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  Speaker 1: George Meredith, Chapter three The interior of mister Redworth and
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  Speaker 1: the exterior of mister Sullivan Smith. It may be as
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  Speaker 1: well to take mister Redworth's arm. You will escape the
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  Speaker 1: crush for you, said Lady Dunstain to Diana. I don't sup, yes,
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  Speaker 1: go you must eat, and he is handiest to conduct you.
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  Speaker 1: Diana thought of her chaperone, and the lateness of the hour.
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  Speaker 1: She murmured to soften her conscience. Poor missus pettigrew, and
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  Speaker 1: once more mister Redworth, outwardly imperturbable, was in the maelstrom
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  Speaker 1: of a happiness resembling tempest. He talked and knew not
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  Speaker 1: what he uttered to give this matchless girl. The best
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  Speaker 1: to eat and drink was his busy, and he performed
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  Speaker 1: it oddly for a man who had no loaded design
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  Speaker 1: marshaling the troops. In his active and capacious cranium, he
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  Speaker 1: fell upon calculations of his income, present and perspective. While
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  Speaker 1: she sat at the table and he stood behind her,
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  Speaker 1: others were wrangling for places, chairs, plates, glasses, game, pie, champagne.
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  Speaker 1: She had them. The lady under his charge, to a certainty,
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  Speaker 1: would have them so far good, and he had seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred pounds per annum seven hundred and fifty in a
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  Speaker 1: favorable aspect at a stretch. Yes, the pleasantest thing to
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  Speaker 1: me after working all day is an opera of carinis,
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  Speaker 1: she said, in full accord with her taste, and teleio
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  Speaker 1: for tenor. Certainly a fair enough sum for a bachelor
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  Speaker 1: four hundred personal income, and a prospect of hired dividends
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  Speaker 1: to increase it three hundred odd from his office, and
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  Speaker 1: no immediate prospects of an increase there. No one died there,
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  Speaker 1: no elderly martyr, for the advancement of his juniors could
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  Speaker 1: be persuaded to die. They were too tough to think
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  Speaker 1: of retiring day seven hundred and fifty, eight hundred. If
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  Speaker 1: the commerce of the country fortified the bank his property
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  Speaker 1: was embarked in or eight fifty or nine ten, I
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  Speaker 1: could call him my poet. Also, mister Redworth agreed with
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  Speaker 1: her taste in poets. His letters are among the best
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  Speaker 1: ever written or ever published. The raciest English I know,
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  Speaker 1: frank straight out capital descriptions. The best English letter writers
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  Speaker 1: are as good as the French. You don't think so
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  Speaker 1: in their way, of course, I dare say we don't
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  Speaker 1: sufficiently cultivate the art. We require the supple tongue. A
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  Speaker 1: closer intercourse of society gives eight or ten hundred comfortable
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  Speaker 1: enough for man in chambers to dream of entering as
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  Speaker 1: a householder on that sum in these days would be
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  Speaker 1: stark nonsense. And a man too removes from a baronetcy
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  Speaker 1: has no right to set his reckoning on debts. If
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  Speaker 1: he does, he becomes a sort of meditative assassin. But
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  Speaker 1: what were the fates about when they planted a man
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  Speaker 1: of the ability of Tom Redworth in a government office.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly they intended him to remain a bachelor for life,
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  Speaker 1: and they send him over to Ireland on inspection duty
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  Speaker 1: for a month to have sight of an Irish beauty.
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  Speaker 1: Think war the finest subject for poets? He exclaimed flatly, No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it. I think exactly the reverse. It
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  Speaker 1: brings out the noblest traits in human character. I won't
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  Speaker 1: own that even it brings out some, but under excitement
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  Speaker 1: when you have not always the real man, pray, don't
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  Speaker 1: sneer at domestic life. Well, there was a suspicion of disdain. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I can respect the hero military or civil with its distinction.
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  Speaker 1: That the military hero aims at personal reward. He braves
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  Speaker 1: wounds and death, interposed Diana, whereas the civilian hero. Pardon me,
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  Speaker 1: let me deny that the soldier hero aims at a
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  Speaker 1: personal reward. She again interposed, He gets it if he
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  Speaker 1: is not beaten, and then he is no longer a hero.
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  Speaker 1: He is to me. She had a woman's invenerate admiration
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  Speaker 1: of the profession of aims. Mister Redworth endeavored to render
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  Speaker 1: practicable and opening in her mind to reason. He admitted
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  Speaker 1: the grandeur of the poetry of Homer. We were a
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  Speaker 1: few centuries in advance of Homer. We do not slay
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  Speaker 1: damsels for a sacrifice to propitiate celestial wrath, nor do
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  Speaker 1: we revel in details of slaughter, he reasoned with her.
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  Speaker 1: He repeated stories known to him of civilian heroes and
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  Speaker 1: won her assent to the heroical title for their deeds.
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  Speaker 1: But it was languid, or not so bright as the
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  Speaker 1: deeds deserved, or as the young lady could look. And
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  Speaker 1: he insisted on the civilian hero, impelled by some unconscious motive,
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  Speaker 1: to make her see the thing he thought also the
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  Speaker 1: thing he was, his plain mind and matter of fact nature.
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  Speaker 1: Possibly she caught a glimpse of that after a turn
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  Speaker 1: of fencing in which he was impressed by the vibration
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  Speaker 1: of her tones. When speaking of military heroes. She quitted
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  Speaker 1: the table, saying, an argument between one at supper and
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  Speaker 1: another handing plates is rather unequal if eloquence is needed.
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  Speaker 1: As pat said to the constable when his hands were tied,
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  Speaker 1: you beat me with the fists, but my spirit is
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  Speaker 1: towering and kicks freely. Eight hundred a thousand a year.
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  Speaker 1: Two thousand are as nothing in the calculation of a
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  Speaker 1: householder who means that the mistress of the house shall
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  Speaker 1: have the choicest of the fruits and flowers of the
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  Speaker 1: four quarters. And Thomas Redworth had vowed at his first
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  Speaker 1: outlook on the world of women, that never should one
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  Speaker 1: of the sisterhood coming under his charge complain of not
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  Speaker 1: having them in profusion. Consequently, he was a settled bachelor
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  Speaker 1: in the character of disengaged and unaspiring philosophical bachelor. He
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  Speaker 1: reviewed the revelations of her character betrayed by the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: virgin devoted to the sanguine coat. The thrill of her
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  Speaker 1: voice in speaking of soldier heroes shot him to the
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  Speaker 1: yonder side of a gulf, not knowing why, for he
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  Speaker 1: had no scheme, desperate or other in his head. The
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  Speaker 1: least a frightened of men, was frightened by her tastes,
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  Speaker 1: and by her a plumb her inoffensiveness and freedom of
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  Speaker 1: manner and self sufficiency sign of purest breeding, and by
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  Speaker 1: her easy, peerless vivacity, her proofs of descent from the
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  Speaker 1: blood of dan Marian, a wildish blood. The candor of
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  Speaker 1: the look of her eyes in speaking, her power of
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  Speaker 1: looking forthright at men and looking the thing she spoke,
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  Speaker 1: and the play of her voluble lips, the significant repose
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  Speaker 1: of her lips in silence, her weighing of the words
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  Speaker 1: he uttered for a moment before the prompt opposite reply
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  Speaker 1: down to her simple quotation of pat alarmed him. He
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  Speaker 1: did not ask himself why his manly self was not
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  Speaker 1: intruded on his cogitations. A mere eight hundred or thousand
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  Speaker 1: per annum had no place in that midst he beheld
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  Speaker 1: her quietly selecting the position of dignity to suit her.
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  Speaker 1: An eminent military man, or statesman, or wealthy nobleman she
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  Speaker 1: had but to choose. A war would offer her the
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  Speaker 1: decorated soldier she wanted a war. Such are women of
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  Speaker 1: this kind? The thought revolted him and pricked his appetite
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  Speaker 1: for supper. He did service by missus Pettigrew, to which lady,
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  Speaker 1: miss Marian, as she said, promoted him at the table,
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  Speaker 1: and then began to refresh in person. Standing Malkin, that's
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  Speaker 1: the fellow's name, he heard close at his ear, Mister
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan Smith had drained a champagne glass bottle in hand
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  Speaker 1: and was priming the successor to it. He cocked his
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  Speaker 1: eye at mister Redworth's quick stare Malkin, and now we'll
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  Speaker 1: see whether the interior of him is gray or black,
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  Speaker 1: or tabby or tortoise shell, or any other color of
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  Speaker 1: the Malkin breed. He explained to mister Redworth that he
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  Speaker 1: had summoned mister Malkinn to answer to him as a
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  Speaker 1: gentleman for calling Miss Marian a jilt. The man, sir said,
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  Speaker 1: in my hearing she jilted him. And that's to call
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  Speaker 1: the lady a jilt. There's not a point of difference,
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  Speaker 1: not a shade. I overheard him. I happened, by the
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  Speaker 1: blessing of providence to be near when he named her
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  Speaker 1: publicly jilt. And it's enough that she's a lady to
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  Speaker 1: have me for her champion, the same if she had
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  Speaker 1: been an Esquimau squaw. I'll never live to hear a
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  Speaker 1: lady insulted. You don't mean to say you're the donkey
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  Speaker 1: to provoke a duel. Mister Redworth burst out gruffly through
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  Speaker 1: turkey and stuffing, and an Irish lady, the young beauty
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  Speaker 1: of Aaron mister Sullivan, was flowing on. He became frigid.
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  Speaker 1: He politely bowed to sir, if you haven't the grace
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  Speaker 1: to withdraw the offensive, turn before it cools and can't
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  Speaker 1: be obliteration, fiddle and go to the deuce. Mister Redworth cried,
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  Speaker 1: what a soft slap of the cheek persuade you, sir,
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  Speaker 1: Try it outside and don't bother me with the nonsense
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  Speaker 1: of that sort at my supper. If I'm struck, I
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  Speaker 1: strike back. I keep my pistols for bandits and law breakers. Here,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Redworth, better inspired as to the way of
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  Speaker 1: treating an ultra of this isle, touch glasses. You're a
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  Speaker 1: gentleman and won't disturb good company. By and by the
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  Speaker 1: pleasing prospect of by and by renewed in mister sullivan
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  Speaker 1: Smith his composure. They touched the foaming glasses, upon which,
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  Speaker 1: in a friendly manner, mister Sullivan Smith proposed they should
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  Speaker 1: go outside as soon as mister Redworth had finished supper,
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  Speaker 1: quite finished supper. For the reason that the term donkey
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  Speaker 1: affixed to him was like a minister cap of school
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  Speaker 1: days ringing bells on his top knot, and also that
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  Speaker 1: it's stuck in his gizzard, mister Redworth declared the term
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  Speaker 1: to be simply hypothetical. If you fight, you're a donkey
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  Speaker 1: for doing it. But you won't fight, but I will fight.
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  Speaker 1: He won't fight, then, for the honor of your country,
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  Speaker 1: you must. But I'd rather have him first, And I
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  Speaker 1: haven't drunk with him. And it should be a case
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  Speaker 1: of necessity to put a bullet or a couple inches
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  Speaker 1: of steel through the man you've drunk with. And what's
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  Speaker 1: in your favor? She danced with ye she seemed to
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  Speaker 1: take to ye. And the man she has the smallest
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  Speaker 1: sugar melting for is sacred. If he's not sweet to me.
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  Speaker 1: If he retracts hypothetically no, but supposititiously certainly, then we
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  Speaker 1: grasp hands on it. It's malkin or nothing, said mister
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan Smith, swinging his heel moodily to wander in search
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  Speaker 1: of the foe. How one sane man could name another
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  Speaker 1: a donkey for fighting to clear an innocent young lady's
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  Speaker 1: reputation passed his rational conception. Sir Lucan hastened to mister
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  Speaker 1: Redworth to have a talk over old school days and fellows.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, said the civilian. There are irishmen
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  Speaker 1: and irishmen. I've met cool heads and long heads among them,
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  Speaker 1: and you and I knew Jack Dairy, who was good
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  Speaker 1: at most things. But the burlesque irishman can't be caricatured.
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  Speaker 1: Nature strained herself in a fit of absurdity to produce him,
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  Speaker 1: and all that art can do is to copy. This
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  Speaker 1: was his prelude to an account of mister Sullivan Smith, whom,
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  Speaker 1: as a specimen he rejoiced to have met. There's a
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  Speaker 1: chance of mischief, said Sir Lucan, I know nothing of
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  Speaker 1: the man he calls Malkin. I'll inquire presently. He talked
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  Speaker 1: of his prospects and of the women, fair ones in
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  Speaker 1: his opinion, beside Miss Marian were parading. He sketched two
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  Speaker 1: or three of his partners with a broad brush of epithets.
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  Speaker 1: It won't do for Miss Marian's name to be mixed
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  Speaker 1: up in a duel, said Redworth. None if she's to
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  Speaker 1: make her fortune in England, said Sir Lucan, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: all smoke. The remark had hardly escaped him when a
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  Speaker 1: wreath of metaphorical smoke and fire and no mean report
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  Speaker 1: startled the company of supping gentlemen. At the pitch of
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  Speaker 1: his voice, mister Sullivan Smith denounced mister Malkin in presence
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  Speaker 1: for a cur masquerading as a cat. And that is
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  Speaker 1: not the scoundrel's prime offense. For what ye think? He
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  Speaker 1: trumps up an engagement to dance with a beautiful lady,
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  Speaker 1: and because she can't remember, binds her to an oath
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  Speaker 1: for a dance to come, and then holding her prisoner
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  Speaker 1: to the m he sulks. The dirty dog cat goes
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  Speaker 1: and sulks, and he won't dance and won't do anything
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  Speaker 1: but screech up in corners that he jilted. He said
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  Speaker 1: the word. Dozens of gentlemen heard the word. And I
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  Speaker 1: demand an apology of mister malklinn or and none of
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  Speaker 1: your guerriere nodding and bravada, mister Malkln at me, if
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  Speaker 1: you please. The case is for settlement between gentlemen. The
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  Speaker 1: a rassed gentleman of the name of Malklin, driven to
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  Speaker 1: extremity by the worrying, stood embraced preparation for the English
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  Speaker 1: attitude of defense. His tormentor drew closer to him. Mind,
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  Speaker 1: I give you warning. If you lay a finger on me,
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  Speaker 1: I'll knock you down, said he most joyfully. Mister Sullivan
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  Speaker 1: Smith uttered a low, melodious cry for a specimen of
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  Speaker 1: manners and an assembly of ladies and gentlemen. I ask ye.
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  Speaker 1: He addressed the ring about him, to put his adversary
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  Speaker 1: entirely in the wrong before provoking the act of war,
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  Speaker 1: and then, as one intending greatly to remonstrate, he was
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  Speaker 1: on the point of stretching out his finger to the
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  Speaker 1: shoulder of mister Malkin, when Redworth seized his arm, saying
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  Speaker 1: I'm your man. Me first, you're due to me. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan Smith beheld the vanishing of his foe in a
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  Speaker 1: cloud of faces. Now he was wroth on patently reasonable grounds.
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  Speaker 1: He threatened saxondom man up, man down. He challenged the
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  Speaker 1: race of short legged, thick set wooden, gaited curmudgeons, and
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  Speaker 1: let it be pugilism of their white livers. Shivered at
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  Speaker 1: the notion of powder and ball. Redworth, and the struggle
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  Speaker 1: to haul him away, received a blow from him. And
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  Speaker 1: you've got it. You would have it, roared the celt
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  Speaker 1: Excuse yourself to the company for a misdirected effort, Redworth said,
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  Speaker 1: And he observed generally no Irish gentleman strikes a blowing
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  Speaker 1: good company. But that's true as writ and I offer
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  Speaker 1: excuses if you'll come along with me and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of friends. The thing has been done before by torchlight
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  Speaker 1: and neatly. Come along and come alone, said Redworth. A
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  Speaker 1: way was cleared for them. Sir Lucan hurried up to Redworth,
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  Speaker 1: who had no doubt of his ability to manage mister
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan Smith. He managed that fine hearted but purely sensational fellow,
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  Speaker 1: so well that Lady Dunstain and Diana, after hearing in
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  Speaker 1: some anxiety of the hubbub below, beheld them entering the
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  Speaker 1: long saloon amicably with the nods and looks of gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: quietly accordant. A little time later Lady Dunstain questioned Redworth,
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  Speaker 1: and he smoothed her apprehension, delivering himself much to her comfort. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: in no case would any lady's name have been raised.
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  Speaker 1: The whole affair was nonsensical. He's a capital fellow of
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  Speaker 1: a kind, capable of behaving like a man of the world,
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  Speaker 1: and a gentleman. Only he has, or thinks he has,
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  Speaker 1: like lots of his countrymen, a raw wound, something that
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  Speaker 1: itches to be graced Champagne on that. Irishmen, as far
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  Speaker 1: as I have seen of them, are like horses bundles
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  Speaker 1: of nerves, and you must manage them as you do
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  Speaker 1: with all nervous creatures, with firmness but good temper. You
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  Speaker 1: must never get into a fury of the nerves yourself
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  Speaker 1: with them, spur and whip they don't want. They'll be
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  Speaker 1: off with you in a jiffy if you try it.
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  Speaker 1: They want the bridle rein. That seems to me the
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  Speaker 1: secret of Irish character. We English are not bad horsemen.
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  Speaker 1: It's a wonder we blunder so in our management of
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  Speaker 1: such a people. I wish you were in a position
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  Speaker 1: to put your method to the proof, said she. He shrugged.
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  Speaker 1: There's little chance of it to reward him for his
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  Speaker 1: practical discretion. She can try that Diana should give him
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  Speaker 1: a final dance. And the beautiful Gill smiled quickly responsive
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  Speaker 1: to his appeal. He was moreover sensible in her look
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  Speaker 1: and speech that he had advanced in her consideration to
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  Speaker 1: be no longer the mere spinning stick a young lady's partner,
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  Speaker 1: by which he humbly understood that her friend approved him.
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  Speaker 1: A gentle delirium enfolded his brain. A householder's life is
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  Speaker 1: often begun on eight hundred a year, unless on much less,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes on nothing but resolution to make a fitting income
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  Speaker 1: carving out a fortune. Eight hundred may stand as a
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  Speaker 1: superior basis. The sum is a distinct point of vantage.
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  Speaker 1: If it does not mean a carriage in Parisian millinery
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  Speaker 1: and a station for one of the stars of society.
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  Speaker 1: It means, at any rate security, and then the heart
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  Speaker 1: of the man being strong and sound. Yes, he replied
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  Speaker 1: to her. I like my experience of Ireland and the Irish,
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  Speaker 1: and better than I thought I should. Saint George's channel
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  Speaker 1: ought to be crossed oftener by both of us. I'm
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  Speaker 1: always glad of the signal, said Diana. He had implied
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  Speaker 1: the people of the two islands. He allowed her interpretation
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  Speaker 1: to remain personal, for the sake of creeping deliciousness that
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  Speaker 1: it carried through his blood. Shall you soon be returning
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  Speaker 1: to England, he ventured to ask, I am Lady Dunstain's
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  Speaker 1: guest for some months, then you will. Sir Lucan has
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  Speaker 1: an estate in Surrey. He talks of quitting the service.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it. His thrilled blood was chilled. She
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  Speaker 1: entertained a sentiment amounting to adoration for the profession of arms.
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  Speaker 1: Gallantly had the veteran general and hero held on into
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  Speaker 1: the night, that the festivity might not be dashed by
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  Speaker 1: his departure, perhaps to a certain degree, to prolong his
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment of a flattering scene. At last, Sir Lucan had
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  Speaker 1: the word from him and came to his wife. Diana
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  Speaker 1: slipped across the floor to her accommodating chaperone, whom, for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of another five minutes with her beloved Emma,
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  Speaker 1: she very agreeable, persuaded to walk in the train of
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  Speaker 1: Lord Larian, and forth they trooped down a pathway of
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  Speaker 1: nodding heads and curtsies resembling oak and birch trees, under
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  Speaker 1: a tempered gale, even to the shedding of leaves. For
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  Speaker 1: here a turban was picked up by Sir Lucan. There
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  Speaker 1: a jeweled ear ring by the self constituted attendant to
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  Speaker 1: mister Thomas Redworth. At the portico rang awakening cheer really
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  Speaker 1: worth hearing. The rain it rained, and hats were formless,
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  Speaker 1: as in the first conception of the edifice. Backs were damp,
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  Speaker 1: boots liquidly musical. The pipe of consolation smoked with difficulty,
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  Speaker 1: with much pulling at the stem, but the cheer arose
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  Speaker 1: magnificently and multiplied itself, touching at the same moment the
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  Speaker 1: heavens and Diana's heart, at least drawing them together. For
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  Speaker 1: she felt exalted, enraptured, as proud of her countrymen as
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  Speaker 1: of their hero. That's the natural shamrock. After the artificial
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  Speaker 1: she heard mister Redworth say behind her, she turned and
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  Speaker 1: sent one of her brilliant glances, lying over him in
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  Speaker 1: gratitude for a timely word well said. And she never
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  Speaker 1: forgot the remark, nor he the look. End of chapter three.