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The Shuttle Chapter 43 - His Chance · The Frances Hodgson Burnett Library

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  Speaker 1: Chapter forty three of the shuttle chapter forty three his
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  Speaker 1: chance betty walked much alone upon the marshes with roland
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  Speaker 1: at her side at intervals she heard from mr penzance
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  Speaker 1: but his notes were necessarily brief and at other times
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  Speaker 1: she could only rely upon report for news of what
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  Speaker 1: was occurring at mount dunstan Lord Mount Dunstan's almost military
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  Speaker 1: supervision now of and command over his villagers had certainly
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  Speaker 1: saved them from the horrors of an uncontrollable epidemic. His
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  Speaker 1: decision and energy had filled the alarmed guardians with respect,
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  Speaker 1: and this respect had begun to be shared by many
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  Speaker 1: other persons. A man as prompt in action and as
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  Speaker 1: faithful to such responsibilities as many men might have found
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  Speaker 1: plausible reasons enough for shirking, inevitably assumed a certain dignity
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  Speaker 1: of aspect when all was said and done. Lord Dunham
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  Speaker 1: was most clear in his expressions of opinion concerning him.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Allenby of Dole made a practice of speaking of
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  Speaker 1: him in public frequently, always with admiring approval, and in
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  Speaker 1: that final manner of hers to whose authority her neighbours
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  Speaker 1: had so long submitted. It began to be accepted as
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  Speaker 1: a fact that he was a new development of his race,
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  Speaker 1: as her ladyship had put it, a new order of
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  Speaker 1: Mount Dunstan. The story of his power over the stricken
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  Speaker 1: people and of their passionate affection and admiration for him
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  Speaker 1: was one likely to spread far and be immensely popular.
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  Speaker 1: The drama of certain incidents appealed greatly to the rustic mind,
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  Speaker 1: and by cottage firesides he was represented with rapturous awe
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  Speaker 1: as raising men, women, and children from the dead by
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  Speaker 1: the mere miracle of touch. Mrs. Weldon and old Dobie
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  Speaker 1: revelled in thrilling, almost biblical versions of current anecdotes when
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  Speaker 1: Betty paid her visits to them.' It' s like the Scripture,'
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  Speaker 1: What he done for that young man as the last
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  Speaker 1: breath had gone out of him, and him lying stiffening fast.
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  Speaker 1: Young man, arise, he says, the Lord Almighty calls. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a young wife and three children to take care of.
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  Speaker 1: Take up your bed and walk. Not as he wanted
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  Speaker 1: him to carry his bed anywheres, but it was a
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  Speaker 1: manner of speaking. And up the young man got, and
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  Speaker 1: a sensible way, said old Mrs. Weldon frankly, for the
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  Speaker 1: Lord to look at it. For I may say, miss,
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  Speaker 1: if I was struck down for it, though i suppose
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  Speaker 1: it's only my sinful ignorance that there's times when the
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  Speaker 1: lord seems to think no more of sweeping away a
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  Speaker 1: steady eighteen shillin a week and perhaps seven in family
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  Speaker 1: and one at the breast and another on the way
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  Speaker 1: than as if it were nothing but likely enough eighteen
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  Speaker 1: shillins a week and confinements does seem paltry to the
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  Speaker 1: maker of heaven and earth but to the girl walking
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  Speaker 1: over the marshland the humanness of the things she heard
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  Speaker 1: gave to her the sense of nearness of being almost
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  Speaker 1: within sight and sound which Mount Dunstan himself had felt
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  Speaker 1: when each day was filled with the result of her
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  Speaker 1: thought of the needs of the poor souls thrown by
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  Speaker 1: fate into his hands. In these days, after listening to
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  Speaker 1: old Mrs. Weldon's anecdotes, through which she gathered the simpler
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  Speaker 1: truth of things, Betty was able to construct for herself
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  Speaker 1: a less scriptural version of what she had heard. She
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  Speaker 1: was glad, glad in his sitting by a bedside and
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  Speaker 1: holding a hand which lay in his, hot or cold,
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  Speaker 1: but always trusting to something which his strong body and
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  Speaker 1: strong soul gave without stint. There would be no restraint there. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he was kind, kind, kind, with the kindness a woman loves,
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  Speaker 1: and which she, of all women, loved most. Sometimes she
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  Speaker 1: would sit upon some mound, and while her eyes seemed
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  Speaker 1: to rest on the yellowing marsh and its birds and pools,
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  Speaker 1: they saw other things, and their colour grew deep and
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  Speaker 1: dark as the marsh-water between the rushes. The time was
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  Speaker 1: pressing when a change in her life must come. She
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  Speaker 1: frequently asked herself if what she saw in Nigel Anstruthers'
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  Speaker 1: face was the normal thinking of a sane man which
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  Speaker 1: he himself could control. There had been moments when she
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  Speaker 1: had seriously doubted it. He was haggard, ageing, and restless.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes he, always as if by chance, followed her as
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  Speaker 1: she went from one room to another, and would seat
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  Speaker 1: himself and fix his miserable eyes upon her for so
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  Speaker 1: long a time that it seemed he must be unconscious
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  Speaker 1: of what he was doing. then he would appear suddenly
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  Speaker 1: to recollect himself, and would start up with a muttered
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  Speaker 1: exclamation and stalk out of the room. He spent long
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  Speaker 1: hours riding or driving alone about the country, or wandering
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  Speaker 1: wretchedly through the park and gardens. Once he went up
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  Speaker 1: to town, and after a few days' absence came back
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  Speaker 1: looking more haggard than before, and wearing a hunted look
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  Speaker 1: in his eyes. He had gone to see a physician,
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  Speaker 1: and after having seen him he had tried to lose
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  Speaker 1: himself in a plunge into deep and turbid enough waters,
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  Speaker 1: but he found that he had even lost the taste
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  Speaker 1: of high flavours for which he had once had an
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  Speaker 1: Epicurean palate. The effort had ended in his being overpowered
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  Speaker 1: again by his horrors, the horrors in which he found
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  Speaker 1: himself staring at that end of things when no pleasure
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  Speaker 1: had spice, no debauchery the sting of life, and men
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  Speaker 1: such as he stood upon the shore of time shuddering
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  Speaker 1: and naked souls, watching the great tide bearing its treasures
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  Speaker 1: recede for ever, and leave them to the cold and
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  Speaker 1: hideous dark. During one day of his stay in town
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  Speaker 1: he had seen Teresita, who had at first stared half
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  Speaker 1: frightened by the change she saw in him, and then
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  Speaker 1: had told him truths he could have wrung her neck
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  Speaker 1: for putting into words.' You look an old man,' she
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  Speaker 1: said with the foreign accent he had once found deliciously amusing,
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  Speaker 1: but which now seemed to add a sting.' And something
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  Speaker 1: is eating you up. You are mad in love with
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  Speaker 1: some beautiful one who will not look at you. I
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  Speaker 1: have seen it in man's before.' It is she who
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  Speaker 1: eats you up, your evil thinkings of her. It serves
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  Speaker 1: you right. Your eyes look mad.' He himself at times
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  Speaker 1: suspected that they did, and cursed himself because he could
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  Speaker 1: not keep cool. It was part of his horrors that
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  Speaker 1: he knew his internal furies were worse than folly, and
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  Speaker 1: yet he could not restrain them. The creeping suspicion that
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  Speaker 1: this was only the result of the simple fact that
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  Speaker 1: he had never tried to restrain any tendency of his
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  Speaker 1: own was maddening. His nervous system was a wreck. He
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  Speaker 1: drank a great deal of whisky to keep himself straight
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  Speaker 1: during the day, and he rose many times during the
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  Speaker 1: black waking hours in the night to drink more, because
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  Speaker 1: he obstinately refused to give up the hope that if
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  Speaker 1: he drank enough it would make him sleep. As through
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts of Mount Dunstan, who was a clean and
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  Speaker 1: healthy human being, there ran one thread which would not
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  Speaker 1: disentangle itself, so there ran through his unwholesome thinking a
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  Speaker 1: thread which burned like fire. His secret ravings would not
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  Speaker 1: have been good to hear. His passion was more than
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  Speaker 1: half hatred, and a desire for vengeance, for the chance
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  Speaker 1: to reassert his own power, to prove himself master, to
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  Speaker 1: get the better in one way or another of this
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  Speaker 1: arrogant young outsider and her high-handed pride. The condition of
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  Speaker 1: his mind was so far from normal that he failed
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  Speaker 1: to see that the things he said to himself, the
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  Speaker 1: plans he laid, were grotesque in their folly. The old
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  Speaker 1: cruel dominance of the man over the woman thing, which
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  Speaker 1: had seemed the mere natural working of the law among
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  Speaker 1: men of his race in centuries past, was awake in
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  Speaker 1: him amid the limitations of modern days. My God, he
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  Speaker 1: said to himself more than once, I would like to
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  Speaker 1: have had her in my hands a few hundred years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Women were kept in their places then. He was even
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  Speaker 1: frenzied enough to think over what he would have done
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  Speaker 1: if such a thing had been, of her utter helplessness
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  Speaker 1: against that which raged in him, of the grey thickness
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  Speaker 1: of the walls where he might have held and wrought
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  Speaker 1: his will upon her, insult, torment, death. His alcohol-excited brain
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  Speaker 1: ran riot, but when it did its foolish worst he
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  Speaker 1: was baffled by one thing. Damn her, he found himself
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  Speaker 1: crying out, if I had hung her up and cut
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  Speaker 1: her into strips she would have died staring at me
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  Speaker 1: with her big eyes without uttering a sound. There was
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  Speaker 1: a long reach between his imaginings and the time he
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  Speaker 1: lived in, America had not been discovered in those decent days,
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  Speaker 1: and now a man could not even beat his own
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  Speaker 1: wife or spend her money without being meddled with by fools.
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  Speaker 1: He was thinking of a New York young woman of
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  Speaker 1: the nineteenth century who could actually do as she hanged pleased,
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  Speaker 1: and who pleased to be damned high and mighty. For
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  Speaker 1: that reason in itself it was incumbent upon a man
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  Speaker 1: to get even with her in one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: High and mightiness was not the hardest thing to reach.
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  Speaker 1: It offered a good aim. His temper, when he returned
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  Speaker 1: to Stornham, was of the order which in past years
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  Speaker 1: had set Rosalie and her child shuddering, and had sent
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  Speaker 1: the servants about the house with pale or sullen faces.
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  Speaker 1: Betty's presence had the odd effect of restraining him, and
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  Speaker 1: he even told her so with sneering resentment.' There would
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  Speaker 1: be the devil to pay if you were not here,'
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  Speaker 1: he said.' You keep me in order by Jove. I
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  Speaker 1: can't work up steam properly when you watch me.' He
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  Speaker 1: himself knew that it was likely that some change would
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  Speaker 1: take place. She would not stay at Stornham, and she
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  Speaker 1: would not leave his wife and child alone with him again.
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  Speaker 1: It would be like her to hold her tongue until
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  Speaker 1: she was ready with her infernal plans and could spring
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  Speaker 1: them on him. Her letters to her father had probably
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  Speaker 1: prepared him for such action as such a man would
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  Speaker 1: be likely to take. He could guess what it would be.
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  Speaker 1: They were free and easy enough in America in their
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  Speaker 1: dealings with the marriage tie. Their idea would doubtless be
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  Speaker 1: a divorce with custody of the child.' He wondered a
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  Speaker 1: little that they had remained quiet so long. There had
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  Speaker 1: been American shrewdness in her coming boldly to Stornham to
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  Speaker 1: look over the ground herself and actually set the place
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  Speaker 1: in order. It did not present itself to his mind
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  Speaker 1: that what she had done had been no part of
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  Speaker 1: a scheme, but the mere result of her temperament and training.
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  Speaker 1: He told himself that it had been planned beforehand and
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  Speaker 1: carried out in hard-headed commercial American fashion as a matter
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  Speaker 1: of business. The thing which most enraged him was the
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  Speaker 1: implied cool practical realisation of the fact that he, as
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  Speaker 1: inheritor of an entailed estate, was but owner in charge,
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  Speaker 1: and not young enough to be regarded as an insurmountable
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  Speaker 1: obstacle to their plans. He could not undo the greater
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  Speaker 1: part of what had been done, and they were calculating,
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  Speaker 1: he argued, that his would not be likely to be
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  Speaker 1: a long life, and if, if anything happened, Stornham would
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  Speaker 1: be Utrids in the whole bug a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: would come over and take possession, and swagger about the
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  Speaker 1: place as if they had been born in it. As
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  Speaker 1: to divorce or separation, if they took that line he
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  Speaker 1: would at least give them a good run for their money.
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  Speaker 1: They would wish they had let sleeping dogs lie before
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  Speaker 1: the thing was over. The right kind of lawyer could
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  Speaker 1: bully Rosalie into saying anything he chose on the witness stand.
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  Speaker 1: There was not much limit to the evidence a man
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  Speaker 1: could bring if he was experienced enough to be circumstantial
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  Speaker 1: and knew whom he was dealing with. The very fact
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  Speaker 1: that the little fool could be made to appear to
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  Speaker 1: have been so sly and sanctimonious would stir the gall
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  Speaker 1: of any jury of men. his own condoning the matter
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of his sensitive boy, deformed by his
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  Speaker 1: mother's unrestrained and violent hysteria before his birth, would go
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  Speaker 1: a long way. Let them get their divorce, they would
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  Speaker 1: have paid for it, the whole lot of them, the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful Miss Vanderpool and all. Such a story as the
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  Speaker 1: newspapers would revel in would not be a recommendation to
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  Speaker 1: Englishmen of unsmirched reputation. Then his exultation would suddenly drop
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  Speaker 1: as his mental excitement produced its effect of inevitable physical fatigue.
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  Speaker 1: Even if he made them pay for getting their own way,
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  Speaker 1: what would happen to him afterwards? No morbid vanity of
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  Speaker 1: self-bolstering could make the outlook anything but unpromising. If he
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  Speaker 1: had not had such diabolical luck in his few investments,
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  Speaker 1: he could have lived his own life. As it was,
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  Speaker 1: old Vanderpool would possibly condescend to make him some insufficient allowance,
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  Speaker 1: because Rosalie would wish that it might be done, and
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  Speaker 1: he would be expected to drag out to the end
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  Speaker 1: the kind of life a man pensioned by his wife's
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  Speaker 1: relatives inevitably does. If he attempted to live in the
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  Speaker 1: country he should blow out his brains. When his depression
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  Speaker 1: was at its worst, he saw himself ageing and shabby,
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  Speaker 1: rambling about from one cheap continental town to another, blackballed
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  Speaker 1: by good clubs, cold-shouldered even by the Teresitas, cut off
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  Speaker 1: from society by his limited means and the stories his
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  Speaker 1: wife's friends would spread. He ground his teeth when he
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  Speaker 1: thought of Betty. Her splendid vitality had done something to
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  Speaker 1: life for him, had given it savour. When he had
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  Speaker 1: come upon her in the avenue his blood had stirred,
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  Speaker 1: even though it had been maliciously, and there had been
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  Speaker 1: spice in his very resentment of her presence. And she
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  Speaker 1: would go away. He would not be likely to see
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  Speaker 1: her again if his wife broke with him. She would
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  Speaker 1: be swept out of his days. It was hideous to
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  Speaker 1: think of, and his rage would overpower him and his
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  Speaker 1: nerves go to pieces again.' What are you going to do?'
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  Speaker 1: he broke forth suddenly one evening, when he found himself
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  Speaker 1: temporarily alone with her.' You' re going to do something. I
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  Speaker 1: see it in your eyes.' He had been for some
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  Speaker 1: time watching her from behind his newspaper, while she, with
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  Speaker 1: an unread book upon her lap, had in fact been
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  Speaker 1: thinking deeply and putting to herself serious questions. Her answer
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  Speaker 1: made him stir rather uncomfortably.' I' m going to write to
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  Speaker 1: my father to ask him to come to England.'' So
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  Speaker 1: this is what she had been preparing to spring upon him,'
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  Speaker 1: he laughed insolently.' To ask him to come here?' With
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  Speaker 1: your permission. With mine? Does an American father-in-law wait for permission?
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  Speaker 1: Is there any practical reason why you should prefer that
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  Speaker 1: he should not come? He left his seat and walked
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  Speaker 1: over to her. Yes, your sending for him is a
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  Speaker 1: declaration of war. It need not be so. Why should it?
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  Speaker 1: In this case I happen to be aware that it
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  Speaker 1: is— the choice is your own, I suppose, with ready bravado— that
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  Speaker 1: you and he are prepared to face the consequences,' But
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  Speaker 1: is Rosalie, and is your mother?'' My father is a businessman,
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  Speaker 1: and will know what can be done. He will know
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  Speaker 1: what is worth doing,' she answered, without noticing his question. But,'
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  Speaker 1: she added the words slowly,' I have been making up
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  Speaker 1: my mind, before I write to him, to say something
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  Speaker 1: to you, to ask you a question.' He made a
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  Speaker 1: mock sentimental gesture.' To ask me to spare my wife,
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  Speaker 1: to remember that she is the mother of my child.'
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  Speaker 1: She passed over that also. To ask you if there
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  Speaker 1: is no possible way in which all this unhappiness can
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  Speaker 1: be ended decently. The only decent way of ending it
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  Speaker 1: would be that there should be no further interference. Let
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  Speaker 1: Rosalie supply the decency by showing me the consideration due
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  Speaker 1: from a wife to her husband. The place has been
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  Speaker 1: put in order. It was not for my benefit, and
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  Speaker 1: I have no money to keep it up. Let Rosalie
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  Speaker 1: be provided with means to do it. As he spoke
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  Speaker 1: the words he realised he had opened a way for
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing comment. He expected her to remind him that Rosalie
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  Speaker 1: had not come to him without money. But she said
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  Speaker 1: nothing about the matter. She never said the things he
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  Speaker 1: expected to hear.' You do not want Rosalie for your wife,'
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  Speaker 1: she went on,' but you could treat her courteously without
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  Speaker 1: loving her.' You could allow her the privileges other men's
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  Speaker 1: wives are allowed.' You need not separate her from her family.'
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  Speaker 1: You could allow her father and mother to come to
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  Speaker 1: her and leave her free to go to them sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Will you not agree to that? Will you not let
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  Speaker 1: her live peaceably in her own simple way? She is
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  Speaker 1: very gentle and humble and would ask nothing more.'' She' s
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  Speaker 1: a fool!' he exclaimed furiously.' A fool! She will stay
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  Speaker 1: where she is and do as I tell her.'' You
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  Speaker 1: knew what she was when you married her. She was
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  Speaker 1: simple and girlish and pretended to be nothing she was not.'
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  Speaker 1: You chose to marry her and take her from the
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  Speaker 1: people who loved her. You broke her spirit and her heart.
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  Speaker 1: You would have killed her if I had not come
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  Speaker 1: in time to prevent it.'' I will kill her yet
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  Speaker 1: if you leave her,' his folly made him say.' You
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  Speaker 1: are talking like a feudal lord holding the power of
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  Speaker 1: life and death in his hands,' she said.' Power like
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  Speaker 1: that is ancient history. You can hurt no one who
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  Speaker 1: has friends without being punished.'' It was the old story.'
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  Speaker 1: She filled him with the desire to shake or disturb
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  Speaker 1: her at any cost, and he did his utmost. If
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  Speaker 1: she was proposing to make terms with him, he would
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  Speaker 1: show her whether he would accept them or not. He
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  Speaker 1: let her hear all he had said to himself in
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  Speaker 1: his worst moments, all that he had argued concerning what
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  Speaker 1: she and her people would do, and what his own
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  Speaker 1: actions would be, all his intentions to make them pay
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  Speaker 1: the uttermost farthing in humiliation if he could not frustrate them.
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  Speaker 1: His methods would be definite enough. He had not watched
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  Speaker 1: his wife and Folliott for weeks to no end. He
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  Speaker 1: had known what he was dealing with. He had put
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  Speaker 1: other people upon the track, and they would testify for him.
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  Speaker 1: He poured forth unspeakable statements and intimations, going, as usual,
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  Speaker 1: further than he had known he should go when he began.
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  Speaker 1: Under the spur of excitement his imagination served him well.
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  Speaker 1: At last he paused.' Well,' he put it to her,'
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  Speaker 1: what have you to say?' I, with the remote intent
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  Speaker 1: curiosity growing in her eyes, I have nothing to say.
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  Speaker 1: I am leaving you to say things. You will, of course,
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  Speaker 1: try to deny, he insisted. No, I shall not. Why
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  Speaker 1: should I? You may assume your air of magnificence, but
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  Speaker 1: I am dealing with uncomfortable factors. He stopped in spite
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  Speaker 1: of himself, and then burst forth in a new order
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  Speaker 1: of rage. You're trying some confounded experiment on me. What
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  Speaker 1: is it? She rose from her chair to go out
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  Speaker 1: of the room and stood a moment holding her book
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  Speaker 1: half open in her hand. Yes, I suppose it might
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  Speaker 1: be called an experiment, was her answer. Perhaps it was
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: a mistake. I wanted to make quite sure of something.
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  Speaker 1: Of what? I did not want to leave anything undone.
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  Speaker 1: I did not want to believe that any man could
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  Speaker 1: exist who had not one touch of decent feeling to
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: redeem him. It did not seem human. White dints showed
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  Speaker 1: themselves about his nostrils. Well, you have found one, he cried.
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  Speaker 1: You have a lashing tongue, by God, when you choose
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  Speaker 1: to let it go. But I could teach you a
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  Speaker 1: good many things, my girl, and before I have done
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  Speaker 1: you will have learned most of them. But though he
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  Speaker 1: threw himself into a chair and laughed aloud as she
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  Speaker 1: left him, he knew that his arrogance and bullying were
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: proving poor weapons, though they had done him good service
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  Speaker 1: all his life. And he knew, too, that it was
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: mere simple truth that as a result of the intellectual
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: ethical vagaries he scathingly derided, she had actually been giving
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  Speaker 1: him a sort of chance to retrieve himself, and that
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  Speaker 1: if he had been another sort of man, he might
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  Speaker 1: have taken it. End of chapter 43