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040 - Chapter 18 · Pirate

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Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen of the Pirate by Sir Walter Scott. This
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Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Dion
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Speaker 1: Jin's Salt Lake City, Utah Fly Flance Fly, Thou mayest
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Speaker 1: escape Macbeth. It was one branch of the various arts
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Speaker 1: by which Norna endeavored to maintain her pretensions to supernatural powers.
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Speaker 1: That she made herself familiarly and practically acquainted with all
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Speaker 1: the secret passes and recesses, whether natural or artificial, which
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Speaker 1: she could hear of, whether by tradition or otherwise, and
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Speaker 1: was by such knowledge often enabled to perform feats which
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Speaker 1: were otherwise unaccountable. Thus, when she escaped from the tabernacle
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Speaker 1: at Burgwestra it was by a sliding board which covered
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Speaker 1: a secret passage in the wall, known to none but
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Speaker 1: herself and Madness, who she was well assured would not
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Speaker 1: betray her. The profusion, also, with which she lavished a
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Speaker 1: considerable income otherwise of no use to her, enabled her
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Speaker 1: to procure the earliest intelligence respecting whatever she desired to know,
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Speaker 1: and at the same time to secure all other assistance
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Speaker 1: necessary to carry her plans into effect. Cleveland, upon the
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Speaker 1: present occasion, had reason to admire both her sagacity and
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Speaker 1: her resources. Upon her, applying a little forcible pressure, a
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Speaker 1: door which was concealed under some rich wooden sculpture in
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Speaker 1: the screen which divides the eastern aisle from the rest
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Speaker 1: of the cathedral, opened and disclosed a dark, narrow, winding
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Speaker 1: passage into which she entered, telling Cleveland in a whisper
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Speaker 1: to follow and be sure he shut the door behind him.
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Speaker 1: He obeyed and followed her in darkness and silence, sometimes
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Speaker 1: descending steps of the number of which she always apprised him,
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Speaker 1: sometimes ascending and often turning at short angles. The air
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Speaker 1: was more free than he could have expected, the passage
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Speaker 1: being ventilated at different parts by unseen and ingeniously contrived spiracles,
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Speaker 1: which communicated with the open air at length. Their long
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Speaker 1: course ended by norna drawing aside a sliding panel which,
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Speaker 1: opening behind a wooden or box bed as it is
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Speaker 1: called in Scotland, admitted them into an ancient but very
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Speaker 1: mean apartment, having a latticed wind and a groined roof.
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Speaker 1: The furniture was much dilapidated, and its only ornaments were
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Speaker 1: on the one side of the wall, a garland of
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Speaker 1: faded ribbons such as are used to decorate whale vessels,
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Speaker 1: and on the other an escutcheon bearing an earl's arms
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Speaker 1: and coronet, surrounded with the usual emblems of mortality, the
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Speaker 1: mattic and spade, which lay in one corner. Together with
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Speaker 1: the appearance of an old man, who in a rusty
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Speaker 1: black coat and slouched hat, sat reading by a table,
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Speaker 1: announced that they were in the habitation of the church
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Speaker 1: beetle or sexton, and in the presence of that respectable functionary.
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Speaker 1: When his attention was attracted by the noise of the
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Speaker 1: sliding panel, he arose, and, testifying much respect but no surprise,
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Speaker 1: took shadowy hat from his thin gray locks, and stood
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Speaker 1: uncovered in the presence of Norna with an air of
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Speaker 1: profound humility. Be faithful, said Norna to the old man,
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Speaker 1: and beware you show not any living mortal the secret
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Speaker 1: path to the sanctuary. The old man bowed in token
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Speaker 1: of obedience and of thanks for she put money in
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Speaker 1: his hand. As she spoke with a faltering voice, he
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Speaker 1: expressed his hope that she would remember his son, who
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Speaker 1: was on the Greenland voyage, that he might return fortunate
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Speaker 1: and safe, as he had done last year when he
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Speaker 1: brought back the garland, pointing to that upon the wall,
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Speaker 1: my cauldron shall boil, and my rhyme shall be said
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Speaker 1: in his behalf answered, Norna waits packlet without with the horses.
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Speaker 1: The old sexton assented, and the Ythaness, commanding Cleveland to
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Speaker 1: follow her, went through a back door of the apartment
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Speaker 1: into a small garden, corresponding in its desolate appearance to
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Speaker 1: the habitation they had just quitted. The low and broken
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Speaker 1: wall easily permitted them to pass into another and larger garden,
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Speaker 1: though not much better kept, and a gate which was
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Speaker 1: upon the latch let them into a long and winding lane,
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Speaker 1: through which Norna, having whispered to her companion that it
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Speaker 1: was the only dangerous place on their road, they walked
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Speaker 1: with a hasty pace. It was now nearly dark, and
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Speaker 1: the inhabitants of the poor dwellings on either hand had
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Speaker 1: betaken themselves to their houses. They saw only one woman,
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Speaker 1: who was looking from her door, but blessed herself and
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Speaker 1: retired into her house with precipitation when she saw the
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Speaker 1: tall figure of Norna stalk past her with long strides.
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Speaker 1: The lane conducted them into the country, where the dumb
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Speaker 1: Dwarf waited with three horses ensconced behind the wall of
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Speaker 1: a deserted shed. On one of these, Norna instantly seated herself.
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Speaker 1: Cleveland mounted another, and followed by Puclette on the third.
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Speaker 1: They moved sharply on through the darkness, the active and
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Speaker 1: spirited animals on which they rode being of a breed
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Speaker 1: rather taller than those reared in Zetland. After more than
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Speaker 1: an hour's smart riding, in which Norna acted as guide,
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Speaker 1: they stopped before a hovel so utterly desolate in appearance
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Speaker 1: that it resembled rather a cattle shed than a cottage.
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Speaker 1: Here you must remain till dawn, when your signal can
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Speaker 1: be seen from your vessel, said Norna, consigning the horses
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Speaker 1: to the care of past Lette and leading the way
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Speaker 1: into the wretched hovel, which she presently illuminated by lighting
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Speaker 1: the small iron lamp which she usually carried along with her.
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Speaker 1: It is a poor she said, but a safe place
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Speaker 1: of refuge, for were we pursued hither, the earth would
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Speaker 1: yawn and admit us into its recesses. Ere you were
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Speaker 1: taken for know that this ground is sacred to the gods.
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Speaker 1: Of old Valhalla. And now say, man of mischief and
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Speaker 1: of blood, are you friend or foe to Norna, the
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Speaker 1: sole priestess of these disowned deities, How is it possible
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Speaker 1: for me to be your enemy? Said Cleveland? Common gratitude?
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Speaker 1: Common gratitude, said Norna, interrupting him is a common word,
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Speaker 1: and words are the common pay which fools except at
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Speaker 1: the hands of knaves. But Norna must be requited by actions,
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Speaker 1: by sacrifices. Well, mother, name your request that you never
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Speaker 1: seek to see minneitroil again, and that you leave this
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Speaker 1: coast in twenty four hours, answered Norna. It is impossible,
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Speaker 1: said the outlaw. I cannot be soon enough found in
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Speaker 1: the sea stores which the sloop must have. You can.
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Speaker 1: I will take care. You are fully supplied, and Cathness
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Speaker 1: and the hebrides are not far distant. You can depart
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Speaker 1: if you will. And why should I, said Cleveland? If
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Speaker 1: I will not, because your stay in dangers others, said Norna,
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Speaker 1: and will prove your own destruction. Hear me with attention.
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Speaker 1: From the first moment I saw you lying senseless on
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Speaker 1: the sand beneath the cliffs of Sumburg, I read that
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Speaker 1: in your countenance, which linked you with me and those
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Speaker 1: who were dear to me. But whether for good or evil,
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Speaker 1: was hidden from mine eyes. I aided in saving your life,
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Speaker 1: in preserving your property. I aided in doing so. The
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Speaker 1: very youth whom you have crossed in his dearest affections,
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Speaker 1: crossed by tail bearing and slander. I slander Mertown, exclaimed Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: By Heaven, I Scarce mentioned his name at Burgwestra If
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Speaker 1: it is that which you mean, the peddling fellow Bryce,
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Speaker 1: meaning I believe to be my friend because he found
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Speaker 1: something could be made by me. Did I have since
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Speaker 1: heard carry tattle or truth? I know not which to
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Speaker 1: the old man, which was confirmed by the report of
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Speaker 1: the whole island. But for me, I Scarce thought of
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Speaker 1: him a rival. Else I had taken a more honorable
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Speaker 1: way to rid myself of him. Was the point of
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Speaker 1: your double edged knife directed to the bosom of an
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Speaker 1: unarmed man intended to carve out that more honorable way,
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Speaker 1: said Norna sternly. Cleveland was conscience struck and remained silent
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Speaker 1: for an instant. Ere he replied there, indeed, I was
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Speaker 1: wrong that he is. I think Heaven recovered and welcome
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Speaker 1: to an honorable satisfaction, Cleveland, said the pythoness. No, the
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Speaker 1: fiend who employs you as his implement is powerful, but
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Speaker 1: with me he shall not strive. You are of that
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Speaker 1: temperament which the dark influences desire as the tools of
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Speaker 1: their agency. Bold, haughty and undaunted, unrestrained by principle, and
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Speaker 1: having only in its room a wild sense of indomitable pride,
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Speaker 1: which such men call honor. Such you are, and as
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Speaker 1: such your course through life has been onward and unrestrained,
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Speaker 1: bloody and tempestuous. By me. However, it shall be controlled,
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Speaker 1: she concluded, stretching out her staff as if in the
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Speaker 1: attitude of determined authority. I even although the demon who
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Speaker 1: presides over it should now arise in his terrors, Cleveland
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Speaker 1: laughed scornfully. Good mother, he said, reserve such language for
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Speaker 1: the rude sailor that implores you to bestow him fair wind,
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Speaker 1: or the poor fisherman that asks success to his nets
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Speaker 1: and lines. I have been long inaccessible both to fear
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Speaker 1: and to superstition. Call forth your demon, if you command one,
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Speaker 1: and place him before me. The man that has spent
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Speaker 1: years in company with incarnate devils can scarce dread the
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Speaker 1: presence of a disembodied fiend. This was said with a
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Speaker 1: careless and desperate bitterness of spirit, which proved too powerfully
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Speaker 1: energetic even for the delusions of Nrna's insanity. And it
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Speaker 1: was with a hollow and tremulous voice that she asked Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: for what then do you hold me if you deny
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Speaker 1: the power I have bought so dearly you have wisdom, mother,
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Speaker 1: said Cleveland. At least you have art, and art is power.
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Speaker 1: I hold you for one who knows how to steer
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Speaker 1: upon the currents of events, but I deny your power
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Speaker 1: to change its course. Do not therefore waste words in
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Speaker 1: quoting terrors for which I have no feeling. But tell
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Speaker 1: me at once wherefore you would have me depart, because
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Speaker 1: I will have you see Mena no more, answered Norna,
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Speaker 1: because Minna is the destined bride of him whom men
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Speaker 1: call mordaunt Mertown. Because if you depart not within twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours, outter destruction awaits you. In these plain words,
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Speaker 1: there is no metaphysical delusion. Answer me as plainly, in
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Speaker 1: as plain words, then answered Cleveland. I will not leave
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Speaker 1: these islands, not at least till I have seen minna troil,
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Speaker 1: and never shall your mordaunt possess her while I live
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Speaker 1: here him, said Norna. Hear a mortal man spurn at
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Speaker 1: the means of prolonging his life here a sinful, a
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Speaker 1: most sinful being, refuse the time which fate yet affords
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Speaker 1: for repentance and for the salvation of an immortal soul.
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Speaker 1: Behold him, how he stands, erect, bold and confident in
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Speaker 1: his youthful strength and courage. My eyes unused to tears,
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Speaker 1: even my eyes which have so little cause to weep
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Speaker 1: for him, are blinded with sorrow to think what so
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Speaker 1: fair of form will be ere the second sun set. Mother,
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Speaker 1: said Cleveland, firmly, yet with some touch of sorrow in
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Speaker 1: his voice. I in part understand your threats. You know
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Speaker 1: more than we do of the course of the helcion,
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Speaker 1: perhaps have the means, For I acknowledge you have shown
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Speaker 1: wonderful skill of combination in such affairs, of directing her
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Speaker 1: cruise our way. Be it so, I will not depart
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Speaker 1: from my purpose for that risk. If the frigate comes hither,
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Speaker 1: we have still our shoal water to trust to, and
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Speaker 1: I think they will scarce cut us out with boats
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Speaker 1: as if we were a Spanish zebek. I am therefore resolved.
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Speaker 1: I will hoist once more the flag under which I
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Speaker 1: have cruised, avail ourselves of the thousand chances which have
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Speaker 1: helped us in greater odds, and at the worst fight
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Speaker 1: the vessel to the very last. And when mortal man
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Speaker 1: can do no more, it is but snapping a pistol
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Speaker 1: in the powder room. And as we have lived, so
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Speaker 1: will we die. There was a dead pause as Cleveland ended,
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Speaker 1: and it was broken by his resuming in a softer tone.
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Speaker 1: You have heard my answer, mother. Let us debate it
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Speaker 1: no further, but part in peace. I would willingly leave
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Speaker 1: you a remembrance that you may not forget a poor
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Speaker 1: fellow to whom your services have been useful, and who
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Speaker 1: parts with you in no unkindness, however unfriendly you are
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Speaker 1: to his dearest interests. Nay, do not shun to accept
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Speaker 1: such a trifle, he said, forcing upon Noorna, the little
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Speaker 1: silver and chaste box, which had been once the subject
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Speaker 1: of strife betwixt Mertown and him. It is not for
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Speaker 1: the sake of the metal, which I know you value, not,
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Speaker 1: but simply as a memorial that you have met him
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Speaker 1: of whom many a strange tale will hereafter be told
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Speaker 1: in the seas which he has traversed. I accept your gift,
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Speaker 1: said Norna, in token that if I have in aught
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Speaker 1: been accessory to your fate, it was as the involuntary
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Speaker 1: and grieving agent of other powers. Well, did you say,
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Speaker 1: we direct not the current of the events which hurry
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Speaker 1: us forward and render our utmost efforts unavailing, even as
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Speaker 1: the wells of Tuftlow can wheel the stoutest vessel round
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Speaker 1: and round in despite of either sail or steerage. Pacilete,
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Speaker 1: she exclaimed, in a louder voice, What ho pacilet? A
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Speaker 1: large stone which lay at the side of the wall
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Speaker 1: of the hovel fell as she spoke, and, to Cleveland's surprise,
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Speaker 1: if not somewhat to his fear, the misshapen form of
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Speaker 1: the dwarf was seen like some overgrown reptile extricating himself
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Speaker 1: out of a subterranean passage, the entrance to which the
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Speaker 1: stone had covered. Norna, as if impressed by what Cleveland
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Speaker 1: had said on the subject of her supernatural pretensions, was
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Speaker 1: so far from endeavoring to avail herself of this opportunity
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Speaker 1: to enforce them, that she hastened to explain the phenomenon
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Speaker 1: he had witnessed. Such passages, she said, to which the
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Speaker 1: entrances are carefully concealed, are frequently found in these islands,
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Speaker 1: the places of retreat of the ancient inhabitants, where they
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Speaker 1: sought refuge from the rage of the Normans the pirates
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Speaker 1: of that day. It was that you might avail yourself
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Speaker 1: of this in case of need, that I brought you hither.
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Speaker 1: Should you observe signs of pursuit, you may either lurk
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Speaker 1: in the bells of the earth until it has passed by,
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Speaker 1: or escape, if you will, through the farthest entrance, near
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Speaker 1: the lake by which Pacilette entered. But now, and now farewell,
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Speaker 1: think on what I have said. For as sure as
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Speaker 1: you now move and breathe a living man, so surely
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Speaker 1: is your doom fixed and sealed, unless within four and
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Speaker 1: twenty hours you have doubled the berg head. Farewell, mother,
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Speaker 1: said Cleveland, as she departed, bending a look upon him,
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Speaker 1: in which, as he could perceive by the lamp, sorrow
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Speaker 1: was mingled with displeasure. The interview which thus concluded, left
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Speaker 1: a strong effect even upon the mind of Cleveland, accustomed
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Speaker 1: as he was, to imminent dangers and to hair breadth escapes,
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Speaker 1: He in vain attempted to shake off the impression left
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Speaker 1: by the words of Norna, which he felt the more
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Speaker 1: powerful because they were, in a great measure divested of
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Speaker 1: her wonted mystical tone, which he contemned a thousand times.
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Speaker 1: He regretted that he had, from time to time delayed
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Speaker 1: the resolution which he had long adopted, to quit his
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Speaker 1: dreadful and dangerous trade, and as often he firmly determined
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Speaker 1: that could he but see minatroial once more, were it
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Speaker 1: but for a last farewell, he would leave the sloop
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Speaker 1: as soon as his comrades were extricated from their perilous situation,
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Speaker 1: endeavor to obtain the benefit of the King's pardon, and
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Speaker 1: distinguish himself, if possible, in some more honorable course of warfare.
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Speaker 1: This resolution, to which he again and again pledged himself,
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Speaker 1: had at length a sedative effect on his mental perturbation,
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Speaker 1: and wrapped in his cloak he enjoyed for a time
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Speaker 1: that imperfect repose which exhausted nature demands as her tribute,
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Speaker 1: even from those who are situated on the verge of
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Speaker 1: the most imminent danger. But how far soever the guilty
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Speaker 1: may satisfy his own mind and stupefy the feelings of
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Speaker 1: remorse by such a conditional repentance, he may well question
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Speaker 1: whether it is not, in the sight of Heaven, rather
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Speaker 1: a presumptuous aggravation than an expiation of his sins. When
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Speaker 1: Cleveland awoke, the gray dawn was already mingling with the
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Speaker 1: twilight of an Orcadian knight. He found himself on the
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Speaker 1: verge of a beautiful sheet of water, which, close by
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Speaker 1: the place where he had rested, was nearly divided by
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Speaker 1: two tongues of land that approach each other from the
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Speaker 1: opposing sides of the lake, and are in some degree
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Speaker 1: united by the Bridge of Broisgar, a long causeway containing
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Speaker 1: openings to permit the flow and reflux of the tide.
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Speaker 1: Behind him, and fronting to the bridge, stood that remarkable
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Speaker 1: semicircle of huge upright stones, which has no rival in
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Speaker 1: Britain excepting the inimitable monument at Stonehenge. These immense blocks
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Speaker 1: of stone, all of them above twelve feet and several
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Speaker 1: being even fourteen or fifteen feet in height, stood around
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Speaker 1: the pirate in the gray light of the dawning, like
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Speaker 1: the phantom forms of Antiediluvian giants, who shrouded in the
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Speaker 1: habiliments of the dead, came to revisit by this pale
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Speaker 1: light the earth, which they had plagued by their oppression
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Speaker 1: and polluted by their sins, till they brought down upon
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Speaker 1: it the vengeance of long suffering heaven. Cleveland was less
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Speaker 1: interested by this singular monument of antiquity than by the
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Speaker 1: distant view of stromness, which he could as yet scarce discover.
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Speaker 1: He lost no time in striking a light by the
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Speaker 1: assistance of one of his pistols, and somewhat ferns supplied
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Speaker 1: him with fuel sufficient to make the points to signal
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Speaker 1: it had been earnestly watched for on board the sloop.
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Speaker 1: For Goff's incapacity became daily more apparent, and even his
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Speaker 1: most steady adherents agreed it would be best to submit
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Speaker 1: to Cleveland's command till they got back to the West Indies. Bunch,
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Speaker 1: who came with the boat to bring off his favorite commander, danced, cursed, shouted,
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Speaker 1: and spouted for joy when he saw him once more
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Speaker 1: at freedom. They had already, he said, made some progress
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Speaker 1: in victualling the sloop, and they might have made more,
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Speaker 1: but for that drunken old swap Goff, who minded nothing
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Speaker 1: but slicing the main brace. The boat's crew were inspired
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Speaker 1: with the same enthusiasm and rowed so hard that, although
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Speaker 1: the tide was against them and the air or wind failed,
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Speaker 1: they soon placed Cleveland once more on the quarter deck
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Speaker 1: of the vessel which it was his misfortune to command.
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Speaker 1: The first exercise of the captain's power was to make
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Speaker 1: known to Magnus Troyle that he was at full freedom
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Speaker 1: to depart, that he was willing to make him any
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Speaker 1: compensation in his power for the interruption of his voyage
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Speaker 1: to Kirkwall, and that Captain Cleveland was desirous, if agreeable,
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Speaker 1: to mister Troyle to pay his respects to him on
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Speaker 1: board his brig thank him for former favors, and apologize
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Speaker 1: for the circumstances. Attending his detention to Bunch, who, as
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Speaker 1: the most civilized of the crew, Cleveland had entrusted this message,
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Speaker 1: the old plain dealing U Dollar, made the following answer,
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Speaker 1: Tell your captain that I should be glad to think
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Speaker 1: he had never stopped anyone upon the high Sea, save
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Speaker 1: such as have suffered as little as I have, say too,
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Speaker 1: that if we are to continue, friends, we shall be
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Speaker 1: most so at a distance. For I like the sound
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Speaker 1: of his cannonballs as little by sea as he would
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Speaker 1: like the whistle of a bullet by land from my
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Speaker 1: rifle gun. Say in a word that I am sorry
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Speaker 1: I was mistaken in him, and that he would have
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Speaker 1: done better to have reserved for the Spaniard the usage
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Speaker 1: he is bestowing on his countrymen. And so that is
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Speaker 1: your message, Old snap Coolric said, bunch, now stab my
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Speaker 1: fiddles if I have not a mind to do your
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Speaker 1: errand for you over the left shoulder and teach you
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Speaker 1: more respect for gentlemen of fortune. But I won't, and
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Speaker 1: chiefly for the sake of your two pretty wenches, not
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Speaker 1: to mention my old friend Claude Hulcrow, the very visage
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Speaker 1: of whom brought back all the old days of scene
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Speaker 1: shifting and candle snuffing. So good morrow to you, gaffer
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Speaker 1: Seal's cap, and all is said that need pass between us.
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Speaker 1: No sooner did the boat put off with the pirates
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Speaker 1: who left the brig and now returned to their own vessel,
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Speaker 1: than Magnus. In order to avoid reposing unnecessary confidence in
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Speaker 1: the honor of these gentlemen of fortune, as they called themselves,
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Speaker 1: got his brig under weigh, and the wind coming favorably
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Speaker 1: round and increasing as the sun rose, he crowded all
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Speaker 1: sail for sculp of flow, intending there to disembark and
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Speaker 1: go by land to Kirkwall, where he expected to meet
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Speaker 1: his daughters and his friend Claude Holcrow. End of Chapter
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