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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox.org. Eve's Diary by Mark Twain. Translated from the original.
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  Speaker 1: Part 1. Saturday. I am almost a whole day old now.
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  Speaker 1: I arrived yesterday, that is, as it seems to me.
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  Speaker 1: And it must be so, for if there was a
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  Speaker 1: day before yesterday, I was not there when it happened.
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  Speaker 1: or I should remember it. It could be, of course,
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  Speaker 1: that it did happen, and that I was not noticing.
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  Speaker 1: Very well. I will be very watchful now, and if
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  Speaker 1: any day before yesterday's happen, I will make a note
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  Speaker 1: of it. It will be best to start right, and
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  Speaker 1: not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells
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  Speaker 1: me that these details are going to be important to
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  Speaker 1: the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment.
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  Speaker 1: I feel exactly like an experiment. It would be impossible
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  Speaker 1: for a person to feel more like an experiment than
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  Speaker 1: I do. And so, I am coming to feel convinced
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  Speaker 1: that that is what I am, an experiment. Just an experiment,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing more. Then if I am an experiment, am
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  Speaker 1: I the whole of it? No, I think not. I
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  Speaker 1: think the rest of it is part of it. I
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  Speaker 1: am the main part of it, but I think the
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  Speaker 1: rest of it has its share in the matter. Is
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  Speaker 1: my position assured, or do I have to watch it
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  Speaker 1: and take care of it? The latter, perhaps. Some instinct
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  Speaker 1: tells me that the eternal vigilance is the price of supremacy.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good phrase, I think, for one so young.
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  Speaker 1: Everything looks better today than it did yesterday. In the
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  Speaker 1: rush of finishing up yesterday, the mountains were left in
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  Speaker 1: a ragged condition, and some of the plains were so
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  Speaker 1: cluttered with rubbish and remnants that the aspects were quite distressing.
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  Speaker 1: Noble and beautiful works of art should not be subjected
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  Speaker 1: to haste. And this majestic new world is indeed a
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  Speaker 1: most noble and beautiful work. and certainly marvelously near to
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  Speaker 1: being perfect, notwithstanding the shortness of the time. There are
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  Speaker 1: too many stars in some places and not enough in others,
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  Speaker 1: but that can be remedied presently, no doubt. The moon
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  Speaker 1: got loose last night and slid down and fell out
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  Speaker 1: of the scheme. A very great loss. It breaks my
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  Speaker 1: heart to think of it. There isn't another thing among
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  Speaker 1: the ornaments and decoration that is comparable to it for
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  Speaker 1: beauty and finish. It should have been fastened better. if
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  Speaker 1: we can only get it back again. But of course,
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  Speaker 1: there is no telling where it went to, and besides,
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  Speaker 1: whoever gets it will hide it. I know it, because
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  Speaker 1: I would do it myself. I believe I can be
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  Speaker 1: honest in all other matters, but I already begin to
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  Speaker 1: realize that the core and center of my nature is
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  Speaker 1: love of the beautiful, a passion for the beautiful, and
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  Speaker 1: that it would not be safe to trust me with
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  Speaker 1: a moon that belonged to another person, and that person
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  Speaker 1: didn't know I had it. I could give up a
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  Speaker 1: moon that I found in the daytime because I should
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  Speaker 1: be afraid someone was looking. But if I found it
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  Speaker 1: in the dark, I am sure I should find some
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  Speaker 1: kind of an excuse for not saying anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: For I do love moons. They are so pretty and
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  Speaker 1: so romantic. I wish I had five or six. I
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  Speaker 1: would never go to bed. I should never get tired
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  Speaker 1: of lying on the moss bank and looking up at them.
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  Speaker 1: Stars are good, too. I wish I could get some
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  Speaker 1: to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can.
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  Speaker 1: you would be surprised to find out how far off
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  Speaker 1: they are, for they do not look it. When they
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  Speaker 1: first showed last night, I tried to knock some down
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  Speaker 1: with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me.
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  Speaker 1: Then I tried clods till I was all tired out,
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  Speaker 1: but I never got one. It was because I am
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  Speaker 1: left-handed and cannot throw good. Even when I aimed at
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  Speaker 1: the one I wasn't after, I couldn't hit the other one,
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  Speaker 1: though I did make some close shots, for I saw
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  Speaker 1: the black dot of the clod sail right into the
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  Speaker 1: midst of the golden cluster's forty or fifty times, just
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  Speaker 1: barely missing them. And if I could have held out
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  Speaker 1: a little longer, maybe I could have got one. So
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  Speaker 1: I cried a little, which was natural, I suppose, for
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  Speaker 1: one of my age. And after I was rested, I
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  Speaker 1: got a basket and started for a place on the
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  Speaker 1: extreme rim of the circle, where the stars were close
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  Speaker 1: to the ground, and I could get them with my hands,
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  Speaker 1: which would be better anyway, because I could gather them
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  Speaker 1: tenderly then, and not break them. But it was further
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  Speaker 1: than I thought. and at last I had to give
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  Speaker 1: it up. I was so tired I couldn't drag my
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  Speaker 1: feet another step, and besides, they were so sore and
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  Speaker 1: hurt me very much. I couldn't get back home. It
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  Speaker 1: was too far and turning cold. But I found some
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  Speaker 1: tigers and nestled in among them, and was most adorably comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: and their breath was sweet and pleasant, because they live
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  Speaker 1: on strawberries. I had never seen a tiger before, but
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  Speaker 1: I knew them in a minute by the stripes. If
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  Speaker 1: I could have one of those skins, it would make
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  Speaker 1: a lovely gown. Today I'm getting better ideas about distances.
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  Speaker 1: I was so eager to get hold of every pretty
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  Speaker 1: thing that I giddily grabbed for it, sometimes when it
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  Speaker 1: was too far off, and sometimes when it was but
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  Speaker 1: six inches away but seemed a foot. Alas, with thorns
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  Speaker 1: in between! I learned a lesson. Also, I made an axiom,
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  Speaker 1: all out of my own head, my very first one.
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  Speaker 1: The scratched experiment shuns the thorn. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: very good one, for one so young. I followed the
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  Speaker 1: other experiment around yesterday afternoon, at a distance, to see
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  Speaker 1: what it might be for, if I could. But I
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  Speaker 1: was not able to make out. I think it is
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  Speaker 1: a man. I had never seen a man, but it
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  Speaker 1: looked like one, and I feel sure that that is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. I realize that I feel more curiosity
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  Speaker 1: about it than about any of the other reptiles, if
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  Speaker 1: it is a reptile, and I suppose it is, for
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  Speaker 1: it has frowsy hair and blue eyes and looks like
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  Speaker 1: a reptile. It has no hips. It tapers like a
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  Speaker 1: carrot when it stands. It spreads itself apart like a derrick,
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  Speaker 1: so I think it is a reptile, though it may
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  Speaker 1: be architecture. I was afraid of it at first and
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  Speaker 1: started to run every time it turned around, for I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was going to chase me. But by and
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  Speaker 1: by I found it was only trying to get away.
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  Speaker 1: So after that I was not timid any more, but
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  Speaker 1: tracked it along, several hours, about twenty yards behind, which
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  Speaker 1: made it very nervous and unhappy. At last it was
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  Speaker 1: a good deal worried and climbed a tree. I waited
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  Speaker 1: a good while, then gave it up and went home.
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  Speaker 1: Today the same thing over. I've got it up the
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  Speaker 1: tree again. Sunday it is up there yet, resting apparently,
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  Speaker 1: but that is a subterfuge. Sunday isn't the day of rest.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday is appointed for that. It looks to me like
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  Speaker 1: a creature that is more interested in resting than in
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  Speaker 1: anything else. It would tire me to rest so much.
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  Speaker 1: It tires me just to sit around and watch the tree.
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  Speaker 1: I do wonder what it is for. I never see
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  Speaker 1: it do anything. They returned the moon last night, and
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  Speaker 1: I was so happy. I think it was very honest
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  Speaker 1: of them. It slid down and fell off again. But
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  Speaker 1: I was not distressed. There is no need to worry
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  Speaker 1: when one has that kind of neighbours. They will fetch
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  Speaker 1: it back. I wish I could do something to show
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  Speaker 1: my appreciation. I would like to send them some stars,
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  Speaker 1: for we have more than we can use. I mean I,
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  Speaker 1: not we, for I can see that the reptile cares
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  Speaker 1: nothing for such things. It has low tastes, and is
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  Speaker 1: not kind. When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming,
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  Speaker 1: it had crept down and was trying to catch the
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  Speaker 1: little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I
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  Speaker 1: had to clod it to make it go up the
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  Speaker 1: tree again and let them alone. I wonder if that
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  Speaker 1: is what it is for. Hasn't it any heart? Hasn't
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  Speaker 1: it any compassion for those little creatures? Can it be
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  Speaker 1: that it was designed and manufactured for such ungentle work?
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  Speaker 1: It has the look of it. One of the clods
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  Speaker 1: took it back of the ear, and it used language.
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  Speaker 1: It gave me a thrill, for it was the first
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  Speaker 1: time I had ever heard speech except my own. I
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  Speaker 1: did not understand the words, but they seemed expressive. When
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  Speaker 1: I found that it could talk, I felt a new
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  Speaker 1: interest in it, for I love to talk. I talk
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  Speaker 1: all day, and in my sleep, too. And I am
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  Speaker 1: very interesting. But if I had another to talk to,
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  Speaker 1: I could be twice as interesting, and would never stop
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  Speaker 1: if desired. If this reptile is a man, it isn't
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  Speaker 1: an it, is it? That wouldn't be grammatical, would it?
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be he. I think so. In
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  Speaker 1: that case, one would parse it thus. Nominative, he. Dative, him. Possessive, hisn. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I will consider it a man and call it he
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  Speaker 1: until it turns out to be something else. This will
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  Speaker 1: be handier than having so many uncertainties. Next Week Sunday
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  Speaker 1: All the week I tagged around after him and tried
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  Speaker 1: to get acquainted. I had to do the talking, because
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  Speaker 1: he was shy, but I didn't mind it. He seemed
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  Speaker 1: pleased to have me around, and I used the sociable
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  Speaker 1: we a good deal, because it seemed to flatter him
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  Speaker 1: to be included. WEDNESDAY We are getting along very well
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  Speaker 1: indeed now, and getting better and better acquainted. He does
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  Speaker 1: not try to avoid me any more, which is a
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  Speaker 1: good sign, and shows that he likes to have me
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  Speaker 1: with him. That pleases me, and I study to be
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  Speaker 1: useful to him in every way I can, so as
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  Speaker 1: to increase his regard. During the last day or two
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  Speaker 1: I have taken all the work of naming things off
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  Speaker 1: his hands, and this has been a great relief to him,
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  Speaker 1: for he has no gift in that line, and is
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  Speaker 1: evidently very grateful. He can't think of a rational name
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  Speaker 1: to save him, but I do not let him see
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  Speaker 1: that I am aware of his defect. Whenever a new
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  Speaker 1: creature comes along, I name it before he has time
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  Speaker 1: to expose himself by an awkward silence. In this way
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  Speaker 1: I have saved him many embarrassed I have no defect
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  Speaker 1: like this. The minute I set eyes on an animal,
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  Speaker 1: I know what it is. I don't have to reflect
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  Speaker 1: a moment. The right name comes out instantly, just as
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  Speaker 1: if it were an inspiration, as no doubt it is,
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  Speaker 1: for I am sure it wasn't in me half a
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  Speaker 1: minute before. I seemed to know, just by the shape
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  Speaker 1: of the creature and the way it acts, what animal
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  Speaker 1: it is. When the dodo came along, he thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a wild cat. I saw it in his eye,
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  Speaker 1: but I saved him, and I was careful not to
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  Speaker 1: do it in a way that could hurt his pride.
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  Speaker 1: I just spoke up in a quiet, natural way of
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  Speaker 1: pleasing surprise, and not as if I was dreaming of
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  Speaker 1: conveying information and said, Well, if I do declare, if
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  Speaker 1: there isn't the dodo... I explained, without seeming to be explaining,
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  Speaker 1: how I knew it for a dodo, and although I
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  Speaker 1: thought maybe he was a little piqued that I knew
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  Speaker 1: the creature when he didn't, it was quite evident that
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  Speaker 1: he admired me. That was very agreeable, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: of it more than once with gratification before I slept.
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  Speaker 1: How little a thing can make us happy when we
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  Speaker 1: feel that we have earned it. Thursday. My first sorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday he avoided me and seemed to wish I would
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  Speaker 1: not talk to him. I could not believe it, and
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  Speaker 1: thought there was some mistake, for I loved to be
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  Speaker 1: with him, and loved to hear him talk. So how
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  Speaker 1: could it be that he could feel unkind toward me
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  Speaker 1: when I had not done anything? But at last it
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  Speaker 1: seemed true. So I went away and sat lonely in
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  Speaker 1: the place where I first saw him the morning that
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  Speaker 1: we were made, and I did not know what he was,
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  Speaker 1: and was indifferent about him. But now it was a
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  Speaker 1: mournful place, and every little thing spoke of him, and
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  Speaker 1: my heart was very sore. I did not know why,
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  Speaker 1: very clearly, for it was a new feeling. I had
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  Speaker 1: not experienced it before, and it was all a mystery,
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  Speaker 1: and I could not make it out. But when night came,
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  Speaker 1: I could not bear the lonesomeness, and went to the
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  Speaker 1: new shelter which he has built, to ask him what
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  Speaker 1: I had done that was wrong, and how could I
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  Speaker 1: mend it and get back his kindness again. But he
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  Speaker 1: put me out in the rain, and it was my
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  Speaker 1: first sorrow. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox.org. Eve's Diary by Mark Twain Translated from
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  Speaker 1: the original Part 2 Sunday It is pleasant again now,
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  Speaker 1: and I am happy. But those were heavy days. I
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  Speaker 1: do not think of them when I can help it.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to get him some of those apples, but
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  Speaker 1: I cannot learn to throw straight. I failed, but I
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  Speaker 1: think the good intention pleased him. They are forbidden, and
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  Speaker 1: he says I shall come to harm. But so I
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  Speaker 1: come to harm through pleasing him. Why shall I care
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  Speaker 1: for that harm? Monday. This morning I told him my name,
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  Speaker 1: hoping it would interest him. But he did not care
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  Speaker 1: for it. It is strange. If he should tell me
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  Speaker 1: his name, I would care. I think it would be
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  Speaker 1: pleasanter in my ears than any other sound. He talks
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  Speaker 1: very little. Perhaps it is because he is not bright,
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  Speaker 1: and is very sensitive about it, and wishes to conceal it.
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  Speaker 1: It is such a pity that he should feel so,
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  Speaker 1: for brightness is nothing. It is in the heart that
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  Speaker 1: the value lies. I wish I could make him understand
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  Speaker 1: that a loving good heart is riches, and riches enough,
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  Speaker 1: and that without it intellect is poverty. Although he talks
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  Speaker 1: a little, he has quite a considerable vocabulary. This morning
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  Speaker 1: he used a surprisingly good word. He evidently recognized himself
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  Speaker 1: that it was a good one, for he worked it
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  Speaker 1: in twice afterward, casually. It was good casual art. Still,
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  Speaker 1: it showed that he possesses a certain quality of perception.
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  Speaker 1: Without a doubt, that seed can be made to grow
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  Speaker 1: if cultivated. Where did he get that word? I do
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  Speaker 1: not think I have ever used it. No, he took
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  Speaker 1: no interest in my name. I tried to hide my disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: but I suppose I did not succeed. I went away
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  Speaker 1: and sat on the moss bank with my feet in
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  Speaker 1: the water. It is where I go when I hunger
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  Speaker 1: for companionship, someone to look at, someone to talk to.
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  Speaker 1: It is not enough, that lovely white body painted there
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  Speaker 1: in the pool. But it is something, and something is
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  Speaker 1: better than utter loneliness. It talks when I talk. It
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  Speaker 1: is sad when I am sad. It comforts me with
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  Speaker 1: its sympathy. It says, Do not be downhearted, you poor
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  Speaker 1: friendless girl. I will be your friend. It is a
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  Speaker 1: good friend to me, and my only one. It is
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  Speaker 1: my sister. That first time that she forsook me, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I shall never forget that, never, never. My heart was
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  Speaker 1: lead in my body. I said, she was all I had,
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  Speaker 1: and now she is gone. In my despair I said,
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  Speaker 1: break my heart, I cannot bear my life any more,
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  Speaker 1: and hid my face in my hands, and there was
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  Speaker 1: no solace for me. And when I took them away,
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  Speaker 1: after a little while, there she was again, white and
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  Speaker 1: shining and beautiful, and I sprang into her arms. That
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  Speaker 1: was perfect happiness. I had known happiness before, but it
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  Speaker 1: was not like this, which was ecstasy. I never doubted
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  Speaker 1: her afterward. Sometimes she stayed away, maybe an hour, maybe
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  Speaker 1: almost the whole day. But I waited and did not doubt.
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  Speaker 1: I said, She is busy, or she has gone on
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  Speaker 1: a journey, but she will come. and it was so
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  Speaker 1: she always did. At night she would not come if
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  Speaker 1: it were dark, for she was a timid little thing,
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  Speaker 1: but if there was a moon she would come. I
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  Speaker 1: am not afraid of the dark, but she is younger
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  Speaker 1: than I am. She was born after I was. Many
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  Speaker 1: and many are the visits I have paid her. She
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  Speaker 1: is my comfort and my refuge when my life is hard,
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  Speaker 1: and it is mainly that. Tuesday. All the morning I
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  Speaker 1: was at work improving the estate, and I purposely kept
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  Speaker 1: away from him in the hope that he would get
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  Speaker 1: lonely and come, but he did not. At noon I
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  Speaker 1: stopped for the day and took my recreation by flitting
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  Speaker 1: all about with the bees and the butterflies and reveling
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  Speaker 1: in the flowers, those beautiful creatures that catch the smile
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  Speaker 1: of God out of the sky and preserve it. I
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  Speaker 1: gathered them and made them into wreaths and garland and
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  Speaker 1: closed myself in them while I ate my luncheon, apples,
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  Speaker 1: of course. Then I sat in the shade and wished
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  Speaker 1: and waited, but he did not come. But no matter.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing would have come of it, for he does not
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  Speaker 1: care for flowers. He called them rubbish, and cannot tell
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  Speaker 1: one from another, and thinks it superior to feel like that.
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  Speaker 1: He does not care for me. He does not care
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  Speaker 1: for flowers. He does not care for the painted sky
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  Speaker 1: at eventide. Is there anything he does care for, except
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  Speaker 1: building shacks to coop himself up in from the good
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  Speaker 1: clean rain? and thumping the melons and sampling the grapes
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  Speaker 1: and fingering the fruit on the trees to see how
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  Speaker 1: those properties are coming along. I laid a dry stick
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  Speaker 1: on the ground and tried to bore a hole in
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  Speaker 1: it with another one in order to carry out a
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  Speaker 1: scheme that I had, and soon I got an awful fright.
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  Speaker 1: A thin, transparent, bluish film rose out of the hole,
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  Speaker 1: and I dropped everything and ran. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a spirit, and I was so frightened, but I looked back,
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  Speaker 1: and it was not coming. So I leaned against a
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  Speaker 1: rock and rested and panted and let my limbs go
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: on trembling until they got steady again. Then I crept
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: warily back, alert, watching, and ready to fly if there
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: was occasion. And when I was come near, I parted
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the branches of a rosebush and peeped through, wishing the
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: man was about. I was looking so cunning and pretty.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: But the spirit was gone. I went there, and there
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: was a pinch of delicate pink dust in the hall.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I put my finger in it to feel it. and said, Ouch!
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and took it out again. It was a cruel pain.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I put my finger in my mouth, and by standing
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: first on one foot and then on the other, and grunting,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I presently eased my misery. Then I was full of interest,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and began to examine. I was curious to know what
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the pink dust was. Suddenly the name of it occurred
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to me, though I had never heard of it before.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: It was fire. I was certain of it, as a
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: person could be of anything in the world. So without
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: hesitation I named it that, Fire. I had created something
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: that didn't exist before. I had added a new thing
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to the world's uncountable properties. I realized this, and was
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: proud of my achievement, and was going to run and
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: find him and tell him about it, thinking to raise
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: myself in his esteem. But I reflected, and did not
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: do it. No, he would not care for it. He
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: would ask what it was good for, and what could
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I answer? for it was not good for something, but
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: only beautiful, merely beautiful. So I sighed and did not go,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: for it wasn't good for anything. It could not build
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a shack. It could not improve melons. It could not
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: hurry a fruit crop. It was useless. It was a
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: foolishness and a vanity. He would despise it and say
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: cutting words, but to me it was not despicable. I said, Oh,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you fire, I love you, you dainty pink creature. for
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: you are beautiful, and that is enough, and was going
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to gather it to my breast, but refrained. Then I
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: made another maxim out of my head, though it was
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: so nearly like the first one that I was afraid
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: it was only a plagiarism. The burnt experiment shuns the fire.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I wrought again, and when I had made a good
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: deal of fire-dust, I emptied it into a handful of
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: dry brown grass. intending to carry it home, and keep
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: it always and play with it. But the wind struck it,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and it sprayed up and spat out at me fiercely,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and I dropped it and ran. When I looked back,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the blue spirit was towering up and stretching and rolling
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: away like a cloud, and instantly I thought of the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: name of it— Smoke. though upon my word I had never
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: heard of smoke before. Soon brilliant yellow and red flares
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: shot up through the smoke, and I named them, in
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: an instant, flames. And I was right, too, though these
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: were the very first flames that had ever been in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the world. They climbed the trees, then flashed splendidly in
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and out of the vast and increasing volume of tumbling smoke,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and I had to clap my hands and laugh and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: dance in my rapture. It was so new and strange
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and so wonderful and so beautiful. He came running and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: stopped and gazed, and said not a word for many minutes.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Then he asked what it was. Ah, it was too
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: bad that he should ask such a direct question. I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: had to answer it, of course, and I did. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: said it was fire. If it annoyed him that I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: should know and he must ask. That was not my fault.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I had no desire to annoy him. After a long
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: pause he asked, How did it come? Another direct question,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and it also had to have a direct answer. I
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: made it. The fire was travelling further and further off.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: He went to the edge of the burned place and
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: stood looking down and said, What are these? Fire coals.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: He picked up one to examine it, but changed his
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: mind and put it down again. Then he went away.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Nothing interests him. But I was interested. They were ashes,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: grey and soft, and delicate and pretty. I knew what
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: they were at once. And the embers, I knew the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: embers too. I found my apples and raked them out,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and was glad, for I am very young and my
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: appetite is active. But I was disappointed. They were all
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: burst open and spoiled. Spoiled, apparently. But it was not so.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: They were better than raw ones. Fire is beautiful. Someday
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: it will be useful, I think. Friday. I saw him again,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: for a moment. Last Monday, at nightfall. But only a moment.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I was hoping he would praise me for trying to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: improve the estate. for I had meant well and had
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: worked hard. But he was not pleased, and turned away
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and left me. He was also displeased on another account.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I tried once more to persuade him to stop going
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: over the falls. That was because the fire had revealed
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to me a new passion, quite new, and distinctly different
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: from love, grief, and those others which I had already discovered.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Fear!
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And it is horrible. I wish I had never discovered it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It gave me dark moments. It spoils my happiness. It
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: makes me shiver and tremble and shudder. But I could
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: not persuade him, for he has not discovered fear yet,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and so he could not understand me.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Extract from Adam's diary. Perhaps I ought to remember that
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: she was very young, a mere girl and make allowances.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity. The world to her,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy. She can't
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: speak for delight when she finds a new flower. She
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: must pet it and caress it and smell it and
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: talk to it and pour out endearing names upon it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: And she is colour-mad. Brown rocks, Yellow sand. Grey moss.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Green foliage. Blue sky. The pearl of the dawn. The
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: purple shadows on the mountains. The golden islands floating in
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: crimson seas at sunset. The pallid moon sailing through the
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: shredded cloud wreck. The star jewels glittering in the wastes
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: of space. None of them is of any practical value
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: so far as I can see. But because they have
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: colour and majesty, that is enough for her. And she
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: loses her mind over them. If she could quiet down
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: and keep still a couple of minutes at a time,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: it would be a reposeful spectacle. In that case, I
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: think I could enjoy looking at her. Indeed, I am
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: sure I could, for I am coming to realise that
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: she is quite a remarkably comely creature. Live, slender, trim, rounded, shapely, nimble, graceful.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: And once when she was standing marble white and sun-drenched
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: on a boulder, with her young head tilted back and
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: her hands shading her eyes, watching the flight of a
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: bird in the sky, I recognised that she was beautiful. Monday, noon.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: If there is anything on the planet that she is
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: not interested in, it is not in my list. There
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: are animals that I am indifferent to, but it is
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: not so with her. She has no discrimination. She takes
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to all of them. She thinks they are all treasures.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Every new one is welcome. When the mighty Brontosaurus came
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: striding into camp, she regarded it as an acquisition. I
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: considered it a calamity. That is a good sample of
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the lack of harmony that prevails in our views of things.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: She wanted to domesticate it. I wanted to make it
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: a present of the homestead and move out. She believed
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: it could be tamed by kind treatment and would be
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: a good pet. I said a pet 21 feet high
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: and 84 feet long would be no proper thing to
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: have about the place. because even with the best intentions
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: and without meaning any harm, it could sit down on
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: the house and mash it, that anyone could see by
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the look of its eye that it was absent-minded. Still,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: her heart was set upon having that monster, and she
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: couldn't give it up. She thought we could start a
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: dairy with it and wanted me to help milk it,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't. It was too risky. The sex wasn't right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: We hadn't any ladder anyway. Then she wanted to ride
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: it and look at the scenery. Thirty or forty feet
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: of its tail was lying on the ground like a
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: fallen tree, and she thought she could climb it, but
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: she was mistaken. When she got to the steep place,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: it was too slick, and down she came, and would
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: have hurt herself but for me. Was she satisfied now?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: No.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Nothing ever satisfies her but demonstration. Untested theories are not
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: in her line, and she won't have them. It's the
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: right spirit, I concede it. It attracts me. I feel
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the influence of it. If I were with her more,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I think I should take it up myself. Well, she
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: had one theory remaining about this colossus. She thought that
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: if we could tame it and make him friendly, we
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: could stand in the river and use him for a bridge.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: It turned out that he was already plenty tame enough,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: at least as far as she was concerned. So she
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: tried her theory, but it failed. Every time she got
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: him properly placed in the river and went ashore to
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: cross over him, he came out and followed her around
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: like a pet mountain. Like the other animals, they all
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today, all without seeing him. It
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is a long time to be alone. Still, it is
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: better to be alone than unwelcome. Friday. I had to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: have company. I was made for it, I think. So
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I made friends with the animals. They are just charming,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: They never look sour. They never let you feel that
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you are intruding. They smile at you and wag their tail,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: if they've got one. And they are always ready for
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I think they are perfect gentlemen. All these days we
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: have had such good times, and it hasn't been lonesome
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: for me, ever. Lonesome? No, I should say not. Why,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: there's always a swarm of them around. sometimes as much
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: as four or five acres. You can't count them, and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: when you stand on a rock in the midst and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: look out over the furry expanse, it is so mottled
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and splashed and gay with colour and frisking sheen and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: sun-flash and so rippled with stripes that you might think
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: it was a lake, only you know it isn't, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: there's storms of sociable birds. and hurricanes of whirring wings,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and when the sun strikes all that feathery commotion, you
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: have a blazing up of all the colours you can
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: think of, enough to put your eyes out. We have
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: made long excursions, and I have seen a great deal
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: of the world, almost all of it, I think. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: so I am the first traveller, and the only one.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: When we are on the march, it is an imposing sight.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: There is nothing like it anywhere. For comfort, I ride
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a tiger or a leopard. because it is soft and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: has a round back that fits me, and because they
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: are such pretty animals. But for long distance, or for scenery,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I ride the elephant. He hoists me up with his trunk,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: but I can get off myself. When we are ready
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: to camp, he sits, and I slide down the back way.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: The birds and animals are all friendly to each other,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and there are no disputes about anything. They all talk,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and they all talk to me. But it must be
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a foreign language, for I cannot make out a word
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: they say. Yet they often understand me when I talk back,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: particularly the dog and the elephant. It makes me ashamed.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: It shows that they are brighter than I am, for
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I want to be the principal experiment myself. And I
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: intend to be, too. I have learned a number of things,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and i'm educated now but i wasn't at first i
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: was ignorant at first at first it used to vex
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: me because with all my watching i was never smart
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: enough to be around when the water was running uphill
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: but now i do not mind i have experimented and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: experimented until now i know it never does run uphill
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: except in the dark I know it does in the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: dark because the pool never goes dry, which it would,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: of course, if the water didn't come back in the night.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: It is best to prove things by actual experiment. Then
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you know. Whereas if you depend on guessing and supposing
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and conjecturing, you never get educated. Some things you can't
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: find out. But you will never know if you can't
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: by guessing and supposing. No, you have to be patient
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and go on experimenting until you find out that you
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: can't find out. and it is delightful to have it
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: that way. It makes the world so interesting. If there
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: trying to find out and not finding out is just
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: as interesting as trying to find out and finding out,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and I don't know, but more so. The secret of
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the water was a treasure until I got it. Then
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the excitement all went away, and I recognized a sense
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of loss. By experiment I know that wood swims, and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: dry leaves, and feathers, and plenty of other things. Therefore,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: by all that cumulative evidence, you know that a rock
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: will swim. But you have to put up with simply
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: knowing it, for there isn't any way to prove it,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: up to now. But I shall find a way. Then
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: that excitement will go. Such things make me sad, because
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: by and by, when I have found out everything, there
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: won't be any more excitements. And I do love excitement so.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: The other night I couldn't sleep for thinking about it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: At first I couldn't make out what I was made for,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: but now I think it was to search out the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: secrets of this wonderful world and be happy and thank
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the giver of it all for devising it. I think
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: there are many things to learn yet. I hope so.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And by economizing and not hurrying too fast, I think
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: they will last weeks and weeks. I hope so. And
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: when you cast up a feather, it sails away on
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the air. and it goes out of sight. Then you
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: throw up a clod, and it doesn't. It comes down
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: every time. I have tried it and tried it, and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: it is always so. I wonder why it is. Of course,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: it doesn't come down. But why should it seem to?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I suppose it is an optical illusion. I mean, one
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: of them is. I don't know which one. It may
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: be the feather. It may be the clod. I can't
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: prove which it is. I can only demonstrate that one
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: or the other is a fake. and let a person
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: take his choice. By watching, I know that the stars
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: are not going to last. I have seen some of
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the best ones melt and run down the sky. Since
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: one can melt, they can all melt. Since they can
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: all melt, they can all melt the same night. That
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: sorrow will come, I know it. I mean to sit
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: up every night and look at them as long as
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I can keep awake, and I will impress those sparkling
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: fields on my memory. so that by and by, when
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: they are taken away, I can by my fancy restore
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: those lovely myriads to the black sky, and make them
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: sparkle again, and double them by the blur of my tears.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: After the Fall When I look back, the garden is
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: a dream to me. It was beautiful, surpassingly beautiful, enchantingly beautiful,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and now it is lost, and I shall not see
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: it any more. The garden is lost, but I have
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: found him, and am content. He loves me as well
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: as he can. I love him with all the strength
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: of my passionate nature, and this, I think, is proper
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to my youth and sex. If I ask myself why
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I love him, I find I do not know, and
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: do not really much care to know. So I suppose
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: that this kind of love is not the product of
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: reasoning and statistics, like one's love for other reptiles and animals.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I think that this must be so. I love certain
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: birds because of their song. but I do not love
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Adam on account of his singing. No, it is not that.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: The more he sings, the more I do not get
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: reconciled to it. Yet I ask him to sing, because
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I wish to learn to like everything he is interested in.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I am sure I can learn, because at first I
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: could not stand it, but now I can. It sours
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the milk, but it doesn't matter. I can get used
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: to that kind of milk. It is not on account
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of his brightness that I love him. No, it is
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: not that. He is not to blame for his brightness
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: such as it is, for he did not make it himself.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: He is as God made him, and that is sufficient.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: There was a wise purpose in it, that I know.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: In time it will develop, though. I think it will
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: not be sudden. And besides, there is no hurry. He
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: is well enough just as he is. It is not
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: on account of his gracious and considerate ways and his
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: delicacy that I love him. No, he has lacks in
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: this regard. but he is well enough, just so, and
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: is improving. It is not on account of his industry
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: that I love him. No, it is not that. I
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: think he has it in him, and I do not
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: know why he conceals it from me. It is my
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: only pain. Otherwise he is frank and open with me now.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I am sure he keeps nothing from me but this.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: It grieves me that he should have a secret from me,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and sometimes it spoils my sleep thinking of it, but
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I will put it out of my mind It shall
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: not trouble my happiness, which is otherwise full to overflowing.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: It is not on account of his education that I
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: love him. No, it is not that. He is self-educated,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and does really know a multitude of things, but they
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: are not so. It is not on account of his
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: chivalry that I love him. No, it is not that.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: He told on me, but I do not blame him.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: It is a peculiarity of sex, I think, and he
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: did not make his sex. Of course, I would have
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: not told on him. I would have perished first. But
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  Speaker 1: that is a peculiarity of sex, too. And I do
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: not take credit for it, for I did not make
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: my sex. Then why is it that I love him?
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Merely because he is masculine, I think. At bottom he
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  Speaker 1: is good, and I love him for that. But I
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  Speaker 1: could love him without it. If he should beat me
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  Speaker 1: and abuse me, I should go on loving him. I
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  Speaker 1: know it. It is a matter of sex, I think.
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  Speaker 1: He is strong and handsome, and I love him for that,
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  Speaker 1: and I admire him and am proud of him, but
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  Speaker 1: I could love him without those qualities. If he were plain,
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  Speaker 1: I should love him. If he were a wreck, I
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  Speaker 1: should love him, and I would work for him and
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  Speaker 1: slave over him and pray for him and watch by
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: his bedside until I died. Yes, I think I love
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: him merely because he is mine and is masculine. There
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: is no other reason, I suppose. And so I think
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: it is, as I first said, that this kind of
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  Speaker 1: love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: just comes, no one knows whence, and cannot explain itself,
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't need to. It is what I think. But
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  Speaker 1: I am only a girl, the first that has examined
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: this matter. And it may turn out that in my
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: ignorance and inexperience I have not got it right. Forty
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  Speaker 1: years later. It is my prayer. it is my longing
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  Speaker 1: that we may pass from this life together, a longing
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  Speaker 1: which shall never perish from the earth, but shall have
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  Speaker 1: place in the heart of every wife that loves, until
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  Speaker 1: the end of time, and it shall be called by
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  Speaker 1: my name. But if one of us must go first,
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  Speaker 1: it is my prayer that it shall be I, for
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  Speaker 1: he is strong, I am weak, I am not so
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  Speaker 1: necessary to him as he is to me. Life without
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: him would not be life, how could I endure it?
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  Speaker 1: This prayer is also immortal, and will not cease from
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: being offered up while my race continues. I am the
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  Speaker 1: first wife, and in the last wife I shall be repeated.
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  Speaker 2: At Eve's grave, wheresoever she was, there was Eden.
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  Speaker 1: End of Eve's Diary