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Our Mutual Friend Part 4 - Charles Dickens · Charles Dickens Audiobooks

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  Speaker 1: To do so, I promise I can bring myself to
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  Speaker 1: promise nothing more to night, Lizzie, except that I will
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  Speaker 1: try what I can do. There is but one means,
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  Speaker 1: mister Raeburn, of sparing yourself and of sparing me every way,
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  Speaker 1: leave this neighborhood to morrow morning. I will try. As
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  Speaker 1: he spoke the words in a grave voice, she put
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  Speaker 1: her hand in his, removed it, and went away by
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  Speaker 1: the river side. Now cold, Mortimer believe this, murmured Eugene,
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  Speaker 1: still remaining after a while where she had left him.
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  Speaker 1: Can I even believe it myself? He referred to the
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  Speaker 1: circumstance that there were tears upon his hand as he
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  Speaker 1: stood covering his eyes. A most ridiculous position, this to
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  Speaker 1: be found out in was his next thought, and as
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  Speaker 1: next struck its route in a little rising resentment against
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  Speaker 1: the cause of the tears. Yet I have gained a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful power over her too. Let her be as much
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  Speaker 1: in earnest as she will. The reflection brought back the
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  Speaker 1: yielding of her face and form as she had drooped
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  Speaker 1: under his gaze contemplating the reproduction he seemed to see
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  Speaker 1: for the second time in the appeal, and in the
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  Speaker 1: confession of weakness, a little fear, and she loves me,
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  Speaker 1: and so earnest. A character must be very earnest in
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  Speaker 1: that passion. She cannot choose for herself to be strong
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  Speaker 1: in this fancy, wavering in that, and weak in the other.
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  Speaker 1: She must go through with her nature as I must
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  Speaker 1: go through with mine. If mine exacts its pains and
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  Speaker 1: penalties all round, so must hers. I suppose, pursuing the
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  Speaker 1: inquiry into his own nature, he thought, now if I
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  Speaker 1: married her, if outfacing the absurdity of the situation and
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  Speaker 1: correspondence of m r F, I astonished m r F
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  Speaker 1: to the utmost extent of his respected powers by informing
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  Speaker 1: him that I had married her. How would m r
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  Speaker 1: F reason with the legal mind, you wouldn't marry for
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  Speaker 1: some money and some station because you were frightfully likely
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  Speaker 1: to become bored. Are you less frightfully likely to become
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  Speaker 1: bored marrying for no money and no station? Are you
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  Speaker 1: sure of yourself? Legal mind, in spite of forensic protestations,
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  Speaker 1: must secretly admit good reasoning on the part of m
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  Speaker 1: r F. Not sure of myself. In the very act
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  Speaker 1: of calling this tone of levity to his aid, he
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  Speaker 1: felt it to be profligate and worthless, and asserted her
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  Speaker 1: against it, And yet, said Eugene, I should like to
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  Speaker 1: see the fellow Mortimer accepted, who would undertake to tell
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  Speaker 1: me that this was not a real sentiment on my part,
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  Speaker 1: one out of me by her mule and her worth
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  Speaker 1: in spite of myself, and that I would not be
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  Speaker 1: true to her. I should particularly like to see the
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  Speaker 1: fellow tonight who would tell me so, oh, would tell
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  Speaker 1: me anything that could be constued to her disadvantage. For
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearily out of sorts with one Rayburn, who cuts
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  Speaker 1: a sorry figure, and I would far rather be out
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  Speaker 1: of sorts with somebody else, Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is
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  Speaker 1: a bad business. Ah, So go the Mortimer lightwood bells,
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  Speaker 1: and they sound melancholy tonight. Strolling on, he thought of
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  Speaker 1: something else to take himself to task. For where is
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  Speaker 1: the analogy, brute beast, he said impatiently, Matewin a woman
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  Speaker 1: whom your father coolly finds out for you, and a
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  Speaker 1: woman whom you have found out for yourself, and have
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  Speaker 1: ever drifted after with more and more of constancy since
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  Speaker 1: you first set eyes upon her s? Can you reason
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  Speaker 1: no better than that. But again he subsided into a
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  Speaker 1: reminiscence of his first full knowledge of his power just now,
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  Speaker 1: and of her disclosure of her heart. To try no more,
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  Speaker 1: to go away, and to try her again was the
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  Speaker 1: reckless conclusion. It turned uppermost, and yet again Eugene, Eugene, Eugene,
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  Speaker 1: this is bad business. And I wish I could stop
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  Speaker 1: the light wood peel, for it sounds like a knell.
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  Speaker 1: Looking above, he found that the young moon was up,
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  Speaker 1: and that the stars were beginning to shine in the sky,
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  Speaker 1: from which the tones of red and yellow were flickering
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  Speaker 1: out in favor of the calm blue of a summer night.
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  Speaker 1: He was still by the river side, turning suddenly he
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  Speaker 1: met a man so close upon him. At eugene surprise,
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  Speaker 1: stepped back to avoid a collision. The man carried something
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  Speaker 1: over his shoulder, which might have been a broken oar
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  Speaker 1: or spa or bar, and took no notice of him,
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  Speaker 1: but passed on. Hallo friend, said Eugene, calling after him,
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  Speaker 1: are you blind? The man made no reply but went
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  Speaker 1: his way. Eugene Rayburn went the opposite way, with his
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  Speaker 1: hands behind him and his purpose in his thoughts. He
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  Speaker 1: passed the sheep and passed the gate and came within
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  Speaker 1: hearing of the village sounds, and came to the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: The inn where he stayed, like the village and the mill,
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  Speaker 1: was not across the river, but on that side of
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  Speaker 1: the stream on which he walked. However, knowing the rushy
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  Speaker 1: bank and the backwater on the other side to be
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  Speaker 1: a retired place, and feeling out of humor for noise
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  Speaker 1: or company, he crossed the bridge and sauntered on, looking
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  Speaker 1: up at the stars as they seemed one by one
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  Speaker 1: to be kindled in the sky, and looking down at
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  Speaker 1: the river as the same stars seemed to be kindled.
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  Speaker 1: Deep in the water. A landing place, overshadowed by a willow,
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  Speaker 1: and a pleasure boat lying moored there among some stakes,
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  Speaker 1: caught his eye as he passed along. The spot was
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  Speaker 1: in such dark shadow that he paused to make out
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  Speaker 1: what was there, and then passed on again. The rippling
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  Speaker 1: of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in
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  Speaker 1: his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them to sleep
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  Speaker 1: if he could, but they were in movement like the stream,
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  Speaker 1: and all tending one way with a strong current. As
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  Speaker 1: the ripple under the moon broke unexpectedly now and then
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  Speaker 1: and palely flashed in a new shape and with a
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  Speaker 1: new sound. So parts of his thoughts started unbidden from
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  Speaker 1: the rest and revealed their wickedness. Out of the question
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  Speaker 1: to marry her, said Eugene, and out of the question
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  Speaker 1: to leave her, Oh the crisis. He had sauntered far
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  Speaker 1: enough before turning to retrace his steps. He stopped upon
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  Speaker 1: the margin to look down at the reflected night. In
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  Speaker 1: an instant, with a dreadful crest, the reflected night turned crooked,
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  Speaker 1: flames shot jaggedly across the air, and the moon and
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  Speaker 1: stars came bursting from the sky. Was he struck by lightning?
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  Speaker 1: With some incoherent, half formed thought that effect, he turned
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  Speaker 1: under the blows that were blinding him and mashing his life,
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  Speaker 1: and closed with a murderer, whom he caught by a
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  Speaker 1: red neckerchief. Unless the raining down of his own blood
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  Speaker 1: gave it that hue. Eugene was light, active and expert,
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  Speaker 1: but his arms were broken, or he was paralyzed, and
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  Speaker 1: could do no more than hang on to the man
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  Speaker 1: with his head swung back so that he could see
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  Speaker 1: nothing but the heaving sky. After dragging at the assailant
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  Speaker 1: he fell on the bank with him, and then there
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  Speaker 1: was another great crash, and then a splash, and all
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  Speaker 1: was done. Lizzie Hexam, too had avoided the noise and
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  Speaker 1: the Saturday movement of people in the straggling street, and
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  Speaker 1: chose to walk alone by the water until her tears
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  Speaker 1: should be dry, and she could so compose herself as
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  Speaker 1: to escape remark upon her looking ill or unhappy on
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  Speaker 1: going home. The peaceful serenity of the hour and place,
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  Speaker 1: having no reproaches or evil intentions within her breast to
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  Speaker 1: contend against, sank healingly into its depths. She had meditated
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  Speaker 1: and taken comfort. She too, was turning homeward when she
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  Speaker 1: heard a strange sound. It startled her, for it was
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  Speaker 1: like a sound of blows. She stood still and listened.
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  Speaker 1: It sickened her, for blows fell heavily and cruelly on
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  Speaker 1: the quiet of the night. As she listened, undecided, all
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  Speaker 1: was silent. As she yet listened, she heard a faint
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  Speaker 1: groan and a fall into the river. Her old bold
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  Speaker 1: life and habit instantly inspired her, without vain waste of breath,
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  Speaker 1: and crying for help where there were none to hear,
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  Speaker 1: she ran towards the spot from which the sounds had come.
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  Speaker 1: It lay between her and the bridge, but it was
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  Speaker 1: more removed from her than she had thought, the night,
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  Speaker 1: being so very quiet and sound. Traveling far with the
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  Speaker 1: help of water, at length she reached a part of
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  Speaker 1: the green bank, much and newly trodden, where there lay
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  Speaker 1: some broken, splinted pieces of wood and some torn fragments
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  Speaker 1: of clothes. Stooping, she saw that the grass was bloody.
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  Speaker 1: Following the drops and smears, she saw that the watery
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  Speaker 1: margin of the bank was bloody. Following the current with
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  Speaker 1: her eyes she saw a bloody face turned up towards
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  Speaker 1: the moon and drifting away. Now, Merciful Heaven be thanked
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  Speaker 1: for that old time, and grant o blessed Lord, that
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  Speaker 1: through thy wonderful workings it may turn to good at last.
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  Speaker 1: To whomsoever the drifting face belongs, be it man's or woman's.
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  Speaker 1: Helped my humble hands, Lord God, to raise it from
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  Speaker 1: death and restore it to some one to whom it
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  Speaker 1: must be dear. It was thought, fervently thought, but not
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  Speaker 1: for a moment did the prayer check her. She was
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  Speaker 1: away before it welled up in her mind. Away swift
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  Speaker 1: and true, yet steady above all, for without steadiness it
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  Speaker 1: could never be done till the landing place under the
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  Speaker 1: willow tree, where she also had seen the boat lying
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  Speaker 1: moored among the stakes. A sure touch of her old
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  Speaker 1: practiced hand, a sure step of her old practiced foot,
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  Speaker 1: a sure light balance of her body, and she was
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  Speaker 1: in the boat. A quick glance of her practiced eye
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  Speaker 1: showed her, even through the deep dark shadow, the skulls
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  Speaker 1: in a rack against the red brick garden wall. Another
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  Speaker 1: moment and she had cast off, taking the line with her,
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  Speaker 1: and the boat had shot out into the moonlight, and
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  Speaker 1: she was rowing down the stream as never other woman
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  Speaker 1: rowed on English water intently over her shoulder, without slackening speed,
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  Speaker 1: she looked ahead for the driving face. She passed the
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  Speaker 1: scene of the struggle yonder. It was on her left,
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  Speaker 1: well over the boat's stern. She passed on her right
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  Speaker 1: the end of the village street, a hilly street that
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  Speaker 1: almost dipped into the river. Its sounds were growing faint again,
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  Speaker 1: and she slackened, looking as the boat drove everywhere everywhere
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  Speaker 1: for the floating face. She merely kept the boat before
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  Speaker 1: the stream now and rested on her oars, knowing well
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  Speaker 1: that if the face were not soon visible, it had
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  Speaker 1: on down and she would overshoot it. An untrained sight
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  Speaker 1: would never have seen by the moonlight what she saw.
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  Speaker 1: At the length of a few strokes astern, she saw
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  Speaker 1: the drowning figure rise to the surface, slightly, struggle, and,
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  Speaker 1: as if by instinct, turned over on its back to float,
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  Speaker 1: just so had she first dimly seen the face, which
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  Speaker 1: she now dimly saw again. Firm of look and firm
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  Speaker 1: of purpose, she intently watched its coming on until it
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  Speaker 1: was very near. Then, with a touch, unshipped her skulls
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  Speaker 1: and crept aft in the boat, between kneeling and crouching.
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  Speaker 1: Once she let the body evade her, not being sure
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  Speaker 1: of her grasp twice and she had seized it by
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  Speaker 1: its bloody hair. It was insensible, if not virtually dead.
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  Speaker 1: It was mutilated and streaked the water all about it
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  Speaker 1: with dark red streaks. As it could not help itself,
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  Speaker 1: it was impossible for her to get it on board.
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  Speaker 1: She bent over the stern to secure it with the line,
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  Speaker 1: and then the river and its shores rang to the
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  Speaker 1: terrible cry. She uttered, but as if possessed by supernatural
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  Speaker 1: spirit and strength, she lashed it safe resumed her seat
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  Speaker 1: and rowed in desperately for the nearest shallow water, where
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  Speaker 1: she might run the boat aground, desperately, but not wildly,
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  Speaker 1: for she knewsed if she lost distinctness of intention, all
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  Speaker 1: was lost and gone. She ran the boat ashore, went
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  Speaker 1: into the water, released him from the line, and by
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  Speaker 1: main strength lifted him in her arms and laid him
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  Speaker 1: in the bottom of the boat. He had fearful wounds
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  Speaker 1: upon him, and she bound them up with her dress
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  Speaker 1: torn into strips. Else supposing him to be still alive,
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  Speaker 1: she foresaw that he must bleed to death before he
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  Speaker 1: could be landed at his inn, which was the nearest
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  Speaker 1: place for succor. This done very rapidly, she kissed his
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  Speaker 1: disfigured forehead, looked up in anguish to the stars, and
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  Speaker 1: blessed him and forgave him, if she had anything to forgive.
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  Speaker 1: It was only in that instant that she thought of herself,
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  Speaker 1: And then she thought of herself only for him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Merciful Heaven be thanked for that old time, enabling me,
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  Speaker 1: without a wasted moment, to have got the boat afloat again,
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  Speaker 1: and to row back against the stream, and grant o
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  Speaker 1: blessed Lord God, that through poor me he may be
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  Speaker 1: raised from death and preserved to some one else, to
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  Speaker 1: whom he may be dear one day, though never dearer
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  Speaker 1: than to me. She rowed hard, rowed desperately, but never wildly,
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  Speaker 1: and seldom removed her eyes from him. In the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the boat. She had so laid him there as
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  Speaker 1: that she might see his disfigured face. It was so
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  Speaker 1: much disfigured that his mother might have covered it. But
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  Speaker 1: it was above and beyond disfigurement in her eyes. The
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  Speaker 1: boat touched the edge of the patch of inn lawn,
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  Speaker 1: sloping gently to the water. There were lights in the windows,
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  Speaker 1: but there chanced to be no one out of doors.
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  Speaker 1: She made the boat fast, and again, by main strength,
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  Speaker 1: took him up, and never laid him down. Until she
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  Speaker 1: laid him down in the house, surgeons were sent for,
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  Speaker 1: and she sat supporting his head. She had oftentimes heard
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  Speaker 1: in days that were gone how doctors would lift the
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  Speaker 1: hand of an insensible wounded person and would drop it
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  Speaker 1: if the person were dead. She waited for the awful
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  Speaker 1: moment when the doctors might lift his hand, all broken
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  Speaker 1: and bruised, and let it fall. The first of the
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  Speaker 1: surgeons came and asked, before proceeding to his examination, who
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  Speaker 1: brought him in? I brought him in, sir, answered Lizzie,
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  Speaker 1: at whom all present looked you, My dear, you could
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  Speaker 1: not lift far less carriers weight. I think I could
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  Speaker 1: not at another time, sir, But I am sure I did.
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  Speaker 1: The surgeon looked at her with great attention and with
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  Speaker 1: some compassion, having with the grave face, touched the wounds
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  Speaker 1: upon the head and the broken arms. He took the hand.
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  Speaker 1: Oh would he let it drop? He appeared irresolute. He
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  Speaker 1: did not retain it, but laid it to down, took
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  Speaker 1: a candle, looked more closely at the injuries on the
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  Speaker 1: head and at the pupils of the eyes. That done,
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  Speaker 1: he replaced the candle and took the hand again. Another
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  Speaker 1: surgeon then coming in. The two exchanged a whisper, and
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  Speaker 1: the second took the hand. Neither did he let it
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  Speaker 1: fall at once, but kept it for a while and
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  Speaker 1: laid it gently down. Attend to the poor girl, said
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  Speaker 1: the first surgeon. Then she is quite unconscious. She sees
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  Speaker 1: nothing and hears nothing. All the better for her. Don't
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  Speaker 1: rouse her if you can help it, Only move her.
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  Speaker 1: Poor girl, poor girl. She must be amazingly strong of heart,
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  Speaker 1: but it is much to be feared that she has
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  Speaker 1: set her heart upon the dead. Be gentle with her.
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  Speaker 1: End of Book four, Chapter six, Chapter seven. Better to
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  Speaker 1: be able than Cain. Day was at Plashwater Weir mill lock.
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  Speaker 1: Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in
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  Speaker 1: the east that was not the light of night. The
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  Speaker 1: moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the
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  Speaker 1: banks of the river, seen through which the trees were
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  Speaker 1: the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost
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  Speaker 1: of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the
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  Speaker 1: pale stars, while the cold eastern glare expressionless as to
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  Speaker 1: heat or color. With the eye of the firmament quenched,
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  Speaker 1: might have been likened to the stair of the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps it was so likened by the lonely bargeman standing
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  Speaker 1: on the brink of the lock For certain, badly Headstone
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  Speaker 1: looked that way when a chill air came up, and
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  Speaker 1: when it passed on, murmuring as if it whispered something
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  Speaker 1: that made the phantom trees and water tremble or threaten.
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  Speaker 1: For fancy might have made it either. He turned away
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  Speaker 1: and tried the lock house door it was fastened on
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  Speaker 1: the inside. Measy afraid of me, he muttered, knocking rogue.
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  Speaker 1: Riderhood was soon roused, and soon undrew the bolt and
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  Speaker 1: let him in. Ah, tatheriest, I thought you had been
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  Speaker 1: and got lost two nights away. I almost believed as
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  Speaker 1: you'd give me the slip, And I add, as good
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  Speaker 1: as half a mind for will advertise you in the
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  Speaker 1: newspapers to come forward. Bradley's face turned so dark on
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  Speaker 1: this hint that Riderhood deemed it expedient to soften it
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  Speaker 1: into a compliment. But not you, gavernor not you, he
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  Speaker 1: went on, stolidly, shaking his head. For what did I
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  Speaker 1: say to myself? Or having amused meself with that bay
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  Speaker 1: stretch of a comic idea as as over a playful game,
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  Speaker 1: Why I says to meself he's a man of honor.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I says to meself, he's a man a
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  Speaker 1: double honor. Very remarkably, Riderhood put no question to him.
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  Speaker 1: He had looked at him on opening the door, and
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  Speaker 1: he now looked at him again, stealthily this time, and
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  Speaker 1: the result of his looking was that he asked him,
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  Speaker 1: no question, You'll be for another forty on him Governor,
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  Speaker 1: as our judges, afore you turned your mind a breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: said Riderhood, when his visitor had sat down, resting his
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  Speaker 1: chin on his hand, with his eyes on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and very remarkably again, Riderhood feigned to set the scanty
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  Speaker 1: furniture in order while he spoke to have a sure
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  Speaker 1: reason for not looking at him. Yes, I'd better sleep,
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  Speaker 1: I think, said Bradley, without changing his position. I meself
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  Speaker 1: should recommend it, governor, assented Riderhood. Might you be anyways dry? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I should like a drink, said Bradley, but without appearing
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  Speaker 1: to attend much. Mister Riderhood got out his bottle and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: fetched his jug full of water and administered a potation.
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  Speaker 1: Then he shook the coverlet of his bed and spread
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  Speaker 1: it smooth, and badly stretched himself upon it in the
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  Speaker 1: clothes he wore, mister Riderhood poetically remarking that he would
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  Speaker 1: pick the bones of his knight's rest in his wooden chair,
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  Speaker 1: sat in the window as before, but as before, watched
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  Speaker 1: the sleeper narrowly until he was very sound asleep. Then
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  Speaker 1: he rose and looked at him close in the bright
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  Speaker 1: daylight on every side. With great minuteness, he went out
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  Speaker 1: to his lock to sum up what he had seen.
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  Speaker 1: All his sleeves he's tore right away below the elbow,
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  Speaker 1: and the tathers had a good root at the shoulder.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: He's been hung on too pretty tight for his shirt's
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: all tore out of the neck gatherers. He's been in
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the grass, and he's been in the water, and he spotted.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: And I know with what and with whose? Hurrah? Bradley
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: slept long. Early in the afternoon a barge came down.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Other barges had passed through both ways before it, but
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the lock keeper hailed only this particular barge for news,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: as if he had made a time calculation with some nicety.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: The men on board told him a piece of news,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and there was lingering on their part to enlarge upon it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Twelve hours had intervened since Bradley's lying down. When he
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: got up, No that I swore it, said rider Hood,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: squinting at his lock when he saw badly coming out
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: of the house. As you've been asleep in all the time,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: old boy. Bradley came to him, sitting on his wooden lever,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and asked what o'clock it was. Riderhood told him it
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: was between two and three when are you relieved, asked Bradley.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Day o or to morrow? Governor? Not sooner? Not ain't sooner? Governor.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: On both sides importance seemed attached to this question of relief.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Riderhood quite petted his reply, saying a second time and
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: prolonging a negative roll of his head. N not an
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: inch sooner? Governor. Did I tell you I was going
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: on to night? Asked Bradley. No, Governor, returned Riderhood in
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: a cheerful, affable, and conversational manner. You did not tell
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: me so that most like you meant to it forgot
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to it. How otherwise could a doubt of comingy or
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: read about it? Governor? As the sun goes down? I
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: intend to go on, said Bradley, so much. The more
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: necessary is a peck, returned Riderhood, Come in and have
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it tatherust, the formality of spreading a tablecloth not being
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: observed in mister Riderhood's establishment. The serving of the peck
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: was the affair of a moment merely consisting in the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: handing down of a capacious baking deals with three fourths
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: of an immense meat pie in it, and the production
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of two pocket knives, an earthenware mug, and a large
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: brown bottle of beer both ate and drank. But Riderhood
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: much the more abundantly a lieu of plates. That honest
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: man cut two triangular pieces from the thick crust of
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the pie, and laid them inside uppermost upon the table,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the one before himself and the other before his guest.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Upon these platters he placed two goodly portions of the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: contents of the pie, thus imparting the unusual interest to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the entertainment that each partaker scooped out the inside of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: his plate and consumed it with his other fare, besides
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: having the sport of pursuing the clots of congealed gravy
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: over the plain of the table and successfully taking them
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: into his mouth that lasted from the blade of his
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: knife in case of their not first sliding off it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Bradley Headstone were so remarkably awkward of these exercises that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the rogue observed it. Looking out tatherest he cried, you'll
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: cut your hand, But the caution came too late, for
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Bradley gashed it at the instant, and what was more, unlucky,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: in asking Riderhood to tie it up, and in standing
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: close to him for the purpose, he shook his hand
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: under the smart of the wound, and shook blood over
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Riderhood's dress. When dinner was done, and when what remained
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: with the platters and what remained of the congealed gravy
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: had been put back into what remained of the pie,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: which served as an economical investment for all miscellaneous savings,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Riderhood filled the mug with beer and took a long drink.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And now he did look at Bradley, and with an
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: evil eye, taltherest, he said hoarsely, as he bent across
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the table to touch his arm. Then news has gone
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: down the river. Afore you what news? Who d'ye think?
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Said Riderhood, with a hitch of his head, as if
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: he disdainfully jerked the fainter way picked up the body.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Guess I am not good at guessing anything. She died,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: O raw, you had him there again. She did. The
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: convulsive twitching of Bradley Headstone's face, and the sudden hot
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: humor that broke out upon it showed how grimly the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: intelligence touched him. But he said not a single word,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: good or bad. He only smiled in a lowering manner,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and got up and stood leaning at the window, looking
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: through it. Riderhood followed him with his eyes. Riderhood cast
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: down his eyes on his own besprinkled clothes. Riderhood began
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to have an air of being better at a guess
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: than badly owned to being. I have been so long
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: in want of rest, said the schoolmaster, that with your leave,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: i'll lie down again and welcome taverast was the hospitable
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: answer of his host. He had laid himself down without
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: waiting for it, and he remained upon the bed until
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the sun was low. When he arose and came out
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: to resume his journey, he found his host waiting for
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: him on the grass by the towing path outside the door.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Whenever it may be necessary that you and I should
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: have any further communication together, said Bradley, I will come
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: back good night. Well, since no better can be said Riderhood,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: turning on his heel, good night. But he turned again
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: as the other set forth, and added under his breath,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: looking after him with a leer, you wouldn't be let
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to go lie that. If my relief won't as good
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: as come, I'll catch you up in a mile in
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a word, his real time of relief being that evening
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: at sunset, his mate came lounging in within a quarter
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of an hour, not staying to fill up the utmost
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: margin of his time, but borrowing an hour or so
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to be repaid again when he should relieve his reliever.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Right Hood straightway followed on the track of Bradley Headstone.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: He was a better follower than Bradley. It had been
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the calling of his life to slink and skulk and
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: dog and waylay, and he knew his calling well. He
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: effected such a forced march on leaving the lock house
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that he was close up with him, that is to say,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: as close up with him as he deemed it convenient
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to be before another lock was past. His man looked
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: back pretty often as he went, but got no hint
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: of him. He knew how to take advantage of the ground,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and where to put the hedge between them, and where
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the wall, and when to duck and when to drop,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and had a thousand arts beyond the doomed Bradley's slow conception,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: But all his arts were brought to a standstill, like himself,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: when Bradley, turning into a green lane or riding by
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the river side a solitary spot run wild in nettles,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: briars and brambles, and encumbered with the scathed trunk of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a whole hedgerow of felled trees on the outskirts of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: a little wood, began stepping on these trunks, and dropping
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: down among them, and stepping on them again, apparently as
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a schoolboy might have done, but assuredly, with no schoolboy
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: purpose or want of purpose? What are you up to?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Muttered Riderhood, down in the ditch and holding the hedge
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a little open with both hands, And soon his actions
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: made a most extraordinary reply by George, and the dragon,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: cried Riderhood. If he ain't a gun a bathe he
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: had passed back, armored among the trunks of trees again,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and has passed on to the water side, and had
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: begun undressing on the grass. For a moment. It had
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: a suspicious look of suicide arranged to counterfeit accident. But
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have fetched a bundle and your arm from
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: among that timber if such was your game, said Riderhood. Nevertheless,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: it was a relief to him when the bather, after
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: a plunge and a few strokes, came out for Ah,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: shouldn't he said, in a feeling manner, I've liked to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: lose you till I'd made more money out of you.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Neither prone in another ditch, he had changed his ditch
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: as his man had changed his position, and, holding apart
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: so small a patch of the hedge that the sharpest
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: eyes could not have detected him, rode. Riderhood watched the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: bather dressing, and now gradually came the wonder that he
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: stood up completely clothed another man, and not the bargeman. Ahh,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: said Riderhood, much as you was dressed at night, I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: see you're a take in me with ye. Now you're deep,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: but I knows a deeper. When the bather had finished dressing,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: he kneeled on the grass, doing something with his hands,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and again stood up with its bundle under his arm,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: looking all around him with great attention. He then went
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to the river's edge and flung it in as far
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and yet as lightly as he could. It was not
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: until he was so decidedly upon his way again as
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to be beyond the bend of the river, and for
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the time out of view, that Riderhood scrambled from the ditch.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Now was his debate with himself, shall I follow you on?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Or shall I let you loose? For this wants and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: go a fishing, the debate continuing, he followed as a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: precautionary measure in any case, and got him again in sight.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: If I was to let you loose this wants, said Riderhood,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: then still following, art could make you count to me again,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: or art could find you out in one way or another.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: If I wasn't to go a fishing, others might I'll
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: let you loose this wants and go a fishing. With that,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: he suddenly dropped the pursuit and turned the miserable man,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: whom he had released for the time but not for long,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: went on towards London. Bradley was suspicious of every sound
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: he heard and of every face he saw, but was
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: under a spell which very commonly falls upon the shedder
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: of blood, and had no suspicion of the real danger
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: that lurked in his life, and would have it. Yet
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Riderhood was much in his thoughts. He had never been
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: out of his thoughts since the night adventure of their
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: first meeting. But Riderhood occupied a very different place there
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: from the place of pursuer, and Bradley had been at
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the pains of devising so many means of fitting that
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: place to him, and of wedging him into it that
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: his mind could not compass the possibility of his occupying
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: any other. And this is another spell against which the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: shedder of blood for ever strives in vain. There are
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: fifty doors by which discovery may enter, with infinite pains
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and cunning, he double locks and bars forty nine of them,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and cannot see the fiftieth standing wide open. Now, too,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: was he cursed with a state of mind more wearing
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and more wearisome than remorse. He had no remorse. But
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the evil doer who can hold that avenger at bay
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: cannot escape the slower torture of incessantly doing the evil
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: deed again, and doing it more efficiently. In the defense
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of declarations and pretended confessions of murderers, the pursuing shadow
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: of this torture may be traced through every lie they tell.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: If I had done it as alleged, is it conceivable
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: that I would have made this and this mistake? If
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I had done it as alleged? Should I have left
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that unguarded place which that false and wicked witness against
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: me so infamously deposed to the state of that wretch
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: who continually finds the weak spots in his own crime
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and strives to strengthen them when it is unchangeable. Is
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: a state that aggravates the affair, hence by doing the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: deed a thousand times instead of once. But it is
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a state too that tauntingly visits the offense upon a sullen,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: unrepentant nature with its heaviest punishment. Every time Bradley toiled on,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: chained heavily to the idea of his hatred and his vengeance,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and thinking how he might have satiated both in many
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: better ways than the way he had taken. The instrument
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: might have been better, the spot in the hour might
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: have been better chosen. To batter a man down from
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: behind in the dark, and the brink of a river
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: was well enough. But he ought to have been instantly disabled,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: whereas he had turned and seized his assailant, and so
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to end it before chance help came and to be
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: rid of him. He had been hurriedly thrown backward into
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the river before the life was fully beaten out of him. Now,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: if it could be done again, it must not be
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: so done. Supposing his head had been held down under
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: water for a while, Supposing the first blow had been tower,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Supposing he had been shot. Supposing he had been strangled.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Suppose this way, that way, the other way. Suppose anything
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: but getting unchained from the one idea, for that was
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: inexorably impossible. The school reopened next day. The scholars saw
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: little or no change in their master's face, for it
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: always wore its slowly laboring expression. But as he heard
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: his classes, he was always doing the deed, and doing
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: it better. As he paused with his piece of chalk
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: at the blackboard before writing on it, he was thinking
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: of the spot, and whether the water was not deeper
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and a fall straighter, a little higher up or a
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: little lower down. He had half a mind to draw
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a line or two upon the board and show himself
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: what he meant. He was doing it again, and improving
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: on the manner at prayers, in his mental arithmetic, all
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: through his questioning, all through the day. Charlie Hexham was
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: a master, now in another school, under another It was
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: evening and Bradley was walking in his garden, observed from
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: behind a blind by gentle little miss Peacher, who contemplated
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: offering him a loan of her smelling salts for headache.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: When Mary Anne, in faithful attendants, held up her arm yes,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Mary Anne, young mister Hexam, if you please, ma'am, coming
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to see mister Headstone. Very good, Mary Anne. Again, Mary
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Anne held up her arm. You may speak, Mary Anne.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Mister Headstone has beckoned young mister Hexam into his house, ma'am,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: and he has gone in himself without waiting for young
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: mister Hexam to come up. And now he has gone
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: in too, ma'am, and has shut the door. With all
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: my heart, Mary Anne. Again. Mary Anne's telegraphic arm worked.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: What more, Mary Anne. They must find it rather dull
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and dark. Miss Peacher with a parlor blinds down, and
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: neither of them pulls it up. There is never counting,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: said good miss Peacher, with a little sad sigh, which
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: she repressed by laying her hand on her neat methodical bodice.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: There is no accounting, fatistes neary Henn. Charley, entering the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: dark room, stopped short when he saw his old friend
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: in its yellow shade, come in, Hexham, come in. Charley
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: advanced to take the hand that was held out to him,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: but stopped again short of it. The heavy, bloodshot eyes
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: of the schoolmaster, rising to his face with an effort,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: met his look of scrutiny, mister Redstone, what's the matter
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: matter where mister redstin? Have you heard the news. It's
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: news about the fellow mister Eugene Rayburn, that he is killed.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: He is dead, then exclaimed Bradley Young Hexam, standing looking
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: at him. He moistened his lips with his tongue, looked
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: about the room, glanced at his former pupil, and looked down.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I heard of the outrage, said badly, trying to constrain
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: his working mouth. But I had not heard the end
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: of it. Where were you, said the boy, advancing a
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: step as he lowered his voice. When it was done, stop,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I don't ask that, don't tell me. If you force
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: your confidence upon me, mister Headstone, I'll give up every
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: word of it. Mind tain't notice. I'll give up it,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: and I'll give up you. I will. The wretched creature
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: seemed to suffer acutely under this renunciation. A desolate air
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: of utter and complete loneliness fell upon him like a
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: visible shade. Yiss for me to speak, not you, said
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the boy. If you do, you'll do it at your peril.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to put your selfishness before you, miss Headstone,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: your passionate, violent and ungovernable selfishness to show you why
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I can and why I will have nothing more to
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: do with you. He looked at young Hexam as if
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: you were waiting for a scholar to go on with
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: a lesson that he knew by heart and was deadly
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: tired of. But he had said his last word to him.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: If you had any part, I don't say what in
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: this attack pursued the boy, or if you know anything
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: about it, I don't say how much, Or if you
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: know who did it, I go no closer. You didn't
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: injure it to me has never to be forgiven. You
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: know that I took you with me to his chambers
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: in the temple when I told him my opinion of
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: him and made myself responsible for my opinion of you.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: You know that I took you with me when I
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: was watching him with a view to recovery my sister
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and bringing her to her senses. You know that I
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: have allowed myself to be mixed up with you all
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: through this business in favoring your desire to marry my sister.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: And how do you know that, pursuing the ends of
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: your own violent temper, you have not laid me open
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: to suspicion, he said, your gratitude to me, mister Redstone
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: bradly sat looking steadily before him at the vacant air.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: As often as Young Hexam stopped, he turned his eyes
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: towards him, as if you were waiting for him to
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: go on with the lesson and get it done. As
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: often as the boy resumed badly resumed his fixed face.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I am going to be playing with you, mister Headstone,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: said Young Hexam, shaking his head in a half threatening manner,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: because this is no time for affecting not to know
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: things that I do know, accept certain things at which
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: it might not be very safe for you to hint. Again.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: What I mean is this, if you were a good master,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I was a good pupil, I have done you plenty
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: of credit, and in improving my own reputation, I have
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: improved yours quite as much, very well. Then, starting on
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: equal terms, I want to put before you how you
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: have shown your gratitude to me for doing all I
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: could to further your wishes. With reference to my sister,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: you have compromised me by being seen about with me.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Endeavoring to counteract this, mister Eugene Wrayburn. That's the first
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: thing you have done. If my character and mine now dropping,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: you help me out of that, mister Headstone, the deliverance
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: is to be attributed to me and not to you.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: No thanks to you for it. The boy stopping again,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: he moved his eyes again. I am going on, miss Headstone.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Doubt you be afraid. I am going on to the end.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: And I have told you beforehand what the end is.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Now you know my story. You are as well aware
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: as I am that I have had many disadvantages to
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: leave behind me in life. You have heard me mention
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: my father, and you are sufficiently acquainted with the fact
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: at the home from which I, as I may say, escaped,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: might have been a more creditable one than it was
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: my father died, And then it might have been supposed
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: that my way to respectability was pretty clear. No, well, then,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: my sister begins. He spoke as confidently and with as
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: entire an absence of any tell tale color in his cheek,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: as if there were no softening old time behind him.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Not wonderful, for there was none in his hollow, empty heart.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: What is there but self for selfishness to see behind it?
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: When I speak of my sister. I devoutly wish that
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: you had never seen her, Miss Headstone. However, you did
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: see her, and that's useless. Now. I confided in you
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: about her. I explained her character to you, and how
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: she interposed some ridiculous, fanciful notions in the way of
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: our being as respectable. As I tried for you fell
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: in love with her, and I favored you with all
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: my might. She could not be induced to favor you,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and so we came into collision with this. Mister Eugene Wrayburn.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Now what have you done? Why you've justified my sister
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: in being firmly set against you from first to last,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and you've put me in the wrong again. And why
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: have you done it? Because, mister Headstone, you are, in
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: all your passions, so selfish and so concentrated upon yourself,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: that you have not yet bestowed one proper thought on me.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: The cool conviction with which the boy took up and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: held his position could have been derived from no other
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: vice in human nature. It is he went on, actually
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: with tears, an extraordinary circumstance, attending on my life every
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: effort I might towards perfect respected. But that he is
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: impeded by somebody else through no fault of mine. Not
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: content with doom what I have put before you, you
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: will drag my name in a notoriety through dragging my sisters,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: which you are pretty sure to do if my suspicions
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: have any foundation at all, and the worse you proved
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: to be the ardor it will be for me to
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: detach myself from being associated with you in people's minds.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: When he had dried his eyes and heaved a sob
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: over his injuries, he began moving towards the door. However,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I have made up my mind that I will become
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: respectable in the scale of society, and that I will
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: not be dragged down by others. I have done with
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: my sister as well as with you, since she cares
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: so little for me as to care nothing for undermining
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: my respectability. She shall go her way and I will
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: go mine. My prospects are very good, and I are
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: meet to follow him alone. Mister Headstone, I don't say
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: what you have got upon your conscience, for I don't
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: know whatever lies upon it. I hope you will see
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: the justice of keeping wide and clear of me, and
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: will find a consolation in completely exonerating all but yourself.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I hope, before many years are out to succeed the
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: master in my present school, and the mistress, being a
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: single woman, though some years older than I am, I
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: might even marry her. If it is any comfort to
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: you to know what plans I may want work out
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: by keeping myself strictly respectable in the scale of society.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: These are the plans at present occurring to me. In conclusion,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: if you feel a sense of having injured me, and
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: a desire to make some small reparation, I hope you
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: will think how respectable you might have been yourself, and
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: will contemplate your blighted existence. Was it strange that the
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: wretched man should take this heavily to heart. Perhaps he
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: had taken the boy to heart first through some long,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: laborious years. Perhaps through the same years he had found
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: his drudgery lightened by communication with a brighter and more
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: apprehensive spirit than his own. Perhaps a family resemblance of
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: face and voice between the boy and his sister smote
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: him hard in the gloom of his fallen state, for
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: whichsoever reason or for all. He drooped his devoted head
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: when the boy was gone, and shrank together on the
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: floor and groveled there with the palms of his hands
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: tight clasping his hot temples, in unutterable misery, and unrelieved
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: by a single tear rogue. Riderhood had been busy with
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the river that day. He had fished with assiduity on
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the previous evening, but the light was short and he
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: had fished unsuccessfully. He had fished again that day with
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: better luck, and had carried his fish home to Plashwater
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Weir Mill lock House. In a bundle end of book four,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven, Chapter eight, A few grains of Pepper. The
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: dolls dressmaker went no more to the business premises of
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Pubsey and Co. In Saint Mary Axe, after chance had
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: disclosed to her, as she supposed the flinty and hypocritical
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: character of mister Riah. She often moralized over her work
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: on the tricks and the manners of that venerable cheat,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: but made her little purchases elsewhere and lived a secluded life.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: After much consultation with herself, she decided not to put
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Lizzie Hexam on her guard against the old man, arguing
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: that the disappointment of finding him out would come upon
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: her quite soon enough. Therefore, in her communication with her
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: friend by letter. She was silent on this theme, and
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: principally dilated on the backslidings of her bad child, who
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: every day grew worse and worse. You, wicked old boy,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren, would say to him, with a menacing forefinger,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: You'll force me to run away from you, after all,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: you will, And then you shake the bits, and there'll
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: be nobody to pick up the pieces. At this foreshadowing
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: of a desolate decease, the wicked old boy would whine
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: and whimper, and would sit shaking himself into the lowest
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: of low spirits, until such time as he could shake
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: himself out of the house and shake another threepenneth into himself.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: But dead, drunk, or dead sober, he had come to
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: such a pass that he was least alive in the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: latter state. It was always on the conscience of the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: paralytic scarecrow that he had betrayed his sharp parent for
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: sixty threepenneths of rum, which were all gone, and that
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: her sharpness would infallibly detect his having done it sooner
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: or later. All things considered therefore, and addition made of
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the state of his body to the state of his mind,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: The bed on which mister Dalles reposed was a bed
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: of roses from which the flowers and leaves had entirely faded,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: leaving him to lie upon the thorns and stalks. On
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: a certain day, Miss Wren was alone at her work,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: with the house door set open for coolness, and was
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: tolding in a small, sweet voice a mournful little song
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: which might have been the song of the doll she
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: was dressing, bemoaning the brittleness and multability of wax. When
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: whom should she descry standing on the pavement looking in
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: at her, But mister Fledgeby. I thought it was you,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: said Fledgeby, coming up the two steps, did you, mister
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Wrenn retorted, and I thought it was you? Young men?
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Quite a coincidence. You're not mistaken, and I am not mistaken.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: How clever we are? Well? And uh, how are you?
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Said Fledgeby? I am pretty much as usual, sir, replied
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren. A very unfortunate parent, worried out of my
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: life and senses by a very bad child. Flegerby's small
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: eyes opened so wide that they might have passed for
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: ordinary sized eyes as he stared about him. For the
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: very young person whom he supposed to be in question.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: But you are not a parent, said miss Wren. And consequently,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: it's of no use talking to you upon a family
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: subject to what am I to attribute the honor and
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: favor to wish to improve your acquaintance, mister Fledgeby, replied
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren, stopping to bite her thread, looked at him
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: very knowingly. We never meet, now, said Fledgeby. Do we no,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: said Miss Wren, chopping off the word so oh, I
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: had a mind pursued Fledgeby to can and ever talk
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: with you about our dodging friend, the child of Israel.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: So he gave you my addressity, asked Miss Wren. I
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: got it out of him, said Fledgeby, with a stammer.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: You seem to see a good deal of him, remarked
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren, with shrewd distrust. A good deal of him.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: You seem to see considering, Yes, I do, said Fledgeby, considering,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: haven't you? Inquired the dressmaker, bending over the doll on
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: which her art was being exercised. Done interceding with him? Yet? No,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: said Fledgeby, shaking his head. Lah been interceding with him
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: all this time and sticking to him, still, said miss Wren,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: busy with her work sticking to him is the word,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: said Fledgeby. Miss Wren pursued her occupation with a concentrated
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: air and asked, after an interval of silent in industry,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: are you in the army? Not exactly, said Fledgeby, Rather
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: flattered by the question, maybe, asked Miss Wren. No, said Fledgeby.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: He qualified these two negatives as if he were not
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: absolutely in either service, but was almost in both. What
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: are you, then, demanded Miss Wren. I am a gentleman,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: I am, said Fledgeby. Oh, assented Jenny, screwing up her
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: mouth with an appearance of conviction. Yes, to be sure.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: That accounts we are having so much time to give
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: to interceding. But don't you to think how kind and
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: friendly a gentleman you must be. Mister Fregbury found that
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: he was skating round a board marked dangerous and had
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: better cut out a fresh track. Let's go back to
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: the Dodgerist of the dodgers, said he, what's he up to?
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: In the case of your friend, the handsome gal, he
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: must have some object? What is object? Can it undertake?
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: To say, sir? I'm sure, returned Miss Wren. Composedly, he
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: won't acknowledge where she's gone, said Fledgeby. And I have
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: a fancy that I should like to have another look
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: at her now and know he knows where she is gone?
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Can it undertake to say, sir? I'm sure, Miss Wren
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: again rejoined, and you know where she is gone? Hazarded Fledgeby.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Can it undertake to say sir? Really? Replied Miss Wren.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: The quaint little chin met mister Fledgeby's gaze with such
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: a baffling hitch that that agreeable gentleman was for some
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: time the loss how to resume his fascinating part in
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: the dialog At length, he said, Miss Jenny, that's your name.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: If I don't mistake, probably you don't mistake sir, was
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren's cool answer, because you had it on the
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: best authority mine, you know, Miss Jenny. Instead of coming
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: up and being dead, let's come out and look alive.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: It'll pay better, I assure you, said Fledgeby, bestowing an
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: inveigling twinkle or two upon the dressmaker, you'll find it
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: pay better, perhaps, said Miss Jenny, holding out her doll
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: at arm's length and critically contemplating the effect of her art,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: with her scissors on her lips and her head thrown back,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: as if her interest lay there and not in the conversation.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Perhaps you'll explain your meaning, young man, which is Greek
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: to me. You must have another touch of blue in
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: your trimming, my dear. Having addressed the last remark to
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: her fair client, Miss Wren proceeded to snip at some
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: blue fragments that lay before her, among fragments of all colors,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: and to thread a needle from a skein of blue silk.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Look here, said Fletchby, Are you attending? I am attending, sir,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: replied Miss Wren, without the slightest appearance of so doing.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Another touch of blue in your trimming, my dear. Well,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: look here, said Pedgby, rather discouraged by the circumstances under
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: which he found himself pursuing the conversation. If you're attending
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: light blue, my sweet young lady, remarked Miss Wren, in
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: a sprightly tone, being best suited to your fair complexion
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: and your flex and curls. I say, if you're attending,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: proceeded Fvegmy. It'll pay better in this way. It'll lead
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: in a roundabout men aty or buying damage and waste
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: of Pubsy and Co at a nominal price, or even
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: getting it for nothing, aha, thought the dressmaker. But you
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: are not so round about, little eyes that I don't
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: notice your answering for pubsy and Co. After all, little eyes,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: little eyes, you're too cunning by half. And I take
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: it for granted, pursued Fvegby. Now to get the most
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: of your materials for nothing would be well worth your while,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Miss Jenny. You take it for granted, returned the dressmaker
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: with many knowing nods. That it's always well worth my
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: while to make money, now, said Fedgeby approvingly. You're answering
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: to her sensible purpose. Now you're coming out and looking alive.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: So I make so free, miss Jenny, as to offer
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: the remark that you and Judah were too thick together
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: to last. You can't come to be intimate with such
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: a deep file as Judah without beginning to see a
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: little way into him, you know, said Fvegby, with a wink.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I must own, returned the dressmaker, with her eyes upon
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: her work, that we are not good friends at present.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: I know you are not good friends at present, said Fedgby.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I know all about it. I should like to pay
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: off Judah by not letting him have his own deep
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: way in everything. In most things he'll get it by
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: hook or by crook. But hang it all. Don't let
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: him have his own deep way in everything. That's too much.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Mister Fledgeby said this with some display of indignant warmth,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: as if he was counsel in the cause for virtue?
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: How can I prevent his having his own way? Began
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: the dressmaker, and deep way I called it, said Fledgeby,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: his own deep way in anything. I'll tell you, said Fledgeby,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: I like to hear you ask it, because it's looking alive.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: It's what I should expect to find in one of
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: your sagacious understanding. Now candidly, hey, cried Miss Jenny, I said,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: now candidly, mister Fledgeby explained a little put out. Oh,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I should be glad to countermine him, respecting the handsome gal,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: your friend. He means something there. He may depend upon it.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Judah means something there. He has a motive, and of
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: course his motive is a dark motive. Now, whatever his
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: motive is, it's necessary to hear motive. Mister Fledgeby's constructive
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: powers were not equal to the avoidance of some tortology
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: here that it should be kept from me what he
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: has done with her? So I put it to you,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: who know what has he done with her? I ask
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: no more? And is that asking much? When you understand
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: that it will pay? Miss Jenny Wren, who had cast
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: her eyes upon the bench again after her last interruption,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: sat looking at it, needle in hand, but not working
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: for some moments. She then briskly resumed her work and said,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: with a sidelong glance of her eyes and chin at
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: mister Fledgeby, where do you live Albany Pecadilly? Replied Fregby,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Where are you at home when you like? Breakfast time?
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Said Jenny in her abruptest and shortest manner. No better
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: time in the day, said Fletchby. I look in upon
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: you to morrow, young man. Two ladies, pointing to dolls,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: have an appointment in Bond Street of ten precisely when
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: I've dropped them there, I'll drive round to you. With
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: a weird little laugh. Miss Jenny pointed to her crutch
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: stick as her equipage. This is lurking alive, indeed, cried Fledgeby,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: rising mark you, I promise you nothing, said the dolls dressmaker,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: dabbing two dabs at him with the needle, as if
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: you put out both his eyes. Now, now I understand,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: returned Fledgeby, a damage and waste question shall be settled. First,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: it shall be made to pay. Don't you be afraid?
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Good day, Miss Jennie, Good day, young man. Mister Fledgeby's
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: prepossessing form withdrew itself, and the little dressmaker, clipping and
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: snipping and stitching and stitching and snipping and clipping, fell
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: to work at a great rate, musing and muttering all
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: the time. Misty, Misty, misty, can't make it out little
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: eyes and the wolf in a conspiracy, or little eyes
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: and the wolf against one another. Can't make it out,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: my poor Lizzie, Are they both designs against you? Either way?
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Can't make it out his little eyes pupsy and the
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: wolf co can't make it out pupps be true to
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: co and coat to pupsy. Pupsy falls to Coe and
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: coat of pupsy. Can't make it out what said little
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: eyes now candidly? Ah, However the cat jumps He's a liar.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: That's all I can make out at present. But you
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: may go to bed in the almondy Piccadilly, with that
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: for your pillow, young man. Thereupon the little dressmaker again
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: dabbed out his eyes separately, and making a loop in
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: the air of her thread, and deftly catching it into
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: a knot with a needle, seemed to bowstring him into
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the bargain for the terror's undergone by. Mister Dawes that evening,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: when his little parent sat profoundly meditating over her work,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: and when he imagined himself found out as often as
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: she changed attitude or turned her eyes towards him, there
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: is no adequate name. Moreover, it was her habit to
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: shake her head at that wretched old boy whenever she
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: caught his eye as he shivered and shook. What are
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: popularly called the trembles being in full force upon him
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: that evening, and likewise what are popularly called the horrors.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: He had a very bad time of it, which was
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: not made better by his being so remorseful, as frequently
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: to moan sixty three periths. This imperfect sentence, not being
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: at all intelligible as a confession, but sounding like a
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: gargantuan order for a dram brought him into new difficulties
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: by occasioning his parent to pounce at him in a
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: more than usually snappish manner, and to overwhelm him with
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: bitter reproaches. What was a bad time for mister Dolls
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: could not fail to be a bad time for the
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Dolls dressmaker. However, she was on the alert next morning
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: and drove to Bond Street and set down the two
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: ladies punctually, and then directed her equipage to conduct her
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: to the Albany. Arrived at the door of the house
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: in which mister Fledgeby's chambers were, she found a lady
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: standing there in a traveling dress, holding in her hand,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: of all things in the world, a gentleman's hat. You want,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: some one, said the lady in a stern manner. I
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: am going upstairs to mister Fletchby's you We cannot do
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: that at this moment. There is a gentleman with him.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: I am waiting for the gentleman. His business with mister
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Veggierie will very soon be transacted, and then you can
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: go up until the gentleman comes down. You must wait here.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: While speaking and afterwards, the lady kept watchfully between her
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: and the staircase, as if prepared to oppose her going
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: up by force, the lady, being of a stature, to
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: stop her with a hand, and looking mightily determined, the
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: dressmaker stood still. Well why do you listen, asked the lady.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not sneak, said the dressmaker. What do you hear?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Asked the lady, altering her phrase. Is it a kind
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: of a spluttering somewhere, said the dressmaker, with an inquiring look.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Mister Fledgeby and his sharp bath, perhaps, remarked the lady, smiling.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: And somebody is beating a carpet. I think mister Fledgeby's carpet,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: I dare say, replied the smiling lady. Miss Wren had
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: a reasonably good eye for smiles, being well accustomed to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: them on the part of her young friend's, though their
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: smiles mostly ran smaller than in nature. But she had
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: never seen so singular a smile as that upon this
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: lady's face. It twitched her nostrils open in a remarkable manner,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: and contracted her lips and eyebrows. It was a smile
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: of enjoyment, too, though of such a fierce kind that
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren thought she would rather not enjoy herself than
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: do it in that way. Well, said the lady, watching her.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: What now, I hope there is nothing the matter, said
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: the dressmaker, where, inquired the lady. I don't know where,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: said miss Wren, staring about her, But I never heard
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: such odd noises. Don't you think i'd better call somebody?
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: I think you had better not, returned the lady, with
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: a significant frown, and drawing closer on this hint. The
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: dressmaker relinquished the idea and stood looking at the lady
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: as hard as the lady looked at her. Meanwhile, the
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: dressmaker listened with amazement to the odd noises, which still continued,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: and the lady listened too, but with the coolness in
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: which there was no trace of amazement. Soon afterwards came
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: a slamming and banging of doors, and then came running
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: downstairs a gentleman with whiskers and out of breath, who
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: seemed to be red hot. Here's your business done, Alfred,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: inquired the lady. Very thoroughly done, replied the gentleman, as
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: he took his hat from her. You can go up
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: to mister Fledgeby as soon as you like, said the lady,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: moving haughtily away. Oh and you can take these three
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: pieces have stick with you, added the gentleman politely, Hensey,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: if you please, had they come from mister Alfred Lammle
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: with his compliments on leaving England, Mister Alfred Lammle, be
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: so good as not to forget the name. The three
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: pieces of stick were three broken and frayed fragments of
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: a stout lithe cane, Miss Jenny taking them wonderingly, and
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: the gentleman repeating with a grin mister Alfred Lammle, if
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: you'll be so good compliments on leaving England. The lady
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: and gentleman walked away quite deliberately, and Miss Jenny and
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: her crutch stick went upstairs. Lammle lammle, Lammo, miss Jenny repeated,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: as she panted from stair to stair. Where have I
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: heard that name? Lemmoo, lemmeo? I know? Send may X
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: with a gleam of new intelligence and her sharp face.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: The doll's dressmaker pulled at Fledgeby's bell. No one answered,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: but from within the chambers there proceeded a continuous spluttering
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: sound of a highly singular and unintelligible nature. Good gracious
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: is little eyes choking, cried Miss Jenny, pulling at the
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: bell again and getting no reply, She pushed the outer
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: door and found it standing ajar, no one being visible
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: on her. Opening it wider and the spluttering continuing, she
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: took the liberty of opening an inner door, and then
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: beheld the extraordinary spectacle of mister Fledgeby, in a shirt,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: a pair of Turkish trousers and a Turkish cap, rolling
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: over and over on his carpet and spluttering wonderfully. Oh Lord,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: gasped mister Fledgeby. Oh my stop, thaef, I'm strangling a
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: fire my eye, a glass of water, Give me a
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: glass of water. Shut the door, murder, old Lord, and
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: then rolled and spluttered more than ever. Hurrying into another room,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Miss Jenny got a glass of water and brought it
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: for Fledgeby's relief, who, gasping, spluttering and rattling in his
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: throat between whiles, drank some water and laid his head
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: faintly on her arm. Oh my eye, cried Fredgebury, struggling
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: anew each salt and snuff sh up my nose and
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: down my throat and in my windpipe whoo out, And here,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: crowing fearfully with his eyes starting out of his head,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: appeared to be contending with every mortal disease incidental to poultry.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: And oh, my eye, I'm so so, cried Fledgeby, starting
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: over on his back in a spasmodic way that caused
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: the dressmaker to retreat to the wall. O Oh, I smart,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: so do put something on my back and arms and
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: legs and shoulders. Ah, he is down my throat again
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: and can't come up. Hell, hell, how I smart? So
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: here mister Fledgeby bounded up and bounded down and went
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: rolling over and over again. The door dressmaker looked on
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: until he rolled himself into a corner with his turkeysh
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: slippers uppermost, and then resolving in the first place to
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: address her ministration to the salt and snuff gave him
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: more water and slept his back, but the latter application
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: was by no means of success, causing mister Fledgeby to
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: scream and to cry out, Oh, I don't slap me.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: I'm covered with wheels and I'm smart, sir. Oh. However,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: he gradually ceased to choke and crow, saving at intervals,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: and Miss Jenny got him into an easy chair where
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: with his eyes red and watery, with his features swollen,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: and with some half dozen livid bars across his face,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: he presented a most rueful sight. Whatever possessed you to
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: take salt and snuff? Young men inquired Miss Jenny, I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: didn't take it, the dismal youth replied, he was crammed
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: it into my mouth. Who crammed it? Asked Miss Jenny.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: He did, answered fledgeby the assassin. Yammo. He rubbed it
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: into my mouth, up my nose and down my throat
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: ow ow ow to prevent my crying out, and then
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: cruelly assaulted me with this, asked Miss Jenny, showing the
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: pieces of caine lets the weapon, said Fedgeby eyeing it
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: with the air of an acquaintance, he broke it over me. Oh,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: the smart So how did you come buy it? When
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: he ran downstairs and joined the lady he had left
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: in the hall with his hat, Miss Jenny began, oh,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: groaned mister fledgeby writhing. She was a holt in his hat?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Was she? How? Mrd? No, she was in it. When
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: he came downstairs and joined the lady, who wouldn't let
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: me come up, he gave me the pieces for you,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: and I was to say with mister Alfred Lemmo's compliments
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: on his leaving England. Miss Jenny said it with such
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: spiteful satisfaction and such a hitch of her chin and
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: eyes as might have added to mister Fledgeby's miseries if
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: he could have noticed either in his bodily paying with
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: his hand to his head. Shall I go for the police,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: inquired Miss Jenny, with a nimble start towards the door.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Stop No, don't, cried Freedgby. Don't please, We had better
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: keep it quiet. Will you be so good to shut
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: the door? Oh? I do smart so, in testimony of
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: the extent to which he smarted, mister Fledgeby came wallowing
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: out of the easy chair and took another roll on
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: the carpet. Now the door was shut, said mister Fledgeby,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: sitting up in anguish, with his Turkish cap half on
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: and half off, and the bars on his face getting bluer.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: Do me the kindness to look at my back and shoulders.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: They must be in an awful state, for I hadn't
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: got my dressing gown on when the brute came crushing in.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: Can't I shirt away from the collar. There's a pair
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: of scissors on that table, oh, groaned mister Fledger, with
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: his hand to his head again. How too smart to
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: be sure? There, inquired miss Jenny, alluding to the back
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: and shoulders. Oh lord, yes, moaned Fledgeby, rocking himself head
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: all over everywhere. The busy little dressmaker quickly slipped the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: shirt away and laid bare the results of as furious
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: and sound a thrashing as even mister Fledgeby merited. You
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: may well smart young men, exclaimed Miss Jenny, and stealthily
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: rubbed her little hands behind him and poked a few
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: exultant pokes with her two forefingers over the crown of
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: his head. Wof what you think of vinegar and brown paper?
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Inquired the suffering Fredgeby, still rocking and moaning. Doesn't it
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: look as if vinegar and brown paper was the sort
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: of application, Yes, said Miss Jenny with a silent chuckle.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: It looks as if it ought to be pickled. Mister
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Fledgeby collapsed under the word pickled and groaned again. My
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: kitchen is on this floor, he said. You'll find brown
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: paper in a dresser dorawer there, and a pot of
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: vinegar on a shelf. Would you have the kindness to
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: make a few plasters and put them on it? Can't
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: be kept too quiet? One, two and five? Six? You
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: want six, said the dressmaker. They is smart enough, whimpered
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: mister Fledgeby, groaning and writhing again for sixty. Miss Jennie
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: repaired to the kitchen, scissors in hand, found a brown
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: paper and found the vinegar, and skillfully cut out and
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: steeped six large plasters. When they were all lying ready
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: on the dresser, an idea occurred to her as she
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: was about to gather them up. I think, said Miss Jenny,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: with a silent laugh. He ought to have a little pepper,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: just a few grains. I think the young man's tricks
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: and manners make a claim upon his friends for a
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: little pepper. Mister Fledgeby's evil star, showing her the pepper
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: box on the chimney piece. She climbed upon a chair
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: and got it down and sprinkled all the plasters with
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: a judicious hand. She then went back to mister Fledgeby
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: and stuck them all on him. Mister Fledgeby uttering a
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: sharp howl as each was put in its place. There,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: young man, said the doll's dressmaker. Now, I hope you
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: feel pretty comfortable. Apparently, mister Fledgeby did not for he
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: cried by way of answer, oh I do spot. Miss
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: Jennie got his persian gown upon him, extinguished his eyes
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: crookedly with his persian cap, and held him to his bed,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: upon which he climbed groaning. A business between you and
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: me being out of the question to day, young man,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: and my time being precious, said Miss Jennie. Then I'll
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: make myself scarce. Are you comfortable now? Oh? My eye,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: cried mister Flegerby. No, I ain't. Oh how I do spot?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: The last thing Miss Jennie saw as she looked back
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: before closing the room door, was mister Fledgeby in the
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: act of plunging and gambling all over his bed, like
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: a paupoise or dolphin in its native element. She then
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: shut the bedroom door and all the other doors, and,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: going downstairs, and emerging from the Albany into the busy streets,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: took Omnibus for Saint Mary Axe, pressing on the road
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: all the gaily dressed ladies whom she could see from
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: the window, and making them unconscious lay figures for dolls,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: while she mentally cut them out and basted them. End
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: of Book four, Chapter eight, Chapter nine, Two places vacated,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: set down by the omnibus at the corner of Saint
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: Mary Axe, and trusting to her feet and her crutch
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: stick within its precinct, the doll's dressmaker proceeded to the
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: place of business of Pupsy and co. All there were
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: sunny and quiet externally and shady and quiet internally. Hiding
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: herself in the entry outside the glass door, she could
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: see from that post of observation the old man in
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: his spectacles, sitting writing at his desk. Boo, cried the dressmaker,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: popping in her head at the glass door, mister wolf
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: at home. The old man took his glasses off and
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: mildly laid them down beside him. Oh, Jenny, is it you.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: I thought you had given me up, and so I
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: had given up the treacherous wolf of the forest, she replied.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: But Godmother, it strikes me you were come back. I'm
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: not quite sure because the wolf and you change forms.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question or two to
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: find out whether you are really Godmother or really wolf?
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: May I yes, Jenny, yes? But Ria glanced towards the door,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: as if he thought his principal might appear there unseasonably.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: If you are afraid of the fox, said Miss Jenny,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: you may dismiss all present expectations of seeing that animal.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: He won't show himself abroad for many a day. What
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: do you mean, my child, I mean Godmother, replied Miss Wren,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: sitting down beside the jew, that the fox has caught
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: a famous flogging, and that if his skin and bones
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: are not tingling, aching and smarting at this present instant,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: ne fox ever did tingle, ache and smart. Therewith Miss
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Jenny related what had come to pass in the Albany
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: omitting the few grains of pepper. Now, Godmother, she went on,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: I particularly wish to ask you what has taken place
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: here since I left the wolf here, because I have
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: an idea about the size of a marble rolling about
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: in my little noddle. First and foremost, are you pupsy
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: and co? Or are you either upon your solemn word
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: and honor? The old man shook his head. Secondly, isn't
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: fledgeby both panpsy and co? The old man answered with
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: a reluctant nod. My idea, exclaimed Miss Wren, is now
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: about the size of an orange, but before it gets
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: any bigger, Welcome back, dear god Mother. The little creature
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: folded her arms about the old man's neck with great
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: earnestness and kissed him. I humbly beg your forgiveness, Godmother,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: I'm truly sorry. I ought to have had more faith
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: in you. But what could I suppose when you said
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: nothing for yourself? You know, I don't mean to offer
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: that as a justification, But what could I suppose when
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: you were a silent party to all? He said? It
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: did look bad, now, didn't it? It looks so bad?
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: Jenny responded the old man with gravity that I will
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: straightway tell you what an impression it wrought upon me.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: I was hateful in mine own eyes. I was hateful
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: to myself in being so hateful to the debtor and
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: to you. But more than that, and worse than that,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: and to pass out far and broad beyond myself. I
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: reflected that evening, sitting alone in my garden on the
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: house top, that I was doing dishonor to my ancient
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: faith and race. I reflected, clearly reflected for the first
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: time that in bending my neck to the yoke I
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: was willing to wear, I bent the unwilling necks of
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: the whole Jewish people. For it is not in Christian countries.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: With the Jews, as with other peoples, men say, this
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: is a bad grief, but there are good Greeks. This
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: is a bad Turk, but there are good Turks. Not
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: so with the Jews. Men find the bad among us
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: easily enough. Among what peoples are the bad not easily found.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: But they take the worst of us as samples of
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: the best. They take the lowest of us as presentations
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: of the highest, And they say all Jews are alike.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: If doing what I was content to do here because
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: I was grateful for the past and have small need
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: of money. Now I had been a Christian, I could
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: have done it compromising no one but my individual self.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: But doing it as a Jew, I could not choose
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: but compromise the Jews of all conditions, in all countries.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: It is a little hard upon us, but it is
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: the truth. I would that all people remembered it, though
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: I have little right to say so, seeing that it
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: came home so late to me. The dolls dressmaker sat
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: holding the old man by the hand and looking thoughtfully
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: in his face. Thus I reflected, I say, sitting that
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: evening in my garden on the house top, and passing
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: the painful scene of that day in review before me.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: Many times I always saw that the poor gentleman believed
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: the story readily, because I was one of the Jews,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: that you believed the story readily, my child, because I
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: was one of the Jews, that the story itself first
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: came into the invention of the originator thereof, because I
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: was one of the Jews. This was the result of
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: my having had you three before me face to face,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: and seeing the thing visibly presented as upon a theater.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: Wherefore I perceived that the obligation was upon me to
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: leave this service. But Jenny, my dear, said Riah, breaking off.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: I promised that you should pursue your questions, and I
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: obstruct them on the country. Godmother, my idea is as
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: large now as a pumpkin. And you know what a
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: pumpkin is, don't you? So you gave notice that you
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: were going. Does that come next? Asked Miss Jenny, with
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: a look of close attention. I indicted a letter to
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: my master. Yes to that effect. And what said tindling, tossing, aching, screaming,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: scratching smarter, asked Miss Wren, with an unspeakable enjoyment in
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: the utterance of those honorable titles, and in the recollection
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: of the pepper, he held me to certain months of
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: servitude WHI which were his lawful term of notice. They
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: expire to morrow upon their expiration, not before I had
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: meant to set myself right with my Cinderella. My idea
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: is getting so immense now, cried Miss Wren, clasping her temples,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: that my head won't hold it. Listen, god Mother, I'm
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: going to expound little eyes. That screaming, scratching smarter owes
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: you a heavy grudge for going. That lies cast about
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: how best to pay you off. Little eyes thinks of Lizzie.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: That lies says to himself, I'll find out where he
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: has placed that girl, and I'll betray his secret because
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: it's dear to him. Perhaps it lies thinks I'll make
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: love to wear myself too, But I that I can't
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: swear all the rest I can, So little Lies comes
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: to me and I go to lit lies. That's the
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: way of it. And now the murder's all out. I'm sorry,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: added the doll's dressmaker, rigid from head to foot with
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: energy as she shook her little fist before her eyes.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: That I didn't give him Kyen pepper and chopped pickled capsicum,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: this expression of regret being but partially intelligible to mister Brier.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: The old man reverted to the injuries Fleedgby had received
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: and hinted at the necessity of his at once going
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: to tend to that beaten cur Good mother, good mother,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: god mother, cried Miss Wren irritably. I really lose all
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: patience with you. What would think you believed in the
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: good Samaritan? How can you be so inconsistent? Jenny dear,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: began the old man gently. It is the custom of
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: our people to help, oh bother, your people, interposed Miss
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: Wren with a toss of her head. If your people
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: don't know better and to go and help little lies,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: it's a pity they have a good out of Egypt.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: Are in about that? She added, You wouldn't make your
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: help if you offered it too much. Ashamed wants to
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: keep it close and quiet and to keep you out
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: of the way. They were still debating this point when
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: a shadow darkened the entry and the glass door was
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: opened by a messenger who brought a letter unceremoniously addressed Riah,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: to which he said there was an answer wanted the letter,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: which was scrawled in pencil, up hill and downhill, and
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: round crooked corners, ran thus, old Riah, your account's being
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: all squared, Go shut up the place, turn out directly,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: and send me the key by bearer. Go you are
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: an unthankful dog of a jew, Get out. F The
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: doll's dressmaker found it delicious to trace the screaming and
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: smarting of little eyes in the distorted writing of this epistle.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: She laughed over it and jeered at it in a
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: convenient corner, to the great astonishment of the messenger. While
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: the old man got his few goods together in a
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: black bag. That done, the shutters of the upper windows closed,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: and the office blind pulled down. They issued forth upon
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: the steps, with the attendant messenger there, while Miss Jenny
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: held the bag. The old man locked the house door
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: and handed over the key to him, who at once
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: retired with the same. Well god mother, said Miss Wren,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: as they remained upon the steps together looking at one another.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: And so your thrown upon the world, it would appear so, Jenny,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: and somewhat suddenly, where are you going to seek your fortune?
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: Asked Miss Wren. The old man smiled, but looked about
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: him with the look of having lost his way in life,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: which had not escaped the doll's dressmaker. Verily, Jenny said
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: he the question is to the purpose, and more easily
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: asked than answered. But as I have experience of the
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: ready good will and good help of those who have
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: given occupation to Lizzie, I think I will seek them
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: out for myself. On foot, asked Miss Wren, with a
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: chop ay, said the old man, have I not my staff?
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: It was exactly because he had his staff and presented
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: so quaint an aspect that she mistrusted his making the journey.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: The best thing you can do, said Jenny, for the
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: time being, at all events, is to come home with me. Godmother,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: Now what is there but my bad child, and Lizzie's
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: lodging stands empty. The old man, when satisfied that no
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: inconvenience could be entailed on any one by his compliance,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: readily complied, and the signularly assorted couple once more went
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: through the streets together. Now the bad child, having been
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: strictly charged by his parent to remain at home in
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: her absence, of course, went out, and, being in the
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: very last age of mental decrepitude, went out with two objects. Firstly,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: to establish a claim he conceded himself to have, upon
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: any license fitula living to be supplied with threepence of
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: rum for nothing. And secondly, to bestow some Mordalan remorse
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: on mister Eugene Rayburn, and see what profit came of it.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: Stumblingly pursuing these two designs, they both meant rum, the
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: only meaning of which he was capable. The degraded creature
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: staggered into Covent Garden Market, and there bivouacked to have
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: an attack of the trembles, succeeded by an attack of
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: the horrors in a doorway. This market of Covent Garden
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: was quite out of the creature's line of road, but
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: it had the attraction for him which it has for
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: the worst of the solitary members of the drunken tribe.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: It may be the companionship of the nightly stir, or
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: it may be the companionship of the gin and beer
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: that slop about among carters and hucksters. Or it may
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: be the companionship of the trodden vegetable refuse, which is
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: so like their own dress, that perhaps they take the
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: market for a great wardrobe. But be it what it may,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: you shall see no such individual drunkards on doorsteps anywhere
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: as there of dozing women, drunkards especially, You shall come
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: upon such specimens there in the morning sunlight, as you
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: might seek out of doors in Vain through London. Such stale, vapid,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: rejected cabbage leaf and cabbage stalk dress, such damaged orange countenance,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: such squashed pulp of humanity, are open to the day
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: nowhere else. So the attraction of the market drew mister
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: Dawes to it, and he had out his two fits
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: of trembles and horrors in a doorway on which a
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: woman had had out her sodden nap a few hours before.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: There is a swarm of young savages always flitting about
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: this same place, creeping off with fragments of orange chests
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: and moldy litter. Heaven nosen to what holes they can convey,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: them having no home, whose bare feet fall with a blunt,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: dull softness on the pavement as the policeman hunts them,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: and who are perhaps for that reason, little heard by
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: the powers that be, whereas in top boots they would
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: make a deafening clatter. These delighting in the trembles and
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: the horrors of mister Dolls, as in a gratuitous drama,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: flocked about him in his doorway, butted at him, leaped
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: at him, and pelted him. Hence, when he came out
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: of his invalid retirement and shook off that ragged train,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: he was much bespatted and in worse case than ever,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: but not yet at his worst. For going into a
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: public house and being supplied in stress of business with
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: his rum, and seeking to vanish without payment, he was collared, searched,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: found penniless, and admonished not to try that again. By
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: having a pail of dirty water cast over him. This
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: application superinduced another fit of the trembles, after which mister Dalles,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: as finding himself in good cue for making a call
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: on a professional friend, addressed himself to the temple. There
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: was nobody of the chambers but young Blight, That discreet youth,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: sensible of a certain incongruity in the association of such
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: a client with the business that might be coming some day,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: with the best intentions, temporized with Dolls and offered a
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: shilling for coach higher home. Mister Dawes, accepting the shilling,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: promptly laid it out in two threatens worths of conspiracy
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: against his life, and two threpnsworths of raging repentance. Returning
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: to the chambers of rich burden, he was descried coming
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: round into the court by the wary young Blight watching
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: from the window, who instantly closed the outer door and
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: left the miserable object to expend his fury on the panels.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: The more the door resisted him, the more dangerous and
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: imminent became that bloody conspiracy against his life. Force of
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: police arriving, he recognized in them the conspirators, and laid
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: about him hoarsely, fiercely, staringly, convulsively, foamingly, a humble machine,
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: familiar to the conspirators, and called by the expressive name
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: of Stretcher, being unavoidably sent for, he was rendered a
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: harmless bundle of torn rags by being strapped down upon it,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: with voice and consciousness gone out of him, and life
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: fast going. As this machine was borne out at the
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: temple gate by four men. The poor little dodge dressmaker
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: and her Jewish friend were coming up the street. Oh
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: let us see what it is, cried the dressmaker. Let
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: us make haste and look Godmother. The brisk little crutch
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: stick was but too brisk. Oh, gentlemen, gentlemen, he belongs
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: to me, belong to you, said the head of the party,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: stopping it. Oh yes, dear gentlemen, he's my child out
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: without leave, my poor bed, bad boy. And he don't
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: know me. You don't know me. Oh what shall I do?
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: Cried the little creature, wildly beating her hands together. When
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: my my own child don't know me. The head of
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: the party looked as well he might to the old
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: man for explanation, he whispered, as the doll's dressmaker bent
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: over the exhausted form and vainly tried to extract some
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: sign of recognition from it. It's her drunken father. As
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: the load was put down in the street, Ria drew
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: the head of the party aside and whispered that he
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: thought the man was dying now surely not returned the other,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: But he became less confident on looking, and directed the
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: bearers to bring him in the nearest doctor's shop. Thither
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: he was brought, the window, becoming from within a wall
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: of faces deformed into all kinds of shapes through the
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: agency of globular red bottles, green bottles, blue bottles, and
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: other colored bottles, a ghastly light shining upon him, that
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: he didn't need the beast so furious. But a few
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: minutes agone was quiet enough now for the strange, mysterious
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: writing on his face reflected from one of the great bottles,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: as if death had marked him mine. The medical testimony
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: was more precise and more to the purpose than it
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: sometimes is in a court of justice. He had better
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: send for something to cover it. All's over. Therefore the
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: police sent for something to cover it, and it was
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: covered and borne through the streets, the people falling away
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: after it went, the doll's dressmaker hiding her face in
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: the Jewish skirts and clinging to them with one hand,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: while with the other she plied her stick. It was
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: carried home, and by reason that the staircase was very narrow,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: it was put down in the parlor, the little working
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: bench being set aside to make room for it. And
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: there in the midst of the dolls, with no speculation
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: in their eyes, lay mister Dolls, with no speculation in
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: his Many flaunting dolls had to be gaily dressed before
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: the money was in the dressmaker's pocket to get mourning
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: for mister Dolls, as the old man Riah sat by,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: helping her in such small ways as he could, he
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: found it difficult to make out whether she really did
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: realize that the deceased had been her father. If my
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: poor boy, she would say, had been brought up better,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: he might have done better. Not that I reproached myself.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: I hope I have no cause for that. None. Indeed, Jenny,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: I am very certain, Thank you God Mother. It cheers
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: me to hear you say so. But you see, it
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: is so hard to bring up a child well when
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: you work, work, work, all day. When he was out
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: of employment, I couldn't always keep him near me. He
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: got fractious and nervous, and I was obliged to let
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: him go into the streets. And he never did well
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: in the streets. He never did well out of sight.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: How often it happens with children, Too often, even in
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: this sad sense, thought the old man. How can I
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: say what I might have turned out myself, but for
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: my back having been so bad and my legs so queer.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: When I was young, the dressmaker would go on, I
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: hadn't nothing to do but work, and so I worked.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: I couldn't play. But my poor unfortunate child could play,
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: and it turned out the worse for him, and not
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: for him alone. Jenny, Well, I don't know, God, Mamma.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: He suffered heavily, did my unfortunate boy. He was very
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: very ill sometimes, and I called him a quantity of names,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: shaking her head over her work and dropping tears. I
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: don't know that is going wrong. Was much the worse
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: for me, if it ever was, Let us forget it.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: You're a good girl. You are a patient girl. As
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: for patience, she would reply with a shrug, not much
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: of that, godmother, If I had been patient, I should
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: never recalled him names. But I hope I did it
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: for his good. Besides, I thought my responsibility is a
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: mother so much. I tried reasoning, and reasoning failed. I
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: tried coaxing, and coaxing failed. I tried scolding, and scolding failed.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: But I was bound to tie everything, you know, with
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: such a charge upon my hands. We would have been
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: my duty to my poor lost boy. If I had
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: not tried everything with such talk, mostly in a cheerful
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: tone on the part of the industrious little creature, the
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: day work and the night work were beguiled until enough
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: of smart dolls had gone forth to bring into the kitchen,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: where the working bench now stood, the somber stuffs of
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: the occasion required, and to bring into the house the
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: other somber preparations. And now, said miss Jenny, having knocked
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: off my rose he cheeked young friends, I'll look off
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: my white cheeked self. This referred to her making her
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: own dress, which at last was done. The disadvantage and
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: my in for yourself, said Miss Jenny, as she stood
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: upon a chair to look at the result in the glass,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: is that you can't charge anybody else for the job.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: And the advantage is that you haven't to go out
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: to try on hum very fair. Indeed, if he could
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: see me now, whoever he is, I hope he wouldn't
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: repent of his bargain. The simple arrangements were of her
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: own making and were stated to Riar, thus, I mean
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: to go alone, Godmother, in my usual carriage, and you'll
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: be so kind as keep house while i am gone.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: It's not far off, and when i'll return, we'll have
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: a cup of tea and a chat over future arrangements.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: It's a very plain last house that I've been able
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: to give my poor unfortunate boy. But you'll accept the
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: will for the deed if he knows anything about it,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: And if he doesn't know anything about it, with a
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: sob and wiping her eyes, why it won't matter to him.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: I see the service in the prayer book says we've
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: can take nothing out. He comforts me. I've not being
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: able to hire a lot of stupid undertakers things for
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: my poor child. I'd seeming as if I was trying
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: to smuggle him out of this world with him, when,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: of course I must break down in the attempt and
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: bring him all back again. As it is, there'll be
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: nothing to bring back but me. And that's quite consistent
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: for I shan't be brought back. Some day after that
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: previous carrying of him in the streets, the wretched old
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: fellow seemed to be twice buried. He was taken on
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: the shoulders of half a dozen blossom faced man who
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: shuffled with him to the churchyard, and who were preceded
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: by another blossom faced man affecting a stately stalk as
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: if you were a policeman of the Death Division, and
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: ceremoniously pretending not to know his intimate acquaintances as he
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: led the pageant. Yet the spectacle of only one little
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: mourner hobbling after caused many people to turn their heads
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: with a look of interest. At last, the troublesome deceased
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: was got into the ground to be buried no more,
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: and the stately stalker stalked back before the solitary dressmaker,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: as if you were bound in honor to have no
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: notion of the way home those furies. The conventionalities being
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: thus appeased, he left her. I I must have a
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: very short cry godmother, before I cheer up for good,
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: said the little creature coming in, because after all, a
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: child is a child, you know. It was a longer
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: cry than might have been expected, howbeit it wore itself
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: out in a shadowy corner. And then the dressmaker came
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: forth and washed her face and made the tea. You
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: wouldn't mind my cutting out something while you were at tea,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: would you? She asked her Jewish friend with a coaxing air. Cindarella,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: dear child, the old man expostulated, will you never rest? Oh?
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: It not work cutting out a pattern, isn't, said miss Jenny,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: with her busy little scissors already snipping at some paper.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: Have you these, Godmother, I want to fix it while
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: I haven't correct in my mind. Have you seen it
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: to day, then asked Riah. Yes, good mother, So it
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: just now it's a surplus, that's what it is. Thing
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: or clergyman? Where you know, exclaimed Miss Jenny, in consideration
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: of his professing another faith? And what have you to
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: do with that? Jenny? Why, god mother, replied the dressmaker.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: You must know that we professors who live upon our
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: taste and invention, are obliged to keep our eyes always open.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: And you know already that I have many extra expenses
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: to meet just now. So it came into my head
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: while I was weeping at my poor boy's grave, that
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: something in my way might be done with a clergyman.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: What can be done, asked the old man. Not a funeral,
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: never fear, returned Miss Jenny, anticipating his objection with a nod.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: The public don't like to be made melancholy. I know
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: very well. I am seldom called upon to put my
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: young friends in the morning, not into real mourning, that
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: is court mourning they are rather proud of. But a
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: doll clergyman, My dear cossy black curls and whiskers, uniting
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: two of my young friends in matrimony, said Miss Jenny,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: shaking her forefinger. Is quite another affair if you don't
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: see those three at the Autumnpond Street in a jiffy.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: My name's Jack Robinson. With her expert little ways and
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: sharp action, she had got a doll into whitey brown
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: paper orders before the meal was over, and was displaying
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: it for the edification of the Jewish mind. But a
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: knock was heard at the street door. Riah went to
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: open it and presently came back, ushering in with the
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: grave and courteous air that sat so well upon him
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: a gentleman. The gentleman was a stranger to the dressmaker,
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: but even in the moment of his casting his eyes
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: upon her, there was something in his manner which brought
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: to her remembrance. Mister Eugene Rayburn, pardon me, said the gentleman.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: You are the dolls dressmaker. I am the dolls dressmaker, Sir.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: Lizzie Hexham's friend, Yes, sir, replied Miss Jenny, instantly on
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: the defensive. And Lizzie Hexham's friend here is a note
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: from her entreating you to accede to the request of
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: mister Mortimer Lightwood. The bearer, mister Ryer, chances to know
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: that I am mister Mortimer Lightwood, and will tell you so.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: Riah bent his head in corroboration. Will you read the note?
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: It's very short, said Jenny with the look of wonder.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: When she had read it. There was no time to
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: make it longer. Time is so very precious, My dear friend,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: mister Eugene Rayburn is dying. The dress made it, clasped
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: her hands and uttered a little piteous cry. Is dying,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: repeated Lighthood with emotion. At some distance from here, he
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: is sinking, and her injuries received at the hands of
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: a villain who attacked him in the dark. I come
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: straight from his bedside. He is almost always insensible. In
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: a short, restless interval of sensibility or partial sensibility, I
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: made out that he asked for you to be brought
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: to sit by him, hardly relying on my own interpretation
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: of the hindistinct sounds he made. I caused Lizzie to
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: hear them. We were both sure that he asked for you.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: The dressmaker, with her hands still clasped, looked affrightedly from
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: the one to the other of her two companions. If
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: you delay, he may die with his request ungratified, with
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: his last wish intrusted to me. We have long been
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: much more than brothers unfulfilled. I shall break down if
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: I try to say more. In a few moments, the
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: black bonnet and the crutch stick were on duty, the
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: good jew was left in possession of the house, and
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: the doll's dressmaker, side by, sad in a chaise with Mortimer.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: Lightwood was posting out of town. End of book four,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: Chapter nine, Chapter ten, the dolls dressmaker discovers a word,
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: A darkened and hushed room, the river outside the windows,
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: flowing on to the vast ocean. A figure on the bed,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: swathed and bandaged and bound, lying helpless on its back,
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: with its two useless arms and splints at its sides.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: Only two days of usage so familiarized the little dressmaker
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: with the scene that it held the place occupied two
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: days ago. By the recollection of years, he had scarcely
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: moved since our arrival. Sometimes his eyes were open, sometimes closed.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: When they were open, there was no meaning in their
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: unwinking stare at one spot straight before them, unless for
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: a moment the brow knitted into a faint expression of
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: anger or surprise. Then autumn Lightwood would speak to him,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: and on occasions he would be so far roused as
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: to make an attempt to pronounce his friend's name, But
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: in an instant consciousness was gone again, and no spirit
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: of Eugene was in Eugene's crushed out of form, They
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: provided Jenny with materials for plying her work, and she
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: had a little table placed at the foot of his bed.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: Sitting there with her rich shower of hair falling over
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: the chair back, They hoped she might attract his notice
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: with the same object. She would sing just above her
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: breath when he opened his eyes or saw his brow
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: knit into that faint expression, so effanescent that it was
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: like a shape made in water. But as yet he
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: had not heeded the They here mentioned were the medical
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: attendant Lizzie, who was there in all her intervals of rest,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: and Lightwood, who never left him. The two days became three,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: and the three days became four. At length, quite unexpectedly,
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: he said something in a whisper. What was it, My
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: dear Eugene, Will you mortemer Will I send for her,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: my dear fellow, She is here quite unconscious of the
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: long blank, he supposed that they were still speaking together.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: The little dressmaker stood up at the foot of the bed,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: humming her song, and nodded to him brightly. I can't
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: shake hands, Jenny, said Eugene, with something of his old look.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: But I am very glad to see you. Mortimer repeated
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: this to her, for it could only be made out
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: by bending over him and closely watching his attempts to
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: say it. In a little while, he added, ask her
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: if she has seen the children. Mortimer could not understand this,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: neither could Jenny herself, until he added, ask her if
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: she has smelt the flowers. Oh, I know, cried Jenny.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: I understand him now. Then Lightwood yielded his place to
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: her quick approach, and she said, bending over the bed
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: with that better look. You mean, my long, bright slant
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: in rows of children used to bring me ease and rest.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: You mean the children used to take me up and
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: make me light. Eugene smiled. Yes, I've not seen him
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: since I saw you. I never see them now, but
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: I am hardly ever in pain now. It was a
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: pretty fancy, said Eugene. But I have heard my birds sing,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: cried the little creature, and I have smelt my flowers. Yes,
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: indeed I have, and both were most beautiful and most divine.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: Stay and help to nurse me, said Eugene quietly. I
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: should like you to have the fancy here before I die.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: She touched his lips with her hand and shaded her
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: eyes with that same hand as she went back to
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: her work and her little low song. He heard the
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: song with evident pleasure until she allowed it gradually to
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: sink away into silence. Mortimer, my, dear Eugene, if you
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: can give me anything to keep me here for only
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: a few minutes, to give you here, Eugene, to prevent
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: my wandering away. I don't know where, for I begin
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: to be sensible that I have just come back, and
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: that I shall lose myself again. Do so, dear boy.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: Mortimer gave him such stimulants as could be given him
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: with safety. They were always at hand, ready and bending
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: over him. Once more, was about to caution him when
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: he said, don't tell me not to speak, for I
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: must speak. If you knew the harassing anxiety that gnaws
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: and wears me when I am wandering in those places?
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: Where are those endless places? Mortimer? They must be yet
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: an immense distance. He saw in his friend's face that
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: he was losing himself for he added, after a moment,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. I'm not gone yet. What was it
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: you wanted to tell me something, Egene, my poor dear fellow.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: You wanted to say something to your old friend, to
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: the friend who has always loved you, admired you, imitated, you,
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: founded himself upon you. Be nothing without you, and who
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: God knows would be here in your place if he could,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: said Eugene, with a tender glance at the other, put
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: his hand before his face. I am not worth it.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: I acknowledge that I like it, dear boy, But I
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: am not worth it. This attack, my dear Mortimer, this murder.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: His friend leaned over him with her new detention, saying,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: you and I suspect some one more than suspect, but Mortimer,
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: while I lie here, and when I lie here no longer,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: I trust to you that the perpetrator is never brought
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: to justice, Eugene, Her innocent reputation would be ruined, my friend.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: She would be punished, not he. I have wronged her enough.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: In fact, I have wronged her still more. In intention,
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: you recollect what pavement is said to be made of
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: good intentions, It is made of bad intentions too, Mortimer,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: I am lying on it, and I know be comforted,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: my dear Eugene. I will when you have promised me.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: Dear Mortimer, the man must never be pursued. If he
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: should be cused, you must keep him silent and save him.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: Don't think of avenging me, Think only of hushing this
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: story and protecting her. You can confuse the case and
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: turned aside the circumstances. Listen to what I say to you.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: It was not the schoolmaster Bradley Headstone. Do you hear
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: me twice? It was not the schoolmaster Bradley Headstone. Do
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: you hear me three times? It was not the schoolmaster.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: Proudly done, he stopped, exhausted. His speech had been whispered,
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: broken and indistinct, but by a great effort he had
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: made it plain enough to be unmistakable. Dear fellow, I
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: am wandering away. Stay here for another moment, if you can.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: Lightwood lifted his head at the neck and put a
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: wine glass to his lips. He rallied. I don't know
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: how long ago it was done. With her week's days
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: or hours, No matter. There is inquiry on foot, and
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: the pursuit say is there not? Yes? Check it, divert it.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: Don't let her be brought in question, shield her. The
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: guilty man brought to justice would poison her name. Let
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: the guilty man go unpunished. Lizzie and my reparation before all,
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: promise me, Eugene, I do I promise you. In the
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: act of turning his eyes gratefully towards his friend, he
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: wandered away. His eyes stood still and settled into that
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: former intent, unmeaning stare hours and hours, days and nights
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: he remained in this same condition. There were times when
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: he would calmly speak to his friend after a long
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: period of unconsciousness, and would say he was better, and
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: would ask for something. Before it could be given him,
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: he would be gone again. The DoD dress maker, all
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: softened compassion, now watched him with an earnestness that never relaxed.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: She would regularly change the ice or the cooling spirit
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: on his head, and would keep her ear at the
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: pillow between whiles listening for any faint words that fell
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: from him in his wanderings. It was amazing, through how
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: many hours at a time she would remain beside him
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: in a crouching attitude, attentive to his slightest moan. As
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: he could not move a hand, he could make no
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: sign of distress. But through this close watching, if through
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: no secret sympathy or power, the little creature attained an
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: understanding of him that Lightwood did not possess. Mortimwoud often
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: turned to her as if she were an interpreter between
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: this sentient world and the insensible man, and she would
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: change the dressing of a wound, or ease a ligature,
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: or turn his face, or alter the pressure of the
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: bedclothes on him, with an absolute certainty of doing right.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: The natural lightness and delicacy of touch which had become
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: very refined by practice in her miniature work. No doubt
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: was involved in this, but her perception was at least
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: as fine. The one word Lizzie he muttered millions of
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: times in a certain phase of his distressful state, which
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: was the worst to those who tendered him. He would
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: roll his head upon the pillow, incessantly repeating the name
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: in a hurried and impatient manner, with the misery of
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: a disturbed mind and the monotony of a machine. Equally,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: when he lay still and staring. He would repeat it
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: for hours without cessation, but then always in a tone
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: of subdued warning and horror. Her presence and her touch
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: upon his breast or face would often stop this, And
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: then they learned to expect that he would for some
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: time remain still with his eyes closed, and that he
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: would be conscious on opening them. But the heavy disappointment
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: of their hope, revived by the welcome silence of the room,
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: was that his spirit would glide away again and be
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: lost in the moment of their joy that it was there.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: This frequent rising of a drowning man from the deep
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: to sink again was dreadful to the beholders, but gradually
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: the change stole upon him that it became dreadful to himself.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: His desire to impart something that was on his mind,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: his unspeakable yearning to have speech with his friend and
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: make a communication to him, so troubled him when he
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: recovered consciousness that its term was thereby shortened, as the
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: man rising from the deep would disappear the sooner for
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: fighting with the water. So he, in his desperate struggle,
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: went down again. One afternoon, when he had been lying still,
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: and Lizzie unrecognized, had just stolen out of the room
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: to pursue her occupation. He uttered Lightwood's name, My dear Eugene,
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: I am here. How long is this two last? Mortimer?
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: Lightwood shook his head. Still, Eugene, you are no worse
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: than you were, but I know there's no hope yet.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: I pray it may last long enough for you to
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: do me one last service and for me to do
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: one last action. Keep me here a few moments, Mortimer
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: try try. His friend gave him what aid he could
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: and encouraged him to believe that he was more composed,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: though even then his eyes were losing the expression they
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: so rarely recovered. Hold me here, dear fellow, if you
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: can stop my wandering away. Ah, I am going not yet,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: not yet. Tell me, dear Eugene, what is it I
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: shall do? Keep me here for a single minute. I'm
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: going away again. Don't let me go. He hear me
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: speak first, stop me, stop me, My poor Eugene, Try
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: to be calm. I do try. I try so hard.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: If you only knew how hard. Don't let me wonder
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: till I have spoken. Give me a little more wine,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: Lightwood complied Eugene with a most pathetic struggle against the
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: unconsciousness that was coming over him, and with a look
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: of appeal that affected his friend profoundly, said, you cannot
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: leave me with Jenny while you speak to her and
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: tell her what I beseech of her. You can leave
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: me with Jenny while you are gone. There's not much
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: for you to do. You won't be long away. No, no, no,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: But tell me what it is that I shall do. Eugene,
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: I am going. You can't hold me. Tell me in
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: a word, Eugene. His eyes were fixed again, and the
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: only word that came from his lips was the word
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: millions of times repeated, Lizzie, Lizzie, Lissie. But the watchful
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: little dressmaker had been vigilant as ever in her watch,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: and she now came up and touched Lightwood's arm as
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: he looked down at his friend despairingly. Hush, she said,
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: with her finger on her lips. His eyes are closing.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: You be conscious when he next opens them. Shall I
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: give you a leading word to say? To him? Oh, Jenny,
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: if you could only give me the right word, I
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: can stoop down. He stooped, and she whispered in his ear.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: She whispered in his ear one short word of a
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: single syllable. Lightwood started and looked at her. Try it,
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: said the little creature, with an excited and exultant face.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: She then bent over the unconscious man and for the
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: first time, kissed him on the cheek, and kissed the
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: poor maimed hand that was nearest to her. Then she
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: withdrew to the foot of the bed. Some two hours afterwards,
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: Mortimer Lightwood saw his consciousness come back, and instantly, but
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: very tranquility, bent over him. Don't speak, Eugene, do no
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: more than look at me and listen to me. You
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: follow what I say? He moved his head in assent.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: I am going on from the point where he broke off.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: Is the word we should soon have come to, is it? Wife? Ah? Oh, God,
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: bless you, Mortimer. Hush, don't be agitated, don't speak. Hear me.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: Dear Eugene, your mind will be more at peace lying here.
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: If you make Lizzie your wife, you wish me to
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: speak to her and tell her so and entreat her
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: to be your wife. You ask her to kneel at
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: this bedside and be married to you, that your reparation
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: may be complete. Is that so? Yes? God bless you. Yes,
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: it shall be done, Eugene, trusted to me, I shall
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: have to go away for some few hours to give
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: effect to your wishes. You see, this is unavoidable, dear friend,
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: I said, so true, But I had not the clue.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: Then how do you think I got it? Glancing wistfully around,
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: Eugene saw miss Jennie at the foot of the bed,
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: looking at him, with her elbows on the bed and
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: her head upon her hands. There was a trace of
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: his whimsical air upon him as he tried to smile
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: at her. Yes, indeed, said Lightwood, the discovery was hers. Observe,
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: my dear Eugene, while I am away, you will know
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: that I have discharged my trust with Lizzie by finding
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: her here in my present place at your bedside, to
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: leave you no more a final word before I go.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: This is the right course of a true man, Eugene.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: And I solemnly believeth all my soul that if Providence
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: should mercifully restore you to us, you will be blessed
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: with a noble wife in the preserver of your life,
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: whom you will dearly love. Ah Men, I am sure
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: of that, But I shall not come through it, Mortimer,
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: you will not be the less hopeful or less strong
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: for this. Eugene, no touch my face with yours, in
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: case I should not hold out till you come back.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: I love you, Mortimer. Don't be uneasy for me while
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: you are gone. If my dear brave girl will take me,
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: I feel persuaded that I shall live long enough to
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: be married, dear fellow. Miss Jennie gave up altogether on
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: this parting, taking place between the friends, and sitting with
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: her back towards the bed in the bower made by
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: her bright hair, wept heartily, though noiselessly. Mortimer. Lightwood was
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: soon gone. As the evening light lengthened the heavy reflections
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: of the trees and the river. Another figure came with
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: a soft step into the sick room. Is he conscious,
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: asked the little dressmaker, as the figure took its station
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: by the pillow, for Jennie had given place to it
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: immediately and could not see the sufferer's face in the
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: dark room from her new and removed position. He is conscious,
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: Jenny murmured Eugene for himself. He knows his wife. End
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: of Book four, Chapter ten, Chapter eleven. Effect is given
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: to the dolls Dressmaker's discovery. Missus John Rokesmith sat at
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: needlework in her neat little room, beside a basket of
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: neat little articles of clothing, which presented so much of
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: the appearance of being in the dolls dressmaker's way of business,
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: that one might have supposed she was going to set
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: up in opposition to Miss Wren. Whether the complete British
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: family housewife had imparted Sage Council and entered them did
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: not appear, but probably not, as that cloudy oracle was
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: nowhere visible. For certain, however, Missus John Rokesmith stitched at
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: them with so dexterous a hand that she must have
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: taken lessons of somebody. Love is, in all things a
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: most wonderful teacher, and perhaps love, from a pictorial point
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: of view, with nothing on but a thimble, had been
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: teaching this branch of needlework to Missus John Rokesmith. It
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: was near John's time for coming home, but as Missus
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: John was desirous to finish a special triumph of her
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: skill before dinner, she did not go out to meet him. Placidly,
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: though rather consequentially smiling, she sat stitching away with a
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: regular sound like a sort of dimpled, little charming Dresden
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: China clock by the very best maker. A knock at
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: the door and a ring at the bell, not John
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: or Bella would have flown out to meet him? Then?
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: Who if not John? Bella was asking herself the question
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: when that fluttering little fool of a servant fluttered in, saying,
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: mister Lightwood, Oh good, gracious Bella had but time to
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: throw a handkerchief over the basket when mister Lightwood made
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: his bow. There was something amiss with mister Lightwood, for
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: he was strangely grave and looked ill. With a brief
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: reference to the happy time when it had been his
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: privilege to know Missus Rokesmith as miss Wilfer, mister Lightwood
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: explained what was amiss with him and why he came.
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: He came bearing Lizzie Hexam's earnest hope that missus John
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: Rokesmith would see her married. Bella was so flattered by
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: the request and by the short narrative he had feelingly
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: given her that there never was a more timey smelling
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: bottle than John's knock. My husband, said Bella, I bring
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: him in. But that turned out to be more easily said,
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: than done. For the instant she mentioned mister Lightwood's name,
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: John stopped with his hand upon the lock of the
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: room door. Come up stairs, my darling. Bella was amazed
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: by the flush in his face and by his sudden
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: turning away. What can it mean? She thought, as she
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: accompanied him up stairs. Now my life, said John, taking
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: her on his knee. Tell me all about it. All
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: very well to say, tell me all about it, But
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: John was very much confused. His attention evidently trailed off
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: now and then, even while Bella told him all about it.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: Yet she knew that he took a great interest in
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: Lizzie and her fortunes. What could it mean? Will you
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: come to this marriage with me? John dear, No, my love,
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: I can't do that. You can't do that, John, No,
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: my dear, it sir quite out of the question, not
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: to be thought of. Am I to go alone? John, No,
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: my dear, you will go with mister Lightwood. Don't you
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: think it's time you went down to mister Lightwood? John dear,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: Bella insinuated, my darling, it's almost time you went, But
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: I must ask you to excuse me to him altogether.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: You you never mean, John, dear, that you're not going
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: to see him. Why he knows you've come home. I
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: told him so. That's a little unfortunate, but it can't
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: be helped. Unfortunate or fortunate. I positively cannot see him,
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: My love, Bella cast about on her mind could be
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: his reason for this unaccountable behavior. As she sat on
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: his knee, looking at him in astonishment and pouting a little,
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: a weak reason presented itself, John, dear, you never can
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: be jealous of mister Lightwood. Why my precious child returned
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: her husband, laughing outright? How could I be jealous of him?
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: Why should I be jealous of him? Because you know,
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: John pursued Bella, pouting a little more, though he did
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: rather admire me once. It was not my fault. It
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: was your fault that I admired you, returned her husband
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: with a look of pride in her. And why not
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: your fault had he admired you? But I jealous on
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: that account? Why I must go distracted for life if
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: I turned jealous of every one who used to find
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: my wife beautiful and winning. I am half angry with you,
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: John dear, said Bella, laughing a little, and half pleased
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: with you, because you are such a stupid old fellow,
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: and yet you say nice things as if you meant them.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: Don't be mysterious, sir. What harm do you know of
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: mister Lightwood? None, my love? What has he ever done
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: to you? John? He has never done anything to me,
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: my dear. I know no more against him than I
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: know against mister Rayburn. He has never done anything to me.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: Neither has mister Rayburn. And yet I have exactly the
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: same objection to both of them. Oh, John, retorted Bella,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: as if she were giving him up for a bad job,
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: as she used to give up herself. You are nothing
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: better than a sphinx, and are married sphinx, isn't it?
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: Isn't a nice confidential husband, said Bella in a tone
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: of injury. Bella, my life, said John Rokesmith, touching her
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: cheek with a grave smile, as she cast down her
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: eyes and pouted again. Look at me. I want to
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: speak to you in earnest, blue Beard of the secret Chamber,
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: asked Bella, clearing her pretty face. In earnest, and I
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: confess to the secret chamber. Don't you remember that you
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: asked me not to declare what I thought of your
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: higher qualities until you had been tried. Yes, John Dear,
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: and I fully meant it, and I fully mean it.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: The time will come, my darling. I am no profit,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: but I say so when you will be tried. The
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: time will come, I think, when you will undergo a
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: trial through which you will never pass quite triumphantly for me.
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: Unless you can put perfect faith in me, then you
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: may be sure of me, John Dear, For I can
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: put perfect faith in you, and I do, and I
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: always always will. Don't judge me by a little thing
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: like this, John. In little things, I am a little
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: thing myself. I always was. But in great things I
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: hope not. I don't mean to boast, John Dear, but
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: I hope not. He was even better convinced of the
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: truth of what she said than she was, as he
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: felt her loving arms about him. If the golden dustman's
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: riches had been his mistake, he would have staked them
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: to the last farthing on the fidelity through good and
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: evil of her affectionate and trusting heart. Now I'll go
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: down too, and go away with Miss Flightwood, said Bella,
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: springing up. You are the most creasing and tumbling, clumsy
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: boots of a packer. John that ever was. But if
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: you're quite good, and will promise never to do so
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: any more, though I don't know what you have done,
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: you may pack me a little bag for a night
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: while I get my bonnet on. He gaily complied, And
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: she tied her dimple chin up and shook her head
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: into her bonnet, and pulled out the bows of her
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: bonnet strings, and got her gloves on finger by finger,
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: and finally got them on her little plump hands, and
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: bade him good bye, and went down. Mister Lightwood's impatience
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: was much relieved when he found her dressed for departure.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: Mister Rokesmith goes with this, he said, hesitating with a
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: look towards the door. Oh, I forgot, replied Bella, his
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: best compliments. His face has swollen to the size of
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: two faces, and he is to go to bed directly
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: poor fellow, to wait for the doctor who is coming
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: to lance him. It is curious, observed Lightwood, that I
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: have never yet seen mister Rokesmith, though we have been
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: engaged in the same affairs, really, said the unblushing Bella.
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: I begin to think, observed Lightwood, that I never shall
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: see him. These things happen so oddly, sometimes, said Bella,
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: with a steady countenance, for this seems a kind of
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: fatality in them. But I am quite ready, mister Lightwood.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: They started directly in a little carriage that Lightwood had
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: brought with him from never to be forgotten Greenwich, and
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: from Greenwich they started directly for London. And in London
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: they waited at a railway station until such time as
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: the Reverend Frank Milvey and Margaretta, his wife, with whom
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: Mortimer Lightwood had been already in conference, should come and
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: join them. That worthy couple were delayed by a portentous
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: old parishioner of the female gender, who was one of
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: the plagues of their lives, and with whom they bore
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: with most exemplary sweetness and good humor, notwithstanding her having
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: an infection of absurdity about her that communicated itself to
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: everything with which and everybody with whom she came in contact.
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: She was a member of the Reverend Frank's congregation, and
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: made a point of distinguishing herself in that body by
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: conspicuously weeping at everything. However cheering said by the Reverend
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: Frank in his public ministration, also by applying to herself
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: the various lamentations of David, and comp laying in a
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: personally injured manner, much in the rear of the clerk
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: and the rest of the respondents, that her enemies were
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: digging pitfalls about her and breaking her with Rod's iron. Indeed,
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: this old widow discharged herself of that portion of the
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: morning and evening service as if she were lodging a
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: complaint on oath and applying for a warrant before a magistrate.
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: But this was not her most inconvenient characteristic, for that
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: took the form of an impression, usually recurring in inclement
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: weather and about daybreak, that she had something on her
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: mind and stood in immediate need of the Reverend Frank
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: to come and take it off. Many a time had
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: that kind creature got up and gone out to Missus Spodgkin,
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: such was the disciple's name, suppressing a strong sense of
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: her chemicality by his strong sense of duty, and perfectly
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: knowing that nothing but a cold would come of it. However,
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: beyond themselves, the Reverend Frank Milvey and Missus Milvey seldom
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: hinted at Missus Spodgkin was hardly worth the trouble she gave,
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: but both made the best of her, as they did
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: of all their troubles. This very exacting member of the
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: fold appeared to be endowed the sixth sense in regard
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: of knowing when the Reverend Frank Milvey least desired her company,
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: and with promptitude appearing in his little hall. Consequently, when
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: the Reverend Frank had willingly engaged that he and his
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: wife would accompany Lightwood back, he said, as a matter
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: of course, we must make haste to get out Margaretta,
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: my dear, or we shall be descended on by missus
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: Sir Sprutchkin, to which Missus Milvey replied, in her pleasantly
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: emphatic way, Oh yes, for she is such a marplot.
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: Frank and Tz worry so words that were scarcely uttered
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: when their theme was announced, as in faithful attendance below.
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: Desiring counsel on a spiritual matter, the points on which
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: Missus Spodgkin sought elucidation being seldom of oppressing nature, as
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: who begat whom, or some information concerning the amorites, Missus Milvey,
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: on this special occasion resorted to the device of buying
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: her off with a present of tea in sugar and
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: a loaf and butter. These gifts Missus Spodgkin accepted, but
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: still insisted on dutifully remaining in the hall to Curtsey
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: to the Reverend Frank as he came forth, who incautiously,
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: saying in his genial manner, well Ler, Sally, here you are,
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: involved himself in a discursive address from Missus Spodgkin revolving
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: around the result that she regarded tea and sugar in
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: the light of Muhr and frankinsense, and considered bread and
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: butter identical with locusts and wild honey. Having communicated this
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: edifying piece of information, Missus Spodgkin was left still unadjourned
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: in the hall, and mister Missus Milvey hurried in a
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: heated condition to the railway station, all of which is
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: here recorded to the honor of that good Christian representatives
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: of hundreds of other good Christian pairs, as conscientious and
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: as useful, who merge the smallness of their work in
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: its greatness, and feel in no danger of losing dignity
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: when they adapt themselves to incomprehensible humbugs. Detained at the
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: last moment by one who had er a claim upon me.
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: Was the Reverend Frank's apology to Lightwood, taking no thought
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: of himself, to which Missus Milvey added, taking thought for
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: him like the championing little wife. She was, oh yes,
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: detained at the last moment. But as to the claim Frank,
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: I must say that I do think you are over
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: considerate sometimes, and allow that to be a little abused.
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: Bella felt conscious, in spite of her late pledge for herself,
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: that her husband's absence would give disagreeable occasion for surprise
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: to the Milviys. Nor could she bear quite at her
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: ease when missus Milvey asked, how is mister Rooksmith, and
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: is he gone before us? Or dares he follow us?
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: It becoming necessary upon this to send him to bed
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: again and hold him in waiting to be lanced again.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: Bella did it, but not half as well on the
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: second occasion as on the first. For a twice told,
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: white one seems almost to become a black one when
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: you were not used to it. Oh dear, said missus Milvey,
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: I am so sorry mister Rokesmith took such an interest
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: in Lizzie Hexam when we were there before, and if
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: we had only known of his face, we could have
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: given him something that would have kept it down long
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: enough for so short a purpose. By way of making
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: the white one whiter. Bella hastened to stipulate that he
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: was not in pain. Missus Milvey was so glad of it.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know how it is, said Missus Milvey, and
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: I am sure you don't, Frank. But the clergy and
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: their wives seem to cause swelled faces. Whenever I take
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: notice of a child in the school, it seems to
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: me as if its face swelled instantly. Frank never makes
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: acquaintance with the new old woman, but she gets the
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: face ache. And another thing is, we too make the
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: poor children sniff. So I don't know how we do it,
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: and I should be so glad not to. But the
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: more we take notice of them, the more they sniff,
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: just as they do when the text is given out. Frank,
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: that's a schoolmaster. I have seen him somewhere. The reference
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: was to a young man of reserved appearance in a
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: coat and waistcoat of black and pantaloons of pepper and salt.
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: He had come into the office of the station from
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 1: its interior in an unsettled way, immediately after Lightwood had
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: gone out to the train, and he had been hurriedly
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: reading the printed bills and notices on the wall. He
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: had had a wondering interest in what was said among
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: the people waiting there, and passing to and fro. He
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: had drawn nearer at about the time when missus Milvey
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: mentioned Lizzie Hexam, and remained near since, though always glancing
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: towards the door by which Lightwood had gone out. He
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: stood with his back towards them, and his gloved hands
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: clasped behind him. There was now so evident a faltering
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: upon him, expressive of indecision whether or no he should
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 1: express his Having heard himself referred to that, mister Milvey
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: spoke to him. I cannot recall your name, he said,
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: but I remember to have seen you in your school.
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: My name is Bradley Headstone, sir, he replied, backing into
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: a more retired place. I ought to have remembered it,
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: said mister Milvey, giving him his hand. I hope you
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: are well a little overworked. I am afraid yes, I
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: am overworked just at present, sir. Had no play in
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: your last holiday time, no, sir, all the work and
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: no play. Mister headstone will not make a dullness in
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: your case, I dare say, but it will make dyspepsia
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: if you don't take her. I will endeavor to take care, sir.
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: Might I beg leave to speak to you outside a moment?
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: By all means, it was evening and the office was
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 1: well lighted. The schoolmaster, who had never omitted his watch
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: on Lightwood's door, now moved by another door to a
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: corner without where there was more shadow than light, and said,
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: plucking at his gloves, one of your lady, Sir, mentioned
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: within my hearing a name that I am acquainted with.
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: I may say, well acquainted with the name of the
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: sister of an old pupil of mine. He was my
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: pupil for a long time, and has got on and
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: gone upward rapidly. The name of Hexham, the name of
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: Lizzie Hexham. He seemed to be a shy man, struggling
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: against nervousness, and spoke in a very constrained way. The
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: break he set between his last two sentences was quite
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: embarrassing to his hearer. Yes, Sir, replied mister Milvey, we
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: are going down to see her. I gathered as much, Sir,
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: I hope there is nothing amiss with the sister of
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: my old pupil. I hope no bereavement has befallen her.
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: I hope she is in no affliction, has lost no relation.
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: Mister Milvey thought this a man with a very odd
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: manner and a dark downward look. But he answered in
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 1: his usual open way, I am glad to tell you,
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: mister Headstone, that the sister of your old pupil has
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: not sustained any such loss. You thought I might be
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: going down to bury some one. That may have been
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: the connection of idea, Sir, with your clerical character, but
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: I was not conscious of it. Then you are, not, sir,
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 1: a man with a very odd manner, indeed, and with
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: a lurking look that was quite oppressive. No, in fact,
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: said mister Milvey. Since you are so interested in the
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: sister of your old pupil, I may as well tell
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: you that I am going down to marry her. The
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: schoolmaster started back. Not to marry her myself, said mister Miller,
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: with a smile, because I have a wife already to
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: perform the marriage service at her wedding. Badly Headstone caught
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: hold of a pillow behind him. If mister Milvey knew
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: an ashy face when he saw it. He saw it,
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: then you are quite er ill er, mister Headstone. It
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: is not much, sir. It will pass over very soon.
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: I am accustomed to be seized with the giddiness. Don't
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: let me detain you, sir. I stand in need of
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: no assistance. Sir. I thank you much obliged by your
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: sparing me these minutes of your time. As mister Milvey,
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: who had no more minutes to spare, made a suitable
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: reply and turned back into the office. He observed the
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: schoolmaster to lean against the pillar with his hat in
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: his hand, and to pull at his neckcloth, as if
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: you were trying to tear it off. The Reverend Frank
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: accordingly directed the notice of one of the attendants to
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 1: him by saying, there is a person outside who seems
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: to be really ill and to require some help, though
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: he says he does not. Lightwood had by this time
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: secured their places, and the departure bell was about to
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: be rung. They took their seats and were beginning to
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: move out of the station when the same attendant came
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: running along the platform, looking into all the carriages. Ow
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: you're here, sir, he said, springing on the step and
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: holding the window frame by his elbow. As the carriage moved.
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: That person, he pointed out to me, is in a fit.
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: I infer from what he told me that he is
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: a subject to do such a tax. He will come
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: too in the air in a little while. He was
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: took very bad, to be sure, and was biting and
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: knocking about him. The man said furiously, would the gentleman
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: give him his card, as he had seen him first.
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: The gentleman did so, with the explanation that he knew
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: no more the man attacked, and that he was a
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: man of a very respectable occupation, who had said he
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: was out of health, as his appearance would of itself
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: have indicated. The attendant received the card, watched his opportunity
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: of sliding down slid down, and so it ended. Then
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: the train rattled among the housetops and among the ragged
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: sides of houses torn down to make way for it,
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: and over the swarming streets and under the fruitful earth,
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: until it shot across the river, bursting over the quiet
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: surface like a bomb shell, and gone again as if
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: it had exploded, in the rush of smoke and steam
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: and glare a little more, and again it roared across
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: the river, a great rocket, spurning the watery turnings and
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: doublings with ineffable contempt, and going straight to its end
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: as far the time goes to his to whom it
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: is no matter what living waters run high or low,
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: reflect the heavenly lights and darknesses, produce their little growth
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: of weeds and flowers. Turn here, turn there are noisy
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: or still, or trouble or at rest, for their course
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: has one sure termination, though their sources and devices are many.
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: Then a carriage ride succeeded near the solemn river, stealing
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: away by night as all things steal away by night
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: and by day, so quietly yielding to the attraction of
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: the lodestone rock of eternity. And the nearer they do
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: to the chamber where Eugene lay, the more they feared
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: that they might find his wanderings done. At last, they
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: saw its dim light shining out, and it gave them hope.
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: Though Lightwood folded, as he thought if he were gone,
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: she would still be sitting by him. But he lay quiet,
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: half in stupor half in sleep. Bella entering with a
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: rais and monitory finger kissed Lizzie softly, but said not
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: a word. Neither did any of them speak, but all
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: sat down at the foot of the bed silently waiting.
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: And now, in this night one mingling with the flow
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: of the river and with the rush of the train,
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: came the questions into Bella's mind again, What could be
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: in the depths of that mystery of John's? Why was
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: it that he had never been seen by mister Lightwood,
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: whom he still avoided? When would that trial come through
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: which her faith in and her duty to her dear
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: husband was to carry her, rendering him triumphant, for that
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: had been his term. Her passing through the trial was
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: to make the man she loved with all her heart triumphant,
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: term not to sink out of sight in Bella's breast.
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 1: Far on in the night, Eugene opened his eyes. He
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: was sensible, and said, at once, how does the time go?
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: Has our Mortimer come back? Lightwood was there immediately to
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: answer for himself. Yes, Eugene, and all is ready, dear boy,
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 1: returned Eugene with a smile. We both thank you heartily.
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: Lizzy tell them how welcome they are, and that I
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: would be eloquent if I could. There is no need,
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: said mister Milvey, We know it. Are you better, mister Raeburn,
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: I am much happier, said Eugene, much better too, are
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: you hope? Eugene turned his eyes towards Lizzie, as if
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: to spare her, and answered nothing. Then they all stood
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: round the bed, and mister Milvey, opening his book, began
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: the service, so rarely associated with the shadow of death,
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: so inseparable in the mind from a flush of life
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: and gaiety and hope and health and joy. Bella thought,
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: how different from her own sunny little wedding, and wept
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: missus Milvey overflowed with pity, and wept too. The doll's dressmaker,
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: with the hands before her face, wept in her golden bower,
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 1: reading in a low, clear voice, and bending over Eugene,
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: who kept his eyes upon him. Mister Milvey did his
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: office with suitable simplicity. As the bridegroom could not move
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: his hand, they touched his fingers with the ring, and
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: so put it on the bride. When the two plighted
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: their troth, she laid her hand on his and kept
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: it there. When the ceremony was done, and all the
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: rest departed from the room. She drew her arm under
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: his head and laid her own head down upon the
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: pillow by his side, andrew the curtains. My dear girl,
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 1: said Eugene. After a while, and let us see our
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: wedding day. The sun was rising, and his first rays
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: struck into the room as she came back and put
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: her lips to his I bless the day, said Eugene.
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: I bless the day, said Lizzie. You have made a
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 1: poor marriage of it, My sweet wife, said Eugene, a shattered,
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 1: graceless fellow stretched at his length. Here and next do
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: nothing for you when you are a young widow. I
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: have made the marriage that I would have given all
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: the world to dare to hope for, she replied. You
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: have thrown yourself away, said Eugene, shaking his head. But
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: you have followed the treasure of your heart. My justification
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: is that you had town that away first, dear girl.
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: Now I had given it to you. The same thing,
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 1: my poor Lissie, Hush, hush, a very different thing. There
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: were tears in his eyes, and she besought him to
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: close them. No, said Eugene, again, shaking his head. Let
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: me look at you, Lissy, while I can you brave,
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 1: devoted girl, you heroine. Her own eyes filled under his praises,
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: And when he mustered strength to move his wounded head
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: a very little way and lay it on her bosom,
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: the tears both fell. Lyssy said, Eugene, after silence, when
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: you see me wandering away from this refuge that I
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: have so ill deserved, speak to me by my name,
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: and I think I shall come back. Yes, dear Eugene, ere,
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: he exclaimed, smiling. I should have gone then, but for
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: that a little while afterwards, when he appeared to be
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: sinking into insensibility, she said, in a calm, loving voice, Eugene,
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: my dear husband. He immediately answered, there again, you see
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 1: how you can recall me. And afterwards, when he could
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 1: not speak, he still answered by a slight movement of
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: his head upon her bosom. The sun was high in
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: the sky when she gently disengaged herself to give him
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: the stimulants and nourishment he required. The utter helplessness of
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: the wreck of him that lay cast ashore there now
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: alarmed her, but he himself appeared a little more hopeful.
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 1: Ah Ah, my beloved Lizzie, he said, faintly, how shall
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: I ever pay all I owe you if I recover,
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 1: don't be ashamed of me, she replied, And you will
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 1: have more than paid all. It would require a life, Lizzie,
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: to pay all, more than a life. Live for that,
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: then live for me, Eugene. Live to see how hard
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: I will try to improve myself, and never to discredit you,
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: my darling girl, he replied, rallying more of his old
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: manner than he had ever yet got together. On the contrary,
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: I have read thinking whether it is not the best
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: thing I can do to die, the best thing you
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: can do to leave me with a broken heart. Ah.
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: I don't mean that, my dear girl. I was not
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: thinking of that. What I was thinking of was this,
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: out of your compassion for me in this maimed, a
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: broken state. You make so much of me, You think
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: so well of me, You love me so dearly. Eaven
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: knows I love you dearly, and Heaven knows I prize
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: it well. If I live, you will find me out.
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: I shall find out that my husband has a mine
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: of purpose and energy and will turn it to the
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: best account. Ah. I hope so, dearest, Lizzie, said Eugene,
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 1: wistfully and yet somewhat whimsically. I hope so, but I
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: can't summon the vanity to think so. How can I
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 1: think so? Looking back on such a trifling, wasted youth
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: as mine, I humbly hope it, that I daren't believe it.
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: There is a sharp misgiving in my conscience that if
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: I were to live, I should disappoint your good opinion
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 1: and my own, and that I ought to die, my
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: dear end A book Fourapter eleven, chapter twelve, The passing Shadow,
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: The winds and tides rose and fell a certain number
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: of times, the earth moved round the sun a certain
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: number of times. The ship upon the ocean made her
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: voyage safely and brought a baby Bella home. Then, who
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 1: so blessed and happy as missus John Rokesmith, saving and
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: accepting mister John Rokesmith, Would you not like to be rich? Now?
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: My darling? How can you ask me such a question? John? Dear,
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: am I not rich? These were among the first words
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: spoken near the baby Bella as she lay asleep. She
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: soon proved to be a baby of wonderful intelligence, evincing
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: the strongest objection to her grandmother's society, and being veryably
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: seized with the painful acidity of the stomach when that
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 1: dignified lady honored her with any attention. It was charming
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: to see Bella contemplating this baby and finding out her
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 1: own dimples in that tiny reflection, as if she were
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: looking in the glass without personal vanity. Her cherubic father
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: justly remarked to her husband that the baby seemed to
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 1: make her younger than before, reminding him of the days
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: when she had a pet doll and used to talk
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: to it as she carried it about the world. Might
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: have been challenged to produce another baby who had such
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: a store of pleasant nonsense said and sung to it
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: as Bella said and sang to this baby, Or who
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: was dressed and undressed as often in four and twenty
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 1: hours as Bella dressed and undressed this baby, Or who
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: was held behind doors and poked out to stop its
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: father's way when he came home as this baby was,
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: Or in a word, who did half the number of
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 1: baby things through the lively invention of a gay and
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 1: proud young mother than this inexhaustible baby did. The inexhaustible
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: baby was two or three months old when Bella began
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: to notice a cloud upon her husband's brow. Watching it,
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: she saw a gathering deepening anxiety there, which caused her
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: great disquiet. More than once she woke him muttering in
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 1: his sleep, and though he muttered nothing worse than her
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 1: own name, it was plain to her that his restlessness
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 1: originated in some load of care. Therefore, Bellah at length
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 1: put in her claim to divide this load, and hear
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 1: her half of it. You know, John dear, she said, cheerily,
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: reverting to their former conversation, that I hope I may
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: safely be trusted in great things, and it surely cannot
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: be a little thing that causes you so much uneasiness.
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: It's very considerate of you to try to hide from
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 1: me that you are uncomfortable about something. But it's quite
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 1: impossible to be done, John, Love, I admit that I
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: am rather uneasy my own. Then please to tell me
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: what about sir, But no, he evaded that. Never mind,
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 1: thought Bella resolutely. John requires me to put perfect faith
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 1: in him, and he shall not be disappointed. She went
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: up to London one day to meet him in order
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 1: that they might make some purchases. She found him waiting
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 1: for her at her journey's end, and they walked away
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: together through the streets. He was in gay spirits, though
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 1: still harping on that notion of their being rich. And
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: he said, now let them make believe that yonder fine
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: carriage was theirs, and that he was waiting to take
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 1: them home to a fine house they had. What would
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 1: Bella in that case best like to find in the house? Well,
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: Bella didn't know. Already having everything she wanted, she couldn't say,
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 1: But by degrees she was led on to confess that
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: she would like to have for the inexhaustible baby such
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: a nursery as never was seen. It was to be
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: a very rainbow for colors, as she was quite sure
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: a baby noticed colors, and the staircase was to be
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 1: adorned with the most exquisite flowers, as she was absolutely
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: certain baby noticed flowers. And there was to be an
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 1: aviary somewhere of the loveliest little birds, as there was
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: not the smallest doubt in the world that baby noticed birds.
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: Was anything else, no, John, dear the predilections of the
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: inexhaustible baby being provided for, Bella could think of nothing else.
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: They were chatting on in this way, and John had
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: suggested no jewels for your own ware, for instance, and
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: Bella had replied, laughing, Oh, if he came to that, yes,
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 1: they might be a beautiful ivory case of jewels on
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: her dressing table. When these pictures were in a moment
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 1: darkened and blotted out, they turned a corner and met
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: mister Lightwood. He stopped as if he were petrified by
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: the sight of Bella's husband, who in the same moment
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 1: had changed color. Mister Lightwood and I have met before,
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: he said, met before. John Bella repeated, in a tone
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 1: of wonder. Mister Lightwood told me he had never seen you.
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: I did not then know that I had said Lightwood
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 1: discomposed on her account, I believed that I had only
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 1: heard of mister Rooksmith, with an emphasis on the name.
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: When mister Lightwood saw me, my love observed her husband,
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 1: not avoiding his eye, but looking at him. My name
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 1: was Julius Handford. Julius Handford, the name that Bella had
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 1: so often seen in old newspapers when she was an
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 1: inmate of mister Boffin's house. Julius Hanford, who had been
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: publicly entreated to appear, and for intelligence of whom a
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: reward had been publicly offered. I would have avoided mentioning
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 1: it in your presence, said Lightwood to Bella delicately. But
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: since your husband mentions it himself, I must confirm his
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: strange admission. I saw him as mister Julius Hanford, and I, afterwards,
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: unquestionably to his knowledge, took great pains to trace him out.
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: Quite true, but it was not my object or my interest,
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: said Rokesmith quietly, to be traced out. Bella looked from
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: the one to the other in amazement. Mister Lightwood pursued
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: her husband. As chance has brought us face to face
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 1: at last, it is not to be wondered at. For
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: the wonder is that, in spite of all my pains
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: to the contrary, chance has not confronted us together sooner.
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: I have only to remind you that you have been
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: at my house, and to add that I have not
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 1: changed my residence, Sir, returned Lightwood, with a meaning glance
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: towards Bella. My physician is a truly painful one. I
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: hope that no complicity in a very dark transaction may
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: attach to you. But you cannot fail to know that
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 1: your own extraordiny conduct has laid you under suspicion. I
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 1: know it has was all the reply. My professional duty,
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: said Lightwood, hesitating with another glance towards Bella, is greatly
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: at variance with my personal inclination. But I doubt mister
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: Hanford or mister Rokesmith, whether I am justified in taking
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: leave of you here. With your whole course unexplained, Bella
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 1: caught her husband by the hand. Don't be alarmed, my darling.
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: Mister Lightwood will find that he is quite justified in
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 1: taking leave of me here at all events, added Rokesmith.
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: He will find that I mean to take leave of
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: him here, I think, sir, said Lightwood, you can scarcely
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 1: deny that when I came to your house on the
• 2:44:46
  Speaker 1: occasion to which you have referred, you avoided me of
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 1: a set purpose. Mister Lightwood, I assure you I have
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 1: no disposition to deny it, or intention to deny it.
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 1: I should have continued to avoid you in pursuit wounds
• 2:45:00
  Speaker 1: of the same set purpose for a short time longer
• 2:45:03
  Speaker 1: if we had not met. Now, I am going straight
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 1: home and shall remain at home to morrow n till noon. Hereafter,
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: I hope we may be better acquainted. Good day, Lightwood
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 1: stood irresolute. But Bella's husband passed him in the steadiest manner,
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: with Bella on his arm, and he went home without
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: encountering any further remonstrance or molestation from any one. When
• 2:45:26
  Speaker 1: they had dined and were alone, John Rokesmith said to
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 1: his wife, who had preserved her cheerfulness, And you don't
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 1: ask me, my dear, why I bore that name, No
• 2:45:37
  Speaker 1: John Love, I should dearly like to know, of course,
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: which her anxious face confirmed. But I wait until you
• 2:45:45
  Speaker 1: can tell me of her own free will. You ask
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 1: me if I could have perfect faith in you, and
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 1: I said yes, and I meant it. It did not
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: escape Bella's notice that he began to look triumphant. She
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: wanted no stringth in her firmness, but if she had
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: had need of any, she would have derived it from
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 1: his kindling face. You cannot have been prepared, my dearest,
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 1: for such a discovery as that this mysterious mister Hanford
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 1: was identical with your husband. No, John Dear, of course not.
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: But you told me to prepare to be tried, and
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: I prepared myself. He drew her to nestle closer to
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: him and told her it would soon be over, and
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: the truth would soon appear and now he went on,
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: lay stress, my dear, on these words that I am
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 1: going to add. I stand in no kind of peril,
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: and I can, by possibility be hurt at no one's hand.
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 1: You are quite quite sure of that, John, dear, not
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: a hair of my head. Moreover, I have done no
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: wrong and have injured no man. Shall I swear it no, John,
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: cried Bella, laying her hand upon his lips with a
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 1: proud look. Never to me, but circumstances, he went on,
• 2:47:08
  Speaker 1: I can, and I will disperse them in a moment
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 1: have surrounded me with one of the strangest suspicions ever known.
• 2:47:18
  Speaker 1: You heard, mister Lightwood speak of a dark transaction. Yes, John,
• 2:47:23
  Speaker 1: you are prepared to hear explicitly what he meant. Yes, John,
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 1: my life. He meant the murder of John harmon your
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: allotted husband. With a fast, palpitating heart, Bella grasped him
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: by the arm. You cannot be suspected, John, Dear, Love,
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: I can be, for I am. There was silence between them,
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: as she sat looking in his face, with the color
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: quite gone from her own face and lips. How dearth
• 2:47:58
  Speaker 1: he she cried at length, in a burst of generous indignation,
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: my beloved husband, how dare they? He caught her in
• 2:48:08
  Speaker 1: his arms as she opened hers, and held her to
• 2:48:11
  Speaker 1: his heart, even knowing this. You can trust me, Bella.
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: I can trust you, John dear, with all my soul.
• 2:48:21
  Speaker 1: If I could not trust you, I should fall dead
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: at your feet. The kindling triumph in his face was bright, indeed,
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: as he looked up and rapturously exclaimed what had he
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 1: done to deserve the blessing of this dear confiding creature's heart. Again,
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 1: she put her hand upon his lips, saying hush, and
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: then told him in her own little, natural, pathetic way,
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: that if all the world were against him, she would
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: before him, that if all the world repudiated him, she
• 2:48:53
  Speaker 1: would believe him, and that if he were infamous in
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: other eyes, he would be honored in hers, and that
• 2:49:00
  Speaker 1: under the worst unmerited suspicion, she could devote her life
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 1: to consoling him and imparting her own faith in him
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 1: to their little child. A twilight calm of happiness then
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 1: succeeding to their ragent noon, they remained at peace until
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: a strange voice in the room startled them both, the
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: room being by that time dark, The voice said, don't
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 1: let the lady be alarmed by my strike in a light,
• 2:49:28
  Speaker 1: And immediately a match rattled and glimmered in a hand.
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 1: The hand and the match and the voice were then
• 2:49:36
  Speaker 1: seen by John Rokesmith to belong to mister Inspector, once
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: meditatively active in this chronicle. Ah take the liberty, said
• 2:49:46
  Speaker 1: mister Inspector, in a businesslike manner, to bring myself to
• 2:49:49
  Speaker 1: the recollection of mister Julius Hanford, who gave me his
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 1: name and address down at our place a considerable time ago.
• 2:49:56
  Speaker 1: Would the lady object to my lighting the pair of
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 1: candles on the chimney, p least to throw a further
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 1: light upon the subject. No, thank you, ma'am. Now we
• 2:50:04
  Speaker 1: look cheerful. Mister Inspector, in a dark blue, buttoned up
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: frock coat and pantaloons, presented a serviceable half pay royal
• 2:50:14
  Speaker 1: arms kind of appearance as he applied his pocket handkerchief
• 2:50:17
  Speaker 1: to his nose and bowed to the lady. You favored me,
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 1: mister Ranford, said, mister Inspector, by writing down your name
• 2:50:26
  Speaker 1: and address. And I produced the piece of paper on
• 2:50:29
  Speaker 1: which you wrote it, comparing the same with the writing
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 1: on the fly leaf of this book on the table,
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 1: and a sweet pretty volumetis. I find the writing of
• 2:50:38
  Speaker 1: the entry Missus John Rokesmith from her husband on her birthday,
• 2:50:43
  Speaker 1: and very gratifying to the feelings such memorials are to correspond. Exactly,
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: can I have a word with you? Certainly here if
• 2:50:52
  Speaker 1: you please, was the reply. Why, retorted mister Inspector, again
• 2:50:59
  Speaker 1: using his pocket handkerchief, though there's nothing for the lady
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 1: to be at all alarmed at Still, ladies are apt
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: to take alarm matters of business, being of that fragile
• 2:51:09
  Speaker 1: sex set. They're not accustomed to them when not of
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 1: a strictly domestic character. And I do generally make it
• 2:51:16
  Speaker 1: a rule to propose retirement from the presence of ladies
• 2:51:19
  Speaker 1: before entering upon business topics. Or perhaps mister Inspector hinted
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: if the lady was to step upstairs and er take
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: a look at baby now, Missus Rokesmith, Her husband was
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: beginning when mister Inspector, regarding the words as an introduction,
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: said happy, I'm sure to have the honor and bowed
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: with gallantry. Missus Rokesmith resumed her husband is satisfied that
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 1: you can have no reason for being alarmed. Whatever the
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 1: business is really is? That, so said mister Inspector. But
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: it's a sex to live and learn from, and there's
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 1: nothing a lady can't accomplish when she once fully gives
• 2:52:01
  Speaker 1: him mind to it. It's the case with me, own wife. Well, ma'am,
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: this good gentleman of yours has given rise to a
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 1: rather large amount of trouble which might have been avoided
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: if he had come forward and explained himself. Well, you see,
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 1: he didn't come forward and explain himself. Consequently, now that
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: we meet him and me, you'll say and say right
• 2:52:24
  Speaker 1: that there's nothing to be alarmed at in my proposing
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 1: to him to come forward, or putting the same meaning
• 2:52:31
  Speaker 1: in another form, to come along with me and explain himself.
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: When mister Inspector put it in that other form to
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 1: come along with me, there was a relishing roll in
• 2:52:42
  Speaker 1: his voice, and his eye beamed with an official luster.
• 2:52:46
  Speaker 1: Do you propose to take me into custody? Inquired John Rokesmith,
• 2:52:51
  Speaker 1: very coolly, why, argue, returned mister Inspector in a comfortable
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: sort of remonstrance. Ain't it enough that I propose you
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 1: you'll come along with me? For what reason? Lord bless
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 1: my soul and body, returned mister Inspector. I wonder at
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: it in a man of your education, Why argue? What
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 1: do you charge against me? I wonder at you before
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 1: a lady, said mister Inspector, shaking his head reproachfully. Ah,
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: wonder brought up as you have been, you haven't a
• 2:53:26
  Speaker 1: more delicate mind. I charge you, then, with being some
• 2:53:30
  Speaker 1: way concerned in the arm and murder. I don't say
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 1: whether before or in or after the fact. I don't
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 1: say whether with having some knowledge of it that hasn't
• 2:53:40
  Speaker 1: come out. You don't surprise me. I foresaw your visit
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 1: this afternoon, don't, said mister inspector. Why why argue? It's
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: my duty to inform you that whatever you say will
• 2:53:56
  Speaker 1: be used against you. I don't think it will, butter
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 1: I tell you it will, said mister Inspector. Now, having
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 1: received the caution, do you still say that you foresaw
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: my visit this afternoon? Yes? And I will say something
• 2:54:12
  Speaker 1: more if you will step with me into the next room.
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 1: With a reassuring kiss on the lips of the frightened Bella,
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: her husband, to whom mister Inspector obligingly offered his arm,
• 2:54:23
  Speaker 1: took up a candle and withdrew with that gentleman. They
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 1: were a full half hour in conference when they returned.
• 2:54:30
  Speaker 1: Mister Inspector looked considerably astonished. I have invited this worthy officer,
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: my dear, said John, to make a short excursion with me,
• 2:54:42
  Speaker 1: in which you shall be a sharer. He will take
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: something to eat and drink. I dare say, on your invitation,
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 1: while you are getting your bonnet on. Mister Inspector declined eating,
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: but assented to the proposal of a glass of brandy
• 2:54:55
  Speaker 1: and water. Mixing this cold and pensively consuming it. He
• 2:55:00
  Speaker 1: broke at intervals into such soliloquies as that he never
• 2:55:03
  Speaker 1: did know such a move, that he never had been
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: so graveled, and that what a game was this to
• 2:55:08
  Speaker 1: try the sort of stuff a man's opinion of himself
• 2:55:11
  Speaker 1: was made of. Concurrently with these comments, he more than
• 2:55:15
  Speaker 1: once burst out or laughing, with the half enjoying and
• 2:55:18
  Speaker 1: half piqued air of a man who had given up
• 2:55:21
  Speaker 1: a good conundrum after much guessing, and been told the answer.
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 1: Bella was so timid of him that she noted these
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: things in a half shrinking, half perceptive way, and similarly
• 2:55:32
  Speaker 1: noted that there was a great change in his manner
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 1: towards John, that coming along with him. Deportment was now
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 1: lost in long, musing looks at John and at herself,
• 2:55:43
  Speaker 1: and sometimes in slow heavy rubs of his hand across
• 2:55:46
  Speaker 1: his forehead, as if he were ironing out the creases
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 1: which his deep pondering made there. He had had some
• 2:55:53
  Speaker 1: coughing and whistling satellites secretly gravitating towards him about the premises,
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: but they were now dismissed, and eyed John as if
• 2:56:01
  Speaker 1: he had meant to do him a public service, but
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 1: had unfortunately been anticipated. Whether Bella might have noted anything
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 1: more if she had been less afraid of him, she
• 2:56:10
  Speaker 1: could not determine. But it was all inexplicable to her,
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: and not the faintest flash of the real state of
• 2:56:16
  Speaker 1: the case broke in upon her mind. Mister Inspector's increased
• 2:56:20
  Speaker 1: notice of herself, and knowing way of raising his eyebrows
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: when their eyes by any chance met, as if he
• 2:56:26
  Speaker 1: put the question don't you see, augmented her timidity and
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: consequently her perplexity. For all these reasons, when he and
• 2:56:36
  Speaker 1: she and John at towards nine o'clock of a winter
• 2:56:39
  Speaker 1: evening went to London and began driving from London Bridge,
• 2:56:43
  Speaker 1: among low lying water side wharves and docks and strange places.
• 2:56:47
  Speaker 1: Bella was in the state of a dreamer, perfectly unable
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 1: to account for her being there, perfectly unable to forecast
• 2:56:53
  Speaker 1: what would happen next, or whither she was going, or why,
• 2:56:57
  Speaker 1: certain of nothing in the immediate present. But the actually
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 1: confided in John, and that John seemed somehow to be
• 2:57:03
  Speaker 1: getting more triumphant. But what a certainty was that they
• 2:57:08
  Speaker 1: alighted at last at the corner of a court, where
• 2:57:10
  Speaker 1: there was a building with a bright lamp and wicket gate.
• 2:57:13
  Speaker 1: Its orderly appearance was very unlike that of the surrounding neighborhood,
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 1: and was explained by the inscription police station. We are
• 2:57:22
  Speaker 1: not going in here, John said Bella, clinging to him, Yes,
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 1: my dear, but of our own accord we shall come
• 2:57:30
  Speaker 1: out again as easily, never fear. The whitewashed room was
• 2:57:35
  Speaker 1: pure white, as of old, the methodical bookkeeping was in
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 1: peaceful progress as of old, And some distant howler was
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 1: banging against the cell door as of old. The sanctuary
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: was not a permanent, abiding place, but a kind of
• 2:57:48
  Speaker 1: criminal pickfords. The lower passions and vices were regularly ticked
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 1: off in the books where housed in the cells cartered
• 2:57:56
  Speaker 1: away us per accompanying in voice, and left little mark
• 2:57:59
  Speaker 1: upon it. Mister Inspector placed two chairs for his visitors
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: before the fire, and communed in a low voice with
• 2:58:07
  Speaker 1: the brother of his order, also of a half pay
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 1: and royal arms aspect, who judged only by his occupation
• 2:58:14
  Speaker 1: at the moment, might have been a writing master. Setting copies.
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: Their conference done, mister Inspector returned to the fireplace, and,
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: having observed that he would step round to the fellowships
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 1: and see how matters stood, went out. He soon came
• 2:58:28
  Speaker 1: back again, saying nothing could be better for the it souper,
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 1: with miss Abbey in the bar, and then they all
• 2:58:35
  Speaker 1: three went out together, still as in a dream, Bella
• 2:58:40
  Speaker 1: found herself entering a snug, old fashioned public house, and
• 2:58:43
  Speaker 1: found herself smuggled into a little three cornered room nearly
• 2:58:47
  Speaker 1: opposite the bar of that establishment. Mister Inspector achieved the
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 1: smuggling of herself and John into this queer room called
• 2:58:55
  Speaker 1: Cozy in an inscription on the door, by entering in
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 1: the narrow passage first in all order, and suddenly turning
• 2:59:01
  Speaker 1: round upon them with extended arms, as if they had
• 2:59:04
  Speaker 1: been two sheep. The room was lighted for their reception. Now,
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: said mister Inspector to John, turning the gas lower. I'll
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 1: mix with them in a casual way, and when I
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: say identification, perhaps you'll show yourself. John nodded, and mister
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: Inspector went alone to the half door of the bar.
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: From the dim doorway of cozy within which Bella and
• 2:59:31
  Speaker 1: her husband stood, they could see a comfortable little party
• 2:59:34
  Speaker 1: of three persons sitting at supper in the bar, and
• 2:59:36
  Speaker 1: could hear everything that was said. The three persons were
• 2:59:40
  Speaker 1: Miss Abbey and two male guests, to whom collectively mister
• 2:59:44
  Speaker 1: Inspector remarked that the weather was getting sharp for the
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: time of year. He need re shaft to suit your wits, Sir,
• 2:59:52
  Speaker 1: said Miss Abbey, What have you got in hand now?
• 2:59:56
  Speaker 1: Thanking you for your compliment, Not much, Miss Abbey, was
• 3:00:00
  Speaker 1: mister Inspector's rejoinder. Who have you got in the cozy,
• 3:00:04
  Speaker 1: asked Miss Abbey. Only a gentleman and his wife, Miss
• 3:00:09
  Speaker 1: And who are they? If one may ask it without
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 1: detriment to your deep plans? Are the interests of the
• 3:00:14
  Speaker 1: honest public, said Miss Abbey, proud of mister Inspector as
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 1: an administrative genius. They are strangers in this part of
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 1: the town, miss Abbey. They are waiting till I shall
• 3:00:25
  Speaker 1: want the gentleman to show himself somewhere for half a moment.
• 3:00:29
  Speaker 1: While they're waiting, said Miss Abbey, couldn't you join us?
• 3:00:34
  Speaker 1: Mister Inspector immediately slipped into the bar and sat down
• 3:00:37
  Speaker 1: at the side of the half door, with his back
• 3:00:39
  Speaker 1: towards the passage and directly facing the two guests. Ah
• 3:00:45
  Speaker 1: do won't take my supper till later in the night,
• 3:00:48
  Speaker 1: said he. And therefore I won't disturb the compactness of
• 3:00:51
  Speaker 1: the table. But I'll take a glass of flip. If
• 3:00:55
  Speaker 1: that's a flip in the jug and the fender, that's flip,
• 3:00:59
  Speaker 1: replied Miss Abbey. And it's my making. And if even
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: you can find out better as you were, glad to
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  Speaker 1: know where. Filling him with hospitable hands a steaming tumbler,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Abbey replaced the jug by the fire. The company
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  Speaker 1: not having yet arrived at the flip stage of their supper,
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  Speaker 1: but being as yet skirmishing with strong ale. Ah cried
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  Speaker 1: mister Inspector, that's the smack. There is not a detective
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  Speaker 1: in the force, Miss Abbey, that could find out better
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  Speaker 1: stuff than that. Glad to hear you say so, rejoined,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Abbey. He ought to know if anybody does, mister
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  Speaker 1: job Potterson. Mister Inspector continued, I drink your health, mister
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Kibble, I drink yours. Hope you have made a
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 1: prosperous voyage home, gentleman both. Mister Kibble, an unctuous broad
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  Speaker 1: man of few words and many mouthfuls, said, more briefly
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  Speaker 1: than pointedly, raising his ale to his lips slightly you,
• 3:02:07
  Speaker 1: mister job Potterson, a semi seafaring man of obliging demeanor,
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  Speaker 1: said thank you, sir, Lord, bless my soul and body,
• 3:02:18
  Speaker 1: cried mister Inspector. Talk of trades, Miss Abbey, and the
• 3:02:22
  Speaker 1: way they set their marks on men, a subject which
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  Speaker 1: nobody had approached. Who wouldn't know your brother to be
• 3:02:29
  Speaker 1: a steward. There's a bright and ready twinkle in his eye.
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: There's a neatness in his action, there's a smartness in
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: his figure. There's an air of reliability about him. In
• 3:02:40
  Speaker 1: case you want a basin which points out the steward,
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: and mister Kibble, ain't he your passenger all over? While
• 3:02:49
  Speaker 1: there's that mercantile cut upon him which would make you
• 3:02:52
  Speaker 1: happy to give him credit for five hundred pound? Don't
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: you see the salt sea shining on him too? You do,
• 3:03:00
  Speaker 1: I dare, say, returned, miss Abbey, but I don't. And
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 1: as for stewarding, I think it's time my brother gave
• 3:03:07
  Speaker 1: that up and took his house in hand on his
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  Speaker 1: sister's retiring. The house will go to pieces if he don't.
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't sell it for any money that could be
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  Speaker 1: told out to a person I couldn't depend upon to
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 1: be a lord of the porter's, as I have been there.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, miss, said mister inspector. A better a kept
• 3:03:26
  Speaker 1: house is not known to Armen. What do I say?
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  Speaker 1: Half so well? A kept house is not known to Armen.
• 3:03:35
  Speaker 1: Show the force the six jolly fellowship porters, and the
• 3:03:39
  Speaker 1: force to a constable will show you a piece of perfection,
• 3:03:43
  Speaker 1: mister Kibble. That gentleman, with the very serious shake of
• 3:03:47
  Speaker 1: his head, subscribed the article, and talk of time slipping
• 3:03:53
  Speaker 1: by you as if it was in animal at rustic
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: sports with its tail soaped, said mister Inspector again a
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 1: subject which nobody had approached. Why well, you me, well,
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: you me? How has it slipped by us? Since the
• 3:04:10
  Speaker 1: time when mister job Potterson here present, mister Jacob Kibble
• 3:04:15
  Speaker 1: here present, and an officer of the force here present,
• 3:04:19
  Speaker 1: first came together on a matter of identification. Bella's husband
• 3:04:25
  Speaker 1: stepped softly to the half door of the bar and
• 3:04:27
  Speaker 1: stood there. How has time slipped by us? Mister Inspector
• 3:04:33
  Speaker 1: went on slowly, with his eyes narrowly observant of the
• 3:04:36
  Speaker 1: two guests. Since we three very men at an inquest
• 3:04:41
  Speaker 1: in this very house, mister Kibble taken ill, Sir. Mister
• 3:04:47
  Speaker 1: Kibble had staggered up with his lower jaw dropped, catching
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 1: Potterson by the shoulder and pointing to the half door.
• 3:04:55
  Speaker 1: He now cried out, Portison, look look there. Patterson started up,
• 3:05:03
  Speaker 1: started back and exclaimed, heavenly, fanous, what's that? Bella's husband
• 3:05:12
  Speaker 1: stepped back to Bella, took her in his arms, for
• 3:05:16
  Speaker 1: she was terrified by the unintelligible terror of the two men,
• 3:05:19
  Speaker 1: and shut the door of the little room. A hurry
• 3:05:23
  Speaker 1: of voices succeeded, in which mister Inspector's voice was busiest.
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 1: It gradually slackened and sank, and mister inspector reappeared. Sharp's
• 3:05:32
  Speaker 1: the words, sir, he said, looking in with a knowing wink.
• 3:05:36
  Speaker 1: We'll get your lady out at once. Immediately Bella and
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 1: her husband were under the stars, making their way back
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: alone to the vehicle they had kept in waiting. All
• 3:05:47
  Speaker 1: this was most extraordinary, and Bella could make nothing of it,
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: but that John was in the right, how in the right,
• 3:05:54
  Speaker 1: and how suspected of being in the wrong. She could
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: not divine. Some vague idea that he had never really
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 1: assumed the name of Hanford, and that there was a
• 3:06:03
  Speaker 1: remarkable likeness between him and that mysterious person was her
• 3:06:07
  Speaker 1: nearest approach to any definite explanation. But John was triumphant
• 3:06:11
  Speaker 1: that much was made apparent, and she could wait for
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: the rest. When John came home to dinner next day,
• 3:06:18
  Speaker 1: he said, sitting down on the sofa by Bella and
• 3:06:20
  Speaker 1: baby Bella, my dear, I have a piece of news
• 3:06:25
  Speaker 1: to tell you. I have left the China house. As
• 3:06:29
  Speaker 1: he seemed to like having left it. Bella took it
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: for granted that there was no misfortune in the case.
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 1: In a word, my love said John, the China house
• 3:06:39
  Speaker 1: is broken up and abolished. There is no such thing
• 3:06:43
  Speaker 1: any more. Then, are you already in another house? John, Yes,
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: my darling, I am in another way of business, and
• 3:06:53
  Speaker 1: I am rather better off. The inexhaustible Baby was instantly
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 1: made to congratulate him, to say, with appropriate action on
• 3:07:01
  Speaker 1: the part of a very limp arm and a speckled fist,
• 3:07:04
  Speaker 1: three cheers, ladies and gentle moorams. Hooray. I am afraid
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: my life, said John, that you have become very much
• 3:07:14
  Speaker 1: attached to this cottage. Afraid I have, John, Of course
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 1: I have. The reason why I said afraid, returned John,
• 3:07:24
  Speaker 1: is because we must move. Oh John, yes, my dear,
• 3:07:30
  Speaker 1: we must move. We must have our headquarters in London. Now.
• 3:07:35
  Speaker 1: In short, there's a dwelling house rent free attached to
• 3:07:38
  Speaker 1: my new position, and we must occupy it. Oh that's again, John, Yes,
• 3:07:44
  Speaker 1: my dear, it is undoubtedly again. He gave her a
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 1: very blithe look and a very sly look, which occasioned
• 3:07:52
  Speaker 1: the inexhaustible Baby to square at him with the speckled
• 3:07:55
  Speaker 1: fists and demand in a threatening manner what he meant,
• 3:08:00
  Speaker 1: My love, you said it was again? And I said
• 3:08:04
  Speaker 1: it was again a very innocent remark. Surely I won't,
• 3:08:10
  Speaker 1: said the inexhaustible baby, allow you to make game of
• 3:08:14
  Speaker 1: my venerable mar at each division, administering a soft facer
• 3:08:19
  Speaker 1: with one of the speckled fists. John, having stooped down
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 1: to receive these punishing visitations, Bella asked him would it
• 3:08:27
  Speaker 1: be necessary to move soon? Why yes, indeed, said John.
• 3:08:31
  Speaker 1: He did propose that they should move very soon, taking
• 3:08:34
  Speaker 1: the furniture with them, of course, said Bella. Why no,
• 3:08:38
  Speaker 1: said John. The fact was that the house was in
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: a sort of a kind of a way furnished already.
• 3:08:46
  Speaker 1: The inexhaustible baby, hearing this, resumed the offensive and said,
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 1: but there's no nursery for me, sir, what do you mean,
• 3:08:53
  Speaker 1: marble hearted parent, to which the marble hearted parent rejoined
• 3:08:57
  Speaker 1: that there was a sort of a kind of a
• 3:08:59
  Speaker 1: nurse and it might be made to do. Made to do,
• 3:09:04
  Speaker 1: returned the inexhaustible administering more punishment, What do you take
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 1: me for? And was then turned over on its back
• 3:09:11
  Speaker 1: in Bella's lap and smothered with kisses. But really, John, dear,
• 3:09:17
  Speaker 1: said Bella, flushed in quite a lovely manner by these exercises,
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: will the new house just as it stands? Do? For baby?
• 3:09:25
  Speaker 1: That's the question. I felt that to be the question,
• 3:09:30
  Speaker 1: he returned, And therefore I arranged that you should come
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 1: with me and look at it to morrow morning. Appointment
• 3:09:38
  Speaker 1: made accordingly for Bella to go up with him to
• 3:09:41
  Speaker 1: morrow morning. John kissed and Bella delighted when they reached London.
• 3:09:47
  Speaker 1: In pursuance of their little plan, they took coach and
• 3:09:49
  Speaker 1: drove westward. Not only drove westward, but drove into that
• 3:09:53
  Speaker 1: particular westward division which Bella had seen last when she
• 3:09:57
  Speaker 1: turned her face from mister Boffin's door. Not only drove
• 3:10:01
  Speaker 1: into that particular division, but drove at last into that
• 3:10:04
  Speaker 1: very street. Not only drove into that very street, but
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 1: stopped at last at that very house. John dear cried Bella,
• 3:10:13
  Speaker 1: looking out of window in a flutter. Do you see
• 3:10:16
  Speaker 1: where we are? Yes, my love? The coachman's quite right.
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: The house door was opened without any knocking or ringing,
• 3:10:26
  Speaker 1: and John promptly helped her out. The servant who stood
• 3:10:29
  Speaker 1: holding the door asked no question of John, neither did
• 3:10:33
  Speaker 1: he go before them or follow them. As they went
• 3:10:35
  Speaker 1: straight upstairs. It was only her husband's encircling arm, urging
• 3:10:40
  Speaker 1: her on. That prevented Bella from stopping at the foot
• 3:10:43
  Speaker 1: of the staircase. As they ascended, it was seen to
• 3:10:46
  Speaker 1: be tastefully ornamented with most beautiful flowers. Oh, John, said
• 3:10:53
  Speaker 1: Bella faintly, What does this mean? Nothing, my darling, nothing,
• 3:10:59
  Speaker 1: Let us go on. Going on a little higher, they
• 3:11:02
  Speaker 1: came to a charming aviary, in which a number of
• 3:11:05
  Speaker 1: tropical birds, more gorgeous in color than the flowers, were
• 3:11:09
  Speaker 1: flying about. And among those birds were gold and silver fish,
• 3:11:13
  Speaker 1: and mosses, and water lilies, and a fountain, and all
• 3:11:17
  Speaker 1: manner of wonders. Oh, my dear John said Bella, what
• 3:11:24
  Speaker 1: does this mean? Nothing, my darling, nothing, Let us go on.
• 3:11:30
  Speaker 1: They went on until they came to a door. As
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 1: John put out his hand to open it, Bella caught
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 1: his hand. I don't know what it means, but it's
• 3:11:42
  Speaker 1: too much for me. Hold me, John Love. John caught
• 3:11:46
  Speaker 1: her up in his arm and lightly dashed into the
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: room with her. Behold mister and Missus Boffin, beaming, Behold
• 3:11:56
  Speaker 1: Missus Boffin, clapping her hands in an ecstasy, running to
• 3:11:59
  Speaker 1: Bella with tears of joy pouring down her comely face,
• 3:12:02
  Speaker 1: and folding her to her breast with the words, my deary,
• 3:12:07
  Speaker 1: deary dearie Curl that Noddy and me saw married and
• 3:12:11
  Speaker 1: couldn't wish joy to or so much as speak to
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 1: my deary, deary dearie, wife of John and mother of
• 3:12:19
  Speaker 1: his little child, My loving, loving, bright, bright, pretty pretty
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: Welcome to your house and home, my dearie. End a
• 3:12:33
  Speaker 1: Book four, Chapter twelve, Chapter thirteen, showing how the Golden
• 3:12:39
  Speaker 1: Dustman helped to scatter dust in all the first bewilderment
• 3:12:45
  Speaker 1: of her wonder The most bewilderingly wonderful thing to Bella
• 3:12:49
  Speaker 1: was the shining countenance of mister Boffin. That his wife
• 3:12:53
  Speaker 1: should be joyous, open hearted, and genial, or that her
• 3:12:56
  Speaker 1: face should express every quality that was large and trusting,
• 3:13:00
  Speaker 1: and no quality that was little or mean was accordant
• 3:13:03
  Speaker 1: with Bella's experience. But that he, with a perfectly beneficent
• 3:13:08
  Speaker 1: air and a plump, rosy face, should be standing there
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 1: looking at her and John like some jovial good spirit
• 3:13:15
  Speaker 1: was marvelous, For how had he looked when she last
• 3:13:18
  Speaker 1: saw him in that very room. It was the room
• 3:13:21
  Speaker 1: in which she had given him that piece of her
• 3:13:23
  Speaker 1: mind at parting, and what had become of all those
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: crooked lines of suspicion, avarice and distressed that twisted his visage.
• 3:13:31
  Speaker 1: Then Missus Boffin seated Bella on the large ottoman and
• 3:13:36
  Speaker 1: seated herself beside her, and John, her husband, seated himself
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 1: on the other side of her, and mister Boffin stood
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 1: beaming at every one and everything he could see with
• 3:13:46
  Speaker 1: surpassing jollity and enjoyment. Missus Boffin was then taken with
• 3:13:51
  Speaker 1: the laughing fit of clapping her hands and clapping her
• 3:13:54
  Speaker 1: knees and rocking herself to and fro, and then with
• 3:13:58
  Speaker 1: another laughing fit of embracing Beth and rocking her to
• 3:14:01
  Speaker 1: and fro, both fits of considerable duration. Oh lady, oh lady,
• 3:14:08
  Speaker 1: said mister Boffin at length. If you don't begin, somebody
• 3:14:11
  Speaker 1: else must I'm again to begin, nor dim, my dear,
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 1: returned Missus Boffin. Only it isn't easy for personer no
• 3:14:20
  Speaker 1: wait to begin when a person is in this state
• 3:14:23
  Speaker 1: of delight and happiness. Bella, my dear, tell me who's this?
• 3:14:30
  Speaker 1: Who's this? Repeated Bella, my husband, Ah, but tell me
• 3:14:37
  Speaker 1: his name dearie, cried Missus Boffin. Rokesmith. No it ain't,
• 3:14:45
  Speaker 1: cried Missus Boffin, clapping her hands and shaking her head.
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 1: Not a bit of it. Paanford then suggested Bella, No
• 3:14:55
  Speaker 1: it ain't, cried Missus Boffin, again, clapping her hands and
• 3:14:59
  Speaker 1: shaking her hea. Not a bit of it. At least
• 3:15:04
  Speaker 1: his name is John, I suppose, said Bella. Ah, I
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 1: should think so, dearie, cried missus Boffin. I should hope
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 1: so many and many as a time. I've called him
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 1: by his name of John. But what's his other name?
• 3:15:22
  Speaker 1: It is true other name. Give a guess, my pretty
• 3:15:27
  Speaker 1: I can't guess, said Bella, turning her pale face from
• 3:15:31
  Speaker 1: one to another. I could, cried missus Boffin. And what's more,
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 1: I did, I found him out all in a flash,
• 3:15:42
  Speaker 1: as I might say, one night, didn't I noddy, I
• 3:15:46
  Speaker 1: that the old lady did, said mister Boffin, with stout
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: pride in the circumstance. Harkey to me, deary pursued Missus Boffin,
• 3:15:55
  Speaker 1: taking Bella's hands between her own and gently beating on
• 3:15:59
  Speaker 1: them from time to time. It was after particular night
• 3:16:03
  Speaker 1: when John had been disappointed, as he thought in his affections.
• 3:16:08
  Speaker 1: It was after night when John had made an offer
• 3:16:11
  Speaker 1: to a certain young lady, and the certain young lady
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 1: had refused it. It was after a particular night when
• 3:16:18
  Speaker 1: he felt himself cast away like and had made up
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 1: his mind to go seek his fortune. It was the
• 3:16:25
  Speaker 1: very next night my Noddy wanted a paper out of
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 1: his secretary's room, and I says to Noddy, I'm going
• 3:16:33
  Speaker 1: by the door and I'll ask him for it. I
• 3:16:36
  Speaker 1: tacked at his door, and he didn't hear me. I
• 3:16:39
  Speaker 1: looked in and saw him as sitting lonely by his fire,
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: brooding over it. He chanced to look up with a
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: pleased kind of smile in my company when he saw me,
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 1: And then in a single moment, every grain of the
• 3:16:55
  Speaker 1: gunpowder that had been lying sprinkled thick about him. Ever
• 3:16:59
  Speaker 1: since our first set eyes upon him as a man
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 1: at the bower took fire. Too many a time had
• 3:17:06
  Speaker 1: I seen him sitting lonely when he was a poor
• 3:17:09
  Speaker 1: child to be pitied art an end. Too many a
• 3:17:13
  Speaker 1: time had I seen him in need of being brightened
• 3:17:16
  Speaker 1: up with a comforting word? Too many, and too many
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 1: a time to be mistaken when that glimpse of him
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 1: came at last. No, no, I just makes out to cry,
• 3:17:30
  Speaker 1: I know you, now you are John, and he catches
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 1: me as I drops. So, what says Missus Boffin, breaking
• 3:17:41
  Speaker 1: off in the rush of her speech to smile most radiantly?
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 1: Might you think by this time that your husband's name
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 1: was dear not, returned Bella with quivering lips. Not Harmon.
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 1: That's not possible. Don't tremble. Why not possible, deary, when
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: so many things are possible, demanded Missus Boffin in a
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 1: soothing tone. He was killed, gasped Bella. Thought to be,
• 3:18:15
  Speaker 1: said Missus Boffin. But if ever John Armon do the
• 3:18:19
  Speaker 1: breath of life on earth, that is certainly John Armond's
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 1: arm round your waist, now, my pretty. If ever John
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: Armon had a wife on earth, that wife is certainly you.
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 1: If ever John Armon and his wife add a child
• 3:18:35
  Speaker 1: on earth, that child is certainly this. By a master
• 3:18:41
  Speaker 1: stroke of secret arrangement, the inexhaustible baby here appeared at
• 3:18:45
  Speaker 1: the door, suspended in mid air by invisible agency. Missus Boffin,
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 1: plunging at it, brought it to Bella's lap, where both
• 3:18:54
  Speaker 1: Missus and mister Boffin, as the saying is, took it
• 3:18:57
  Speaker 1: out of the inexhaustible in a shower of caresses. It
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: was only this timely appearance that kept Bella from swooning
• 3:19:05
  Speaker 1: this and her husband's earnestness, and explaining further to her
• 3:19:09
  Speaker 1: how it had come to pass that he had been
• 3:19:11
  Speaker 1: supposed to be slain, and had even been suspected of
• 3:19:14
  Speaker 1: his own murder, Also how he had put a pious
• 3:19:17
  Speaker 1: fraud upon her which had preyed upon his mind as
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 1: the time for its disclosure approached, lest she might not
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: make full allowance for the object with which it had
• 3:19:26
  Speaker 1: originated and in which it had fully developed. That bless he,
• 3:19:31
  Speaker 1: my beauty, cried Missus Boffin, taking him up short at
• 3:19:35
  Speaker 1: this point with another hearty clap of her hands. It
• 3:19:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't John only that was in it. We was all
• 3:19:43
  Speaker 1: of us in it. I don't, said Bella, looking vacantly
• 3:19:49
  Speaker 1: from one to another. Yet I understand, of course you don't,
• 3:19:54
  Speaker 1: my dearie, exclaimed Missus Boffin. How can you till your
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 1: time old? So now I'm a going to tell you,
• 3:20:04
  Speaker 1: so you put your two hands between my two hands
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 1: again cried the comfortable creature, embracing her with that blessed
• 3:20:12
  Speaker 1: little picture lying on your lap, and you shall be
• 3:20:16
  Speaker 1: telled all the story. Now I'm a going to tell
• 3:20:20
  Speaker 1: the story once twice, three times, and the uss is off.
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: Here they go. When I cries out that night, I
• 3:20:31
  Speaker 1: know you now you're John? Which was my exact words,
• 3:20:35
  Speaker 1: wasn't they? John, Your exact words, said John, laying his
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 1: hand on hers. That's a very good arrangement, cried Missus Boffin.
• 3:20:47
  Speaker 1: Keep it there, John, And as we was all of
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 1: us in it, Noddy, you come and lay yours atop
• 3:20:53
  Speaker 1: of his, and we won't break the pile till the
• 3:20:56
  Speaker 1: story's done. Mister Boffin hitched up a chair and added
• 3:21:00
  Speaker 1: his broad brown right hand to the heap. That's capital,
• 3:21:06
  Speaker 1: said Missus Boffin, giving it a kiss. Seems quite a
• 3:21:10
  Speaker 1: family building, don't it. But the oarses is off. Well.
• 3:21:16
  Speaker 1: When I cries out that night, I know you now
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 1: you're John, John catches of me. It is true, but
• 3:21:24
  Speaker 1: I ain't a light weight, bless ye, and he's forced
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 1: to let me down. Noddy, he is a noise and
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 1: any trots and as soon as I anyways comes to
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 1: meself are calls to him, Noddy, Well, I might say
• 3:21:38
  Speaker 1: as I did say that night at the bower, for
• 3:21:41
  Speaker 1: the Lord be thankful. This is John on which he
• 3:21:45
  Speaker 1: gives Eve, and down he goes likewise with his head
• 3:21:49
  Speaker 1: under the writing table. This brings me round comfortable, and
• 3:21:53
  Speaker 1: that brings him round comfortable. And then John and Em
• 3:21:57
  Speaker 1: and me we all fall a crying for Joe. Yes,
• 3:22:02
  Speaker 1: they cry for joy, my darling, her husband struck In.
• 3:22:07
  Speaker 1: You understand these two whom I come to life to
• 3:22:11
  Speaker 1: disappoint and dispossess, cry for joy. Bella looked at him confusedly,
• 3:22:18
  Speaker 1: and looked again at Missus Boffin's radiant face. That's right,
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 1: my dear, do you mind him? Said Missus Boffin, sick
• 3:22:26
  Speaker 1: to me. Well, then we sits down, gradually gets cool,
• 3:22:32
  Speaker 1: and holds a confabulation John. He tells us how he
• 3:22:36
  Speaker 1: is despairing his mind on account of a certain fair
• 3:22:39
  Speaker 1: young person, and how if I hadn't found him out,
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 1: he was going away to seek his fortune far and wide,
• 3:22:47
  Speaker 1: and had fully meant never to count a life, but
• 3:22:50
  Speaker 1: believes of property as our wrongful inheritance. For ever in
• 3:22:53
  Speaker 1: a day at which you never see a man so
• 3:22:57
  Speaker 1: frightened as my Noddy was to think that he should
• 3:23:01
  Speaker 1: have come in to the property wrongful, however innocent and
• 3:23:05
  Speaker 1: more than that might have gone on keeping it to
• 3:23:09
  Speaker 1: his dying day turned him whiter than chalk. And you too,
• 3:23:15
  Speaker 1: said mister Boffin, don't you mind him neither? My deary resumed,
• 3:23:19
  Speaker 1: Missus Boffin. Stick to me. This brings out my confabrilation
• 3:23:23
  Speaker 1: regarding a certain fair young person. When not he he
• 3:23:27
  Speaker 1: gives it as his opinion that she is a deary creature.
• 3:23:32
  Speaker 1: She may be a legal spoilt and naturally spoilt, he says,
• 3:23:36
  Speaker 1: by circumstances, but that's only the surface in our lamey life.
• 3:23:42
  Speaker 1: He says that she's the true gold and gold at art.
• 3:23:47
  Speaker 1: So did you, said, mister Boffin, don't you mind him
• 3:23:51
  Speaker 1: a single morsel? My dear proceeded, Missus Boffin. But stick
• 3:23:55
  Speaker 1: to me, then, says John. Oh, if he could but
• 3:24:00
  Speaker 1: prove so, then we both of us absences that minute
• 3:24:05
  Speaker 1: prove so. With a start, Bella directed a hurried glance
• 3:24:10
  Speaker 1: towards mister Boffin. But he was sitting thoughtfully smiling at
• 3:24:14
  Speaker 1: that broad brown hand of his and either didn't see
• 3:24:17
  Speaker 1: it or would take no notice of it. Prove it, John,
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: we says repeated Missus Boffin. Prove it, and overcome your
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 1: doubts with triumph, and be happy for the first time
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 1: in your life and for the rest of your life.
• 3:24:33
  Speaker 1: This puts John in a state to be sure. Then,
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: We says, what will content you? If she was to
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 1: stand up for you when you were slighted, If you
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 1: was to show yourself of a generous mind when you
• 3:24:47
  Speaker 1: was oppressed, if she was to be truest to you
• 3:24:51
  Speaker 1: when you was poorest and friendliest, and all this against
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 1: their own seeming interest. How would that do do? Says John?
• 3:25:00
  Speaker 1: It would raise me to disguise, then, says my Noddy,
• 3:25:05
  Speaker 1: make your preparations for the assent. John. It be in
• 3:25:08
  Speaker 1: my firm belief that up you go. Bella caught mister
• 3:25:12
  Speaker 1: Boffin's twinkling eye for half an instant, but he got
• 3:25:15
  Speaker 1: it away from her and restored it to his broad
• 3:25:18
  Speaker 1: brown hand. From the first he was always a special
• 3:25:23
  Speaker 1: favorite of Noddy's, said Missus Boffin, shaking her head. Oh
• 3:25:27
  Speaker 1: you were, And if I had been inclined to be jealous,
• 3:25:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I might have done to you,
• 3:25:35
  Speaker 1: But as I wasn't, why my beauty, with a hearty
• 3:25:39
  Speaker 1: laugh and an embrace, I made you a special favorite
• 3:25:43
  Speaker 1: of me own too. But the orses is coming round
• 3:25:46
  Speaker 1: a corner. Well, then, says my Noddy, shaking his side,
• 3:25:51
  Speaker 1: it was fit to make a make again look out
• 3:25:54
  Speaker 1: for being slighted and oppressed, John, For if ever a
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 1: man had a hard master, you shall find me from
• 3:26:01
  Speaker 1: this present time to be such to you. And then
• 3:26:04
  Speaker 1: he began, cried Missus Boffin, in an ecstasy of admiration.
• 3:26:09
  Speaker 1: Lor bless you. Then he began, And how he did begin?
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 1: Didn't he Bella looked half frightened, and yet half laughed
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 1: that bless you pursued Missus Boffin. If you could have
• 3:26:25
  Speaker 1: seen him of a night at that time of it,
• 3:26:28
  Speaker 1: the way he'd sit and chuckle over himself, the way
• 3:26:31
  Speaker 1: he'd say, I've been a regular brown bear to day,
• 3:26:35
  Speaker 1: and take himself in his arms and hug himself at
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 1: the thoughts of the brute he had pretended. But every
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 1: night he says to me, better and better, old lady,
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 1: what did we say of her? She'll come through it,
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 1: the true gold and gold, this will be the happiest
• 3:26:51
  Speaker 1: piece of work we've ever done. And then he'd say,
• 3:26:54
  Speaker 1: I'll be a grislier I'll growl at to morrow and
• 3:26:59
  Speaker 1: laugh he would till John, and he was often forced
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: to slap his back and bring it out of his
• 3:27:03
  Speaker 1: windpipes with a little water. Mister Boffin, with his face
• 3:27:08
  Speaker 1: bent over his heavy hand, made no sound, but rolled
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 1: his shoulders when thus referred to, as if he were
• 3:27:14
  Speaker 1: vastly enjoying himself. And so, my good and pretty pursued
• 3:27:20
  Speaker 1: missus Boffin, you was married, and there was we hid
• 3:27:24
  Speaker 1: up in the church organ by this asbend of yours,
• 3:27:27
  Speaker 1: for he wouldn't let us out with it. Then, as
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: was first meant, no, he says she's so unselfish, and
• 3:27:34
  Speaker 1: contented that I can't afford to be rich, yet I
• 3:27:38
  Speaker 1: must wait a little longer. Then, when baby was expected,
• 3:27:43
  Speaker 1: he says, she is such a cheerful, glorious housewife that
• 3:27:47
  Speaker 1: I can't afford to be rich, yet I must wait
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 1: a little longer. Then when baby was born, he says,
• 3:27:54
  Speaker 1: she is so much better than she ever was, that
• 3:27:57
  Speaker 1: I can't afford to be rich, yet, I must wait
• 3:28:00
  Speaker 1: a little longer. And so he goes on and on
• 3:28:04
  Speaker 1: till I says, out right now, John, if you don't
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: fix it, time for setting her up in her own
• 3:28:11
  Speaker 1: house and home and letting us walk out of it,
• 3:28:14
  Speaker 1: our turning former. Then he says, he'll only wait to
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 1: triumph beyond what we ever thought possible, and to show
• 3:28:22
  Speaker 1: her to us better than even we ever supposed. And
• 3:28:26
  Speaker 1: he says, she shall see me under suspicion of having
• 3:28:30
  Speaker 1: murdered meself, and you shall see our trusting in our too.
• 3:28:33
  Speaker 1: Sh'll be well. Noddy and Me agreed to that, and
• 3:28:38
  Speaker 1: he was right. And here you are, and the horses
• 3:28:42
  Speaker 1: is in, and the story is done. Eh, God bless you,
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 1: my beauty, and God bless us. All the pile of
• 3:28:52
  Speaker 1: hands dispersed, and Bella and Missus Boffin took a good
• 3:28:56
  Speaker 1: long hug of one another to the apparent peril of
• 3:28:59
  Speaker 1: the inexas baby lying staring in Bella's lap. But is
• 3:29:05
  Speaker 1: the story done? Said Bella, pondering is there no more
• 3:29:09
  Speaker 1: of it? What more of it should there be? Deary,
• 3:29:14
  Speaker 1: returned Missus Boffin, full of glee. Are you sure you've
• 3:29:18
  Speaker 1: left nothing out of it? Asked Bella. I don't think
• 3:29:23
  Speaker 1: I have said, Missus Boffin. Archly john dear, said Bella,
• 3:29:30
  Speaker 1: you're a good nurse. Will you please hold baby? Having
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 1: deposited the inexhaustible in his arms of those words, Bella
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 1: looked hard at mister Boffin, who had moved to a
• 3:29:40
  Speaker 1: table where he was leaning his head upon his hand,
• 3:29:43
  Speaker 1: with his face turned away, and quietly settling herself on
• 3:29:47
  Speaker 1: her knees at his side and drawing one arm over
• 3:29:50
  Speaker 1: his shoulder, said please, I beg your pardon, and I
• 3:29:55
  Speaker 1: made a small mistake of a word when I took
• 3:29:57
  Speaker 1: leave of you last. Please, Please, I think you are better,
• 3:30:03
  Speaker 1: not worse than Hopkins, better not worse than Dancer, better
• 3:30:10
  Speaker 1: not worse than BlackBerry Jones, better not worse than any
• 3:30:15
  Speaker 1: of them. Please, something more, cried Bellah with an exultant,
• 3:30:20
  Speaker 1: ringing laugh, as she struggled with him and forced him
• 3:30:23
  Speaker 1: to turn his delighted face to hers. Please I have
• 3:30:27
  Speaker 1: found out something not yet mentioned. Please, I don't believe
• 3:30:32
  Speaker 1: you are a hard hearted miser at all. And please,
• 3:30:36
  Speaker 1: I don't believe you ever for one single minute were
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 1: at this. Missus Boffin fairly screamed with rapture, and sat
• 3:30:46
  Speaker 1: beating her feet upon the floor, clapping her hands and
• 3:30:49
  Speaker 1: bobbing herself backwards and forwards, like a demented member of
• 3:30:53
  Speaker 1: some mandarin's family. Oh I understand you now, sir, cried Bella.
• 3:31:01
  Speaker 1: I want neither you nor any one else to tell
• 3:31:04
  Speaker 1: me the rest of the story. I can tell it
• 3:31:07
  Speaker 1: to you now if you'd like to hear it, can you,
• 3:31:11
  Speaker 1: my dear, said mister Boffin, Tell it then? What? Cried Bella,
• 3:31:18
  Speaker 1: holding in prisoner by the coat with both hands. When
• 3:31:21
  Speaker 1: you saw what a greedy little wretch you were the
• 3:31:24
  Speaker 1: patron of you determined to show her how much misused
• 3:31:29
  Speaker 1: and misprized richest could do and often had done, to
• 3:31:33
  Speaker 1: spoil people, did you? Not caring what she thought of you?
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 1: And goodness knows that was of no consequence. You showed
• 3:31:42
  Speaker 1: her in yourself the most detestable sides of wealth, saying
• 3:31:47
  Speaker 1: in your own mind, this shallow creature would never work
• 3:31:51
  Speaker 1: the truth out of her own weak soul if she
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 1: had a hundred years to do it in But a
• 3:31:55
  Speaker 1: glaring instance kept before her may open even her eyes,
• 3:32:00
  Speaker 1: and said her thinking that was what you said to yourself,
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 1: was it, sir? I never said anything of the sort,
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 1: mister Bofton declared, in a state of the highest enjoyment. Then
• 3:32:12
  Speaker 1: you ought to have said it, sir, return Bella, giving
• 3:32:15
  Speaker 1: him two pulls and one kiss, for you must have
• 3:32:19
  Speaker 1: thought and meant it. You saw that good fortune was
• 3:32:22
  Speaker 1: turning my stupid head and hardening my silly heart, was
• 3:32:27
  Speaker 1: making me grasping, calculating, insolent, insufferable, and you took the
• 3:32:32
  Speaker 1: pains to be the dearest and kindest finger post that
• 3:32:36
  Speaker 1: ever was set up anywhere, pointing out the road that
• 3:32:39
  Speaker 1: I was taking and the end it led to confess
• 3:32:43
  Speaker 1: it instantly, John, said mister Boffin, one broad piece of
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 1: sunshine from head to foot. I wish you help me
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: out of this. You can't be heard by counsel, Sir
• 3:32:56
  Speaker 1: returned Bella. You must speak for yourself. Confess instantly. Well,
• 3:33:03
  Speaker 1: my dear, said mister Boffin. The truth is, though we
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 1: did go in for the little scheme than my old
• 3:33:09
  Speaker 1: lady has pointed out. I did put it to John,
• 3:33:12
  Speaker 1: what did he think of going in for some such
• 3:33:15
  Speaker 1: general scheme as you have pointed out? But I didn't
• 3:33:18
  Speaker 1: in any way so word it, because I didn't in
• 3:33:21
  Speaker 1: any way so mean it. I only said to John
• 3:33:24
  Speaker 1: wouldn't it be more consistent me going in for being
• 3:33:27
  Speaker 1: a regular brown bear, respecting him to go in as
• 3:33:31
  Speaker 1: a regular brown bear all round? Confess this minute, sir,
• 3:33:35
  Speaker 1: said Bella, that you did it to correct and amend me. Certainly,
• 3:33:41
  Speaker 1: my dear child, said mister Boffin. I didn't do it
• 3:33:44
  Speaker 1: to harm you, you may be sure of that, and
• 3:33:47
  Speaker 1: I did hope it might just hint a caution. Still,
• 3:33:52
  Speaker 1: it ought to be mentioned. And no sooner had my
• 3:33:54
  Speaker 1: old lady found out John, and John made known to
• 3:33:57
  Speaker 1: her and me that he had had his eye upon
• 3:34:00
  Speaker 1: a thankless person by the name of Silas Wegg, partly
• 3:34:04
  Speaker 1: for the punishment of which Wegg by leading him on
• 3:34:08
  Speaker 1: in a very unansome and undhanded game that he was playing.
• 3:34:11
  Speaker 1: Then books that you and me bought so many altogether,
• 3:34:15
  Speaker 1: And by the barb, my dear, he wasn't BlackBerry Jones,
• 3:34:18
  Speaker 1: but Blueberry was READI aloud to me by that person
• 3:34:22
  Speaker 1: of the name of Silas weggerforesaid Bella, who was still
• 3:34:26
  Speaker 1: on her knees at mister Boffin's feet, gradually sank down
• 3:34:29
  Speaker 1: into a sitting posture on the ground as she meditated
• 3:34:33
  Speaker 1: more and more thoughtfully with her eyes upon his beaming face, still,
• 3:34:39
  Speaker 1: said Bella. After this meditative pause, there remained two things.
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: But I cannot understand. Missus Boffin never supposed any part
• 3:34:49
  Speaker 1: of the change in mister Boffin to be real? Did she?
• 3:34:52
  Speaker 1: You never did, did you? Asked Bella, turning to her
• 3:34:56
  Speaker 1: No returned Missus Boffin with the most tund and glowing negative.
• 3:35:02
  Speaker 1: And yet you took it very much to heart, said Bella.
• 3:35:07
  Speaker 1: I remember, it's making you very uneasy. Indeed, the god
• 3:35:12
  Speaker 1: you see, Missus John as a sharp eye, John, cried
• 3:35:15
  Speaker 1: mister Boffin, shaking his head with an admiring air. You're right,
• 3:35:18
  Speaker 1: my dear. The old lady nearly blowed us at the
• 3:35:21
  Speaker 1: shivers and smithers many times. Why, asked Bella? How did
• 3:35:27
  Speaker 1: that happen when she was in your secret? Why it
• 3:35:31
  Speaker 1: was a weakness in the old lady, said mister Boffin.
• 3:35:34
  Speaker 1: And yet to tell you the old truth, and nothing
• 3:35:37
  Speaker 1: but the truth. I'm rather proud of it, my dear.
• 3:35:40
  Speaker 1: The old lady thinks so high of me, as she
• 3:35:42
  Speaker 1: couldn't abit to see and hear me coming out as
• 3:35:45
  Speaker 1: a regular brown one couldn't abate to make believe as
• 3:35:48
  Speaker 1: are meantly, in consequence of which we was everlastingly endanger
• 3:35:51
  Speaker 1: with her. Missus Boffin laughed heartily at herself, but a
• 3:35:56
  Speaker 1: certain glistening in her honest eyes revealed that she was
• 3:35:59
  Speaker 1: by no means cured of that dangerous propensity. I assure you,
• 3:36:03
  Speaker 1: my dear, said mister Boffin, that on the celebrated day
• 3:36:07
  Speaker 1: when I made what has since been agreed upon to
• 3:36:10
  Speaker 1: be my grandest demonstration, I allude to mew says the cat, quack,
• 3:36:16
  Speaker 1: Quack says the duck, and bow wow, wow says the dog.
• 3:36:19
  Speaker 1: I assure you, my dear, that on that celebrated day,
• 3:36:23
  Speaker 1: them flintly in unbelieving words, hit my old lady so
• 3:36:26
  Speaker 1: odd on my account that I had the older to
• 3:36:29
  Speaker 1: prevent her running out after you, and defended me by
• 3:36:32
  Speaker 1: saying I was playing a part. Missus Boffin laughed heartily again,
• 3:36:37
  Speaker 1: and her eyes listened again. And it then appeared not
• 3:36:41
  Speaker 1: only that in that burst of sarcastic eloquence, mister Boffin
• 3:36:44
  Speaker 1: was considered by his two fellow conspirators to have outdone himself,
• 3:36:48
  Speaker 1: but that, in his own opinion, it was a remarkable
• 3:36:51
  Speaker 1: achievement never thought of it before the moment, my dear,
• 3:36:55
  Speaker 1: he observed to Bellah, when John said, if he had
• 3:36:58
  Speaker 1: been so happy as to win your affections and possess
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 1: your heart, it come into my head to turn round
• 3:37:05
  Speaker 1: upon him with win her affections and possess her heart.
• 3:37:09
  Speaker 1: Mew says the cat. Quack, Quack says the duc and bow, wow, wow,
• 3:37:12
  Speaker 1: says a dog. I couldn't tell you how it came
• 3:37:16
  Speaker 1: into my head away from but it had so much
• 3:37:19
  Speaker 1: the sound of a rasper that I only you it
• 3:37:22
  Speaker 1: astonished meself. I was awful now, bursting out a laughing
• 3:37:25
  Speaker 1: though when it made John stare you said, my pretty
• 3:37:30
  Speaker 1: missus Boffin reminded Bella that there was one other thing
• 3:37:33
  Speaker 1: you couldn't understand. Oh yes, cried Bella, covering her face
• 3:37:39
  Speaker 1: with her hands. But that I never shall be able
• 3:37:43
  Speaker 1: to understand as long as I live. It is how
• 3:37:47
  Speaker 1: John could love me so when I so little deserved it,
• 3:37:51
  Speaker 1: And how you, mister and missus Boffin, could be so
• 3:37:54
  Speaker 1: forgetful of yourselves and take such pains and trouble to
• 3:37:58
  Speaker 1: make me a little better, and after all to help
• 3:38:01
  Speaker 1: him to so unworthy a wife. But I am very
• 3:38:06
  Speaker 1: very grateful. It was John Harmon's turn, then John Harmon
• 3:38:11
  Speaker 1: now for good, and John Rokesmith for nevermore, to plead
• 3:38:16
  Speaker 1: with her, quite unnecessarily in behalf of his deception, and
• 3:38:20
  Speaker 1: to tell her over and over again that it had
• 3:38:23
  Speaker 1: been prolonged by her own winning graces in her supposed
• 3:38:26
  Speaker 1: station of life. This led on to many interchanges of
• 3:38:30
  Speaker 1: endearment and enjoyment on all sides, in the midst of
• 3:38:33
  Speaker 1: which the Inexhaustible being observed staring in the most imbecile
• 3:38:37
  Speaker 1: manner on Missus Boffin's breast, was pronounced to be supernaturally
• 3:38:41
  Speaker 1: intelligent as to the whole transaction, and was made to
• 3:38:45
  Speaker 1: declare to the Lady Saint gemple Moreham's with a wave
• 3:38:48
  Speaker 1: of the speckled fist with difficulty detached from an exceedingly
• 3:38:51
  Speaker 1: short waist, I have already informed my venerable Ma that
• 3:38:55
  Speaker 1: I know all about it, then said John Harmon. Would
• 3:39:00
  Speaker 1: Missus John Harmon come and see her house? And a
• 3:39:04
  Speaker 1: dainty house it was, and a tastefully beautiful And they
• 3:39:08
  Speaker 1: went through it in procession, the Inexhaustible on Missus Boffin's bosom,
• 3:39:12
  Speaker 1: still staring, occupying the middle station and mister Boffin bringing
• 3:39:16
  Speaker 1: up the rear, And on Bella's exquisite toilet table was
• 3:39:21
  Speaker 1: an ivory casket, and in the casket were jewels alike
• 3:39:25
  Speaker 1: of which she had never dreamed of. And aloft on
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 1: an upper floor was a nursery garnished as with rainbows.
• 3:39:33
  Speaker 1: Though we were hard put to it, said John Harmon.
• 3:39:38
  Speaker 1: To get it done in so short a time, the
• 3:39:41
  Speaker 1: house inspected emissaries removed the inexhaustible, who was shortly afterwards
• 3:39:46
  Speaker 1: heard screaming among the rainbows. Whereupon Bella withdrew herself from
• 3:39:50
  Speaker 1: the presence and knowledge of Gemple Moorham's, and the screaming ceased,
• 3:39:55
  Speaker 1: and smiling peace associated herself with that young Olive Browne.
• 3:40:00
  Speaker 1: Sh Come and look in, Noddy, said missus Boffin to
• 3:40:04
  Speaker 1: mister Boffin. Mister Boffin, submitting to be led on tiptoe
• 3:40:08
  Speaker 1: to the nursery door, looked in with immense satisfaction, although
• 3:40:13
  Speaker 1: there was nothing to see but Bella, an amusing state
• 3:40:16
  Speaker 1: of happiness, seated in a low chair upon the hearth,
• 3:40:19
  Speaker 1: with her child in her fair young arms, and her
• 3:40:21
  Speaker 1: soft eyelashes shading her eyes from the fire. It looks
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 1: as if the omen's spirit had found rest at last,
• 3:40:30
  Speaker 1: don't it, said Missus Boffin, Yes, oh lady, And as
• 3:40:35
  Speaker 1: if his money had turned bras again after a long
• 3:40:39
  Speaker 1: long rust in the dark, and was at last I
• 3:40:42
  Speaker 1: beginning to sparkle in the sunlight, Yes, oh lady. And
• 3:40:47
  Speaker 1: it makes it pretty and a promising picture down it, yes,
• 3:40:51
  Speaker 1: oh lady. But aware at the instant of a fine
• 3:40:55
  Speaker 1: opening for a point, mister Boffin quenched that observation in
• 3:40:58
  Speaker 1: this delivered in the grisliest growling of the regular brown bear,
• 3:41:04
  Speaker 1: a pritney, an hopeful pictor mew quick quack bow wow,
• 3:41:10
  Speaker 1: and then trotted silently downstairs with his shoulders in a
• 3:41:13
  Speaker 1: state of the liveliest commotion. End of book four, Chapter thirteen,
• 3:41:22
  Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen, checkmate to the friendly move. Mister and missus
• 3:41:28
  Speaker 1: John Harmon had so timed their taking possession of their
• 3:41:31
  Speaker 1: rightful name and their London house that the event befell
• 3:41:35
  Speaker 1: on the very day when the last wagon load of
• 3:41:37
  Speaker 1: the last mound was driven out at the gates of
• 3:41:40
  Speaker 1: Boffin's bower. As it jolted away, mister Wegg felt that
• 3:41:45
  Speaker 1: the last load was correspondingly removed from his mind, and
• 3:41:48
  Speaker 1: hailed the auspicious season when that black sheep Boffin was
• 3:41:52
  Speaker 1: to be closely sheared over the whole slow process of
• 3:41:56
  Speaker 1: leveling the mounds. Silas had kept watch with rapacious eyes,
• 3:42:00
  Speaker 1: But eyes no less rapacious had watched the growth of
• 3:42:04
  Speaker 1: the mounds and years by gone, and had vigilantly sifted
• 3:42:07
  Speaker 1: the dust of which they were composed. No valuables turned up.
• 3:42:12
  Speaker 1: How should there be any, seeing that the old hard
• 3:42:14
  Speaker 1: jailer of harmony jail had coined every waif and stray
• 3:42:18
  Speaker 1: into money long before. Though disappointed by this bare result,
• 3:42:24
  Speaker 1: mister Wegg felt too sensibly relieved by the close of
• 3:42:27
  Speaker 1: the labor to grumble to any great extent. A foreman,
• 3:42:31
  Speaker 1: representative of the dust contractors purchasers of the mounds, had
• 3:42:35
  Speaker 1: worn mister Wegg down to skin and bone. This supervisor
• 3:42:39
  Speaker 1: of the proceedings, asserting his employer's rights to cart off
• 3:42:43
  Speaker 1: by daylight, night light, torchlight, when they would must have
• 3:42:47
  Speaker 1: been the death of Silas if the work had lasted
• 3:42:49
  Speaker 1: much longer. Seeming never to need sleep himself, he would
• 3:42:53
  Speaker 1: reappear with a tied up, broken head in fantail hat
• 3:42:57
  Speaker 1: and velveteen smalls like an accursed god. At the most
• 3:43:01
  Speaker 1: unholy and untimely hours. Tired out by keeping close ward
• 3:43:05
  Speaker 1: over a long day's work in fog and rain, Silas
• 3:43:08
  Speaker 1: would have just crawled to bed and be dozing when
• 3:43:11
  Speaker 1: a horrid shake and rumble under his pillow would announce
• 3:43:14
  Speaker 1: an approaching train of carts, escorted by this demon of
• 3:43:17
  Speaker 1: unrest to fall to work again. At another time he
• 3:43:21
  Speaker 1: would be rumbled up out of his soundest sleep, and
• 3:43:24
  Speaker 1: the dead of the night at another would be kept
• 3:43:26
  Speaker 1: at his post eight and forty hours on end. The
• 3:43:30
  Speaker 1: more his persecutor besought him not to trouble himself to
• 3:43:33
  Speaker 1: turn out, the more suspicious was the crafty weg that
• 3:43:36
  Speaker 1: indications had been observed of something hidden somewhere, and that
• 3:43:40
  Speaker 1: attempts were on foot to circumvent him. So continually broken
• 3:43:44
  Speaker 1: was his rest through these means, that he led the
• 3:43:47
  Speaker 1: life of having waged to keep ten thousand dog watchers
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: in ten thousand hours, and look piteously upon himself as
• 3:43:54
  Speaker 1: always getting up and yet never going to bed. So
• 3:43:57
  Speaker 1: gaunt and haggard had he grown at last, that his
• 3:44:00
  Speaker 1: wooden leg showed disproportionate and presented a thriving appearance in
• 3:44:04
  Speaker 1: contrast to the rest of his plague body, which might
• 3:44:07
  Speaker 1: almost have been termed chubby. However, Wegg's comfort was that
• 3:44:12
  Speaker 1: all his disagreeables were now over, and that he was
• 3:44:15
  Speaker 1: immediately coming into his property of late. The grindstone did
• 3:44:20
  Speaker 1: undoubtedly appear to have been whirling at his own nose
• 3:44:24
  Speaker 1: rather than Boffin's, but Boffin's nose was now to be
• 3:44:27
  Speaker 1: sharpened fine. Thus far, mister Wegg had let his dusty
• 3:44:31
  Speaker 1: friend off lightly, having been balked in that amiable design
• 3:44:35
  Speaker 1: of frequently dining with him by the machinations of the
• 3:44:38
  Speaker 1: sleepless dustmen. He had been constrained to depute mister Venus
• 3:44:42
  Speaker 1: to keep their dusty friend Boffin under inspection, while he
• 3:44:46
  Speaker 1: himself turned lank and lean at the bower to mister
• 3:44:50
  Speaker 1: Venus's museum. Mister Wegg repaired, and at length the mounds
• 3:44:53
  Speaker 1: were down and gone. It being evening, he found that gentleman,
• 3:44:57
  Speaker 1: as he expected, seated over his fire, but did not
• 3:45:01
  Speaker 1: find him as he expected, floating his powerful mind and tea.
• 3:45:06
  Speaker 1: Why you smell rather comfortable here, said Wegg, seeming to
• 3:45:10
  Speaker 1: take it ill, and stopping and sniffing as he entered
• 3:45:13
  Speaker 1: I am rather comfortable, sir, said Venus. You don't use
• 3:45:19
  Speaker 1: lemon in your business, do you, asked Wegg, sniffing again. No,
• 3:45:23
  Speaker 1: mister Wegg, said Venus. When I use it at all,
• 3:45:27
  Speaker 1: I mostly use it in cobbler's punch. What do you
• 3:45:30
  Speaker 1: call cobbler's punch? Demanded Wegg in a worse humor than before.
• 3:45:35
  Speaker 1: It's difficult to impart the receipt for it, sir, returned Venus.
• 3:45:39
  Speaker 1: Because however particular you may be in a lot in
• 3:45:42
  Speaker 1: your materials, so much will still depend upon the individual
• 3:45:45
  Speaker 1: gifts and there being a feeling thrown into it. But
• 3:45:48
  Speaker 1: the groundwork is gin in a dutch bottom, said Wegg gloomily,
• 3:45:54
  Speaker 1: as he sat himself down. Very good, sir, very good,
• 3:45:58
  Speaker 1: cried Venus. Will you partake? Sir? Will I par take?
• 3:46:03
  Speaker 1: Returned Wegg, very surlily. Why of course I will. Will
• 3:46:07
  Speaker 1: a man part take as has been tormented out of
• 3:46:10
  Speaker 1: his five senses by an everlasting dustment with his head
• 3:46:13
  Speaker 1: tied up? Will he too as if he wouldn't? Don't
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 1: let it put you out, mister Wegg, you don't seem
• 3:46:20
  Speaker 1: in your usual spirits if you count that, you don't
• 3:46:24
  Speaker 1: see me in your usual spirits, growled Wegg. You seem
• 3:46:28
  Speaker 1: to be setting up for lively. The circumstance appeared in
• 3:46:32
  Speaker 1: his then state of mind to give mister Wegg uncommon offense.
• 3:46:36
  Speaker 1: And here been nommin your ear cut, said Wegg, missing
• 3:46:41
  Speaker 1: the usual dusty shock. Yes, mister Wegg, but don't let
• 3:46:45
  Speaker 1: that put you out either. And I am blessed if
• 3:46:49
  Speaker 1: you ain't getting fat, said Wegg, with culminating discontent. What
• 3:46:54
  Speaker 1: are you going to do next, well, mister Wegg, said Venus,
• 3:46:59
  Speaker 1: smiling in lightly manner. I suspect you could hardly guess
• 3:47:02
  Speaker 1: what I'm going to do next. I don't want to guess,
• 3:47:06
  Speaker 1: retorted Wegg. All I've got to say is that it's
• 3:47:10
  Speaker 1: well for you that the devision of labor has been
• 3:47:13
  Speaker 1: what it has been. It's well for you to have
• 3:47:15
  Speaker 1: had so light a part in this business when mine
• 3:47:18
  Speaker 1: has been so heavy. You haven't had your rest broke.
• 3:47:21
  Speaker 1: I'll be bound, not all, sir, said Venus, never rested
• 3:47:26
  Speaker 1: so well in all my life. I thank you, ah,
• 3:47:30
  Speaker 1: grumbled Wegg. You should have been me if you had
• 3:47:34
  Speaker 1: been me and had been fretted out of your bed
• 3:47:37
  Speaker 1: and your sleep and your meals and your mind for
• 3:47:39
  Speaker 1: a stretch of months together, you'd been out of condition
• 3:47:42
  Speaker 1: and out of sorts. Certainly it has trained you down,
• 3:47:46
  Speaker 1: mister Wegg, said Venus, contemplating his figure with an artist's eye.
• 3:47:51
  Speaker 1: Trained you down, very low. It has so reason, and
• 3:47:53
  Speaker 1: yellow is the carving upon your bones that one might
• 3:47:57
  Speaker 1: almost fancy you can't to give a look in upon
• 3:47:59
  Speaker 1: the French gentleman in the corner? Is it a me?
• 3:48:03
  Speaker 1: Mister Wegg, glancing in great dudgeon towards the French gentleman's corner,
• 3:48:08
  Speaker 1: seemed to notice something new there, which induced him to
• 3:48:11
  Speaker 1: glance at the opposite corner, and then to put on
• 3:48:13
  Speaker 1: his glasses and stare at all the nooks and corners
• 3:48:16
  Speaker 1: of the dim sharpened succession. Why you've been having a
• 3:48:21
  Speaker 1: place cleaned up, he exclaimed, Yes, mister Wegg, by the
• 3:48:25
  Speaker 1: hand of adorable woman. Then what are you going to
• 3:48:30
  Speaker 1: do next? I suppose is to get married? That's it.
• 3:48:34
  Speaker 1: Sir Silas took off his glasses again, finding himself too
• 3:48:38
  Speaker 1: intensely disgusted by the spightly appearance of his friend and
• 3:48:41
  Speaker 1: partner to bear a magnified view of him, and made
• 3:48:44
  Speaker 1: the inquiry to the old party. Mister Wegg, said Venus,
• 3:48:50
  Speaker 1: with a sudden flush of wrath. Her lady question is
• 3:48:53
  Speaker 1: not a old party? Are meant? Exclaimed Wegg testily to
• 3:48:58
  Speaker 1: the party as formerly object Mister Wegg said Venus, in
• 3:49:03
  Speaker 1: a case of so much delicacy, I must trouble you
• 3:49:06
  Speaker 1: to say what you mean. There are strings that must
• 3:49:09
  Speaker 1: not be played upon. No, Sir, not sounded unless in
• 3:49:12
  Speaker 1: the most respectful and tuneful manner of such melodious strings
• 3:49:17
  Speaker 1: is miss pleasant Rider had formed. Then it is the lady,
• 3:49:21
  Speaker 1: as formly objected, said Wegg. Sir returned Venus with dignity.
• 3:49:27
  Speaker 1: I accept the altered phrase. It is the lady, as
• 3:49:30
  Speaker 1: formerly objected. When is it to come off? Asked silas.
• 3:49:36
  Speaker 1: Mister Wegg, said Venus, with another flush. I cannot permit
• 3:49:39
  Speaker 1: it to be put in the form of a fight.
• 3:49:42
  Speaker 1: I must temperately, but firmly call upon you, Sir, to
• 3:49:45
  Speaker 1: amend that question. When is the lady, Wegg reluctantly demanded,
• 3:49:51
  Speaker 1: constraining his ill temper and remembrance of the partnership and
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 1: its stock in trade, are going to give her? And
• 3:50:00
  Speaker 1: where she has already give her art, Sir returned Venus,
• 3:50:05
  Speaker 1: I again accept the awkward phrase and with pleasure the
• 3:50:09
  Speaker 1: lady is it going to give her end where she
• 3:50:11
  Speaker 1: has already given her art next Monday. Then the lady's
• 3:50:17
  Speaker 1: objection has been met, said Silas. Mister Wegg said Venus,
• 3:50:22
  Speaker 1: as I did name to you, I think on a
• 3:50:24
  Speaker 1: former occasion, If not on former occasions, on former occasions,
• 3:50:30
  Speaker 1: interrupted Wegg. What pursued Venus? What the nature of the
• 3:50:36
  Speaker 1: lady's objection was? I may impart without violating any of
• 3:50:41
  Speaker 1: the tender confidences since sprung up between the lady and myself. Oh,
• 3:50:45
  Speaker 1: it has been met through the kind interference of two
• 3:50:48
  Speaker 1: good friends of mine, one previously acquainted with the lady
• 3:50:51
  Speaker 1: and one not. The paint was thrown out, sir, by
• 3:50:55
  Speaker 1: those two friends when they did me the great service
• 3:50:58
  Speaker 1: of waiting on the lady to try if a union
• 3:51:01
  Speaker 1: betwixt the lady and me could not be brought to bear,
• 3:51:04
  Speaker 1: the pint, I say, was thrown out by them, sir.
• 3:51:08
  Speaker 1: Whether if after marriage I'll confine myself to the articulation
• 3:51:12
  Speaker 1: of men, children and the lower animals, it might not
• 3:51:16
  Speaker 1: relieve the lady's mind of her feeling respecting being as
• 3:51:19
  Speaker 1: a lady regarded in a bony light. It was happy,
• 3:51:23
  Speaker 1: thought sir, and it took root, it would see. Mister
• 3:51:27
  Speaker 1: Venus observed Wegg, with a touch of distrust, that you
• 3:51:31
  Speaker 1: are a flash of friends, pretty walter, that gentleman answered,
• 3:51:35
  Speaker 1: in a tone of placid mystery. So so, sir, Pretty well, however,
• 3:51:42
  Speaker 1: said Wegg, after eyeing him with another touch of distrust,
• 3:51:45
  Speaker 1: I wish you joy. One man spends his fortune in
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 1: one way, another and another. You are going to try matrimony,
• 3:51:54
  Speaker 1: ar meet to try traveling. Indeed, mister Wegg, change of air,
• 3:52:00
  Speaker 1: see scenery, and my natural rest, I hope may bring
• 3:52:04
  Speaker 1: me round after the persecutions I have undergone from the
• 3:52:08
  Speaker 1: dustman with his head tied up, which I just now mentioned,
• 3:52:12
  Speaker 1: the tough job being ended, and the mounds lay low.
• 3:52:15
  Speaker 1: The hour is come for Boffin to stump up? Would
• 3:52:18
  Speaker 1: ten to morrow morning suit you, partner, for finally bringing
• 3:52:21
  Speaker 1: Boffin's nose to the grindstone. Ten to morrow morning would
• 3:52:25
  Speaker 1: quite suit mister Venus for that excellent purpose. You have
• 3:52:30
  Speaker 1: had him well under inspection, I hope, said silas. Mister
• 3:52:34
  Speaker 1: Venus had had him under inspection pretty well every day.
• 3:52:38
  Speaker 1: Suppose he was d just to step round to night
• 3:52:41
  Speaker 1: then and give him orders from me. I say from me,
• 3:52:45
  Speaker 1: because he knows I won't be played with, to be
• 3:52:48
  Speaker 1: ready with his papers, his accounts and his cash at
• 3:52:51
  Speaker 1: that time in the morning, said Wegg. And as a
• 3:52:54
  Speaker 1: matter of form, which will be agreeable to your own feelings,
• 3:52:58
  Speaker 1: before we go out for our walk with you. Part
• 3:53:01
  Speaker 1: of the way thou mar leg gives under me with
• 3:53:04
  Speaker 1: weariness is ever look o the stock in trade. Mister
• 3:53:09
  Speaker 1: Venus produced it, and it was perfectly correct. Mister Venus
• 3:53:13
  Speaker 1: undertook to produce it again in the morning, and to
• 3:53:16
  Speaker 1: keep tryst with mister Wegg on Boffin's doorstep. As the
• 3:53:19
  Speaker 1: clock struck ten at a certain point of the road
• 3:53:23
  Speaker 1: between Clerkenwell and Boffin's house, mister Wegg expressly insisted that
• 3:53:27
  Speaker 1: there should be no prefix to the Golden Dustman's name.
• 3:53:31
  Speaker 1: The partner separated for the night. It was a very
• 3:53:35
  Speaker 1: bad night, to which succeeded a very bad morning. The
• 3:53:39
  Speaker 1: streets were so unusually slushy, muddy, and miserable in the
• 3:53:42
  Speaker 1: morning that Wegg rode to the scene of action, arguing
• 3:53:46
  Speaker 1: that a man who was, as it were, going to
• 3:53:49
  Speaker 1: the bank to draw out a handsome property could well
• 3:53:52
  Speaker 1: afford that trifling expense. Venus was punctual, and Wegg undertook
• 3:53:58
  Speaker 1: to knock at the door and conduct the conference. Door
• 3:54:01
  Speaker 1: knocked at door opened, Boffin adown. The servant replied that
• 3:54:08
  Speaker 1: mister Boffin was at home. He'll do, said Wegg, thou
• 3:54:13
  Speaker 1: it ain't one I call him. The servant inquired if
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 1: they had any appointment. Now, I'll tell you what, young fellow,
• 3:54:22
  Speaker 1: said Wegg. I won't have it. This won't do for me.
• 3:54:25
  Speaker 1: I don't want menials, I want Boffin. They were shown
• 3:54:30
  Speaker 1: into a waiting room, where the all powerful Wegg wore
• 3:54:34
  Speaker 1: his hat and whistled, and with his forefinger stirred up
• 3:54:38
  Speaker 1: a clock that stood upon the chimney piece until he
• 3:54:40
  Speaker 1: made it strike in a few minutes. They were shown
• 3:54:43
  Speaker 1: upstairs into what used to be Boffin's room, which, besides
• 3:54:47
  Speaker 1: the door of entrance, had folding doors in it to
• 3:54:50
  Speaker 1: make it one of a suite of rooms when occasion required.
• 3:54:54
  Speaker 1: Here Boffin was seated at a library table, and here
• 3:54:57
  Speaker 1: mister Wegg, having imperiously motioned the servant to withdraw, drew
• 3:55:01
  Speaker 1: up a chair and seated himself in his hat close
• 3:55:04
  Speaker 1: beside him here also, mister Wegg instantly underwent the remarkable
• 3:55:09
  Speaker 1: experience of having his hat twitched off his head and
• 3:55:12
  Speaker 1: thrown out of a window which was opened and shut
• 3:55:15
  Speaker 1: for the purpose. Me careful, what insolent liberties you take
• 3:55:19
  Speaker 1: in that gentleman's presence, said the owner of the hand
• 3:55:23
  Speaker 1: which had done this, Or I will throw you after it.
• 3:55:28
  Speaker 1: Wegg involuntarily clapped his hand to his bare head and
• 3:55:31
  Speaker 1: stared at the secretary, for it was he addressed him
• 3:55:35
  Speaker 1: with a severe countenance, And who had come in quietly
• 3:55:37
  Speaker 1: by the folding doors. Oh, said Wegg, as soon as
• 3:55:42
  Speaker 1: he recovered his suspended power of speech. Very good, our
• 3:55:47
  Speaker 1: guide directions for you to be dismissed. And you ain't gone,
• 3:55:51
  Speaker 1: ain't you? Oh? Will you look at this presently? Very
• 3:55:56
  Speaker 1: good now? Or I ain't gone, said another voice. Somebody
• 3:56:04
  Speaker 1: elsewered come in quietly by the folding doors. Turning his head,
• 3:56:08
  Speaker 1: Wegg beheld his persecutor, the ever wakeful dustman, accuttered with
• 3:56:13
  Speaker 1: fantail hat and velveteen small's complete, who, untying his tied
• 3:56:18
  Speaker 1: up broken head, revealed a head that was whole and
• 3:56:21
  Speaker 1: a face that was sloppy's. A gentlemen, roared Sloppy in
• 3:56:28
  Speaker 1: a peal of laughter and with a measurable relish. He
• 3:56:31
  Speaker 1: never short ish, I could sleep standing and often dane
• 3:56:36
  Speaker 1: it were, I turned for mishishchikitin e every thought ish.
• 3:56:41
  Speaker 1: I used to give missishikchen a police news in different voices,
• 3:56:46
  Speaker 1: but I did lead him a laugh or fool it, gentlemen,
• 3:56:51
  Speaker 1: I hope I really and truly did. Here mister Sloppy,
• 3:56:56
  Speaker 1: opening his mouth to a quite alarming extent and throwing
• 3:56:59
  Speaker 1: back his headppeal again revealed uncalculable buttons. Oh, said wegg
• 3:57:06
  Speaker 1: slightly discomfited, but not much as yet one and one
• 3:57:10
  Speaker 1: is too not dismissed asit. Boffin. Just let me ask
• 3:57:17
  Speaker 1: a question. Who set this chap on in this dress?
• 3:57:22
  Speaker 1: When the carting began? Who employed this fellow? I shay,
• 3:57:28
  Speaker 1: remonstrated Sloppy, jerking his head forward. Now, fellows, or I'll
• 3:57:33
  Speaker 1: foil you our window. Mister Boffin appeased him with a
• 3:57:37
  Speaker 1: wave of his hand and said, I implored him. Wegg Ah,
• 3:57:43
  Speaker 1: you implored him, Boffin, Very good, mister Venus. We raise
• 3:57:49
  Speaker 1: our turns and we can't do better than proceed a
• 3:57:52
  Speaker 1: business Boffin, I'll want the room cleared of these two scum.
• 3:57:59
  Speaker 1: Let's not going to be done, Wegg, replied mister Boffin,
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 1: sitting composedly on the library table at one end, while
• 3:58:05
  Speaker 1: the secretary sat composedly on it at the other. Boffin.
• 3:58:10
  Speaker 1: Not going to be done, repeated Wegg. Not at your peril, now, Wegg,
• 3:58:17
  Speaker 1: said mister Boffin, shaking his head good humoredly. Nor it
• 3:58:20
  Speaker 1: my peril, and not on any other terms. Wegg reflected
• 3:58:25
  Speaker 1: the moment and then said, mister Venus, will you be
• 3:58:29
  Speaker 1: so good as ann me over that same document? Certainly, sir,
• 3:58:34
  Speaker 1: replied Venus, hanging it to him with much politeness there
• 3:58:38
  Speaker 1: is having now, sir, part with it. I wish to
• 3:58:42
  Speaker 1: make a small observation, not so much because it is
• 3:58:44
  Speaker 1: anyways necessary or expresses any new doctrine or discovery, as
• 3:58:49
  Speaker 1: because it is a comfort to my mind. Silas Wegg,
• 3:58:52
  Speaker 1: You're a precious old rascal. Mister Wegg, who, as if
• 3:58:56
  Speaker 1: anticipating a compliment, had been beating time with the paper
• 3:58:59
  Speaker 1: to the other's politeness until this unexpected conclusion came upon him,
• 3:59:04
  Speaker 1: stopped rather abruptly. Silas Wegg, said Venus, know that I
• 3:59:09
  Speaker 1: took the liberty of taking mister Boffin into our concern
• 3:59:12
  Speaker 1: as a sleeping partner at a very early period of
• 3:59:15
  Speaker 1: our firm's existence. Quite true, added mister Boffin. And I
• 3:59:20
  Speaker 1: tested Venus by making him a pretended proposal or two.
• 3:59:23
  Speaker 1: I found him, on the whole a very honest man, Wegg,
• 3:59:27
  Speaker 1: So mister Boffin, in his indulgence, is pleased to say.
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 1: Venus remarked, though in the beginning of this dirt my
• 3:59:34
  Speaker 1: hands were not for a few hours quite as clean
• 3:59:37
  Speaker 1: as I could wish. But I hope I made early
• 3:59:39
  Speaker 1: and full amends Venus. You did, said mister Boffin. Certainly, certainly, certainly,
• 3:59:46
  Speaker 1: Venus inclined his head with respect and gratitude. Here you, sir.
• 3:59:51
  Speaker 1: I much obliged to you, sir, for all for your
• 3:59:54
  Speaker 1: good opinion, now for your way of receiving and encouraging
• 3:59:57
  Speaker 1: me when I first put myself in communication with you,
• 4:00:00
  Speaker 1: and for the influence since so kindly brought to bear
• 4:00:03
  Speaker 1: upon a certain lady, both by yourself than by mister
• 4:00:07
  Speaker 1: John Armine, to whom, when thus making mention of him,
• 4:00:10
  Speaker 1: he also bowed. Wegg followed the name with sharp ears
• 4:00:15
  Speaker 1: and the action, with sharp eyes and a certain cringing air,
• 4:00:19
  Speaker 1: was infusing itself into his bullying air. When his attention
• 4:00:23
  Speaker 1: was reclaimed by Venus. Everything else between you and me,
• 4:00:27
  Speaker 1: mister Wegg, said, Venus now explains itself, and you can
• 4:00:32
  Speaker 1: now make out, sir, without further words from me, but
• 4:00:36
  Speaker 1: totally to prevent any unpleasantness or mistake that might arise
• 4:00:39
  Speaker 1: on what I consider an important point to be made
• 4:00:41
  Speaker 1: quite clear at the close of our acquaintance, I beg
• 4:00:44
  Speaker 1: the leave of mister Boffin and mister John Armine to
• 4:00:47
  Speaker 1: repeat an observation which I have already had the pleasure
• 4:00:50
  Speaker 1: of bringing under your notice. You are a precious old rascal.
• 4:00:55
  Speaker 1: You are a fool, said Wegg with a snap of
• 4:00:58
  Speaker 1: his fingers. An idle got rid of you before. Now
• 4:01:01
  Speaker 1: if I could have struck out any way of doing it,
• 4:01:04
  Speaker 1: I've thought it over. I can tell you you may
• 4:01:07
  Speaker 1: go and welcome you. Leave them all for me, because
• 4:01:12
  Speaker 1: you know, said Wegg, dividing his next observation between mister
• 4:01:16
  Speaker 1: Boffin and mister Harmon. I'm worth my price and I
• 4:01:20
  Speaker 1: mean to have it. This getting off is all very
• 4:01:24
  Speaker 1: well in its way, and it tells with such an
• 4:01:26
  Speaker 1: anatomical pump as this one, pointing out mister Venus that
• 4:01:30
  Speaker 1: it won't do with a man. I am here to
• 4:01:34
  Speaker 1: be bought off, and I have named my figure. Now
• 4:01:38
  Speaker 1: buy me or leave me. I leave you, Wegg, said
• 4:01:42
  Speaker 1: mister Boffin, laughing as far as I'm concerned. Boffin replied Wegg,
• 4:01:48
  Speaker 1: turning upon him with a severe air. I understand your
• 4:01:53
  Speaker 1: new born boldness. I see the brass underneath your silver plating.
• 4:01:58
  Speaker 1: You've got yawn out of joint, knowing that you've not
• 4:02:02
  Speaker 1: in at stake you can afford to come the independent game.
• 4:02:06
  Speaker 1: Why you're just so much smeary glass to see through?
• 4:02:11
  Speaker 1: You know? But mister Armand is in another situation. What
• 4:02:15
  Speaker 1: mister Harmond risks is quite another pair of shoes. Now
• 4:02:20
  Speaker 1: I've heard something lately about this being mister Harmon. I
• 4:02:25
  Speaker 1: make out now some inch that I've met on that
• 4:02:28
  Speaker 1: subject in a newspaper, and I'll drop you Boffin. As
• 4:02:33
  Speaker 1: beneath my notice, I asked mister Arman whether he has
• 4:02:38
  Speaker 1: any idea of the contents of this present paper. It
• 4:02:43
  Speaker 1: is a will of my late fathers of more recent dates,
• 4:02:46
  Speaker 1: and the will proved by mister boffin, address whom again
• 4:02:49
  Speaker 1: as you have addressed him already, and I'll knock you down,
• 4:02:53
  Speaker 1: leaving the whole of his property to the crown, said
• 4:02:56
  Speaker 1: John Harmon, with as much indifference as was compatible with
• 4:03:00
  Speaker 1: extreme sternness. Bit you are, cried Wegg, then screwing the
• 4:03:08
  Speaker 1: weight of his body upon his wooden leg, and screwing
• 4:03:10
  Speaker 1: his wooden head very much on one side, and screwing
• 4:03:13
  Speaker 1: up one eye. Then I'll put the question to you,
• 4:03:19
  Speaker 1: what's this piper worth? Nothing? Said John Harmon. Wegg had
• 4:03:25
  Speaker 1: repeated the word with the sneer, and was entering on
• 4:03:28
  Speaker 1: some sarcastic retort, when, to his boundless amazement, he found
• 4:03:32
  Speaker 1: himself gripped by the cravat, shaken until his teeth chattered,
• 4:03:36
  Speaker 1: shoved back, staggering into a corner of the room, and
• 4:03:40
  Speaker 1: pinned there, you scoundrel, said John Harmon, whose seafaring hold
• 4:03:46
  Speaker 1: was like that of a vice. Ere not in my
• 4:03:49
  Speaker 1: head against the wall, urged Silas faintly. I mean to
• 4:03:54
  Speaker 1: knock your head against the wall, returned John Harmon, suiting
• 4:03:59
  Speaker 1: his action to his wordords with the heartiest good will,
• 4:04:02
  Speaker 1: And I give a thousand pounds for leave to knock
• 4:04:05
  Speaker 1: your brains out. Listen, you scoundrel, and look at that
• 4:04:10
  Speaker 1: dutch bottle. Sloppy held it up for his edification. That
• 4:04:16
  Speaker 1: dutch bottle, scoundrel, contained the latest will of the many
• 4:04:20
  Speaker 1: wills made by my unhappy self tormenting father. That will
• 4:04:24
  Speaker 1: gives everything absolutely to my noble benefactor and yours, mister Boffin,
• 4:04:30
  Speaker 1: excluding and reviling me and my sister, then already dead
• 4:04:34
  Speaker 1: of a broken heart, by name. That dutch bottle was
• 4:04:39
  Speaker 1: found by my noble benefactor and yours after he entered
• 4:04:43
  Speaker 1: on possession of the estate. That dutch bottle distressed him
• 4:04:47
  Speaker 1: beyond measure, because though I and my sister were both
• 4:04:50
  Speaker 1: no more, it cast a slur upon our memory, which
• 4:04:54
  Speaker 1: he knew we had done nothing in our miserable youth
• 4:04:57
  Speaker 1: to deserve that dutch bottle. Therefore, or he buried in
• 4:05:01
  Speaker 1: the mound belonging to him, and there it lay while you,
• 4:05:04
  Speaker 1: you thankless wretch, were prodding and poking, often very near it.
• 4:05:09
  Speaker 1: I dare say his intention was that it should never
• 4:05:13
  Speaker 1: see the light, but he was afraid to destroy it.
• 4:05:16
  Speaker 1: Lest to destroy such a document, even with his great
• 4:05:19
  Speaker 1: generous motive, might be an offense at law after the
• 4:05:23
  Speaker 1: discovery was made here? Who I was? Mister Boffin, still
• 4:05:27
  Speaker 1: restless on the subject, told me, upon certain conditions impossible
• 4:05:31
  Speaker 1: for such a hound as you to appreciate the secret
• 4:05:34
  Speaker 1: of that Dutch bottle. I urged upon him the necessity
• 4:05:38
  Speaker 1: of its being dug up and a paper being legally
• 4:05:41
  Speaker 1: produced and established. The first thing you saw him do,
• 4:05:45
  Speaker 1: and the second thing has been done without your knowledge. Consequently,
• 4:05:50
  Speaker 1: the paper now rattling in your hand as I shake you,
• 4:05:54
  Speaker 1: and I should like to shake the life out of you,
• 4:05:57
  Speaker 1: it is worth less than the rotten cork of the
• 4:05:59
  Speaker 1: Dutch bottle? Do you understand? Judging from the fallen countenance
• 4:06:06
  Speaker 1: of Silas, as his head wagged backwards and forwards in
• 4:06:09
  Speaker 1: the most uncomfortable manner, he did understand, now, scoundrel, said
• 4:06:16
  Speaker 1: John Harmon, taking another sailor like turn on his cravat
• 4:06:19
  Speaker 1: and holding him in his corner at arm's length. I
• 4:06:22
  Speaker 1: shall make two more short speeches to you, because I
• 4:06:26
  Speaker 1: hope they will torment you. Your discovery was a genuine discovery,
• 4:06:32
  Speaker 1: such as it was, for nobody had thought of looking
• 4:06:35
  Speaker 1: into that place. Neither did we know you had made
• 4:06:38
  Speaker 1: it until Venus spoke to mister Boffin. Though I kept
• 4:06:42
  Speaker 1: you under good observation from my first appearance here, and
• 4:06:45
  Speaker 1: though Sloppy has long made it the chief occupation and
• 4:06:48
  Speaker 1: delight of his life to attend you like your shadow.
• 4:06:53
  Speaker 1: I tell you this that you may know we knew
• 4:06:56
  Speaker 1: enough of you to persuade mister Boffin to let us
• 4:06:59
  Speaker 1: lead you on, deluded to the last possible moment, in
• 4:07:04
  Speaker 1: order that your disappointment might be the heaviest possible disappointment.
• 4:07:10
  Speaker 1: That's the first short speech. Do you understand here? John
• 4:07:15
  Speaker 1: Harmon assisted his comprehension with another shake. Now, scoundrel, he pursued,
• 4:07:23
  Speaker 1: I am going to finish. You suppose me just now
• 4:07:27
  Speaker 1: to be the possessor of my father's property. So I am,
• 4:07:32
  Speaker 1: But through any act of my father's or by any
• 4:07:35
  Speaker 1: right I have no through the munificence of mister Boffin.
• 4:07:41
  Speaker 1: The conditions that he made with me before parting with
• 4:07:44
  Speaker 1: the secret of the Dutch Bottle were that I should
• 4:07:46
  Speaker 1: take the fortune and that he should take his mound.
• 4:07:49
  Speaker 1: And no more. I owe everything I possess solely to
• 4:07:54
  Speaker 1: the disinterestedness, uprightness, tenderness, goodness. There are no words to
• 4:08:00
  Speaker 1: satisfy me of mister and missus Boffin. And when knowing
• 4:08:05
  Speaker 1: what I knew, I saw such a mud worm as
• 4:08:08
  Speaker 1: you presumed to rise in this house against this noble soul.
• 4:08:12
  Speaker 1: The wonder is added John Harmon, through his clenched teeth,
• 4:08:17
  Speaker 1: and with a very ugly turn indeed on Wegg's cravat,
• 4:08:21
  Speaker 1: that I didn't try to twist your head off and
• 4:08:25
  Speaker 1: fling that out of the window. So that's the last
• 4:08:29
  Speaker 1: short speech, do you understand? Silas released put his hand
• 4:08:35
  Speaker 1: to his throat, cleared it and looked as if he
• 4:08:38
  Speaker 1: had a rather large fishbone in that region. Simultaneously with
• 4:08:42
  Speaker 1: this action on his part, in his corner, a singular
• 4:08:45
  Speaker 1: and on the surface an incomprehensible movement was made by
• 4:08:49
  Speaker 1: mister Sloppy, who began backing towards mister Wegg along the
• 4:08:53
  Speaker 1: wall in the manner of a porter or heaver who
• 4:08:57
  Speaker 1: was about to lift a sack of flour or coals.
• 4:09:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Wegg, said mister Boffin in his clemency, that
• 4:09:05
  Speaker 1: my old lady and I can't have a better opinion
• 4:09:07
  Speaker 1: of you than the bad one we are forced to entertain.
• 4:09:10
  Speaker 1: But I shouldn't like to leave you, after all's said
• 4:09:13
  Speaker 1: and done, worse off in life than I found you. Therefore,
• 4:09:16
  Speaker 1: say in a word before we part, or it'll cost
• 4:09:19
  Speaker 1: to set you up in another stall and in another place.
• 4:09:25
  Speaker 1: John Harmon struck in. You don't come outside these windows,
• 4:09:30
  Speaker 1: mister Boffin returned Wegg in avaricious humiliation. When I first
• 4:09:36
  Speaker 1: had the honor of my in your acquaintance, I got
• 4:09:40
  Speaker 1: together a collection of ballads which was I may say,
• 4:09:44
  Speaker 1: above price. Then they can't be paid for, said John Harmon,
• 4:09:49
  Speaker 1: And you had better not try, my dear sir, pardon me,
• 4:09:54
  Speaker 1: mister Boffin resumed Wegg with a malignant glance in the
• 4:09:58
  Speaker 1: last speaker's direction. All is putting the case to you, who,
• 4:10:02
  Speaker 1: if my senses did not deceive me, put the case
• 4:10:05
  Speaker 1: to me. I had a very choice collection of ballads,
• 4:10:09
  Speaker 1: and there was a new stock of gingerbread in the
• 4:10:11
  Speaker 1: tin box. I say no more, but would rather leave
• 4:10:14
  Speaker 1: it to you. But it's difficult to name what's right,
• 4:10:18
  Speaker 1: said mister Boffin uneasily, with his hand in his pocket.
• 4:10:21
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to go beyond what's right, because
• 4:10:24
  Speaker 1: you really have turned out such a very bad fellow.
• 4:10:27
  Speaker 1: So artful, so ungrateful you have been Wegg, for when
• 4:10:30
  Speaker 1: did I ever injure you? There was also, mister Wegg
• 4:10:35
  Speaker 1: went on in a meditative manner, a errand connection in
• 4:10:40
  Speaker 1: which I was much respected. But I have not wish
• 4:10:43
  Speaker 1: to be deemed cavetous, and I would rather leave it
• 4:10:46
  Speaker 1: to you. Mister Boffin, upon my word, I don't know
• 4:10:50
  Speaker 1: what to put it at. The Golden Dustman muttered, there
• 4:10:54
  Speaker 1: was lightwise, resumed Wegg, a pair of trestles, of which
• 4:11:00
  Speaker 1: alone our Irish person, who was deemed a judge of trestles,
• 4:11:03
  Speaker 1: offered five and six as sam I would not hear
• 4:11:07
  Speaker 1: of or I should have lost by it. And there
• 4:11:10
  Speaker 1: was a stool, umbrella, clothes, horse, and a tray. But
• 4:11:15
  Speaker 1: I'll leave it to you, mister Boffin. The Golden Dustman,
• 4:11:19
  Speaker 1: seeming to be engaged in some abstruse calculation, mister Wegg
• 4:11:23
  Speaker 1: assisted him with the following additional items. There was further
• 4:11:28
  Speaker 1: Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker. Ah,
• 4:11:35
  Speaker 1: when a man thinks of the loss of such patronage
• 4:11:38
  Speaker 1: as that, when a man finds so fair a garden
• 4:11:41
  Speaker 1: rooted up by pigs, he finds it hard, indeed without
• 4:11:45
  Speaker 1: going high to work in it the money. But I'll
• 4:11:49
  Speaker 1: leave it wholly to you, sir. Mister Sloppy still continued
• 4:11:53
  Speaker 1: his singular and on the surfaces incomprehensible movement. Leading on
• 4:11:59
  Speaker 1: has been mentioned, said Wegg, with a melancholy air. And
• 4:12:04
  Speaker 1: it's not easy to say how far that the tone
• 4:12:07
  Speaker 1: of my mind may have been lowered by unewsome reading
• 4:12:11
  Speaker 1: on the subject of misers. When he was leading me
• 4:12:14
  Speaker 1: another's on to think you was one yourself. All I'd
• 4:12:18
  Speaker 1: say is I felt my tone of mind are lowering
• 4:12:21
  Speaker 1: at a time, and now in a man put a
• 4:12:24
  Speaker 1: price upon his mind. There was likewise a hat just now.
• 4:12:30
  Speaker 1: But I leave the owl to you, mister Boffin, Come,
• 4:12:35
  Speaker 1: said mister Boffin. He's a couple of pound e't justice
• 4:12:40
  Speaker 1: to meself. I couldn't take it, sir. The words were
• 4:12:44
  Speaker 1: but out of his mouth when John Harmon lifted his
• 4:12:47
  Speaker 1: finger and Sloppy, who was now close to Wegg, backed
• 4:12:51
  Speaker 1: to Wegg's back, stooped, grasped his coat collar behind with
• 4:12:55
  Speaker 1: both hands, and deftly strung him up like the sack
• 4:12:58
  Speaker 1: of flower or coals. Befo before mentioned a countenance of
• 4:13:02
  Speaker 1: special discontent and amazement. Mister Wegg exhibited in this position,
• 4:13:06
  Speaker 1: with his buttons almost as prominently on view as Sloppy's own,
• 4:13:10
  Speaker 1: and with his wooden leg in a highly unaccommodating state,
• 4:13:14
  Speaker 1: But not for many seconds was his countenance visible in
• 4:13:17
  Speaker 1: the room four. Sloppy lightly trotted out with him and
• 4:13:20
  Speaker 1: trotted down the staircase mister Venus attending to open the
• 4:13:24
  Speaker 1: street door. Mister Sloppy's instructions had been to deposit his
• 4:13:28
  Speaker 1: burden in the road, but a scavenger's cart happening to
• 4:13:32
  Speaker 1: stand unattended at the corner. With this little ladder planted
• 4:13:35
  Speaker 1: against the wheel, mister s found it impossible to resist
• 4:13:39
  Speaker 1: the temptation of shooting mister Silas Wegg into the cart's contents,
• 4:13:44
  Speaker 1: a somewhat difficult feat achieved with great dexterity and with
• 4:13:48
  Speaker 1: a prodigious splash. End of Book four, Chapter fourteen, Chapter fifteen,
• 4:13:58
  Speaker 1: what was caught in the traps were set how badly
• 4:14:03
  Speaker 1: Headstone had been wrecked and riven in his mind since
• 4:14:06
  Speaker 1: the quiet evening, when by the river side he had risen,
• 4:14:09
  Speaker 1: as it were, out of the ashes of the bargemen.
• 4:14:12
  Speaker 1: None but he could have told, Not even he could
• 4:14:15
  Speaker 1: have told, for such misery can only be felt. First,
• 4:14:19
  Speaker 1: he had to bear the combined weight of the knowledge
• 4:14:21
  Speaker 1: of what he had done, of that haunting reproach that
• 4:14:24
  Speaker 1: he might have done it so much better, and of
• 4:14:27
  Speaker 1: the dread of discovery. This was load enough to crush him,
• 4:14:31
  Speaker 1: and he labored under it day and night. It was
• 4:14:34
  Speaker 1: as heavy on him in his scanty sleep as in
• 4:14:36
  Speaker 1: his red eyed waking hours. It bore him down, with
• 4:14:40
  Speaker 1: the dread, unchanging monotony in which there was not a
• 4:14:43
  Speaker 1: moment's variety. The overweighted beast of burden of the overweighted
• 4:14:48
  Speaker 1: slave can for certain instants shift the physical load and
• 4:14:53
  Speaker 1: find some slight respite, even in enforcing additional pain upon
• 4:14:57
  Speaker 1: such a set of muscles or such a limb. Not
• 4:15:00
  Speaker 1: even that poor mockery of relief could the wretched man obtain.
• 4:15:04
  Speaker 1: Under the steady pressure of the infernal atmosphere into which
• 4:15:07
  Speaker 1: he had entered. Time went by, and no visible suspicion
• 4:15:11
  Speaker 1: dogged him. Time went by, and in such public accounts
• 4:15:16
  Speaker 1: of the attack as were renewed at intervals, he began
• 4:15:19
  Speaker 1: to see mister Lightwood, who acted as lawyer for the
• 4:15:21
  Speaker 1: injured man, straying further from the fact, going wider of
• 4:15:25
  Speaker 1: the issue, and evidently slackening in his zeal by degrees.
• 4:15:30
  Speaker 1: A glimmering of the cause of this began to break
• 4:15:33
  Speaker 1: on Badly's sight. Then came the chance meeting with mister
• 4:15:37
  Speaker 1: Milvey at the railway station where he often lingered in
• 4:15:40
  Speaker 1: his leisure hours, as a place where any fresh news
• 4:15:43
  Speaker 1: of his deed would be circulated, or any placard referring
• 4:15:47
  Speaker 1: to it would be posted. And then he saw in
• 4:15:49
  Speaker 1: the light what he had brought about. For then he
• 4:15:53
  Speaker 1: saw that, through his desperate attempt to separate those two
• 4:15:57
  Speaker 1: for ever he had been made the mean of uniting them,
• 4:16:02
  Speaker 1: that he had dipped his hands in blood to mark
• 4:16:04
  Speaker 1: himself a miserable fool and tool. Yet Eugene Rayburn, for
• 4:16:09
  Speaker 1: his wife's sake, set him aside and left him to
• 4:16:11
  Speaker 1: crawl along his blasted course. He thought, of fate or providence,
• 4:16:17
  Speaker 1: or be the directing power what it might as having
• 4:16:19
  Speaker 1: put a fraud upon him, overreached him, and in his
• 4:16:23
  Speaker 1: impotent mad rage, bit and tore and had his fit.
• 4:16:28
  Speaker 1: New assurance of the truth came upon him in the
• 4:16:30
  Speaker 1: next few following days, when it was put forth how
• 4:16:33
  Speaker 1: the wounded man had been married on his bed, and
• 4:16:36
  Speaker 1: to whom, and how though always in a dangerous condition,
• 4:16:40
  Speaker 1: he was a shade better. Bradly would far rather have
• 4:16:44
  Speaker 1: been seized for his murder than he would have read
• 4:16:46
  Speaker 1: that passage, knowing himself spared and knowing why, but not
• 4:16:52
  Speaker 1: to be still further defrauded and overreached, which he would
• 4:16:55
  Speaker 1: be if implicated by Riderhood and punished by the law
• 4:16:59
  Speaker 1: for his abject failure, as though it had been a success.
• 4:17:02
  Speaker 1: He kept close in his school during the day, ventured
• 4:17:05
  Speaker 1: out warily at night, and went no more to the
• 4:17:08
  Speaker 1: railway station. He examined the advertisements in the newspapers for
• 4:17:13
  Speaker 1: any sign that Riderhood acted on his hinted threat of
• 4:17:16
  Speaker 1: so summoning him to renew their acquaintance, but found none.
• 4:17:21
  Speaker 1: Having paid him handsomely for the support and accommodation he
• 4:17:24
  Speaker 1: had had at the lock house, and knowing him to
• 4:17:26
  Speaker 1: be a very ignorant man who could not write, he
• 4:17:30
  Speaker 1: began to doubt whether he was to be feared at all,
• 4:17:32
  Speaker 1: or whether they need ever meet again. All this time
• 4:17:36
  Speaker 1: his mind was never off the rack, and his raging
• 4:17:39
  Speaker 1: sense of having been made to fling himself across the
• 4:17:42
  Speaker 1: chasm which divided those two, and bridgerd over for their
• 4:17:45
  Speaker 1: coming together. Never cooled down. This horrible condition brought on
• 4:17:50
  Speaker 1: other fits. He could not have said how many or when,
• 4:17:54
  Speaker 1: but he saw in the faces of his pupils that
• 4:17:56
  Speaker 1: they had seen him in that state, and that they
• 4:17:58
  Speaker 1: were possessed by a dread of his relapsing. One winter day,
• 4:18:03
  Speaker 1: when a slight fall of snow was feathering the sills
• 4:18:05
  Speaker 1: and frames of the schoolroom windows, he stood at his blackboard,
• 4:18:09
  Speaker 1: crayon in hand, about to commence with a class, When
• 4:18:13
  Speaker 1: reading in the countenances of those boys that there was
• 4:18:16
  Speaker 1: something wrong, and that they seemed in alarm for him,
• 4:18:20
  Speaker 1: he turned his eyes to the door towards which they faced.
• 4:18:23
  Speaker 1: He then saw a slouching man of forbidding appearance standing
• 4:18:27
  Speaker 1: in the midst of the school with a bundle under
• 4:18:30
  Speaker 1: his arm, and saw that it was Riderhood. He sat
• 4:18:34
  Speaker 1: down on a stool which one of his boys put
• 4:18:36
  Speaker 1: for him, and he had a passing knowledge that he
• 4:18:39
  Speaker 1: was in danger of falling, and that his face was
• 4:18:41
  Speaker 1: becoming distorted. But the fit went off for that time,
• 4:18:45
  Speaker 1: and he wiped his mouth and stood up again. Berg
• 4:18:49
  Speaker 1: Your pardon, Gaffney, by your leave, said Riderhood, knuckling his
• 4:18:55
  Speaker 1: forehead with a chuckle and a leer war place. May
• 4:18:59
  Speaker 1: this be? This is a school where your young folks
• 4:19:05
  Speaker 1: learns what's right, said Riderhood, gravely, nodding. Beg your pardon, governor,
• 4:19:11
  Speaker 1: by your leave. But who teaches this school? I do?
• 4:19:17
  Speaker 1: You're the master? Are you, learned, Governor? Yes? I am
• 4:19:23
  Speaker 1: the master. And in a lovely thing it must be,
• 4:19:28
  Speaker 1: said Riderhood, for to learn young folks what's right, and
• 4:19:33
  Speaker 1: what know what they know? What you do? It? Beg
• 4:19:37
  Speaker 1: your pardon, learned governor, by your leave. That they're blackboard?
• 4:19:43
  Speaker 1: What's it for? It is for drawing on or writing on?
• 4:19:48
  Speaker 1: Is it? Though? Said Riderhood? Who'd have thought it? From
• 4:19:53
  Speaker 1: the looks on it? Would you be so kind? Has
• 4:19:57
  Speaker 1: write your name upon it? Learned Gavern in a wheedling tone. Bradley,
• 4:20:03
  Speaker 1: hesitated for a moment, had placed his usual signature enlarged
• 4:20:07
  Speaker 1: upon the board. I ain't a learnt character myself, said Riderhood,
• 4:20:14
  Speaker 1: surveying the class. Ah, I do admire learning in others.
• 4:20:19
  Speaker 1: AH should dearly lie to here thesier young folks read
• 4:20:24
  Speaker 1: that their name off from their art in the arms
• 4:20:28
  Speaker 1: of the class went up at the miserable master's nod,
• 4:20:31
  Speaker 1: the shrill chorus arose. Bradley Headstone, No, cried Riderhood. Here,
• 4:20:40
  Speaker 1: don't mean it HiT's down? Why that's in a churchyard?
• 4:20:46
  Speaker 1: Rah for another turn, another tossing of arms, another nod,
• 4:20:52
  Speaker 1: and another shrill chorus. Bradley Headstone, Ah, I've got eat now,
• 4:20:59
  Speaker 1: said ryder hoo Hood, after tentively listening and internally repeating
• 4:21:04
  Speaker 1: Bradley Arcie Christen name Bradley similar Roger, which is my
• 4:21:12
  Speaker 1: own many family name ed Stone similar erado Hood, which
• 4:21:18
  Speaker 1: is my own? Aye? Shrill chorus. Yes, might you be
• 4:21:24
  Speaker 1: a quaint need learned governor, said Riderhood, with a person
• 4:21:30
  Speaker 1: of about your own heart and breadth, and what would
• 4:21:35
  Speaker 1: pull down in a scale about your own weight? Aren't
• 4:21:39
  Speaker 1: into a name sounding summit like Tatherist with the desperation
• 4:21:44
  Speaker 1: in him had made him perfectly quiet, though his jaw
• 4:21:47
  Speaker 1: was heavily squared, with his eyes upon by the hood,
• 4:21:51
  Speaker 1: and with traces of quickened breathing in his nostrils. The
• 4:21:54
  Speaker 1: schoolmaster replied, in a suppressed voice, after a pause, I
• 4:21:59
  Speaker 1: think I know the man you mean, I thought you
• 4:22:04
  Speaker 1: knowed the man I mean, learned Governor, I want the
• 4:22:08
  Speaker 1: man with a half glance around him at his pupils
• 4:22:12
  Speaker 1: badly returned. Do you suppose he is here begging your pardon,
• 4:22:18
  Speaker 1: learned Governor, and by your leave, said Riderhood with a laugh.
• 4:22:23
  Speaker 1: How could I suppose he's here? When he's now here
• 4:22:28
  Speaker 1: but you and me and these young lambs. WoT you're
• 4:22:32
  Speaker 1: a learning on. But he's most excellent company, that man.
• 4:22:36
  Speaker 1: And I want him to come and see me at
• 4:22:39
  Speaker 1: my lock up the river, I tell him, so. Do
• 4:22:43
  Speaker 1: you think you'll come, asked Riderhood. I'm sure he will,
• 4:22:49
  Speaker 1: having got your word for him, said Riderhood, I shall
• 4:22:54
  Speaker 1: count upon him. Perhaps you'd so for ablige me, learned governor,
• 4:23:01
  Speaker 1: as tell him that if he don't come, precious soon,
• 4:23:06
  Speaker 1: I'll look him up. He shall know it. Thank'ee, as
• 4:23:12
  Speaker 1: I say, is a while ago, pursued Riderhood, changing his
• 4:23:17
  Speaker 1: hoarse tone and leering round upon the class again. Oh,
• 4:23:21
  Speaker 1: not a learned character in me own self, I do
• 4:23:24
  Speaker 1: admire learning in others. To be sure, be in here
• 4:23:28
  Speaker 1: and heaven met with your kind attention? Master, Might I
• 4:23:33
  Speaker 1: afore I go ask a question of these here young
• 4:23:37
  Speaker 1: lambs of Yorn, If it is in the way of school,
• 4:23:42
  Speaker 1: said Bradley, All was sustaining his dark look at the
• 4:23:45
  Speaker 1: other and speaking in his suppressed voice. You may, oh,
• 4:23:50
  Speaker 1: he's in the way of school, cried Riderhood. I'll pound it, master,
• 4:23:56
  Speaker 1: to be in the way of school. What the devisions
• 4:24:01
  Speaker 1: of water, my lambs? What sorts of water is there
• 4:24:06
  Speaker 1: on the land? Shrill chorus, Seas, rivers, lakes and ponds. Seas, rivers,
• 4:24:16
  Speaker 1: lakes and ponds, said Riderhood. They've got all a lot,
• 4:24:21
  Speaker 1: Master loud, if I shouldn't have left out lakes, never
• 4:24:25
  Speaker 1: having clapt eyes upon one to my knowledge, seas, rivers,
• 4:24:31
  Speaker 1: lakes and ponds. What is it? Lambs as they catches
• 4:24:36
  Speaker 1: in seas, rivers, lakes and ponds? Shrill chorus, with some
• 4:24:43
  Speaker 1: contempt for the ease of the question. Fish good again,
• 4:24:48
  Speaker 1: said Riderhood. But what else is it? My lambs? As
• 4:24:52
  Speaker 1: they sometimes catches in rivers? Chorus at a loss one
• 4:24:58
  Speaker 1: shrill voice. Weed good again, cried Riderhood. But it ain't
• 4:25:05
  Speaker 1: weed neither. You'll never guess, my DearS, what is it
• 4:25:10
  Speaker 1: besides fish as a sometimes catches in rivers? Well, I'll
• 4:25:17
  Speaker 1: tell you it's suits at clothes. Bradley's face changed leastwise, Lambs,
• 4:25:25
  Speaker 1: said Riderhood, observing him out of the corners of his eyes.
• 4:25:28
  Speaker 1: That's what I young self, sometrance catches in rivers for
• 4:25:33
  Speaker 1: strike me, blind, my lambs. If I didn't catch in
• 4:25:36
  Speaker 1: a river the worry bundle unto my arm. The class
• 4:25:41
  Speaker 1: looked at the master as if appealing from the irregular
• 4:25:44
  Speaker 1: entrapment of this mode of examination. The master looked at
• 4:25:48
  Speaker 1: the examiner as if he would have torn him to pieces.
• 4:25:52
  Speaker 1: I ask your pardon, learned governor, said Riderhood, smearing his
• 4:25:57
  Speaker 1: sleeve across his mouth as he laughed of the relish chain.
• 4:26:01
  Speaker 1: For to the lambs, I know it was a bit
• 4:26:04
  Speaker 1: of fun, O mine, But upon my soul, I drawed,
• 4:26:08
  Speaker 1: d'ye see a bundle out of a river? It's a
• 4:26:11
  Speaker 1: bargement suit of clothes. Ye see, it had been sunk
• 4:26:16
  Speaker 1: there by the man who's wore it, and I got
• 4:26:19
  Speaker 1: it up. How do you know it was sunk by
• 4:26:24
  Speaker 1: the man who wore it, asked Bradley. Couse, I seem
• 4:26:29
  Speaker 1: do it, said Riderhood. They looked at each other. Bradley, slowly,
• 4:26:36
  Speaker 1: withdrawing his eyes, turned his face to the blackboard, and
• 4:26:39
  Speaker 1: slowly wiped his name out. Aye thanks, Master, said Riderhood,
• 4:26:46
  Speaker 1: for bestowing so much of your time and of the
• 4:26:50
  Speaker 1: Lambs's time upon a man. Hasn't got no other recommendation
• 4:26:54
  Speaker 1: to you than being honest man wishing to see it
• 4:26:58
  Speaker 1: my lock up the river the person as waves spoke of,
• 4:27:03
  Speaker 1: and as yuv ans it for I tykes may leave
• 4:27:06
  Speaker 1: of the lambs and of their learned governor. Both with
• 4:27:11
  Speaker 1: those words he slouched out of the school, leaving the
• 4:27:15
  Speaker 1: master to get through his weary work as he might,
• 4:27:18
  Speaker 1: and leaving the whispering pupils to observe the master's face
• 4:27:21
  Speaker 1: until he fell into the fit which had been long impending.
• 4:27:26
  Speaker 1: The Next day, but one was Saturday and a holiday.
• 4:27:29
  Speaker 1: Bradley rose early and sat out on foot for plashwater
• 4:27:33
  Speaker 1: were mill lock. He rose so early that it was
• 4:27:37
  Speaker 1: not yet light when he began his journey. Before extinguishing
• 4:27:41
  Speaker 1: the candle by which he had dressed himself, he made
• 4:27:43
  Speaker 1: a little parcel of his decent silver watch and its
• 4:27:46
  Speaker 1: decent guard, and wrote inside the paper, kindly take care
• 4:27:50
  Speaker 1: of these for me. He then addressed the parcel to
• 4:27:53
  Speaker 1: Miss Peacher and left it on the most protected corner
• 4:27:56
  Speaker 1: of the little seat in her little porch. It was
• 4:28:00
  Speaker 1: a cold, hard easterly morning. When he latched the garden
• 4:28:03
  Speaker 1: gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered
• 4:28:07
  Speaker 1: his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the
• 4:28:10
  Speaker 1: air and was falling white, while the wind blew black.
• 4:28:14
  Speaker 1: The tardy day did not appear until he had been
• 4:28:17
  Speaker 1: on foot two hours and had traversed a greater part
• 4:28:19
  Speaker 1: of London from east to west. Such breakfast as he
• 4:28:23
  Speaker 1: had he took at the comfortless public house, where he
• 4:28:26
  Speaker 1: had parted from Riderhood on the occasion of their night walk.
• 4:28:30
  Speaker 1: He took it standing at the littered bar, and looked
• 4:28:33
  Speaker 1: loweringly at a man who stood where Riderhood had stood
• 4:28:36
  Speaker 1: that early morning. He outwalked the short day and was
• 4:28:40
  Speaker 1: on the towing path by the river, somewhat footsore when
• 4:28:43
  Speaker 1: the night closed in still two or three miles short
• 4:28:47
  Speaker 1: of the lock. He slackened his pace then, but went
• 4:28:50
  Speaker 1: steadily on the ground was now covered with snow, though thinly,
• 4:28:54
  Speaker 1: and there were floating lumps of ice in the more
• 4:28:56
  Speaker 1: exposed parts of the river, and broken sheets of ice
• 4:29:00
  Speaker 1: under the shelter of the banks. He took heed of
• 4:29:03
  Speaker 1: nothing but the ice, the snow, and the distance, until
• 4:29:06
  Speaker 1: he saw a light ahead, which he knew gleamed from
• 4:29:09
  Speaker 1: the lock house window. It arrested his steps, and he
• 4:29:13
  Speaker 1: looked all round the ice and the snow, and he
• 4:29:17
  Speaker 1: and the one light had absolute possession of the dreary scene.
• 4:29:22
  Speaker 1: In the distance before him lay the place where he
• 4:29:24
  Speaker 1: had struck the worse than useless blows that mocked him
• 4:29:27
  Speaker 1: with Lizzie's presence there as Eugene's wife. In the distance
• 4:29:31
  Speaker 1: behind him lay the place where the children with pointing
• 4:29:34
  Speaker 1: arms had seemed to devote him to the demons in
• 4:29:37
  Speaker 1: crying out his name. Within there, where the light was,
• 4:29:42
  Speaker 1: was the man who, as to both distances, could give
• 4:29:45
  Speaker 1: him up to ruin to these limits, had his world shrunk.
• 4:29:50
  Speaker 1: He ment at his pace, keeping his eyes upon the
• 4:29:52
  Speaker 1: light with the strange intensity, as if he were taking
• 4:29:54
  Speaker 1: aim at it. When he approached it so nearly as
• 4:29:57
  Speaker 1: that it parted into rays, they seemed to fasten themselves
• 4:30:00
  Speaker 1: to him and draw him on. When he struck the
• 4:30:03
  Speaker 1: door with his hand, his foot followed so quickly on
• 4:30:06
  Speaker 1: his hand that he was in the room before he
• 4:30:08
  Speaker 1: was bidden to enter. The light was the joint product
• 4:30:12
  Speaker 1: of a fire and a candle between the two. With
• 4:30:15
  Speaker 1: his feet on the iron fender sat Riderhood pipe in mouth.
• 4:30:20
  Speaker 1: He looked up with a surly nod. When his visitor
• 4:30:22
  Speaker 1: came in. His visitor looked down with the surly nod,
• 4:30:26
  Speaker 1: his outer clothing removed. The visitor then took a seat
• 4:30:30
  Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the fire. Nor a smoker,
• 4:30:34
  Speaker 1: I think, said Riderhood, pushing a bottle to him across
• 4:30:37
  Speaker 1: the table. No. They both lapsed into silence, with their
• 4:30:42
  Speaker 1: eyes upon the fire. You don't need to be told.
• 4:30:47
  Speaker 1: I am here, said Bradley at length. Who is to begin?
• 4:30:52
  Speaker 1: I'll begin, said Riderhood. When all smoked they see a
• 4:30:56
  Speaker 1: pipe out. He finished it with great liberation, knocked out
• 4:31:01
  Speaker 1: the ashes on the hob and put it by. I'll begin,
• 4:31:06
  Speaker 1: he then repeated. Bradley edgstwn master, if you wish it,
• 4:31:13
  Speaker 1: wish it. I wish to know what you want with me,
• 4:31:16
  Speaker 1: and so you shall. Riderhood had looked hard at his
• 4:31:21
  Speaker 1: hands and his pockets, apparently as a precautionary measure lest
• 4:31:25
  Speaker 1: he should have any weapon about him. But he now
• 4:31:28
  Speaker 1: leaned forward, turning the collar of his waistcoat with an
• 4:31:30
  Speaker 1: inquisitive finger, and asked, why weighs your watch? I have
• 4:31:37
  Speaker 1: left it behind I'll want it, but it can be
• 4:31:41
  Speaker 1: fetched off, took a fancy to it. Bradley answered with
• 4:31:45
  Speaker 1: a contemptuous laugh. I want it, repeated Riderhood, in a
• 4:31:52
  Speaker 1: louder voice. And I mean, damn it. That is what
• 4:31:56
  Speaker 1: you want of me, is it? No, said Riderhood, still louder.
• 4:32:02
  Speaker 1: It's only part of what I want of you. I
• 4:32:05
  Speaker 1: want money of you, anything else, everything else, roared Riderhood
• 4:32:13
  Speaker 1: in a very loud and furious way. Answer me like that,
• 4:32:17
  Speaker 1: and I won't talk to you at all. Bradley looked
• 4:32:21
  Speaker 1: at him. Don't so much as look at me like that,
• 4:32:24
  Speaker 1: or I won't talk to you at all, vociferated Riderhood.
• 4:32:28
  Speaker 1: But instead of talking, I'll bring my hand down upon
• 4:32:32
  Speaker 1: you with all its weight, heavily, smiting the table with
• 4:32:35
  Speaker 1: great force, and smash you. Go on, said Bradley, after
• 4:32:42
  Speaker 1: moistening his lips. Oh I'm a going on, don't you fear?
• 4:32:48
  Speaker 1: But I'll go on full fast enough for you, and
• 4:32:51
  Speaker 1: fear enough for you without your telling. Look here, Bradley
• 4:32:56
  Speaker 1: edg Stone, Master, you might have split the the governor,
• 4:33:00
  Speaker 1: the chips and wedges without my caring, except that I
• 4:33:04
  Speaker 1: might have come upon you for a glass or so
• 4:33:06
  Speaker 1: now and then, elves, why have to do with you
• 4:33:10
  Speaker 1: at all? But when you copied my clothes, and when
• 4:33:15
  Speaker 1: you copied my neck handkercher, and when you shook blood
• 4:33:19
  Speaker 1: upon me after you had done the trick, you did
• 4:33:22
  Speaker 1: what I'll be paid for, and paid heavy for if
• 4:33:27
  Speaker 1: it can't be be throwed upon you. You was to
• 4:33:29
  Speaker 1: be ready to throw it upon me. Was you where
• 4:33:33
  Speaker 1: else but in plash water we're mill lock? Was there
• 4:33:37
  Speaker 1: a man dressed according as described where else? But in
• 4:33:41
  Speaker 1: plashwater weir mill lock? Was there a man, as I
• 4:33:44
  Speaker 1: had words with him, coming through in his boat. Look
• 4:33:47
  Speaker 1: at the lock keeper in plash Water we're mill lock,
• 4:33:52
  Speaker 1: in them same answering clothes, and with that same answering
• 4:33:55
  Speaker 1: red neck hankercher, And see whether his clothes happens to
• 4:33:59
  Speaker 1: be bloody or not. Yes, they do effort to be bloody.
• 4:34:05
  Speaker 1: Are you sly devil? Bradley very white sat looking at
• 4:34:12
  Speaker 1: him in silence that too, And play it your game,
• 4:34:17
  Speaker 1: said Riderhood, snapping his fingers at him half a dozen times.
• 4:34:20
  Speaker 1: And I played it long ago, long afore you try
• 4:34:24
  Speaker 1: your clumsy hand at it in days when you hadn't
• 4:34:27
  Speaker 1: begun croaping your lepters or what not in your school.
• 4:34:31
  Speaker 1: I know it will figure how you've done it. Where
• 4:34:34
  Speaker 1: you stole away, I could steal away, arn you, and
• 4:34:38
  Speaker 1: do it knowinger than you. I know how you come
• 4:34:41
  Speaker 1: away from London and your own clothes, and where you
• 4:34:45
  Speaker 1: change your clothes and hid your clothes. I see you
• 4:34:48
  Speaker 1: with my own eyes take your own clothes and their
• 4:34:51
  Speaker 1: riding place among them, fill trees and take a dip
• 4:34:55
  Speaker 1: in a reverge your account for your dressing yourself to
• 4:34:58
  Speaker 1: anyone as might and by. I see you rise up
• 4:35:03
  Speaker 1: Bradley headstone master where you sat down, bargemen. I see
• 4:35:10
  Speaker 1: you pitch your bargeman's bundle into the river. I hooked
• 4:35:14
  Speaker 1: your bargeman's bundle out at the river. I've got your
• 4:35:18
  Speaker 1: bargeman's clothes, tore this way and that with a scuffle,
• 4:35:23
  Speaker 1: stained green with the grass, and spell it all over
• 4:35:26
  Speaker 1: with what bust from the blows. I've got them, and
• 4:35:30
  Speaker 1: I've got you. I don't care a curse for the
• 4:35:34
  Speaker 1: tather governor alive all dead, but I'll care a many
• 4:35:38
  Speaker 1: curses for my home self. And as you laid your
• 4:35:42
  Speaker 1: plots again me and was a sly devil again me,
• 4:35:47
  Speaker 1: I'll be paid for it. I'll be paid for it.
• 4:35:51
  Speaker 1: I'll be paid for it till I've drained you dry.
• 4:35:57
  Speaker 1: Bradley looked at the fire with a working face and
• 4:36:01
  Speaker 1: was silent for a while. At last, he said, with
• 4:36:04
  Speaker 1: what seemed an inconsistent composure of voice and feature. You
• 4:36:08
  Speaker 1: can't get blood out of a stone riderhood. I can
• 4:36:12
  Speaker 1: get money out of a school master, though you can't
• 4:36:17
  Speaker 1: get out of me. What is not in me? You
• 4:36:19
  Speaker 1: can't rest for me, but I have not got mine?
• 4:36:22
  Speaker 1: Is but a poor calling. You've had more than two
• 4:36:25
  Speaker 1: guineas from me already. Do you know how long it
• 4:36:27
  Speaker 1: has taken me, allowing for a long and arduous training
• 4:36:31
  Speaker 1: to earn such a sum. I don't know, nor I
• 4:36:37
  Speaker 1: don't care. Yours is respectable calling. To save your spectability.
• 4:36:44
  Speaker 1: It's worth your while. A pawn every article clothes you got,
• 4:36:48
  Speaker 1: sell every stick in your house, and beg and borrow
• 4:36:51
  Speaker 1: every penny you can get trusted with. When you've done
• 4:36:55
  Speaker 1: that and handed over, I'll leave you not a fool.
• 4:37:01
  Speaker 1: How do you mean you'll leave me? I mean as
• 4:37:06
  Speaker 1: I'll keep you company wherever you go. When you're now
• 4:37:10
  Speaker 1: away from here, let the lock tight care of yourself
• 4:37:14
  Speaker 1: all take care of you. One sive I've got you.
• 4:37:19
  Speaker 1: Bradley again looked at the fire, eyeing him aside. Riderhood
• 4:37:23
  Speaker 1: took up his pipe, refilled it, lighted it, and sat smoking.
• 4:37:28
  Speaker 1: Bradley leaned his elbows on his knees and his head
• 4:37:30
  Speaker 1: upon his hands, and looked at the fire with a
• 4:37:33
  Speaker 1: most intent abstraction. Ride heard, he said, raising himself in
• 4:37:39
  Speaker 1: his chair, after a long silence, and drawing out his
• 4:37:42
  Speaker 1: purse and putting it on the table, Say I parted this,
• 4:37:48
  Speaker 1: which is all the money I have. Say I let
• 4:37:50
  Speaker 1: you have my watch. Say that every quarter when I
• 4:37:53
  Speaker 1: draw my salary, I pay you a certain portion of it.
• 4:37:57
  Speaker 1: Say nothing of the sort, retorted Riderhood, shaking his head
• 4:38:02
  Speaker 1: as he smoked. You've got away once, and I won't
• 4:38:06
  Speaker 1: run the chance again. I've had trouble enough to find you,
• 4:38:10
  Speaker 1: and shouldn't have found you if I hadn't seen you
• 4:38:13
  Speaker 1: slipping along the street over night and watched you till
• 4:38:16
  Speaker 1: you was sapher housed. I'll have one settlement with you,
• 4:38:20
  Speaker 1: for good and all, Riderhood. I am a man who
• 4:38:25
  Speaker 1: has lived a retired life. I have no resources beyond myself.
• 4:38:29
  Speaker 1: I have absolutely no friends. That's a lie. Said Riderhood.
• 4:38:35
  Speaker 1: You've got one friend, as I knows of one, as
• 4:38:39
  Speaker 1: he's good for a savings bank book or arm a blue,
• 4:38:42
  Speaker 1: mightn't he. Bradley's face darkened, and his hands slowly closed
• 4:38:47
  Speaker 1: on the purse and drew it back as he sat
• 4:38:49
  Speaker 1: listening for what the other should go on to say.
• 4:38:53
  Speaker 1: I went into the wrong shop first last Thursday, said Riderhood.
• 4:38:59
  Speaker 1: Found myself among the young ladies by George. Over the
• 4:39:05
  Speaker 1: young ladies, I see a missus. That missus is sweet
• 4:39:09
  Speaker 1: enough upon you, master to sell herself up, slap to
• 4:39:14
  Speaker 1: get you out of trouble. Make her do it. Then
• 4:39:19
  Speaker 1: Bradley stared at him so very suddenly that Riderhood, not
• 4:39:23
  Speaker 1: quite knowing how to take it, affected to be occupied
• 4:39:26
  Speaker 1: with the encircling smoke from his pipe, fanning it away
• 4:39:29
  Speaker 1: with his hand and blowing it off. You spoke to
• 4:39:32
  Speaker 1: the mistress, did you, inquired Bradley, with that former composure
• 4:39:36
  Speaker 1: of voice and feature that seemed inconsistent, and with averted eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Poof yes, said Riderhood, withdrawing his attention from the smoke.
• 4:39:47
  Speaker 1: I spoke to her. I didn't say much to her.
• 4:39:51
  Speaker 1: She was put in a fluster. Balmar dropping in among
• 4:39:54
  Speaker 1: the young ladies. I never did sit up for a
• 4:39:57
  Speaker 1: lady's man. And she me into her parlor to hope
• 4:40:02
  Speaker 1: as there was nothing wrong, OH tells her, Oh, no
• 4:40:06
  Speaker 1: nothink wrong. The master is my wary good friend. But
• 4:40:12
  Speaker 1: I see how the land laid, and that she was
• 4:40:15
  Speaker 1: comfortable off. Bradley put the purse in his pocket, grasped
• 4:40:21
  Speaker 1: his left wrist with his right hand, and sat rigidly
• 4:40:23
  Speaker 1: contemplating the fire. She couldn't live more hay to you
• 4:40:28
  Speaker 1: than she does, said Riderhood. And when I goes home
• 4:40:33
  Speaker 1: with you, as of course I am a going, I
• 4:40:36
  Speaker 1: recommend you to clean her out without loss of time.
• 4:40:41
  Speaker 1: You can marry her artly, you and me of compass settlement.
• 4:40:44
  Speaker 1: She's in eyes, looking, and I know you can't be
• 4:40:46
  Speaker 1: keeping company with no one else, having been so lately
• 4:40:50
  Speaker 1: disappointed in another corner. Not one other word did Bradly
• 4:40:55
  Speaker 1: utter all that night. Not once did he change his
• 4:40:59
  Speaker 1: attitude or his hold upon his wrist. Rigid before the fire,
• 4:41:03
  Speaker 1: as if it were a charmed flame that was turning
• 4:41:05
  Speaker 1: him old. He sat with the dark lines deepening in
• 4:41:09
  Speaker 1: his face, its stare becoming more and more haggard, its
• 4:41:12
  Speaker 1: surface turning whiter, and whiter as if it were being
• 4:41:15
  Speaker 1: overspread with ashes, and the very texture and color of
• 4:41:18
  Speaker 1: his hair degenerating. Not until the late daylight made the
• 4:41:23
  Speaker 1: window transparent did this decaying statue move. Then it slowly
• 4:41:28
  Speaker 1: arose and sat in the window looking out. Riderhood had
• 4:41:33
  Speaker 1: kept his chair all night. In the earlier part of
• 4:41:36
  Speaker 1: the night he had muttered twice or thrice that it
• 4:41:38
  Speaker 1: was bitter cold, or that the fire burnt fast when
• 4:41:41
  Speaker 1: he got up to mend it, But as he could
• 4:41:44
  Speaker 1: elicit from his companion neither sound nor movement, he had
• 4:41:47
  Speaker 1: afterwards held his peace. He was making some disorderly preparations
• 4:41:51
  Speaker 1: for coffee when Bradley came from the window and put
• 4:41:54
  Speaker 1: on his outer coat and hat. Then us, for ever
• 4:41:58
  Speaker 1: a bit of breakfast of fall we start, said Riderhood.
• 4:42:02
  Speaker 1: It hanged to freeze a empty stomach. Master, without a
• 4:42:07
  Speaker 1: sign to show that he heard, Bradley walked out of
• 4:42:10
  Speaker 1: the lock house, catching up from the table a piece
• 4:42:13
  Speaker 1: of bread and taking his bargman's bundle under his arm.
• 4:42:16
  Speaker 1: Riderhood immediately followed him. Bradley turned towards London, Riderhood caught
• 4:42:21
  Speaker 1: him up and walkeded his side. The two men trudged
• 4:42:25
  Speaker 1: on side by side in silence full three miles. Suddenly,
• 4:42:31
  Speaker 1: Bradley turned to retrace his course. Instantly, Riderhood turned likewise,
• 4:42:36
  Speaker 1: and they went back side by side. Bradley re entered
• 4:42:40
  Speaker 1: the lock house, so did Riderhood. Bradly sat down in
• 4:42:43
  Speaker 1: the window. Riderhood warmed himself at the fire. After an
• 4:42:47
  Speaker 1: hour or more, Bradley abruptly got up again and again
• 4:42:50
  Speaker 1: went out, but this time turned the other way. Riderhood
• 4:42:54
  Speaker 1: was close after him, caught him up in a few paces,
• 4:42:57
  Speaker 1: and walked at his side, this time as before, when
• 4:43:01
  Speaker 1: he found his attendant not to be shaken off, Bradley
• 4:43:04
  Speaker 1: suddenly turned back, this time as before, Riderhood turned back
• 4:43:08
  Speaker 1: along with him, but not this time as before, did
• 4:43:12
  Speaker 1: they go into the lock house. For Bradley came to
• 4:43:14
  Speaker 1: a stand on the snow covered turf by the lock
• 4:43:17
  Speaker 1: looking up the river and down the river. Navigation was
• 4:43:20
  Speaker 1: impeded by the frost, and the scene was a mere
• 4:43:23
  Speaker 1: white and yellow desert. Came came Master, urged Riderhood at
• 4:43:29
  Speaker 1: his side. This is a dry game, and where's the
• 4:43:32
  Speaker 1: good of it. You can't get rid of me except
• 4:43:35
  Speaker 1: by coming you a settlement. I'm a going along with
• 4:43:38
  Speaker 1: you wherever you go. Without a word of reply. Bradley
• 4:43:43
  Speaker 1: passed quickly from him over the wooden bridge on the
• 4:43:45
  Speaker 1: lock gates. Why there's even less sense in this move
• 4:43:50
  Speaker 1: than t'other, said Riderhood, following the whir is there, and
• 4:43:54
  Speaker 1: you'll have to come back gennow without taking the least notice.
• 4:43:58
  Speaker 1: Bradley leaned his body against the post in a resting attitude,
• 4:44:01
  Speaker 1: and there rested with his eyes cast down. Being broad ear,
• 4:44:07
  Speaker 1: said Riderhood gruffly. I'll turn it to some use while
• 4:44:11
  Speaker 1: changing me gates with a rattle and a rush of water.
• 4:44:15
  Speaker 1: He then swung to the lock gates that were standing
• 4:44:18
  Speaker 1: open before opening the others, so both sets of gates
• 4:44:21
  Speaker 1: were for the moment closed. You better, by far be reasonable, Bradley,
• 4:44:26
  Speaker 1: headstone master, said Riderhood, passing him. Or I'll drain you
• 4:44:31
  Speaker 1: all are dryer for it when we do settle, ah,
• 4:44:35
  Speaker 1: would you? Bradley had caught him round the body. He
• 4:44:39
  Speaker 1: seemed to be girdled with an iron ring. They were
• 4:44:42
  Speaker 1: on the brink of the lock about midway between the
• 4:44:44
  Speaker 1: two sets of gates. Let go, said Riderhood, or I'll
• 4:44:48
  Speaker 1: get me knife out and slash you wherever I can
• 4:44:51
  Speaker 1: cut you. Let go, Bradley was drawing to the lock
• 4:44:55
  Speaker 1: edge Riderhood was drawing away from it. It was a
• 4:44:59
  Speaker 1: strong grapple and a fierce struggle arm and leg. Bradley
• 4:45:03
  Speaker 1: got him round with his back to the lock and
• 4:45:05
  Speaker 1: still worked him backward. Let go, said Ryder, stop, why
• 4:45:10
  Speaker 1: you try an that you can't drown me? I ain't
• 4:45:14
  Speaker 1: a told you that the man is as come through drowning,
• 4:45:17
  Speaker 1: can never be drowned. I can't be drowned. I can
• 4:45:21
  Speaker 1: be returned Bradley in a desperate, tounched voice. I am
• 4:45:25
  Speaker 1: resolved to be. I'll hold you living, and i'll hold
• 4:45:30
  Speaker 1: you dead. Come down. Riderhood went over into the smooth
• 4:45:35
  Speaker 1: pit backward, and Bradley had stone upon him. When the
• 4:45:39
  Speaker 1: two were found lying under the ooze and scum behind
• 4:45:43
  Speaker 1: one of the rotting gates. Riderhood's hold had relaxed, probably
• 4:45:47
  Speaker 1: in falling, and his eyes were staring upwards, but he
• 4:45:51
  Speaker 1: was girdled still with Bradley's iron ring, and the rivets
• 4:45:55
  Speaker 1: of the iron ring held tight. End of Book four,
• 4:46:02
  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen, Chapter sixteen, Persons and Things in General. Mister
• 4:46:09
  Speaker 1: and Missus John Harmon's first delightful occupation was to set
• 4:46:13
  Speaker 1: all matters right that had strayed in any way wrong,
• 4:46:16
  Speaker 1: or that might could, would or should have strayed in
• 4:46:20
  Speaker 1: any way wrong, while their name was in abeyance. In
• 4:46:24
  Speaker 1: tracing out affairs for which John's fictitious death was to
• 4:46:27
  Speaker 1: be considered in any way responsible, they used a very
• 4:46:30
  Speaker 1: broad and free construction, regarding, for instance, the dolls dressmaker
• 4:46:34
  Speaker 1: as having a claim on their protection because of her
• 4:46:37
  Speaker 1: association with Missus Eugene Rayburn, and because of Missus Eugene's
• 4:46:41
  Speaker 1: old association in her turn with the dark side of
• 4:46:44
  Speaker 1: the story. It followed that the old man Riah, as
• 4:46:48
  Speaker 1: a good and serviceable friend to both, was not to
• 4:46:50
  Speaker 1: be disclaimed, nor even mister Inspector as having been tree
• 4:46:54
  Speaker 1: panned into an industrious hunt on a false scent. It
• 4:46:59
  Speaker 1: may be remarked, in connection with that worthy officer, that
• 4:47:02
  Speaker 1: a rumor shortly afterwards pervaded the force to the effect
• 4:47:05
  Speaker 1: that he had confided to Miss Abbey Potterson over a
• 4:47:08
  Speaker 1: jug of mellow Flip and the bar of the six
• 4:47:11
  Speaker 1: Jolly Fellowship Porters, that he didn't stand to lose a
• 4:47:14
  Speaker 1: farthing through mister Harmon's coming to life, but was quite
• 4:47:17
  Speaker 1: as well satisfied as if that gentleman had been barbarously murdered,
• 4:47:21
  Speaker 1: and he, mister Inspector, had pocketed the government reward. In
• 4:47:26
  Speaker 1: all their arrangements of such nature, Mister missus John Harmon
• 4:47:30
  Speaker 1: derived much assistance from their eminent solicitor, mister Mortimer Lightwood,
• 4:47:34
  Speaker 1: who laid about him professionally with such unwonted dispatch and
• 4:47:37
  Speaker 1: intention that a piece of work was vigorously pursued as
• 4:47:41
  Speaker 1: soon as it cut out, whereby young blight was acted
• 4:47:44
  Speaker 1: on as by that transatlantic dram which a poetically named
• 4:47:48
  Speaker 1: an eye opener, and found himself staring at real clients
• 4:47:51
  Speaker 1: instead of out of window, the accessibility of rya proving
• 4:47:55
  Speaker 1: very useful as to a few hints towards the disentanglement
• 4:47:58
  Speaker 1: of Eugene's affairs. Lightwood applied himself with infinite zest to
• 4:48:03
  Speaker 1: attacking and harassing mister Fledgeby, who, discovering himself in danger
• 4:48:07
  Speaker 1: of being blown into the air by certain explosive transactions
• 4:48:10
  Speaker 1: in which he had been engaged, and having been sufficiently
• 4:48:14
  Speaker 1: flayed under his beating, came to a parley and asked
• 4:48:17
  Speaker 1: for quarter. The harmless tremlow, profited by the conditions entered
• 4:48:22
  Speaker 1: into though he little thought it mister ryerh unaccountably melted,
• 4:48:26
  Speaker 1: waited in person on him over the stable yard in
• 4:48:29
  Speaker 1: Duke Street, Saint James's no longer ravening, but mild to
• 4:48:33
  Speaker 1: inform him at payment of interest as heretofore, but henceforth
• 4:48:36
  Speaker 1: at mister Lightwood's offices would appease his Jewish rancor, and
• 4:48:41
  Speaker 1: departed with the secret that mister John Harmon had advanced
• 4:48:44
  Speaker 1: the money and become the creditor. Thus was the sublime
• 4:48:48
  Speaker 1: Snigsworth's wrath averted, and thus did he snort no larger
• 4:48:52
  Speaker 1: amount of moral grandeur at the Corinthian column in the
• 4:48:55
  Speaker 1: print over the fireplace than was normally in his and
• 4:48:58
  Speaker 1: the British Constitution. Missus Wilfer's first visit to the Mendicant's
• 4:49:03
  Speaker 1: bride the new abode of Mendicancy was a grand event.
• 4:49:07
  Speaker 1: Parr had been sent for into the city on the
• 4:49:10
  Speaker 1: very day of taking possession, and had been stunned with
• 4:49:13
  Speaker 1: astonishment and brought to and led about the house by
• 4:49:16
  Speaker 1: one ear to behold its various treasures, and had been
• 4:49:19
  Speaker 1: enraptured and enchanted. Parr had also been appointed secretary and
• 4:49:24
  Speaker 1: had been enjoined to give instant notice of resignation to
• 4:49:27
  Speaker 1: chicks e veneering and stobbles for ever and ever. But
• 4:49:31
  Speaker 1: Marr came later, and came as was her due in state.
• 4:49:36
  Speaker 1: The carriage was sent for Mar, who entered it with
• 4:49:38
  Speaker 1: a bearing worthy of the occasion, accompanied rather than supported
• 4:49:42
  Speaker 1: by Miss Lavigna, who altogether declined to recognize the maternal majesty.
• 4:49:47
  Speaker 1: Mister George Sampson meekly followed. He was received in the
• 4:49:51
  Speaker 1: vehicle by missus Wilfer as if admitted to the honor
• 4:49:53
  Speaker 1: of assisting at a funeral in the family, and she
• 4:49:56
  Speaker 1: then issued the order onward to the mendicant's menial. I
• 4:50:02
  Speaker 1: wish to goodness, ma, said Lovvy, throwing herself back among
• 4:50:06
  Speaker 1: the cushions of her arms crossed that you'd loll a little, how,
• 4:50:12
  Speaker 1: repeated missus Wolfer. Loll yes, Ma, I hope, said the
• 4:50:18
  Speaker 1: impressive lady. I am incapable of it. I am sure
• 4:50:23
  Speaker 1: you look so, Maa. But why one should go out
• 4:50:27
  Speaker 1: to dine with one's own daughter or sister, as if
• 4:50:29
  Speaker 1: one's under petticoat was a blackboard, I do not understand.
• 4:50:34
  Speaker 1: Neither do I understand, retorted missus Wolfer, with deep scorn.
• 4:50:39
  Speaker 1: How a young lady can mention the garment in the
• 4:50:41
  Speaker 1: name of which you have indulged. I blush for you,
• 4:50:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you, ma said Lovvy, yawning. But I can do
• 4:50:50
  Speaker 1: it for myself. I'm obliged to you when there's any
• 4:50:52
  Speaker 1: occasion here, Mister Sampson, with a view of establishing harmony,
• 4:50:57
  Speaker 1: which she never under any circumstances succeeded in doing, said
• 4:51:01
  Speaker 1: with an agreeable smile. After all, you know, ma'am, we
• 4:51:05
  Speaker 1: know it's there, and immediately felt that he had committed himself.
• 4:51:10
  Speaker 1: We know it's there, said missus Wolford, glaring. Really, George,
• 4:51:16
  Speaker 1: remonstrated Miss Lavina, I must say that I don't understand
• 4:51:19
  Speaker 1: your allusions, and I think you might be more delicate
• 4:51:22
  Speaker 1: and less personal. Go it, cried mister Sampson, becoming, on
• 4:51:27
  Speaker 1: the shortest notice a prey to despair. Oh yes, go it,
• 4:51:31
  Speaker 1: Miss Lavigna Wilfer, Ah what you may mean, George Sampson,
• 4:51:36
  Speaker 1: by your omnivous driving expressions, I cannot pretend to imagine, neither,
• 4:51:41
  Speaker 1: said miss Lavigner. Mister George Sampson, do I wish to imagine?
• 4:51:46
  Speaker 1: It is enough for me to know in my own
• 4:51:48
  Speaker 1: heart that I am not going to Having imprudently got
• 4:51:52
  Speaker 1: into a sentence without providing a way out of it,
• 4:51:55
  Speaker 1: Miss Lavigna was constrained to close with going to it,
• 4:52:00
  Speaker 1: a weak conclusion which, however, derived some appearance of strength
• 4:52:04
  Speaker 1: from disdain. Oh yes, cried mister Sampson, with bitterness. Has
• 4:52:09
  Speaker 1: it ever? Is I never if you mean to say,
• 4:52:13
  Speaker 1: Miss LaVey cut him short, that you never brought up
• 4:52:16
  Speaker 1: a young gazelle. You may save yourself the trouble's nobody
• 4:52:19
  Speaker 1: in this carriage supposes that you ever did? We know
• 4:52:22
  Speaker 1: you better, as if this were a home thrust. Levigna
• 4:52:27
  Speaker 1: returned mister Sampson in a dismal vein. I did not
• 4:52:30
  Speaker 1: mean to say, so. What I did mean to say
• 4:52:33
  Speaker 1: was that I never expected to retain my favorite place
• 4:52:36
  Speaker 1: in this family after fortune shed her beams upon it.
• 4:52:39
  Speaker 1: Why do you take me, said mister Sampson, to the
• 4:52:42
  Speaker 1: glittering halls with which I can never compete, and then
• 4:52:44
  Speaker 1: taunt me with my moderate salary? Is it generous? Is
• 4:52:48
  Speaker 1: it kind? The stately lady missus Wolfer, perceiving her opportunity
• 4:52:54
  Speaker 1: of delivering a few remarks from the throne here took
• 4:52:56
  Speaker 1: up the altercation. Mister Simpson, she began, I cannot permit
• 4:53:02
  Speaker 1: you to misrepresent the intentions of a child of mine.
• 4:53:06
  Speaker 1: Let him alone, Ma, miss LaVey interposed with haughtiness. It
• 4:53:10
  Speaker 1: is indifferent to me what he says or does. Nay lavigna,
• 4:53:14
  Speaker 1: quoth missus Wilfer, this touches the blood of the family.
• 4:53:18
  Speaker 1: If mister George Sampson attributes even to my youngest daughter,
• 4:53:24
  Speaker 1: I don't see why you should use the word even, Ma,
• 4:53:28
  Speaker 1: miss LaVey interposed, because I am quite as important as
• 4:53:31
  Speaker 1: any of the others. Peace, said Missus Wilfer, solemnly. I repeat.
• 4:53:37
  Speaker 1: If mister George Sampson attributes to my youngest daughter groveling motives,
• 4:53:42
  Speaker 1: he attributes them equally to the mother of my youngest daughter.
• 4:53:46
  Speaker 1: That mother repudiates them in demands of mister George Sampson,
• 4:53:49
  Speaker 1: as a youth of honor, what he would have I
• 4:53:53
  Speaker 1: may be mistaken. Nothing is more likely. But mister George
• 4:53:56
  Speaker 1: Sampson proceeded Missus Wilfer majestically, waving her gloves. Appears to
• 4:54:01
  Speaker 1: me to be seated in a first class equipage. Mister
• 4:54:04
  Speaker 1: George Sampson appears to me to be on his way
• 4:54:06
  Speaker 1: by his own admission to a residence that may be
• 4:54:09
  Speaker 1: termed palatial. Mister George Sampson appears to me to be
• 4:54:13
  Speaker 1: invited to participate in the Shall I say the elevation
• 4:54:18
  Speaker 1: which has descended on the family with which he is ambitious?
• 4:54:21
  Speaker 1: Shall I say to Mingle? Whence then this tone and
• 4:54:25
  Speaker 1: mister Sampson's part, It is only ma'am, Mister Sampson explained
• 4:54:31
  Speaker 1: in exceedingly low spirits, because in a pecuniary sense, I
• 4:54:36
  Speaker 1: am painfully conscious of my unworthiness. The Vinyar is now
• 4:54:39
  Speaker 1: highly connected. Can I hope that she will still remain
• 4:54:42
  Speaker 1: the same lavener as of old? And is it not
• 4:54:45
  Speaker 1: pardonable if I feel sensitive when I see a disposition
• 4:54:48
  Speaker 1: on her part? To take me up short? If you
• 4:54:51
  Speaker 1: are not satisfied with your position, sir, observed Miss Laviner,
• 4:54:56
  Speaker 1: with much politeness, we can set you down at any turney,
• 4:54:59
  Speaker 1: you may please to indicate to my sister's coachman. Dearest Lavigne,
• 4:55:04
  Speaker 1: urged mister Sampson pathetically. I adore you, then, if you
• 4:55:09
  Speaker 1: can't do it in a more agreeable manner, returned the
• 4:55:12
  Speaker 1: young lady. I wish you wouldn't I also pursued, mister Sampson,
• 4:55:17
  Speaker 1: respect you, ma'am, to an extent which must ever be below
• 4:55:21
  Speaker 1: your meritus. I am well aware, but still after an
• 4:55:23
  Speaker 1: uncommon mark. Bear with a wretch, lavigneur, Bear with a wretch,
• 4:55:28
  Speaker 1: ma'am who feels the noble sacrifices you make for him,
• 4:55:31
  Speaker 1: but is goaded almost to madness. Mister Sampson slapped his
• 4:55:35
  Speaker 1: forehead when he thinks of competing with the rich and influential.
• 4:55:40
  Speaker 1: When you have to compete with a rich and influential,
• 4:55:43
  Speaker 1: it will probably be mentioned to you, said Miss Levey,
• 4:55:46
  Speaker 1: in good time. At least it will if the case
• 4:55:49
  Speaker 1: is my case. Mister Sampson immediately expressed his fervent opinion
• 4:55:54
  Speaker 1: that this was more than human, and was brought upon
• 4:55:58
  Speaker 1: his knees at Miss Levine feet. It was the crowning
• 4:56:02
  Speaker 1: addition indispensable to the full enjoyment of both mother and daughter,
• 4:56:07
  Speaker 1: to bear mister Sampson a grateful captive into the glittering
• 4:56:10
  Speaker 1: halls he had mentioned, and to bid him through the
• 4:56:13
  Speaker 1: same at once a living witness of their glory and
• 4:56:16
  Speaker 1: a bright instance of their condescension. Ascending the staircase, Miss
• 4:56:20
  Speaker 1: Lavigna permitted him to walk at her side with the
• 4:56:23
  Speaker 1: air of saying, notwithstanding all these surroundings, I am yours
• 4:56:27
  Speaker 1: as yet, George. How long it may last as another question,
• 4:56:30
  Speaker 1: but I am yours as yet. She also benignly intimated
• 4:56:35
  Speaker 1: to him aloud the nature of the objects upon which
• 4:56:37
  Speaker 1: he looked, unto which he was unaccustomed, as exotics George,
• 4:56:42
  Speaker 1: an aviary, George, an omelu clock, George, and the like.
• 4:56:48
  Speaker 1: While through the whole of the decorations, Missus Wolfer led
• 4:56:51
  Speaker 1: the way with the bearing of a savage chief who
• 4:56:53
  Speaker 1: would feel himself compromised by manifesting the slightest token of
• 4:56:57
  Speaker 1: surprise or admiration. In the bearing of this impressive woman
• 4:57:02
  Speaker 1: throughout the day was a pattern to all impressive women
• 4:57:05
  Speaker 1: under similar circumstances. She renewed the acquaintance of mister and
• 4:57:08
  Speaker 1: Missus Boffin, as if mister and Missus Boffin had said
• 4:57:11
  Speaker 1: of her what she had said of them, and as
• 4:57:13
  Speaker 1: if time alone could quite wear her injury out. She
• 4:57:17
  Speaker 1: regarded every servant who approached her as her sworn enemy,
• 4:57:20
  Speaker 1: expressly intending to offer her affronts with the dishes and
• 4:57:23
  Speaker 1: to pour forth outrages on her moral feelings from the decanters.
• 4:57:28
  Speaker 1: She sat erect at the table on the right hand
• 4:57:30
  Speaker 1: of her son in law, as half suspecting poison in
• 4:57:33
  Speaker 1: the viands, and as bearing up with native force of
• 4:57:35
  Speaker 1: character against other deadly ambushes. Her carriage towards Bella was
• 4:57:40
  Speaker 1: as a carriage towards a young lady of good position,
• 4:57:42
  Speaker 1: whom she had met in society a few years ago.
• 4:57:46
  Speaker 1: Even when slightly thawing under the influence of sparkling champagne,
• 4:57:50
  Speaker 1: she related to her son in law some passages of
• 4:57:53
  Speaker 1: domestic interest concerning her papa. She infused into the narrative
• 4:57:57
  Speaker 1: such arctic suggestions of her having been an unappreciated blessing
• 4:58:01
  Speaker 1: to mankind since her papa's days, and also of that
• 4:58:04
  Speaker 1: gentleman's having been a frosty impersonation of a frosty race,
• 4:58:08
  Speaker 1: as struck cold to the very souls of the feet
• 4:58:10
  Speaker 1: of the hearers, the inexhaustible being produced, staring and evidently
• 4:58:15
  Speaker 1: intending a weak and washy smile. Shortly, no sooner beheld
• 4:58:19
  Speaker 1: her than it was stricken, spasmodic, and inconsolable. When she
• 4:58:23
  Speaker 1: took her leave at last. It would have been hard
• 4:58:25
  Speaker 1: to say whether it was with the air of going
• 4:58:28
  Speaker 1: to the scaffold herself, or of leaving the inmates of
• 4:58:31
  Speaker 1: the house for immediate execution. Yet John Harmon enjoyed it
• 4:58:35
  Speaker 1: all merrily, and told his wife, when he and she
• 4:58:38
  Speaker 1: were alone, that her natural ways had never seemed so
• 4:58:42
  Speaker 1: dearly natural as beside this foil, and that although he
• 4:58:45
  Speaker 1: did not dispute her being her father's daughter, he should
• 4:58:48
  Speaker 1: ever remain steadfast in the faith that she could not
• 4:58:51
  Speaker 1: be her mother's. This visit was, as has been said,
• 4:58:56
  Speaker 1: a grand event. Another event, not grand, but dean in
• 4:59:00
  Speaker 1: the house a special one occurred at about the same period,
• 4:59:03
  Speaker 1: and this was the first interview between mister Sloppy and
• 4:59:07
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren, the dodge dressmaker, being at work for the inexhaustible.
• 4:59:12
  Speaker 1: Upon a full dressed doll, some two sizes aes larger
• 4:59:15
  Speaker 1: than that young person, mister Sloppy undertook to call for
• 4:59:18
  Speaker 1: it and did so. Come in, sir, said Miss Wren,
• 4:59:22
  Speaker 1: who was working at a bench, and you might you be,
• 4:59:26
  Speaker 1: mister Sloppy introduced himself by name, and buttons oh indeed,
• 4:59:32
  Speaker 1: cried Jenny, Ah, I've been looking forward to knowing you.
• 4:59:36
  Speaker 1: I heard of your distinguishing yourself. Gee you bish, grinned Sloppy. Ah, sure,
• 4:59:43
  Speaker 1: oh glad you hear it, But I don't know how
• 4:59:47
  Speaker 1: pitching somebody into a mad cart, said Miss Wren. Ah
• 4:59:53
  Speaker 1: that way, cried Sloppy yesh mish, and threw back his
• 4:59:57
  Speaker 1: head and laughed. Bless us, exclaimed Miss Wren with a start.
• 5:00:02
  Speaker 1: Don't open your mouth as white as that young man,
• 5:00:05
  Speaker 1: or it'll catch so and not shut again. Some day.
• 5:00:09
  Speaker 1: Mister Sloppy opened it, if possible wider, and kept it
• 5:00:13
  Speaker 1: open until his laugh was out. Why you will like
• 5:00:17
  Speaker 1: the giant, said Miss Wren when he came home in
• 5:00:20
  Speaker 1: the Land of bean Stalk and wanted Jack for supper.
• 5:00:25
  Speaker 1: Was she good looking, mish, asked Sloppy. No, said Miss
• 5:00:29
  Speaker 1: Wren ugly. Her visitor glanced round the room, which had
• 5:00:33
  Speaker 1: many comforts in it now that had not been in
• 5:00:36
  Speaker 1: it before, and said, fish is your pretty plaishmish Claire,
• 5:00:41
  Speaker 1: You think so, sir, returned Miss Wren, And what do
• 5:00:44
  Speaker 1: you think of me? The honesty of mister Sloppy Being
• 5:00:48
  Speaker 1: severely taxed by the question, he twisted a button, grinned,
• 5:00:52
  Speaker 1: and faltered out with it, said miss Wren with an
• 5:00:56
  Speaker 1: arch Look don't you think me a queer little complict?
• 5:01:01
  Speaker 1: In shaking her head at him. After asking the question,
• 5:01:04
  Speaker 1: she shook her hair down. Ah, cried Sloppy in a
• 5:01:10
  Speaker 1: burst of admiration. What a lot and watch a color.
• 5:01:16
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren, with her usual expressive hitch, went on with
• 5:01:19
  Speaker 1: her work, but left her hair as it was not
• 5:01:22
  Speaker 1: displeased by the effect it had made. You don't leave
• 5:01:27
  Speaker 1: yeve alone, do you wish, asked Sloppy. No, said miss
• 5:01:32
  Speaker 1: Wren with a chop. Live here with my fare we
• 5:01:35
  Speaker 1: godmother with mister Sloppy couldn't make it out with Oh
• 5:01:42
  Speaker 1: did ye shamish will, replied Miss Wren, More seriously with
• 5:01:48
  Speaker 1: my second father, or with my first, for that matter,
• 5:01:52
  Speaker 1: And she shook her head and drew a sigh. If
• 5:01:55
  Speaker 1: you had known a poor child I used to have here,
• 5:01:58
  Speaker 1: she added, you understood me, but you didn't, and you
• 5:02:02
  Speaker 1: can't all the better you mushed have been talk a
• 5:02:06
  Speaker 1: long time, said Sloppy, glancing at the array of dolls
• 5:02:10
  Speaker 1: in hand. Before you came to work, show neatly mish
• 5:02:13
  Speaker 1: and with shusher pretty taste. Never was taught to stick,
• 5:02:18
  Speaker 1: young man returned the dressmaker, tossing her head, just gobbled
• 5:02:22
  Speaker 1: and gobbled till I found out out to do it
• 5:02:25
  Speaker 1: badly enough at first, but better now, And here have
• 5:02:30
  Speaker 1: I said Sloppy in something of a self reproachful tone.
• 5:02:34
  Speaker 1: Been a learning and a learning and ere age mischief
• 5:02:39
  Speaker 1: often been a pain and paying ever so long, I've
• 5:02:43
  Speaker 1: heard what your trade is, observed miss Wren. It's cabinet making,
• 5:02:48
  Speaker 1: Mister Sloppy nodded. Now a mound she's done with is.
• 5:02:54
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what mish I she'll like to bake
• 5:02:58
  Speaker 1: you something much height. But what I could my cue,
• 5:03:04
  Speaker 1: said Sloppy, surbeying the room. I could my cue a
• 5:03:09
  Speaker 1: handy set of nesch tid I dolgin, or I could
• 5:03:13
  Speaker 1: nite you a handy little set of George to keep
• 5:03:16
  Speaker 1: your shilks and your fridge and scrapchin or art. They
• 5:03:21
  Speaker 1: turn you rare handle for that crutch stick. If it
• 5:03:24
  Speaker 1: belongs to him, you call your father. It belongs to me,
• 5:03:29
  Speaker 1: returned the little creature, with a quick flush of her
• 5:03:31
  Speaker 1: face and neck. I'm lame, poor Sloppy flushed too, for
• 5:03:36
  Speaker 1: there was an instinctive delicacy behind his buttons and his
• 5:03:39
  Speaker 1: own hand had struck it, he said, perhaps the best
• 5:03:43
  Speaker 1: thing in the way of amends that could be said. Ah,
• 5:03:46
  Speaker 1: I'm very glad it's George, because I'd rather ornament eat
• 5:03:51
  Speaker 1: for you and for any one else. Please may I
• 5:03:55
  Speaker 1: look at it. Miss Wren was in the act of
• 5:03:58
  Speaker 1: handing it to him over the bench when she paused.
• 5:04:02
  Speaker 1: But you'd better see me use it, she said, sharply.
• 5:04:06
  Speaker 1: This is the way, oh prediciketty peg pig pig, Not pretty,
• 5:04:10
  Speaker 1: is it? It seemed to me that you hardly wanted
• 5:04:14
  Speaker 1: it all, said Sloppy. The little dressmaker sat down again
• 5:04:19
  Speaker 1: and gave it into his hand, saying with that better
• 5:04:22
  Speaker 1: look upon her, and with a smile, thank you and
• 5:04:27
  Speaker 1: ash concoerning inn esch and your jaws, said Sloppy, after
• 5:04:32
  Speaker 1: measuring the handle on his sleeve and softly standing the
• 5:04:34
  Speaker 1: stick aside against the wall. Why it will be a
• 5:04:38
  Speaker 1: real pressure to me of ye tale that you can
• 5:04:42
  Speaker 1: shing mis beautiful, and I shall be better paid with
• 5:04:46
  Speaker 1: a song and with any money for always you have
• 5:04:49
  Speaker 1: the likes of that, and often give missus Eaton and
• 5:04:53
  Speaker 1: Johnny a comet shong myself. We've spoken in it, though
• 5:04:58
  Speaker 1: that's not your short our wager. You are very kind
• 5:05:02
  Speaker 1: young man, returned the dressmaker, A really kind young man.
• 5:05:06
  Speaker 1: I accept your offer. I suppose he won't mind, she added,
• 5:05:10
  Speaker 1: as an afterthought, shragging her shoulders. And if he does,
• 5:05:13
  Speaker 1: he may meanin im that you call your father. Mish,
• 5:05:19
  Speaker 1: asked Sloppy. No, no, replied Miss Wren. Him Jim Jim
• 5:05:25
  Speaker 1: M M M, repeated Sloppy, staring about as if for him.
• 5:05:31
  Speaker 1: M who is coming to court and marry me? Returned
• 5:05:34
  Speaker 1: Miss Wren. Dear me, how slow you are, oh, im,
• 5:05:40
  Speaker 1: said Sloppy, and seemed to turn thoughtful and a little troubled.
• 5:05:45
  Speaker 1: I never thought of him. When is he coming? Miss?
• 5:05:49
  Speaker 1: What a question? Cried Miss Wren. How should I know?
• 5:05:53
  Speaker 1: Where is he coming from? Mish? Why couldn't it, gracious?
• 5:05:58
  Speaker 1: How an hotel? He is coming from somewhere or other
• 5:06:01
  Speaker 1: I suppose, and he has come in some day or other.
• 5:06:04
  Speaker 1: I suppose I don't know any more about him at present.
• 5:06:09
  Speaker 1: This tickled mister Sloppy as an extraordinarily good joke, and
• 5:06:13
  Speaker 1: he threw back his head and laughed with measreless enjoyment
• 5:06:17
  Speaker 1: at the sight of him laughing in that absurd way.
• 5:06:19
  Speaker 1: The doll dressmaker laughed very heartily. Indeed, so they both
• 5:06:23
  Speaker 1: laughed till they were tired. There there there, said Miss Wren,
• 5:06:29
  Speaker 1: For couldn't his sake stop giant, or I should be
• 5:06:32
  Speaker 1: swallowed up alive before I know it. And at this
• 5:06:36
  Speaker 1: minute you haven't said what you come for. I have
• 5:06:40
  Speaker 1: come for little Mischa Hormingey's doll, said Sloppy. I thought
• 5:06:46
  Speaker 1: as much, remarked Miss Wren. And here he is, little
• 5:06:50
  Speaker 1: miss Harmonds is dull waiting for you. She's founded up
• 5:06:54
  Speaker 1: in silver piper, you see as if she was wrapped
• 5:06:57
  Speaker 1: from head to foot in new banknotes. Take care and
• 5:07:01
  Speaker 1: bai's my hand, and thank you again, oh jake, more
• 5:07:06
  Speaker 1: care of her than if she was a gold him each,
• 5:07:09
  Speaker 1: said Sloppy, And deje both my ange mish and ah
• 5:07:14
  Speaker 1: soon campack again. But the greatest event of all in
• 5:07:20
  Speaker 1: the New life of mister missus John Harmon was a
• 5:07:23
  Speaker 1: visit from mister and missus Eugene Rayburn Sadly one and
• 5:07:28
  Speaker 1: one was the once gallant Eugene and walked resting on
• 5:07:32
  Speaker 1: his wife's arm and leaning heavily upon a stick. But
• 5:07:36
  Speaker 1: he was daily growing stronger and better, and it was
• 5:07:39
  Speaker 1: declared by the medical attendants, that he might not be
• 5:07:42
  Speaker 1: much disfigured by and by. It was a grand event indeed,
• 5:07:46
  Speaker 1: when mister and missus Eugene Rayburn came to stay at
• 5:07:49
  Speaker 1: mister and missus John Harmon's house, where, by the way,
• 5:07:53
  Speaker 1: mister and Missus Boffin, exquisitely happy and daily cruising about
• 5:07:57
  Speaker 1: to look at chops, were likewise staying indefinitely. To mister
• 5:08:02
  Speaker 1: Eugene Rayburn, in confidence did Missus John Harmon in part
• 5:08:06
  Speaker 1: what she had known of the state of his wife's
• 5:08:07
  Speaker 1: affections in his reckless time. And to Missus John Harmon,
• 5:08:11
  Speaker 1: in confidence did mister Eugene Rayburn in part that, please God,
• 5:08:16
  Speaker 1: she should see how his wife had changed him. I
• 5:08:20
  Speaker 1: make no protestations, said Eugene, who does who means them?
• 5:08:28
  Speaker 1: I have made a resolution. But would you believe Bella
• 5:08:33
  Speaker 1: interposed his wife coming to resume her nurse's place at
• 5:08:36
  Speaker 1: his side, for he never got on well without her.
• 5:08:40
  Speaker 1: At our wedding day he told me he almost thought
• 5:08:44
  Speaker 1: the best thing he could do was to die, as
• 5:08:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't do it, Lizzie said Eugene, I'll do that
• 5:08:52
  Speaker 1: better thing you suggested for your sake, that same afternoon, Eugene,
• 5:08:59
  Speaker 1: lying on his couch in his own room upstairs, Lightwood
• 5:09:02
  Speaker 1: came to chat with him, while Bella took his wife
• 5:09:04
  Speaker 1: out for a ride. Nothing short of force will make
• 5:09:08
  Speaker 1: her go, Eugene had said, so Bella had playfully forced her.
• 5:09:13
  Speaker 1: Dear old fellow, Eugene began with Lightwood, reaching up his hand.
• 5:09:20
  Speaker 1: You couldn't have come at a better time, for my
• 5:09:24
  Speaker 1: mind is full, and I want to empty it first
• 5:09:29
  Speaker 1: of my present before I touch upon my future. M
• 5:09:34
  Speaker 1: R F, who is a much younger cavalier than I
• 5:09:39
  Speaker 1: and a professed admirer beauty, was so affable as to
• 5:09:44
  Speaker 1: remark the other day he paid us a visit of
• 5:09:47
  Speaker 1: two days up the river there, and much objected to
• 5:09:50
  Speaker 1: the accommodation of the hotel, and that Lizzie ought to
• 5:09:54
  Speaker 1: have her portrait painted, which, coming from m r F,
• 5:09:59
  Speaker 1: may be considered aquivalent to a melodramatic blessing. You are
• 5:10:04
  Speaker 1: getting well, said Mortimer, with a smile. Really, said Eugene,
• 5:10:10
  Speaker 1: I mean it when m r F said that, and
• 5:10:13
  Speaker 1: followed it up by rolling the claret for which he
• 5:10:17
  Speaker 1: called and I paid, in his mouth and saying, my
• 5:10:21
  Speaker 1: dear son, why do you drink this trash. It was
• 5:10:26
  Speaker 1: tantamount in him to a paternal benediction on our union,
• 5:10:30
  Speaker 1: accompanied with a gush of tears. The corners of m
• 5:10:34
  Speaker 1: R F is not to be measured by ordinary standards.
• 5:10:38
  Speaker 1: True enough, said Lightwood. That's all pursued, Eugene, that I
• 5:10:44
  Speaker 1: shall ever hear from m R F on the subject,
• 5:10:47
  Speaker 1: and he will continue to saunter through the world with
• 5:10:50
  Speaker 1: his hat on one side. My marriage being thus solemnly
• 5:10:55
  Speaker 1: recognized at the family altar, I have no further trouble
• 5:10:58
  Speaker 1: on that score. Next, you rarely have done wonders for me, Mortimer,
• 5:11:04
  Speaker 1: in easing my money perplexities. And we set a guardian
• 5:11:08
  Speaker 1: and stirred beside me as the preserver of my life.
• 5:11:12
  Speaker 1: I am hardly strong. Yet you see crime not man
• 5:11:15
  Speaker 1: enough to refer to her without a trembling voice. She
• 5:11:19
  Speaker 1: is so inexpressibly dear to me, Mortimer. The little that
• 5:11:25
  Speaker 1: I can call my own will be more than it
• 5:11:27
  Speaker 1: ever has been. It need be more, for you know
• 5:11:31
  Speaker 1: what it always has been in my hands, nothing worse
• 5:11:35
  Speaker 1: than nothing. I fancy, Eugene, my own small income. I
• 5:11:39
  Speaker 1: devoutly wish that my grandfather had left it to the
• 5:11:42
  Speaker 1: ocean rather than to me has been an effective something
• 5:11:46
  Speaker 1: in the way, preventing me from turning toward anything, And
• 5:11:49
  Speaker 1: I think yours has been much the same. There spake
• 5:11:54
  Speaker 1: the voice of wisdom, said Eugene. We are shepherds both
• 5:11:59
  Speaker 1: in earning too. At last we turn to in earnest.
• 5:12:04
  Speaker 1: Let us say no more of that for a few
• 5:12:06
  Speaker 1: years to come. Now I have an idea, Mortimer, of
• 5:12:11
  Speaker 1: taking myself and my wife to one of the colonies
• 5:12:15
  Speaker 1: and working at my vocation there. I should be lost without, Eugene.
• 5:12:21
  Speaker 1: But you may be right, No, said Eugene emphatically. Not
• 5:12:26
  Speaker 1: right wrong, he said, with such a lively, almost angry flash,
• 5:12:32
  Speaker 1: that Mortimer showed himself greatly surprised. You think this thumped
• 5:12:37
  Speaker 1: head of mine is excited, Eugene went on, with a
• 5:12:41
  Speaker 1: high look. Not so, believe me. I can say to
• 5:12:46
  Speaker 1: you of the healthful music of my pulse what Hamlet
• 5:12:49
  Speaker 1: said of his. My blood is up, but wholesomely up
• 5:12:54
  Speaker 1: when I think of it. Tell me, shall I turn
• 5:12:58
  Speaker 1: coward to Lizzie and sneak away with her? As if
• 5:13:01
  Speaker 1: I were ashamed of her? Where would your friends part
• 5:13:05
  Speaker 1: in this world be? Mortimer? If she had turned coward
• 5:13:08
  Speaker 1: to him, and on a measurably better occasion, honorable and staunch,
• 5:13:14
  Speaker 1: said Lightwood. And yet, Eugene, and yet what, Mortimer? And
• 5:13:21
  Speaker 1: yet are you sure that you might not feel for
• 5:13:24
  Speaker 1: her sake? I say, for her sake any slight coldness
• 5:13:28
  Speaker 1: towards her on the part of society. Oh, you and
• 5:13:34
  Speaker 1: I may well stumble at the word, returned Eugene, laughing.
• 5:13:40
  Speaker 1: Do we mean our Tippins? Perhaps we do, said Mortimer, laughing, Also,
• 5:13:47
  Speaker 1: faith we do, returned Eugene, with great animation. We may
• 5:13:53
  Speaker 1: hide behind the bush and beat about it, but we
• 5:13:56
  Speaker 1: do now. My wife is something nearer to my heart, Mortimer,
• 5:14:02
  Speaker 1: than Tippins is. And I owe her a little more
• 5:14:06
  Speaker 1: than I owe to Tippins. And I am rather proud
• 5:14:09
  Speaker 1: of her than I ever was of Tippins. Therefore I
• 5:14:13
  Speaker 1: will fight it out to the last gasp with her,
• 5:14:17
  Speaker 1: and for her here in the open field, when I
• 5:14:21
  Speaker 1: hide her or strike for her faint heartedly in a
• 5:14:24
  Speaker 1: hole or a corner. Do you, whom I love next
• 5:14:28
  Speaker 1: best upon earth? Tell me what I shall most righteously
• 5:14:31
  Speaker 1: deserve to be told? That she would have done well
• 5:14:35
  Speaker 1: to turn me over with her foot that night when
• 5:14:37
  Speaker 1: I lay bleeding to death and spat in my dastard face.
• 5:14:43
  Speaker 1: The glow that shone upon him as he spoke the
• 5:14:46
  Speaker 1: words so irradiated his features that he looked for the
• 5:14:49
  Speaker 1: time as though he had never been mutilated. His friend
• 5:14:53
  Speaker 1: responded as Eugene would have had him respond, and they
• 5:14:56
  Speaker 1: discoursed of the future until Lizzie came back. After resuming
• 5:15:00
  Speaker 1: her place at his side and tenderly touching his hands
• 5:15:03
  Speaker 1: on his head, she said, Eugene, dear, you made me
• 5:15:08
  Speaker 1: go out, but I ought to have stayed with you.
• 5:15:11
  Speaker 1: He'll more flushed than you have been for many days.
• 5:15:13
  Speaker 1: What have you been doing? Nothing, replied Eugene, but looking
• 5:15:20
  Speaker 1: forward to your coming back and talking to mister Lightwood,
• 5:15:26
  Speaker 1: said Lizzie, turning to him with a smile. But it
• 5:15:29
  Speaker 1: cannot have been society. It disturbed you, faith, my dear love,
• 5:15:36
  Speaker 1: retorted Eugene in his old airy manner, as he laughed
• 5:15:39
  Speaker 1: and kissed her. I rather think it was society, though
• 5:15:46
  Speaker 1: the word ran so much in Mortimer Lightwood's thoughts as
• 5:15:49
  Speaker 1: he went home to the temple that night that he
• 5:15:52
  Speaker 1: resolved to take a look at society, which he had
• 5:15:55
  Speaker 1: not seen for a considerable period. And Book four, Chapter sixteen,
• 5:16:03
  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen. The voice of Society behoves Mortimer Lightwood therefore
• 5:16:11
  Speaker 1: to answer a dinner card from mister and Missus Veneering,
• 5:16:13
  Speaker 1: requesting the honor, and to signify that mister Mortimer Lightwood
• 5:16:17
  Speaker 1: will be happy to have the other honor. The Veneerings
• 5:16:21
  Speaker 1: have been, as usual, indefatigably dealing dinner cards to society,
• 5:16:27
  Speaker 1: and whoever desires to take a hand had best be
• 5:16:29
  Speaker 1: quick about it, for it has written the books of
• 5:16:31
  Speaker 1: the insolvent fates that Veneering shall make a resounding smash
• 5:16:36
  Speaker 1: next week. Yes, having found out the clue to that
• 5:16:40
  Speaker 1: great mystery how people can contrive to live beyond their means,
• 5:16:44
  Speaker 1: and having overjobbed his jobberies as legislator deputed to the
• 5:16:48
  Speaker 1: universe by the pure electors of pocket Bridges, it shall
• 5:16:51
  Speaker 1: come to pass next week that Veneering will accept the
• 5:16:55
  Speaker 1: Chiltern hundreds, that the legal gentleman in Britannia's confidence will
• 5:16:59
  Speaker 1: again except the pocket Bredges thousands, and that the Veneerings
• 5:17:03
  Speaker 1: will retire to Calais, there to live on Missus Veneering's diamonds,
• 5:17:07
  Speaker 1: in which mister Veneering, as a good husband, has from
• 5:17:10
  Speaker 1: time to time invested considerable sums, and to relate to
• 5:17:14
  Speaker 1: Neptune and others. How that, before Veneering retired from Parliament,
• 5:17:19
  Speaker 1: the House of Commons was composed of himself and these
• 5:17:22
  Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty seven dearest and oldest friends he
• 5:17:25
  Speaker 1: had in the world. It shall likewise come to pass
• 5:17:28
  Speaker 1: at as nearly as possible, the same period that society
• 5:17:31
  Speaker 1: will discover that it always did despise Veneering and distressed Veneering,
• 5:17:36
  Speaker 1: and that when it went to Veneering's to dinner, it
• 5:17:39
  Speaker 1: always had misgivings, though very secretly at the time it
• 5:17:42
  Speaker 1: would seem, and in a perfectly private and confidential manner.
• 5:17:47
  Speaker 1: The next week's book of the Insolvent Fates, however, being
• 5:17:51
  Speaker 1: not yet opened, There is the usual rush to the
• 5:17:53
  Speaker 1: Veneerings of the people who go to their house to
• 5:17:56
  Speaker 1: dine with one another, and not with them. There is
• 5:17:59
  Speaker 1: Lady Tippers. There are Podsnap, the Great and Missus Podsnap.
• 5:18:03
  Speaker 1: There is Twemlow. There are Buffer, Boots and Brewer. There
• 5:18:07
  Speaker 1: is the contractor, who is providence to five hundred thousand men.
• 5:18:11
  Speaker 1: There is the Chairman, traveling three thousand miles per week.
• 5:18:15
  Speaker 1: There is the brilliant genius who turned the shares into
• 5:18:18
  Speaker 1: that remarkably exact sum of three hundred and seventy five
• 5:18:21
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds, no shillings and no pence, to whom add
• 5:18:27
  Speaker 1: Mortimer Lightwood coming in among them with the resumption of
• 5:18:31
  Speaker 1: his old languid heir, founded on Eugene and belonging to
• 5:18:35
  Speaker 1: the days when he told the story of the man
• 5:18:37
  Speaker 1: from somewhere that fresh fairy Tippins or but screams at
• 5:18:42
  Speaker 1: sight of her false Swain. She summons the deserter to
• 5:18:46
  Speaker 1: her with her fan, But the deserter, predetermined not to come,
• 5:18:50
  Speaker 1: talks Britain with Podsnap. Podsnap always talks Britain, and talks
• 5:18:55
  Speaker 1: as if he were a sort of private watchman employed
• 5:18:58
  Speaker 1: in the British interests against the rest of US world.
• 5:19:01
  Speaker 1: We know what Russia means, Sir, says Potsnap. We know
• 5:19:06
  Speaker 1: what France wants, we see what America is up to,
• 5:19:10
  Speaker 1: but we know what England is. That's enough for us. However,
• 5:19:15
  Speaker 1: when dinner is served and Lightwood drops into his old
• 5:19:18
  Speaker 1: place over against Lady Tippins, she can be fended off
• 5:19:21
  Speaker 1: no longer. Long bellished Robinson Crusoe says the charmer, exchanging salutations.
• 5:19:30
  Speaker 1: How did you leave the island? Thank you, says Lightwood.
• 5:19:35
  Speaker 1: It made no complaint of being in pain anywhere. Say
• 5:19:40
  Speaker 1: how did you leave the savages, asks Lady Tippins. They
• 5:19:46
  Speaker 1: were becoming civilized when I left one Fernandez, says Lightwood.
• 5:19:50
  Speaker 1: At least they were eating one another, which looked like it.
• 5:19:54
  Speaker 1: Tor Mentor returns the dear young creature. You know what
• 5:19:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, and you trifle with my impatience. It held
• 5:20:02
  Speaker 1: me something immediately about the married pair you were at
• 5:20:07
  Speaker 1: the wedding? Was I by the bye Water pretends at
• 5:20:12
  Speaker 1: great leisure to consider, oh as her I was? How
• 5:20:18
  Speaker 1: was the bride addressed in rowing costume? Mortimer looked gloomy
• 5:20:23
  Speaker 1: and declines to answer. I hope she steered herself, skiffed herself, up,
• 5:20:30
  Speaker 1: peddled herself, larboardered, and star ordered herself, or whatever the
• 5:20:35
  Speaker 1: technical term may be to the ceremony, proceeds the playful Tippins.
• 5:20:41
  Speaker 1: However she got to it, she graced it, says Mortimer.
• 5:20:46
  Speaker 1: Lady Tippins, with a skittish little scream attracts the general attention.
• 5:20:52
  Speaker 1: Graced it. Take care of me if I faint forneering
• 5:20:56
  Speaker 1: he means to tell us that a horrid female waterman
• 5:21:00
  Speaker 1: is graceful. Pardon me, I mean to tell you nothing,
• 5:21:05
  Speaker 1: Lady Tippins replies Lightwood, and keeps his word by eating
• 5:21:10
  Speaker 1: his dinner with a show of the utmost indifference. You
• 5:21:13
  Speaker 1: shall not escape me in this way, you mariffs. Backwoodsman,
• 5:21:18
  Speaker 1: retorts Lady Tippins. You shall not survey the question to
• 5:21:22
  Speaker 1: screen your friend Eugene, who has made this exhibition of himself.
• 5:21:28
  Speaker 1: The knowledge shall be brought home to you that such
• 5:21:31
  Speaker 1: a ridiculous affair is condemned by the voice of society.
• 5:21:37
  Speaker 1: My dear missus vandeering, do let us resolve ourselves into
• 5:21:41
  Speaker 1: a committee of the whole House on the subject. Missus Veneering,
• 5:21:46
  Speaker 1: always charmed by this rattling self, cries, oh, yes, do
• 5:21:51
  Speaker 1: let us resolve ourselves into a committee of the whole house.
• 5:21:56
  Speaker 1: So delicious veneering, says, As many as are of that opinion,
• 5:22:02
  Speaker 1: say I contrary, No, the eyes have it. But nobody
• 5:22:07
  Speaker 1: takes the slightest notice of this joke. Now I am
• 5:22:12
  Speaker 1: chairwoman of committees, cries Lady Tippins. What spirit she has?
• 5:22:19
  Speaker 1: Exclaims Missus Veneering, to whom likewise nobody attends, and this
• 5:22:26
  Speaker 1: pursues the sprightly one is a committee of the whole house,
• 5:22:30
  Speaker 1: to what you may call it illicit, I suppose the
• 5:22:34
  Speaker 1: voice of society. The question before the committee is whether
• 5:22:40
  Speaker 1: a young man of very fair family, good appearance, and
• 5:22:44
  Speaker 1: some talent makes a fool or a wise man of
• 5:22:48
  Speaker 1: himself in marrying a female waterman turned factory girl. Hardly, sir,
• 5:22:55
  Speaker 1: I think the stubborn Mortimer strikes in. I take the
• 5:22:59
  Speaker 1: question to be whether such a man, as you describe
• 5:23:03
  Speaker 1: Lady Tippins, does right or wrong in marrying a brave woman.
• 5:23:07
  Speaker 1: I say nothing of her beauty, who has saved his
• 5:23:10
  Speaker 1: life with a wonderful energy and address, whom he knows
• 5:23:13
  Speaker 1: to be virtuous and possessed of remarkable qualities, whom he
• 5:23:17
  Speaker 1: has long admired, and who is deeply attached to him.
• 5:23:21
  Speaker 1: But excuse me, says Potsnap, with his temper and his
• 5:23:24
  Speaker 1: shirt collar about equally rumpled. Was this young woman ever
• 5:23:28
  Speaker 1: a female waterman? Never? But you sometimes rode in a
• 5:23:33
  Speaker 1: boat with her father. I believe general sensation against the
• 5:23:37
  Speaker 1: young woman. Brewer shakes his head, boots shakes his head,
• 5:23:41
  Speaker 1: buffer shakes his head. And now mister lightwood. Was she ever,
• 5:23:46
  Speaker 1: pursues Potsnap, with his indignation rising high into those hair
• 5:23:50
  Speaker 1: brushes of his, A factory girl. Never, but you had
• 5:23:55
  Speaker 1: some employment in a paper mill. I believe general sensation, repeated,
• 5:24:00
  Speaker 1: Brewer says, Oh dear, Boots says, oh dear, Buffer says,
• 5:24:07
  Speaker 1: oh dear all in a rumbling tone of protest. Then
• 5:24:12
  Speaker 1: all I have to say is this, returns Podsnap, putting
• 5:24:15
  Speaker 1: the thing away with his right arm. That my gorge
• 5:24:19
  Speaker 1: rises against such a marriage, that it offends and disgusts me,
• 5:24:23
  Speaker 1: that it makes me sick, and that I desire to
• 5:24:25
  Speaker 1: know no more about it. Now I wonder, thinks Mortimer, amused,
• 5:24:32
  Speaker 1: whether you are the voice of society here here, here,
• 5:24:38
  Speaker 1: cries Lady Tippins, your opinion of this mess, alliance, honorable colleagues,
• 5:24:44
  Speaker 1: of the honorable member who has just sat down, Missus
• 5:24:49
  Speaker 1: Podsnap is of opinion that in these matters there should
• 5:24:52
  Speaker 1: be an equality of station and fortune, and that a
• 5:24:55
  Speaker 1: man accustomed to society should look out for a woman
• 5:24:58
  Speaker 1: accustomed to society and capable of bearing her part in
• 5:25:02
  Speaker 1: it with an ease and elegance of carriage. That missus
• 5:25:05
  Speaker 1: podsnap stops there delicately intimating that every such man should
• 5:25:10
  Speaker 1: look out for a fine woman as nearly resembling herself
• 5:25:13
  Speaker 1: as he may hope to discover. Now, I wonder, thinks Mortimer,
• 5:25:19
  Speaker 1: whether you are the voice Lady Tippins next canvasses the
• 5:25:25
  Speaker 1: contractor of five hundred thousand power. It appears to this
• 5:25:30
  Speaker 1: potentate that what the man in question should have done
• 5:25:33
  Speaker 1: would have been to buy the young woman a boat
• 5:25:36
  Speaker 1: and a small annuity, and set her up for herself.
• 5:25:39
  Speaker 1: These things are a question of beefsteaks and porter. You
• 5:25:43
  Speaker 1: buy the young woman a boat, very good. You buy her,
• 5:25:47
  Speaker 1: at the same time a small annuity. You speak of
• 5:25:50
  Speaker 1: that annuity in pounds sterling, but it is in reality
• 5:25:54
  Speaker 1: so many pounds of beef steaks and so many pints
• 5:25:57
  Speaker 1: of porter. On the one hand, the young woman has
• 5:26:00
  Speaker 1: the boat. On the other hand, she consumes so many
• 5:26:04
  Speaker 1: pounds of beef steaks and so many pints of porter.
• 5:26:07
  Speaker 1: Those beefsteaks and that porter are the fuel to that
• 5:26:11
  Speaker 1: young woman's engine. She derives therefrom a certain amount of
• 5:26:15
  Speaker 1: power to row the boat. That power will produce so
• 5:26:19
  Speaker 1: much money. You add that to the small annuity, and
• 5:26:23
  Speaker 1: thus you get at the young woman's income that, it
• 5:26:26
  Speaker 1: seems to the contractor is the way of looking at it.
• 5:26:30
  Speaker 1: The fair and slaver, having fallen into one of her
• 5:26:33
  Speaker 1: gentle sleeps during the last exposition, nobody likes to wake her. Fortunately,
• 5:26:38
  Speaker 1: she comes awake of herself and puts the question to
• 5:26:41
  Speaker 1: the wandering chairman. The wanderer can only speak of the
• 5:26:44
  Speaker 1: case as if it were his own. If such a
• 5:26:47
  Speaker 1: young woman as the young woman described had saved his
• 5:26:51
  Speaker 1: own life, he would have been very much obliged to her,
• 5:26:54
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have married her, and would have got her a
• 5:26:56
  Speaker 1: berth in an electric telegraph office, where young women answer
• 5:27:00
  Speaker 1: very well, what does the genius of the three hundred
• 5:27:03
  Speaker 1: and seventy five thousand pounds, no shillings and no pence think?
• 5:27:08
  Speaker 1: He can't say what he thinks without asking. Had the
• 5:27:11
  Speaker 1: young woman any money? No, says Lightwood in an uncompromising voice.
• 5:27:18
  Speaker 1: No money, madness and moonshine is then the compressed verdict
• 5:27:23
  Speaker 1: of the genius. A man may do anything lawful for money,
• 5:27:26
  Speaker 1: but for no money. Bosh, What does Boots say? Boots
• 5:27:31
  Speaker 1: says he wouldn't have done it under twenty thousand pound.
• 5:27:35
  Speaker 1: What does Brewer say? Brewer says what Boots says? What
• 5:27:39
  Speaker 1: does Buffer say? Buffer says he knows a man who
• 5:27:42
  Speaker 1: married a bathing woman and bolted. Lady Tippins fancies he
• 5:27:47
  Speaker 1: has collected the suffrages of the whole committee Nobody dreaming
• 5:27:50
  Speaker 1: of asking the Veneerings for their opinion. When looking round
• 5:27:54
  Speaker 1: the table through her eye glass, she perceives mister Twemlow
• 5:27:58
  Speaker 1: with his hand to his forehead. Oh, good, gracious, my
• 5:28:02
  Speaker 1: Twemlow forgotten, my dearest, my own. What is his vote?
• 5:28:09
  Speaker 1: Tremlow has the air of being ill at ease as
• 5:28:12
  Speaker 1: he takes his hand from his forehead and replies, I
• 5:28:16
  Speaker 1: am disposed to think, says he that this is a
• 5:28:21
  Speaker 1: question of the feelings of a gentleman. A gentleman can
• 5:28:27
  Speaker 1: have no feelings to contract such a marriage. Flushes Podsnap.
• 5:28:31
  Speaker 1: Pardon me, sir, says Tremlow, rather less mildly than usual.
• 5:28:37
  Speaker 1: I don't agree with you. If this gentleman's feelings of gratitude,
• 5:28:43
  Speaker 1: of respect, of admiration and affection induced him, as I
• 5:28:48
  Speaker 1: presume they did, to marry this lady, this lady echoes Podsnap, Sir,
• 5:28:57
  Speaker 1: returns Tremlow, with his wristbands bristling a little. You repeat
• 5:29:02
  Speaker 1: the word, I repeat the word this lady. What else
• 5:29:09
  Speaker 1: would you call her if the gentleman were present? This
• 5:29:14
  Speaker 1: being somewhat in the nature of a poser. For Podsnap,
• 5:29:17
  Speaker 1: he merely waves it away with a speechless wave. I say,
• 5:29:22
  Speaker 1: resumes Tremlow. If for such feelings on the part of
• 5:29:27
  Speaker 1: this gentleman induce this gentleman to marry this lady, I
• 5:29:32
  Speaker 1: think he is the greater gentleman for the action and
• 5:29:37
  Speaker 1: makes her the greater lady. I beg to say that
• 5:29:42
  Speaker 1: when I used the word gentleman, I use it in
• 5:29:47
  Speaker 1: the sense in which the degree may be attained by
• 5:29:51
  Speaker 1: any man. The feelings of a gentleman I hold sacred,
• 5:29:56
  Speaker 1: and I confess I am not comfortable when they are
• 5:30:00
  Speaker 1: made the subject of sport or general discussion. I should
• 5:30:06
  Speaker 1: like to know, Sneers Podsnap, whether your noble relation would
• 5:30:10
  Speaker 1: be of your opinion, mister Podsnap retorts Tremlow. Permit me
• 5:30:19
  Speaker 1: he might be or he might not be. I cannot say.
• 5:30:25
  Speaker 1: But I could not allow even him to dictate to
• 5:30:30
  Speaker 1: me on a point of great delicacy. On which I
• 5:30:34
  Speaker 1: feel very strongly. Somehow a canopy of wet blanket seems
• 5:30:40
  Speaker 1: to descend upon the company, and Lady Tippins was never
• 5:30:43
  Speaker 1: known to turn so very greedy or so very cross.
• 5:30:47
  Speaker 1: Mortimer Lightwood alone brightens he has been asking himself, as
• 5:30:52
  Speaker 1: to every other member of the committee, in turn, I
• 5:30:55
  Speaker 1: wonder whether you are the voice. But he does not
• 5:30:58
  Speaker 1: ask himself the question after Twemblow has spoken, and he
• 5:31:02
  Speaker 1: glances at Twemlow's direction as if he were grateful. When
• 5:31:07
  Speaker 1: the company disperses, by which time mister and Missus Veneering
• 5:31:10
  Speaker 1: have had quite as much as they wanted the honor,
• 5:31:12
  Speaker 1: and the guests have had quite as much as they
• 5:31:15
  Speaker 1: want of the other honor. Mortimer sees Twemlow home, shakes
• 5:31:19
  Speaker 1: hands with him cordially at parting, and fares to the
• 5:31:22
  Speaker 1: temple Gaily. End of Book four, Chapter seventeen PostScript. When
• 5:31:33
  Speaker 1: I devised this story, I foresaw the likelihood that a
• 5:31:37
  Speaker 1: class of readers and commentators would suppose that I was
• 5:31:41
  Speaker 1: at great pains to conceal exactly what I was at
• 5:31:43
  Speaker 1: great pains to suggest, namely, that mister John Harmon was
• 5:31:47
  Speaker 1: not slain, and that mister John Rokesmith. Was he pleasing
• 5:31:52
  Speaker 1: myself with the idea that the supposition might in part
• 5:31:55
  Speaker 1: arise out of some ingenuity in the story, and thinking
• 5:31:58
  Speaker 1: it worth while in the interest of art to hint
• 5:32:01
  Speaker 1: to an audience that an artist of whatever denomination may
• 5:32:04
  Speaker 1: perhaps be trusted to know what he is about in
• 5:32:07
  Speaker 1: his vocation, if they will concede him a little patience.
• 5:32:10
  Speaker 1: I was not alarmed by the anticipation to keep for
• 5:32:14
  Speaker 1: a long time unsuspected, yet always working itself out another purpose.
• 5:32:19
  Speaker 1: Originating in that leading incident and turning it to a
• 5:32:22
  Speaker 1: pleasant and useful account at last, was at once the
• 5:32:25
  Speaker 1: most interesting and the most difficult part of my design.
• 5:32:29
  Speaker 1: Its difficulty was much enhanced by the mode of publication,
• 5:32:34
  Speaker 1: For it would be very unreasonable to expect that many
• 5:32:37
  Speaker 1: readers pursuing a story in portions from month to month
• 5:32:40
  Speaker 1: through nineteen months, will, until they have it before them complete,
• 5:32:45
  Speaker 1: perceive the relations of its finer threads to the whole pattern,
• 5:32:48
  Speaker 1: which is always before the eyes of the story weaver
• 5:32:51
  Speaker 1: at his loom. Yet that I hold the advantages of
• 5:32:54
  Speaker 1: the mode of publication to outweigh its disadvantages may be
• 5:32:58
  Speaker 1: easily believed of one who revived it in the Pickwick
• 5:33:01
  Speaker 1: Papers after long disuse, and has pursued it ever since.
• 5:33:06
  Speaker 1: There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country to dispute,
• 5:33:09
  Speaker 1: as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact.
• 5:33:14
  Speaker 1: Therefore I note here, though it may not be at
• 5:33:17
  Speaker 1: all necessary, that there are hundreds of will cases, as
• 5:33:20
  Speaker 1: they are called, far more remarkable than that fancied in
• 5:33:24
  Speaker 1: this book, and that the stores of the Prerogative Office
• 5:33:28
  Speaker 1: team with instances of testators who have made changed, contradicted, hidden, forgotten,
• 5:33:34
  Speaker 1: left canceled, and left uncanceled, each many more wills than
• 5:33:38
  Speaker 1: were ever made by the elder mister Harmon of Harmony Jail.
• 5:33:43
  Speaker 1: In my social experiences, since missus Betty Higden came upon
• 5:33:47
  Speaker 1: the scene and left it, I have found circumlocutional champions
• 5:33:51
  Speaker 1: disposed to be warm with me on the subject of
• 5:33:54
  Speaker 1: my view of the poor law. My friend mister Bounderby
• 5:33:59
  Speaker 1: could never see any difference between leaving the Coketown hands
• 5:34:03
  Speaker 1: exactly as they were and requiring them to be fed
• 5:34:06
  Speaker 1: with turtle soup and venison out of gold spoons. Idiotic
• 5:34:10
  Speaker 1: propositions of a parallel nature have been freely offered for
• 5:34:14
  Speaker 1: my acceptance, and I have been called upon to admit
• 5:34:17
  Speaker 1: that I would give poor law relief to anybody anywhere, anyhow,
• 5:34:23
  Speaker 1: putting this nonsense aside, I have observed a suspicious tendency
• 5:34:27
  Speaker 1: in the champions to divide into two parties, the one
• 5:34:31
  Speaker 1: contending that there are no deserving poor who prefer death
• 5:34:34
  Speaker 1: by slow starvation and bitter weather to the mercies of
• 5:34:37
  Speaker 1: some relieving officers and some union houses, the other admitting
• 5:34:42
  Speaker 1: that there are such poor, but denying that they have
• 5:34:45
  Speaker 1: any cause or reason for what they do. The records
• 5:34:49
  Speaker 1: in our newspapers, the late exposure by the Lancet, and
• 5:34:52
  Speaker 1: the common sense and senses of common people furnish too
• 5:34:56
  Speaker 1: abundant evidence against both defenses. But that my view of
• 5:35:01
  Speaker 1: the poor law may not be mistaken or misrepresented, I
• 5:35:05
  Speaker 1: will state it. I believe there has been in England
• 5:35:09
  Speaker 1: since the days of the Stuarts, no law so often
• 5:35:13
  Speaker 1: infamously administered, no law so often openly violated, no law
• 5:35:19
  Speaker 1: habitually so ill supervised. In the majority of the shameful
• 5:35:24
  Speaker 1: cases of disease and death from destitution that shocked the
• 5:35:27
  Speaker 1: public and disgrace the country, the illegality is quite equal
• 5:35:31
  Speaker 1: to the inhumanity and known language could say no more
• 5:35:35
  Speaker 1: of their lawlessness. On Friday the ninth of June in
• 5:35:40
  Speaker 1: the present year, mister and Missus Boffin, in their manuscript
• 5:35:44
  Speaker 1: dress of Receiving Mister and Missus Lammle at breakfast, were
• 5:35:47
  Speaker 1: on the Southeastern Railway with me in a terribly destructive accident.
• 5:35:52
  Speaker 1: When I had done what I could to help others,
• 5:35:54
  Speaker 1: I climbed back into my carriage, nearly turned over a viaduct,
• 5:35:58
  Speaker 1: and caught a slant upon the turn to extricate the
• 5:36:01
  Speaker 1: worthy couple. They were much soiled, but otherwise unhurt. The
• 5:36:07
  Speaker 1: same happy result attended Miss Bellowulfer on her wedding day,
• 5:36:10
  Speaker 1: and mister Riderhood inspecting Bradley Headstone's red neckerchief as he
• 5:36:14
  Speaker 1: lay asleep. I remember, with devout thankfulness that I can
• 5:36:19
  Speaker 1: never be much nearer parting company with my readers for
• 5:36:22
  Speaker 1: ever than I was then, until there shall be written
• 5:36:26
  Speaker 1: against my life the two words with which I have
• 5:36:29
  Speaker 1: this day close this book. The end September second, eighteen
• 5:36:36
  Speaker 1: sixty five end of PostScript End of Our Mutual Friend
• 5:36:43
  Speaker 1: by Charles Dickens