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47 - Grey Man by S R Crockett · Grey Man

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  Speaker 1: Chapter forty seven, The Place of the Legion of Devils.
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  Speaker 1: When I woke, it was exceedingly dark, but a darkness
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  Speaker 1: with shooting lights and hideous sounds. At the first start,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that I was dead and in the place
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  Speaker 1: of torment. And when I grew a little more awake,
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  Speaker 1: I wished to God that I had been, for all
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  Speaker 1: about were swart naked men and harpy clad women dancing
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  Speaker 1: round me, while on a cask or keg at my
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  Speaker 1: head sat John Muir, himself wrapped in his cloak, and
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  Speaker 1: regarding me with gloating, baleful, bloodshot eyes. Then I knew
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  Speaker 1: that I was lost, indeed, for by the flickering light
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  Speaker 1: of a dying fire of driftwood, I could see that
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  Speaker 1: I was again in the cave of sawny Bean, in
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  Speaker 1: the same wide hall, with the strange narrow hams aswing
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  Speaker 1: on the roof, the tubs of salt meat festering under
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  Speaker 1: the eaves, and the wild savage crew dancing about me.
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  Speaker 1: What wonder that my heart fainted within me to be
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  Speaker 1: thus left alone in that den of hideous things, and
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  Speaker 1: especially to think of the birds going to their beds
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  Speaker 1: on the cliffs above me, and the fishing sullen geese,
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  Speaker 1: circling and balancing home to the lonely rock of ilza Ha,
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  Speaker 1: Sir Launcelot Kennedy said a mocking voice, as the deafening
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  Speaker 1: turmoil quieted a little. You are near your honors now,
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  Speaker 1: that is, if there be such babbled dignities, either in
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  Speaker 1: heaven or hell. The treasure of Kelwood in hand, John
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  Speaker 1: Mure's life out of hand, and there on the shelf,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, are your broad acres and your bonnie lady.
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  Speaker 1: I was silent, for I knew that nothing could avail me.
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  Speaker 1: Now it was useless to waste words. But ere all
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  Speaker 1: that comes to pass, he went on, There are sundry
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  Speaker 1: little formalities to be gone through. Oh we are right,
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  Speaker 1: dainty folk. Here in Sanny Bean's mansion. You shall be
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  Speaker 1: kept warm and cherished tenderly. There are here twenty sonsier
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  Speaker 1: queens than the one whose heart you desire warmly? Shall
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  Speaker 1: they welcome sweetly? Shall they cherish handsome Sir Launcelot, Their
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  Speaker 1: embracements shall sting you you more than all sweethearting raptures. Again,
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  Speaker 1: he paused to observe the effect of his words, You
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  Speaker 1: that so lately held me in chase, like a steer
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  Speaker 1: that has escaped from the shambles. Now you yourself are
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  Speaker 1: in the thills. You that have crossed me a thousand
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  Speaker 1: times in my plans since that froor night in Sir
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Nesbitt's yard in maybel You shall now be crossed
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  Speaker 1: in a new fashion. You that wagged tongue so merrily
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  Speaker 1: at another's expense. You shall see your tongue wag upon
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  Speaker 1: the red hot brander to an uncanned to tune. You
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  Speaker 1: that have ridden so fast and so far, you shall
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  Speaker 1: ride your last ride. Ride slowly, very slowly, cried the
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  Speaker 1: fiend in my ear. For I shall hoard every drop
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  Speaker 1: of your blood, as John of Casillis hordes his gold
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  Speaker 1: rose nobles. I shall husband every minute of your life
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  Speaker 1: as though they were the hours of young bridal content.
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  Speaker 1: You have bruised my old face indeed with your oaken staff,
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  Speaker 1: but I will cherish yours that is youthful and blooming Tenderly?
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  Speaker 1: Shall we take off the coverture of hide the tegument
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  Speaker 1: of beauty? Sonny Bean has famous skill in such surgery. Gently,
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  Speaker 1: will we lay you down in the swarming nest of
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  Speaker 1: the patient ant we have read how Scripture bids the
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  Speaker 1: sluggard go to the ant, for if that makes him
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  Speaker 1: not lively, nothing will. I have ofttimes commented on the
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  Speaker 1: passage at family warship, and I must see that the
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  Speaker 1: young and headstrong, like you, my Lord Launcelot, give heed
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  Speaker 1: to that which is commanded. But in spite of all
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  Speaker 1: his terrible threatenings, I bowed still and answered him never
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  Speaker 1: a word. They laid logs of driftwood upon the fire
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  Speaker 1: till the whole inside of the cave grew bright and clear,
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  Speaker 1: and all the monstrous deformity of the women and the
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  Speaker 1: cruel hideousness of the men were made apparent as in
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  Speaker 1: broad daylight. Some of them were painted and stained like demons,
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  Speaker 1: and danced and leaped through the fire like them too,
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  Speaker 1: For such monsters have not been heard of, much less
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  Speaker 1: seen in the history of any country, as were Sonny
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  Speaker 1: Bean and his crew in the cave upon the seashore
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  Speaker 1: of benin Brack. Bring me a knife, cried John Mure
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  Speaker 1: from where he sat, For he appeared like a chief
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  Speaker 1: devil among a company of gibbering lubber fiends. He had
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  Speaker 1: still his gray cloak about him, his plumed hat was
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  Speaker 1: upon his head, and he looked, save for the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of him, in which the fires of hell burned, a civil, respectable,
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  Speaker 1: well put on man of means and substance, as indeed,
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  Speaker 1: save for his evil heart, he might have been, for
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  Speaker 1: he came of as good a family as the Earl
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  Speaker 1: of Casillus, or as it might be as I myself
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  Speaker 1: Launcelot Candy of Kerryok. So, when Achandrane asked for a knife,
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  Speaker 1: sawnny Bean himself, the ruffian kemper, low browed, bucktoothed and
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  Speaker 1: inhuman brought it to him with a grin. He made
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  Speaker 1: as if he would have set it in me to
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  Speaker 1: the hilt. But John Muir stayed him bide. He said,
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  Speaker 1: not so fast. There is long and sweet pleasuring to
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  Speaker 1: come before that, such slow relishing delight, such covetous mouse
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  Speaker 1: play of the brindled cat, such luxurious tiger, looking of
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  Speaker 1: the delicate skin until it be raw, Such well conceited
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  Speaker 1: dainty torments, as when one would bite his love and
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  Speaker 1: be glad of it. He shall taste them all, This
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  Speaker 1: frolic squire of errant dames, this game some player upon pipes,
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  Speaker 1: this curious handler of quaint love tunes, here we pluck
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  Speaker 1: the red rose of his life. He shall sate himself
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  Speaker 1: with new delicious experience, rareer than the handling of many
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  Speaker 1: maidens tresses. I was moved to speak to him, I asked,
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  Speaker 1: not mercy, said I, for I own that I would
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  Speaker 1: have killed you if I could. But as you are
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  Speaker 1: a valiant man, give me a sword and let me
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  Speaker 1: make a stand for it against you all that as
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  Speaker 1: I have lived, so I may also die fighting. But
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  Speaker 1: he mocked me, hurrying on in his heady turmoil of words.
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  Speaker 1: If I be a man, you say, who said that
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  Speaker 1: I was a man? Do I act as other men?
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  Speaker 1: Is my knowledge like that of other men? Do I
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  Speaker 1: company with other men? Call you that a man? He
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  Speaker 1: pointed to some bean who, for wantonness, sat on an
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  Speaker 1: upturned tub, striking with a keen edged knife at the
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  Speaker 1: legs of all that came by for mere delight of blood,
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  Speaker 1: storming at them meantime with horrid imprecations to approach nearer
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  Speaker 1: and be flicked, or call you these bend. He showed
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  Speaker 1: me some of the younger cannibal race, gnawing like kenneled
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  Speaker 1: dogs at horrid bones. Nay, my dainty, wanton you shall
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  Speaker 1: not enter hell through the brave battle of warring blades,
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  Speaker 1: nor yet handling your rapier like a Morris dancer. But
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  Speaker 1: as the blood drains to the white from the stricken calf,
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  Speaker 1: so shall they whiten your flesh for the tooth, And
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  Speaker 1: so reluctantly shall your life drip from you, drop by drop.
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  Speaker 1: And I declare that this scornful fiend at telling me
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  Speaker 1: of tortures in choice words, made me scunner more than
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  Speaker 1: the prick of the knife, For the abhorred invention quickened
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  Speaker 1: the imagination and set the nerves agait, so that I
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  Speaker 1: was honestly glad when he took knife in hand, a
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  Speaker 1: shoemaker's curved blade with a keen cutting edge, strip him naked.
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  Speaker 1: He cried, and very cheerfully. So they did, smiting me
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  Speaker 1: the meantime with the broad of their hand. Then John
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  Speaker 1: Muir leaned over me delicately and made as though he
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  Speaker 1: would have traced with his knife the jointing of my limbs,
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  Speaker 1: saying thus, and thus shall the she tribe dismember your
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  Speaker 1: body when the torture of the ant's nest is ended,
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  Speaker 1: And again here is toothsome eating sony being thou chief
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  Speaker 1: lover of dainty vivers. Then as the evil man went
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  Speaker 1: on with his pitiless jestings, his gray cloak began to
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  Speaker 1: waver before me, his face to glow like fire, and
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  Speaker 1: I fainted or dwamed away till the sharp knife pricked
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  Speaker 1: me into consciousness again. Yet Auchandraine overdid his threatening, for
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  Speaker 1: the too sharp relish of the words issued entranced dullness.
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  Speaker 1: Ere the matter came to action, and if torture, there
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  Speaker 1: was none that I can now remember or bear the
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  Speaker 1: mark of, save only the slight scores of the knife
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  Speaker 1: which he made when he showed me where they would
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  Speaker 1: joint and haggle my body. Indeed, I mind no more
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  Speaker 1: till I came to myself, lie on my back, with
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  Speaker 1: the cave all empty, save for John Muir, who sat
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  Speaker 1: as before with his hand to his ear listening. But
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  Speaker 1: there sounded a great and furious uproar down by the
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  Speaker 1: cave mouth, the deep baying of bloodhounds, a fierce cry
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  Speaker 1: of many voices striving for mastery, and above all the
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  Speaker 1: shrieks of the smitten. Surely, I thought there is a
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  Speaker 1: battle fierce, and fell at the cave's mouth. John Muir
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  Speaker 1: sat and listened for a long space, and presently he
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  Speaker 1: looked over at me. I will even make sure of him,
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  Speaker 1: come what may, he said, And with that he took
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  Speaker 1: the knife and came nearer to smite me in the breast.
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  Speaker 1: And I lay as one dead, already waiting for the stroke.
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  Speaker 1: But even in that moment, as I held my breath,
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  Speaker 1: a ravening hound darted within the cave, overleaped the embers
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  Speaker 1: of the fire, and pinned the gray haired murderer to
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  Speaker 1: the earth by the throat. He struck out desperately, but
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  Speaker 1: the dog held him fast. Another and another came in
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  Speaker 1: till as it seemed he was in danger of being
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  Speaker 1: torn to pieces by dogs. But they minded me not
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  Speaker 1: at all, for as I say, I lay as one dead.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the story of the chase, as Nell
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  Speaker 1: told it to me. When all was over, as they
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  Speaker 1: of the King's company looked from the shore towards the south,
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  Speaker 1: there in the distance was John Muir on his horse,
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  Speaker 1: disappearing into the wood. And I, as it seemed, at
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  Speaker 1: his very heels, both of us were leading far forward,
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  Speaker 1: like men that run a race. And because she knew
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  Speaker 1: that I carried no equipment with me, Nell leaped upon
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  Speaker 1: a horse with a sword laid before her, crosswise on
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  Speaker 1: the saddle. Whereupon I turned to Nell and called her
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  Speaker 1: the bravest maid in broad Scotland, with other names as
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  Speaker 1: I could mind them. But she set her head aside
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  Speaker 1: and would content me nothing, though I was minded for kindness, saying,
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  Speaker 1: only if you do not desire to hear the tale,
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  Speaker 1: then I am saved the fash of telling. It tis
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  Speaker 1: no time for foolings, said she, when I am speaking
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  Speaker 1: of the saving of your life, Nell, said I, for
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  Speaker 1: I was nettled at her indifference. Thou art and unseasoned,
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  Speaker 1: last skillless in love's mysteries. I want none of Kate
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  Speaker 1: Allison's love skilling at second hand, said Nell, HARKing back
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  Speaker 1: like a pretty shrew on her former taunts. Since ye
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  Speaker 1: are so wise, unriddle me the manner of your saving
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  Speaker 1: from the cave of sawny Bean, and I am content
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  Speaker 1: to yield me to your teaching in the mysteries. Yet
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  Speaker 1: even with this fair promise, I could not, but desired
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  Speaker 1: her instead to continue her tale telling well, said she.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Harburg it was who next after me took horse,
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  Speaker 1: and not far behind either, for he had but to
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  Speaker 1: disentangle the bridle from his arm, while I had to
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  Speaker 1: beguile another to lend me his horse. So in a
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  Speaker 1: little we were all after you, and we took the
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  Speaker 1: wood in the very place you entered. But nought could
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  Speaker 1: we find save the trail of you, all confused among
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  Speaker 1: the trees. Then what a chasing hither and thither there
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  Speaker 1: followed even the King searched for you like any common man,
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  Speaker 1: and puffed and blew upon his purple cheeks like the
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  Speaker 1: Dominie on his pipes. And he that had been our companion,
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  Speaker 1: this same Dominie went about everywhere, seeking and crying each
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  Speaker 1: time that he came near to me. Reckless loon, reckless loon.
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  Speaker 1: Well he deserves to be unbreached and soundly paid for
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  Speaker 1: his heartiness. Then we utterly lost you, and I believe
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  Speaker 1: they would have given up the search. But I minded
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  Speaker 1: me of the dogs that James of Chapel Donnin keeps
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  Speaker 1: for his own purposes, which on my way to Alza
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  Speaker 1: I had seen his wife feed. So I told the
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  Speaker 1: Earl John of them, and he had James Bannatine brought,
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  Speaker 1: and bade him bring them to set on the trail,
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  Speaker 1: promising him his life if the matter were brought to
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  Speaker 1: a good issue. And so Robert Harburg and a few
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  Speaker 1: swords were sent to Chapele Donnon with James Bennettine, with
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  Speaker 1: his life upon it if he played them false, and
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  Speaker 1: Robert Harburg's sword near his ribs each time that he
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  Speaker 1: faltered or failed to remember. And the good wife, seeing
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  Speaker 1: her man in such deadly case, came back herself to
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  Speaker 1: plead with the King for him. So the Chapel Donnon
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  Speaker 1: pack was laid on the trail, and find well hungered
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  Speaker 1: bloodhounds they were. But so soon as I heard the
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  Speaker 1: first deep bay, when with noses on the ground, they
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  Speaker 1: took the line of the shore, it went to my
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  Speaker 1: heart that since you were the last to enter the wood,
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  Speaker 1: the dogs would first seize you. So I cried a
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  Speaker 1: word to Robert Harburg, and we two that loved you,
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  Speaker 1: spuried horses and sped on well nigh level with the dogs,
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  Speaker 1: and through all the windings and whimplings of your path
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  Speaker 1: we followed till we came to the shore, where, together
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  Speaker 1: with the King's oaken staff which had been in your hand,
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  Speaker 1: we found the place all trampled with naked feet and
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  Speaker 1: stains of blood. So we traced you across the shore
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  Speaker 1: grass to the sand, and over the sand into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Then for a moment I knew not what to think.
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  Speaker 1: But Marjorie, my sister, cried out, it is the vile
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  Speaker 1: wretchess of Sonny Bean's band who have taken him to
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  Speaker 1: the cave of death. Then I remembered that the entrance
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  Speaker 1: to the cavern was among the rocks. And yet because
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  Speaker 1: of the gladness that was in our hearts when we
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  Speaker 1: issued forth, I had taken no very great pains to
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  Speaker 1: mind the exact place. Nor was the Dominie aught the wiser,
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  Speaker 1: for he had had been wholly intent on blowing upon
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  Speaker 1: his pipes. But Marjorie minded better than any of us
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  Speaker 1: the cleeve and the rocks, and showed us to a
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  Speaker 1: nearness where the cave entrance was. But the tide had
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  Speaker 1: flowed in, and we had perforce to wait and calm
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  Speaker 1: our impatience as best we might, till it went back again.
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  Speaker 1: Ere we could follow into the cave mouth, But by
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  Speaker 1: this time it was dark, so that the men at
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  Speaker 1: arms had to find ros and torches and set them alight.
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  Speaker 1: Thus with a flambeau blazing and the smoke wavering red overhead.
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  Speaker 1: We took our way along the wet edge of the sea,
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  Speaker 1: but the tide had washed away all traces of blood
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  Speaker 1: and feet. Up and down the coast, we wandered, trying
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  Speaker 1: every covert, and yet for our lives we could not
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  Speaker 1: hit upon the right cave's entrance. The dogs ran yelping
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  Speaker 1: and nosing here and there, but for long nothing came
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  Speaker 1: of it. Then Earl John and the King himself threatened
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  Speaker 1: James Bannatyne to reveal the place, but he denied that
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  Speaker 1: he had any knowledge of the cave. And whether he
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  Speaker 1: spoke truth or no, I cannot say. But his wife
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  Speaker 1: went to the King, and, holding his bridle rein, she said, well,
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  Speaker 1: do I can your majesty that my man's life is forfeit?
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  Speaker 1: But he is my husband, and at least so far
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  Speaker 1: as it concerns him and me betwixt barn door and
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  Speaker 1: bed stock, I can rule him as a wife. Should
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  Speaker 1: jin I persuade him to lead you to the spot,
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  Speaker 1: will ye, on your word give me my ain man's life?
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  Speaker 1: So the king promised, though Earl John hung a little
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  Speaker 1: on the form of the words. Then went the good
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  Speaker 1: wife of chapeldonnun to her husband, and what she said
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  Speaker 1: to him I know not, for they spake privily and
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  Speaker 1: a part. But though at first he shook his head
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  Speaker 1: and denied, as I could see that he had any
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the Cave of Death, yet in a little
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  Speaker 1: while he took some other thought and ran forward to
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  Speaker 1: grip one of the dogs. Then went James Banatyne on
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  Speaker 1: a head, with all of us hot foot after him,
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  Speaker 1: with the torches and the swords. And you also, Nell,
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  Speaker 1: said I were you lurking with the men at arms?
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  Speaker 1: And which had you a sword or a torch? I
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  Speaker 1: had both, said Nell Kennedy shortly, and went on with
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  Speaker 1: her tail, as if she had been speaking of milking stools.
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  Speaker 1: James Benneteine took the dog into all the wide cave
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  Speaker 1: mouths and made him smell the walls and floor above
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  Speaker 1: the tide mark, talking to the brute all the time
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  Speaker 1: and encouraging him. But for a long time it was
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  Speaker 1: still in vain. At last, the other dog, which had
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  Speaker 1: been left to itself, bade out suddenly from among the rocks,
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  Speaker 1: where it had found a dark and dismal arch roy
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  Speaker 1: with a wide pool of water in it, which we
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  Speaker 1: had passed time and again without suspicion. And at the
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  Speaker 1: entrance to this place we found the second hound, with
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  Speaker 1: tail erected, baying up the cave mouth from the edge
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  Speaker 1: of the pool. Then, so soon as James Bennettine brought
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  Speaker 1: in his well taught dog, it began to smell hither
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  Speaker 1: and thither, with erected ears and bristling hair. Presently it
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  Speaker 1: swam away into the darkness. And because the men hesitated
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  Speaker 1: to go after the beast, I took the water to
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  Speaker 1: show them the way, hearing which I had made my acknowledgments.
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  Speaker 1: But Nell said no, no, hear my tail first. Then
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  Speaker 1: with me there came Robert Harburg, and after him the
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  Speaker 1: Earl and all his company with their torches. The pool
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  Speaker 1: proved shallow, and after many turns and windings, we came
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  Speaker 1: to a wide place, indeed to the same beach with
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  Speaker 1: sand and dripping fingers of stone, where we had first
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  Speaker 1: found ourselves. And here also we passed the remains of
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  Speaker 1: our boat, for it was to this point that we
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  Speaker 1: had rowed that night when we took refuge in the
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  Speaker 1: lions den. The savages had broken most of it up
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  Speaker 1: for firewood, yet enough remained, so that I knew it again.
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  Speaker 1: But ere the men at arms had time to gather
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  Speaker 1: behind us, a host of wild creatures, armed with stones, knives,
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  Speaker 1: and sheath whittles, burst upon us, yelling like demons of
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  Speaker 1: the pit. Women. Also there were some half clad, and
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  Speaker 1: some holy without cleading. And then and there was a
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  Speaker 1: fight such as you Launce loved to tell about. But
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  Speaker 1: I have no skill in for the men at arms shot,
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  Speaker 1: and we that had but swords struck, while the wild
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  Speaker 1: folk shouted, and the savage women bit and tore with
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  Speaker 1: their new nils, till the cavern was full of confused
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  Speaker 1: noise in the red reek of burning torches. But ever
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  Speaker 1: as the slain rolled among our feet, they gripped to
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  Speaker 1: pull us down, So that in the intervals of his fighting,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Harber went hither and thither, making sikar, as he said,
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  Speaker 1: with a coup of grass for each poor clawing wretch.
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  Speaker 1: And in the narrow doorway through which you found the
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  Speaker 1: way stood the chief himself, with his eyes fiery red
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  Speaker 1: and his hair about his face. He gripped a mighty
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  Speaker 1: axe in his hand, and with it he stood ready
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  Speaker 1: to cleave all that came against him, even the men
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  Speaker 1: hesitated at his fearsome aspect, and it was small wonder,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew that there was no other way to
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  Speaker 1: the innermost cave, so I cried to them to overpass
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  Speaker 1: the rabble and drive forward, at all hazards. How it
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  Speaker 1: came about, I'd know not, But a moment after I
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  Speaker 1: found myself opposite to Sanni Bean himself and engaging him
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  Speaker 1: with your sword, just for all the world, as if
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  Speaker 1: it had been in the armoire room of Kolane on
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  Speaker 1: a rainy day, and you again teaching me the fence
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  Speaker 1: of blaze against loch aber axe. But though I had
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  Speaker 1: not wholly forgotten my skill, doubtless the giant had soon
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  Speaker 1: made an end of me, for he struck fiercely every way.
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  Speaker 1: But sudden as the heath cat springs on the hill,
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  Speaker 1: a little Domini leaped upon him and drove his sword
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  Speaker 1: into his heart, so that Sonny Bean fell with Domini
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  Speaker 1: mure upon his breast. Then, because he was not able
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  Speaker 1: to pull out his sword again being too close, the
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  Speaker 1: Domini gripped his daggard and struck again and again, panting,
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  Speaker 1: and between each blow he cried out the name of
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  Speaker 1: a lass Mary Torrance, Mary Torrance, he said. Then it
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  Speaker 1: was that the hounds overleaped the two of them struggling
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  Speaker 1: there in the arch, and sprang on. And after them
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  Speaker 1: came Robert Harburg and I, we too, first entered the
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  Speaker 1: murky place of death. The dogs were mouthing and gripping
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  Speaker 1: the gray man, but you laid naked upon the sand,
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  Speaker 1: as it had been dead. This was the matter of
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  Speaker 1: Nell's tail, and I will now in turn take up
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  Speaker 1: mine own part in it, from the time at which
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  Speaker 1: the dog ugs gripped my remorseless enemy, and as it
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  Speaker 1: had been, the life went out of me. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter forty seven.