed stationary in his course and underwent
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 4: no alteration, oh except one which was apart his necessary
• 3:11:01
  Speaker 4: progress through the mill. Time hustled him into a little, noisy,
• 3:11:06
  Speaker 4: rather dirty machinery in a by corner, and made him
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 4: Member of Parliament for Coketown, one of the respected members
• 3:11:16
  Speaker 4: for Ouncewaits and Majors, one of the representatives of the
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 4: multiplication Table, one of the deaf, honorable gentlemen, dumb, honorable gentleman, blind,
• 3:11:28
  Speaker 4: honorable gentleman, lame, honorable gentleman, dead, honorable gentleman, to every
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 4: other consideration. Elsewherefore live we in a Christian land, eighteen
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 4: hundred and odd years after our master. All this while
• 3:11:46
  Speaker 4: Luisa had been passing on, so quiet and reserved, and
• 3:11:50
  Speaker 4: so much given to watching the bright ashes at twilight
• 3:11:54
  Speaker 4: as they fell from the great and become extinct. That
• 3:11:57
  Speaker 4: from the period when her father had said she was
• 3:12:00
  Speaker 4: almost a young woman, which seemed, but yesterday she had
• 3:12:04
  Speaker 4: scarcely attracted his notice again when he found her quite
• 3:12:07
  Speaker 4: a young woman, quite a young woman, said mister gradgrind
• 3:12:12
  Speaker 4: musing dear me. Soon after this discovery he became more
• 3:12:17
  Speaker 4: thoughtful than usual for several days, and seemed much engrossed
• 3:12:22
  Speaker 4: by one subject. On a certain night, when he was
• 3:12:26
  Speaker 4: going out and Louisa came to bid him goodbye before
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 4: his departure, as he was not to be home until
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 4: late and she would not seem again until the morning,
• 3:12:36
  Speaker 4: he held her in his arms, looking at her in
• 3:12:39
  Speaker 4: his kindest manner, and said, my dear Louisa, you are
• 3:12:46
  Speaker 4: a woman. She answered with an odd, quick searching look
• 3:12:51
  Speaker 4: of the night when she was found at the circus,
• 3:12:53
  Speaker 4: then cast down her eyes. Yes, father, my dear, said
• 3:12:59
  Speaker 4: mister gradd I must speak with you alone, and seriously
• 3:13:05
  Speaker 4: come to me in my room after breakfast tomorrow, will you? Yes, father,
• 3:13:12
  Speaker 4: your hands are rather cold, Louise, are you not well?
• 3:13:15
  Speaker 4: Quite well, father, and cheerful. She looked at him again
• 3:13:19
  Speaker 4: and smiled in her peculiar manner. I am as cheerful father,
• 3:13:25
  Speaker 4: as I usually am, or usually have been. Ah, that's well,
• 3:13:30
  Speaker 4: said mister Gradgride. So he kissed her and went away,
• 3:13:34
  Speaker 4: and Louisa returned to the serene apartment of the hair
• 3:13:38
  Speaker 4: cutting character, and, leaning her elbow on her hand, looked
• 3:13:42
  Speaker 4: again at the short lived sparks that soon subsided into ashes.
• 3:13:48
  Speaker 4: Are you there, lou said her brother, looking in at
• 3:13:51
  Speaker 4: the door. He was quite a young gentleman of pleasure now,
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 4: and not quite prepossessing one, Dear Tom answered, rising and
• 3:14:01
  Speaker 4: embracing him, how long it is since you've been to
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 4: see me? Why I have been otherwise engaged lou in
• 3:14:09
  Speaker 4: the evenings and in the daytime. Old Bounderby has been
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 4: keeping me at it rather. But I touch him up
• 3:14:15
  Speaker 4: with you when he comes it too strong, and so
• 3:14:18
  Speaker 4: we preserve an understanding. I say, as father said anything
• 3:14:22
  Speaker 4: in particular to you today yesterday, lou No, Tom, but
• 3:14:28
  Speaker 4: he told me tonight that he wished to do so
• 3:14:30
  Speaker 4: in the morning. Ah, well, that's what I mean, said Tom.
• 3:14:35
  Speaker 4: Do you know where he is tonight? With a very
• 3:14:39
  Speaker 4: deep expression. No, Then I'll tell you he's with Old Bounderby.
• 3:14:46
  Speaker 4: They are having a regular Tom fab together at the bank.
• 3:14:51
  Speaker 4: At the bank, do you think well, I'll tell you
• 3:14:53
  Speaker 4: again to keep missus sparsit's ears as far off as possible,
• 3:14:58
  Speaker 4: I expect. With her hand upon her brother's shoulder, Louisa
• 3:15:04
  Speaker 4: stood looking at the fire. Her brother glanced at her
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 4: face with greater interest than usual, and encircling her waist
• 3:15:11
  Speaker 4: with his arm, drew her coaxingly to him. You are
• 3:15:16
  Speaker 4: very fond of me, aunt Hulu. I am, indeed, Tom,
• 3:15:20
  Speaker 4: though you do let such long intervals go by without
• 3:15:24
  Speaker 4: coming to see me. Well, sister of mine, said Tom.
• 3:15:29
  Speaker 4: When you say that you are near my thoughts, we
• 3:15:32
  Speaker 4: might be so much oftener together. Mightn't we always together? Almost?
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 6: Mightn't we?
• 3:15:38
  Speaker 4: It would do me a great deal of good if
• 3:15:40
  Speaker 4: you were to make up your mind to I know what, Lou,
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 4: It would be a splendid thing for me. It would
• 3:15:48
  Speaker 4: be uncommonly jolly. Her thoughtfulness baffled his cunning scrutiny. He
• 3:15:55
  Speaker 4: could make nothing of her face. He pressed her in
• 3:15:59
  Speaker 4: his arm and came cheek. She returned the kiss, but
• 3:16:02
  Speaker 4: still looked at the fire. I say, Lou, I thought
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 4: i'd come and just hint to what was going on,
• 3:16:09
  Speaker 4: though I suppose you'd most likely guess even if you
• 3:16:12
  Speaker 4: didn't know. I can't stay because I'm engaged to some
• 3:16:16
  Speaker 4: fellows tonight. You won't forget how fond you are of me. No,
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 4: dear Tom, I won't forget. That's a capital girl, said Tom. Goodbye, Lou.
• 3:16:28
  Speaker 4: She gave him an affectionate good night, and went out
• 3:16:32
  Speaker 4: with him to the door. Once the fires of Coketown
• 3:16:35
  Speaker 4: could be seen, making the distance lurid. She stood there,
• 3:16:39
  Speaker 4: looking steadfastly towards them, and listening to his departing steps.
• 3:16:46
  Speaker 4: They were treated quickly as glad to get away from
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 4: Stone Lodge. As she stood there yet when he was
• 3:16:54
  Speaker 4: gone and all was quiet, it seemed as if, first
• 3:16:58
  Speaker 4: in her own fire within the house, and then in
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 4: the fiery haze without, she tried to discover what kind
• 3:17:05
  Speaker 4: of woof old time that greatest and longest established spinner
• 3:17:10
  Speaker 4: of all would weave from the threads he had already
• 3:17:14
  Speaker 4: spun into a woman. But his factory is a secret place,
• 3:17:19
  Speaker 4: his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. End
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 4: of section seven, Chapter fifteen, Father and Daughter. Although mister
• 3:17:33
  Speaker 4: Gradgrind did not take after Bluebeard, his room was quite
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 4: a blue chamber in its abundance of blue books. Whatever
• 3:17:41
  Speaker 4: they could prove, which is usually anything you like, they
• 3:17:44
  Speaker 4: proved there in an army constantly strengthening by the arrival
• 3:17:48
  Speaker 4: of new recruits. In that charm department, the most complicated
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 4: social questions were cast up, got into exact totals, and
• 3:17:58
  Speaker 4: finally settled. If those can concern could only have been
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 4: brought to know it, as if an astronomical observatory should
• 3:18:06
  Speaker 4: be made without any windows, and the astronomer within should
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 4: arrange the starry universe solely by pen and ink and paper.
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 4: So mister Gradgrind in his observatory. And there are many
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 4: like it had no need to cast an eye upon
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 4: the teeming myriads of human beings around him, but could
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 4: settle all their destinies on a slate and wipe out
• 3:18:31
  Speaker 4: all their tears with one dirty little bit of sponge.
• 3:18:36
  Speaker 4: To this observatory, then a stern room with a deadly
• 3:18:41
  Speaker 4: statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a
• 3:18:45
  Speaker 4: beat like a wrap upon a coffin lid. Louisa repaired
• 3:18:49
  Speaker 4: on the appointed morning. A window looked towards Coketown, and
• 3:18:55
  Speaker 4: when she sat down near her father's table, she saw
• 3:18:58
  Speaker 4: the high chimneys and the law long tracts of smoke
• 3:19:01
  Speaker 4: looming in the heavy distance. Gloomily, My dear Louisa, said
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 4: her father. I prepared you last night to give me
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 4: your serious attention in the conversation we are now going
• 3:19:16
  Speaker 4: to have together. You have been so well trained, and
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 4: you do. I'm happy to say so much justice to
• 3:19:24
  Speaker 4: the education you have received that I have perfect confidence
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 4: in your good sense. You are not impulsive, you are
• 3:19:33
  Speaker 4: not romantic. You are accustomed to view everything from the strong,
• 3:19:38
  Speaker 4: dispassionate ground of reason and calculation. From that ground alone,
• 3:19:45
  Speaker 4: I know you will view and consider what I am
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 4: going to communicate. He waited as if he would have
• 3:19:52
  Speaker 4: been glad that she said something, But she said never
• 3:19:56
  Speaker 4: a word. Louisa, my dear, you are are the subject
• 3:20:01
  Speaker 4: of a proposal of marriage that has been made to me.
• 3:20:05
  Speaker 4: Again he waited, and again she answered not one word.
• 3:20:10
  Speaker 4: This so far surprised him as to induce him gently
• 3:20:13
  Speaker 4: to repeat a proposal of marriage, my dear, to which
• 3:20:19
  Speaker 4: she returned without any visible emotion. Whatever I hear you, father,
• 3:20:24
  Speaker 4: I am attending. I assure you well, said mister Gradgrind,
• 3:20:28
  Speaker 4: breaking into a smile after being for a moment at
• 3:20:31
  Speaker 4: a loss. You are even more dispassionate than I expected, Louisa.
• 3:20:36
  Speaker 4: Or perhaps you are not unprepared for the announcement I
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 4: have it in my charge to make. I cannot say that, father,
• 3:20:45
  Speaker 4: until I hear it prepared her unprepared. I wish to
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 4: hear it all from you. I wish to hear you
• 3:20:52
  Speaker 4: state it to me. Father strange to relate, mister Gradgrind
• 3:20:58
  Speaker 4: was not so collected at this moment as his daughter was.
• 3:21:02
  Speaker 4: He took a paper knife in his hand, turned it over,
• 3:21:05
  Speaker 4: laid it down, took it up again, and even then
• 3:21:08
  Speaker 4: had to look along the blade of it, considering how
• 3:21:11
  Speaker 4: to go on. What you say, my dear Luis is
• 3:21:16
  Speaker 4: perfectly reasonable. I have undertaken, then, to let you know
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 4: that in short, mister Bounderby has informed me that he
• 3:21:25
  Speaker 4: has long watched your progress with particular interest and pleasure,
• 3:21:30
  Speaker 4: and has long hoped that the time might ultimately arrive
• 3:21:35
  Speaker 4: when he should offer you his hand in marriage. That
• 3:21:39
  Speaker 4: time to which he has so long and certainly with
• 3:21:44
  Speaker 4: great constancy looked forward, is now come. Mister Bounderby has
• 3:21:49
  Speaker 4: made his proposal of marriage to me, and has entreated
• 3:21:54
  Speaker 4: me to make it known to you, and to express
• 3:21:58
  Speaker 4: his hope that you will take it into your favorable consideration.
• 3:22:04
  Speaker 4: Silence between them, the deadly statistical clock, very hollow, the
• 3:22:10
  Speaker 4: distant smoke very black and heavy. Father said, Louisa, do
• 3:22:16
  Speaker 4: you think I love mister Bounderby. Mister Gradgrind was extremely
• 3:22:21
  Speaker 4: discomfited by this unexpected question. Well, my child, he returned,
• 3:22:27
  Speaker 4: I really cannot take upon myself to say, father, pursued
• 3:22:35
  Speaker 4: Louisa in exactly the same voice as before. Do you
• 3:22:39
  Speaker 4: ask me to love mister Bounderby, My dear Louisa, No, No,
• 3:22:45
  Speaker 4: I ask nothing, father, She still pursued, does mister Bounderby
• 3:22:51
  Speaker 4: ask me to love him, Really, my dear, said mister Gradgrind,
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 4: It is difficult to answer your question. Difficult to answer
• 3:23:02
  Speaker 4: it yes or no, Father, certainly, my dear, because here
• 3:23:08
  Speaker 4: was something to demonstrate, and it set him up again.
• 3:23:12
  Speaker 4: Because the reply depends so materially, Louisa, on the sense
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 4: in which we use the expression. Now, mister Bounderby does
• 3:23:23
  Speaker 4: not do you the injustice, and does not do himself
• 3:23:27
  Speaker 4: the injustice of pretending to anything fanciful, fantastic or I'm
• 3:23:33
  Speaker 4: using synonymous terms as sentimental. Mister Bounderby would have seen
• 3:23:40
  Speaker 4: you grow up under his eyes to a very little purpose,
• 3:23:44
  Speaker 4: if he could so far forget what is due to
• 3:23:47
  Speaker 4: your good sense not to say to his as to
• 3:23:50
  Speaker 4: address you from any such ground. Therefore, perhaps the expression itself,
• 3:23:57
  Speaker 4: I merely suggest this to you, my dear, maybe a
• 3:24:01
  Speaker 4: little misplaced. What would you advise me to use in
• 3:24:05
  Speaker 4: its Steadfather, my dear, Louisa, said mister Gradgrind, completely recovered
• 3:24:12
  Speaker 4: by this time, I would advise you, since you asked
• 3:24:15
  Speaker 4: me to consider this question as you have been accustomed
• 3:24:20
  Speaker 4: to consider every other question simply as one of tangible fact.
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 4: The ignorant and the giddy may embarrass such subjects with
• 3:24:31
  Speaker 4: irrelevant fancies and other absurdities that have no existence properly
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 4: viewed really no existence. But it is no compliment to
• 3:24:42
  Speaker 4: you to say that you know better now what the
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 4: facts are. In this case you are we will say
• 3:24:50
  Speaker 4: in round numbers at twenty years of age, mister Bounderby
• 3:24:55
  Speaker 4: is we will say, in round numbers fifty. There is
• 3:25:00
  Speaker 4: some disparity in your respective years, but in your means
• 3:25:05
  Speaker 4: and positions there is none. On the contrary, there is
• 3:25:08
  Speaker 4: a great suitability. Then the question arises, is this one
• 3:25:14
  Speaker 4: disparity sufficient to operate as a bar to such a marriage?
• 3:25:20
  Speaker 4: In considering this question, it is not unimportant to take
• 3:25:24
  Speaker 4: into account the statistics of marriage, so far as they
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 4: have yet been obtained in England and Wales. I find,
• 3:25:34
  Speaker 4: on reference to the figures, that a large proportion of
• 3:25:38
  Speaker 4: these marriages are contracted between parties of very unequal ages,
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 4: and that the elder of these contracting parties is rather
• 3:25:49
  Speaker 4: more than three fourths of these instances the bride group.
• 3:25:53
  Speaker 4: It is remarkable, as showing the wide prevalence of this law,
• 3:25:58
  Speaker 4: that among the natives of the British possessions in India
• 3:26:02
  Speaker 4: are also in a considerable part of China, and among
• 3:26:06
  Speaker 4: the Kalmucks in Tartary. The best means of computation yet
• 3:26:11
  Speaker 4: furnished us by travelers yield similar results. The disparity I've
• 3:26:17
  Speaker 4: mentioned therefore almost ceases to be disparity, and virtually all
• 3:26:23
  Speaker 4: but disappears. What do you recommend, father, asked Louisa, her
• 3:26:29
  Speaker 4: reserve composure not in the least affected by these gratifying results,
• 3:26:35
  Speaker 4: that I should substitute for the term I use just
• 3:26:38
  Speaker 4: now for the misplaced expression, Louisa returned her father. It
• 3:26:45
  Speaker 4: appears to me that nothing can be plainer. Confining yourself
• 3:26:50
  Speaker 4: rigidly to fact. The question of fact you state to
• 3:26:54
  Speaker 4: yourself is does mister Bounderby ask me to marry him?
• 3:27:00
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 3:27:00
  Speaker 4: He does. The sole remaining question, then, is shall I
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 4: marry him? I think nothing can be plainer than that
• 3:27:10
  Speaker 4: shall I marry him? Repeated Louisa, with great deliberation. Precisely,
• 3:27:15
  Speaker 4: And it is satisfactory to me, as your father, my
• 3:27:19
  Speaker 4: dear Luisa, to know that you do not come to
• 3:27:22
  Speaker 4: the consideration of that question with the previous habits of
• 3:27:26
  Speaker 4: mind and habits of life that belong to many young
• 3:27:30
  Speaker 4: women no, father, she returned, I do not. I leave
• 3:27:35
  Speaker 4: you to judge for yourself, said mister Gradgrind. I have
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 4: stated the case as such cases are usually stated among
• 3:27:43
  Speaker 4: practical minds. I have stated it as the case of
• 3:27:48
  Speaker 4: your mother, and myself has stated in its time. The rest,
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 4: my dear Luisa, is for you to decide. From the beginning,
• 3:27:58
  Speaker 4: she had sat looking at him, fixed it as he
• 3:28:01
  Speaker 4: now leaned back in his chair and bent his deep
• 3:28:03
  Speaker 4: set eyes upon her. In his turn, perhaps he might
• 3:28:07
  Speaker 4: have seen one wavering moment in her when she was
• 3:28:11
  Speaker 4: impelled to throw herself upon his breast and give him
• 3:28:14
  Speaker 4: the pent up confidences of her heart. But to see
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 4: it he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial
• 3:28:21
  Speaker 4: barriers he had for many years been erecting between himself
• 3:28:26
  Speaker 4: and all those subtle essences of humanity, which will elude
• 3:28:30
  Speaker 4: the utmost cunning of algebra, until the last trumpet ever
• 3:28:35
  Speaker 4: to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. The
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 4: barriers were too many and too high for such a leap.
• 3:28:44
  Speaker 4: With his unbending, utilitarian, matter of fact face, he hardened
• 3:28:49
  Speaker 4: her again, and moment shot away into the plummeless depths
• 3:28:53
  Speaker 4: of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities
• 3:28:57
  Speaker 4: that are drowned there. Removing her eyes from him, she
• 3:29:02
  Speaker 4: sat so long, looking silently towards the town, that he said,
• 3:29:05
  Speaker 4: at length, are you consulting the chimneys of Coketown works, Louisa, Well,
• 3:29:14
  Speaker 4: there seems to be nothing there but languid and monotonous smoke.
• 3:29:18
  Speaker 4: Yet when night comes, fire bursts out, father, she answered,
• 3:29:22
  Speaker 4: turning quickly, Well, of course I know that, Louisa. I
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 4: do not see the application of that remark to do
• 3:29:30
  Speaker 4: him justice. He did not at all. She passed it
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 4: away with a slight motion of her hand, and concentrating
• 3:29:37
  Speaker 4: her attention upon him again, said father, I have often
• 3:29:43
  Speaker 4: thought that life is very short. This was so distinctly
• 3:29:47
  Speaker 4: one of his subjects that he interposed. It is short,
• 3:29:51
  Speaker 4: no doubt, my dear. Still, the average duration of human
• 3:29:55
  Speaker 4: life is proved to have increased of late years. The
• 3:30:00
  Speaker 4: calculations of various life assurance and annuity offices, among other figures,
• 3:30:06
  Speaker 4: which cannot go wrong, have established the fact I speak
• 3:30:11
  Speaker 4: of my own life.
• 3:30:12
  Speaker 6: Father.
• 3:30:13
  Speaker 4: Oh indeed, still, said mister Gradgrind, I need not point
• 3:30:18
  Speaker 4: out to you, Louisa, that it is governed by the
• 3:30:22
  Speaker 4: laws which govern lives and the aggregate whilst it lasts.
• 3:30:28
  Speaker 4: I would wish to do the little I can, and
• 3:30:30
  Speaker 4: the little I am fit for What does it matter?
• 3:30:35
  Speaker 4: Mister Gradgrind seemed rather at a loss to understand the
• 3:30:39
  Speaker 4: last four words, replying, how matter? What matter? My dear?
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 4: Mister Bounderby, She went on in a steady straight way
• 3:30:49
  Speaker 4: without regarding this asks me to marry him? The question
• 3:30:54
  Speaker 4: I have to ask myself is shall I marry him?
• 3:30:58
  Speaker 4: That is so, father, Is it not? You have told
• 3:31:00
  Speaker 4: me so, father, have you not? Oh? Certainly, my dear,
• 3:31:05
  Speaker 4: let it be so, since mister Bounderby likes to take me. Thus,
• 3:31:10
  Speaker 4: I am satisfied to accept his proposal. Tell him, father,
• 3:31:14
  Speaker 4: as soon as you please, that this was my answer.
• 3:31:18
  Speaker 4: Repeat it word for word if you can, because I
• 3:31:21
  Speaker 4: should wish him to know what I said. Oh, it
• 3:31:25
  Speaker 4: is quite right, my dear, retorted her father, approvingly to
• 3:31:29
  Speaker 4: be exact. I will observe your very proper request. Have
• 3:31:34
  Speaker 4: you any wish in reference to the period of your marriage?
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 4: My child? None? Father, What does it matter? Mister Gradgrind
• 3:31:44
  Speaker 4: had drawn his chair a little nearer to her and
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 4: taken her hand, but her repetition of these words seemed
• 3:31:52
  Speaker 4: to strike with some little discord on his ear. He
• 3:31:56
  Speaker 4: paused to look at her, and, still holding her hands,
• 3:32:00
  Speaker 4: said Louisa, I have not considered it essential to ask
• 3:32:05
  Speaker 4: you one question, because the possibility implied, and it appeared
• 3:32:09
  Speaker 4: to me to be too remote. But perhaps I ought
• 3:32:13
  Speaker 4: to do so. You have never entertained in secret any
• 3:32:18
  Speaker 4: other proposal, father, She returned, almost scornfully. What other proposal
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 4: can have been made to me? Whom have I seen?
• 3:32:27
  Speaker 4: Where have I been? What are my heart's experiences? My
• 3:32:32
  Speaker 4: dear Louisa returned, mister gradgrind reassured and satisfied, you correct
• 3:32:38
  Speaker 4: me justly. I merely wish to discharge my duty. What
• 3:32:43
  Speaker 4: do I know, father, said Louise, in her quiet manner,
• 3:32:47
  Speaker 4: of tastes and fantasies, of aspirations and affections, of all
• 3:32:52
  Speaker 4: that part of my nature in which such light things
• 3:32:56
  Speaker 4: might have been nourished? What escape have I had from
• 3:33:00
  Speaker 4: problems that could be demonstrated and realities that could be grasped?
• 3:33:05
  Speaker 4: As she said it, she unconsciously closed her hand as
• 3:33:09
  Speaker 4: if upon a solid object, and slowly opened it, as
• 3:33:12
  Speaker 4: though she were releasing dust or ash. My dear assented,
• 3:33:17
  Speaker 4: her imminently practical parent. Quite true, Quite true? Why father,
• 3:33:23
  Speaker 4: she pursued, what a strange question to ask me? The
• 3:33:27
  Speaker 4: baby preference that even I have heard of as common
• 3:33:31
  Speaker 4: among children, has never had its innocent resting place in
• 3:33:35
  Speaker 4: my breast. You have been so careful of me that
• 3:33:38
  Speaker 4: I never had a child's heart. You have trained me
• 3:33:42
  Speaker 4: so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You
• 3:33:46
  Speaker 4: have dealt so wisely with me, father, from my cradle
• 3:33:49
  Speaker 4: to this hour, that I have never had a child's
• 3:33:53
  Speaker 4: belief for a child's fear. Mister Gradgrind was quite moved
• 3:33:58
  Speaker 4: by his success, and by this testimony to it. My
• 3:34:02
  Speaker 4: dear Louisa, said he you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me,
• 3:34:07
  Speaker 4: my dear girl. So his daughter kissed him, detaining her
• 3:34:13
  Speaker 4: in his embrace, he said, I may assure you, now,
• 3:34:16
  Speaker 4: my favorite child, that I am made happy by the
• 3:34:20
  Speaker 4: sound decision at which you have arrived. Mister Bounderby is
• 3:34:24
  Speaker 4: a very remarkable man, And what little disparity can be
• 3:34:28
  Speaker 4: said to exist between you, if any, is more than
• 3:34:33
  Speaker 4: counterbalanced by the tone your mind as acquired. It has
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 4: always been my object so to educate you as that
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 4: you might well still in your early youth be if
• 3:34:46
  Speaker 4: I may so express myself almost any age, kiss me
• 3:34:50
  Speaker 4: once more, Louisa. Now let us go and find your mother. Accordingly,
• 3:34:55
  Speaker 4: they went down to the drawing room, where the esteemed
• 3:34:58
  Speaker 4: lady with no non sense about her was recumbent as usual,
• 3:35:03
  Speaker 4: while Cissy worked beside her. She gave some feeble signs
• 3:35:07
  Speaker 4: of returning animation when they entered, and presently the faint
• 3:35:11
  Speaker 4: transparency was presented in a sitting attitude. Missus Gradgrind said
• 3:35:19
  Speaker 4: her husband, who had waited for the achievement of this
• 3:35:22
  Speaker 4: feat with some impatience, Allow me to present you and
• 3:35:28
  Speaker 4: Missus bounderby. Oh, said missus Gradgrind. So you have settled
• 3:35:33
  Speaker 4: it well. I'm sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa,
• 3:35:37
  Speaker 4: for if your head begins to split as soon as
• 3:35:40
  Speaker 4: you are married, which was the case with mine, I
• 3:35:44
  Speaker 4: cannot consider that you are to be envied, though I
• 3:35:47
  Speaker 4: have no doubt you think you are as all girls do. However,
• 3:35:52
  Speaker 4: I give you joy, my dear, and I hope you
• 3:35:55
  Speaker 4: may now turn all your all logical studies to good account.
• 3:36:01
  Speaker 4: I'm sure I do. I must give you a kiss
• 3:36:04
  Speaker 4: of congratulation, Louisa. But I don't touch my right shoulder,
• 3:36:08
  Speaker 4: for there's something running down it all day long and
• 3:36:11
  Speaker 4: now you see, whimpered Missus Gradgrind, adjusting her shawls after
• 3:36:16
  Speaker 4: the affectionate ceremony. I shall be worrying myself, morning, noon
• 3:36:20
  Speaker 4: and night to know what I am to call him,
• 3:36:24
  Speaker 4: Missus Gradgrind, said her husband solemnly. What do you mean
• 3:36:29
  Speaker 4: whatever I am to call him, mister Gradgrind, When he
• 3:36:32
  Speaker 4: is married to Louisa, I must call him something. It's impossible,
• 3:36:38
  Speaker 4: said Missus Gradgrind, with a mingled sense of politeness and injury,
• 3:36:43
  Speaker 4: to be constantly addressing him and never giving him a name.
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 4: I cannot call him Josiah, for the name is insupportable
• 3:36:51
  Speaker 4: to me. You yourself wouldn't hear of Joe. You very
• 3:36:55
  Speaker 4: well know. Am I to call my own son in
• 3:36:59
  Speaker 4: law mister? Not that I believe. Unless the time has
• 3:37:02
  Speaker 4: arrived when as an invalid I am to be trampled
• 3:37:06
  Speaker 4: upon by my relations, than what am I to call him?
• 3:37:10
  Speaker 4: Nobody present having any suggestion to offer in the remarkable emergency,
• 3:37:15
  Speaker 4: Missus Gradgrind departed this life for the time being after
• 3:37:20
  Speaker 4: delivering the following codicil to her remarks already executed. As
• 3:37:25
  Speaker 4: to the wedding, all I asked, Louisa is, and I
• 3:37:29
  Speaker 4: ask it with a flutter in my chest, what actually
• 3:37:34
  Speaker 4: extends to the soles of my feet? That it may
• 3:37:37
  Speaker 4: take place soon? Otherwise I know it is one of
• 3:37:41
  Speaker 4: those subjects I shall never hear the last of When
• 3:37:45
  Speaker 4: mister Gradgrind had presented Missus Bounderby, Sissy had suddenly turned
• 3:37:50
  Speaker 4: her head and looked in wonder, in pity, and sorrow,
• 3:37:54
  Speaker 4: in doubt, in a multitude of emotions towards Louisa. Louisa
• 3:37:59
  Speaker 4: had known and seen it without looking at her. From
• 3:38:03
  Speaker 4: that moment she was impassive, proud, and cold, held Sissy
• 3:38:08
  Speaker 4: at a distance, changed to her altogether. Chapter sixteen, Husband
• 3:38:17
  Speaker 4: and Wife. Mister Bounderby's first disquietude on hearing of his
• 3:38:23
  Speaker 4: happiness was occasioned by the necessity of imparting it to
• 3:38:27
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit. He could not make up his mind how
• 3:38:30
  Speaker 4: to do that, or what the consequences of the step
• 3:38:34
  Speaker 4: might be. Whether she would instantly depart, bag and baggage
• 3:38:39
  Speaker 4: to ladies Skadgers, or would possibly refuse to budge from
• 3:38:43
  Speaker 4: the premises, whether she would be plaintive or abusive, tearful
• 3:38:48
  Speaker 4: or tearing, whether she would break her heart or break
• 3:38:53
  Speaker 4: the looking glass. Mister Bounderby could not at all foresee. However,
• 3:38:58
  Speaker 4: as it must be done, he had no choice but
• 3:39:00
  Speaker 4: to do so, so, after attempting several letters and failing
• 3:39:05
  Speaker 4: in them all, he resolved to do it by word
• 3:39:08
  Speaker 4: of mouth. On his way home on the evening, he
• 3:39:11
  Speaker 4: set aside for this momentous purpose. He took the precaution
• 3:39:15
  Speaker 4: of stepping into a chemist's shop and buying a bottle
• 3:39:19
  Speaker 4: of the very strongest smelling salts by George, said mister Bounderby,
• 3:39:25
  Speaker 4: if she takes it in the fainting way, all had
• 3:39:29
  Speaker 4: the skin off her nose at all events. But in
• 3:39:32
  Speaker 4: spite of being thus fore armed, he entered his own
• 3:39:35
  Speaker 4: house with anything but a courageous air, and appeared before
• 3:39:41
  Speaker 4: the object of his misgivings like a dog who was
• 3:39:44
  Speaker 4: conscious of coming direct from the pantry. Good evening, mister Bounderby,
• 3:39:51
  Speaker 4: Good evening, ma'am, Good evening. He drew up his chair
• 3:39:55
  Speaker 4: and missus sparsit drew back hers as who should say
• 3:39:59
  Speaker 4: your fireside, sir, I really admit it. It is for
• 3:40:04
  Speaker 4: you to occupy it all if you think proper. Oh well,
• 3:40:08
  Speaker 4: don't go to the north pole, ma'am, said mister Bounderby.
• 3:40:12
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Sir, said Missus Sparsit, and returned. Though short
• 3:40:16
  Speaker 4: of her former position. Mister Bounderby sat looking at her
• 3:40:21
  Speaker 4: as with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors.
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 4: She picked out holes from some inscrutable ornamental purpose in
• 3:40:31
  Speaker 4: a piece of cambric. An operation which, taken in connection
• 3:40:36
  Speaker 4: with the bushy eyebrows and the Roman nose, suggested with
• 3:40:40
  Speaker 4: some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon the
• 3:40:44
  Speaker 4: eyes of a tough little bird. She was so steadfastly
• 3:40:49
  Speaker 4: occupied that many minutes elapsed before she looked up from
• 3:40:53
  Speaker 4: her work. When she did so, mister Bounderby bespoke her
• 3:40:56
  Speaker 4: attention with a hitch of his head. Missus sparsit, ma'am,
• 3:41:03
  Speaker 4: said mister Bounby, putting his hands in his pockets and
• 3:41:06
  Speaker 4: assuring himself with his right hand that the cork of
• 3:41:10
  Speaker 4: the little bottle was ready for use. I have on
• 3:41:14
  Speaker 4: occasion to say to you that you are not only
• 3:41:17
  Speaker 4: a lady born and bred, but a devilish, sensible woman,
• 3:41:23
  Speaker 4: Sir returned the lady, this is indeed not the first
• 3:41:27
  Speaker 4: time that you have honored me with similar expressions of
• 3:41:30
  Speaker 4: your good opinion. Missus sparsit, ma'am, said mister Bounderby, I
• 3:41:36
  Speaker 4: am going to astonish you. Yes, sir, returned missus Sparsit,
• 3:41:41
  Speaker 4: interrogatively and in the most trankful manner possible. She generally
• 3:41:47
  Speaker 4: wore mittens, and she now laid down her work and
• 3:41:50
  Speaker 4: smoothed those mittens. I am going, ma'am, said mister Bounderby,
• 3:41:56
  Speaker 4: to marry Tom Gradgrind's daughter. Yes, sir, returned missus Sparsit.
• 3:42:04
  Speaker 4: I hope you may be happy, mister Bounderby. Oh indeed,
• 3:42:08
  Speaker 4: I hope you may be happy, sir. And she said
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 4: it with such great condescension, as well as with such
• 3:42:15
  Speaker 4: great compassion for him, that Bounderby far more disconcerted than
• 3:42:20
  Speaker 4: if she had thrown her work box at the mirror
• 3:42:23
  Speaker 4: or swooned on the hearth rug, corked up the smelling
• 3:42:27
  Speaker 4: salts tight in his pocket, and thought, now confound this
• 3:42:31
  Speaker 4: woman who could have ever guessed that she would take
• 3:42:33
  Speaker 4: it in this way? I wish with all my heart, sir,
• 3:42:38
  Speaker 4: said Missus Sparsit in a highly superior manner. Somehow, she
• 3:42:42
  Speaker 4: seemed in a moment to have established a right to
• 3:42:46
  Speaker 4: pity him. Ever afterwards, that you may be, in all
• 3:42:50
  Speaker 4: respects very happy. Well, ma'am returned Bounderby, with some resentment
• 3:42:56
  Speaker 4: in his tone, which was clearly lowered, though in spite
• 3:43:00
  Speaker 4: of himself, I am obliged to you. I hope I
• 3:43:03
  Speaker 4: shall be, do you, sir, said missus Sparsit with great affability,
• 3:43:08
  Speaker 4: But naturally you do, of course you do. A very
• 3:43:12
  Speaker 4: awkward pause on mister Bounderby's part succeeded. Missus Sparsit sedately
• 3:43:18
  Speaker 4: resumed her work, and occasionally gave a small cough which
• 3:43:22
  Speaker 4: sounded like the cough of conscious strength and forbearance. Well,
• 3:43:27
  Speaker 4: ma'am resumed, mister Bounderby. Under these circumstances, I imagine it
• 3:43:33
  Speaker 4: would not be agreeable to a character like yours to
• 3:43:36
  Speaker 4: remain here, though you would be very welcome here. Oh dear, no, sir,
• 3:43:43
  Speaker 4: I could on no account think of that. Missus Sparsit
• 3:43:46
  Speaker 4: shook her head still in her highly superior manner, and
• 3:43:51
  Speaker 4: a little changed the small cough, coughing now as if
• 3:43:55
  Speaker 4: the spirit of prophecy rose within her, but had better
• 3:43:58
  Speaker 4: be coughed down. However, ma'am, said Bounderby, there are apartments
• 3:44:05
  Speaker 4: at the bank where a born and bred lady is
• 3:44:08
  Speaker 4: keeper of the place, would be rather a catch than otherwise.
• 3:44:12
  Speaker 4: And if the same terms, I beg your pardon, sir,
• 3:44:17
  Speaker 4: you were so good as to promise that you would
• 3:44:20
  Speaker 4: always substitute the phrase annual compliment, Well, ma'am, annual compliment.
• 3:44:28
  Speaker 4: If the same annual compliment would be acceptable there, why
• 3:44:33
  Speaker 4: I see nothing to part us unless you do, sir returned.
• 3:44:37
  Speaker 4: Missus sparsit. The proposal is like yourself. And if the
• 3:44:42
  Speaker 4: position I shall assume at the bank is one that
• 3:44:45
  Speaker 4: I could occupy without descending lower in the social scale,
• 3:44:51
  Speaker 4: why of course it is, said Bounderby. If it was not, ma'am,
• 3:44:55
  Speaker 4: you don't suppose that I should offer it to a
• 3:44:57
  Speaker 4: lady who has moved to the society you have moved in.
• 3:45:02
  Speaker 4: Not that I care for such society, you know, but
• 3:45:05
  Speaker 4: you do, mister Bounderby. You are very considerate. You'll have
• 3:45:12
  Speaker 4: your own private apartments, and you'll have your coals and
• 3:45:16
  Speaker 4: your candles and all the rest of it, and you'll
• 3:45:18
  Speaker 4: have your maid to attend upon you, and you'll have
• 3:45:21
  Speaker 4: your light porter to protect you, and you'll be what
• 3:45:25
  Speaker 4: I take the liberty of considering precious comfortable, said Bounderby. Sir,
• 3:45:31
  Speaker 4: rejoined Missus Sparsit, say no more, and yielding up my trust.
• 3:45:37
  Speaker 4: Here I shall not be freed from the necessity of
• 3:45:40
  Speaker 4: eating the bread of dependence. She might have said, the
• 3:45:45
  Speaker 4: sweet bread for the delicate article in a savory brown
• 3:45:49
  Speaker 4: sauce was her favorite supper, and I would rather receive
• 3:45:53
  Speaker 4: it from your hand than from any other. Therefore, Sir,
• 3:45:58
  Speaker 4: I accept your offer, grateful and with many sincere acknowledgments
• 3:46:02
  Speaker 4: for past favors. And I hope, sir, said Missus Sparsit,
• 3:46:07
  Speaker 4: concluding in an impressively compassionate manner, I fondly hope that
• 3:46:13
  Speaker 4: miss Gradgrind may be all you desire and deserve. Nothing
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 4: moved missus Sparsit from that position anymore. It was in
• 3:46:25
  Speaker 4: vain for Bounderby to bluster or to assert himself in
• 3:46:29
  Speaker 4: any of his explosive ways. Missus Sparsit was resolved to
• 3:46:33
  Speaker 4: have compassion on him as a victim. She was polite, obliging, cheerful, hopeful.
• 3:46:40
  Speaker 4: But the more polite, the more obliging, the more cheerful,
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 4: the more hopeful, the more exemplary. Altogether she for the
• 3:46:49
  Speaker 4: Forlorner's sacrifice and victimy e she had that tenderness for
• 3:46:55
  Speaker 4: his melancholy fate that his great red countenance used to
• 3:46:59
  Speaker 4: break out in to cold perspirations when she looked at him. Meanwhile,
• 3:47:05
  Speaker 4: the marriage was appointed to be solemnized in eight weeks time,
• 3:47:10
  Speaker 4: and mister Bounderby went every evening to Stone Lodge as
• 3:47:14
  Speaker 4: an accepted wooer. Love was made on these occasions in
• 3:47:19
  Speaker 4: the form of bracelets, and on all occasions during the
• 3:47:23
  Speaker 4: period of betrothal took a manufacturing aspect. Dresses were made,
• 3:47:29
  Speaker 4: jewelry was made, cakes and gloves were made, Settlements were made,
• 3:47:34
  Speaker 4: and an extensive assortment of facts did appropriate honor to
• 3:47:39
  Speaker 4: the contract. The business was all fact from first to last.
• 3:47:45
  Speaker 4: The hours did not go through any of those rosy
• 3:47:48
  Speaker 4: performances which foolish poets have ascribed to them at such time.
• 3:47:54
  Speaker 4: Neither did the clocks go any faster or any slower
• 3:47:58
  Speaker 4: than at other seasons. The deadly statistical recorder in the
• 3:48:03
  Speaker 4: Gradgrind Observatory knocked every second on the head as it
• 3:48:07
  Speaker 4: was born, and buried it with his accustomed regularity. So
• 3:48:13
  Speaker 4: the day came as all other days come to people
• 3:48:17
  Speaker 4: who will only stick to reason, and when it came
• 3:48:21
  Speaker 4: there were married in the Church of the Florid Wooden
• 3:48:24
  Speaker 4: Legs that popular order of architecture, Josiah Bounderby, Esqre of
• 3:48:30
  Speaker 4: Cooktown to Louisa, eldest daughter of Thomas Gradgrind, Esquire of
• 3:48:36
  Speaker 4: Stone Lodge, MP for that borough. And when they were
• 3:48:41
  Speaker 4: united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast to
• 3:48:45
  Speaker 4: Stone Lodge. Aforesaid, there was an improving party assembled on
• 3:48:51
  Speaker 4: the auspicious occasion, who knew what everything they had to
• 3:48:54
  Speaker 4: eat and drink was made of, and how it was
• 3:48:57
  Speaker 4: imported or exported, and what quantities, and what bottoms, whether
• 3:49:03
  Speaker 4: native or foreign, and all about it. The bride'smaids down
• 3:49:08
  Speaker 4: to little Jane Gradgrind, were in an intellectual point of view,
• 3:49:13
  Speaker 4: fit helpmates for the calculating boy, and there was no
• 3:49:17
  Speaker 4: nonsense about any of the company. After breakfast, the bridegroom
• 3:49:21
  Speaker 4: addressed them in the following terms, Ladies and gentlemen, I
• 3:49:27
  Speaker 4: am Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. Since you have done my
• 3:49:31
  Speaker 4: wife and myself the honor of drinking our healths and happiness,
• 3:49:36
  Speaker 4: I suppose I must acknowledge the same those you all
• 3:49:39
  Speaker 4: know me and know what I am and what my
• 3:49:43
  Speaker 4: extraction was. You won't expect a speech from a man who,
• 3:49:48
  Speaker 4: when he sees a post says that's a post, and
• 3:49:51
  Speaker 4: when he sees a pump says that's a pump, and
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 4: is not to be got to call a post a
• 3:49:57
  Speaker 4: pump or a pump a post, or either of them
• 3:50:01
  Speaker 4: a toothpick. If you want a speech this morning, my
• 3:50:05
  Speaker 4: friend and father in law, Tom Gradgrind, is a member
• 3:50:09
  Speaker 4: of Parliament, and you know where to get it. I
• 3:50:12
  Speaker 4: am not your man. However, if I feel a little
• 3:50:16
  Speaker 4: independent when I look around this table today and reflect
• 3:50:21
  Speaker 4: how little I thought of marrying Tom Gradgrind's daughter when
• 3:50:25
  Speaker 4: I was a ragged street boy who never washed his
• 3:50:29
  Speaker 4: face unless it was at a pump, and that's not
• 3:50:32
  Speaker 4: oftener than once a fortnight. I hope I may be excused.
• 3:50:38
  Speaker 4: So I hope you like my feeling independent. If you don't,
• 3:50:43
  Speaker 4: I can't help it. I do feel independent now. I
• 3:50:47
  Speaker 4: have mentioned, and you have mentioned, that I am this
• 3:50:51
  Speaker 4: day married to Tom Gradgrind's daughter. I'm very glad to
• 3:50:56
  Speaker 4: be so. It has long been my wish to be
• 3:51:00
  Speaker 4: so I've watched her bringing up, and I believe she
• 3:51:03
  Speaker 4: is worthy of me. At the same time not to
• 3:51:07
  Speaker 4: deceive you. I believe I am worthy of her. So
• 3:51:12
  Speaker 4: I thank you on both our parts for the good
• 3:51:15
  Speaker 4: will you have shown towards us, and the best wish
• 3:51:19
  Speaker 4: I can give the unmarried part of the present company
• 3:51:22
  Speaker 4: is this. I hope every bachelor may find as good
• 3:51:26
  Speaker 4: a wife as I have found, and I hope every
• 3:51:29
  Speaker 4: spinster may find as good a husband as my wife
• 3:51:34
  Speaker 4: has found. Shortly after which oration, as they were going
• 3:51:38
  Speaker 4: on a neptual trip to Leone in order that mister
• 3:51:42
  Speaker 4: Bounderby might take the opportunity of seeing how the hands
• 3:51:47
  Speaker 4: got on in those parts, and whether they too required
• 3:51:51
  Speaker 4: to be fed with gold spoons, the happy pair departed
• 3:51:55
  Speaker 4: for the railroad. The bride, and passing downstairs dress for
• 3:52:00
  Speaker 4: her journey, found Tom waiting for her, flushed either with
• 3:52:05
  Speaker 4: his feeling or the vineous part of the breakfast. What
• 3:52:10
  Speaker 4: a game girl, you are to be such a first
• 3:52:13
  Speaker 4: rate sister, lou, whispered Tom. She clung to him as
• 3:52:19
  Speaker 4: she could have clung to some far better nature that day,
• 3:52:23
  Speaker 4: and was a little shaken in her reserved composure for
• 3:52:26
  Speaker 4: the first time. Oh, Bounderby's quite ready, said Tom, time's up. Goodbye.
• 3:52:33
  Speaker 4: I shall be on the lookout for you when you
• 3:52:36
  Speaker 4: come back, I say, my dear Lou. Ain't it uncommonly jolly?
• 3:52:41
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 3:52:45
  Speaker 4: End of section eight.
• 3:52:46
  Speaker 8: Book the Second Reaping, Chapter one effects in the bank
• 3:52:56
  Speaker 8: a sunny midsummer day, there was such a thing sometimes,
• 3:53:02
  Speaker 8: even in Coketown. Seen from a distance. In such weather,
• 3:53:07
  Speaker 8: Coketown lay shrouded in the haze of its own which
• 3:53:11
  Speaker 8: appeared impervious to the sun's rays. You only knew the
• 3:53:15
  Speaker 8: town was there because you knew there could have been
• 3:53:18
  Speaker 8: no such sulky blotch upon the prospect without a town.
• 3:53:24
  Speaker 8: A blur of soutain smoke, now confusedly tending this way now,
• 3:53:29
  Speaker 8: that way, now aspiring to the vault of heaven, now
• 3:53:34
  Speaker 8: murkily creeping along the earth as the wind rose and
• 3:53:38
  Speaker 8: fell or changed its quarter, a dense, formless jumble with
• 3:53:43
  Speaker 8: sheets of cross light in it, that showed nothing but
• 3:53:47
  Speaker 8: masses of darkness. Coketown in the distance was suggestive of itself,
• 3:53:54
  Speaker 8: though not a brick of it could be seen. The
• 3:53:58
  Speaker 8: wonder was it was there at all? It had been
• 3:54:00
  Speaker 8: ruined so often that it was amazing how it had
• 3:54:03
  Speaker 8: borne so many shocks. Surely there never was such fragile
• 3:54:08
  Speaker 8: chinaware as that of which the millers of Coketown were made.
• 3:54:12
  Speaker 8: Handle them never so lightly, and they fell to pieces
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 8: with such ease that you might suspect them of having
• 3:54:20
  Speaker 8: been flawed before. They were ruined when they were required
• 3:54:24
  Speaker 8: to send their laboring children to school. They were ruined
• 3:54:27
  Speaker 8: when inspectors were appointed to look into their works. They
• 3:54:31
  Speaker 8: were ruined when such inspectors considered it doubtful whether they
• 3:54:34
  Speaker 8: were quite justified in chopping people up with their machinery.
• 3:54:38
  Speaker 8: They were utterly undone when it was hinted that perhaps
• 3:54:42
  Speaker 8: they need not always make quite so much smoke. Besides
• 3:54:47
  Speaker 8: mister Bounderby's gold Spoon, which was generally received in Coketown,
• 3:54:51
  Speaker 8: another prevalent fiction was very popular there. It took the
• 3:54:56
  Speaker 8: form of a threat. Whenever a coke felt that he
• 3:55:00
  Speaker 8: was ill used, and that is to say, whenever he
• 3:55:04
  Speaker 8: was not left entirely alone, and it was proposed to
• 3:55:06
  Speaker 8: hold him accountable for the consequences of any of his acts,
• 3:55:11
  Speaker 8: he was sure to come out with the awful menace
• 3:55:13
  Speaker 8: that he would sooner pitch his property into the Atlantic.
• 3:55:18
  Speaker 8: This had terrified the home secretary within an inch of
• 3:55:21
  Speaker 8: his life on several occasions. However, the coketowners were so
• 3:55:26
  Speaker 8: patriotic after all, that they had never pitched their property
• 3:55:30
  Speaker 8: into Atlantic yet, but on the contrary, had been kind
• 3:55:34
  Speaker 8: enough to take mighty good care of it. So there
• 3:55:38
  Speaker 8: it was in the haze yonder, and it increased and multiplied.
• 3:55:45
  Speaker 8: The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day,
• 3:55:49
  Speaker 8: and the sun was so bright that it even shone
• 3:55:52
  Speaker 8: through the heavy vapor drooping over Coketown and could not
• 3:55:55
  Speaker 8: be looked at. Steadily stokers emerged from low undergrad doorways
• 3:56:00
  Speaker 8: into factory yards and sat on steps and posts and palings,
• 3:56:05
  Speaker 8: wiping their swarthy visages and contemplating coals. The whole town
• 3:56:11
  Speaker 8: seemed to be frying in oil. There was a stifling
• 3:56:16
  Speaker 8: smell of hot oil everywhere. The steam engines shone with it,
• 3:56:20
  Speaker 8: the dresses of the hands were soiled with it. The mills,
• 3:56:24
  Speaker 8: throughout their many stories, oozed and trickled it. The atmosphere
• 3:56:29
  Speaker 8: of those fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoon,
• 3:56:34
  Speaker 8: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert.
• 3:56:40
  Speaker 8: But no temperature made the melancholy mad elephants more mad
• 3:56:45
  Speaker 8: or more sane. There wearisome heads went up and down
• 3:56:48
  Speaker 8: at the same rate in hot weather and cold, wet
• 3:56:51
  Speaker 8: weather and dry, fair weather and foul The measured motion
• 3:56:56
  Speaker 8: of their shadows and the walls was the substitute. Coketown
• 3:56:59
  Speaker 8: had to sho so for the shadows of rustling woods,
• 3:57:03
  Speaker 8: while for the summer hum of insects it could offer
• 3:57:06
  Speaker 8: all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to
• 3:57:09
  Speaker 8: the night of Saturday. The whir of shafts and wheels
• 3:57:14
  Speaker 8: drowsily they were all through this sunny day, making the
• 3:57:18
  Speaker 8: passenger more sleepy and more hot as he passed the
• 3:57:22
  Speaker 8: humming walls of the mills, sunblines, and sprinklings of water
• 3:57:27
  Speaker 8: a little called the main streets and the shops. But
• 3:57:30
  Speaker 8: the mills and the courts and alleys baked at a
• 3:57:33
  Speaker 8: fierce heat. Down upon the river that was black and
• 3:57:38
  Speaker 8: thick with dye. Some Coketown boys, who were at large
• 3:57:42
  Speaker 8: a rare sight there rode a crazy boat, which made
• 3:57:46
  Speaker 8: a spumous track upon the water as it jogged along,
• 3:57:49
  Speaker 8: while every dip of now stirred up vile smells. But
• 3:57:54
  Speaker 8: the sun itself. However, Beneficent generally was less kind to
• 3:57:59
  Speaker 8: Coketown than hard Frost, and rarely looked intently into any
• 3:58:03
  Speaker 8: of its closer regions without engendering more deaths than life.
• 3:58:09
  Speaker 8: So does the eye of heaven itself become an evil
• 3:58:12
  Speaker 8: eye when incapable or sordid hands interposed between it and
• 3:58:17
  Speaker 8: the things it looks upon. To bless, Missus Sparsit sat
• 3:58:22
  Speaker 8: in her afternoon apartment at the bank, on the shadier
• 3:58:26
  Speaker 8: side of the Frying Street. Office hours were over, and
• 3:58:30
  Speaker 8: at that period of the day in warm weather, she
• 3:58:33
  Speaker 8: usually embellished with her genteel presence and managerial boardroom over
• 3:58:38
  Speaker 8: the public office. Her own private sitting room was a
• 3:58:42
  Speaker 8: story higher, at the window of which post of observation
• 3:58:46
  Speaker 8: she was ready every morning to greet mister Bounderby as
• 3:58:49
  Speaker 8: he came across the road with the sympathizing recognition appropriate
• 3:58:54
  Speaker 8: to a victim. He had been married now a year,
• 3:58:57
  Speaker 8: and Missus Sparsit had never released her from her determined
• 3:59:01
  Speaker 8: pity a moment. The bank offered no violence to the
• 3:59:06
  Speaker 8: wholesome monotony of the town. It was another red brick
• 3:59:09
  Speaker 8: house with black outside shutters, green inside blinds, a black
• 3:59:14
  Speaker 8: street door up, two white steps, a brazen doorplate, and
• 3:59:18
  Speaker 8: a brazen door hand or full stop. It was a
• 3:59:21
  Speaker 8: size larger than mister Mounderby's house, as other houses were
• 3:59:25
  Speaker 8: from a size to half a dozen sizes smaller. In
• 3:59:28
  Speaker 8: all other particulars, it was strictly according to pattern. Missus
• 3:59:34
  Speaker 8: Sparsit was conscious that by coming in the evening tide
• 3:59:37
  Speaker 8: among the desks and writing implements, she shared a feminine,
• 3:59:41
  Speaker 8: not to say also aristocratic grace upon the office. Seated
• 3:59:46
  Speaker 8: with her needlework or netting apparatus at the window, she
• 3:59:50
  Speaker 8: had a self laudatory sense of correcting by her ladylike
• 3:59:54
  Speaker 8: deportment the rude business aspect of the place. With this
• 3:59:59
  Speaker 8: impression of her interesting character upon her, Missus Sparsit considered
• 4:00:03
  Speaker 8: herself and some sort the bank fairy. The townspeople, who,
• 4:00:08
  Speaker 8: in their passing and repassing saw her there, regarded her
• 4:00:11
  Speaker 8: as the bank dragon keeping watch over the treasures of
• 4:00:15
  Speaker 8: the mine. What those treasures were, Missus Sparsit knew as
• 4:00:20
  Speaker 8: little as they did, gold and silver coin, precious paper,
• 4:00:25
  Speaker 8: secrets that if divulged, would bring vague destruction upon vague persons.
• 4:00:29
  Speaker 8: Generally However, people whom she disliked were the chief items
• 4:00:33
  Speaker 8: in her ideal catalogs thereof. For the rest she knew
• 4:00:37
  Speaker 8: that after office hours she reigned supreme over all the
• 4:00:41
  Speaker 8: office furniture, and over a locked up iron room with
• 4:00:45
  Speaker 8: three locks, against the door of which strong chamber the
• 4:00:49
  Speaker 8: light porter laid his head every night on a trackle
• 4:00:52
  Speaker 8: bed that disappeared at cockrow. Further, she was lady Paramount
• 4:00:57
  Speaker 8: over certain vaults in the basement sharply biked off from
• 4:01:00
  Speaker 8: communication with the predatory world, and over the relics of
• 4:01:03
  Speaker 8: the current day's work, consisting of blots of ink, worn
• 4:01:07
  Speaker 8: out pens, fragments of wafers, and scraps of paper torn
• 4:01:11
  Speaker 8: so small that nothing interesting could ever be deciphered on
• 4:01:15
  Speaker 8: them when Missus sparsit tried. Lastly, she was guardian over
• 4:01:19
  Speaker 8: a little armory of cutlasses and carbines, a rayed in
• 4:01:23
  Speaker 8: vengeful order above one of the official chimney pieces, and
• 4:01:27
  Speaker 8: over that respectable tradition never to be separated from a
• 4:01:30
  Speaker 8: place of business claiming to be wealthy, a row of
• 4:01:33
  Speaker 8: fire buckets vessels calculated to be of no physical utility
• 4:01:37
  Speaker 8: on any occasion, but observed to exercise a fine moral
• 4:01:41
  Speaker 8: influence almost equal to bullion on those beholders. A deaf
• 4:01:47
  Speaker 8: serving woman and a light porter completed Missus Sparsit's empire.
• 4:01:52
  Speaker 8: The deaf serving woman was rumoured to be wealthy, and
• 4:01:55
  Speaker 8: a saying had for years gone about the lower orders
• 4:01:58
  Speaker 8: of Coketown that she would be murdered some night when
• 4:02:01
  Speaker 8: the bank was shut for the sake of her money.
• 4:02:04
  Speaker 8: It was generally considered, indeed, that she had been due
• 4:02:07
  Speaker 8: some time, and ought to have fallen long ago. But
• 4:02:10
  Speaker 8: she had kept her life and her situation with an
• 4:02:13
  Speaker 8: ill conditioned tenacity that occasioned much offense and disappointment. Missus
• 4:02:20
  Speaker 8: Sparsit's tea was just set for her on a pert
• 4:02:23
  Speaker 8: little table with its tripod of legs, in an attitude
• 4:02:26
  Speaker 8: which she insinuated after office hours into the company of
• 4:02:30
  Speaker 8: the stern leatheren topped long ball table that bestrode the
• 4:02:35
  Speaker 8: middle of the room. The light porter placed the tea
• 4:02:38
  Speaker 8: tray on it, knuckling his forehead as a form of homage.
• 4:02:43
  Speaker 8: Thank your bitza, said Missus Sparsit. Thank you, ma'am, returned
• 4:02:48
  Speaker 8: the light porter. He was a very light porter, indeed
• 4:02:51
  Speaker 8: as light as in the days when he blinkingly defined
• 4:02:54
  Speaker 8: a horse for girl number twenty. All this shut up, Bitza,
• 4:02:58
  Speaker 8: said Missus sparsit. All is shut up, ma'am. And what,
• 4:03:03
  Speaker 8: said Missus Sparsit, pouring out her tea, is the news
• 4:03:06
  Speaker 8: of the day? Anything, well, ma'am, I can't say I've
• 4:03:10
  Speaker 8: heard anything particular. Our people are a bad lot, ma'am,
• 4:03:14
  Speaker 8: but that's no news, unfortunately. What are the restless wretches
• 4:03:18
  Speaker 8: doing now, asked Missus sparsit. Merely going on in the
• 4:03:23
  Speaker 8: old way, ma'am, uniting and leaguing and engaging to stand
• 4:03:27
  Speaker 8: by one another. It is much to be regretted, said
• 4:03:31
  Speaker 8: Missus sparsit, making her nose more Roman and her eyebrows
• 4:03:35
  Speaker 8: more Coriolanean, in the strength of a severity that the
• 4:03:38
  Speaker 8: United Masters allow of any such class combinations. Yes, ma'am,
• 4:03:44
  Speaker 8: said Bitzer, being united themselves, they ought one in order
• 4:03:49
  Speaker 8: to set their faces against employing any man who is
• 4:03:52
  Speaker 8: united with any other man, said Missus Sparsit. They have
• 4:03:56
  Speaker 8: done that, ma'am, returned Bitzer. But it rather fell through
• 4:03:59
  Speaker 8: mar I do not pretend to understand these things, said
• 4:04:04
  Speaker 8: Missus sparsit. With dignity, my lot having been signally classed
• 4:04:08
  Speaker 8: in a widely different sphere, and mister Sparsit as a poller,
• 4:04:13
  Speaker 8: being also quite out of the pale of such dissensions.
• 4:04:17
  Speaker 8: I only know that these people must be conquered, and
• 4:04:20
  Speaker 8: that it's high time it was done once for all. Yes, ma'am,
• 4:04:25
  Speaker 8: returned Bitsa with a demonstration of great respect for Missus
• 4:04:28
  Speaker 8: Sparsit's arilicua authority. You couldn't put it clearer, I'm sure, ma'am,
• 4:04:34
  Speaker 8: as this was his usual hour for having a little
• 4:04:36
  Speaker 8: confidential chat with Missus Sparsit, and as he had already
• 4:04:40
  Speaker 8: caught her eye and seen that she was going to
• 4:04:41
  Speaker 8: ask him something, he made a pretense of arranging the rulers,
• 4:04:45
  Speaker 8: inkstands and so forth, while that lady went on with
• 4:04:48
  Speaker 8: her tea, glancing through the open window down into the street.
• 4:04:53
  Speaker 8: Has he been a busy day, Bitsa asked Missus Sparsit
• 4:04:57
  Speaker 8: not a very busy day, milady? About now ridge day?
• 4:05:01
  Speaker 6: He now?
• 4:05:02
  Speaker 8: And then slided into my lady instead of ma'am. As
• 4:05:05
  Speaker 8: an involuntary acknowledgment of Missus Sparsit's personal dignity and claims
• 4:05:09
  Speaker 8: to reverence, the clerks, said Missus Sparsit, carefully brushing an
• 4:05:14
  Speaker 8: imperceptible crumb of bread and butter from her left hand mitten.
• 4:05:19
  Speaker 8: Are trustworthy, punctual, and industrious, of course, yes, ma'am, Pretty fair, ma'am.
• 4:05:24
  Speaker 8: With the usual exception, he held the respectable office of
• 4:05:29
  Speaker 8: General Spy and Informer in the Establishment, for which volunteer
• 4:05:34
  Speaker 8: service he received a present at Christmas over and above
• 4:05:36
  Speaker 8: his weekly wage. He had grown into an extremely clear headed, cautious,
• 4:05:42
  Speaker 8: prudent young man who was safe to rise in the world.
• 4:05:46
  Speaker 8: His mind was so exactly regulated that he had no
• 4:05:50
  Speaker 8: affections or passions. All his proceedings were the result of
• 4:05:53
  Speaker 8: the nicest and coldest calculation. And it was not without
• 4:05:57
  Speaker 8: calls that missus Sparsit habitually observe him that he was
• 4:06:01
  Speaker 8: a young man of the steadiest principle she had ever known.
• 4:06:05
  Speaker 8: Having satisfied himself on his father's death, that his mother
• 4:06:08
  Speaker 8: had a right of settlement in Coketown, this excellent young
• 4:06:12
  Speaker 8: economist had asserted that right for her, with such a
• 4:06:15
  Speaker 8: steadfast adherence to the principle of the case, that she
• 4:06:18
  Speaker 8: had been shut up in the workhouse ever since. It
• 4:06:22
  Speaker 8: must be admitted that he allowed her half a pound
• 4:06:24
  Speaker 8: of tea a year which was weakened him, first because
• 4:06:28
  Speaker 8: all gifts have an inevitable tendency to pauperize the recipient,
• 4:06:32
  Speaker 8: and secondly because his only reasonable transaction in that commodity
• 4:06:36
  Speaker 8: would have been to buy it for as little as
• 4:06:38
  Speaker 8: he could possibly give and sell it for as much
• 4:06:40
  Speaker 8: as he could possibly get it, having been clearly ascertained
• 4:06:44
  Speaker 8: by philosophers that in this is comprised the whole duty
• 4:06:47
  Speaker 8: of man, not a part of man's duty, but the whole.
• 4:06:52
  Speaker 8: Pretty fair, ma'am, with the usual exception, ma'am repeated bitzer Ah,
• 4:07:00
  Speaker 8: said Missus sparsit, shaking her head over the teacup and
• 4:07:03
  Speaker 8: taking a long gulp. Mister Thomas, ma'am. I doubt mister
• 4:07:07
  Speaker 8: Thomas very much, ma'am. I don't like his ways at all. Bits, sir,
• 4:07:11
  Speaker 8: said Missus sparsit, in a very impressive manner. Do you
• 4:07:14
  Speaker 8: recollect my having said anything to your respecting names? I
• 4:07:19
  Speaker 8: beg your pardon, ma'am. It's quite true that you did
• 4:07:21
  Speaker 8: object to name is being used, and they're always best avoided.
• 4:07:25
  Speaker 8: Please to remember that I have a charge here, said
• 4:07:28
  Speaker 8: Missus sparsit, with her air of state. I held a
• 4:07:31
  Speaker 8: trust here, Bits, sir, under mister Bounderby. However improbable both
• 4:07:35
  Speaker 8: mister Bounderby and myself might have deemed it years ago
• 4:07:38
  Speaker 8: that he would ever become my patron, making me an
• 4:07:41
  Speaker 8: annual compliment. I cannot but regard him in that light.
• 4:07:46
  Speaker 8: From mister Bounderby, I have received every acknowledgment of my
• 4:07:49
  Speaker 8: es social station and every recognition of my family descent
• 4:07:53
  Speaker 8: that I could possibly expect more far more.
• 4:07:56
  Speaker 6: Therefore, to my.
• 4:07:57
  Speaker 8: Patron, I will be scrupulously true, and I do not consider,
• 4:08:02
  Speaker 8: I will not consider, I cannot consider, said Missus Sparsit,
• 4:08:06
  Speaker 8: with the most extensive stock on hand of honor and morality,
• 4:08:09
  Speaker 8: that I should be scrupulously true if I allowed names
• 4:08:13
  Speaker 8: to be mentioned under this roof that are unfortunately, most
• 4:08:17
  Speaker 8: unfortunately no doubt of that connected with his bits knuckled
• 4:08:24
  Speaker 8: his forehead again and again begged pardon no. Bitzer continued,
• 4:08:28
  Speaker 8: Missus Sparsit see an individual, and I will hear you say,
• 4:08:33
  Speaker 8: mister Thomas, and you must excuse me with the usual exception, ma'am,
• 4:08:38
  Speaker 8: said Bitser, trying back of an individual. Ah, Missus Sparsit
• 4:08:45
  Speaker 8: repeated the ejaculation, the shake of the head over her teacup,
• 4:08:49
  Speaker 8: and the long gulp as, taking up the conversation again
• 4:08:52
  Speaker 8: at the point where it had been interrupted an individual,
• 4:08:56
  Speaker 8: ma'am said, Bitser has never been what the Alta have
• 4:08:59
  Speaker 8: been since he first came into the place. He's a dissipated,
• 4:09:03
  Speaker 8: extravagant idler. He's not worth his salt, ma'am. He wouldn't
• 4:09:06
  Speaker 8: get it either if he hadn't a friend and relation
• 4:09:08
  Speaker 8: at court, ma'am, Ah said Missus sparsit, with another melancholy
• 4:09:15
  Speaker 8: shake of her head. I only hope, ma'am, pursued Bitzer,
• 4:09:20
  Speaker 8: that his friend and relation may not supply him with
• 4:09:22
  Speaker 8: the means of carrying on. Otherwise, ma'am, we know out
• 4:09:26
  Speaker 8: of whose pocket that money comes, Ah sighed Missus sparsit again,
• 4:09:32
  Speaker 8: with another melancholy shake of her head. He is to
• 4:09:36
  Speaker 8: be petted, ma'am. The last party I've eluded to is
• 4:09:40
  Speaker 8: to be pitied, ma'am, said Bitzer. Yes, Bitzer, said, Missus sparsit.
• 4:09:46
  Speaker 8: I have always pitied the delusion, always as to an individual, ma'am,
• 4:09:52
  Speaker 8: said Bitzer, dropping his voice and drawing near her. He
• 4:09:55
  Speaker 8: is as improvident as any of the people in this town.
• 4:09:59
  Speaker 8: And you know what their improvidence is ma'am. No one
• 4:10:02
  Speaker 8: could wish to know it better than a lady of
• 4:10:04
  Speaker 8: your eminence does, they would do well, returned missus sparsan
• 4:10:10
  Speaker 8: to take example by your bit sir. Thank you, ma'am.
• 4:10:15
  Speaker 8: But since you don't refer to me, now look at me, ma'am.
• 4:10:18
  Speaker 8: I've put by a little marm already their graturity which
• 4:10:21
  Speaker 8: I receive at Christmas. M'm I never touch it. I
• 4:10:24
  Speaker 8: don't even go the length of my wages, though they're
• 4:10:26
  Speaker 8: not I, ma'am. Why can't they do as I have done?
• 4:10:30
  Speaker 1: Ma'am?
• 4:10:30
  Speaker 8: Well, one person can do, another can do this again
• 4:10:35
  Speaker 8: was among the fictions of Coketown. Any capitalist there who
• 4:10:40
  Speaker 8: had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence always profess
• 4:10:43
  Speaker 8: to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest hands didn't each
• 4:10:47
  Speaker 8: make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and or less
• 4:10:50
  Speaker 8: reproached than everyone for not accomplishing the little feat what
• 4:10:55
  Speaker 8: I did, you can do? Why didn't you go and
• 4:10:57
  Speaker 8: do it? As to their once recreations, ma'am said Bitzer,
• 4:11:03
  Speaker 8: it's stuff and nonsense. I don't want recreations. I never did,
• 4:11:06
  Speaker 8: and I never shower. I don't like them as to
• 4:11:09
  Speaker 8: their combining together, there are many of them. I have
• 4:11:12
  Speaker 8: no doubt that by watching and informing upon one another
• 4:11:15
  Speaker 8: could earn a little trifle now and then, whether in
• 4:11:18
  Speaker 8: money or goodwill, and improve their livelihood. Then why don't
• 4:11:22
  Speaker 8: they improve it? Ma'am? Is the first consideration of a
• 4:11:25
  Speaker 8: rational creature, and it's what they pretend to want. Pretend, indeed,
• 4:11:31
  Speaker 8: said missus Sparsit. I am sure we are constantly hearing
• 4:11:35
  Speaker 8: marmun till it becomes quite nauseous. Concerning their wives and families,
• 4:11:40
  Speaker 8: said Bitzer, Why look at me, ma'am. I don't want
• 4:11:43
  Speaker 8: a wife and family. Why should they? Because they are improvident,
• 4:11:48
  Speaker 8: said missus Sparsit. Yes, ma'am, returned Bitsa. That's where it is.
• 4:11:53
  Speaker 8: If they were more provident and less perverse, ma'am, what
• 4:11:56
  Speaker 8: would they do? They would say, while my kever's my face,
• 4:12:00
  Speaker 8: or while my bonnet covers my family, as the case
• 4:12:02
  Speaker 8: might be, ma'am, I have only one to feed, and
• 4:12:05
  Speaker 8: that's the person I most like to feed, to be sure,
• 4:12:10
  Speaker 8: assented Missus Sparsit. Eating muffin, Thank you, ma'am, said Bitzer,
• 4:12:15
  Speaker 8: knuckling his forehead again in return for the favor of
• 4:12:18
  Speaker 8: Missus Sparsit's improving conversation. Would you wish a little more
• 4:12:22
  Speaker 8: hot water, ma'am? Or is there anything else that I
• 4:12:24
  Speaker 8: could fetch you? Nothing just now, but sir, thank you, ma'am.
• 4:12:29
  Speaker 8: I shouldn't wish to disturb you at your meals, Marm,
• 4:12:32
  Speaker 8: particularly tea, knowing your partiality for it, said Bitzer, craning
• 4:12:37
  Speaker 8: a little to look over the street from where he stood.
• 4:12:40
  Speaker 8: But there's a gentleman been looking up here for a
• 4:12:43
  Speaker 8: minute or so, ma'am, and he has come across as
• 4:12:46
  Speaker 8: if he was going to knock Ah. That is not Marm,
• 4:12:50
  Speaker 8: no doubt. He stepped to the window, and, looking out
• 4:12:54
  Speaker 8: and drawing in his head again, confirmed himself with ah, yes, ma'am.
• 4:12:58
  Speaker 8: Would you wish the gentleman to be shown in, Marm?
• 4:13:02
  Speaker 8: I don't know who it can be, said missus Sparsit,
• 4:13:05
  Speaker 8: wiping her mouth and arranging her mittens. A stranger, Marm.
• 4:13:09
  Speaker 8: Evidently what a stranger can want at the bank at
• 4:13:12
  Speaker 8: this time of the evening unless he comes upon some
• 4:13:14
  Speaker 8: business for which he is too late, I don't know,
• 4:13:17
  Speaker 8: said missus Sparsit. But I held a charge in this
• 4:13:20
  Speaker 8: establishment from mister bounderby, and I will never shrink from it.
• 4:13:24
  Speaker 8: If to see him is any part of the duty
• 4:13:26
  Speaker 8: I have accepted, I will see him. Use your own discretion. Bitzer, here,
• 4:13:32
  Speaker 8: the visitor, all unconscious of missus Sparsit's magnanimous words, repeated
• 4:13:37
  Speaker 8: his knock so loudly that the light porter hastened down
• 4:13:40
  Speaker 8: to open the door, while Missus Sparsit took the precaution
• 4:13:43
  Speaker 8: of concealing her little table with all its appliances upon
• 4:13:46
  Speaker 8: it in a cupboard, and then decamped upstairs that she
• 4:13:50
  Speaker 8: might appear if needful, with the greater dignity. If you please, ma'am,
• 4:13:56
  Speaker 8: the gentleman would wish to see you, said Bitzer, with
• 4:13:59
  Speaker 8: his life at missus Sparsit's keyhole. So missus Sparsit, who
• 4:14:04
  Speaker 8: had improved the interval by touching up her cap, took
• 4:14:07
  Speaker 8: her classical features downstairs again and entered the boardroom in
• 4:14:11
  Speaker 8: the manner of a Roman matron going outside the city
• 4:14:14
  Speaker 8: walls to treat with an invading general. The visitor, having
• 4:14:19
  Speaker 8: strolled to the window and being then engaged and looking
• 4:14:22
  Speaker 8: carelessly out, was as unmoved by this impressive entry as
• 4:14:26
  Speaker 8: man could possibly be. He stood whistling to himself with
• 4:14:30
  Speaker 8: all imaginable coolness, with his hat still on, and a
• 4:14:33
  Speaker 8: certain air of exhaustion upon him, impart arising from excessive summer,
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 8: and in part from excessive gentility. For it was to
• 4:14:42
  Speaker 8: be seen with half an eye that he was a
• 4:14:44
  Speaker 8: thorough gentleman, made to the model of time, weary of everything,
• 4:14:49
  Speaker 8: and putting no more faith in anything than lucifer. I believe, sir,
• 4:14:54
  Speaker 8: quoth missus Sparsit, you wish to see me? I beg
• 4:14:58
  Speaker 8: your pardon, he said, turning and removing his hat. Pray,
• 4:15:02
  Speaker 8: excuse me, humph, thought missus Sparsit, as she made a
• 4:15:07
  Speaker 8: stately bend five and thirty, good looking, good figure, good teeth,
• 4:15:12
  Speaker 8: good voice, good breading, well dressed, dark hair, bald eyes,
• 4:15:18
  Speaker 8: all which Missus Sparsit observed in her womanly way, like
• 4:15:21
  Speaker 8: the sultan who put his head in the pail of water,
• 4:15:24
  Speaker 8: merely in dipping down and coming up again. Please to
• 4:15:29
  Speaker 8: be seated, sir, said Missus Sparsit. Thank you allow me.
• 4:15:35
  Speaker 8: He placed a chair for her, but remained himself carelessly
• 4:15:38
  Speaker 8: lounging against the table. I left my servant at the railway,
• 4:15:42
  Speaker 8: looking after the luggage, very heavy tray and vast quantity
• 4:15:45
  Speaker 8: of it van and strolled on looking about me exceedingly
• 4:15:50
  Speaker 8: odd place. Will you allow me to ask her if
• 4:15:53
  Speaker 8: it's always as black as this in general? Much blacker,
• 4:15:57
  Speaker 8: returned Missus Sparsit, and her uncle compromising way, is it possible,
• 4:16:03
  Speaker 8: excuse me, you're not a native, I think near, Sir
• 4:16:07
  Speaker 8: returned missus Sparsit. It was once my good or ill fortune,
• 4:16:11
  Speaker 8: as it may be, before I became a widow to
• 4:16:14
  Speaker 8: move in a very different sphere. My husband was a palla,
• 4:16:21
  Speaker 8: A bigger pardon, really, said the stranger was, Missus Sparsit, repeated,
• 4:16:26
  Speaker 8: a palla palla family, said the stranger. After reflecting a
• 4:16:31
  Speaker 8: few moments, Missus Sparsit signified assent. The stranger seemed a
• 4:16:37
  Speaker 8: little more fatigue than before. You must be very much bored.
• 4:16:43
  Speaker 8: Here was the influence he drew from the communication. I
• 4:16:46
  Speaker 8: am the servant of circumstances, sir, said Missus Sparsit, and
• 4:16:50
  Speaker 8: I have long adapted myself to the governing power of
• 4:16:53
  Speaker 8: my life. Very philosophical, returned the stranger, and very exemplary
• 4:16:58
  Speaker 8: and laudable, and it seemed to be scarcely worth his
• 4:17:01
  Speaker 8: while to finish the sentence. So he played with his
• 4:17:04
  Speaker 8: watch chain wearily. May I be permitted to ask, sir, said,
• 4:17:09
  Speaker 8: Missus sparsit to what I am indebted for the favor of, assuredly,
• 4:17:14
  Speaker 8: said the stranger, much obliged to for reminding me, I
• 4:17:17
  Speaker 8: am the bearer of an letter of introduction to mister
• 4:17:20
  Speaker 8: bounderby the Banker. Walking through this extraordinarily black town while
• 4:17:25
  Speaker 8: they were getting dinner ready at the hotel, I asked
• 4:17:28
  Speaker 8: a fellow whom I met, one of the working people,
• 4:17:31
  Speaker 8: who appeared to have been taking a shower bath of
• 4:17:33
  Speaker 8: something fluffy, which I assume to be the raw material.
• 4:17:37
  Speaker 8: Missus sparsit inclined her head, a raw material. Where will
• 4:17:41
  Speaker 8: mister bounderby the banker that resild? Upon which, misled no
• 4:17:45
  Speaker 8: doubt by the word banker, he directed me to the bank,
• 4:17:50
  Speaker 8: a fact being I presume that mister bounderby the Banker
• 4:17:52
  Speaker 8: does not reside in the edifice in which I have
• 4:17:54
  Speaker 8: the honor of offering this explanation. No, sir returned Missus spars
• 4:18:00
  Speaker 8: that he does not.
• 4:18:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 4:18:02
  Speaker 8: I had no intention of delivering my letter at the
• 4:18:04
  Speaker 8: present moment, nor have I but strolling on to the
• 4:18:08
  Speaker 8: bank to kill time, and having the good fortune to
• 4:18:11
  Speaker 8: observe at the window towards which he languidly waved his
• 4:18:15
  Speaker 8: hands and then slightly bowed, a lady of a very
• 4:18:19
  Speaker 8: superior and agreeable appearance. I considered that I could not
• 4:18:23
  Speaker 8: do better than take the liberty of asking that lady
• 4:18:26
  Speaker 8: where mister Bounderby the Banker does live, which I accordingly venture,
• 4:18:30
  Speaker 8: with all suitable apologies to do. The inattention and indolence
• 4:18:35
  Speaker 8: of his manner were sufficiently relieved to missus Sparsit's thinking
• 4:18:39
  Speaker 8: by a certain gallantry at ease, which offered her homage
• 4:18:43
  Speaker 8: to here he was, for instance, at this moment, all
• 4:18:46
  Speaker 8: but sitting on the table, and yet lazily bending over her,
• 4:18:49
  Speaker 8: as if he acknowledged an attraction in her that made
• 4:18:52
  Speaker 8: her charming in her way. Banks Enny always suspicious, and
• 4:18:57
  Speaker 8: officially must be said the stranger, whose lifeless and smoothness
• 4:19:01
  Speaker 8: of speech were pleasant, likewise suggesting matter far more sensible
• 4:19:05
  Speaker 8: and humorous than it ever contained, which was perhaps a
• 4:19:08
  Speaker 8: shrewd device of the founder of this numerous sect, whosoever
• 4:19:12
  Speaker 8: may have been that great man. Therefore, I may observe
• 4:19:15
  Speaker 8: that my letter, here it is, is from the member
• 4:19:19
  Speaker 8: for this place gradgrind whom I have had the pleasure
• 4:19:23
  Speaker 8: of knowing in London. Missus Sparsit recognized the hand, intimated
• 4:19:29
  Speaker 8: that such confirmation was quite unnecessary, and gave mister Bounderby's
• 4:19:33
  Speaker 8: address with all needful clues and directions made thousand thanks,
• 4:19:38
  Speaker 8: said the stranger. Of course you know the bank well, Yes, sir,
• 4:19:43
  Speaker 8: rejoined Missus Sparsit. It m my dependent relation towards him.
• 4:19:46
  Speaker 8: I have made him ten years quite an eternity. I
• 4:19:50
  Speaker 8: think he married Gregrund's daughter. Yes, said Missus Sparsit, suddenly
• 4:19:55
  Speaker 8: compressing her mouth. He had that honor the lad. He
• 4:20:00
  Speaker 8: is quite a philosopher, I am told indeed, sir, said
• 4:20:04
  Speaker 8: missus Sparsit.
• 4:20:05
  Speaker 2: Is she?
• 4:20:07
  Speaker 8: Excuse my impertinent curiosity, pursued the stranger, fluttering over Missus
• 4:20:11
  Speaker 8: Sparsit's eyebrows with a propitatory air. But you know the
• 4:20:14
  Speaker 8: family and know the world. I am about to know
• 4:20:17
  Speaker 8: the family and may have much to do with them.
• 4:20:20
  Speaker 8: Is the lady so very alarming? Her father gives her
• 4:20:23
  Speaker 8: such a portentously hard headed reputation that I have a
• 4:20:27
  Speaker 8: burning desire to know. Is she absolutely unapproachable? Repellently and
• 4:20:33
  Speaker 8: stunningly clever I see if your meaning smile, you think not.
• 4:20:38
  Speaker 8: You have poured balm into my anxious soul. As to
• 4:20:42
  Speaker 8: age now forty five and thirty, Missus Sparsit laughed outright
• 4:20:48
  Speaker 8: at shit, said she not twenty when she was married.
• 4:20:53
  Speaker 8: I give you my honor, Missus Powler, returned the stranger,
• 4:20:56
  Speaker 8: detaching himself from the table, that I never was so
• 4:20:59
  Speaker 8: as to my life. It really did seem to impress
• 4:21:03
  Speaker 8: him to the utmost extent of his capacity of being impressed.
• 4:21:07
  Speaker 8: He looked at his informant for four a quarter of
• 4:21:09
  Speaker 8: a minute and appeared to have the surprise in his
• 4:21:12
  Speaker 8: mind all the time. I assure you, Missus Paller. He
• 4:21:16
  Speaker 8: then said, much exhausted, that the father's manner prepared me
• 4:21:20
  Speaker 8: for a grim and stoney maturity. I have repliged you,
• 4:21:24
  Speaker 8: of all things, for correcting so absurd a mistake. Pray
• 4:21:28
  Speaker 8: excuse my intrusion, many thanks, good day. He bowed himself out,
• 4:21:34
  Speaker 8: and Missus Sparsit, hiding in the window curtain, saw him
• 4:21:37
  Speaker 8: languishing down the streets on the shady side of the way.
• 4:21:41
  Speaker 8: Observed of all the town, what do you think of
• 4:21:45
  Speaker 8: the gentleman bit, sir? She asked, the light porter when
• 4:21:49
  Speaker 8: he came to take away, spends a deal of money
• 4:21:51
  Speaker 8: on his dress. Ma'am, it must be admitted, said Missus Sparsan.
• 4:21:57
  Speaker 8: That is very tasteful. Yes, ma'am, returned Bitser, if that's
• 4:22:02
  Speaker 8: worth the money. Besides which, ma'am resumed Bitzer, while he
• 4:22:06
  Speaker 8: was polishing the table. He looks to me as if
• 4:22:09
  Speaker 8: he gamed. It's a moral to game, said Missus Sparsit.
• 4:22:15
  Speaker 8: It's ridiculous, ma'am, said Bitser, because the chances are against
• 4:22:19
  Speaker 8: the players. Whether it was that the heat prevented Missus
• 4:22:23
  Speaker 8: Sparsit from working, or whether it was that her hand
• 4:22:27
  Speaker 8: was out, she did no work that night. She sat
• 4:22:31
  Speaker 8: at the window when the sun began to sink behind
• 4:22:33
  Speaker 8: the smoke. She sat there when the smoke was burning red,
• 4:22:37
  Speaker 8: when the color faded from it, when darkness seemed to
• 4:22:40
  Speaker 8: rise slowly out of the ground and creep upward, upward,
• 4:22:44
  Speaker 8: up to the housetops, up to the church steeple, up
• 4:22:48
  Speaker 8: to the summit of the factory chimneys, up to the sky.
• 4:22:53
  Speaker 8: Without a candle in the room, Missus Sparsit sat at
• 4:22:57
  Speaker 8: the window with her hands before her, not thinking much
• 4:23:01
  Speaker 8: of the sounds of evening, the whooping of boys, the
• 4:23:04
  Speaker 8: barking of dogs, the rumbling of wheels, the steps and
• 4:23:09
  Speaker 8: voices of passengers, the shrill street cries, the clogs upon
• 4:23:14
  Speaker 8: the pavement when it was the hour for going by,
• 4:23:17
  Speaker 8: the shutting up of shop shutters. Not until the light
• 4:23:21
  Speaker 8: porter announced that her nocturnal sweetbread was ready, did missus
• 4:23:25
  Speaker 8: Sparsit arouse herself from her reverie and convey her dense
• 4:23:29
  Speaker 8: black eyebrows, by that time creased with meditation, as if
• 4:23:34
  Speaker 8: they needed ironing out up stairs. Oh you'll fool, said
• 4:23:40
  Speaker 8: Missus Sparsit, when she was alone at her supper. Whom
• 4:23:44
  Speaker 8: she meant she did not say, But she could scarcely
• 4:23:48
  Speaker 8: have met the sweetbread. End of Section.
• 4:23:52
  Speaker 5: Nine, Chapter two, Mister James Harthouse. The Gradgrind Party wanted
• 4:23:59
  Speaker 5: to assistance in cutting the throats of the graces. They
• 4:24:03
  Speaker 5: went about recruiting, and where could they enlist recruits more
• 4:24:06
  Speaker 5: hopefully than among the fine gentlemen, who, having found out
• 4:24:10
  Speaker 5: everything to be worth nothing, were equally ready for anything. Moreover,
• 4:24:15
  Speaker 5: the healthy spirits who had mounted to this sublime height
• 4:24:18
  Speaker 5: were attractive to many of the Gradgrind school. They liked
• 4:24:21
  Speaker 5: fine gentlemen. They pretended they did not, but they did.
• 4:24:26
  Speaker 5: They became exhausted in imitation of them, and they yaw
• 4:24:29
  Speaker 5: yawed in their speech like them, And they served out
• 4:24:32
  Speaker 5: with an enervated air the little moldy rations of political
• 4:24:36
  Speaker 5: economy on which they regaled their disciples. There never before
• 4:24:40
  Speaker 5: was seen on earth such a wonderful hybrid race as
• 4:24:43
  Speaker 5: was thus produced among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging
• 4:24:48
  Speaker 5: to the gradgrind school. There was one of a good
• 4:24:50
  Speaker 5: family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humor,
• 4:24:54
  Speaker 5: which had told immensely with the House of Commons on
• 4:24:57
  Speaker 5: the occasion of his entertaining it with his and the
• 4:24:59
  Speaker 5: Board of Director's view of a railway accident, in which
• 4:25:03
  Speaker 5: the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most
• 4:25:07
  Speaker 5: liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical
• 4:25:11
  Speaker 5: contrivances ever devised, the whole inaction on the best line
• 4:25:14
  Speaker 5: ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty two,
• 4:25:19
  Speaker 5: by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole
• 4:25:22
  Speaker 5: system would have been positively incomplete. Among the slain was
• 4:25:26
  Speaker 5: a cow, and among the scattered articles unowned a widow's
• 4:25:29
  Speaker 5: cap and the honorable member had so tickled the house,
• 4:25:33
  Speaker 5: which has a delicate sense of humor, by putting the
• 4:25:36
  Speaker 5: cap on the cow, that it became impatient of any
• 4:25:39
  Speaker 5: serious reference to the coroner's inquest, and brought the railway
• 4:25:43
  Speaker 5: off with cheers and laughter. Now this gentleman had a
• 4:25:47
  Speaker 5: younger brother, of still better appearance than himself, who had
• 4:25:51
  Speaker 5: tried life as a cornet of dragoons and founded a boar,
• 4:25:54
  Speaker 5: and had afterwards tried it in the train of an
• 4:25:57
  Speaker 5: English minister abroad and founded a boar, and had then
• 4:26:00
  Speaker 5: strode to Jerusalem and got bored there, and had then
• 4:26:03
  Speaker 5: gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere, to
• 4:26:07
  Speaker 5: whom this honorable and jocular member fraternally said, one day, Jem,
• 4:26:12
  Speaker 5: there's a good opening among the hard fact fellows, and
• 4:26:15
  Speaker 5: they want men. I wonder you don't go in for statistics. Jem,
• 4:26:19
  Speaker 5: rather taken by the novelty of the idea and very
• 4:26:21
  Speaker 5: hard up for a change, was as ready to go
• 4:26:24
  Speaker 5: in for statistics as for anything else.
• 4:26:25
  Speaker 6: So he went in.
• 4:26:27
  Speaker 5: He coached himself up with a blue book or two,
• 4:26:30
  Speaker 5: and his brother put it about among the hard fact
• 4:26:32
  Speaker 5: fellows and said, if you want to bring in for
• 4:26:35
  Speaker 5: any place a handsome dog who can make you a
• 4:26:37
  Speaker 5: devilish good speech. Look after my brother Jem, for he's
• 4:26:40
  Speaker 5: your man. After a few dashes in the public meeting way,
• 4:26:44
  Speaker 5: mister Gradgrind and a council of political stages approved of
• 4:26:47
  Speaker 5: Jem and was resolved to send him down to Coketown
• 4:26:50
  Speaker 5: to become known there and in the neighborhood. Hence, the
• 4:26:54
  Speaker 5: letter Jem had last night shown to missus Sparsit which
• 4:26:57
  Speaker 5: mister Bounderby now held in his hand, superscribed Josiah Bounderby
• 4:27:02
  Speaker 5: Esquire Banker Coketown, specially to introduce James Harthouse Esquire Thomas Gradgrind.
• 4:27:10
  Speaker 5: Within an hour of the receipt of this dispatch and
• 4:27:12
  Speaker 5: mister James Harthouse's card, mister Bounderby put on his hat
• 4:27:16
  Speaker 5: and went down to the hotel. There he found mister
• 4:27:20
  Speaker 5: James Harthouse looking out of window in a state of
• 4:27:22
  Speaker 5: mind so disconsolate that he was already half disposed to
• 4:27:25
  Speaker 5: go in for something else. My name, sir, said, his
• 4:27:29
  Speaker 5: visitor is Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. Mister James Harthouse was
• 4:27:34
  Speaker 5: very happy, indeed, though he scarcely looked so to have
• 4:27:37
  Speaker 5: a pleasure he had long expected. Coketown, Sir, said Bounderby.
• 4:27:41
  Speaker 5: Obstinately taking a chair is not the kind of place
• 4:27:44
  Speaker 5: you have been accustomed to. Therefore, if you will allow me,
• 4:27:48
  Speaker 5: or whether you will or not, for I am a
• 4:27:50
  Speaker 5: plain man, I'll tell you something about it before we
• 4:27:52
  Speaker 5: go any further, mister Harthouse would be charmed. Don't be
• 4:27:57
  Speaker 5: too sure of that, said mister Bounderby. I don't promise.
• 4:28:00
  Speaker 5: First of all, you see our smoke, that's meat and drink.
• 4:28:03
  Speaker 5: To us, it's the healthiest thing in the world in
• 4:28:05
  Speaker 5: all respects, and particularly for the lungs. If you are
• 4:28:09
  Speaker 5: one of those who want us to consume it, I
• 4:28:11
  Speaker 5: differ from you. We are not going to wear the
• 4:28:13
  Speaker 5: bottoms of our boilers out any faster than we wear
• 4:28:15
  Speaker 5: about now, for all the humbugging sentiment in Great Britain
• 4:28:19
  Speaker 5: and Ireland. By way of going in to the fullest extent,
• 4:28:23
  Speaker 5: mister Harthouse rejoined mister Bounderby, I assure you I am
• 4:28:26
  Speaker 5: entirely and completely of your way of thinking. On conviction,
• 4:28:30
  Speaker 5: I'm glad to hear it, said Bounderby. Now you've heard
• 4:28:33
  Speaker 5: a lot of talk about the work in our mills,
• 4:28:35
  Speaker 5: No doubt you have a very good I'll state the
• 4:28:38
  Speaker 5: fact of it to you. It's the pleasantest work there is,
• 4:28:41
  Speaker 5: and it's the lightest work there is, and it's the
• 4:28:44
  Speaker 5: best paid work there is. More than that, we couldn't
• 4:28:47
  Speaker 5: improve the mills themselves unless we laid down turkey carpets
• 4:28:50
  Speaker 5: on the floors, which we're not going to do, mister Bounderby,
• 4:28:54
  Speaker 5: perfectly right. Lastly, said Bounderby, as to our hands, there's
• 4:28:59
  Speaker 5: not a hand in this town, man, woman or child,
• 4:29:01
  Speaker 5: but has one ultimate object in life. That object is
• 4:29:04
  Speaker 5: to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a
• 4:29:06
  Speaker 5: gold spoon. Now they are not a going, none of
• 4:29:09
  Speaker 5: them ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison
• 4:29:12
  Speaker 5: with a gold spoon.
• 4:29:13
  Speaker 6: And now you know the place.
• 4:29:15
  Speaker 5: Mister Harthouse professed himself in the highest degree, instructed and
• 4:29:18
  Speaker 5: refreshed by this condensed epitome of the whole Coketown question.
• 4:29:24
  Speaker 5: Why you see, replied mister Bounderby. It suits my disposition
• 4:29:27
  Speaker 5: to have a full understanding with a man, particularly with
• 4:29:30
  Speaker 5: a public.
• 4:29:30
  Speaker 6: Man, when I make his acquaintance.
• 4:29:32
  Speaker 5: I have only one thing more to say to you,
• 4:29:34
  Speaker 5: mister Harthouse, before assuring you of the pleasure with which
• 4:29:37
  Speaker 5: I shall respond to the utmost of my poor ability
• 4:29:40
  Speaker 5: to my friend Tom Gragrind's letter of introduction.
• 4:29:43
  Speaker 6: You are a man of family.
• 4:29:45
  Speaker 5: Don't you deceive yourself by supposing for a moment that
• 4:29:47
  Speaker 5: I am a man of family. I am a bit
• 4:29:50
  Speaker 5: of dirty riff raff and a genuine scrap of tag
• 4:29:53
  Speaker 5: rag and bobtail. If anything could have exalted Jem's interest
• 4:29:57
  Speaker 5: in mister Bounderby, it would have been this very circlestance,
• 4:30:00
  Speaker 5: or so he told him.
• 4:30:02
  Speaker 4: So.
• 4:30:03
  Speaker 5: Now said Bounderby, we may shake hands on equal terms.
• 4:30:05
  Speaker 5: I say equal terms because although I know what I
• 4:30:09
  Speaker 5: am and the exact depth of the gutter, I have
• 4:30:11
  Speaker 5: lifted myself out of better than any man does. I
• 4:30:14
  Speaker 5: am as proud as you are. I am just as
• 4:30:16
  Speaker 5: proud as you are, having now asserted my independence in
• 4:30:19
  Speaker 5: a proper manner. I may come to how do you
• 4:30:22
  Speaker 5: find yourself? And I hope you're pretty well the better,
• 4:30:25
  Speaker 5: mister Harthouse gave.
• 4:30:26
  Speaker 6: Him to understand as they shook hands.
• 4:30:28
  Speaker 5: For the salubrious heir of Coketown. Mister Bounderby received the
• 4:30:32
  Speaker 5: answer with favor. Perhaps you know, said he or perhaps
• 4:30:36
  Speaker 5: you don't know I married Tom Gradgrind's daughter. If you
• 4:30:40
  Speaker 5: have nothing better to do than to walk up town
• 4:30:42
  Speaker 5: with me, I shall be glad to introduce you to
• 4:30:44
  Speaker 5: Tom Gradgrind's daughter. Mister Bounderby said, Jim, you anticipate my
• 4:30:50
  Speaker 5: dearest wishes. They went out without further discourse, and mister
• 4:30:54
  Speaker 5: Bounderby piloted the new acquaintance, who so strongly contrasted with him,
• 4:30:58
  Speaker 5: to the private red brick dwelling with the black outside shutters,
• 4:31:02
  Speaker 5: the green inside lines, and the black street door, up
• 4:31:05
  Speaker 5: the two white steps in the drawing room of which
• 4:31:08
  Speaker 5: mansion there presently entered to them. The most remarkable girl
• 4:31:12
  Speaker 5: mister James Harthouse had ever seen. She was so constrained
• 4:31:16
  Speaker 5: and yet so careless, so reserved and yet so watchful,
• 4:31:19
  Speaker 5: so cold and proud, and yet so sensitively ashamed of
• 4:31:23
  Speaker 5: her husband's braggart humility, from which she shrunk, as if
• 4:31:27
  Speaker 5: every example of it were a cut or a blow,
• 4:31:30
  Speaker 5: that it was quite a new sensation to observe her.
• 4:31:32
  Speaker 5: In face, she was no less remarkable than in manner.
• 4:31:35
  Speaker 5: Her features were handsome, but their natural play was so
• 4:31:38
  Speaker 5: locked up that it seemed impossible to guess at their
• 4:31:41
  Speaker 5: genuine expression, utterly indifferent, perfectly self reliant, never at a loss,
• 4:31:46
  Speaker 5: and yet never at her ease, with her figure and company,
• 4:31:50
  Speaker 5: with them there, and her mind apparently quite alone. It
• 4:31:53
  Speaker 5: was of no use going in yet awhile to comprehend
• 4:31:57
  Speaker 5: this girl, for she baffled all penetry. From the mistress
• 4:32:02
  Speaker 5: of the house. The visitor glanced to the house itself.
• 4:32:05
  Speaker 5: There was no mute sign of a woman in the room,
• 4:32:08
  Speaker 5: no graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial
• 4:32:12
  Speaker 5: anywhere expressed her influence, cheerless and comfortless, boastfully and doggedly rich.
• 4:32:18
  Speaker 5: There the room stared at its present occupants, unsoftened and
• 4:32:22
  Speaker 5: unrelieved by the least trace of any womanly occupation. As
• 4:32:26
  Speaker 5: mister Bounderby stood in the midst of his household gods,
• 4:32:29
  Speaker 5: so those unrelenting divinities occupied their places around mister Bounderby,
• 4:32:34
  Speaker 5: And they were worthy of.
• 4:32:35
  Speaker 6: One another and well matched.
• 4:32:38
  Speaker 5: This, Sir, said Bounderby, is my wife, Missus Bounderby, Tom
• 4:32:43
  Speaker 5: Gradgrind's eldest daughter, Lou, Mister James Harthouse. Mister Harthouse, Lou
• 4:32:48
  Speaker 5: has joined your father's muster roll if he is not
• 4:32:51
  Speaker 5: Tom Gradgrind's colleague. Before long, I believe we shall at
• 4:32:53
  Speaker 5: least hear of him in connection with one of our
• 4:32:56
  Speaker 5: neighboring towns. You observed, mister Harthouse, that my wife is
• 4:32:59
  Speaker 5: my I don't know what she saw in mean to
• 4:33:02
  Speaker 5: marry me, but she saw something in me, I suppose,
• 4:33:05
  Speaker 5: or she wouldn't have married me. She has lots of
• 4:33:07
  Speaker 5: expensive knowledge, sir, political and otherwise. If you want to
• 4:33:10
  Speaker 5: cram for anything, I should be troubled to recommend you
• 4:33:14
  Speaker 5: to a better adviser than lou Bounderby, to a more
• 4:33:18
  Speaker 5: agreeable adviser, or one from whom he would be more
• 4:33:21
  Speaker 5: likely to learn. Mister Harthouse could never be recommended, come,
• 4:33:26
  Speaker 5: said his host. If you're in the complimentary line, you'll
• 4:33:28
  Speaker 5: get on here, for you'll meet with no competition. I
• 4:33:31
  Speaker 5: have never been in the way of learning compliments myself,
• 4:33:34
  Speaker 5: and I don't profess to understand the art of paying them.
• 4:33:37
  Speaker 5: In fact, despise him. But your bringing up was different
• 4:33:41
  Speaker 5: from mine. Mine was a real thing. By George, you're
• 4:33:43
  Speaker 5: a gentleman, and I don't pretend to be one. I
• 4:33:46
  Speaker 5: am Josiah Bounderby of Coketown and that's enough for me. However,
• 4:33:50
  Speaker 5: though I am not influenced by manners and station lou Bounderby,
• 4:33:54
  Speaker 5: maybe she hadn't my advantages disadvantages you would call them,
• 4:33:58
  Speaker 5: but I call them advantages. So you do not waste
• 4:34:01
  Speaker 5: your power, I dare say, mister Bounderby, said jem turning
• 4:34:05
  Speaker 5: with a smile to Louisa, is a noble animal in
• 4:34:08
  Speaker 5: a comparatively natural state, quite free from the harness in
• 4:34:11
  Speaker 5: which a conventional hack like myself works. You respect mister
• 4:34:16
  Speaker 5: Bounderby very much, she quietly returned. It is natural that
• 4:34:20
  Speaker 5: you should. He was disgracefully thrown out for a gentleman
• 4:34:25
  Speaker 5: who had seen so much of the world, and thought.
• 4:34:27
  Speaker 6: Now, how am I to take this?
• 4:34:30
  Speaker 5: You are going to devote yourself, as I gather from
• 4:34:33
  Speaker 5: what mister Bounderby has said, to the service of your country.
• 4:34:36
  Speaker 5: You have made up your mind, said Louisa, still standing
• 4:34:39
  Speaker 5: before him where she had first stopped, in all the
• 4:34:41
  Speaker 5: singular contrariety of her self possession, and her being obviously
• 4:34:45
  Speaker 5: very ill at ease to show the nation the way
• 4:34:48
  Speaker 5: out of all its difficulties. Missus Bounderby, he returned, laughing
• 4:34:53
  Speaker 5: upon my honor, No I I will make no such
• 4:34:55
  Speaker 5: pretense to you. I have seen a little here and there,
• 4:34:59
  Speaker 5: up and down. I have found it all to be
• 4:35:01
  Speaker 5: very worthless, as everybody has, and as some confess they have, and.
• 4:35:04
  Speaker 6: Some do not.
• 4:35:05
  Speaker 5: And I'm going in for your respected father's opinions, really,
• 4:35:08
  Speaker 5: because I have no choice of opinions, and may as
• 4:35:11
  Speaker 5: well back them as anything else.
• 4:35:14
  Speaker 6: Have you none of your own.
• 4:35:15
  Speaker 5: Asked Louisa, I have not so much as the slightest
• 4:35:18
  Speaker 5: predilection left. I assure you I attach not the least
• 4:35:22
  Speaker 5: importance to any opinions. The result of the varieties of
• 4:35:25
  Speaker 5: boredom I have undergone is a conviction. Unless conviction is
• 4:35:29
  Speaker 5: too industrious a word for the lazy sentiment. I entertain
• 4:35:32
  Speaker 5: on the subject that any set of ideas will do
• 4:35:35
  Speaker 5: just as much good as any other set, and just
• 4:35:37
  Speaker 5: as much harm as any other set.
• 4:35:39
  Speaker 6: There is an English.
• 4:35:40
  Speaker 5: Family with a charming Italian motto, what will be will be.
• 4:35:45
  Speaker 5: It's the only truth going. This vicious assumption of honesty
• 4:35:49
  Speaker 5: and dishonesty, a vice so dangerous, so deadly, and so common,
• 4:35:53
  Speaker 5: seemed he observed a little to impress her in his favor.
• 4:35:57
  Speaker 5: He followed up the advantage by saying, in his pleasantest manner,
• 4:36:01
  Speaker 5: a manner to which she might attach as much or
• 4:36:03
  Speaker 5: as little meaning as she pleased. The side that can
• 4:36:06
  Speaker 5: prove anything in a line of units tens, hundreds and thousands,
• 4:36:09
  Speaker 5: Missus Bounderby, seems to me to afford the most fun
• 4:36:13
  Speaker 5: and to give a man the best chance. I am
• 4:36:16
  Speaker 5: quite as much attached to it as if I believed it.
• 4:36:18
  Speaker 5: I am quite ready to go in for it to
• 4:36:20
  Speaker 5: the same extent as if I believed it. And what
• 4:36:22
  Speaker 5: more could I possibly do if I did believe it?
• 4:36:26
  Speaker 5: You are a singular politician, said Louisa. Pardon me, I
• 4:36:30
  Speaker 5: have not even that merit. We are the largest party
• 4:36:33
  Speaker 5: in the state. I assure you, Missus Bounderby, if we
• 4:36:35
  Speaker 5: all fell out of our adopted ranks and were reviewed together,
• 4:36:39
  Speaker 5: mister Bounderby, who had been danger of bursting in silence,
• 4:36:43
  Speaker 5: interposed here with a project for postponing the family dinner
• 4:36:47
  Speaker 5: till half past six, and taking mister James Harthouse in
• 4:36:50
  Speaker 5: the meantime on a round of visits to the voting
• 4:36:53
  Speaker 5: and interesting notabilities of Coketown and its vicinity. The round
• 4:36:56
  Speaker 5: of visits was made, and mister James Harthouse with a
• 4:36:59
  Speaker 5: discreet use of his blue coaching came off triumphantly, though
• 4:37:03
  Speaker 5: with a considerable accession of boredom. In the evening, he
• 4:37:07
  Speaker 5: found the dinner table laid for four, but they sat
• 4:37:09
  Speaker 5: down only three. It was an appropriate occasion for mister
• 4:37:13
  Speaker 5: Bounderby to discuss the flavor of the haperth of stewed
• 4:37:16
  Speaker 5: eels he had purchased in the streets at eight years old,
• 4:37:19
  Speaker 5: and also of the inferior water specially used for laying
• 4:37:22
  Speaker 5: the dust with which he had washed down that repast.
• 4:37:26
  Speaker 5: He likewise entertained his guests over the soup and fish,
• 4:37:29
  Speaker 5: with the calculation that he Bounderby had eaten in his
• 4:37:32
  Speaker 5: youth at least three horses under the guise of polonies
• 4:37:35
  Speaker 5: and saveloys. These recitals Jem in a languid manner, received
• 4:37:40
  Speaker 5: with charming every now and then, and they probably would
• 4:37:44
  Speaker 5: have decided him to go in for Jerusalem again tomorrow
• 4:37:47
  Speaker 5: had he been less curious. Respecting Louisa, is there nothing,
• 4:37:52
  Speaker 5: he thought, glancing at her as she sat at the
• 4:37:54
  Speaker 5: head of the table, where her youthful figure, small and
• 4:37:57
  Speaker 5: slight but very graceful, looked as pretty as if mists placed.
• 4:38:01
  Speaker 5: Is there nothing that.
• 4:38:02
  Speaker 6: Will move that face.
• 4:38:04
  Speaker 5: Yes, by Jupiter, there was something, and here it was
• 4:38:07
  Speaker 5: in an unexpected shape.
• 4:38:09
  Speaker 6: Tom appeared.
• 4:38:10
  Speaker 5: She changed as the door opened, and broke into a
• 4:38:12
  Speaker 5: beaming smile, a beautiful smile. Mister James Harthouse might not
• 4:38:17
  Speaker 5: have thought so much of it, but that he had
• 4:38:19
  Speaker 5: wondered so long at her impassive face. She put out
• 4:38:22
  Speaker 5: her hand, a pretty little soft hand, and her fingers
• 4:38:25
  Speaker 5: closed upon her brother's, as if she would have carried
• 4:38:28
  Speaker 5: them to her lips. Aye Aye, thought the visitor. This
• 4:38:32
  Speaker 5: whelp is the only creature she cares for. So so
• 4:38:37
  Speaker 5: the whelp was presented and took his chair. The appellation
• 4:38:40
  Speaker 5: was not flattering, but not unmerited. When I was your age,
• 4:38:45
  Speaker 5: young Tom, said Bounderby, I was punctual, or I got
• 4:38:48
  Speaker 5: no dinner when you were my age, resumed Tom.
• 4:38:52
  Speaker 6: You hadn't a.
• 4:38:53
  Speaker 5: Wrong balance to get right, and you hadn't to dress afterwards.
• 4:38:57
  Speaker 5: Never mind that, now, said Bounderby. Well then grumbled Tom.
• 4:39:01
  Speaker 5: Don't begin with me, missus, Bounderby, said Harthouse, perfectly, hearing
• 4:39:06
  Speaker 5: this under strain as it went on. Your brother's face
• 4:39:10
  Speaker 5: is quite familiar to me. Can can I have seen
• 4:39:12
  Speaker 5: him abroad or at some public school, perhaps, No, she resumed,
• 4:39:17
  Speaker 5: quite interested. He has never been abroad yet, and was
• 4:39:21
  Speaker 5: educated here at home, Tom Love, I'm telling mister Harthouse
• 4:39:25
  Speaker 5: that he never saw you abroad. No such luck, sir,
• 4:39:28
  Speaker 5: said Tom. There was little enough in him to brighten
• 4:39:32
  Speaker 5: her face, for he was a sullen young fellow, and
• 4:39:34
  Speaker 5: ungracious in his manner, even to her. So much the
• 4:39:37
  Speaker 5: greater must have been the solitude of her heart and
• 4:39:40
  Speaker 5: her need of some one on whom to bestow it.
• 4:39:42
  Speaker 5: So much the more is this Whelp the only creature
• 4:39:45
  Speaker 5: she has ever cared for, thought mister James Harthouse, turning
• 4:39:49
  Speaker 5: it over and over so much, the more, so much
• 4:39:53
  Speaker 5: the more, both in his sister's presence and after she
• 4:39:57
  Speaker 5: had left the room, the Whelp took no pains to
• 4:40:00
  Speaker 5: his contempt for mister bounderby whenever he could indulge it
• 4:40:03
  Speaker 5: without the observation of that independent man, by making right
• 4:40:07
  Speaker 5: faces or shutting one eye without responding to these telegraphic communications.
• 4:40:12
  Speaker 5: Mister Harthouse encouraged him much in the course of the evening,
• 4:40:15
  Speaker 5: and showed an unusual liking for him at last, when
• 4:40:19
  Speaker 5: he rose to return to his hotel, and was a
• 4:40:21
  Speaker 5: little doubtful whether he knew the way by night. The
• 4:40:24
  Speaker 5: Whelp immediately proffered his services as guide, and turned out
• 4:40:28
  Speaker 5: with him to escort him thither. End of Chapter two,
• 4:40:34
  Speaker 5: Chapter three The Whelp. He was very remarkable that a
• 4:40:39
  Speaker 5: young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous
• 4:40:42
  Speaker 5: system of unnatural restraint should be a hypocrite, but it
• 4:40:45
  Speaker 5: was certainly the case with Tom. It was very strange
• 4:40:48
  Speaker 5: that a young gentleman who had never been left to
• 4:40:50
  Speaker 5: his own guidance for five consecutive minutes should be incapable
• 4:40:54
  Speaker 5: at last of governing himself, But so it was with Tom.
• 4:40:58
  Speaker 5: It was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination
• 4:41:02
  Speaker 5: had been strangled in his cradle should be still inconvenienced
• 4:41:05
  Speaker 5: by its ghost in the form of groveling sensualities. But
• 4:41:09
  Speaker 5: such a monster, beyond all doubt, was Tom.
• 4:41:13
  Speaker 6: Do you smoke?
• 4:41:14
  Speaker 5: Asked mister James Harthouse when they came to the hotel.
• 4:41:17
  Speaker 5: I believe you, said Tom. He could do no less
• 4:41:20
  Speaker 5: than ask Tom up. And Tom could do no less
• 4:41:22
  Speaker 5: than go up. What with a cooling drink adapted to
• 4:41:26
  Speaker 5: the weather, but not so weak as cool And what
• 4:41:29
  Speaker 5: with a rarer tobacco than was to be bought in
• 4:41:32
  Speaker 5: those parts. Tom was soon in a highly free and
• 4:41:35
  Speaker 5: easy state at his end of the sofa, and more
• 4:41:37
  Speaker 5: than ever disposed to admire his new friend.
• 4:41:39
  Speaker 6: At the other end.
• 4:41:41
  Speaker 5: Tom blew his smoke aside after he had been smoking
• 4:41:44
  Speaker 5: a little while, and took an observation of his friend.
• 4:41:47
  Speaker 5: He don't seem to care about his dress, thought Tom,
• 4:41:49
  Speaker 5: And yet how capitally.
• 4:41:51
  Speaker 6: He does it.
• 4:41:52
  Speaker 5: What an easy swell he is. Mister James Harthouse, happening
• 4:41:56
  Speaker 5: to catch Tom's eye, remarked that he drank nothing and
• 4:41:59
  Speaker 5: filled his glass with his own negligent hand. Thank you,
• 4:42:03
  Speaker 5: said Tom. Thankye well, mister Harthouse. I hope you have
• 4:42:07
  Speaker 5: had about a dose of old bounderby to night. Tom
• 4:42:10
  Speaker 5: said this with one eye, shut up again, and looked
• 4:42:13
  Speaker 5: over his glass knowingly at his entertainer. A very good fellow, indeed,
• 4:42:17
  Speaker 5: returned mister James Harthouse. You think so, don't you, said Tom,
• 4:42:21
  Speaker 5: and he shut up his eye again. Mister James Harthouse smiled, and,
• 4:42:26
  Speaker 5: rising from his end of the sofa and lounging with
• 4:42:28
  Speaker 5: his back against the chimney piece, so that he stood
• 4:42:30
  Speaker 5: before the empty fire grate, as he smoked in front
• 4:42:33
  Speaker 5: of Tom, and looking down at him, observed, what a
• 4:42:36
  Speaker 5: comical brother in law you are. What a comical brother
• 4:42:40
  Speaker 5: in law Old Bounderby is I think you mean, said Tom,
• 4:42:44
  Speaker 5: You are a piece a caustic Tom retorted mister James Harthouse.
• 4:42:48
  Speaker 5: There was something so very agreeable in being so intimate
• 4:42:51
  Speaker 5: with such a waistcoat, and being called Tom in such
• 4:42:54
  Speaker 5: an intimate way by such a voice, and being on
• 4:42:57
  Speaker 5: such offhand tern so soon with such a pair of whiskers,
• 4:43:00
  Speaker 5: that Tom was uncommonly pleased with himself. Oh, I don't
• 4:43:04
  Speaker 5: care for Old Bounderby, said he. If you mean that,
• 4:43:07
  Speaker 5: I have always called Old Bounderby by the same name
• 4:43:10
  Speaker 5: when I have talked about him, and I have always
• 4:43:11
  Speaker 5: thought of him in the same way. I'm not going
• 4:43:14
  Speaker 5: to begin to be polite now about Old Bounderby. It
• 4:43:17
  Speaker 5: would be rather late in the day. Don't mind me,
• 4:43:21
  Speaker 5: returned James. But take care when his wife is by.
• 4:43:24
  Speaker 5: You know his wife, said Tom My sister lou Oh yes,
• 4:43:29
  Speaker 5: and he laughed and took a little more of the
• 4:43:31
  Speaker 5: cooling drink. James Harthouse continued to lounge in the same
• 4:43:35
  Speaker 5: place and attitude, smoking.
• 4:43:37
  Speaker 6: His cigar in his own easy way, and.
• 4:43:39
  Speaker 5: Looking pleasantly at the Whelp, as if he knew himself
• 4:43:41
  Speaker 5: to be a kind of agreeable demon who had only
• 4:43:44
  Speaker 5: to hover over him, and he must give up his
• 4:43:46
  Speaker 5: whole soul if required. It certainly did seem that the
• 4:43:49
  Speaker 5: Whelp yielded to this influence. He looked at his companions sneakingly.
• 4:43:53
  Speaker 5: He looked at him admiringly. He looked at him boldly,
• 4:43:57
  Speaker 5: and put up one leg on the sofa. My sister Lou,
• 4:44:01
  Speaker 5: said Tom, she never cared for Old Bounderby. That's the
• 4:44:05
  Speaker 5: past tense, Tom returned mister James Harthouse, striking the ash
• 4:44:09
  Speaker 5: from his cigar with his little finger. We are in
• 4:44:12
  Speaker 5: the present tense now verb neuter, not to care, indicative mood,
• 4:44:18
  Speaker 5: present tense. First person singular, I do not care. Second
• 4:44:22
  Speaker 5: person singular thou dost not care? Third person singular, she
• 4:44:27
  Speaker 5: does not care, returned Tom Good. Very quaint, said his friend.
• 4:44:31
  Speaker 5: Though you don't mean it, but I do mean it,
• 4:44:34
  Speaker 5: cried Tom upon my honor. Why you won't tell me,
• 4:44:37
  Speaker 5: mister Harthouse, that you really suppose my sister Lou does
• 4:44:39
  Speaker 5: care for Old Bounderby, My dear fellow, returned the other,
• 4:44:44
  Speaker 5: what am I bound to suppose when I find two
• 4:44:46
  Speaker 5: married people living in harmony and happiness. Tom had by
• 4:44:50
  Speaker 5: this time got both his legs on the sofa. If
• 4:44:53
  Speaker 5: his second leg had not been already there when he
• 4:44:55
  Speaker 5: was called a dear fellow, he would have put it
• 4:44:57
  Speaker 5: up at that.
• 4:44:57
  Speaker 6: Great stage of the conversation.
• 4:44:59
  Speaker 5: Feeling it necessary to do something, then he stretched himself
• 4:45:03
  Speaker 5: out at greater length, and reclining with the back of
• 4:45:05
  Speaker 5: his head on the end of the sofa, and smoking,
• 4:45:08
  Speaker 5: with an infinite assumption of negligence, turned his common face
• 4:45:11
  Speaker 5: and not too sober eyes toward the face looking down
• 4:45:15
  Speaker 5: upon him, so carelessly, yet so potently. You know our governor,
• 4:45:18
  Speaker 5: mister Harthouse, said Tom. And therefore you needn't be surprised
• 4:45:21
  Speaker 5: that lou married Old Bounderby. She never had a lover,
• 4:45:24
  Speaker 5: and the governor proposed Old mc Bounderby, and she took him.
• 4:45:29
  Speaker 5: Very dutiful in your interesting sister, said mister James Harthouse. Yes,
• 4:45:33
  Speaker 5: but she wouldn't have been as dutiful, and it would
• 4:45:35
  Speaker 5: not have come off as easily returned the whelp if
• 4:45:38
  Speaker 5: it hadn't been for me. The tempter merely lifted his
• 4:45:42
  Speaker 5: eyebrows but the whelp was obliged to go on. I
• 4:45:45
  Speaker 5: persuaded her, he said, with an edifying air of superiority.
• 4:45:50
  Speaker 5: I was stuck into Old Bounderby's bank, where I never
• 4:45:53
  Speaker 5: wanted to be, and I knew I should get into
• 4:45:55
  Speaker 5: scrapes there if she put Old Bounderby's pipe out. So
• 4:45:59
  Speaker 5: I told her my wish, and she came into them.
• 4:46:02
  Speaker 5: She would do anything for me. It was very game
• 4:46:05
  Speaker 5: of her, wasn't it. It was charming, Tom. Not that
• 4:46:08
  Speaker 5: it was altogether so important to her as it was
• 4:46:11
  Speaker 5: to me, continued Tom coolly. Because my liberty and comfort
• 4:46:15
  Speaker 5: and perhaps my getting on depended on it, and she
• 4:46:18
  Speaker 5: had no other lover. Staying at home was like staying
• 4:46:21
  Speaker 5: in jail, especially when I was gone. It wasn't as
• 4:46:24
  Speaker 5: if she gave up another lover for Old Bounderby. But
• 4:46:27
  Speaker 5: still it was a good thing in her, perfectly delightful.
• 4:46:30
  Speaker 5: And she gets on so placidly, Oh, returned Tom, with
• 4:46:34
  Speaker 5: a contemptuous patronage. She's a regular girl. The girl can
• 4:46:38
  Speaker 5: get on anywhere. She has settled down to the life,
• 4:46:41
  Speaker 5: and she don't mind. It does just as well as another. Besides,
• 4:46:45
  Speaker 5: though lou is a girl, she's not a common sort
• 4:46:48
  Speaker 5: of girl. She can shut herself up within herself and think,
• 4:46:52
  Speaker 5: as I have often known her, sit and watched the
• 4:46:54
  Speaker 5: fire for an hour at a stretch. Aye, aye, as
• 4:46:58
  Speaker 5: resources of her own, said Harthouse, smoking quietly. Not so
• 4:47:03
  Speaker 5: much of that, as you may suppose, returned Tom, For
• 4:47:05
  Speaker 5: our governor had her crammed with all sorts of dry
• 4:47:08
  Speaker 5: bones and sawdustance.
• 4:47:09
  Speaker 6: It's his system.
• 4:47:11
  Speaker 5: Formed his daughter on his own model, suggested Harthouse. His daughter,
• 4:47:15
  Speaker 5: Ah and everybody else. Why he formed me that way?
• 4:47:19
  Speaker 5: Said Tom. Impossible he did, though, said Tom, shaking his head.
• 4:47:24
  Speaker 5: I mean to say, mister Harthouse, that when I first
• 4:47:27
  Speaker 5: left home and went to Old Bounderby's, I was flat
• 4:47:30
  Speaker 5: as a warming pan and knew no more about life
• 4:47:33
  Speaker 5: than any oyster does. Come Tom, I can hardly believe
• 4:47:36
  Speaker 5: that a joke's a joke upon my soul, said the whelp.
• 4:47:40
  Speaker 5: I am serious. I am indeed, He smoked with great
• 4:47:44
  Speaker 5: gravity and dignity for a little while, and then added,
• 4:47:46
  Speaker 5: in a highly complacent tone, Oh, I have picked up
• 4:47:50
  Speaker 5: a little since. I don't deny that, but I've done
• 4:47:52
  Speaker 5: it myself. No thanks to the governor and your intelligent sister.
• 4:47:57
  Speaker 5: My intelligent sister is about where she was. She used
• 4:48:01
  Speaker 5: to complain to me that she had nothing to fall
• 4:48:03
  Speaker 5: back upon. The girls usually fall back upon. And I
• 4:48:06
  Speaker 5: don't see how she has to have got over that since,
• 4:48:08
  Speaker 5: But she don't mind, he sagaciously added, puffing at his
• 4:48:12
  Speaker 5: cigar again. Girls can always get on somehow. Calling at
• 4:48:18
  Speaker 5: the bank yesterday evening for mister Bounderby's address, I found
• 4:48:22
  Speaker 5: an ancient lady there who seems to entertain great admiration
• 4:48:25
  Speaker 5: for your sister, observed mister James Harthouse, throwing away the
• 4:48:29
  Speaker 5: last small remnant of the cigar he had now smoked out.
• 4:48:33
  Speaker 5: Mother Sparsit, said Tom, what you've seen her already?
• 4:48:36
  Speaker 2: Have you?
• 4:48:37
  Speaker 6: His friend nodded.
• 4:48:39
  Speaker 5: Tom took his cigar out of his mouth, to shut
• 4:48:41
  Speaker 5: up his eye, which had grown rather unmanageable with the
• 4:48:44
  Speaker 5: greater expression, and to tap his nose several times with
• 4:48:47
  Speaker 5: his finger. Mother Sparsit's feeling for lou is more than admiration,
• 4:48:52
  Speaker 5: I should think, said Tom, say, affection and devotion, Mother
• 4:48:57
  Speaker 5: Sparsit never set her cap at Bounderby when he was
• 4:48:59
  Speaker 5: about Oh no, These were the last words spoken by
• 4:49:04
  Speaker 5: the whelp before a giddy drowsiness came upon him, followed
• 4:49:07
  Speaker 5: by complete oblivion. He was roused from the latter state
• 4:49:10
  Speaker 5: by an uneasy dream of being stirred up with a boot,
• 4:49:13
  Speaker 5: and also of a voice saying, come, it's late. Be
• 4:49:16
  Speaker 5: off well, he said, scrambling from the sofa, I must
• 4:49:20
  Speaker 5: take my leave of you, though I say, yours is
• 4:49:22
  Speaker 5: very good tobacco. But it's too mild. Yes, it's too mild,
• 4:49:26
  Speaker 5: returned his entertainer. It's it's ridiculously mild, said Tom, where's
• 4:49:31
  Speaker 5: the door?
• 4:49:31
  Speaker 6: Good night.
• 4:49:33
  Speaker 5: He had another odd dream of being taken by a
• 4:49:36
  Speaker 5: waiter through a mist which, after giving him some trouble
• 4:49:39
  Speaker 5: and difficulty, resolved itself into the main street in which
• 4:49:42
  Speaker 5: he stood alone. He then walked home pretty easily, though
• 4:49:45
  Speaker 5: not yet free from an impression of the presence and
• 4:49:47
  Speaker 5: influence of his new friend, as if he were lounging
• 4:49:50
  Speaker 5: somewhere in the air in the same negligent attitude, regarding
• 4:49:54
  Speaker 5: him with the same look. The whelp went home and
• 4:49:58
  Speaker 5: went to bed. If he had had any sense of
• 4:50:00
  Speaker 5: what he had done that night, and had been less
• 4:50:02
  Speaker 5: of a whelp and more of a brother, he might
• 4:50:04
  Speaker 5: have turned short on the road, might have gone down
• 4:50:07
  Speaker 5: to the ill smelling river that was dyed black, might
• 4:50:09
  Speaker 5: have gone to bed in it for good and all,
• 4:50:12
  Speaker 5: and have curtained his head forever with its filthy waters.
• 4:50:17
  Speaker 4: End of Chapter three, Chapter four. Men and brothers, oh
• 4:50:24
  Speaker 4: my friends, the down trodden operatives of Coketown, Oh my friends,
• 4:50:31
  Speaker 4: and fellow countrymen, the slaves of an iron handed and
• 4:50:36
  Speaker 4: a grinding despotism, Oh, my friends, and fellow sufferers, and
• 4:50:43
  Speaker 4: fellow workmen, and fellow men. I tell you that the
• 4:50:48
  Speaker 4: hour is come when we must rally round one another
• 4:50:53
  Speaker 4: is one united power, and crumble into dust the oppressors
• 4:50:59
  Speaker 4: that too long have battened upon the plunder of our families,
• 4:51:04
  Speaker 4: upon the sweat of our brows, upon the labor of
• 4:51:08
  Speaker 4: our hands, upon the strength of our sinews, upon the
• 4:51:13
  Speaker 4: God created glorious rights of humanity, and upon the holy
• 4:51:20
  Speaker 4: and eternal privileges of brotherhood. Good hear, hear, hair, Hurrah,
• 4:51:29
  Speaker 4: and other cries arose in many voices from various parts
• 4:51:33
  Speaker 4: of the densely crowded and suffocating close hall in which
• 4:51:37
  Speaker 4: the orator, perched on a stage, delivered himself of this
• 4:51:41
  Speaker 4: and what other froth and fume he had in him.
• 4:51:45
  Speaker 4: He had declaimed himself into a violent heat, and was
• 4:51:49
  Speaker 4: as hoarse as he was hot by dint of roaring
• 4:51:53
  Speaker 4: at the top of his voice under a flaring gaslight,
• 4:51:57
  Speaker 4: clenching his fists, knitting his broads, setting his teeth, and
• 4:52:02
  Speaker 4: pounding with his arms. He had taken so much out
• 4:52:05
  Speaker 4: of himself by this time that he was brought to
• 4:52:08
  Speaker 4: a stop and called for a glass of water. As
• 4:52:13
  Speaker 4: he stood there trying to quench his fiery face with
• 4:52:17
  Speaker 4: his drink of water. The comparison between the orator and
• 4:52:21
  Speaker 4: the crowd of attentive faces turned towards him was extremely
• 4:52:28
  Speaker 4: to his disadvantage. Judging him by nature's evidence, he was
• 4:52:33
  Speaker 4: above the mass and very little but the stage on
• 4:52:36
  Speaker 4: which he stood. In many great respects, he was essentially
• 4:52:41
  Speaker 4: below them. He was not so honest, He was not
• 4:52:46
  Speaker 4: so manly, He was not so good humored. He substituted
• 4:52:51
  Speaker 4: cunning for their simplicity, and passion for their safe, solid sense.
• 4:52:57
  Speaker 4: An ill made, high shouldered man, and with lowering brows
• 4:53:02
  Speaker 4: and his features crushed into an habitually sour expression, he
• 4:53:07
  Speaker 4: contrasted most unfavorably, even in his mongrel dress, with the
• 4:53:13
  Speaker 4: great body of his hearers in their plain working clothes.
• 4:53:18
  Speaker 4: Strange as it always is, to consider any assembly in
• 4:53:21
  Speaker 4: the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of
• 4:53:26
  Speaker 4: some complacent person, lord or commoner, whom three fourths of
• 4:53:31
  Speaker 4: it could, by no human means raise out of the
• 4:53:34
  Speaker 4: slow of inanity to their own intellectual level. It was
• 4:53:39
  Speaker 4: particularly strange, and it was even particularly affecting to see
• 4:53:44
  Speaker 4: this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty, in the main,
• 4:53:48
  Speaker 4: no competent observer free from bias, could doubt so agitated
• 4:53:54
  Speaker 4: by such a leader. Good Hear, Hear Hurrah. The eagerness
• 4:54:00
  Speaker 4: both of attention and intention exhibited in all the countenances
• 4:54:04
  Speaker 4: made them a most impressive sight. There was no carelessness,
• 4:54:09
  Speaker 4: no languor, no idle curiosity, none of the many shades
• 4:54:14
  Speaker 4: of indifference to be seen in all other assemblies. Visible
• 4:54:17
  Speaker 4: for one moment there that every man felt his condition
• 4:54:22
  Speaker 4: to be somehow or other worse than it might be.
• 4:54:27
  Speaker 4: That every man considered it incumbent on him to join
• 4:54:31
  Speaker 4: the rest towards the making of it better, That every
• 4:54:34
  Speaker 4: man felt his only hope to be in his allying
• 4:54:37
  Speaker 4: himself to the comrades by whom he was surrounded, and
• 4:54:41
  Speaker 4: that in this belief right or wrong, unhappily wrong, then
• 4:54:47
  Speaker 4: the whole of that crowd were gravely, deeply, faithfully in earnest.
• 4:54:53
  Speaker 4: Must have been plain to anyone who chose to see
• 4:54:56
  Speaker 4: what was there, as the bare beams of the roof
• 4:55:00
  Speaker 4: and the whitened brick walls. Nor could any such spectator
• 4:55:04
  Speaker 4: fail to know in his own breast, that these men,
• 4:55:08
  Speaker 4: through their very delusions, showed great qualities susceptible of being
• 4:55:14
  Speaker 4: turned to the happiest and best account. And that to pretend,
• 4:55:19
  Speaker 4: on the strength of sweeping axioms, howsoever cut and dried,
• 4:55:24
  Speaker 4: that they were astray, wholly without cause and of their
• 4:55:29
  Speaker 4: own irrational wills, was to pretend that there could be
• 4:55:32
  Speaker 4: smoke without fire, death without birth, harvest without seed, anything
• 4:55:39
  Speaker 4: or everything produced for nothing. The orator, having refreshed himself,
• 4:55:46
  Speaker 4: wiped his corrugated forehead from left to right several times
• 4:55:50
  Speaker 4: with his handkerchief folded into a pad, and concentrated all
• 4:55:55
  Speaker 4: his revived forces in a sneer of great disdain and bitterness. But, oh,
• 4:56:03
  Speaker 4: my friends and brothers, oh men and Englishmen, the downtrodden
• 4:56:10
  Speaker 4: operatives of Coketown, what shall we say of that? Man,
• 4:56:16
  Speaker 4: that working man, that I should find it necessary to
• 4:56:20
  Speaker 4: so libel the glorious name, who, being practically and well
• 4:56:25
  Speaker 4: acquainted with the grievances and wrongs of you, the injured,
• 4:56:31
  Speaker 4: pith and marrow of this land, and having heard you
• 4:56:35
  Speaker 4: with a noble and majestic unanimity that will make tyrants tremble,
• 4:56:42
  Speaker 4: resolve for to subscribe to the funds of the United
• 4:56:46
  Speaker 4: Aggregate Tribunal, and to abide by the injunctions issued by
• 4:56:52
  Speaker 4: that body for your benefit, whatever they may be. What
• 4:56:57
  Speaker 4: I ask you, will you say that of working men,
• 4:57:02
  Speaker 4: since such I must acknowledge him to be, who at
• 4:57:05
  Speaker 4: such time deserts his posts and sells his flag, who
• 4:57:11
  Speaker 4: at such a time turns a traitor and a craven
• 4:57:16
  Speaker 4: and a recreant, who at such a time is not
• 4:57:20
  Speaker 4: ashamed to make to you the dastardly and humiliating a
• 4:57:26
  Speaker 4: vowal that he will hold himself aloof and will not
• 4:57:30
  Speaker 4: be one of those associated in the gallant stand for
• 4:57:35
  Speaker 4: freedom and for right. The assembly was divided at this point.
• 4:57:42
  Speaker 4: There were some groans and hisses, but the general sense
• 4:57:45
  Speaker 4: of honor was much too strong for the condemnation of
• 4:57:49
  Speaker 4: a man unheard. Be sure your right, slack Bridge, put
• 4:57:55
  Speaker 4: him up. Let's hear him. Such things were said on
• 4:58:00
  Speaker 4: many sides. Finally, one strong voice called out, is the
• 4:58:03
  Speaker 4: man here? If the man's here, Slackbridge, let the man
• 4:58:08
  Speaker 4: himself stead o you, which was received with a round
• 4:58:12
  Speaker 4: of applause. Slackbridge the orator looked about him with a
• 4:58:17
  Speaker 4: withering smile, and holding out his right hand at arm's length,
• 4:58:22
  Speaker 4: as the manner of all Slackbridges is to still the
• 4:58:26
  Speaker 4: thundering sea. Waited until there was a profound silence. Oh,
• 4:58:32
  Speaker 4: my friends and fellow men, said Slackbridge, then shaking his
• 4:58:37
  Speaker 4: head with violent scorn. I do not wonder that you,
• 4:58:43
  Speaker 4: the prostrate sons of labor, are incredulous of the existence
• 4:58:49
  Speaker 4: of such a man. But he who sold his birthright
• 4:58:54
  Speaker 4: for a mess of pottage existed, and judas a scariot existed,
• 4:59:00
  Speaker 4: and castleret existed, and this man exists here. A brief
• 4:59:07
  Speaker 4: press and confusion near the stage ended in the man
• 4:59:11
  Speaker 4: himself standing at the orator's side before the concourse. He
• 4:59:16
  Speaker 4: was pale and a little moved in the face. His
• 4:59:18
  Speaker 4: lips especially showed it, but he stood quiet, with his
• 4:59:23
  Speaker 4: left hand at his chin. Waiting to be heard. There
• 4:59:27
  Speaker 4: was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this functionary
• 4:59:31
  Speaker 4: now took the case into his own hands. My friends,
• 4:59:36
  Speaker 4: he said, by virtue of my office as your president,
• 4:59:40
  Speaker 4: I ashes all your friend Slackbridge, who may be a
• 4:59:43
  Speaker 4: little overhead in this business, to take his seat. Whiles
• 4:59:47
  Speaker 4: this man, Stephan Blackpool is hern. You all know this man,
• 4:59:52
  Speaker 4: Stephan Blackpool. You know him along his misfortunes and his
• 4:59:57
  Speaker 4: good name. Chairman took him frankly by the hand and
• 5:00:02
  Speaker 4: sat down again. Slackbridge likewise sat down, wiping his hot forehead,
• 5:00:08
  Speaker 4: always from left to right, and never the reverse way.
• 5:00:13
  Speaker 4: My friends, Stephan began in the midst of a dead calm.
• 5:00:17
  Speaker 4: I had what had been spoken to me, and 'tis
• 5:00:21
  Speaker 4: likely that I shun't mend it. But I'd like for
• 5:00:25
  Speaker 4: you to hear in the truth concern my son from
• 5:00:28
  Speaker 4: my lips than from ony other. Months though I never
• 5:00:33
  Speaker 4: could speak afore, so many will out being murdered and muddled.
• 5:00:38
  Speaker 4: Slackbridge shook his head as if he would shake it
• 5:00:41
  Speaker 4: off in his bitterness. I am the one single hand
• 5:00:46
  Speaker 4: in Bounderby's mill. Oh, all the men there as don't
• 5:00:51
  Speaker 4: come in with me the proposed regulations. I cannot come in, William,
• 5:00:57
  Speaker 4: my friends, I doubt they're doing you good liquor they'll
• 5:01:01
  Speaker 4: do your hurt. Slackbridge laughed full at his arms and
• 5:01:06
  Speaker 4: frowned sarcastically. But tents so much for that, as I
• 5:01:11
  Speaker 4: stands out. If there were, I'd come in with the rest.
• 5:01:17
  Speaker 4: But I had my reasons mine, you see, for being hindered,
• 5:01:22
  Speaker 4: not only now, but all is always life long. Slackbridge
• 5:01:27
  Speaker 4: jumped up and stood beside him, gnashing and tearing. Oh,
• 5:01:32
  Speaker 4: my friends, what but this did I tell you? O,
• 5:01:36
  Speaker 4: my fellow countrymen? What warning but this did I give you?
• 5:01:41
  Speaker 4: And how shows this recreant conduct in man on whom
• 5:01:45
  Speaker 4: unequal laws are known to have fallen? Heavy? Oh you Englishman,
• 5:01:50
  Speaker 4: I ask you, how does this subordination show in one
• 5:01:54
  Speaker 4: of yourselves, who is thus consenting to his own undoing
• 5:01:59
  Speaker 4: and to you, and to your children's and your children's children's.
• 5:02:05
  Speaker 4: There was some applause and some crying of shame upon
• 5:02:09
  Speaker 4: the man, but the greater part of the audience were quiet.
• 5:02:13
  Speaker 4: They looked at Stephan's worn face, rendered more pathetic by
• 5:02:17
  Speaker 4: the homely emotions it evinced, and in the kindness of
• 5:02:22
  Speaker 4: their nature. They were more sorry than indignant. Tis this
• 5:02:27
  Speaker 4: DELI gets traded for to speak, said Stefan. And he's
• 5:02:32
  Speaker 4: paid for tan. He knows his work. Let him keep
• 5:02:36
  Speaker 4: to it. Let him give no heed to what I
• 5:02:39
  Speaker 4: had hadn't to bear. That's not for him, that's not
• 5:02:42
  Speaker 4: for nobody but me. There was propriety not to say
• 5:02:48
  Speaker 4: a dignity in these words. That made the hearers yet
• 5:02:52
  Speaker 4: more quiet and attentive. The same strong voice called out slaguage.
• 5:02:58
  Speaker 4: Let the man be hearn, and how d'ye tongue? Then
• 5:03:02
  Speaker 4: the place was wonderfully still, my brother, said Stephen, whose
• 5:03:08
  Speaker 4: low voice was distinctly heard. And my fellow workmen, for
• 5:03:13
  Speaker 4: that you are to me, though not as I knows
• 5:03:16
  Speaker 4: on to this delegate here I have been. I've but
• 5:03:20
  Speaker 4: put a word to send, and I could send no
• 5:03:24
  Speaker 4: more if I was to speak till strike a day.
• 5:03:28
  Speaker 4: I know we'll all what's afore me? I know we'll
• 5:03:31
  Speaker 4: that you are all resolved to have no more Ado
• 5:03:35
  Speaker 4: we a man who is not we in this matter?
• 5:03:39
  Speaker 4: I know weir that if I was a lion partiesh
• 5:03:43
  Speaker 4: I I ye the road, ye'd feel it right to
• 5:03:46
  Speaker 4: pass me by as a foreignner on stranger, what I hagettin,
• 5:03:52
  Speaker 4: I muns make the best on Stephen Blackpole, said the chairman, rising,
• 5:04:00
  Speaker 4: Think on it again, Think on it once again, lad,
• 5:04:04
  Speaker 4: afore thou shunned by odd old friends. There was a
• 5:04:09
  Speaker 4: universal murmur to the same effect, though no man articulated
• 5:04:13
  Speaker 4: a word. Every eye was fixed on Stephen's face. To
• 5:04:18
  Speaker 4: repent of his determination would be to take a load
• 5:04:21
  Speaker 4: from all their minds. He looked around him and knew
• 5:04:26
  Speaker 4: that it was so. Not a grain of anger with
• 5:04:30
  Speaker 4: them was in his heart. He knew them far below
• 5:04:33
  Speaker 4: their surface weaknesses and misconceptions, as no one but their
• 5:04:38
  Speaker 4: fellow laborer could I have thou on it above a bit, Sir,
• 5:04:45
  Speaker 4: I simply cannot come in. I mun go thee the
• 5:04:50
  Speaker 4: way is lays afore me, I mun take my leave
• 5:04:53
  Speaker 4: of our here. He made a sort of reverence to
• 5:04:58
  Speaker 4: them by holding up his arms, and stood for the
• 5:05:02
  Speaker 4: moment in that attitude, not speaking until they slowly dropped
• 5:05:06
  Speaker 4: at his sides. Money's the pleasant word, as soon here
• 5:05:11
  Speaker 4: has spoken with me. Money's the face I see here
• 5:05:16
  Speaker 4: as I first seen when I were young and lighter
• 5:05:19
  Speaker 4: heart than now, I had never had to fretch afore
• 5:05:24
  Speaker 4: sin ever I were born, where any of my might
• 5:05:29
  Speaker 4: like gone now as I have none. Now that's o
• 5:05:32
  Speaker 4: my maken y' all call me traitor, and that I
• 5:05:38
  Speaker 4: mean to say, addressing slightbridge. But tis easier to call
• 5:05:43
  Speaker 4: than make out. So let be. He had moved away
• 5:05:49
  Speaker 4: a pace or two to come down from the platform
• 5:05:52
  Speaker 4: when he remembered something that he had not said, and
• 5:05:54
  Speaker 4: returned again. Happily, he said, turning his pharaohed face slowly
• 5:05:59
  Speaker 4: about that he might, as it were, individually address the
• 5:06:03
  Speaker 4: whole audience, those both near in distance, haply when this
• 5:06:09
  Speaker 4: question has been taying up and discussed, there'll be a
• 5:06:15
  Speaker 4: threat to turn out. If I am let to work
• 5:06:18
  Speaker 4: among you. I hope I shall die ere ever such
• 5:06:22
  Speaker 4: a time comes, and I shall work solitary among you.
• 5:06:26
  Speaker 4: Unless it comes truly, I mun do it, my friends,
• 5:06:31
  Speaker 4: not to brave you, but to live. I had no
• 5:06:35
  Speaker 4: but work to live by and wherever can I go?
• 5:06:39
  Speaker 4: I who had worked sin I were no high ah
• 5:06:44
  Speaker 4: in a coketown. Here. I make no complaints of being
• 5:06:49
  Speaker 4: turned to the wall, or being outcasting or overlooking for
• 5:06:55
  Speaker 4: this time forward. But I hope I shall be let
• 5:06:58
  Speaker 4: to work if there is there's any right for me
• 5:07:01
  Speaker 4: at all, my friends. I think tis that not a
• 5:07:06
  Speaker 4: word was spoken, not a sound was audible in the building,
• 5:07:11
  Speaker 4: but the slight rustle of men moving a little apart,
• 5:07:15
  Speaker 4: all along the center of the room, to open a
• 5:07:18
  Speaker 4: means of passing out to the man with whom they
• 5:07:21
  Speaker 4: had all bound themselves to renounce companionship, looking at no one,
• 5:07:27
  Speaker 4: and going his way with a lowly steadiness upon him
• 5:07:31
  Speaker 4: that asserted nothing and sought nothing. Old Stephan, with all
• 5:07:36
  Speaker 4: his troubles on his head, left the scene. Then Slackbridge,
• 5:07:42
  Speaker 4: who had kept his oratorical arm extended during the going out,
• 5:07:47
  Speaker 4: as if he were repressing with infinite solicitude, and by
• 5:07:51
  Speaker 4: a wonderful moral power, the vehement passions of the multitude,
• 5:07:57
  Speaker 4: applied himself to raising their spirits. Had not the Roman brutus,
• 5:08:03
  Speaker 4: oh my British countrymen, condemned his son to death, and
• 5:08:08
  Speaker 4: had not the Spartan mothers, oh, my soon to be
• 5:08:12
  Speaker 4: victorious friends, driven their flying children on the points of
• 5:08:18
  Speaker 4: their enemy's swords. Then was it not the sacred duty
• 5:08:22
  Speaker 4: of the men of Coketown, with forefathers before them, an
• 5:08:28
  Speaker 4: admiring world in company with them and a posterity to
• 5:08:33
  Speaker 4: come after them, to hurl out traitors from the tents
• 5:08:38
  Speaker 4: they had pitched in a sacred and godlike cause. The
• 5:08:43
  Speaker 4: winds of heaven answered yes and bore yes east, west,
• 5:08:48
  Speaker 4: north and south, and consequently three cheers for the United
• 5:08:54
  Speaker 4: Aggregate Tribunal. Slackbridge acted as a fugul and gave the
• 5:09:01
  Speaker 4: time the multitude of doubtful faces. A little conscience stricken
• 5:09:06
  Speaker 4: brightened at the sound, and took it up private feeling
• 5:09:10
  Speaker 4: must yield to the common cause. Hurrah. The roof yet
• 5:09:15
  Speaker 4: vibrated with the cheering when the assembly dispersed. Thus easily
• 5:09:20
  Speaker 4: did Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the
• 5:09:25
  Speaker 4: life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in
• 5:09:29
  Speaker 4: the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some
• 5:09:34
  Speaker 4: answering look and never finds it is in cheering society,
• 5:09:40
  Speaker 4: as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily
• 5:09:44
  Speaker 4: that were once the countenances of friends. Such experience was
• 5:09:49
  Speaker 4: to be Stephen's now in every waking moment of his life,
• 5:09:53
  Speaker 4: at his work, on his way to it and from it,
• 5:09:56
  Speaker 4: at his door, at his window, everywhere. By general consent,
• 5:10:02
  Speaker 4: they even avoided that side of the street on which
• 5:10:05
  Speaker 4: he habitually walked, and left it of all the working
• 5:10:09
  Speaker 4: men to him only. He had been for many years
• 5:10:14
  Speaker 4: a quiet, silent man, associating but little with other men,
• 5:10:18
  Speaker 4: and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had
• 5:10:24
  Speaker 4: never known before the strength of the want in his
• 5:10:28
  Speaker 4: heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look,
• 5:10:31
  Speaker 4: a word, or the immense amount of relief that had
• 5:10:35
  Speaker 4: been poured into it by drops through such small means.
• 5:10:41
  Speaker 4: It was even harder than he could have believed possible
• 5:10:44
  Speaker 4: to separate in his own conscience his abandonment by all
• 5:10:49
  Speaker 4: his fellows from a hapless sense of shame and disgrace.
• 5:10:55
  Speaker 4: The first four days of his endurance were days so
• 5:10:59
  Speaker 4: long and heavy that he began to be appalled by
• 5:11:02
  Speaker 4: the prospect before him. Not only did he see no
• 5:11:07
  Speaker 4: Rachel all the time, but he avoided every chance of
• 5:11:10
  Speaker 4: seeing her, For although he knew that the prohibition did
• 5:11:14
  Speaker 4: not yet formerly extend to the women working in the factories,
• 5:11:18
  Speaker 4: he found that some of them with whom he was
• 5:11:21
  Speaker 4: acquainted were changed to him, and he feared to try others,
• 5:11:25
  Speaker 4: and dreaded that Rachel might be even singled out from
• 5:11:30
  Speaker 4: the rest if she were seen in his company. So
• 5:11:33
  Speaker 4: he had been quite alone during the four days and
• 5:11:37
  Speaker 4: had spoken to no one, when as he was leaving
• 5:11:40
  Speaker 4: his work at night, a young man of a very
• 5:11:43
  Speaker 4: light complexion accosted him in the street. Your name's Blackpool,
• 5:11:48
  Speaker 4: ain't it, said the young man. Stephen colored to find
• 5:11:52
  Speaker 4: himself with his hat in his hand and his gratitude
• 5:11:55
  Speaker 4: for being spoken to, or in the suddenness of it,
• 5:11:58
  Speaker 4: or both. He made a feint of adjusting the lining
• 5:12:02
  Speaker 4: and said, yes, you are the end that they have
• 5:12:05
  Speaker 4: sent to Coventry, I mean, said Bitzer, the very light
• 5:12:09
  Speaker 4: young man in question. Stephan answered yes again, I suppose
• 5:12:15
  Speaker 4: so from they're all appearing to keep away from you.
• 5:12:18
  Speaker 4: Mister Bounderby wants to speak to you. You know his house,
• 5:12:21
  Speaker 4: don't you. Stephan said yes again, then goes straight up there. Well,
• 5:12:27
  Speaker 4: you said Bitzer, You're expected and have only to tell
• 5:12:31
  Speaker 4: the seven it's you. I belonged to the banks, So
• 5:12:34
  Speaker 4: if you go straight up without me, I was sent
• 5:12:37
  Speaker 4: to fetch you, you'll save me a walk. Stephan, whose
• 5:12:41
  Speaker 4: way had been in the contrary direction, turned about and
• 5:12:45
  Speaker 4: betook himself as in duty bound to the red brick
• 5:12:48
  Speaker 4: castle of the giant Bounderby, end of chapter four, Chapter five,
• 5:12:58
  Speaker 4: Men and masters, well, Stephen, said Bounderby, in his windy manner.
• 5:13:04
  Speaker 4: What's this I hear? What have these pests of the
• 5:13:08
  Speaker 4: earth been doing to you? Come in? Speak up? It
• 5:13:13
  Speaker 4: was into the drawing room that he was bidden. A
• 5:13:16
  Speaker 4: tea table was set out, and mister Bounderby's young wife
• 5:13:19
  Speaker 4: and her brother, and a great gentleman from London were present,
• 5:13:23
  Speaker 4: to whom Stephan made his obeisance, closing the door and
• 5:13:27
  Speaker 4: standing near it with his hat in his hand. And
• 5:13:31
  Speaker 4: this is the man I was telling you about Harthouse,
• 5:13:34
  Speaker 4: said mister Bounderby. The gentleman he dressed, who was talking
• 5:13:38
  Speaker 4: to missus Bounderby on the sofa, got up, saying in
• 5:13:42
  Speaker 4: an indolent way, oh really, and dawdled to the hearth
• 5:13:48
  Speaker 4: rug where mister Bounderby stood. Now, said Bounderby, speak up.
• 5:13:55
  Speaker 4: After four days he had passed this address fell rudely
• 5:13:59
  Speaker 4: and discording on Stephan's ear. Besides being a rough handling
• 5:14:03
  Speaker 4: of his wounded mind, it seemed to assume that he
• 5:14:07
  Speaker 4: really was the self interested deserter he had been called.
• 5:14:12
  Speaker 4: What were it, sir? Said stephan as you were pleased
• 5:14:15
  Speaker 4: to want we me, I have told you returned Bounderby,
• 5:14:20
  Speaker 4: speak up like a man, since you are a man,
• 5:14:23
  Speaker 4: and tell us about yourself in this combination. We are pardon, sir,
• 5:14:29
  Speaker 4: said Stephen Blackpool. I had nought to send about it.
• 5:14:33
  Speaker 4: Mister Bounderby, who was always more or less like a
• 5:14:36
  Speaker 4: wind finding something in his way here, began to blow
• 5:14:41
  Speaker 4: at it directly. No look here, Harthouse said, he. Here's
• 5:14:47
  Speaker 4: a specimen of them. When this man was here once before,
• 5:14:52
  Speaker 4: I warned this man against the mischievous strangers who are
• 5:14:57
  Speaker 4: always about and ought to be hanged wherever they are found,
• 5:15:01
  Speaker 4: And I told this man that he was going in
• 5:15:04
  Speaker 4: the wrong direction. Now, would you believe it that although
• 5:15:08
  Speaker 4: they have put this mark upon him, he is such
• 5:15:11
  Speaker 4: a slave to them still that he's afraid to open
• 5:15:14
  Speaker 4: his lips about them? He said, as I had nought
• 5:15:19
  Speaker 4: to say, sir, not as I was feared to open
• 5:15:22
  Speaker 4: him my lips. You said, Ah, I know what you said.
• 5:15:27
  Speaker 4: More than that, I know what you mean. You see
• 5:15:30
  Speaker 4: not always the same thing, by the Lord Harry, quite
• 5:15:33
  Speaker 4: different things. You had better tell us at once that
• 5:15:37
  Speaker 4: that fellow Slackbridge is not in the town, stirring up
• 5:15:42
  Speaker 4: the people to mutiny, and that he is not a
• 5:15:45
  Speaker 4: regular qualified leader of the people. That is a most
• 5:15:49
  Speaker 4: confounded scoundrel. You had better tell us so at once.
• 5:15:53
  Speaker 4: You can't deceive me. You want to tell us, so,
• 5:15:57
  Speaker 4: why don't you as sorry as you, sir? When the
• 5:16:02
  Speaker 4: people's leader is as bad, said Stephen, shaking his head,
• 5:16:07
  Speaker 4: they take such as offers happily. Tis not the smartest
• 5:16:12
  Speaker 4: of their misfortunes, when they can get no better. The
• 5:16:16
  Speaker 4: wind began to get boisterous. Now you'll think this pretty well, harthouse,
• 5:16:21
  Speaker 4: said Bounderby. You'll think this tolerably strong. You'll say, upon
• 5:16:26
  Speaker 4: my soul, this is a tidy specimen of what my
• 5:16:30
  Speaker 4: friends have to deal with. But this is nothing, sir.
• 5:16:34
  Speaker 4: You shall hear me ask this man a question, pray,
• 5:16:37
  Speaker 4: mister blackpool, wind springing up very fast, May I take
• 5:16:42
  Speaker 4: the liberty of asking you how it happens that you
• 5:16:45
  Speaker 4: refuse to be in this combination? How it happens, ah,
• 5:16:51
  Speaker 4: said mister Bounderby, with his thumbs in his arms of
• 5:16:55
  Speaker 4: his coat and jerking his head and shutting his eyes
• 5:16:58
  Speaker 4: in confidence with the oupper at wall. How it happens?
• 5:17:04
  Speaker 4: I'd leave her, not come to it, sir. But senor
• 5:17:06
  Speaker 4: put the question, and not wanting to be a veal manner,
• 5:17:10
  Speaker 4: and I'll answer. I have passed a promise, not to me,
• 5:17:15
  Speaker 4: you know, said Bounderby, gusty weather with deceitful calms one
• 5:17:20
  Speaker 4: now prevailing. Oh no, sir, not to you. As for me,
• 5:17:26
  Speaker 4: any consideration for me has had just nothing at all
• 5:17:30
  Speaker 4: to do with it, said Bounderby, still in confidence with
• 5:17:34
  Speaker 4: the wall. If only Josiah Bounderby of Coketown had been
• 5:17:38
  Speaker 4: in question, you would have joined and made no bones
• 5:17:42
  Speaker 4: about it. Why, yes, sir, tis true, though he knows,
• 5:17:47
  Speaker 4: said mister Bounderby, now blowing a gale, that these are
• 5:17:51
  Speaker 4: a set of rascals and rebels whom transportation is too
• 5:17:56
  Speaker 4: good for. Now, mister Harthouse, you I've been knocking about
• 5:18:01
  Speaker 4: in the world some time. Did you ever meet with
• 5:18:05
  Speaker 4: anything like that man? Out of this blessed country? And
• 5:18:09
  Speaker 4: mister Bounderby pointed him out for inspection with an angry finger.
• 5:18:15
  Speaker 4: Nay ma'am, said Stephen Blackpool, staunchly protesting against the words
• 5:18:20
  Speaker 4: that had been used, and instinctively addressing himself to Louisa
• 5:18:24
  Speaker 4: after glancing at her face, not rebels, not yet rascals.
• 5:18:29
  Speaker 4: No of the kind, ma'am, Not of the kind. They've
• 5:18:33
  Speaker 4: not done me a kindness, ma'am, as I know and feel.
• 5:18:37
  Speaker 4: But they are not a dozen men among them, ma'm
• 5:18:39
  Speaker 4: a dozen, not six. But what believes is he has
• 5:18:43
  Speaker 4: done his duty by the rest and by himself. God
• 5:18:47
  Speaker 4: forbid is I that he had known and had experience
• 5:18:51
  Speaker 4: all these men all my life. Ay that Hayatan a
• 5:18:55
  Speaker 4: drunken wiem and sitting wim and toil and wiim, and
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  Speaker 4: love him and should fail for to stand by him
• 5:19:03
  Speaker 4: with the truth. Let him have done to me what
• 5:19:06
  Speaker 4: they may. He spoke with the rugged, earnestness of his
• 5:19:11
  Speaker 4: place and character, deepened perhaps by a proud consciousness, that
• 5:19:17
  Speaker 4: he was faithful to his class under all their mistrust.
• 5:19:20
  Speaker 4: But he fully remembered where he was and did not
• 5:19:24
  Speaker 4: even raise his voice. No, ma'am, No, they're true to
• 5:19:29
  Speaker 4: one another, faithful to one another, affectionate to one another
• 5:19:34
  Speaker 4: into death. Be poor among them, be sick among them,
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  Speaker 4: grief among them, for only oh the money causes that
• 5:19:42
  Speaker 4: carries grief to a poor man's door. And they'll be
• 5:19:46
  Speaker 4: tender with you, gentle, Will you comfortable with you, Christian.
• 5:19:50
  Speaker 4: Will you be sure of that, ma'am? They'd be riven
• 5:19:55
  Speaker 4: to bits erever, they'd be different. In short, Bounderby, it's
• 5:20:01
  Speaker 4: because they are so full of virtues that they have
• 5:20:05
  Speaker 4: turned you adrift. Go through with it, well, you are
• 5:20:09
  Speaker 4: about it. Out with it? How tis, ma'am, resumed Stephen,
• 5:20:14
  Speaker 4: appearing still to find his natural refuge in Louise's face.
• 5:20:19
  Speaker 4: That what is best in us folk seems to turn
• 5:20:23
  Speaker 4: us most to trouble. I'm misfortune and mistake. I don't know,
• 5:20:28
  Speaker 4: but tis so I know tis, and I know as
• 5:20:32
  Speaker 4: I know. The heavens is over me. I hint the
• 5:20:34
  Speaker 4: smoke we're patient too, and wants in general to do right.
• 5:20:40
  Speaker 4: And I cannot think the fault is alway us now,
• 5:20:44
  Speaker 4: my friends, said Bounderby, whom he could not have exasperated more,
• 5:20:49
  Speaker 4: quite unconscious of it, though he was, than by, seeming
• 5:20:53
  Speaker 4: to appeal to anyone else