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11 - Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett · Little Lord Fauntleroy

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  Speaker 1: Burnett, chapter eleven. When mister Hobbs's young friend left him
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  Speaker 1: to go to Dorincourt Castle and become Lord Fauntleroy, and
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  Speaker 1: the grocery man had time to realize that the Atlantic
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  Speaker 1: Ocean lay between himself and the small companion, who had
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  Speaker 1: spent so many agreeable hours in his society, he really
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  Speaker 1: began to feel very lonely. Indeed, the fact was mister
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  Speaker 1: Hobbs was not a clever man, nor even a bright one.
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  Speaker 1: He was, indeed rather a slow and heavy person, and
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  Speaker 1: he had never made many acquaintances. He was not mentally
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  Speaker 1: energetic enough to know how to amuse himself, and in
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  Speaker 1: truth he never did anything of an entertaining nature but
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  Speaker 1: read the newspapers and add up his accounts. It was
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  Speaker 1: not very easy for him to add up his accounts,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it took him a long time to bring
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  Speaker 1: them out right. And in the old days, little Lord Fauntleroy,
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  Speaker 1: who had learned how to add up quite nicely with
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  Speaker 1: his fingers and a slave and pencil, had sometimes even
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  Speaker 1: gone to the length of t t to help him.
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  Speaker 1: And then too, he had been so good a listener,
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  Speaker 1: and had taken such an interest in what the newspaper said,
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  Speaker 1: and he and mister Hobbs had held such long conversations
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  Speaker 1: about the revolution and the British and the elections and
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party, that it was no wonder his going
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  Speaker 1: left a blank in the grocery store. At first, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed to mister Hobbs that Cedric was not really far
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  Speaker 1: away and would come back again, that some day he
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  Speaker 1: would look up from his paper and see the little
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  Speaker 1: lad standing in the doorway in his white suit and
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  Speaker 1: red stockings, and with his straw hat on the back
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  Speaker 1: of his head, and would hear him say in his
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  Speaker 1: cheerful little voice, Hello, mister Hobbs. This is a hot day,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. But as the days passed on and this
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  Speaker 1: did not happen, mister Hobbs felt very dull and uneasy.
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  Speaker 1: He did not even enjoy his newspaper as much as
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  Speaker 1: he used to. He would put the paper down on
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  Speaker 1: his knee after reading it, and sit and stare at
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  Speaker 1: the high stool for a while long time. There were
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  Speaker 1: some marks on the long legs which made him feel
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  Speaker 1: quite dejected and melancholy. They were marks made by the
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  Speaker 1: heels of the next Earl of Dorincourt when he kicked
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  Speaker 1: and talked at the same time. It seems that even
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  Speaker 1: youthful earls kick the legs of things they sit on.
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  Speaker 1: Noble blood and lofty lineage do not prevent it. After
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  Speaker 1: looking at those marks, mister Hobbs would take out his
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  Speaker 1: gold watch and open it and stare at the inscription
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  Speaker 1: from his oldest friend, Lord Fauntleroy to mister Hobbs, when
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  Speaker 1: this you see, remember me. And after staring at it
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  Speaker 1: a while, he would shut it up with a loud
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  Speaker 1: snap and sigh, and get up and go and stand
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  Speaker 1: in the doorway between the box of potatoes and the
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  Speaker 1: barrel of apples and look up the street. At night,
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  Speaker 1: when the store was closed, he would light his pipe
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  Speaker 1: and walk slowly along the pavement until he reached the
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  Speaker 1: house where Cedric had lived, on which which there was
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  Speaker 1: a sign that read this house to let, And he
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  Speaker 1: would stop near it and look up and shake his
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  Speaker 1: head and puff at his pipe very hard, and after
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  Speaker 1: a while walk mournfully back again. This went on for
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  Speaker 1: two or three weeks before any new idea came to him.
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  Speaker 1: Being slow and ponderous, it always took him a long
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  Speaker 1: time to reach a new idea. As a rule, he
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  Speaker 1: did not like new ideas, but preferred old ones. After
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  Speaker 1: two or three weeks, however, during which instead of getting better,
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  Speaker 1: matters really grew worse. A novel plans slowly and deliberately
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  Speaker 1: dawned upon him. He would go to see Dick. He
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  Speaker 1: smoked a great many pipes before he arrived at the conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: But finally he did arrive at it. He would go
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  Speaker 1: to see Dick. He knew all about Dick Cedric had
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  Speaker 1: told him, and his idea was that perhaps Dick might
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  Speaker 1: be some comfort to him in the way of talking
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  Speaker 1: things over. So one day, when Dick was very hard
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  Speaker 1: at work blocking a customer's boots, a short, stout man
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  Speaker 1: with a heavy face and a bald head stopped on
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  Speaker 1: the pavement and stared for two or three minutes at
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  Speaker 1: the boot black sign which read Professor Dick Tipton can't
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  Speaker 1: be beat. He stared at it so long that Dick
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  Speaker 1: began to take a lively interest in him. And when
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  Speaker 1: he had put the finishing touch to his customer's boots,
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  Speaker 1: he said, wanta shine, sir. The stout man came forward
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  Speaker 1: deliberately and put his foot on the rest. Yes, he said. Then,
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  Speaker 1: when Dick fell to work. The stout man looked from
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  Speaker 1: Dick to the sign, and from the sign to Dick.
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  Speaker 1: Where did you get that, he asked from a friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine, said Dick. A little feller. He gave me
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  Speaker 1: the whole outfit. He was the best little feller ye
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  Speaker 1: ever saw. He's in England. Now gone to be one
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  Speaker 1: of them lords. Lord Lord, asked mister Hobbs, with ponderous slowness,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Fauntleroy goin to be Earl of Dorincourt. Dick almost
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  Speaker 1: dropped his brush. Why boss, he exclaimed. D Ye know
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  Speaker 1: him yourself? I've known him, answered mister Hobbs, wiping his
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  Speaker 1: warm forehead ever since he was born. We was lifetime acquaintances,
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  Speaker 1: That's what we was. It really made him feel quite
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  Speaker 1: agitated to speak of it. He pulled the splendid gold
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  Speaker 1: watch out of his pocket and opened it and showed
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  Speaker 1: the inside of the case to Dick. When this you see,
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  Speaker 1: remember me? He read? That was his parting keepsake to me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want you to forget me. Those was his words.
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  Speaker 1: I'd a remembered him, he went on, shaking his head.
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  Speaker 1: If he hadn't given me a thing, and I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: seen hidin her hair on him again. He was a companion,
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  Speaker 1: as any man would remember. He was the nicest little
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  Speaker 1: feller I ever see, said Dick. And as to sand,
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  Speaker 1: I never seen so much sand to a little feller,
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  Speaker 1: I thought a heap o him. I did. And we
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  Speaker 1: was friends too, We was sort of chums. From the
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  Speaker 1: fust that little young un an me. I grabbed his
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  Speaker 1: ball from under a stage for him, and he never
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  Speaker 1: forgot it. And he'd come down here, he would with
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  Speaker 1: his mother or his nurse, and he'd holler hello, Dick
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  Speaker 1: at me, as friendly as if he was six feet high,
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  Speaker 1: when he warn't knee high to a grasshopper, and was
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  Speaker 1: dressed in gal's clothes. He was a gay little chap
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  Speaker 1: And when you was down on your luck, it did
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  Speaker 1: you good to talk to him. That's so said mister Hobbs.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pity to make an earl out o him.
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  Speaker 1: He would a shawn in the grocery business or dry goods.
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  Speaker 1: Either he would a shawn. And he shook his head
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  Speaker 1: with deeper regret than ever. It proved that they had
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  Speaker 1: so much to say to each other that it was
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  Speaker 1: not possible to say at all at one time, and
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  Speaker 1: so it was agreed that the next night Dick should
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  Speaker 1: make a visit to the store and keep mister Hobbs company.
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  Speaker 1: The plime pleased Dick well enough. He had been a
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  Speaker 1: street way for nearly all his life, but he had
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  Speaker 1: never been a bad boy, and he had always had
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  Speaker 1: a private yearning for a more respectable kind of existence.
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  Speaker 1: Since he had been in business for himself, he had
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  Speaker 1: made enough money to enable him to sleep under a
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  Speaker 1: roof instead of out in the streets, and he had
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  Speaker 1: begun to hope he might reach even a higher plane
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  Speaker 1: in time. So to be invited to call on a stout,
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  Speaker 1: respectable man who owned a corner's store and even had
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  Speaker 1: a horse and wagon seemed to him quite an event.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know anything about earls and castles, mister Hobbs inquired.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to know more of the particlers. There's a
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  Speaker 1: story about some of em in the Penny Story Gazette,
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  Speaker 1: said Dick. It's called the Crime of a Coronet, or
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  Speaker 1: the Revenge of the Countess May. It's a boss thing too.
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  Speaker 1: Some of us boys are taking it to read. Bring
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  Speaker 1: it up when you come, said mister Hobbs, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: pay for it. Bring all you can find that have
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  Speaker 1: any earls in em. If there aren't earls, marcuses'll do,
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  Speaker 1: or Duke's, though he never made mention of any dukes
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  Speaker 1: or Marcus's. We did go over coronets a little, but
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  Speaker 1: I never happened to see any. I guess they don't
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  Speaker 1: keep em round here. Tiffany'd have em if anybody did,
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  Speaker 1: said Dick. But I don't know, as i'd know one
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  Speaker 1: if I saw it. Mister Hobbs did not explain that
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  Speaker 1: he would not have known one if he saw it.
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  Speaker 1: He merely shook his head ponderously. I suppose there's very
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  Speaker 1: little call for him, he said, and that ended the matter.
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  Speaker 1: This was the beginning of quite a substantial friendship. When
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  Speaker 1: Dick went up to the door, mister Hobbs received him
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  Speaker 1: with great hospitality. He gave him a chair tilted against
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  Speaker 1: the door near a barrel of apples, and after his
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  Speaker 1: young visitor was seated, he made a jerk at them
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  Speaker 1: with the hand in which he held his pipe, saying
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  Speaker 1: help yourself. Then he looked at the story papers, and
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  Speaker 1: after that they read and discussed the British aristocracy, and
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  Speaker 1: mister Hobbs smoked his pipe very hard and shook his
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  Speaker 1: head a great deal. He shook it most when he
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  Speaker 1: pointed out the high stool with the marks on its legs.
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  Speaker 1: There's his very kicks, he said, impressively, his very kicks.
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  Speaker 1: I sit and look at him by the hour. This
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  Speaker 1: is a world of ups, and it's a world of downs.
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  Speaker 1: Why he'd set there and eat crackers out of a
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  Speaker 1: box and apples out of a barrel, and pitch his
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  Speaker 1: cores into the street. And now he's a lord, a
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  Speaker 1: livin in a castle. Them's a lord's kicks. There'll be
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  Speaker 1: an earl's kick some day, sometimes, I says to myself,
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  Speaker 1: says I, well, I'll be jiggered. He seemed to derive
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  Speaker 1: a great deal of comfort from his reflections, and Dick's
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  Speaker 1: is it. Before Dick went home, they had a supper
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  Speaker 1: in the small back room. They had crackers and cheese
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  Speaker 1: and sardines and other canned things out of the store,
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  Speaker 1: and mister Hobbs solemnly opened two bottles of ginger ale,
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  Speaker 1: and pouring out two glasses, proposed a toast. Here's to him,
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  Speaker 1: he said, lifting his glass. And Maggie teach him a
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  Speaker 1: lesson earls and Marcuses and dukes and all. After that night,
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  Speaker 1: the two saw each other often, and mister Hobbs was
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  Speaker 1: much more comfortable and less desolate. They read the Penny
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  Speaker 1: Story Gazette and many other interesting things, and gained a
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the habits of the nobility and gentry, which
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  Speaker 1: would have surprised those despised classes if they had realized it.
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  Speaker 1: One day, mister Hobbs made a pilgrimage to a bookstore
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  Speaker 1: downtown for the express purpose of adding to their library.
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  Speaker 1: He went to the clerk and leaned over the counter
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  Speaker 1: to speak to him. I want, he said, a book
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  Speaker 1: about earls. What, exclaimed the clerk, A book, repeated the
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  Speaker 1: grocery man, about earls. I'm afraid, said the clerk, looking
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  Speaker 1: rather queer, That we haven't what you want, haven't, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Hobbs, anxiously. Well, say Marcus's then, or Duke's. I
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  Speaker 1: know of no such book, answered the clerk. Mister Hobbs
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  Speaker 1: was much disturbed. He looked down on the floor. Then
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  Speaker 1: he looked up. None about female earls, he inquired. I'm
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  Speaker 1: afraid not, said the clerk, with a smile. Well, exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: mister Hobbs, I'll be jiggered. He was just going out
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  Speaker 1: the store when the clerk called him back and asked
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  Speaker 1: him if a story in which the nobility were chief
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  Speaker 1: characters would do. Mister Hobbs said it would if he
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  Speaker 1: could not get an entire volume and devoted to earls.
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  Speaker 1: So the clerk sold him a book called The Tower
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  Speaker 1: of London, written by mister Harrison Ainsworth, and he carried
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  Speaker 1: it home. When Dick came, they began to read it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very wonderful and exciting book. And the
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  Speaker 1: scene was laid in the reign of the famous English queen,
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  Speaker 1: who is called by some people Bloody Mary. And as
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  Speaker 1: mister Hobbs heard of Queen Mary's deeds and the habit
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  Speaker 1: she had of chopping people's heads off, putting them to
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  Speaker 1: the torture, and burning them alive, he became very much excited.
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  Speaker 1: He took his pipe out of his mouth and stared
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  Speaker 1: at Dick, and at last he was obliged to mop
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  Speaker 1: the perspiration from his brow with his red pocket handkerchief.
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  Speaker 1: Why he ain't safe, he said, he ain't safe if
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  Speaker 1: the women folks can sit up on their thrones, and
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  Speaker 1: you give the word for things like that to be done.
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  Speaker 1: Who's to know what's happening to him this very minute?
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  Speaker 1: He's no more safe than nothing. Just let a woman
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  Speaker 1: like that get mad, and no one's safe. Well, said Dick,
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  Speaker 1: though he looked rather anxious himself. You see this here,
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  Speaker 1: and isn't the one that's bossin things? Now? I know
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  Speaker 1: her name's Victory, and this and here in the book
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  Speaker 1: her name's Mary. So it is, said mister Hobbs, still
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  Speaker 1: mopping his forehead. So it is. And the newspapers are
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  Speaker 1: not saying anything about any racks, thumbscrews or steak Burnin's.
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  Speaker 1: But still it doesn't seem as if it was safe
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  Speaker 1: for him over there with those queer folks. Why they
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  Speaker 1: tell me they don't keep the fourth of July. He
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  Speaker 1: was privately uneasy for several days. And it was not
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  Speaker 1: until he received Fauntleroy's letter and had read it several times,
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  Speaker 1: both to himself and to Dick, and had also read
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  Speaker 1: the letter Dick got about the same time that he
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  Speaker 1: became composed again. But they both found great pleasure in
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  Speaker 1: their letters. They read and re read them, and talked
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  Speaker 1: them over and enjoyed every word of them. And they
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  Speaker 1: spent days over the answers they sent, and read them
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  Speaker 1: over almost as often as the letters they had received.
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  Speaker 1: It was rather a labor for Dick to write his all.
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  Speaker 1: His knowledge of reading and writing he had gained during
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  Speaker 1: a few months when he had lived with his elder
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  Speaker 1: brother and had gone to a night school. But being
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  Speaker 1: a sharp boy, he had made the most of that
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  Speaker 1: brief education and had spelled out things in newspapers since then,
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  Speaker 1: and practiced writing with bits of shock on pavements or
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  Speaker 1: walls or fences. He told mister Hobbs all about his
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  Speaker 1: life and about his elder brother, who had been rather
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  Speaker 1: good to him after their mother died when Dick was
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  Speaker 1: quite a little fellow. Their father had died some time before.
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  Speaker 1: The brother's name was Ben, and he had taken care
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  Speaker 1: of Dick as well as he could until the boy
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  Speaker 1: was old enough to sell newspapers and run errands. They
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  Speaker 1: had lived together, and as he grew older, Ben had
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  Speaker 1: managed to get along until he had quite a decent
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  Speaker 1: place in a store, and then exclaimed Dick with disgust,
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  Speaker 1: blest if he didn't go and marry a gal, just
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  Speaker 1: went and got spoony and hadn't any more sense left,
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  Speaker 1: married her and set up housekeepin in two back rooms
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  Speaker 1: and a hefty un. She was a regular tiger cat.
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  Speaker 1: She'd tear things to pieces when she got mad, and
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  Speaker 1: she was mad all the time. Had a baby just
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  Speaker 1: like her, yell day and night, and if I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to tend it, and when it screamed, she'd fire
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  Speaker 1: things at me. She fired a plate at me one
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  Speaker 1: day and hit the baby cut its chin. Doctor said
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  Speaker 1: he'd carry the mark till he died. An nice mother.
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  Speaker 1: She was cracky, but didn't we have a time? Ben
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  Speaker 1: and himself and the young un. She was mad at
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  Speaker 1: Ben because he didn't make money faster. And at last
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  Speaker 1: he went out west with a man to set up
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  Speaker 1: a cattle ranch, and hadn't been gone a week for
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  Speaker 1: one night. I got home from sellin my papers and
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  Speaker 1: the rooms was locked up and empty. An the woman
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  Speaker 1: of the house, she told me minute had gone, shown
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  Speaker 1: a clean pair of heels. Someone else said she'd gone
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  Speaker 1: across the water to be an us till a lady
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  Speaker 1: has had a little baby too. Never heard a word
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  Speaker 1: of her since nother has been. If I'd have been him,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have fretted a bit. An I guess he didn't,
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  Speaker 1: but he thought a heap o her at the start.
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  Speaker 1: Tell you he was spoons on her. She was a
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  Speaker 1: daisy lookin gal too. When she was dressed up and
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  Speaker 1: not mad. She'd big black eyes and black hair down
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  Speaker 1: to her knees. She'd make it into a rope as
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  Speaker 1: big as your arm and twist it round and round
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  Speaker 1: her head. And I tell you her eyes had snap.
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  Speaker 1: Folks used to say she was part Italian, said her
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  Speaker 1: mother or father had come from there, and it made
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  Speaker 1: her queer. I tell ye she was one of em.
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  Speaker 1: She was. He often told mister Hobbs stories of her
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  Speaker 1: and of his brother Ben, who, since his going out west,
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  Speaker 1: had written once or twice to Dick. Ben's luck had
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  Speaker 1: not been good, and he had wandered from place to place,
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  Speaker 1: but at last he had settled on a ranch in California,
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  Speaker 1: where he was at work at the time when Dick
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  Speaker 1: became acquainted with mister Hobbs. That Gal, said Dick. One
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  Speaker 1: day she took all the grit out o him. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't help feelin sorry for him. Sometimes they were sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the store doorway together and mister Hobbs was filling
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  Speaker 1: his pipe. He oughtn't to have married, he said solemnly,
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  Speaker 1: as he rose to get a match women. I never
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  Speaker 1: could see any use in em myself. As he took
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  Speaker 1: the match from its box, he stopped and looked down
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  Speaker 1: on the counter. Why, he said, If here isn't a letter,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it before, the postman must have laid
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  Speaker 1: it down when I wasn't noticin, or the newspaper slipped
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  Speaker 1: over it. He picked it up and looked at it carefully.
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  Speaker 1: It's from him, he exclaimed, That's the very one it's from.
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  Speaker 1: He forgot his pipe altogether. He went back to his
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  Speaker 1: chair quite excited, and took his pocket knife and opened
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  Speaker 1: the envelope. I wonder what news there is this time,
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  Speaker 1: he said, And then he unfolded the letter and read
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  Speaker 1: as follows, Dorincourt Castle, My dear mister Hobbs. I write
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  Speaker 1: this in a great hurry because I have something curious
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  Speaker 1: to tell you. I know you will be very much surprised,
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  Speaker 1: my dear friend, when I tell you. It's all a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: And I am not a lord, and I shall not
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  Speaker 1: have to be an earl. There is a lady which
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  Speaker 1: was married to my uncle Bevis, who is dead, and
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  Speaker 1: she has a little boy, and he is Lord Fauntleroy,
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  Speaker 1: because that is the way it is in England. The
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  Speaker 1: earl's eldest son's little boy is the earl. Everybody else
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  Speaker 1: is dead. I mean if his father and grandfather are dead.
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  Speaker 1: My grandfather is not dead, but my uncle Bevis is,
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  Speaker 1: and so his boy is Lord Fauntleroy, and I am
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  Speaker 1: not because my papa was the youngest son and my
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  Speaker 1: name is Cedric Errol, like it was when I was
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  Speaker 1: in New York, and all the things will belong to
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  Speaker 1: the other boy. I thought at first I should have
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  Speaker 1: to give him my pony and cart, but my grandfather
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  Speaker 1: says I need not. My grandfather is very sorry, and
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  Speaker 1: I think he does not like the lady. But perhaps
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  Speaker 1: he thinks Dearest and I are sorry because I shall
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  Speaker 1: not be an earl. I would like to be an
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  Speaker 1: earl now, better than I thought I would at first,
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  Speaker 1: because this is a beautiful castle, and I like everybody
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  Speaker 1: so and when you are rich you can do so
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  Speaker 1: many things. I am not rich now because when your
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  Speaker 1: papa is only the youngest son, he is not very rich.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to learn to work so that I
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  Speaker 1: can take care of Dearest. I have been asking Wilkins
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  Speaker 1: about grooming horses. Perhaps I might be a groom or
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  Speaker 1: a coachman. The lady brought her little boy to the castle,
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  Speaker 1: and my grandfather and mister Havisham talked to her. I
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  Speaker 1: think she was angry. She talked loud, and my grandfather
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  Speaker 1: was angry too. I never saw him angry before. I
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  Speaker 1: wish it did not make them all mad. I thought
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  Speaker 1: I should tell you and Dick right away because you
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  Speaker 1: would be interested. So no more at present, with love
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  Speaker 1: from your old friend Cedric Errol, not Lord Fauntleroy. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Hobbs fell back in his chair. The letter dropped on
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  Speaker 1: his knee, and his pen knife slipped to the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and so did the envelope. Well, he ejaculated, I am jiggered.
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  Speaker 1: He was so dumbfounded that he actually changed his exclamation.
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  Speaker 1: It had always been his habit to say I will
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  Speaker 1: be jiggered, but this time he said, I am jiggered.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps he really was jiggered. There is no knowing, Well,
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  Speaker 1: said Dick. The whole thing's bust up, hasn't it bust
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: said mister Hobbs. It's my opinion it's a put up
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  Speaker 1: job with the British ristocrats to rob him of his
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  Speaker 1: rights because he's an American. They've had a spite again
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  Speaker 1: us ever since the Revolution, and they're taking it out
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  Speaker 1: on him. I told you he wasn't safe, and see
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  Speaker 1: what's happened, Like as not. The whole government's got together
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  Speaker 1: to rob him of his lawful oens. He was very
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: much agitated. He had not approved of the change in
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  Speaker 1: his young friend's circumstances at first, but lately he had
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: become more reconciled to it, and after the receipt of
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  Speaker 1: Cedric's letter, he had perhaps even felt some secret pride
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: in his young friend's magnificence. He might not have a
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: good opinion of earls, but he knew that even in America,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: money was considered rather an agreeable thing, and if all
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  Speaker 1: the wealth and grandeur were to go with the title,
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  Speaker 1: it must be rather hard to lose it. They're trying
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  Speaker 1: to rob him, he said, that's what they're doing. And
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  Speaker 1: folks that have money ought to look after him. And
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  Speaker 1: he kept Dick with him until quite a late hour
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  Speaker 1: to talk it over. And when that young man left,
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  Speaker 1: he went with him to the corner of the street,
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  Speaker 1: and on his way back he stopped opposite the empty
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  Speaker 1: house for some time, staring at the toulette sign and
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  Speaker 1: smoking his pipe in much disturbance of mind. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven,